I despise it and have never used it. It seems most comrades are giving very measured responses, which I applaud them for, but I can’t do the same.
We have built into us some kind of system to detect what is bad for us. When we look at some mouldy fruit, we think it is off putting and would never think of eating it, because we know it would make us ill. TikTok gives me the same feeling. When I see people scrolling endlessly, evaluating a video within 2 seconds of the vapid, vacuous and hideous content, then swiping to the next thing, I just feel disgusted. It is visual opium. It is a media perfected to steal your attention and harvest it. In my opinion it is the epitome of liberal brainrot and capitalist overconsumption and should be destroyed with prejudice.
Actually I haven’t really spoken about this to anyone, but my disdain for such a platform as TikTok also applies to other similar platforms like Instagram, YouTube shorts etc. Regardless of who owns them they are the same and should be exterminated
I despise it and have never used it. It seems most comrades are giving very measured responses, which I applaud them for, but I can’t do the same. We have built into us some kind of system to detect what is bad for us. When we look at some mouldy fruit, we think it is off putting and would never think of eating it, because we know it would make us ill. TikTok gives me the same feeling. When I see people scrolling endlessly, evaluating a video within 2 seconds of the vapid, vacuous and hideous content, then swiping to the next thing, I just feel disgusted. It is visual opium. It is a media perfected to steal your attention and harvest it. In my opinion it is the epitome of liberal brainrot and capitalist overconsumption and should be destroyed with prejudice.
judging by the way you wrote, you had this discussion before and people answers where brimming with sinophobia and orientalism.
thankfully such thing is not present nor is tolerated in this instance.
Actually I haven’t really spoken about this to anyone, but my disdain for such a platform as TikTok also applies to other similar platforms like Instagram, YouTube shorts etc. Regardless of who owns them they are the same and should be exterminated
Yeah, there is plenty of detailed analysis that could be had for TikTok, but for me it just triggers a primal feeling of unease.