[jsywheb38]

>Sorry, but social networks are made of people, without the people you don't have a product.

This is an insane reply, nothing about that post made it sound like they thought otherwise.

>He's trying to say that because important people create the community then that's the most important thing to the product in this case.

That's not what the grandparent said at all. He was saying almost the opposite, that Tiktok owes its success to "...its strategy to take on the world with the freshest possible generation of users..." whom it wooed by offering a fresh social media environment, free of important people, where they wouldn't feel like they were "...competing against those who were already established."

Their core point was that TikTok's success was because of its marketing strategy, not because of its features, which is what the person you replied to was contesting. No one was arguing against whatever strawman you were building with quotes.