What ridiculous hyperbole

Hi I just came to express how happy I am, that you people, go with the bags. It’s been long overdue. 10 years It took wow.

In what world was this site making money?

Gamers are not smart people. They can use words in convincing combinations that resemble sentences, but there's nothing really there.

What in God’s holy name are you blathering about?

I honestly don’t see how this is weird. If you want weird, look at Kojima’s obsession with putting as many celebrity faces in this games as possible. That is weird. Ian McShane narrating the DD2 trailer is just good marketing.

But because its China oooh scary.

Just ignore it. You don’t have to read Twitter, reddit or Youtube comments. I don’t and it’s great! I just play games and enjoy them on their own merits regardless of what other people think.

I think it’s less about horny jail and making the sexy have a mechanic rather than just being eye candy.

It’s not that funny. There’s a pretty marked difference between some other US company having access to your phone (which the US Gov could get access to it if they really needed it) and a foreign government having that direct access.

If a bunch of politicians and security folks think TikTok is a bad idea, probably worth…

It looks fun, combat looks fun, you’re focussing too much on Youtube content creators and not regular people.

The combat looks pretty fun from what I’ve seen.

The fact that there’s not a single comment here that supports keeping TikTok around in its current form tells me that you all really don’t know your audience. Or care.

Multiple things can intersect and be true at once if you consider the history at play here.

If tiktok closed for other reasons, we’d have an alternative and everyone would have forgotten tiktok in about 2 weeks. I don’t wanna be the “I’ve been on the internet since the 90s” guy but... wait.... I am that guy. Anyone care about myspace, icq, webcrawler? Let it die and be replaced by something even more stupid…

Sometimes that’s all you need.

Pretty much this. All we ever hear from anti-ban folks is complaints about losing access to content and complaints about people who use tiktok for a living having to do something else for money.  I’ve yet to hear anyone actually addressing the issue causing the push for a ban in the first place.

So if I understand this correctly, the allegation is that TikTok is a massive security concern that’s sending all of our user data to China’s government. And the response against that isn’t addressing said allegations, but instead pointing out that there are funny memes and stuff on it?

I believe the topic in question is that this app is a national security risk, so I don’t see how “tik tok should exist because of the funny memes” is a relevant defense against that.

Since all of the gizmodo family editors are doing these, can someone do “top 50 white nationalist recruitment propaganda on tiktok” next? How about “top 30 illegal/cruel tiktok pranks”? “99 tiktoks that induce body dismorphia in teens and teach them unhealthy/pseudoscience ‘cures’ for their perceived inadequacies 🤫🧏”…