SuntanIronMan

JamesCude said:

Tik-tok has zero inherent value. If all creators decided to leave tomorrow it would be completely worthless. It would be like buying an expensive piece of land just for a car that happened to be parked on it.

The same could be said about a lot of things. If everybody in the world decided tomorrow that gold was worthless, then gold would be worthless. That’s a 100% true statement, but it’s very unlikely to happen (especially in the extreme short-term of “tomorrow”).

In the case of TikTok though, it wouldn’t be completely worthless even if every creator left tomorrow. That is because the data TikTok has about its users is still worth something to somebody. Data security is one of the reasons why the U.S. government is looking to ban TikTok. TikTok has a lot of data. And there are many out there that want that data and would pay money for that data. TikTok certainly wouldn’t be worth (whatever it is worth currently) without any creators. But it wouldn’t be completely worthless.

ralphiecastle said:

Nobody cares about these awards, they are completely bogus and have zero effect on anybody.  

That’s not true. Awards affects a lot of people on the industry. And I don’t mean the highest-paid actors. I mean the crew that work behind the scenes that makes everything work. The custom designers, the visual effects artists, the makeup artists, hair stylists, etc. An Academy Award win (or just nomination) can affect the careers of those greatly. Being able to say you are an Academy Award winning/nominated hair stylist can open doors that would normally be very difficult to open.

As for the movie going public: There is a notable “Oscar Bump” that occurs when a film is nominated. The movie going public — having read that a film has been nominated — will go out of their way to watch those nominated films. This is partially noticeable in lower-budget and independent films that didn’t have a large marketing budget during the initial release. 

The Oscar Bump doesn’t mean quite as much in the age of streaming, but it’s still present 

spheric said:

Don’t let this idiocy distract you from the full-on Nazi shit they’ve pushed through his executive orders. 

I mean… ordering the renaming place names… is something that’s been done before in the 1930s throughout Germany…

It’s not really a distraction so much as it is an actual part of it.

This is all so silly. I mean… America has a “New Mexico”. America has its Mexico separate from Mexico. America’s Mexico doesn’t border the Golf of Mexico, but… whatever. America has a Mexico. And Mexico has two Californias (as well as a Gulf of California). Is America also going to demand that Mexico ceases using its “California” names? This is so incredibly silly and petty that it hurts my brain. And it hasn’t even been a full week yet. It barely been half of a week.

This is all so silly. I mean… America has a “New Mexico”. America has its Mexico separate from Mexico. America’s Mexico doesn’t border the Golf of Mexico, but… whatever. America has a Mexico. And Mexico has two Californias (as well as a Gulf of California). Is America also going to demand that Mexico ceases using its “California” names? This is so incredibly silly and petty that it hurts my brain. And it hasn’t even been a full week yet. It hasn’t even been half a week yet.