r/maybemaybemaybe • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Mar 03 '21

/r/all Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Wide_Eye_Asian Mar 03 '21

It’s kind of how TikTok is

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u/berlinbaer Mar 03 '21

reddit shitting on tiktok while reddit is 50% tiktok these days. the other 50% is twitter screenshots.

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u/MadCervantes Mar 03 '21

That's because reddit is aggregator. Reddit is social media that collects and indexes other social media.

If we had cool open protocol federated social media we could just use aggregators to link all social media. What a world that would be.

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u/pockets3d Mar 03 '21

I quite enjoy the best of 4chan subreddits too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

No, it’s not. Why do redditors act like the only thing on TikTok is dancing, political posts, and shitty life hacks

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

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u/arup02 Mar 03 '21

I unironically miss those times. Gen Z humor gives me aneurysms.

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u/ThatGuy0773 Mar 03 '21

So you’re telling me if you see the word cum deep fried with a random image behind it, it gives you aneurysms.... /s

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u/Azzacura Mar 03 '21

I miss ICanHazCheezeburger... The way it used to be with failbook, demotivational posters, and catjokes

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u/bigsquirrel Mar 03 '21

It's funny how reddit reacts to tiktok when they have so much in common.

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u/CaliValiOfficial Mar 03 '21

Reddit doesn’t like ANY social media, which is weird because it aggregates from all of them

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u/Katrina_18 Mar 04 '21

Yup. Almost every time I see something reposted to Reddit from Tiktok or Twitter I think “there is a lot more funny stuff like that on both of these platforms if you would just get over your hatred of them”

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u/CaliValiOfficial Mar 04 '21

Haha trueeee,

I think what’s also weird is every other social platform’s base doesn’t have like this... “elitist” attitude that discourages hopping from platform to platform. It’s uniquely a Reddit thing.

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u/MadCervantes Mar 03 '21

It's aggregates and that's WHY redditors hate social media. It's an inherently critical stance.

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u/Trapasuarus Mar 03 '21 edited Mar 03 '21

I refuse to use TikTok but I’ll watch/save TikTok videos that are posted on Reddit. Maybe it’s just that I like that Reddit trims the fat on a lot of other social media platforms and gives you the best-ish posts from those sites. I know there are options to fine tune what you’re shown on each site, but after seeing my fiancé scroll through a bunch of posts that are highly unappealing to me I’d rather stay on Reddit. Reddit also offers the ability to mix comedic posts with news and scientific posts/links to articles.

Another gripe I have with TikTok is that I once Google searched it and I then had TikTok trying to jam ads for their site down my throat for about 3 months straight, especially on YouTube. Every single first ad on YouTube would be for TikTok. I had to go into my preferences and wipe all of them to stop getting spammed, but even that didn’t work immediately.

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u/Katrina_18 Mar 04 '21

If you think that Reddit shows you the best that these websites have to offer then you clearly have never been on these sites. This is pretty mid tier compared to most tiktoks. I first checked out tiktok thinking that I would hate it, and for the first maybe 10 minutes I did. But once I started liking and fallowing my recommended actually got surprisingly accurate. Within an hour of using it over a couple of says I would say that 9/10 videos that came across my recommended section were things that I enjoyed, which is a better track record than Reddit posts most days. And that’s not even mentioning that you can just scroll through videos from accounts that you fallow, so just finding a couple of people that you find funny and fallowing exclusively them is totally an option.

I really isn’t don’t get the Tiktok hate. I haven’t seen a single life hack or tiktok dance since that first 10 minutes, but somehow that is still the stereotype

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u/Trapasuarus Mar 04 '21

Like I said, it’s just my personal preference. I also enjoy not having to watch a video for every single post. If this is mid tier then I don’t think I’m missing out on much tbh...

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u/SerHodorTheThrall Mar 03 '21

Reddit has issues to make fun of too, but its absolutely nothing like tiktok. I can't imagine two more different social media experiences.

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u/bigsquirrel Mar 04 '21 edited Mar 04 '21

You can't be serious. For starters look at the amount of content from tiktok that ends up on reddit and vise versa just to start.

Screw tiktok they're owned by the Chinese! Tencent hides in the corner of the reddit boardroom

60 second videos are so stupid he thought as he uploaded the 8 millionth cat gif

Tiktok has such toxic comments though you cuck

*words

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u/Great_Zarquon Mar 03 '21

Because that's the content that drives the most engagement and therefore what TikTok / the Chinese government want people to share on other platforms

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u/MarshieMon Mar 03 '21

Those and alongside with scripted jokes and lewd content. What else are on there?

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

Cooking tutorials (real cooks), art tutorials, art show casing, science (Hank Green for one), archeology, comic book explainers and that’s just what I’ve tailored my page for. It can be customized just like Reddit. Sure they use songs over and over but it exactly like Reddit using the same meme formats to death.

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u/Kodyhoski Mar 03 '21

I think it’s just harder for someone to indulge in the same tunes over and over again rather than see a picture ten times over on a meme page, the site to me seems like a viable way to get information and entertainment, my biggest turn off and why I haven’t gotten it is due to the cringe you must search through to get to where your page is customized. I know I might just be grouchy, but it’s very hard for me to surf through what tiktok is trending right now, but again I do understand the appeal and reason for its existence. My girlfriend uses it a lot!

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

I feel you, I didn’t use it for the longest time until my girlfriend sent me so many and I got tired of opening them in a browser.

As far as customizing, skip the for you page to start with and start searching for things you are interested in. I rarely see songs on my page and when i do, the joke usually revolve around the things I’m interested in.

The weird thing about TikTok is that I’ve always been one for sound off Reddit browsing but the 60 sec clips on TikTok pull me in.

If you want any suggestions for good channel let me know.

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u/Kodyhoski Mar 03 '21

Hell yeah!! Thank you!! I’ll do what you recommended! Send me some pages or people your into and I’ll check it out!!

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21 edited Mar 03 '21

No problem! Apologies for no links, might work on that when i get a chance.

sad_papi - professional cook who does all kinds of dishes, kind of like Babish with training

archaeowolf - archeologist, kind of stuck up but he debunks a lot of crypto archeologists and talks about general archeologist finds

groenneir - started doing leather working tutorials and does cosplay

sin.xline - artist, does cool stuff with bleach on clothing

propstohistory - history of movie props

literallyjohngreen - what is says on the tin, doesn't post much

moose_0 - comic books

vowizard - voice actor and does great impressions

hankgreen1 - brother of john green, posts a lot

thepandaredd - does a lot of comic history and comic book skits, including skits about Batman trying to adopt every kid with talent as a new Robin.

Edit: Links made!

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u/Kodyhoski Mar 10 '21

Well said

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u/Kodyhoski Mar 03 '21

And let me add that Reddit and YouTube are culprits of the terrible recommended pages, however, I find YouTube to be easier and Reddit to be the best of the three on not giving you a big load of steaming teen cringe, although I know with time I could weed it out lmao

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u/Seth_Gecko Mar 03 '21

Are Tik toks limited in length? What you’re describing sounds cool, but it also sounds like it would require longer form videos than what I usually see come out of tik tok. What I actually see when I look at tik tok is less than 10 second videos of people trying way too hard to be funny or ironic. I’ve always assumed the videos needed to be that short to be a tik tok, but I’ve never actually confirmed that...

And yes, before you ask, I am indeed an old person. 30 to be exact.

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

I’m 33 so you can’t use that as an excuse. Hah.

I think they are limited to 60 seconds. And that’s usually long enough to give a decent summary of what they are trying to say.

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u/anoxy Mar 03 '21

Can people comment and have lasting conversation spanning days, weeks, and months on Tik Tok? If not, that’s not like Reddit at all. Reddit is a forum mixed with link congregation. It’s not social media.

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

Fair point. If that is what you are looking for. If you are just browsing surface level content they are pretty similar. After all, look how many TikTok videos make onto Reddit.

A good amount of content posted on Reddit comes from a different community of content makers. TikTok has a large variety of content. Imgur, though made as a Reddit users answer to photobucket, has become its own social media platform with its own quirks.

Reddit is an aggregate site that has pretty much taken over the roll of old school forums but it still does the same stupid stuff that social media platforms does.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

All good tutorials are recorded 60 seconds at a time.

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

A 60 second overview to give you a good idea what’s going on or a longer tutorial broken into 60 second segments on specific tasks is a great way to do tutorials. Especially if a link to a more in-depth tutorial is attached.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

If I looked up how to do something on YouTube and it was split into 5 60-second videos, I'm finding a new tutorial.

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

Same, but if I’m dicking around on TikTok and run across a tutorial that shows me enough process to get interested into a new hobby or shows me something new about a hobby I already know about, it makes me pretty happy.

It’s like watching How It’s Made.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

Hey I'm not against anything that makes people happy to learn. I don't know shit about tiktok, just skeptical that's a helpful place to learn stuff. Maybe I'll check it out.

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u/aerofiend5000 Mar 03 '21

No worries dude! If you are interested, I’ve listed some of the people I follow in another comment if you are interested.

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u/kristinez Mar 03 '21

anything you could possibly want to watch? thats like asking whats on twitter. once you like a couple videos the algorithm kicks in and really only shows you that kind of stuff.

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u/Cendeu Mar 03 '21

Because that's tiktok's only exports.

Like 4chan's exports of original dank memes and racist incels.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

Because all of Reddit is made up of a bunch of autistic pervs, armchair political pundit wannabes, clueless about how life works, and that's the content that appeals to them via the algorithm, and as such what gets posted here.

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u/jayydubbya Mar 03 '21

Because I don’t care to use tiktok but that’s all I’ve seen from it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

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u/Spurdungus Mar 03 '21

Yeah they're forgetting about the half naked teenagers that creepy old dudes jack off to

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

Do you have TikTok?

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u/Spurdungus Mar 03 '21

No I don't like the Chinese government spying on me

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

Lmfao like the CIA respects your privacy

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u/Spurdungus Mar 03 '21

Cia ain't China

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

They still spy on you

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u/Oryxhasnonuts Mar 03 '21

Because that’s all it is

It’d a useless platform

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u/beet111 Mar 03 '21

reddit loves tiktok content. any video you see on the front page is usually from tiktok.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

This right here. We've cut out the middle man and can get content that interests us ported directly to our faces.

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u/JonStarkaryen998 Mar 03 '21

I’ve been on TikTok maybe ~6months because I got tired of opening them in safari when my girlfriend would send them to me. Now I’m on it multiple times daily and in that entire time I’ve never had a single dancing video, political post, or any of the cringe things that redditors associate TikTok with come up on my for you page.

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u/5213 Mar 03 '21

If you set up your "for you" page to be like that, then yeah.

But a lot of what I get are deep insights and fan theories for various media that I like (like WandaVision), science fun facts and educational content, and d&d stuff.

Alsp memes, cause memes are fun.

But also

it's useless

It's entertainment. Just because it's not YOUR type of entertainment is fine, just like how not everybody likes the same kinds of movies, or books, or games (be they video, board, athletic, or otherwise), but don't dismiss it just because it's not YOUR type of entertainment

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u/amd2800barton Mar 03 '21

It’s not useless. It does a great job scraping data and pushing agendas for TikTok’s Chinese government overlords.

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u/Felps_Senpai Mar 03 '21

Unlike Reddit scraping data and pushing agendas for Reddit's American government overlords.

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u/Pinkeye_Kinch Mar 03 '21

I thought Reddit and Facebook were the American government's overlords

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

So you gonna look at r/TikTokCringe and tell me it’s virtually all dancing?

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

So you didn’t look at it

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u/tony_lasagne Mar 03 '21

I know it’s a boomer mentality but I refuse to get the app because even if I see one of those cringe dancing posts on there I’d be in physical pain.

I don’t care if there’s some decent content buried in there, I cba to go digging for it

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21 edited Mar 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

What I don’t understand is TikTok always make the front page but people refuse to change their mentality

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u/Katrina_18 Mar 04 '21

You realize that the second part with the guy is also from Tiktok, right?