How Tik-Tok falls in the chaotic evil and lawful evil categories:
Tik Tok isn't like any other platform, where you choose what content you're going to see before you start browsing. It basically browses for you and you curate your feed to what you want to see, but in the meantime you might get a whole lot of upsetting content. And I'm not saying that just to mean stuff that you don't want to see. I am saying stuff that is legitimately emotionally and mentally triggering. but that's the draw to the app. Being able to see random content, rather than the draw to other platforms being searching content, like YouTube.
Most of the creators on the app are teenagers and young adults, most of what I seen with white male privilege. you have to dig to find content that isn't made by skinny white cisgender heterosexual able-bodied people, in general.
it's not a free and open platform that were used to like YouTube and Instagram, because those are American run companies. This is a Chinese company, and it's run as imperialistic as mainland China. it doesn't matter what you do, they only get rid of people they don't want around.
tik tok admitted publicly but they were suppressing content by lgbtq people, disabled people more specifically with facial disfigurement, and fat people. and then someone released the Tik Tok about how the company offered them to play a role in their creators program and they rejected it because the rules were too strict. Tik-Tok initially responded with "okay, no problem", and then suddenly that person's account got banned due to multiple community guideline violations.
meanwhile, heterosexual cisgender people are making all kinds of sexually explicit content that if you can take me down. There's all kinds of sexually explicit and vulgar audio that doesn't get taken down. there are few very popular very problematic community figures or content that goes viral that doesn't get taken down from being massed reported for how problematic and abusive it is. but you will definitely get any content criticizing Tik Tok or China taking down or suppressed.
And now there's this thing called the hype house that content creators made or were invited to - I'm not sure about the details on how this got made and how people got invited. But the point is that a lot of other content creators have called out this hype house for lacking diversity. I can only assume this means it's full of able-bodied skinny white heterosexual cisgender people. Given those are the people that get pushed to the top in tiktok's algorithms. They don't even hype up Asian content creators. And even if they're not all white, I'm willing to assume that they're all cisgender heterosexual and able bodies.
and even though it may appear that Tik-Tok has changed some of their ways after being ousted for suppressing people's content for what they claim to be "their own good" to protect them from bullying, I can tell that certain people's content is still getting suppressed. And the reason why they opened up to pushing more diverse content to the top is because they're getting ready to go public with their stocks.
but I see a lot of people that post about serious topics complain when their content is taken down. First of all, this is a Chinese app with Chinese values. second of all, consider that Tick-Tock openly promotes their product as a place of positive energy. I finally joined Tik Tok after I saw an ad with a laughing Indian doctor. And the so blinds of the app is put a smile on or something. So don't act like you're not getting anything you didn't sign up for when anything doesn't "put a smile on someone's face" gets taken down. but, consider that there are a lot of reasons why people smile, with all the content that we see not getting taken down that is troubling.
play as long as the content is doing what they wanted to do, they're going to keep it. Because it's their app, not ours as a community. That's more of an North American value thing. And this isn't an North American app.
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