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[mariacallous]

The end of TikTok has begun. As the dust settles from a week of shockingly fast legislative action by the US Congress, it’s clear that TikTok next year will look much different from the TikTok we’re using today.

When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion dollar foreign aid package on Wednesday, it brought to life a nightmare that has haunted TikTok for more than four years. If TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, refuses to divest its stakes in the company, the United States will ban the app nationwide. The signing started the clock, giving TikTok 270 days to find a new owner. (As The Washington Post’s Cristiano Lima-Strong noted, TikTok’s time will run out the day before Inauguration Day 2025.)

There are a few ways this could all shake out. An American company or private equity fund could buy TikTok and its powerful recommendation algorithm. Or, a buyer might have to accept just the bones of the platform without that algorithmic muscle; The Information reported on Thursday that ByteDance has already started gaming out what a sale without the algorithm would look like. Or, perhaps no buyer can be found and TikTok goes poof.

Unless TikTok or a horde of its users were to somehow win a lawsuit challenging the law signed this week—a lawsuit the company has already said it plans to file—all the potential outcomes lead to an app that is dramatically different.

If a US tech company were to, miraculously, buy out the app and algorithm from ByteDance, it’ll likely integrate the app into its own products and services. But I doubt we’ll ever see a “TikTok by Meta.” Meta and other tech giants have come under intense antitrust scrutiny in recent years. If any company with a big social platform were to gobble up one of its top competitors, that would set off alarms at the Department of Justice or Federal Trade Commission.

Microsoft has suggested that it has an interest in buying TikTok, and it might be one of the app’s only viable choices for a buyer. Microsoft’s biggest subsidiary otherwise is, well, LinkedIn—and can we even call LinkedIn a TikTok rival with a straight face?

Separately, if, say, a private equity firm like Blackstone were to purchase TikTok without its much-envied algorithm, rebuilding the heart of the app could be difficult. A company without a deep bench of algorithmic wizards on hand likely wouldn’t have the expertise to quickly reengineer a feed-based social media platform from scratch. If they tried, I doubt the results would be pretty.

And if there’s no new owner? Well, I guess we’re left with YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. TikTok’s popularity in the US forced Google and Meta to invest in vertical video, but those platforms mostly cater to the younger “Skibidi Toilet” generation. They wouldn’t easily fill a TikTok-shaped gap on the US internet.

Still, the law passed this week may not stand for much longer. In a statement calling it unconstitutional, TikTok seemed confident that the law could be overturned. “We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail,” a TikTok spokesperson said on Wednesday. The company used a similar argument last year to win an injunction blocking a ban passed in Montana.

Regardless of how this lawsuit plays out, TikTok will be different. The question is just what kind of “different” that will be.

[gratiae-mirabilia]

#catholic #catholicism #video by history_mae on instagram #file under caroline

[supercantaloupe]

musicians from the glyndebourne production of don giovanni this past summer performing on period instruments!

#sasha speaks #don giovanni #this gets filed under #oboeposting #as well. i make the rules #anyway sorry the video is kind of shit i had to rip it from facebook. and facebook and instagram are hostile to human life #good music! period instruments! fun video! music history fun facts! what more could you ask for

[peachjagiya]

Taekook at Yoongi's show.

File under: we knew but it's nice to see properly 💜💜💜

But also file under: is it even comfortable to walk that close? 😂

#taekook #file under: 😍 #Instagram

[silverfoxstole]

Obviously during the intervening years Amanda Mealing forgot which brother she worked with on The Grand back in 1997.

#um that’s mark amanda… #she played dorothy wordsworth in the rime of the ancient mariner with paul the following year so maybe that’s why she was confused #even so #whoops #amanda mealing #mark mcgann #not #paul mcgann #file under: old things you run across on instagram

[goldensunset]

how have i only just discovered karakuri pierrot

#file under songs i’ve heard in edits on instagram without checking/remembering the names #years ago #file also under songs that i’ve heard the names of but never actually listened #peach rambles

[chipped-chimera]

And today's award for the most tone deaf advertising algorithm goes tooooo ...

#fat shaming #tech dystopia #fuck corpos #instagram #have this bag of dog shit thats your reward #also laughing my ass off that i showed this screenshot full on to my mum #only realised AFTER the thing about lesbian sex on it dhmsnd 🤣 #I'll file that under an unintentional hint drop with the rest of the intentional ones #Instagram yet again demonstrating why I barely use Instagram #idk why this is isn't showing up on my dash but if this got supressed tumblr you cowards #this shit needs to be called out

[oliveholt]

→ olivia holt posted to instagram

if you felt cute, don't delete it later.

#｡˚⋆ filed under / instagram / visage.

[hndwrttn]

#file under: can't take us anywhere nice #best friends club #Instagram

[italiantea]

happy ghost festival, kairei 👻

#\|/ #my art #oc #filed under : blasphemous pictures i will not post on instagram for irls to see #well... who knows #anyway eat up baby you deserve it

[lgcwookjin]

DEBUT BOOTCAMP : bus ride ft. @lgcxmax

wookjin chuckled, said to his bus buddy “look” before shoving his phone towards max. on his screen was a silly meme from instagram that he knew would make max laugh. as he let max watch and react, he wondered if this was what love was. knowing someone so well, enjoying them so much, that a long bus ride to certain doom was the highlight of his day, just so long as he was by his side. the words were hard to express, but wookjin’s expression was doing the work his lips refused. once max was done, wookjin took his phone back but didn’t return to mindlessly scrolling. he just kind of...looked at max for a minute.

it seemed like this year was whirlwind after whirlwind. just thinking professionally, he had future dreams, now the bootcamp—wherever that was going to end up going. but he could handle that! ignoring the week long depression stint...that was show-bizz baby! but then, once he gets comfortable enter: max. of course max, the one his heart skipped a beat for the moment he saw him so many years ago, threw a wrench in his getting back to normal plan. wrench was a bad descriptor. max doing what wookjin never had the courage to was more like being hit in the head during a pillow fight. it knocked him back for a second, but he was smiling the whole time. 

once he realized he was probably staring at max for too long (and before he leaned in to kiss him, probably not the right crowd for that) he muttered, “sorry” cheeks quickly blushing and he looked down at his fidgetting hands for a second to calm himself down. he was getting antsy and needed stimulation, so he looked past max’s seat out the window— he let max have the window seat because wookjin knew he preferred it—and watched the trees and road go by. “god,” he groaned, “how far is this place.” he was ready to get to work already. though, at this new building he didn’t know any of the good hiding spots for him and max to...hang out in.  

#lgc:debutbootcamp001 #lgcxmax #file under : thread #wookjin is an instagram reels man it has been canonized

[lucianasalazar]

#IthacaSCSP #filed under: visual. #filed under: instagram. #idk who wants photo credits but take them xo

[rosesradio]

.

#not to sound like a 36 y/o incel living in his mom's basement #but i sure do hate when my mom comes in my room to 'check out' certain things like plugs and my (candle) collections and things #she doesn't say anything and when i ask what she's doing she's like 'it's my room/house i can come in here when i want' #1.) no #2.) privacy?? #3.) girl it is not your house you have never paid for anything with your own money once in your life #4.) i'm confident she does this on purpose to make me anxious about her going through my stuff-- #--because she doesn't really go through my stuff now that i'm grown (that i know of) but when i was in ms & hs? oh my god #nothing was safe. anything not completely hidden in four layers of stuff she was entirely entitled to #once i was grounded for like 4 months bc my instagram had little (shitty) drawings of The Gays #she didn't say that was why she was just like 'you're spending too much time online i think' but like. yeah. #but also if i was drawing Heterosexual HP Shit i'd be 'super talented' etc #anyways now i'm anxious about her going through my stuff again <33 time to double-check all my hiding places-- #filed under: posts i will probably delete in like 5 minutes #tw vent

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

[italianexotiicbeauty]

tag drop part two.

#inner!mind | the metahuman. #caduceus × ( single mom • trauma nurse hc ) #inner!mind 🧛‍♀️ the vampire #you only see five seconds of reality [ social media; instagram. ] #> filed under; saved things. #PUT ON YOUR WAR PAINT ! ( shameless self promo. ) #'running our own campaign doing the whole shebang' ( promo time ! ) #v; demigod #v; daughter of hecate #v; halfblood&magic #v; night magic #v; ashes&magic #v; ashes&smoke #v; the metahuman #v; explosive mutation ( mcu mary ) #v; strongest mother #v; loving embrace #v | humanity in a bottle ( human mary. ) #v | humanity in a bottle ( robbery-homicide. ) #v | humanity in a bottle ( dea agent. ) #v | humanity in a bottle ( robbery homicide. ) #v | bloodied fangs ( vampire. ) #v | aerials up high in the night sky [ v1 ] #clouded memories from a former life [ v2 ] #v | let the music heal your soul ( v1 ) #v | musicians feel the rhythm everyday ( v2 ) #from point a to point b with speed ( freelance gofer. )

[parkduris]

a look into duri's instagram profile.

duri really does quite enjoy uploading to Instagram, truth be told. he has a pretty good following on the app, sitting at about 2.2 million followers, a lot of the followers being namely casual fans, rather than those that sit within his fandom. but, that's more than okay because duri one hundred percent still sees them as his fans. nonetheless, he loves getting the chance to upload photos and will often upload a photo of some kind randomly - whether that's something he's doing or just a random selca of himself. he'll use the live feature pretty often as well, where he's constantly moving through korean, english, and japanese - depending on who's watching at the time and commenting. a lot of the accounts he follows are either groups he likes, singers he enjoys, and dog accounts. his Instagram is really just fun, in some capacity.

#╰ ♡ filed under: sns. #╰ ♡ filed under: about. #duri's face card is never declining actually #credits for the instagram profile template in the source ! #BYE i just noticed i have a typo with through and we're going to have to live with that because i noticed it an hour later