I already moved to redgifs. Goodbye Tik Tok.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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I'm sure it really depends on where you live, but here in East Europe I've noticed tiktokkers slowly turning into Z'ers who start accepting Russian disinfo as facts. Meaning, it's already pro-MAGA
Kill it kill it!
As with all social media, as soon as grandma and grandpa get on, it all goes down hill.
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Tiktok was China's soft propaganda because they suppressed unfavorable content rather then promote favorable content. Trump going full MAGA with it would kill the platform because people use tiktok to stop thinking about distressing things. Not be exposed to more of it.
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Good thing they don't have the skills to do it and make it attractive to the currect users. I'm fine with Larry Ellison's losing billions in the process.
They literally did that with Facebook. Yeah, plenty of people left, but it worked.
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Man these people are so un American.
And renamed to Hate Tok
Hmmm... so when kids on TikTok vandalize their schools, we can now blame it on MAGA?
MegaloMANIAC just wants to take over the world
As if we didn't already know he was thinkjng that?
Genuinely, how would it be any different to Twitter and Truth Social then? I've not used any of them so maybe I don't understand the distinction between each
TikTok is a short video social platform. People post only videos. The two you mentioned are short public messaging social platforms, with the capability to post/include videos.
That's not really what this is about, though. TikTok was not under their control, so they're trying to take control and follow their script of media and social control.
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The perfect way to kill a platform
Another interesting news! I'm blessed! Like they already do missinformation.
TikTok was never good. Have at it.
Though, he is always free to start his own MAGA-themed video service, much like he did with Truth Social. I think the problem is — and if he doesn't know it, he's been advised, with crayons and hand puppets — that running a server serving video is orders of magnitude more expensive than running a server hosting a text-based social network.
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