tiktok genuinely needs to be studied and im glad i have not used or been on it at all anymore. in just a few years that app has somehow changed the course of how the internet works forever, seeping into other platforms as well. I remember when i was younger “callout posts” or “expose videos” were reserved for genuinely dangerous or bigoted people and the topic was handled by adults who knew what they were doing with their platform. why the hell is everybody nowadays making one on literally everybody? Most being people NOT suitable for making those types of internet posts at all? Dude i do not care if some random microartist on the internet made a nazi joke when they were 11 in private dms with their also 11 year old friend what the fuck are we doing? And why do people just fucking eat this shit up?
there is ZERO safe spaces for artists now because the actual toxic slop mentality that festers on apps like twitter and tiktok has completely destroyed the thought of just minding your own business. Anyone with a platform no matter how big dares to draw anything taboo or grosses someone out, they are going to be fucking cross posted everywhere on the fucking internet no matter who they are, how old they are, how relevant they are or what their art consists of, they WILL be treated as severe as actual bad actors because people just cant stop bullying for one fucking second. This behavior has become so normalized, why is nobody questioning how fucked up it is that EVERY WEEK some sort of small child artist is getting fucking dragged through the mud over bullshit and they go viral constantly, making them even more of a target of severe bullying from genuinely dangerous individuals?
these sick fucks are genuinely going to push people to suicide one day because they cannot fathom the thought of someone different from them existing, if they havent literally done that already. You cannot have spaces for freaks without it being invaded, you cannot have spaces for furries without it being invaded, you cannot have spaces for literally any fandom or artist adjacent thing fucking ever because these annoying bully scumbags just had to poke their nose into spaces they should have never seen in the first place. The internet was made by freaks, FOR freaks, and now that bullshit happened with covid nobody is safe at all. God knows what kind of demented shit happens on those chud forum websites.
For the love of god, freaks weirdos artists and all, if you want to be safe on the internet the time is now to keep what you are doing in small niche communities with each other, those big platforms are not fucking worth it. parasocial delusion has fucking skyrocketed and random people will stalk, constantly post about you and try to ruin your image for years for absolutely no reason other than drawing something they did not like.
