I see this take a lot on Reddit and people eat it up. Americans are the best at projecting. Youtube has been doing exactly what they claim TikTok does on a greater scale. Do they know how many people around the world have been repeating US right-wing talking points? Why are Canadians screaming about their constitutional rights? Why do Argentinian right-wingers have a memorial to Kyle Rittenhouse?
social media as a whole was a mistake. I get that this site technically counts, but it feels like more of a callback to "retro" social media when forums were the dominant form. It was a lot easier to take breaks from forum posting back in the day. You didn't have an algorithm that fed you content at every hour endlessly. I complain about the terrible and inconsistent wifi here, but a part of me is happy that it's this way because I'm sure I'd be seeing a lot more people glued to their phones all the time.
I get that this site technically counts, but it feels like more of a callback to “retro” social media when forums were the dominant form.
Hexbear php forum when?
I'm in a pretty similar situation with my mom except she watches radlib ones. I visited her last weekend and we had wanted to go do something but she spent a couple hours watching Tiktoks when she told me she was getting ready and we ended up having to cancel. I can't say I've never binged videos like that but I realized what was happening after the first couple times and I don't watch them anymore because they basically turn the viewer into an addict from the first hit. That model of social media is dangerous.
I remember downloading TikTok a few years ago and realizing that I had spent an entire work day just flipping through video after video after video. By the end of the day my brain felt hazy. I deleted it shortly after, it was absolutely nuts
Not really. I never actually got into Tik Tok but I was watching stuff on the :reddit-logo: app which is kind of similar with the new video player. When I realized what was happening I uninstalled it for a while. I reinstalled it later but now I only go on a couple of subreddits that don't have that kind of content. For something like Tik Tok where the only content is those short videos I would probably have to just uninstall it.
I peruse Douyin (chinese tiktok) on occasion and I can guarantee you that they are just as debaucherous and removed as us. Name basically any problematic genre of content you can think of and they probably have tenfold the amount of slop. No one wants to see children winning math competitions or whatever this guy is talking about
Edit: apparently the D-word is censored
Chinese TNO brainrot is proof of the superiority of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
Support the cpc on their quest cutting down big tech like bytedance that create this abomination.
destroying the nation through uh, girls dancing. are we doing the salem witch trials again
also acting like the west isnt choosing the alg for themselves because theyre looking for profit via ads, whereas in china the media is seen as serving a social purpose outside of profit. so many braindead bazinga redditors acting like this guy is a damn brain genius for hating it when girls are dancing
Wow China is a horrible place, anyway, let's see who are in TikTok's board of directors... oh... oh no...
Oh well there's other social media... Okay, stop, FUCKING STOP
Tiktok is full of feds, any hint of objectionable or controversial content is quickly banned, the comment section is filled with literal 12 year olds and yet I must watch this adult couple show me the best way to prepare a makeshift yakult drink using kefir
china government control tiktok algorithm
make tiktok show good achievement math competition stuff to chinese children and bad useless prank funny thing to american
bad influence to american children destroy america from the inside
Taliban reveals plan to sit back and let America just destroy itself :sit-back-and-enjoy:
Tick Tock is the JDPON of the protracted online posting war.
I sincerely believe people hate TikTok because it allows teenagers to talk to each other in a format adults can't easily surveil and control. Like it's a venue where people can just say whatever shit they want to without having insane Evangelical fascists or cops or whatever leaning over their shoulder every second.
Yeap, same with facebook/insta/snapchat before them. Eventually the adults get wise of the kids become adults, and new kids migrate to a platform where there are no parents. I reckon TikTok is beginning to get there, but there doesn't seem to be a clear successor platform.
Also I get the angle he's coming from, apparently this is a clip from the British Shia TV channel Ahlulbayt TV, but it's really funny that Redditors whose daily lives are almost certainly incredibly :haram: are nodding along
