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why are social media platforms trying to be each other?

Instagram got rid of igtv and made reels which is way more like tiktok than igtv was.

Now tick tock is doing stories where you can upload videos or even still pictures for 24 hours.

YouTube is trying to be more like tick tock and twitter, and it's not even a social media platform. It's a video website. Just because it has a comment section doesn't make it social media. You can tell by the way the website/ app is designed it's not aimed towards commenting interaction. You can go your whole life without ever posting in the YouTube comment section whereas a social media platform comment section is integral to the program.

I will also say social media platforms are going after YouTube with the newly rolled out ability to cut off comments or limit who can reply to your social media post. You've always been able to do that on instagram. On tick tock, being able to turn off comments became a feature shortly after the app became very popular. Twitter initiated turning off comments and limiting who can reply a few months ago. On Twitter you still can't delete other people's comments on your posts, but on tiktok you can.

People are on different websites and apps for different reasons, so it's important for them to maintain their different identities so people don't have to deal with the components that did not serve them from other websites and applications.

YouTube remove the dislike counter but they're not trying to be like tick tock that hard because they still haven't brought back private messaging, but they went after Twitter was being able to post text and picture posts. And then they took that away, and then brought it back but only for people with a certain amount of subscribers.

I'm not leaving at the og. People are always coming at Snapchat sideways when they come after Instagram since Snapchat invented most of the instagram's functions. Instagram recently initiated a vanishing messages system. 

Even though Snapchat has some sponsored filters and some other commercial bs, it's easy to avoid. Snapchat remains the og. YouTube is old, but for as much as they sell out it sure ain't gangster.

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