Cindi White spent more than $25,000 on TikTok Influencers. TikTok's Live Matches have a dark side.

She spent her inheritance sending money to TikTok Livestreamers. What started as a game turned into addiction.::Cindi White spent more than $25,000 on TikTok Influencers. TikTok’s Live Matches have a dark side.

  • PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    The matches imitate a video game. Two TikTokers stream side-by-side, divided into “red” and “blue” teams. As a timer counts down from five minutes, they go to wild and kooky lengths to get their fans to send them these gifts.

    The creativity to create things like these battles is interesting

    We really are fleshy machines that just need our buttons pushed the right way to get us to obsess over almost anything

    • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Hilarious. I can’t believe they actually did a Cash War. I watched a Twitch streamer joke about this a few years before Tik Tok existed

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Be! Excited! Be, Be Excited!

      Edit: To anyone too young to know, or simply out of the loop, this is from Requiem for a Dream. No doubt you recognize that music; the ubiquitous “oh so dramatic” music. That… Was scored for this movie. This was it’s original application. There’s a reason it’s ubiquitous today. Fuck. The gravity of this movie is bringing me to tears rn and I haven’t seen it in over a decade. If you haven’t seen it, watch it.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      Wow even money

      We can even obsess over money what an eye opening thought

      To scam and steal and do anything for money what a novel idea

      Never thought of humans becoming fooled of their money before