#tiktokification

[havensvik]

Ok mini rant, I keep seeing videos on tiktok talking about "signs and symptoms of EDS" or "things I did before I realized I had EDS" and then just listing symptoms of hypermobile type, there is 13 types... just cause hEDS is the most common type doesn't mean the other types dont exist. please if you wanna talk about signs of hEDS please specify that its hEDS you're talking about rather then just ehlers danlos in general.

This might sound like I'm just being a hater and I really don't want it to come across that way, it's more of an annoyance in that it spreads misinformation that all types of EDS have the same symptoms or as I've seen some people think, that there's only one type of EDS.

Im just a bit pissed off by it atm cause it seems the only type of EDS I really hear people talk about is hEDS, and I get why cause it's the most common type, but as someone with both hEDS and cEDS (thank you parents for both having a different type of EDS) it can get a bit tiring to never hear people talk about other types.

[mjlovescm]

I'm tired of the TikTokification and Mischaracterization of Rodrick Heffley 😕

I know this is a semi random post, but I was on TikTok and saw a video basically mischaracterizing Rodrick with the song “Teenage Dirtbag”. Saying that he is the type of teenager people think the song is about, based off the title and not the actual lyrics. 

Basically saying the song is about loners with no friends and not actual teenage dirtbags. In my opinion, he works for the title and song. 

I know because of edits, the way he dresses and being in a band. People think for some reason that Rodrick is cool or is a popular kid. 

If you know anything about Rodrick from the movies or the books, this is wrong. Just because Rodrick had a party and had people come over doesn’t mean that those people were his friends. He only had I would say about 2 to 3 friends. And they were people who were in the band with him. Besides that, he was completely ignored by Heather Hills, who was his crush and a popular girl. And his music/band wasn’t really taken seriously… even his friends kicked him out the band for Bill. 

I just think it’s funny how people have made Rodrick into this emo, edgy punk. When he's a loser at heart. 

Mind you, he drove an old white van and his band's name is Löded Diper… 

[xxdreamscapes]

I resent the TikTok-ification of everything cause wdym a hobby is supposed to make you unique and more interesting??!

Hobbies should be something you enjoy. They can be casual or be full-blown passions. They should bring things like joy and whimsy. You should be able to enjoy them alone if no one else is around. You don’t have to post about how you’re rollerskating 24/7, a lot of things don’t need to be posted or capitalized on. It makes me think that you don’t love yourselves enough to enjoy things on your own. Someone always has to be watching. Ya’ll are wasting your lives away performing for the validation of people who couldn’t give less of a shit and it is SAD

Hobbies don’t need to be attractive or become this productivity contest bitch !

Stand tf up. Enjoy things for what they are, not for the attention or capital they’ll bring

[gladosluver]

very glad to see evil ai getting attention but i fear tiktokification may be upon them in due time

[silvermoon424]

I cannot express how deeply off-putting and unpleasant I find it that every single social media site are trying to become clones of each other, or whatever is currently most popular. We're seeing that with literally every website trying to become TikTok right now.

I really miss the old days of the internet, when every site felt so unique. Even in the early/mid 2010s the main social media sites weren't aping each other that much and still had a little uniqueness to them. Now even Tumblr has a fucking Live feature that no one asked for and other social media sites keep pushing their own versions of TikTok videos down our throats. Every new major site update for most sites is an effort to make them more homogenous.

I hate it.

[banrionceallach]

Seeing someone who is allegedly in their 30s sincerely writing the phrase 'getting unalived' in a post about the loss of a large part of the previous queer generations due to the AIDS epidemic is weirdly sad.

People died. Not 'got unalived'. They died.

Anyone over the age of about ten should be able to at least say the word death. It is a neutral word, not a slur. It's part of life. Please stop bowing to corporate censorship when talking about the death of oppressed minorities.

Also this is tumblr. There is no algorithm here.

[girlcalledwhatsername]

Yk I think a big issue with how people are using tiktokified and instgramesque censored language is that somewhere along the line people forgot that it was about necessity of the platform and not because the words are actually bad and immoral. And some of the people censoring them on Tumblr and ao3 and real actual books and text messages are doing so with the view of softening the blow of those words which they have come to see as words that will hurt by their mere presence, the way someone might, for example, censor a slur when referring to it in a discussion. It's become less "we cannot say this word because the post will be taken down" and more an unwillingness to say the words out loud and doing a "is he... you know...?" about it all, which is dragging us back years into ideas of polite language and censorship of ideas seen as impolite and impure (which of course include a bunch of queer identities and sex). The fear around those words has subconsciously trained too many people into actually seeing them as bad words that might hurt people by barely existing.

I saw another post making this point but when people censor warning tags and say, for eg, "tw r*pe" there's a coddling quality to it where they seem to think that seeing the word "rape" will be the issue for someone who is triggered by it, rather than the content actually being tagged for.

We need to take that power away from these words again or we're gonna reinvent some 19th century style rules of interacting in polite society and become stuffy repressed people who are easily spooked by someone saying "goddamnit"

[amyjustcos]

The word “tiktokification” actually makes me want to rip out my bones and make a broth, then rip out your bones, and grind them to make bread to go with it