5.1M views · Jul 2, 2018 · 12:28 · 0 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2018–2020
A commentary video by YouTuber PaymoneyWubby reacting to children's content on the Musical.ly app, which became TikTok. It highlights the child-safety concerns of young kids dancing on a public social platform.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as an outsider's critical look at Musical.ly and TikTok and the child-safety problems of video platforms.
“Which is similar to the recent videos PayMoneyWubby has been exposing”
> Enter “twister girl” and autocomplete suggests “little girl twister in skirt” Jesus… Credit where credit is due, I learned about this from MattsWhatItIs: link Which is similar to the recent videos PayMoneyWubby has been exposing: this video and link It reminds me of a darker version of link .
“I knew musical.ly only from Paymoneywubby”
"Everyone calls me stupid every time I bring up the fact that Twitter had a better TikTok before TikTok in Vine" The view that "Vine was tiktok before tiktok" is extremely common. Vine was very popular, was a trend beachhead, but it just wasn't something Twitter was really interested in so they shanked it. Speaking of which, I didn't realize that musical.ly morphed into TikTok. I knew musical.ly only from Paymoneywubby - this video
“Here's a video someone made recently explaining it better”
They left off the part that gets brought up anytime someone asks what musical.ly is/was. Which is an app filled with young teens being advertised to old men. I haven't used the app yet, I was interested in checking it out and maybe I'll play around with it but every discuss about tiktok and musical.ly comes back to it just being a weird platform that seems to exploit young teens and showcase the videos to old men. Here's a video someone made recently explaining it better this video
“It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen”
I've never used Musica.ly myself, and I don't have any kids of my own, but I came across this video [0] where a Youtuber looked at clips from it. It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen, I can't see how it could be worth that much money. I wouldn't want any of my future kids anywhere near there. [0] this video (NSFW language)
“This platform is at the very least extremely disturbing.”
Every time I read "tiktok" I have flashbacks from one of paymoneywubby's video [0]. This platform is at the very least extremely disturbing. It's mild but I'd tag it as NSFW. [0] this video
