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It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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People tend to treat books as an authoritative source. Few people would treat TikTok as an authoritative source. In this way books can be more manipulative a form of misinformation.
I would argue it could be a means of democratizing information for people who don't have strong reading ability or don't have a long enough attention span.
I have seen people become obsessed with researching things much like people becoming obsessed with social media. I have even had this happen to me. Any novel source of information or stimuli can become addictive. To compare this to something physically addictive like alcohol is ludicrous though. You can't get withdrawal symptoms like seizures from not watching TikTok.