Fella this is Facebook and twitter times. We are deeper in the Facebook an twitter duopoly than before, and that is what allowed things to get this bad
Anon hates tiktok
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Its one of the filters, of the great filter.
These people have NPC-ified themselves, and they basically have the AI behavior routines of zombies, just ones that can do a slightly more convincing emulation of socializing.
Brain dead by way of vanity and consumerism.
Sorry, turns out that a wide swath of humanity is too dumb to recognize what this stuff does to them, that our technological abilities have evolved way, way faster than our biology has.
We never should have made computers this user friendly. Because, when, you do that, it lowers the barrier of entry/usage down so low that you end up programming the less aware users, moreso than the software.
Not to mention that TikTok, Twitter/X and Facebook are all owned and controlled by delusional narcissist freak anti-social Epstein class people, who openly view normies as dumb cattle who exist to be distracted and surveilled and groomed and conned.
So give them a simulation of socializing, a simulation of culture, a simulation of even rebelling against that culture… so long as they control the black box algorithm, the algo that knows them better than they know themself, the algo that harvests them via either subscription payments or data extraction.
They figured out how to induce drug addiction behavior, without selling an actual drug… they hacked the human brain, via a much more advanced version of basically interactive television.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The Wachowski’s were truly visionaries ahead of their time.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
"The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.”
“Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias.”
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
… some of us did not need to be told twice to WAKE UP, but most… well, they preferred the blue pill.
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
womboflll@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Whatever is intelligent, people trip over themselves and trample each other to do the opposite.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
barrier to entry.
being online all the time used to be hard. now it’s easy.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The irony of saying this on 4chan.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t stand the unrealistic body image that TikTok creates
Stares at vore comics for 40 hours every week
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stares at vore comics for 40 hours every week
Then anonn goes to church for communion
spacegoat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What do you mean? 4chan is a symposium of the elite and enlightened.
(/s)
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
4chan: the place that makes you unable to like things unironically, because honesty is cringe, and every normie is a secret hypocrite.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine living through the age the normies ate everything that was fun about being on the internet. Can’t say i blame them.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Somehow 4chan sounds healthier option.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As long as you stay off b/ and pol/ it probably could be.
deWafelMan@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Even pol/ has pro Ukraine and pro Russia posts. It’s not tailored to only show you only one worldview.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget scrolling while driving.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Dude I see this way too often. I say there’s a 50% chance I look over and someone is on their phone
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tbf, there’s a 50% chance I’m in gridlock traffic.
Everyone could be scrolling their phones on the train or the bus, but that’s for poors and city slickers.
I need to be doing OnlyFans from the driver’s seat of a Ford F-Over9000
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
One of my coworkers was laughing the other day about how he’s always on tik tok while he’s driving.
He didn’t get the reaction he was looking for, because I was just like “what the fuck is wrong with you!?!”
I was driving with another coworker the next shift and despite having his airpod in one ear he was in the passenger seat scrolling through tik tok with his phone on speaker. Every 5 seconds it was a new audio clip. After about 2 minutes I was starting to contemplate driving into the side of a bridge and ending it all.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Listening to someone scrolling TikTok reels on their phone with the speaker on is a unique form of psychological torture
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
My youngest is always calling out my music as “this is a Tiktok song” … child, that song is almost older than I am.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is worse than Facebook and Twitter times
It’s not. It’s exactly the same.
The only difference is that you’re getting older, so you’re experiencing it more viscerally than when you were ten years younger and didn’t know better
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Uhh people spend like 8 hours on average on their phones now, that was most definitely not the case when I was growing up.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
i was playing console games for 10 hours a day in the 80s and 90s
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People used to spend more time on the couch watching broadcast TV!
Bring it back!
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Uhh people spend like 8 hours on average on their phones now
I would legitimately wish all 8 hours were instead spent trolling some naked in rust.
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anon has become the boomer.
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay fine, you either die a zoomer or live long enough to see yourself become the boomer.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just don’t like how much video is vertical now.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’d be marginally less irritating if we’d stuck with 4:3 aspect ratio I suppose.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I remember everyone was making fun of people recording videos vertically 20 years ago, now somehow it’s the norm.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
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.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As always, it would be mostly folks who had the least agency in the world…hate it
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Worth it
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Humans are like this in times of unprecedented abundance. They will not become more reasonable when times become hard.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
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.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
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.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
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.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Outrage against a legitimate problem with nostalgia for times the problem still existed in other forms and some ableism sprinkled in for spice. Delicious.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not ableist to point out the epidemic of ‘TherapySpeak’ on TikTok.
They didn’t actually make any ableist insults.
wingnut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Can’t forget the misogyny!
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah! Didn’t notice that first. Truly this green text keeps on giving
AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And this was 3 years ago.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tiktok bullshit is banned on my pihole. Stupid fucking name too, “tiktok”. Spy central brain rot.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Now operated by Barron Trump, right? More spy shit, or psyop shit. It’s trash.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
is that how you seduce the ladies?
‘come over and see what’s banned on my pihole’
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they’re not tiktokthots, they’ll understand. We practice logig and science in this household.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ahh fortunately I’m old and date other people who don’t use tiktok either.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i’m in my 40s and every woman I meet uses it. young or old.
they can’t live without it. it’s their bible.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Deeply melodramatic. Humans have always been and will always be annoying
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What I fear is when TikTok’s shaping of public opinion becomes more dramatic.
For instance, let’s say someone connected to the its owner didn’t like their opponent? What if they just deprioritized them from the algorithm, so they are 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.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Truth never mattered the the average person.
peacepath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The exact same as been said about facebook, video games, TV, and cinema even before.
I bet the same will still be said of the next thing that get popular among young people…
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
they also said the same thing about your mom.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
people use other short form content platforms besides tiktok
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My boyfriend defaults to Instagram reels if he’s unstimulated for approximately 3 seconds…
manuremy@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You mad? probably should break up with them then. There is always another mirage over the next horizon.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
>here’s a new mental illness term
4CHDESS = 4chan derangement and estrangement syndromes (there’s a whole group of them)
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
I guess some things really must get worse before they get better
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Honestly, yeah
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine them watching seven samurai, with 20 minutes of chanting on an empty road at the start.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aw dude
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
I was hanging out with this late gen Y crowd, and literally everyone had their phones out and were messaging other people in the friend group who weren’t currently hanging out.
Kinda agree. We fucked society up with phones. I both admire that we can hold such a powerful computer and carry it in our pocket, and hate that it’s normalized.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Someone pointed out how there’s no phones in Star Trek and it’s probably deliberate. I get it.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Data: Captain Picard, we are being hailed!
Picard: don’t put video on
Data: but they want to video chat sir
Picard: text them “what’s up”
apex32@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There is an episode where a new game is brought on board. It’s really enjoyable, and once people start playing, they can’t stop. Soon, the whole crew is addicted. It turns out the creators of the game are using it for mind control.
Seems like the perfect metaphor for modern cellphone/app usage.
en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_…
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I dont think that in the 60s-90s anyone would have necessarily anticipated the existence of smartphones as they are now. Rather than it being a “deliberate” choice not to have them in the show. Its just not a futuristic idea of communication that existed at the time. Theres not smartphones in The Jetsons either. Earlier ideas of what the future would be like were a lot more utopian than the dystopian hellscape induced by smartphones and social media
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
They have communicators and iPads.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
My friend group was really late to adopt smart phones. I was always the nerdy one, so i had a cracked iphone as soon as it was available. Years later, tgey still rocked the dumb phone. None of us cared about social media at all. The smartphones slowely dripped in, because that was the only thing that you can get.
Boy that broke our whole group. A thing we would always do is hang out, listen to music, talked about movies, whatever. I did this for a long time my the last guy without a smartphone. The day he got an iphone, that was gone. We did it one or two more times and then we kinda drifted apart. Instead of talking about movies and music it was: let me look this up… I saw this thing on (whatever) This was before tiktok, i can’t imagine what younger people go through.
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
While I agree it got worse, I remember some people doing exactly that when I was in high school in the 2000s - sms were enough to constantly distract them form what was going on in front of them
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Glad to be an older millennial. Was in my late 20’s when smart phones were normalized
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have experienced this. Fuck those brainrotted folks