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Comment by addison-lee | Hacker News Reader

The last time I brought this up there was a surprising amount of people trying to defend this behavior from TikTok. Glad to see you bring this up—awful company.

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Compared to traditional mass market media is it that different? Actors and actresses on prime time TV are beautiful by western standards, thin and with perfect teeth. Living in beautiful, spacious houses that most people can't afford.

edit: Not that I'm defending Tiktok, just saying that the way it distorts and portrays the world is a continuation of what media companies were already doing. I was going to make a point about how it is a lot like the Society of the Spectacle, but it looks like others have already made the connection:

https://blendertrouble.substack.com/p/now-i-know-whats-real-...

You'll have to send me these articles of other social media companies instructing their moderators to suppress ugly, poor, and disabled users.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

I was making a comparison between Hollywood and TikTok, not between TikTok and other social media companies?

I suppose the argument would be that there's no illusion that media hiring is intended to serve actors' desires as opposed to building the image that studios want for their product. If tiktok had marketed themselves as a unique kind of curated content company instead of a social media service with democratically-determined exposure, I think the studio comparison would be apt.

What is so bad about this behavior?

um most people, including me, like to see beautiful people. It make sense to suppress post by the ugly.

You're probably downvoted because of how you articulated your message, but the initial idea is correct. We're biologically programmed to like beautiful things, people, whatever.

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