TikTok ban has influencers scared they might end up broke, and some are already thinking of suing the government 👀

Replies (43)

Alan's avatar
Alan 1 year ago
Guess you'll have to go to OF... Or maybe get educated and provide real value to society.
“Without TikTok there is no me.” 💔heartbreaking. When your identity is tied to something so fragile and held hostage by someone else, then you frigile and forcibly enslaved. I hope she makes it -I feel for these kids.
As much as I love clowning on TikTok and their users, here's the reality: ByteDance will sell. Maybe not their algorithm, but they'll sell a name that is worth nothing to them stateside if they remain on course. Someone will shell out the billions and the brain rot will continue. View quoted note →
My business was shut down during COVID because the government deemed it "non-essential." So when I see comments like "get a real job," I can’t agree with that mindset. Every job is "real" if someone is willing to pay for the service or product. We can debate the merits of what qualifies as a "fiat job" all day, but the fact is, many influencer jobs would still exist under a hard money system. To me, the issue isn’t the existence of influencers or how they make their living. The real problem lies in the government’s ability to shut down someone’s livelihood whenever they decide it’s problematic, for whatever reason. I can’t help but feel that the push to ban TikTok is just a tactic to force its sale to an American company. If a permanent ban does happen, it could ultimately benefit platforms like Nostr by drawing more attention to decentralized protocols. Unfortunately, it comes at the cost of people's livelihoods being taken away by bureaucrats in suits.
I can't believe there's a whole section of the world population living on money for influencing. Maybe I'm just ignorant or getting old. Having not been on legacy socials for a while, i dont see them. Blows my mind. Uhhhh, just get a real job? Idk.
Nostr News Network's avatar Nostr News Network
TikTok ban has influencers scared they might end up broke, and some are already thinking of suing the government 👀
View quoted note →
It's too bad there isn't a 1:1 Nostr clone ready to go because this would have been a slam dunk onboarding for hundreds of thousands if not millions of users. Too many devs focused on Twatter-style clients last year.
Diyana's avatar
Diyana 1 year ago
Be careful if there's a year for that... 2025 it is. Uranus is moving into Gemini in July! image
Bison's avatar
Bison 1 year ago
I disagree. A bitcoin standard eliminates unproductive jobs. Influencers may still exist, but not as a necessity or as a way to earn bitcoin. To be clear, I believe people will be working only productive jobs that advance humanity, while working a smaller percentage of their life than their parents. How do you influence others when they’re working 20 hours a week and their life only improves?
I don’t disagree. Under a Bitcoin standard, as you said, only productive jobs with real value will exist. That’s what I mean when I say, “we can debate the merits of what qualifies as a fiat job.” Most influencers are indeed fiat influencers and would naturally disappear under a Bitcoin standard. That said, some will remain. We already see examples of this on Nostr. I’d consider @Nostr News Network a Nostr influencer—they curate content and publish it for us to see, and we zap them for it. If we continue to find value in what they provide, we’ll continue zapping them. Then again, maybe we simply have different interpretations of what an influencer actually is.
Os Tiktokers tão putos e tristes pq a rede foi banida (Acho que dos States🇺🇲).
Nostr News Network's avatar Nostr News Network
TikTok ban has influencers scared they might end up broke, and some are already thinking of suing the government 👀
View quoted note →
Please someone tell me that this is not her actual job? Because if it is, I'm twice as excited, maybe 100 times as excited about banning tiktok!
Bison's avatar
Bison 1 year ago
I could give you a long drawn out answer, but this chart gives you an idea how much bullshit jobs fiat has created. For another example, how much of the financial industry will even be necessary, when the only asset worth owning is bitcoin? Nothing left to speculate on. On a finite money standard, more and more care will be taken on where every sat is spent. image
Probably not much directly unless the TikToker has a link to their only fans, online store, or something similar. I’ve never had a TikTok so I’m not sure how the platform works. But if I had to guess they get some shared ad revenue like YouTube. I might be completely wrong BTW. Pure speculation.
Also, don't buy an expensive car until you have a stronger financial base for yourself. Even then, question yourself if you're planning to borrow to buy an expensive car.
I want to feel empathy for this woman. I want to be a good person and feel for the plight of people in pain. But no matter how deep I dig I find within myself zero fucks for her plight.
The TikTok ban is yet another legacy of Trump 1.0. It's almost certainly a violation of the first amendment. It's deeply disturbing that Biden progressed it, and that Trump 2.0 will probably continue it.
This is only slightly an issue regarding centralized and decentralized platforms. This is largely a lesson in not understanding one's income to expense ratio. If one is an influencer, one is a business. If one doesn't understand business, don't be an influencer. Lessons come at one fast and hard.