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.

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. Instead of hanging out, they were messaging others who weren't and might later. Then when those people stop by, they'd start messaging other people they're not with. Now and then they'd look up to say "so and so is doing so and so" to someone, like give an update from the person that wasn't there.

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.

Don’t forget scrolling while driving.

My youngest is always calling out my music as "this is a Tiktok song" ... child, that song is almost older than I am.

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.

I just don't like how much video is vertical now.

The irony of saying this on 4chan.

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.

And this was 3 years ago.

Tiktok bullshit is banned on my pihole. Stupid fucking name too, "tiktok". Spy central brain rot.

Ahh fortunately I'm old and date other people who don't use tiktok either.

Deeply melodramatic. Humans have always been and will always be annoying

Somehow 4chan sounds like a healthier option.

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.

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 networked, interactive television.

people use other short form content platforms besides tiktok

I guess some things really must get worse before they get better

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.

Anon has become the boomer.

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.

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

>here's a new mental illness term

4CHDESS = 4chan derangement and estrangement syndromes (there's a whole group of them)

Honestly, yeah

Imagine them watching seven samurai, with 20 minutes of chanting on an empty road at the start.

Also:

Doom Guy vs TikTok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZ_yKjSPaY&ra=m

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...

Aw dude