TikTok Live Streams Explained — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:00] Next video, oh god, TikTok live streams are a disaster. TikTok, you're going to email us. I think this is our first Ted Nivison video we're watching on stream two.

[00:16] So now that you're as deep in this as I am, why are TikTok live streams so weird? As I was browsing TikTok while working on my viral sound video, I started getting recommended TikTok lives on my 4U page. TikTok lives is like looking deep into it.

[00:29] Am I wrong or every seventh video is just a TikTok live? Into the void and having it maniacally stream back into it. Oh, wow. It's like walking through Times Square in New York, but it's an alternate reality and everyone is suffering from acute psychosis, including yourself.

[00:45] And with TikTok making live streaming a money-making opportunity for pretty much anyone. That's the only reason people use TikTok live. That's why every high-value TikTok live, every top performer on TikTok live,

[00:59] is some dumb scam where they're saying they're going to eat something at a certain amount of coins or viewers, or they act asleep and people wake them up with f***ing coins and s***. It's all just a scam for money.

[01:13] It's become the perfect incubator to hatch some of the work. Attempts at side hustling, I have seen yet. The first discovery I made was a group of people that had figured out a way to commodify sleeping. You know, that weird thing that... Oh, my God.

[01:26] Easiest side hustle ever, bro. All they do, lay down in a bed. They have a little f***ing coin board. And if you give them $5, dang-nam-style plays for 10 seconds.

[01:43] And they go... Oh, I was asleep when they're just sitting there. Everyone does where we pass out for 50% of our lives. And this is perfect because that means that TikTok has managed to take control of their greatest rival, going to bed.

[02:00] Ironically, these sleeping streams are not about actually getting sleep, but rather keeping someone awake. Yay! They have an entire menu of donation options for viewers.

[02:14] mean soundbites that will blast through speakers in their room. So obviously the viewer's job is to donate money to be annoying. But there's a level of performance that is required in order for this TikTok live strategy to work. They will pretend to get angry with people sending donations as if

[02:30] this entire scenario was not constructed of their own free will. Dude, did y'all see my reaction to that one guy? Bro, I'm about to pull up my own fucking TikTok for this shit.

[02:44] The dude that fucking, he like, he literally has a whole account, and all the content is just him on TikTok Live. Every video is just him on TikTok Live. Here it is. Every time that I'm on TikTok Live, I'm freaking myself out.

[03:00] Every time that I'm on TikTok Live, I'm freaking myself out. Those sitting there manically hitting, manically hitting that shit. Fucking pounding. Oh my god, you guys joined my livestream.

[03:14] Oh, you gave me five dollars and you woke me up. Oh fucking hell dude. Since would you have to check for this to be a real situation for someone? Is this even sustainable for someone? The more money you make, the worse it gets.

[03:28] I like to think that they do this every night. And if this is their day job, when they're done with work, do they go to bed? They're already there. You'd have to end your day by popping like seven ads. One of my favorite things that I'll notice that chat do is they'll start beckoning people to stop donating and just let the guy sleep.

[03:43] Like they're the stereotypical thugs behind a bar beating the shit out of some innocent person and one of the guys is like, Alright, alright, you got it now. Let's get it, Eddie. And then it's just a livestream of the guy actually looking like he's sleeping.

[03:55] And it's not like he can do anything about it, he's supposed to be sleeping. You also might notice that the donation tier is- OOOOOH! So if he gets on live? Dude, I've never seen that pan out. Because every time I go on one of those lives, they're freaking out because somebody's giving them money.

[04:11] Days where they don't get money, they just sit there. And they can't bitch. They can't be like, you guys aren't giving me money. They just have to act asleep. Or maybe they do sleep.

[04:23] Who knows? Seem less like a price menu and more like a hieroglyphic Rosetta Stone. And that's because of TikTok's really strange donation system. Twitch and their bitch? Get them out of here. YouTube just having it? Is she carrot? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[04:38] EWWWWWWWWW FUCK YOU TikTok has decided to be that guy, the weirdo, the kid that brought in the tuna sandwich to elementary school lunch. News flash? You're stakin' up the place, man! I didn't fully even understand what they were worth until I researched it, and it's important that you understand this too.

[04:52] Users can use money or purchase coins, and from there they can purchase a variety of wonderful and wacky emojis that they call gifts. This system adds to the absolute insanity of watching a TikTok live stream because some of the...

[05:05] How much is a coin? How much is a TikTok coin? TikTok coins prices. A thousand TikTok coins are worth thirteen and a half dollars.

[05:21] You buy coins... Hold up, let me just go on somebody's TikTok live and see how much it actually costs. Let's hold on to that. Recharging a gift.

[05:35] Okay. A dollar of coins is 60... A dollar is 65 coins. If you spend $250, you get 16,500 coins.

[05:51] And you can give that to a creator. There's people that buy those packages. And amazes me to come with that Like a sailboat coming onto the screen or a giant corgi that shakes its ass Why are you What the live streaming department is run by Cocomelon

[06:07] That's not a good thing. And the value of these gifts can range from very small, such as the rose or ice cream cone worth about a penny, to some extremely expensive ones, such as the TikTok Universe gift, which is $370.

[06:20] It reminds me of... Yo! I thought that shit was like 120 bucks, Navy. It's multiple packages? 370?

[06:32] It's slot machines at casinos with their colorful, bright animation. And to make your brain forget that you just gambled away your child's entire college fund. Thank you, my boy. Thank you. But surely that can't be intentional by design.

[06:46] Now, these sleeping streams are the first of a category of TikTok lives that are weekly attempting to use reverse psychology on people. They're trying to make this... What was the first Sam TikTok live for coins?

[07:02] I used to... Oh, my God. Y'all want to know what I used to do when I was in high school? I ate a whole box of Cheerios on stream one time for money. I would sit on TikTok live. Dude, I remember that.

[07:14] I made, like, $30. I made, like, $30. It was like, if you gave me like a dollar of TikTok coins, I would eat like 50 Cheerios. And so like somebody gave me like 30 bucks and I just sat on TikTok live for like an hour and just ate Cheerios.

[07:34] I don't think that was a scam though because I kept my word. You gave me the money, I did what I said I would do. Whereas like the first TikTok scam was the eating shit. I think when people would have worms or spicy things, and they would be like, hey, when we reach this amount of viewers or whatever, this amount of coins, they'd be like, oh, we're going to eat it.

[07:53] And they would just hold it here and then, like, go back to talking for an hour and a half. They would just prepare to eat it. Then they would eat it after, like, three hours. What the streamer supposedly is trying to do. And the only way to sabotage the streamer is by sending money through the streamer.

[08:07] Do you get where this is going? So in many ways, it is a net positive for the streamer. Because I don't think that they care about counting to one quintillion. Oh, no, that was the first scam.

[08:20] Oh, that was the first scam. I forgot about that. Some dickhead that would go live at, like, he would go live, and then he would, like, leave the last thousand open. He would automatically just have it here and say he was counting to, like, quintillion,

[08:34] even though that would take, like, literally, like, a million years. Like, counting to a billion is impossible in a human lifetime, yet people would say that they were counting to 999 billion in one stream in like an hour.

[08:49] My God. I feel like you would have to be older than the universe itself to be able to be counting to that number. When you went to the stream, though, he just so happened to be on that last couple of digits. He's almost there. And then the last ten.

[09:01] The last ten. Guys, guys, please don't reset me. Guys, guys, please. I've been here for so long. Oh my god, the last ten. Oh my god, the last five guys, please

[09:14] Oh my god, I was just like I was like smash my controller if you guys gave me money It would be so upsetting if somebody gave you a hundred dollar dodo Hey, but if you send a call gate, you can entirely reset his clicks

[09:26] Which doesn't seem worth it if you've been counting for that long But other viewers who want him to complete his task Well, they could just send a friggin heart thing and then he's just back at the number he was at I really love the commentary that comes from these streamers because you can tell that they're constantly goading the viewers into being against each other.

[09:43] Oh my god, Kikali, oh! Oh my god, guys, please don't send me a TikTok gif! It's really going to fuck me over! Please don't send me a TikTok gif! It's really going to upset me!

[09:57] Boo! Oh! Honey McCain! Yeah, boy! And when he manages to get to that final number and you think he's about to complete his task, he starts counting down.

[10:10] 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now he's got to start from the beginning.

[10:22] Bro, deadass. That is actually how it is. Just, oh, no, you guys reset me. But of all of these. Oh, you gave me $45. Fuck. Favorite has to be Galaxy Kid.

[10:36] Don't say anything to Galaxy Kid. The fuck? We are not getting you down, people. No one is going to- There's a last one. I have never seen this guy. Do you know who this guy is?

[10:48] Or that fuck who does the egg cracking hut, he never finishes peeling it and says, Yeah! Dude, they always do some shit where it's like a task, and everyone wants to see him finish, and they just never finish it.

[11:03] building a house of cards, and the entire time he's like goading the viewers into sending a galaxy gift, which is worth about $10. This is not good. We are not beating a galaxy. But all this for $10, bro. Would y'all do this for $10?

[11:19] This livestream does really well. The first time I found him, there was almost 6,000 people watching him do this. He's doing everything in his power to make sure that any person that stumbles upon this livestream will hate him in the deepest parts of their soul.

[11:33] My favorite shit is TikTok live chat. The idiots that type slash cam three. Have y'all ever seen that shit? You'll be watching a video of some dude doing like a trick shot.

[11:48] Slash, slash cam seven. Like they can control like there multiple cameras It the rage part of our brain He is a cynic The chat is constantly saying send a galaxy as he acting as if he going to be publicly executed if he doesn finish this card tower

[12:08] He's even got a face filter on that makes it appear as if he was, like, wearing mascara, and he's crying it all off. However, I made a shocking discovery. I recorded this TikTok live in September, but then he was recommended to me in October doing the same thing.

[12:22] And what I noticed is that it's not actually a live stream, it's a replay! Oh shit! Oh shit!

[12:35] Yo! Bro, that's, yo, didn't Amaranth do that? Dude, I, didn't Amaranth do that? She had like a three hour live stream on loop of just like an ASMR stream for like two weeks or some shit.

[12:50] This never went live as it's a pre-recorded livestream. So fucking video. Here is both of the screen recordings played next to each other. Nice try, Galaxy Kid.

[13:02] Galaxy Kid has been playing 4D chess this entire time. Oh my god, he's probably made like three grand off that shit too. For one genuine livestream. Looking for some extra cash, he'll just boot up his pre-recorded stream of him losing his mind over a house of cards

[13:19] and then probably just go play Call of Duty or something. As the galaxies roll into his bank account. The side hustle of side hustle. There's also a large amount of what I would call donate-to-play streams. One of these is like Street Fighter, where you've got Donald Trump.

[13:32] Oh, those are the worst. Or the ones where they're scooping rice. They're scooping dry rice into a cup. They're scooping dry rice into a cup.

[13:44] And they have on one side, they have iPhone, and on the other they have Samsung, and it'll be like, it'll be like, fuck, oh, oh, oh, oh, round one win,

[13:57] round one win, round one win, round two win, round two win, round three win iPhone, round four win Samsung, and then they just keep doing the same fucking thing. Fighting Barack Obama?

[14:09] With their punching being controlled by how much you donate. Or what appears to be a race between Trump, Biden, Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Zelensky. There's even a TikTok live that tries to answer the age-old question from elementary school.

[14:22] Who's better, boy or girl? Bro, he's covered every... I'm liking the video. He has covered every live stream there was.

[14:35] This is a great video. This is a great TED video. Oh my God. Dude, he's covering every one that I mentioned. Trial three for these liberal tears.

[14:48] These all operate as kind of like a money generator that preys upon the divisive nature of politics. Oh, these are the worst. But these are the most common live streams, the dual live streams.

[15:00] That's what the Island Boys do. The Island Boys, I'm not going to go live unless you guys are ready to give me gifts. If you guys aren't ready to give me gifts, I'm not going to. They flat out say that. If you guys aren't ready to, like, you know, throw some money down, I'm not going to go live.

[15:15] It's just not worth my time. So then he'll go live and he'll just be like, he'll be so, like such an asshole to whoever he's against. Just ignoring them. Yo, thank you for the gift. Okay, yeah, thank you.

[15:27] Yep, yep, yep, yep. Okay. Okay, bye guys. And then he'll just make like a hundred bucks and leave. Oh yeah, prognosticator. Sounds like something you'd stick up your ass. The first psychic I ran into was this woman who's using two metal rods to answer questions.

[15:40] Oh, those are so fucking stupid. What are those called? Grounding rods? are you going to be rich? Yes. Does your grandma love you?

[15:54] No. Am I going to die within the next... Are you going to die within the next 30 seconds? Maybe.

[16:07] I don't know if she's supposed to be speaking to ghosts or something. All someone has to do... And it didn't even work then. is send their name and their question, and she will have an answer for you immediately. Will Tamaya ever be successful?

[16:20] No. You have to put some time and effort into it, but it is a yes for that, my love. Nothing is impossible. She's slamming through predictions. She's got the ghosts in some sort of extortion situation. They are working hard for this TikTok live stream.

[16:35] People are also... That's one of the most... That's a scam that's been going on for years, though. The idea of, like, someone saying they can tell you your future, it capitalizes on people that are worried.

[16:47] People that are worried for their future or they want affirmation that they'll be successful or their loved ones or people that have died in their past. It's just like, that's just a scam that's been going on for, like, 400 or 500 years.

[16:59] Longer than that. I'm asking some crazy questions. Will Tracy get the pardon? Will my son's father come back home today? Will my tax return be here this month? Is Emmanuel cheating on me? You're gonna go to a psychic on TikTok to ask that?

[17:12] Please leave that relationship. You got psychics that don't even show up on camera? Oh, this one where they just throw the... They just do... It's literally a magnet. They just flick the fucking thing and it goes to one or the other.

[17:25] It's kind of like a glorified magic eight ball in order to answer the question. And this is how that device works. It's a nose for you, my darling. And they think it's a spirit because it's shaking.

[17:37] It's just a fucking magnet. People doing this stream have heard of magnets, but when they- But like, here's my thing. Should streamers be allowed to do this?

[17:50] I don't see why they shouldn't. Like I I I make fun of it but like I mean people that are dude if you gonna fall for that like bro like I don know Like a lot of y going to say they shouldn be allowed to do it but like bro are you kidding me Like at the end of the day are we really going to be like we have to put regulations on this

[18:11] because people are, like, stupid enough to think that this fortune teller is going to be able to tell whether or not they're going to become a millionaire? That's good. That's good. Stop. Yeah. Where are we getting that from? That is yes in caps.

[18:23] Dude, it's pretty cut and dry to me. Another stream seems like they're trying not to get sued. Like clarifying no pregnancy or health questions. That's a good move. Because if I was pregnant and I asked if the baby was going to be born with health problems or not, and I got the answer, you decide.

[18:37] And most people that aren't 18 still know that it's a scam. Like, that's what I don't get. The best TikTok live psychic though is a woman claiming that she will bring her viewers messages from heaven.

[18:51] That's a really good sentiment. I'm really happy that she's doing that. You got 30% of the time they're spelled wrong. Unlike the other TikTok psychics who are just slamming through predictions, this woman is only willing to do readings for people that are her top gifter.

[19:04] And she makes that incredibly clear. I can't have all spirits coming through, so you need to show respect by giving up on my gifter list 1,000 coins. Please show love. Thank you for the flower. Once you're at 1,000 coins, you get on my list. I will communicate with you.

[19:17] Please become a top gifter to win a two-hour mediumship in private with me, which is $250. So try to win it. She's all business. Oh, see, and like idiots fall for that.

[19:30] Oh! Is your grandfather coming through? Your grandfather is showing me he's there watching you. He wants you to take better care of yourself, okay? You're going through a lot of turmoil in a relationship right now. The relationship you're in right now is very toxic.

[19:43] You're in a toxic relationship? This is something that grandpa is saying? Someone's grandpa does not care about a toxic relationship. Yeah, I don't care what the fuck at all. What grandpa cares about what goddamn your relationship is like?

[19:55] I don't even know what it is. Those fuckers were getting married at 18 and staying married for 62 years until they died. But all of a sudden, this grandfather's talking like a BuzzFeed article written by a millennial in Brooklyn.

[20:07] Yep, I fought the war. I was at Iwo Jima. With a guy's stomach open with a bayonet. America had such a toxic relationship with the Japanese empire back then. Now, when I feel about how your grandfather passed away, I am feeling something in the throat down to the chest.

[20:22] The chest? I feel that this passing was probably from the heart. Oh, you mean like heart disease, the leading cause of death in America. Oh, just a genuine death. Just a genuine death.

[20:35] Believer, please leave. Thank you for the gifts, guys. I appreciate it. Ignore the haters, please. It's just jealousy. Of what? That people's family members are dead? Or that you're making money off of their grief? There's a strange level of dystopia from someone saying that they can speak to their dead relatives on the internet while simultaneously thanking the viewers for putting up-

[20:53] I feel like that should be banned. I don't- I feel like the dumb shit- the dumb shit with the sleeping streams and all that, whatever. This message is from heaven for money.

[21:06] Ban them. Get the fuck out of here. Fuck. Thank you so much. Okay, so we are doing your cousin. I think of all of these TikTok live categories though. My favorite activity, what I can only describe as the biggest phone.

[21:20] And you know why they can't? They can't ban them because it's kind of protected under like religious freedom, right? Like religious exercise. None. Thank you, my lovely. Have a wonderful day, my anime editor.

[21:32] Because that's exactly what it is. There's a woman with a massive Android phone and she's got a pointer and this is all she does. My top one. Let me see you now. Who is going to be the next one, guys? And she's asking the chat if they want to be a star.

[21:45] Like, she's going to make them famous. If you want to be famous, are you ready to be a star? How does she make people stars? Well, visit your profile and just like a bunch of your TikTok. Initially, I thought this woman was the only person doing this

[21:58] and that she was unique in this type of live stream. Until I kept running into more and more TikTok lives of women in college jupicones with giant Android phones. What is going on in these TikToks?

[22:11] What? With the microphone and the fucking pointer stick. Who's going to these live streams? How do they even get that? Regular basis. Is anyone doing that? Is that like a TV screen or a big-ass touchpad? Oh, I gotta catch up and see what you're doing with the big phone.

[22:24] Where are they even getting these giant Android phones from? I want one. I'm not even the one operating the giant phone, and watching this, I'm stressed out for that. Is there something going on here? Do you have a surgically implanted bomb in your neck?

[22:38] Why are you doing this? We know that TikTok itself has an algorithm that's designed to keep users in its app for as long as humanly possible. But it seems that users... TikTok is addicting as shit. Like, it's hard to not watch.

[22:51] Like, when you guys are watching TikTok at night, dude, it's like I have to fight the urge to, like, stop scrolling. It's like all the... Like, if I... I will say, the ones... If I didn't do social media as a job,

[23:05] The one social media I probably would get rid of is TikTok. Like, I would still always watch YouTube. I would still always watch Twitch. I would probably get rid of TikTok. Or I would try to, at least, just because it is, it is, it envelops you.

[23:19] They can rope users into watching the most bottom-of-the-barrel content. Whether that's taking advantage of their anxiety and questions about life, handling their grief, or figuring out once and for all that boys are better than girls.

[23:33] Because girls pee blood, and boys, well, they pee garlic aioli. And if you like this video, galaxy guys, please send me a galaxy. My rent is due tomorrow, and my landlord owns it.

[23:46] Oh my God. All right, that was a good-ass video. That was a W-pad. That was a W-pad right there. Hold on.

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