It’s very clear that TikTok causes brain rot:

  • hours upon hours of scrolling;
  • damaged attention spans;
  • boring lip sync “memes”;
  • whatever the fuck my little brother is watching;
  • KKKringy song over equally KKKringe footage;
  • TWs for almost literally anything. I’ve seen [TW: Aesthetic];
  • iPad kids

You know? This applies to YT shorts. Now my attention span is so short I can’t even read theory for 5 minutes without thinking “What’s on TikTok?”

Let’s not even forget the KKKringe-ass use of 733tspeak, wtf man.

If I ever have kids, I’d waste my entire bank account just to stop them from getting in this hellhole of a site.

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    Yea I guess my advice would be maybe just delete it or set limits for how long you watch or how many you watch. I personally never had an issue with it affecting my attention span because I was so put off by the app initially that I rarely check it unless a friend texts over a meme from there. I was put off by: A.) The hyper-sexualization of underage teens that made me feel creepy for even seeing the screen for more than a second. Like not saying these girls can’t use the app or anything but it’s weird to me that if I look for gym clips and tiktoks, instead of seeing someone explaining proper form of bent over rows or lying dumbbell Y-raises, I scroll endlessly trying to dodge the thirst-traps of girls that are nearly nude doing Squats or whatever exercises show off their x or y or z bodypart. B.) The $igma Grind$et Chad Giga Cool Alpha Guy types. I’m not in the slightest impressed by the lame college white dudes that use their alcoholism or horniness or racism as the punchline of a joke. Even most of the ironic sigma memes have gotten stale by now. I get that it’s still used, but I’m waiting for it to die. Like yea the East German weight lifter is cool and everything but I think it’s spent more than enough time in the sun, time to go off into the sunset by now, maybe that’s just me. Also the Christian Bale as American Psycho meme is used so often, they might as well give a prize to whoever makes one of those memes next, like they may actually just be the 1,000,000,000th person to make one of those edits. C) Stupid arts and crafts that serve NO purpose. Ever wanted to burn a plastic knife and put that toxic shit on your face as glasses? Ever want to make a gel-cast in the shape of corn? Ever want to make a cereal bowl that leaks half the milk out so you don’t have too much milk-cereal ratio in your bowl? Ever want to wash your mouth after you brush your teeth by using cut-up straws and taping them to the toothbrush? No? Well, here’s how anyways. These are just dumb, not much else to say. D.) Prank videos. These fall into 2 categories, rude and staged. Rude ones are like “watch me ruin this grocery store workers day by trashing an aisle lmao sub for moar!” Or stuff like “I pushed this person into a pool to humiliate them for views 😂🤣”. The staged ones are a lot more common, it begins with the person shushing the camera(that THEY are holding, who are they shushing?) and doing something silly to someone who is obviously not sleeping but acts like they are. They wake up mid-prank, staged hilarity ensues. Not harmful but not funny or interesting most of the time either. I’m missing a few others that probably exist bc I don’t watch TikTok anymore. Also just to add, the TikTok dances usually apply to A, but even when they are of age, my objection is that the songs usually suck and objectify women a lot but whatever. Sorry for the long rant, but TikTok really sucks. Yea LadyIzdihar and a few ppl have some good tiktoks, all the best to them but I can’t do it.