dogerwaul

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[–] dogerwaul@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

real unfortunate no one was harmed.

 

TikTok has become a massive competitor in the ecommerce industry as of late, and their global gross sales within their shop program doubled from 2023 to 2024. TikTok's priority has now shifted towards creators who sell products and even encourages new users to begin their entrepreneurship within TikTok and become their own store. TikTok wants everyone to sell sell sell and that is simply not sustainable. You will eventually have a community of salespeople pitching to each other.

Not only that but TikTok is extremely deceptive and manipulative. Their algorithm dangles success in front of creators and sellers and then pulls it out from under them to keep them on their toes so they generate more and more for TikTok. There are so many independent stores on TikTok who now claim selling on the platform has become their full-time job. That's nooooooooooot good lol.

Their shop is growing bigger, doubling in size every year (same trend from 2022 to 2023), and too many people are relying upon continued success to keep themselves financially stable. When this bubble bursts it's going to be a disaster for these folks.

[–] dogerwaul@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's funny and interesting but isn't this just an LLM doing what it does and predicting the conversation based on a large number of variables?

[–] dogerwaul@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

you're assuming those things aren't being done simultaneously. additionally, the type of misplaced violent rage you will continue to witness is born from oppression and having no voice or power. eventually, the caged animal thrashes regardless of what it damages, itself included. it might not be rational or logical but it has to be expected as an outcome. we are not going to stop people from burning shit down. it simply will never happen. too many people feel they have no other way to make it known that fascism will not be the way of life here than to scare the shit out of our leaders through violence and a demonstration of the people's willingness to execute.

you can fucking hate that this is happening, but it is always going to. i'm not personally going to condemn these kinds of responses because i recognize it as an emotional and forced reaction to living year after year in a country that doesn't give a shit about you but will exploit you until you die. tesla is a representation of what the last 70 years have come to: we are now speeding on the path towards technofascism and they're not even doing it behind our backs. people are going to take their anger out on the fascist car endorsed by our fascist presidential figurehead and sold by our South African fascist president.