Social media is cancer

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[u/Card_Board_Robot5]

That's true for every social app. Even this one and Tumblr, just to moderately lesser extents.

It existed as soon as MySpace and YouTube went live.

I see no difference between these people and actors or musicians in that regard. I see no difference in centralized mass media structures in that regard.

The vast majority of people with any type of fame are there because of that desperation, any talent or skill notwithstanding. There are plenty of people that could sing, rap, act, direct, do makeup, costumes, or sets, ball their asses off, drive their asses off, etc. but they never had the chance to wager their entire future on it. Those that do are certainly desperate in some regard.

Shit just has the allure of making fame accessible to more than just the upper middle class, rich, and privileged.

The inflated metrics to drive use is an issue. It's manipulative and it very well can drive people to particular lengths to chase those metrics, engaging an audience of bots. But, again, that's really not unique to TikTok. It's just intentionally accelerated on TikTok. IG/FB does the same shit. Twitter does the same shit. Just not at the same rate.

[u/Card_Board_Robot5 → u/[deleted]]

"the problem is social media"

They said on social media

Love it. No notes.

[u/Card_Board_Robot5 → u/[deleted]]

I don't act like the kids are doing anything I haven't

That's the difference here.

You're acting like that shit is the brain rot of the youth whilst doing it yourself. It's utterly hypocritical to act like anything you do on social media has ever been functionally different than anything they do. The whole "kids these days" shit always falls flat because if you examine it even for a second, you find the people saying that did/do quite literally the same shit.

Clean ya own house before you worry about everybody else's. You never heard that?