minus-squareEssentialCoffee@midwest.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources saylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoNot really. It depends on what it is. There are entire games and items that aren’t available in the US, but make a killing in Asia. Like, here’s Genshin Impact numbers from 2023. On that game, the US comes in at 7th, is less than half of the top country (Japan) and is notably behind Switzerland. For Tik Tok specifically, we can look at their annual reports. Let’s look at average annual users per region. 682M in Asia Pacific, which does not include China. 192M in North America. China’s numbers are 750M daily. I don’t think most of their money comes from the US. linkfedilink
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Not really. It depends on what it is. There are entire games and items that aren’t available in the US, but make a killing in Asia.
Like, here’s Genshin Impact numbers from 2023.
On that game, the US comes in at 7th, is less than half of the top country (Japan) and is notably behind Switzerland.
For Tik Tok specifically, we can look at their annual reports.
Let’s look at average annual users per region. 682M in Asia Pacific, which does not include China. 192M in North America.
China’s numbers are 750M daily.
I don’t think most of their money comes from the US.