• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      Yeah, I remember everyone was making fun of people recording videos vertically 20 years ago, now somehow it’s the norm.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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        With all the left artsy and dance people, why does the left not build a competitor that takes over?

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      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.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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    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.

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      4chan: the place that makes you unable to like things unironically, because honesty is cringe, and every normie is a secret hypocrite.

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      Imagine living through the age when the normies ate everything that was fun about being on the internet. Can’t say i blame them.

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      2 days ago

      I can’t stand the unrealistic body image and behaviors that TikTok creates

      Stares at vore comics for 40 hours every week

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          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

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            no God would tolerate this shit without smiting it like Gomorrah

            There must be ten righteous people on TikTok.