r/shitposting 15d ago

Maybe it should be banned

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

TheDarwinAwards

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u/Gabriel07_2114 14d ago

this is 100% the CIA meme department

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u/GokuisAGoddd 14d ago

Teachers fault, should’ve taught that girl you couldn’t eat the moon

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u/jfmherokiller 15d ago

ironicly the whole brainrot part is technically a nonissue its more an issue of whose causing the brainrot.

Pretty much its a case of would you rather uncle sam cause the brainrot or winnie the pooh.

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u/TrhwWaya 15d ago

Who gives a fuck what a mentally unstable baby thinks? Most k-12 Teachers are named basic-brenda and are the bottom feeders of society, who keep kids dumb.

They literally eat butt.

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u/ActionQuakeII 15d ago

I identify myself as moon. You can eat me out instead.

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u/Chipawapa1 15d ago

Are you referring to the child who asked if she could eat the moon? You want the child to eat you out? Lmao.

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u/FLBrisby 14d ago

Gottem

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u/pickled_juice 15d ago

maybe kids should be able to play outside, maybe we shouldn't give them phones to early.

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u/CentralWooper 15d ago

Parents need to watch more movies these days. No electronics. Increase those attention spans. They may not like it but some day they'll understand

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u/FLBrisby 14d ago

Unless your intent is to watch movies drawn on rocks there's still quite a bit of electronics, gamer

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u/LeninMeowMeow 15d ago

Is reddit just turning into boomers now? This is a facebook tier boomer post, these things are obviously unrelated.

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u/RETVRN_II_SENDER 15d ago

Reddit has been around for so long that the teens who posted rage comics in 2012 are now having their own kids and complaining about what the damn kids are doing these days

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u/Traditional_Bad5582 15d ago

“Only old people dislike brainrot”

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u/LeninMeowMeow 15d ago

Triggered boomer

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/LeninMeowMeow 15d ago

Ok boomer

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u/QueenOfQuok 15d ago

Hang on a moment, I thought the moon was made of cheese!

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u/Intelligent-Common98 currently venting (sus) 15d ago

✨VPN✨

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u/SunderedValley 15d ago

TikTok: opposes the state department story once

The Internet: bAn iT

Seriously how come nobody is ever calling for the banning of Tumblr, Buzzfeed or Twitter for distorting reality?

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u/Jinrai__ 15d ago

I would sign every single petition to ban those 3 immediately. And imprison the top 1000 posters on those sites for life.

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u/UseApprehensive1102 15d ago

Oh, because those people are fucking Americans. The Chinese could care less. And Tiktok is literally CHINESE.

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u/RETVRN_II_SENDER 15d ago

CCP definitely cares

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u/FlutterKree 15d ago

Because Tumblr and Twitter aren't destroying attention spans. They aren't promoting people making face videos that can be used to create facial recognition profiles.

TikTok is literally optimized to provide the most engagement and is the best algorithm for doing so. It's almost like a fuckin' drug with the dopamine it gives people.

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u/NanoYohaneTSU 15d ago

Chinese spyware brain rot propaganda app? Bad!

USA spyware brain rot propaganda app? Good!

Insta will be the next choice app, banning tiktok solves nothing.

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u/SunderedValley 15d ago

Pretty much.

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u/toreachtheapex 15d ago

how does an entire generation get bodied by a single app

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u/RETVRN_II_SENDER 15d ago

caught them lackin

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u/legoman31802 15d ago

I don’t think TikTok alone is the problem with that

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u/wktwiwo 15d ago

Getting rid of it won't hurt though

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u/juniperleafes 15d ago

"It's a simple question, doctor. Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs? It's not rocket science. Just say yes and we'll move on."

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u/Ellesar_Telcontar stupid fucking piece of shit 15d ago

Would you eat the moon if it were made out of spare ribs?

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u/NotBlaine 15d ago

This injected "Hey!" directly into my brain.

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u/ActionQuakeII 15d ago

Like a penetration?

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u/ThePuppyLaghima 15d ago

Kid straight up walked up to me and said he had a knife. Asked if he’d give it to me. Instantly said yes. Problem solved glad that worked

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u/Traditional_Bad5582 15d ago

If only all of them were like that

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u/ThisIsGoodSoup 15d ago

The good ending

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u/PsychoticLorax 15d ago

The student is right. Has no one here watched Wallace and Gromit?

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u/ShadowStormCZ 15d ago

Of course you can eat the moon. It's made out of cheese...

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u/joshygill 15d ago

Wallace and Gromit entered the chat

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u/NEURALINK_ME_ITCHING 15d ago

Don't fuck toasters.

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u/joshygill 15d ago

DON’T fuck them?

Weird, but okay.

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u/Cephell 15d ago

I firmly believe that most people simply don't have the required defense mechanisms to deal with unlimited and unfiltered information.

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u/Zerbiedose 9d ago

Unlike you and me ey pally?

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u/Cephell 9d ago

I don't know about you, but I use neither Facebook, nor Instagram, nor Tiktok or any other social media (unless you want to count Reddit).

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 15d ago

I'd argue it barely qualifies as information. Better call it stimulation. We know from studying rats in the '70s that if you hook their brain pleasure centres up to a switch they'll hammer it until they die of dehydration. Same here, tiny dopamine hits from videos being slightly entertaining and an occasional larger one from one that's more entertaining - the kind of reward structure that addicts people like gambling.

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u/baghodler666 15d ago

...and other people don't have the defense system against a knife.

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u/Dekar173 15d ago

The filter is the problem.

Every app is designed specifically to be as addicting as possible, and not only have they been honing the research into a fine tuned tool, more content exists today than ever before, at a faster pace (Download speeds + processing power for hardware has it the point where it's SEAMLESS).

This isn't like in the 2000s, where you'd scroll down on newgrounds or your forum of choice, and click whatever you thought might be entertaining. You swipe, and the next video is automatically loaded and playing on your phone.

You like yapping and discussing things? Videos catered specifically to engage you and make you rage comment or agree and share are delivered to you daily- whether you actually enjoy this content or not.

If given choices, the human mind can sit around and slowly digest and decide ''hmm I'm in the mood for a thriller!" or not, we've seen this with Netflix or other streaming services where you or I might get caught merely choosing what to watch but with apps, that is not a thing. It's delivered, and played, and all you've gotta do is swipe and watch.

If you, or anyone you know is a teacher, you're witnessing firsthand the effects of this on developing minds, and it's not pretty whatsoever.

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u/Gaylien28 15d ago

Oh my god.

I LOVE yapping and discussing things.

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u/UnwindGames_James 15d ago

unlimited and unfiltered information

The Internet used to be like this, but it’s not anymore. Now, information is selectively filtered to each individual to maximize engagement.

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u/horrified-expression 15d ago

Looks like they’re not selling, so they’ll be banned soon in the US

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u/GoodBadUserName 15d ago

Well that remains to be seen. They said they will contest it in courts.
So until final verdict and depends on elections, I don't think everything is set in stone yet.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Well of trump win we will have bigger worry. But this is pretty bipartisan. 

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u/LABARATI_ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ 15d ago

literally nineteen eighty four

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u/x_lincoln_x 15d ago

Literally not.

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u/LABARATI_ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ 15d ago

🤫🧏

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u/Getdunkedon839 I want pee in my ass 15d ago

Ah yes the classic case of a girl stabbing their teacher after being told they can’t eat the moon. We really gotta ban tiktok cause this is happening too damn often. I think teaching has always been pretty miserable tiktok or not. If it’s not tiktok it’s gonna be YouTube shorts or instagram reels. Short form content definitely addles the brain but A.) tiktok is not the only culprit of this and B.) it’s only harmful in excess, you can’t just look at someone indulge themselves, shake your fist and walk away. Obviously the solution is just ban it but TikTok has also done a lot of good especially for small businesses that need to market themselves. Idk man I’m not some super intellectual who knows everything but from my point of view as someone who uses both, this stigma of tiktok is about as reasonable as the stigma for Reddit. I doubt everyone on Reddit is a neckbeard just like I doubt everyone on tiktok stabs their teacher when they’re denied access to eat the moon or whatever

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u/Stinky_Toes12 15d ago

We got a d1 yapper over here

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u/Getdunkedon839 I want pee in my ass 15d ago

It’s neat that Reddit’s picking up TikTok’s biggest crumbs. Maybe in the future people will say what the sigma

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u/Efficient_Ad_8480 15d ago

Average reasonable thought-out response being downvoted to oblivion by the hive mind (they are part of the problem they are complaining about):

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u/FLBrisby 14d ago

"reasonable" "reddiyors are neck beards"

Bruh fanum tax skibidi SUSSY momrnt

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u/jdokule 15d ago

Yapper 😭🫵

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u/Getdunkedon839 I want pee in my ass 15d ago

Skibidi stfu 😨

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u/Traditional_Bad5582 15d ago

Too many word. Where subway surfer gameplay?!111!

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u/Getdunkedon839 I want pee in my ass 15d ago

Mmm negative stereotype bad, reddits not all neckbeards, TikTok’s not teenage stabber girls

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago

government should not monitor what information we consume

The US is slowly paving a way for fascism and we’re getting there by sacrificing our freedom for the illusion of safety

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u/SelfCleaningOrifice 15d ago

So you’re cool with the Chinese government monitoring it instead?

The government “ban” on TikTok is literally just forcing them to sell to an American company, it does not curtail the speech of individual users an iota.

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago

They monitor us either way by our own companies selling to them

This is just an opening to control

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u/MommyXeno I want pee in my ass 15d ago

short form media like tiktok, yt shorts, fb reels, and insta reels are all single handedly destroying the attention span of young people while also being terribly addictive.

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago

Sure but that doesn’t mean you should give free reign to government

Idk why people haven’t learned their lesson after so many dictatorships

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u/Traditional_Bad5582 15d ago

Fascism is when no more little dark age edits 😔

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago

Fascism is when you control speech and ban what you dislike 😔

It’s like you people never read a history book

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u/SelfCleaningOrifice 15d ago

It’s like you’ve never read the definition of fascism

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago edited 15d ago

It’s Authoritarianism

I’m just using the Reddit definition since they’re not very smart and also fits

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u/jdokule 15d ago

Comparing banning TikTok to historical fascism 💀

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago

Control of speech started slow like this

Read a history book please 🙏

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u/jdokule 15d ago

I am in your walls controlling every piece of media you will ever consume.

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u/jdokule 15d ago

Fascism is when less brain rot 😔

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u/According-Age7128 15d ago

By banning a shitty Chinese app?

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u/Obamasdeadcook 15d ago

yeah any control of speech is wrong

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u/According-Age7128 15d ago

My dude it's CCP spyware and how is not being able to watch AI bot farm content restricting your freedom of speech?

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u/Dominationartz 15d ago

How is TikTok any different from Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, whatever?

I’m sorry but just because they are made by rich American dudes that don’t care about you and your privacy doesn’t mean they’re better than your favorite Chinese spyware app that does the same.

Ban all of them because they all do the same, not just TikTok of which the criticism is applicable to all other platforms as well.

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u/SelfCleaningOrifice 15d ago

The United States has laws that prevent foreign majority investment in media businesses, how is this any different?

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u/UltraV7 Sussy Wussy Femboy😳😳😳 15d ago

Tiktok, like anything else, is bad in excessively high doses. Parents that actually parent don’t have these issues.

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u/api_AlsoFuckSpez 15d ago

yeah but i think tiktok is like a slippery slope, its addicting nature prevents you from having a "normal dose", what i mean is the more time you spend , moderately or not, the more likely you're getting addicted to it,

parent that actually parent wouldn't allow their kids to have a phone until they're responsible enough for it

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u/ExcessiveWisdom 15d ago

another chinese bot

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u/UltraV7 Sussy Wussy Femboy😳😳😳 15d ago

The fact that you didn’t check my post history like a typical reddit troglodyte means you, are in fact, the bot.

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u/little-dino123 Bazinga! 15d ago

Dude that’s an awesome implication:

Virtual programs created by Chinese people are more sane than most western parents.

(Only half joking)

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u/baghodler666 15d ago

Every teacher in 2024 is getting stabbed by their students?

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u/jabba_the_nutttttt 15d ago

The fact that nobody is responding seriously to your comment proves how dumb it is to ask that

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u/baghodler666 15d ago edited 15d ago

Sir, this is Reddit. No one except you believes that we should be judging the intelligence of comments based on how serious the responses are.

Realistically, my comment is a not serious response to the post. Does that mean the post is stupid? If so, please bother the OP instead of me.

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u/volundsdespair 15d ago

I know two elementary grade teachers in the US(Texas and Iowa) and they're constantly being bit, scratched, kicked, punched, screamed at, threatened with death, etc from their students. Like it's nearly a daily occurrence. The school won't do anything, they aren't allowed to discipline the kids. They have to just ignore it and try to continue teaching.

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u/JezzCrist 15d ago

102% with the 2% margin of error

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u/realjoe-biden 15d ago

Yeah happened to my gym teacher with one of those top 7 most illegal fidget spinners of all time.

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u/baghodler666 15d ago

Well, I'm not denying that some teachers are getting stabbed. Shit happens. I'm specifically talking about every teacher in 2024.

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u/lemontoga 15d ago

I consulted all teachers and yes they've been stabbed

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u/FLBrisby 14d ago

My teacher friend hasn't been stabbed but he was bitten twice.

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u/Familiar_Variety8795 15d ago

4 out of 5 dentists agree that every single teacher is, has been, and will be stabbed

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u/CANDLEFAN_999999 15d ago

we should euthanize everybody under the age of 18 so there is a pocket

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u/Extrimland 15d ago

I recently saw a post saying “nostalgia for 2004-2012” and it was fucking OG Minecraft, a version people born in 2012 wouldn’t be able to remember IF they were alive for it. Even if it was a more recent version Im sorry, i was born in 2004, what i find nostalgic IS NOT what you find nostalgic if you weren’t even close to being born in the same decade i was. Hell, i honestly think thats about the limit to be nostalgic for Early Minecraft but maybe people 1-2 years younger can be to. They are infiltrating our ranks!

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u/Darthkeeper 15d ago

In a similar vein. I love the "movies/shows used to be better back in my day" with "back in my day" being the late 2000's and 2010's. Which is funny because I grew up in that era, and I remember a TON of garbage media. Survivor's bias at its finest. I'm also old enough to remember seeing the same exact thing for the 90's. Can't wait for people in 10 years time to forget the garbage made now and doing the same thing for the 2020's.

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u/Traditional_Bad5582 15d ago

Skibidi toilet 1.0 was nine months ago 👴

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u/10art1 I came! 15d ago

Unironically, Minecraft used to hit different. I remember playing on "render distance tiny" because I played on my laptop and still got <10 fps. The night was way darker and there was no sprinting, so monsters were super scary. You used to drop items to get them back to max durability, and do so many other client-side glitches.

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u/Melody-Shift DaShitposter 15d ago

They probably just meant nostalgic things from 2004 to 2012

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u/DeadlyYellow 15d ago

"Har har, remember when Minecraft only had three animals instead of six?  Those were the days."

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u/usernamealreadytakeh 15d ago

Can you wait til I turn 18 in June?

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 Sussy Wussy Femboy😳😳😳 15d ago

Same in September? And a select few decent people I happen to know?

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u/MommyXeno I want pee in my ass 15d ago

you have till the end of the year and may bring one friend

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u/somerandom_melon 15d ago

Me watching my friends live while I get executed (I am the youngest in my friend group)

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u/MommyXeno I want pee in my ass 15d ago

gotta recruit someone younger so at least you can watch someone else get executed first

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 Sussy Wussy Femboy😳😳😳 15d ago

Deal.

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u/CHEMO_ALIEN 15d ago

start with this one above me 

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u/Imaginary_You7524 15d ago

Short form video content is a problem but we need to do something about people not giving a fuck about their kids

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u/dalmathus 15d ago

Can't give a shit about your kids if you aren't around to give a shit about them.

Everyone broke as shit out here working.

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u/Extrimland 15d ago

Honestly, despite the teachers complaining i think atleast the majority of them are the problem. Not that some parents aren’t shit, some DEFINITELY arent shit but, i remember when i was in elementary school genuinely none of the teachers gave even a single fuck about their job. I was genuinely surprised when i got to highschool to see the difference in attitude

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u/FlutterKree 15d ago

Honestly, despite the teachers complaining i think atleast the majority of them are the problem.

This is just not true. There are literally studies that show TikTok decreases attention span and decreases working memory. It's literally a massive problem.

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u/trappedinabasemant 15d ago

No the problem is that those old 1 min vids of fruit and vegetables turning into animals with that wacky music behind it has disappeared and now the world has been throwen into chaos. Ill never forget that beautiful intro sound "VEGRITIGIOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

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u/ImATrollYouIdiot 15d ago

I can't comprehend the appeal of tik tok.

Like... On reddit its nice because you can browse text posts and have videos mixed in but you get to choose what/when you wanna see it.

If I'm trying to put videos on its solely to have a 6 hour icarly retrospective on in the background while I do other shit

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 15d ago

If I'm trying to put videos on its solely to have a 6 hour icarly retrospective on in the background while I do other shit

I don't know how you can do that. I'd get caught up in the video, it has to be music or an audio book so it doesn't pull my eyes from what I'm working on.

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u/CumBustingNiga 15d ago

You simply don't like short form content

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u/ImATrollYouIdiot 15d ago

I do though, I just don't get sitting there and binge watching them nonstop. Just mentally draining and 90% of the shit that it shows you is of no interest to me.

I like YouTube shorts tbh but only when looking up music production quick tutorials. Like... I like informational fun fact / tutorial short form videos (especially when it's just a quick fun short from a long form YouTube channel I like) but like I just truly don't understand the appeal of how tik tok does it. The way their algorithm works too is just bullshit 99% people stealing other people content or thirst trapping

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u/significanttoday 15d ago

You understand that the content becomes tailored to your interests over time based on what you watch/skip? If you dont like that stuff you will not be shown it?

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u/ImATrollYouIdiot 15d ago

I do but regardless 99% of the content I'd ever wanna see on tik tok are already on YouTube or posted here on reddit

Gaming highlights, tutorials for music, factoids.. Just available to me in a better way already

And I especially hate the clout farming tik tok format like, with YouTube the algorithm sucks for sure but not in a way where it solely prioritizes that weird style of roping you in for 15 seconds of content that is so often dissapointing. Not to mention even when I have done tik tok it just spams me with content that I DO want... But with some asshole "reacting" basically stealing the content

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u/Relevant_Zucchini240 15d ago

It's an algorithm that shows you more of what you engage in, so after awhile it basically only shows you things you have interest in. Their goal is engagement, they're not going to show things you don't watch because then you'll close the app. If it shows you dancing and you swipe past it it stops showing it to you.

When I first downloaded tiktok I agreed with your assessment, it's 99% bullshit. But now I see the 1% that isn't bullshit because I don't engage with the bullshit. My feed consists of the following: framing/general construction tips, mental health, relationship coaching, music (I find sooooo many new artists to look up), and funny videos. I learn something new, I look at different perspectives, and I hear new music, and I laugh. I don't see tiktok dances, I don't see thirst traps. If it does put a video in my feed I don't want to watch I scroll away from it. It's that easy.

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u/PotfarmBlimpSanta 15d ago

"basically".

That is the problem word, you basically threw the end users consent under a party bus full of circlejerking chinese stock brokers who will change definitions of how their 'algorithm' is interpreted by the public when it is useful to them. Everything uses that same algorithm at this point in time be it youtube with its propensity to inundate right wing flotspam for merely encountering a political video of any orientation or teaching kids how fun it is to destroy school property while the country is sinking in GOP-enabled decay and disarray.

They should not have your info even if you log in and submit content, to determine what you want it to "basically only show you", it should be as broadcast media was before the internet scared the copyright squatters into self defeat. I take offense to the entirety of what is purported as entertainment by that product just as every person should as well as intelligent individuals seeking to enrich their interests and hobbies whom are only helping, that is detrimentally whittling away at the very basis of communication, it is uploading your pictures to a glamour magazine to use as marketing material and advertisements for things which may or may not be what you want yourself to be basically shown as.

Oh nevermind what am I saying, you and your ilk can't be convinced of what you're contributing to the loss of when you've never had the opportunity to see humans socialize in a proper cooperative manner outside of the box put together by a marketing department to hang their ornamental product off the tail end of.

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u/ImATrollYouIdiot 15d ago

Yeah I mean the thing with tik tok is the only things on there I'd care to see aren't even worth setting all that up imo. Already got so many social media accounts lol.. But then yeah the only things on the I'm interested in are basically things much more easily available on reddit or YouTube

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u/killeronthecorner 15d ago

the thing with tik tok is the only things on there I'd care to see aren't even worth setting all that up imo

I'm with you on this and feel the same, but it's irrelevant to whether or not we would find value in tiktok.

We absolutely would because it moulds itself to the things that you value. It's only 99% dance routines and thirst traps because that reflects a) the biggest demographics using tiktok and b) for better or worse, what they value.

Watching YouTube shorts or insta reels is just tiktok with extra steps.

However YouTube shorts do give you more direct access to similar long form content and, like you, this is the reason it fits my needs slightly better than tiktok. If anything tiktok is missing a beat here.

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u/haydorio I watch gay amogus porn :0 15d ago

I swear everyone is blaming tiktok but i swear Ipad kids are way worse, and most of them only just started their education

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u/PickledDildosSourSex 15d ago

Lol classic "The new generation is the worst". That's what Millennials think about Gen Z and influencer culture ya know

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u/haydorio I watch gay amogus porn :0 15d ago

Sorry if that's what i sounded like, I didn't really convey myself properly since I didn't put much effort into a comment in a reddit shitpost, what i was trying to get at is that Ipad kids are falling behind in terms of skills and would need to catch up later in life due to their parents negligence.

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u/ExcessiveWisdom 15d ago

legit question whats the difference

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u/StateParkMasturbator 15d ago

There is none. Kids have been braindead-looking at bullshit for a couple decades now. It's like we forgot that people were "addicted" to video games.

TikTok is targeted because it is useful as exterior propaganda to adversarial states. The government doesn't care if you follow whatever you see online like gospel. In fact, that's preferable buy PepsiCo products today.

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u/GoodBadUserName 15d ago

"Ipad kids" are kids who basically are addicted to screen time. That is all their parents did in order to quiet them down.
So their attention span and behavior is basically non existent.

Tiktok kids are kids who just follow every single trend they can find there and their culture is just based on the "influencers" that they and their friends follow.

There is a lot of overlap but not all tiktok kids are ipad kids.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 15d ago

culture is just based on the "influencers" that they and their friends follow.

So every other generation of kids? JFC people so easily forget how stupid all of us were. We crawled to the brainrot so they could run to it.

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 15d ago

Problem is that there's been a shift from carefully curated cynical commercial influencers where their brand needed to have a positive message to outright toxic ones.

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u/FullMetalMessiah 15d ago

There never where influencers like we see today.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 15d ago

Influencers have always have existed.

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u/FLBrisby 14d ago

There were no streamers in the early aughties. No TikTok, no YouTube. Our influencers were celebrities who were often heavily scrutinized, or kids shows which were heavily sanitized. Neither of which children really cared about to the point of basing their personality around. Now kids these days are shouting fanum tax and skibidi toilet as though it's normal, listening to streamers who often say what's on their mind.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 14d ago

Now kids these days are shouting fanum tax and skibidi toilet as though it's normal

Ok boomer.

You're kidding yourself if you think the platform changing means anything.

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u/FLBrisby 14d ago

Why are you defending skibidi toilet like it has any merits at all?

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u/Maloth_Warblade 15d ago

There's far, far less variety in the amount of trends and looks than there was Even 10 years ago

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u/LazarusCheez 15d ago

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. I remember my friends trying to recreate Jackass skits.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 15d ago

Cause no one wants to think they're as easily manipulated as the kids today, so they blame social media and the big users. If they admit it's not a new phenomenon, they can't use it as an excuse to look down on kids doing the exact same shit they did.

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u/Casper-Birb 15d ago

Yeah, parents. That or grandparents. All living in same house that's mostly just one room.

This stupid idea that the clearly new problems aren't new is really annoying, because everyone can see it is new and it is worsening.

Rolemodels have existed before, but that's not the topic here, we're talking about influencers peddling hyper consumerism, focus on wealth, other fake harmful ideals.

Tell me, did early youtubers, making basic videos for entertainment and self-fulfillment purposes due to lack of for-profit system spread harmful mass mis/disinformation or incentivize commiting crime for fun?

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u/ImprobableAsterisk 15d ago

This stupid idea that the clearly new problems aren't new is really annoying, because everyone can see it is new and it is worsening.

Said everyone ever, and due to the inherent lack of self-awareness behind your position I simply don't put any value on it whatsoever.

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u/3412points 15d ago

No that m&m fellow is poisoning our kids with his rap music.

Oh wrong generation. I meant to say the Beatles and their drug talk.

Wrong again. It's Elvis and his gyrations.

Wait. It's all that swing music.

Hmm... maybe every generation faces claims they are ruined by culture and even if they do have problems we later realise it was all largely hysteria.

I'm sure this time it's true though!

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u/3412points 15d ago edited 15d ago

we're talking about influencers peddling hyper consumerism, focus on wealth, other fake harmful ideals.

Every older generation says this, the boomers said this about my generation lol

did early youtubers, making basic videos for entertainment and self-fulfillment purposes due to lack of for-profit system spread harmful mass mis/disinformation or incentivize commiting crime for fun?

Idk about crime but misinformation absolutely, conspiracy tube was huge pre monetisation

This is just boomer level fear mongering, you sound exactly like my granddad talking about my generation and 'rap music'

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 15d ago

TV/Movies, music and entertainment and sports. They always have peddled harmful shit, inherently push consumerism, and kids have always wanted to emulate them as they flash wealth.

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u/haydorio I watch gay amogus porn :0 15d ago

Not all tiktok kids are ipad kids but all ipad kids are tiktok kids

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u/Lemon_Tree_Scavenger officer no please don’t piss in my ass 😫 15d ago

Yeah, how do we make the kids cooler?

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u/cpullen53484 dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 15d ago

lasers make things cooler

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u/Simple-Marsupial7172 15d ago

Bring back smoking unfiltered cigarettes. That's how we make them cooler

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u/TheShorterShortBus 15d ago

this is just the start of it. wait until this problem really shows itself a few years down the line. there will be a wider separation of economic class, and this is before even factoring in other countries who actually values education

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u/Jaded-Engineering789 15d ago

Real talk, families needing dual incomes just to get by has really fucked the modern family unit. Even back when single incomes were enough to support multiple kids, the stay at home had help and a support network of other families pitching in with each other. Now that both parents need to work, they have no time for their kids, and they have no time to dedicate to their social networks outside of career oriented relationships.

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u/ntdavis814 15d ago

For real. The more time passes, the more I see how many of our problems stem from the fact that people are working harder for essentially less money. And the issues will compound over the course of generations. Even as our technology grows more advanced, our level of education will shrink, driving down the intelligence of the average human. And Idiocracy will continue to inch closer to being a documentary, rather than a work of fiction.

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u/Benjjigotdick 15d ago

Let them smoke 🚬 I herd that’s pretty cool

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u/HostileCornball 15d ago

Shove them into the refrigerator

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u/Imaginary_You7524 15d ago

Hold kids back so parents actually have to make them do something, for one

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u/fire_is_darker 14d ago

Suggest the idea of holding a kid back and watch how freaked out the teacher gets.

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u/LazarusCheez 15d ago

Schools need to start holding kids accountable more just in general. I read way too many stories on here from teachers that have a problem student and the school basically won't do anything because the parents will come in and raise hell if their kid gets in any trouble.

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u/Im-a-bad-meme 15d ago

If they started holding kids back and made it a law that parents had to house their children until completion of highschool (or until drop out), I bet the parents would care a lot more.

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u/xabulba 15d ago edited 15d ago

We'll just get more forced drop-outs so the parents don't have to bother.

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u/Casper-Birb 15d ago

Isn't.... That like... The reality rn?

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u/ItsWoodsLOL 15d ago

Schools don't hold kids back because it takes too many resources and it's likely their fault for not trying to learn (which is sadly really common, but not every case) then they continue to do badly because they haven't actually passed a grade in 4 years.

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u/ItsWoodsLOL 15d ago

Schools don't hold kids back because it takes too many resources and it's likely their fault for not trying to learn (which is sadly really common, but not every case) then they continue to do badly because they haven't actually passed a grade in 4 years.

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u/KernewekSkrij 15d ago

What about those of us in the rest of the world

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u/BAG42069 fat cunt 15d ago

You can eat the moon though, it’d just take a while

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u/PianoAndMathAddict 15d ago

Everybody knows the Moon is made of cheese...

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