Summary
Senator Cory Booker’s speech on TikTok live surpassed 350 million likes as he stood for over 25 hours speaking in the Senate chamber.
Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech, which lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to block civil rights legislation.
Storm Thurman? Zero likes on his TikTok. That’s the real stat.
Strom got ratioed
I mean… even 1 like would be the same ratio.
Excuse me, I want 10 digit precision on this measurement
Strom Thurmond has been infinitely ratioed by a black man
To be fair, Storm wasn’t a real person.
Hopefully dems start doing this strategy to block actual policies from being passed.
It’s really really important to understand that this was 100% performance, no legislation has been delayed or stopped as a result of this.
We SHOULD encourage our reps to waste yhe legislature’s time, but ONLY when it actually impacts something.
All kids do these days is twerk, eat hot chips, be bisexual and like TikToks.
And I respect the hell out of that.
me too actually
That’s utterly disgusting. How can they like hot chips?
/S
Wait, TikTok users had more than 4 seconds of engagement with a 25-hour speech that wasn’t set to “oh no no no” (slowed + reverb NITECORE REMIX)
I’m not trying to take away from the accomplishment, but how does this get 350 million likes? The entire population of the U.S. is less than 342 million. Yes, tiktok is worldwide, but are there really that many people paying attention to this?
I live in America, so my apologies if I seem a little biased.
I got the feeling that a large portion of the world is interested and paying attention to what appears to be the downfall and collapse of the largest “super power” on the planet. I imagine many people outside the country would be interested in attempts to combat/slow/reverse what for all intents and purposes is the biggest economic and military nation in the world going full fascist, even if it’s just symbolic.
As a european, I follow the us shitshow partly because it influences our politics and lives and partly because I feel sympathy for all the people suffering because of it. Mostly however, I follow it because it is ~70% of the content on lemmy. If I had tiktok I would have liked the speech there.
I just saw a comment on a reddit thread saying that on tiktok live you can repeatedly press the like button, and it caps at 2000 likes.
That seems a little disappointing. I don’t use TikTok so not overly familiar with anything about it, but 2000 seems a bit excessive. Like I could maybe see a max of 3. 2 for something you really like and then 3 for something amazing or something you love.
that’s more likes than there were americans last year, really glad to broke that asshole’s record
What the hell even is this?
TikTok is a video platform that allows people to watch prerecorded and live videos. Video content includes pets, crafts, boobs, dank memes, tradwifes, and even politics.
