[SimpleMinds]

I have similar experience as other commenters, tried TikTok, found it very boring and silly. But then I tried the original, Chinese version (Douyin) and the quality of the content there is so much better than TikTok.

You can actually see a lot of gifs right now on reddit being taken straight from Douyin because that's where cool/fun stuff is being created.

To compare with Vine - by not having time limit, I was able to see the 30sec video of how too cook one of the Chinese dishes, or 1 minute video of a metal welder creating one of his metal sculptures.

It's extremly addictive I think, because content might be realy short or quite-but-not-too long.

I'm trying to say in a roundabout way that Douyin content is miles ahead of TikTok content. I haven't seen too much of the TikTok's girls seeking attention content issue.

[ilaksh]

If that's the case then it's an evolution of video content and a totally different story than the creepy teenagers stuff. Because one of the big advantages of YouTube is that the content is sort of compressed. There is less filler content like a TV show would need to complete a time slot. The content is more information-dense. These apps take that up a notch or two.

That doesn't necessarily work for everything but for many things cutting out the fat is going to deliver more information in a shorter time.