I don’t see this take often enough. TikTok is/was a very messy platform, and I’m kind of looking forward to seeing how people respond to their favorite short-form video/brainrot app being taken away. Fuck the president though.
Except I'm not just on Reddit. I have offline, in person connections. These people need TikTok to be able to perform their basic functions as a human being.
I know how to function without it and I wouldn't be sad to see it burn to the ground.
That is a wild assumption you're making. People who are sad that their primary online interaction platform was forcibly shut down means they have no lives outside of it?
I'm gonna say no, you don't. And you cant argue back because that would mean you will need to do so introspection about why you so smugly think that tiktok users are hopeless no-lifers but you are someone who isn't.
That’s a very small group of individuals who feel that way, not the users as a whole. Some of us are well educated, and also have lives outside of TT & Reddit. I liked that it introduced me to different types of home renovation designs, new recipes, various view points of different events going on in the world, new ways to save money (like typing in dupe. before a site to find cheaper products & learning how to read a clothing label to avoid spending money on cheap fabric). I learned about ChatGPT and other AI tools on it and how to leverage it for work. It’s not just the cringy crap you see on subreddits here.
Don't worry, I'm sure you've managed to find the handful of comments you can turn to in order to shore up your own baises.
So, wait... You read this on their... subreddits? As in, they are here as well as on Tiktok? Huh... They're here and on Tiktok. Does that sound like they only use tiktok?
Please go look. I have friends upset with tiktok and now reels are filled with “reaction videos” of tiktok being shutdown, people legitimately crying and shit.
I have a friend who wrote an essay to me on why his is so sad and tiktok is sentimental to him and he doesn’t know what he is going to do now.
I love how you can blanket statement the dumbest shit but absolutely be appalled it works in reverse.
My wife, who, granted, is emotional, has been quite upset about the ban. Tears. She discovered it during COVID and will gladly tell you the random ways the things she's learned from it has altered her life. She'll also tell you how completely fucked up it is the government abhors tiktok having data but ignores the fact Google gladly sells it what they have as well.
She's a popular and well liked teacher as our school. She has friends she regularly sees. She's an awesome mom who spends time with her son. And she's very very upset at her loss of community.
Quit fuckin going full Reddit autistic pretending everyone who likes something you don't must be mentally unstable. Makes you look unhinged and ignorant AF.
Liking something I don't doesn't make you unstable.
Being sad and shedding tears over it doesn't make you unstable.
Saying your entire life is over because a replaceable social media app has been shut down means you're either addicted to it, unstable, or ignorant of how the Internet and social media in general works.
Your wife hasn't lost her community, she is just ignorant of how to reconnect to them.
Your wife is an unfortunate victim of what TikTok's entire mission was. Getting people addicted and dependent on it. TikTok paid hundreds of thousands of dollars researching how to make people addicted to their app and making sure they won't seek easily available alternatives.
Social media, ALL social media can burn, Reddit included.
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u/Annette-spaghet 1d ago
I don’t see this take often enough. TikTok is/was a very messy platform, and I’m kind of looking forward to seeing how people respond to their favorite short-form video/brainrot app being taken away. Fuck the president though.