i am not kidding tiktok is a plague upon this earth and is actively destroying peoples brains. i wish that app would shut down today
it genuinely frightens me to my core the way the rhetoric and trends used on that app are going to affect users (especially teenagers) in the long run. like there are definitely some mindsets i absorbed from tumblr when i was 14 that i had to unlearn but tiktok is something completely different
it’s like, the scale of it that frightens me. it’s the perfect storm of shortform content, lack of verifiability, speed of information spread, cults of personality, mass production, capitalistic incentive, and mass reach. some of the people who spent their entire lives thinking of how to make the most effective propaganda possible couldn’t have dreamed of this shit.





















