There’s something inherently repulsive about smarmy liberal language, and the juxtaposition with Playboy is just too much
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I still can't even believe that shit is a real app. You just dance to some music or whatever while text appears on the screen? Feels like some shit they make up for a crappy live action nickelodeon show for kids.
Like they explain the idea, all the kids on the show are inexplicably loving it, then they cut to someone's mom doing the macarena while her recipe for gummy worm cookies appears on screen, laugh track, end of gag.
Except it's not the end. That shit is real. That shit is real and somehow after several years of being an extremely awkward and objectively terrible way of conveying feelings and information, it is more popular than ever. Fuckin' unreal to me.
I guess I'm just out of touch and can't comprehend the splendor of literally YouTube but with a somehow worse, more limited video player
ok guys, its bad but its not what youre describing lol. yall are being a bit too much. its not even mostly dancing vids, the dancing vids are just what the algorithm gives you when you open a new account. you only keep getting them if you interact with them. frankly i think tictok is bad for the OPPOSITE reason, it give you such a targeted experience pushes you into these toxic pipelines. if it were all dumb dancing and fluff it wouldn't be so dangerous.
My wife's hooked on Tiktok and what she gets on it is very different from the default experience. It is as you say: insidiously targeting particularly interests to be as habit forming as possible.
i used to spend hours on that thing, now i just spend hours on hexbear and youtube lol, its much better for my mental health.
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This is my boomer moment for sure, but I have a fair number of same-aged friends who watch TikTok basically nonstop and I just don't get it. Vines were good, but that was mostly because it was 95% comedy sketches built around the format. Outside of that niche, short-form videos (on what is easily the world's worst video player UI) just kinda suck. Either they're too short to get to the good stuff, or have to cut a ton of context to fit the time limit, or are just people dancing over TTS.
It just feels like weaponized attention deficits. Youtube is a much better platform, minus all the Nazis.