the girl whose TikTok went viral exposing the Astronomer CEO / CPO got 37.8M views (now at 117M views) and a whopping creator rewards total of exactly zero dollars

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That’s so sad. And disgusting. You are the product has never felt so real.

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i have mixed feelings on this

on one hand, she could’ve made $$ at someone else’s expense (she’s not really a “creator”, just captured a moment made possible by Coldplay) but she didn’t; it was just status quo social media

on the other hand, she captured a viral moment that unified the entire internet and gets nothing for it except millions of likes and tens of thousands of followers

TikTok only exists because of user generated content. But users don’t get anything except a sense of pride and accomplishment.

the point is that users can earn $$ and opportunities from posting

yes we should build better systems where *more* users can earn $$ and opportunities, but it’s disingenuous to say users only get used

there’s a decent amount of good we can learn from TikTok

Do they ever post publicly about how many people make that level of money? I assume it’s a small percentage like all the other platforms.

the first part yes agree, but frankly the latter part is not universally true. i’ve made $10k+ from TikTok and gotten invited to interesting opportunities with interesting people as a result of posting on it. same can be said about many users on TikTok — especially those who have made friends, learned something new, found a favorite product, etc.