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by notpushkin 610 days ago
Using the TikTok logo in the app is kinda inappripriate, but otherwise yeah, I think just saying “TikTok for X” gets the idea across in the most concise way. Adding some info on what the videos could be from would be nice though (i.e. do I paste a bunch of YouTube links, or upload files myself, or..?)
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That was my original point though — it’s not saying that it’s “like TikTok” or “TikTok for X”, it’s literally saying that it is TikTok.

Edit: The title is “TikTok feed for your clips” so I guess in a literal sense it is describing itself as “TikTok for X”, but I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”. Yeah, that’s just Uber.

> I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”.

It’s more like “Uber for your own cars”. (Would be neat by the way, although I have no idea how it would work!)

Emphasis in “TikTok feed for your clips” is on you curating the feed and supplying the clips – TikTok here refers to the TikTok-like UI, not the platform itself. I’m not sure who would want that, but the idea seems pretty clear to me. Perhaps a less ambiguous description would work better though, I agree.

inappropriate to whom?
At a minimum, inappropriate from TikTok/ByteDance's point of view. Even if we put that aside, users of this app may find it inappropriate that this app advertised as a "TikTok feed" app is not a TikTok feed app (so it appears very much like a scam from the point of view).