Okay, so I was scrolling through TikTok the other day, watching some Live streams, you know how it is. And then someone sends this massive Lion gift. It looked pretty impressive, animated and all that. Made me really curious, like, how much does that thing actually cost someone to send?
My first thought was to check right there in the app. When you’re watching a Live, you can usually tap the gift icon and see the list of gifts and their Coin prices. So, I waited for another Live stream, tapped the gift box, and started scrolling. Found the smaller gifts easily enough, like roses and stuff. But finding that Lion took a bit more scrolling, it’s one of the pricey ones.
Eventually, I found it. The Lion gift showed a price of 29,999 Coins. Okay, cool. But that didn’t really tell me the real money cost, right? Coins are something you buy inside TikTok.
Figuring out the real money part
So, the next step was trying to figure out what 29,999 Coins actually translates to in dollars, or pounds, or whatever. I went into the section where you can actually buy Coins. You know, where they show you different packages – like 100 Coins for X amount, 500 Coins for Y amount, etc.
I looked at the different bundles. It’s kinda tricky because the price per Coin isn’t always the same. Usually, the bigger the bundle you buy, the slightly cheaper each Coin becomes. So, the exact cost of the Lion could vary a tiny bit depending on how the sender bought their Coins.
But to get a rough idea, I looked at the common packages and did some quick math based on the price for, say, a large bundle to get a baseline.
- I calculated based on the current Coin prices I saw available for purchase.
- Needed to figure out the cost for almost 30,000 of those things.
After crunching the numbers from the Coin purchase screen, it seems like that Lion gift works out to be somewhere around $400 USD. Yeah, quite a bit! Doing a rough conversion, that looked like maybe over £330 in the UK or maybe around €370-ish in Europe, depending on the exact exchange rates and how you buy the Coins.
So, yeah. Next time you see someone drop a Lion on a TikTok Live, you know they just spent a pretty decent chunk of change. It was interesting to finally figure out the rough real-world cost behind that flashy animation.
