I’d settle for getting rid of ‘tiktok speak’.
‘So my brother uses a lot of dr*gs and I’m worried he’s going to buy a pewpew and unalive himself’
That kind of brainrot. It’s infecting the rest of the Internet.
Oh its bad but even worse since “unalived” was still too spicy so its now things like “alt F4 life” or some shit. I like the creativity, but the censorship levels make me want to scream.
Alt F4 life has some creativity I can appreciate. Until everyone repeats it far too much. Tiktok just seems like the same few things repeated endlessly. I hear it on my partners phone. Oh, this 5 second soundtrack again that I have heard 2000 times before. How original… And then again when the video loops and repeats.
And the voice! The same one over and over.
It’s not just the censorship on TikTok. They can do whatever the fuck they want with their shitty ass platform.
What bugs me is the people who adopt that EVERYWHERE. Like hey guys we’re on the grown-up Internet now we can stop talking like 9 year olds.
Tiktok bullshit is banned on my pihole. Stupid fucking name too, “tiktok”. Spy central brain rot.
Now operated by Barron Trump, right? More spy shit, or psyop shit. It’s trash.
I hated TikTok since day1. For me it was just a worse Vine, especially the moment people tried to use it for more serious shit.
I just don’t like how much video is vertical now.
Yeah, I remember everyone was making fun of people recording videos vertically 20 years ago, now somehow it’s the norm.
I often get told to take pictures vertically. Sure, let’s get more sky in this picture. Its not like we are at the beach with a nice view on the horizon or anything. I live by the coast in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight is pretty much always in the background of any picture taken by the beach. At least it is when visibility is more than a couple of km.
It’d be marginally less irritating if we’d stuck with 4:3 aspect ratio I suppose.
What I fear is when TikTok’s (or YouTube, Facebook, whatever) shaping of public opinion becomes more dramatic and blatant.
For instance, let’s say a leader connected to the Tiktok’s owner didn’t like their political opponent? What if they just deprioritized them from the algorithm, so their name is basically unknown?
Or what if a certain scandal was countered by boosting opposition videos?
If this sounds like I’m describing extant scenarios, well… yes.
Censorship is no longer hard. It’s statistical. Truth doesn’t matter if it doesn’t show up in feeds, and this is more scary to me than any mental effects Tiktok may be having.
A solar flare would solve lots of things besides TikTok.
It would cause many problems too, but I’m not sure they’re worse than the problems we have now.
A catastrophic one would result in probably 80% of the population dying in a year. Starvation, exposure, lack of medicines, etc.
You judge if that’s worse.
Hmm… Which 80%?
Start from oldest, poorest, and medically needy, then work your way up the financial ladder. The rich will hide in their bunkers.
As always, it would be mostly folks who had the least agency in the world…hate it
That’s up to them. The idea of direct democracy is not forbidden knowledge.
Worth it
EDIT: Still worth it.
Humans are like this in times of unprecedented abundance. They will not become more reasonable when times become hard.
And neither will I. Good luck everyone.
Ahh fortunately I’m old and date other people who don’t use tiktok either.
people use other short form content platforms besides tiktok
My boyfriend defaults to Instagram reels if he’s unstimulated for approximately 3 seconds…
If it helps, I once years ago spent easily 12-16 hours a day on TikTok but don’t watch any these days. I’m actually quite intolerant towards short videos and don’t like even watch things people try to show me. People can change, they just gotta notice how harmful it is to their brains. Embrace the boredom.
You mad? probably should break up with them then. There is always another mirage over the next horizon.
Shouldn’t you be on reddit?
Red flag, gaslighting, narcissist. What other buzzwords are we missing?
Ooosie wrong thread lol.
Vine was a thing but died and then there was not much until tiktok became popular
Imagine them watching seven samurai, with 20 minutes of chanting on an empty road at the start.
Legitimately though wtf happened? Before covid I was the weird one for being online all the time, now I’m weird for wanting to have actual conversations now and everyone else is glued to the screen.
Whatever is intelligent, people trip over themselves and trample each other to do the opposite.
My youngest is always calling out my music as “this is a Tiktok song” … child, that song is almost older than I am.
Why are people so obsessed with what other people are doing? 5 years ago, libtards said what you do doesn’t matter as long as you don’t hurt or bother anybody. Now they’re pissed off when other people want to be on their phones all day.
Tiktok is the main instrument for far right radicalization. Fuck tiktok.
With all the left artsy and dance people, why does the left not build a competitor that takes over?
Because with leftist content you just can’t generate as much controversy.
I dunno. Some people thought it was controversial when we joked that Kirk stopped being racist.
Its just a joke, I will keep laughing at them when he dies.
TikTok needs controversies?
Any kind of social media with algorithm optimized feeds wants controversial content. It keeps the users engaged, exposing them to more ads and sponsored content.
The libs are not the ones on 4chan, big dawg.
It’s harmful for those people’s brains. And it’s really annoying to listen to someone scroll those videos with the sound on right next to you.
Algorithmic flattening will be the death of me. Everything is homogenized and made palatable for the masses, either that or engorged to extremes to capture the last neuron that still has an attention span.
The irony of saying this on 4chan.
4chan: the place that makes you unable to like things unironically, because honesty is cringe, and every normie is a secret hypocrite.
Imagine living through the age when the normies ate everything that was fun about being on the internet. Can’t say i blame them.
I can’t stand the unrealistic body image and behaviors that TikTok creates
Stares at vore comics for 40 hours every week
Stares at vore comics for 40 hours every week
Then anonn goes to church for communion
The 4chan TradCath is the strongest evidence against God’s existence I’ve ever experienced.
Kind, vengeful, no God would tolerate this shit without smiting it like Gomorrah
no God would tolerate this shit without smiting it like Gomorrah
There must be ten righteous people on TikTok.
What do you mean? 4chan is a symposium of the elite and enlightened.
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