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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.

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[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 83 points 3 days ago

Storm Thurman? Zero likes on his TikTok. That’s the real stat.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I mean... even 1 like would be the same ratio.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Strom Thurmond has been infinitely ratioed by a black man

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Southern Trope Racist Old Man

[-] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Excuse me, I want 10 digit precision on this measurement

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

To be fair, Storm wasn’t a real person.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

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)

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, TikTok users are far more than just boomer/lib memes. They don't actually need to be attacked and banned.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Wow. The resistance is getting some likes!!! REEESSSSIIIIISSSSSTTTTT!!!! \s

Don't libs want to ban TikTok? lol.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

That's because of the genocide

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

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?

[-] Vedlt@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Vedlt@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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.

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.

On tiktok a single person can give more than one like.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I dunno why this simple and obvious answer has no upvotes compared to the wacky theories.

I guess people are more used to trading conspiracies about TikTok than actually using it.

[-] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago

that's more likes than there were americans last year, really glad to broke that asshole's record

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

What the hell even is this?

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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.

this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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