>lectures and talks, historic films, documentaries and instructional videos
Please point to such content on Instagram. Instagram has the same qualities you ascribe to TikTok but the only difference is you cannot point to a chinese boogeyman.
>happily allows Bytedance to export it.
This is nonsense. TikTok produced crap is produced locally. It's not Chinese influencers generating "vapid shallow trash"; and if Tiktok were banned Instagram would happily vacuum up those creators onto Reels. Revenge for the opium wars? My friend, we are doing this to ourselves. It's not the CCP's fault that America has resigned itself to algorithmic ad-driven content. We invented those algorithms.
Instagram is not going to be any less vapid just because it's run by Americans.
You are insinuating that I have defended Instagram, but Instagram and the entirety of Facebook can die in a fire as far as I'm concerned. Fuck off with the strawmen; my comment above is a defense of youtube, not instagram. You're trying to change the subject because you have no rebuttal to what I actually said.
You are implicitly defending instagram when you say something like They view it as revenge for the Opium Wars; they're deliberately exporting poison.
And again, just because you can point to a small amount of educational content of youtube doesn't change the fact that a large majority of it is "vapid", and that YouTube is also trying to cash in on that trend (via YouTube Shorts).
Nonetheless you can find educational channel on TikTok as another commenter shows which makes your defense of YouTube quite flimsy.
Userbase dynamics is weird. Instagram is somehow dominated by women seeking attention and has an appropriate audience, facebook doesn't seem to be bent on changing that and dumbing their users down.
Tiktok seems to deliberately promote degenerate behaviour, nothing organic about that.
Please point to such content on Instagram. Instagram has the same qualities you ascribe to TikTok but the only difference is you cannot point to a chinese boogeyman.
>happily allows Bytedance to export it.
This is nonsense. TikTok produced crap is produced locally. It's not Chinese influencers generating "vapid shallow trash"; and if Tiktok were banned Instagram would happily vacuum up those creators onto Reels. Revenge for the opium wars? My friend, we are doing this to ourselves. It's not the CCP's fault that America has resigned itself to algorithmic ad-driven content. We invented those algorithms.
Instagram is not going to be any less vapid just because it's run by Americans.