I'm gonna say what none of the "progressive" motherfuckers on the internet are willing to admit and idc if i get called bigoted for it: Social media started turning to shit the MOMENT we started getting politics involved and it's the reason why no progress is being made in this goddamn country.
Because tell me, why is it that everytime i open Tiktok so that I can scroll for a minute or two, my ENTIRE for you page is just "deny defend depose" this, "boycott xyz company" that, yada yada yada, and any of the videos that aren't political basically get pushed off the algorithm? It just feels a lot like EVERYBODY nowadays is wanting to get involved in some political movement and it's genuinely starting to give me a headache.
Like I get it, education is important or whatever, and i believe in free speech as someone who openly shares their opinions online regularly, but tell me, is flooding your entire for you page with people just talking about how insurance companies are greedy or how our government is corrupt and all that jazz while green day plays in the background REALLY needed for that? because I can guarantee you that the minute you scroll off of that video, you're just gonna forget about what you "learned" from that video completely, it's also part of the reason why i hate short-form content in general, but that's a whole other can of beans for another day.
And I'm gonna bet that the majority of the people who are making these videos and are trying to shove political topics into people's faces probably have never even been to a protest before or have any fucking clue what they're talking about at all and are just regurgitating the same shit they saw on TikTok like 20 different times prior, yet are LARPing as these "activists" just to get some free clout that they know DAMN WELL won't actually contribute to anything meaningful.
If you genuinely care about the specific movement you're talking about ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING TO HELP instead of making a 15 second "aura" video about it on TikTok or reposting random videos with the same opinions as you. You just look like an idiot doing that.
(granted, I do the same thing myself, so I'm no better, but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion on this)
Also, 99% of the time, the comments of those videos are always the same copy n paste comments or people starting fucking wars in the replies, it's like reddit, but instead of 30 year old men on their computers it's 13 year old kids with internet addictions on their phones, it's pathetic.
RARELY EVER are there actual meaningful discussions happening on those apps, and even then, they always get shut down by braindead kids doxing someone else's entire family lineage because the person they disagree with is a hazbin hotel fan or whatever, it's ridiculous.
And what's that? You don't want to get involved with politics because it's becoming really bad for your mental health or you don't have an opinion on certain topics?
Well too fucking bad because you'll get called selfish and uneducated and get death threats in your inbox for until you change your mind because everyone thinks you HAVE to keep talking about it otherwise you're some MAGA dictator bitch who doesn't care about human rights or whatever.
Literally there was this one video on Tiktok where someone said that it was okay for kids and teens to not get involved in political discussions or topics about war, and I agree, especially since discussions about war can be very triggering for people, and not everyone needs to know about the next big war in the middle east or something like that.
I kid you not, the comments on that video were just of people saying, "but you still need to be educated!!" "but you still need to be educated!!" "but you still need to be edu--" SHUT THE FUCK UP, like actually, i don't want to fucking hear it.
I can already SMELL the reblogs on this post saying that i'm "being unethical" for saying all this, and honestly, if it's "bigoted" of me to out a genuine issue that is literally causing fights and is dividing our country instead of me reposting 20 different videos promoting scam GoFundMe's LARPing as Palestinian families or some shit, then y'all need to get your priorities in check because that is some genuinely brain rotted behavior right there.
Honestly, it's just giving me a headache atp, and i'm just tired of the discourse on that app in general