#tiktoxic

[thembeau]

So I have to delete the tiktok app again…I redownloaded it because my partner texts me videos (usually cute animals) but tiktok stopped letting me watch them without the app. Okay, so I’ve had it for like two weeks now. And I’ve been doing pretty good self-control wise. I’ve been scrolling like an hour a day, tops.

And then I was like “I’m not sleepy yet, lemme scroll for an hour before bed” and then my alarm went off for like. “5am time to get up to get an early start on work so we can play dnd this afternoon.” Friends, I will be napping this afternoon. If I don’t conk out at my desk before then :(

[frenchiefitzhere]

I aggressively hate the tiktok endscreen sound

[redtalksaboutstuffandthings]

I am apparently at the point in my "Tumblr figures out what you want to see" journey that they've decided to fill my feed with TikTok repost accounts. I am now blocking accounts for the first time.

[sasquapossum]

A woman who coined the term 'boomer panic' has younger generations asking why they have so much anxiety

The TikToker said an older employee began "screaming and screeching" trying to help check out an item that didn't have a price tag.

This looks like the very last sort of person who should be pointing fingers at anyone else for getting upset about nothing. Do younger people never experience social (or any other) anxiety? Some things, like losing a hearing aid (as mentioned in the story) are very genuinely and understandably upsetting to an older person ... just as they are to younger disabled people, so let's not be ableist as well as ageist. It's very telling that, instead of trying to help, this person rushed to make a derogatory video. Seems like "'Boomer panic' panic" to me.

[chromanebula]

How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis

A Chinese app conquered the planet — and now the U.S. is threatening to shut it down. Can the world’s biggest virality machine survive?

If TikTok is in fact banned in the U.S., I won’t be shedding any tears for it.

[bearrepublicnetwork]

TikTok is FILLED with some of the most toxic people with THE stupidest posts about Times Square was already there, flat earth, xtian fundamentalist, conspiracy tok garbage imaginable. #thesepeoplearestupid #boringaf #tiktoxic (at 滋賀県 琵琶湖) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClFGOsaSXIW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[frenchiefitzhere]

Cowboy Sam called. He said if you stole and redistributed paid, private content, you can go ahead and put your moral high horse back in the barn.

That poor thing's on its last leg... ...the one that you don't have to stand on.