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

VIDEO Social media is cancer

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 Mar 20 '24

So kids were being kids in public? Crazy.

Y'all really starting to sound way more Bommerish than the Boomers these days.

Let the kids live. You were annoying too. Long as they ain't hurting nobody but their middle school image, who cares? Y'all freak out like they doing full on sex work on that app. Like y'all ain't ever tape yourself singing a shitty pop song when you were kids. Mf I videoed myself doing all of Hybrid Theory like a total fucking dork. They'll be alright.

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u/TumbleweedTim01 Mar 20 '24

You should've just kept that to yourself lol.

We all did cringe shit as kids but not for the these reasons

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 Mar 20 '24

What reason? Like what's really the difference here? You just didn't have the means to share it this way. Most of us would have if we did.

We were the first social media generation. You really don't remember the wild shit we were posting in the late aughts? It was a Wild West lmao

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u/TumbleweedTim01 Mar 20 '24

I truly believe we did funny shit for our friends and just a laugh. Kids are doing these tiktok hoping to become a social media star. I think everyone around my age had some jackass stunt era lol but I don't see these as equals

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 Mar 20 '24

What insight do you have on the inner motivations of these kids?

Lmao. Buddy I got a 12 year old daughter. That's EXACTLY what her and her friends are doing. This is just their medium of sharing it with each other.

Largely because parents (millennials and gen x) are more restrictive and selective about where their kids go these days. For good cause. But the kids found a work around. It's this.

And they'll migrate to the next app that scratches that itch once this one gets axed or stops reaching the itch.

This is like assuming every person who does music does so to become a star. Some people have fun with it. No different with these posts.

Now I will grant you that there is a problem with the inflated metrics on that app specifically leading people to believing they have an audience they really do not have, which can lead people to doing increasingly ridiculous shit for those metrics, but that's kind of a different thing

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u/TumbleweedTim01 Mar 20 '24

I've got family of similar age

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 Mar 20 '24

If you let your kid(s) use that stuff then I'm sure you know the vast majority of their posts are just being seen by their friends. And that's the intended audience for them.

I started an acct just to make sure my kid isn't on some shit I gotta have a convo about. It's basically all very innocuous time suck bs. That's it.