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.
I think the point is that the vast majority of mainstream TikTok is brainrot and it can harm your ability to concentrate even if you’ve found some decent content.
Hard disagree. You say you haven’t even used the app. It’s way better than IG, YT, Discord combined. China’s apps are just better. The ‘crap’ you are seeing is based on personal algorithms, my algorithm is awesome. TT isn’t just some niche community, it’s massive worldwide and the worst aspects are easily avoidable and are just indicative of the western majority… I use it to ‘search’ for more useful information more than regular search engines. Most westerns have no conceptual media training and it shows.
Ah, you’re right never having the app doesn’t give me too much credibility. I guess I assume there’s not much good on there because everyone around me that has it watches terrible stuff. It’s not a Chinese app anymore, they were forced to sell the US version. I doubt they changed it that much, though, besides more surveillance and psyops. I remember Yugopnik said he has a very niche TikTok algorithm that he likes.
like i said, there is more good content on there than all western social media networks combined. yes i know it’s not ‘officially’ chinese but it’s a clone of the Douyin app, which is great and even more advanced than TT. western social media is way behind multi-purpose apps from china.
I did have the app for about a month until I rage-deleted it after realizing I was wasting a ton of time every morning scrolling.
I highly recommend not installing it, and doing literally anything else. Like all parasocial media apps, the entire point of it is to keep you on it and seeing ads for as long as possible.
Even if there are some good conent creators on there, you’re better off learning from books rather than 2nd hand 30 second clips.
Definitely.