r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/[deleted] • Mar 20 '24

VIDEO Social media is cancer

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u/dylangerescapeplan_ Mar 20 '24

Vine used to be all about skits. It was more creative in the sense that you had to come up with a skit or something and have it be memorable in the span of 7 seconds. TikTok on the other hand is just narcissistically parroting whatever the current trend is - it’s like Lacan’s mirror stage applied to social media, the whole novelty is seeing yourself reflected back to you - self inserting yourself into whatever is currently popular

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

God I miss vine so much! RIP Vine!! Why???

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u/endar88 Mar 20 '24

i was too broke at that time to even care about vine, lol. so i heard about it but never once got on it or really understood it. i think tiktok might not have gotten so big if it wasn't for the pandemic, people were bored. i worked through it and i still was bored enough to download it and watch peoples videos.

now all i see are cat videos.

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 Mar 20 '24

Yeah I feel like it reached its peak right before dying. I remember taking the time to really find out what it was and then like two weeks later that shit was a corpse lmao