Sorry, but social networks are made of people, without the people you don't have a product. He's trying to say that because important people create the community then that's the most important thing to the product in this case. Trying to say that the product creates the people makes no sense.
The whole notable thing about Tik Tok is that “important” people didn’t create the culture. It was created mostly by high school age kids sharing music and dance videos.
I guess the premise is that since Tik Tok deliberately sought that market... the success doesn’t count somehow... or something?
I mean like the entire planet is trying to market to that demographic. Nearly everyone fails. The distinguishing feature of Tik Tok here is that it’s a great well designed social product that’s fun to use and viral.
Sorry but this is just not a useful argument. Every product that targets this demographic is good because it targets this demographic? Face it, everyone is trying to appeal to these consumers, and most fail. Tik Tok did it very successfully, and merits some consideration for having done it in a crowded and competitive space, as did snapchat at some point in time.
Open, and you're immediately fed content with no interaction required. Not happy with what you see? Swipe.
This is an insane reply, nothing about that post made it sound like they thought otherwise.
>He's trying to say that because important people create the community then that's the most important thing to the product in this case.
That's not what the grandparent said at all. He was saying almost the opposite, that Tiktok owes its success to "...its strategy to take on the world with the freshest possible generation of users..." whom it wooed by offering a fresh social media environment, free of important people, where they wouldn't feel like they were "...competing against those who were already established."
Their core point was that TikTok's success was because of its marketing strategy, not because of its features, which is what the person you replied to was contesting. No one was arguing against whatever strawman you were building with quotes.
