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TikTok paid a lot of money to make sure you never hear about these other apps

If you're black, brown, disabled/ disfigured, trans, or talk about any form of progressive politics or human rights you probably have a lot of issues with TikTok.

A lot of us have five accounts to try to get around tiktok banning us, but what if we didn't have to live like that? What if we embraced the apps that tiktok paid all those millions of billions and advertising to make sure we never know about? 

BIGO (little blue dinosaur logo) and Live. Me+ is where TikTok ripped a lot of its framework for their livestreaming setup from - and then paid billions of dollars in advertising to make sure you never hear about those apps. 

And since these apps aren't popular, there are less white people. Not to say that these are designated black and brown spaces, but there are marginally less white people. And in my experience, when I first went on to bigo and live.me - for the few North American white people there were on the suggestions page, most of them were sex workers. 

In my opinion, building solidarity with sex workers is more important than trying to keep up with an app that openly discriminates against people with disabilities and facial disfigurements and allows the Aryan brotherhood to advertise on their app.

That being said, it's also appropriate to acknowledge that the other apps have more of an international audience. And it takes a lot more time and energy to make sure you start tailoring your suggestions to the regions relevant to you.

Also, let's talk about bullying. We've all seen it where we report comments that are blatantly hateful and tick tocks things that there's nothing wrong with them, but when the person the comment was made towards makes a video response the video response is seen as the harassment and bullying. In my experience, I've seen this happen with a lot of trans people.

That's a problem that we're still having that we've had for years with tiktok. But now tick tock has added that we can now be penalized for hateful comments in our livestream chats. The commenter doesn't get punished, but our live access gets removed for their comments.

Definitely check out both of those platforms and see which one caters to you best, because they are slightly different in how they operate but those slight differences can make a big impact depending on what you're looking for in a platform. 

SO COME WITH ME AND LET'S UNDO ALL OF TIKTOK'S HARD WORK! 

SPREAD THE WORD OF BIGO AND LIVE. ME! 😁

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