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Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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https://www.tiktok.com/@duolingo/video/7506578962697456939?lang=en
So they're trying to pivot from "we are firing all our translators and turing our app into AI slop" to "we're anti establishment and anti CEO?
Which C-Suite came up with this shit?
I'll never use this garbage app now.
I mean Duolingo has been riding the "questionable or insane marketing" wave for years. It's hard to say if this is just them taking that a bit to far or if they really are of their rocker this time. I mean their ceo has generally seemed fairly based in the past as far as tech CEO's go.