TikTok's daily average U.S. app uninstalls have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared to the previous three months, Sensor Tower told CNBC.

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    I understand TikTok to be the bastion of communication and community for Gen Z.

    But so much of the content is uncreative. The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.

    That said, I do hope TikTok crashes and burns so the new owner loses on their bid. And I do really hope Gen Z can collectively find a new platform to communicate on freely because TikTok has been a force for them just as Twitter and Reddit was for Millenials.

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      27 minutes ago

      The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.

      Dear God. My friend sent me a video about some Japanese person with some cooking method or something that he recommended I should make try. The video he sent me was annoying as fuck. It was a couple screaming at each other: “OMG IS THAT THE NEW JAPANESE ____ METHOD?” “YES I THINK I’VE HEARD OF THAT” interspersed with the actual narration-free video. Had to stop it after 4-6 seconds.

      I asked my friend how he could even stand watching it the video and he said his brain filters it out. I don’t know why it just repulsed me so much.

      There’s also many videos with some person just playing another’s person’s video and they just point a finger upward to the actual playing video with some useless look on their face and the nodding.

      I think this is the nature of these TikTok videos but I’m not really on TikTok much, I just get them sent to me every once in a while.

    • Asafum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I do hope TikTok crashes and burns so the new owner loses on their bid.

      They bought it to control the narrative on important topics so a loss isn’t a big deal to them. You apparently already can’t talk about Epstein and anti-ICE stuff gets hidden.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      52 minutes ago

      But so much of the content is uncreative.

      Enshittification, baby. Once people know where the feed bar is, they just keep slapping it until pellets stop falling out. The Algorithm rewards imitation, not invention.