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What will happen to all the USA TikTok creators once the ban on TikTok takes effect? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels. I don't have Instagram but the YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway.

Ideally Pixelfed would win but that's very hopeful, a lot of the creators are expecting to be paid.

There's too much money to be made with the format for it to die yet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway

Hey that's not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And in a fucked up vertical crop, for some reason!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The reason is that too be a Short it has to be vertical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's... amazingly idiotic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was explicitly created to be "TikTok, but on YouTube". What would you expect?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I expect nothing and I'm still let down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Or:

Today I will answer all your most important questions. For example, the answer to eternal happiness is... more in part 2!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels.

Likely YouTube. While neither are great, between Google and Meta, Google's got the better reputation. YouTube also has a larger audience, because it includes a ton of users who wouldn't fall under traditional social media usage. Reels might be used as a periphery platform to drive more people to their main channel on YouTube.

Any TikTok creator who moves to Instagram full-time is either shooting themselves in the foot, or got a good contract from Meta.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I do like the YouTube integration. A good chunk of them have a link to a main long form video which is nice when you don't want to watch a video in 50 parts. You can scroll and be like, that's a cool project let me watch the full 30 mins video.