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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
TikTok wasn't interested in courting established influencers. Not at first, at least. It wanted to make homegrown celebrities.
Which means TikTok wasn't favoring people from institutions that lack diversity. With the FYP, they leveled the playing field. Anyone could go viral and cultivate an audience.
And wouldn't you know it, when you level the playing field like that, you get greater diversity in the discourse.