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    What kids really do on Musical.ly

    PaymoneyWubby

    5 HN mentions · mentioned in 5 months, 2018–2020

    YouTube

    12:28 · 5.1M views · Jul 2, 2018

    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.

    Cited as an outsider's critical look at Musical.ly and TikTok and the child-safety problems of video platforms.

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    5 comments from Hacker News

    1. @burger_moonAug 2018· in “Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance”

      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

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    2. @hn_checkAug 2020· in “Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels”

      "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

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    3. @sorenjanSep 2018· in “Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round”

      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)

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    4. @cssFeb 2019· in “On YouTube, a Network of Paedophiles Is Hiding in Plain Sight”

      > 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] .

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    5. @lm28469Jul 2019· in “TikTok being investigated in the U.K. for handling of children’s data and safety”

      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

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