Oct 19, 2025
hi helo trying my luck here cuz im not getting enough likes or views on tiktok:D
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hi helo trying my luck here cuz im not getting enough likes or views on tiktok:D
they are bullying ne on TikTok
It kinda got to me but when I checked their pages I didn’t take that much offense
And once again, was anyone lucky enough to get the stupid tiktok notification and recorded the livestream? #tiktoksucks #again #whatsthepoint 📷: @05.kz.06 live broadcast in tik tok 5 minutes ago🖤 #harrypotter #tomfelton #felton @t22felton #livebroadcast #tiktok #t22felton #dracomalfoy https://www.instagram.com/p/CFCg_gQgtVZ/?igshid=1rlrozsopyulw
Has anyone recorded the whole thing? 🙏🙏🙏 #tomfelton #tiktoksucks https://www.instagram.com/p/CGTzeCUAfRl/?igshid=17ekg5u0bcpjd
Part of Tom's live on TikTok today. Does anyone have the whole thing recorded? Repost from @simp4d.malf0y ❤️ #tomfelton #tiktoksucks https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-_409AQXk/?igshid=1pwn8hcm6kcxf
I’m migrating from TikTok and twitter hi everyone!!!
I just kept seeing things stolen from here and it got boring.
Are we in a time-based crisis?
Short-form Addiction and Movie Exhaustion
As a current highschooler and self-proclaimed film buff, I ask my friends about what media they’re watching when we get home from school. I always have new films to talk about, and I constantly berate my peers to watch them too. For the most part, my friends get home, doom scroll on tiktok for five straight hours, and go to bed. It's as if having hobbies became a rarity. What new shows are you watching? Mind blanks, no response. They check out mentally for hours on end and check back into reality just to repeat the cycle. Is this lack of response new with the times, or has doom scrolling just replaced a previous activity? Has there always been a sort of displacement for movies or have they just been phasing out of our society?
Attention span is lowering. That is a fact. The new generations are being born into a dystopian society based online, born into technology that they will always have access to, and a plateau of technological development. As soon as the child becomes old enough to annoy their parents, an ipad is placed in front of them. Living online is fast paced and detrimental to child development, altering their brain chemistry forever as they get used to that type of living. Today’s teenagers, who have also been born into the technological age although during a period that was still in development, have found an addiction in spending time on their phone. Through newfound technology, online platforms such as TikTok perfected the formula to keeping eyes as long as they can. Other social media platforms have tried and succeeded to replicate it. Instagram reels, YouTube shorts, and other short-form videos. With fast-paced, eye-catching, non-stop videos, it becomes harder to get away from the screen. These short and fast dopamine hits are comparable to taking drugs. The more you do it, the more your brain subconsciously likes it, but the worse you feel, with your senses depleting. The time-consuming act takes away from valuable time to spend doing other things. The state of boredom does not exist anymore. During any point of downtime, the canned response is to take out your phone and scroll. We as a society have a national crisis. Phone addiction and the drastically decreasing attention spans to it.
Have movies gotten longer? Yes, actually. It’s not just a feeling, they have genuinely increased in length. Significantly. In the last thirty years or so, the runtime of popular films has increased by over thirty minutes. Calling for more commitment, these films have turned off interest because audiences think of the lengths as “outrageous” or “a waste of my time” despite happily, and regretfully, spending seven hours on short-form videos at home.
Less interest in the film industry, combined with the cinema closures of 2020, means overall less attendance to watch films. The loop never ends. In addition to these turn offs, the big wigs in Hollywood are almost exclusively approving sequel or remake films. There is an audience for remakes or sequels, especially with pre-loved franchises with established audiences. For example, the recently released Snow White (2025) movie. It is a live-action recreation of the very well loved animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Less interest in the film industry, combined with the cinema closures of 2020, means overall less attendance to watch films. The loop never ends. In addition to these turn offs, the big wigs in Hollywood are almost exclusively approving sequel or remake films. There is an audience for remakes or sequels, especially with pre-loved franchises with established audiences. For example, the recently released Snow White (2025) movie. It is a live-action recreation of the very well loved animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Disney made olympic mistakes in every aspect of this film. For one, Marc Webb’s casting choices caused outrage in the Disney fandom. Instead of the seven dwarves being actual actors with dwarfism looking for work, he opted for VFX dwarves to achieve the look he wanted for the film. There are many things wrong with this decision. One, depriving seven possible actors with dwarfism of the Disney type of exposure, which could change careers; two, if the film is realistic, why do we need caricatured dwarves when you could be providing jobs? Cast as Snow White, Rachel Zegler as a person also posed as a PR risk, voicing her political opinions and discrediting the movie during her PR tour for the film. Snow White (2025) failed horribly at the box office and in reviews. Receiving a whopping 1.6/10 on IMDb, a generous 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, and 1.3 / 5 through Google Reviews. With a budget of $209 million, the box office grossing is just short of $86 million. Snow White is, hopefully, the turning point in greenlit remakes. Everything that could’ve gone wrong went wrong, which is the amalgamation of why movie remakes (usually) suck. Audiences are exhausted and plead for new material, only to talk to the brick wall that is Hollywood executives in hope for interesting movies.
The reason for constant remakes and sequels is that they rely on pre-existing audiences. This proves as a safety net of sorts for production investment, supposedly guaranteeing audiences in theaters. This is not always the case, seen by Snow White. Along with the Marvel universe, with non-stop movies constantly churning out, audiences get tired. But new, interesting, innovative movies are too much of a gamble on success; even if audiences are shouting that new movies are what we want.
Hypothetically, let’s say a new movie interests you. You’re a fan of Dune. You remember reading the books, years back. They weren’t too difficult, a long read but you still got through it enjoyably. You had good grades and paid well enough attention in school. You watched the movie Dune (1984), with a runtime of a little over two hours, enjoyable but a little lengthy. This is now your favorite movie. Time goes on until the 2020s, Dune: Part One (2021) is being released with Timothee Chalamet. You look at the runtime, two hours and thirty five minutes. Yikes! Go with some friends, make it a day, you leave the theater bodily exhausted and eyes tired, but still feeling fulfilled seeing a new interpretation of your favorite book series. You hear Dune: Part Two (2024) has a runtime of two hours and forty six minutes. Yikes! For the past three years, you have been spending most of your off-time on tiktok, scrolling endlessly. You are less apt to go see the second film, especially with its runtime, but drag yourself in the theater anyways. Thirty minutes go by, and you feel boredom for the first time in years. You take out your phone to begin scrolling, and get kicked out of the theater for being disruptive with your phone light and sound. Now you’re stuck right outside of the theater waiting for your friends to finish the movie. What do you do with those two hours? Scroll on TikTok until you don’t realize the time, only being sucked out of that trance when your friends make it out of the theater. Your friends don’t even see you during the ride home, talking about how great the movie was and talking about how excited they are for Dune: Messiah (2026), while you continue scrolling. You get home, finally realizing what happened while checking back into reality as you put your phone away to unlock your door. That was a waste of time. You will not be going to see the next movie. If you were worth inviting in the first place, anyways.
This lifestyle is unfortunately many people's reality. The addiction to scrolling and the attention span of the public today is ruining relationships. This is why so many gen Z are shut-ins, seen as antisocial, and hate their lame lives. It’s a well-hidden addiction, as many affected blame their isolation on “society” and “everyone else”. In reality, it is up to the individual to get off the phone. The assumption is that fast-paced intake of various media spreading over many categories would increase media literacy, along with social understanding. Instead, the modern generation becomes “masters of none”, knowing just a little bit about everything but that “everything” is something nobody will benefit from. Short-form videos are slop. While there are educational videos, there is not one person who truthfully watches exclusively that genre of Tik Tok. The algorithm will always try to pull them back into the cess-pool that is the general algorithm. It's up to the user to find an escape.
Maybe it is “the damn phone”.
^ graph showing the drastic increase of movie runtimes
I love seeing people freaking out about TikTok being banned like it's a lifeblood and they're going to die because the app is gone. Hey seriously stop fucking panicking, it's just a stupid Chinese app with random videos, it's not going to change your life. To believe that TikTok is the center of social media, there are plenty of other social media, or you can also go out for some fresh air, it won't do any harm to your life.