Tiktok only makes these things worse. Just look at the fucking insane cringe compilations. All of them do the thing when they take some shitty bass boosted music and twitch and flop around like they are totally spastic.
Or when they talk about their headmates and such. They all have separate makeup looks and clothes and everything for all of them. Which looks fine in a video where they cut from one to the other. But in real life, imagine that bullshit, washing off your whole face, redoing it from zero, etc. Makeup is also expensive, who the fuck does a complete redo 5 times a day?
Fuck TikTok right in the ass. My gym has been overrun with people making TikTok reels. They spend more time doing that shit than they do working out. A lot of the girls will change multiple times during workouts or take videos over and over with their hair in different styles. One guy even cleared out a section of the weight room so he could do a Thanos dissapears scene. And this is a very hardcore gym. I can’t imagine what it’s like at the corporate gyms. I guess people are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to but that shit is so retarded it’s retarded.
We know that gambling is addictive, even though games of chance aren't literally injecting chemicals into your body. The lights, the sounds, and the feelings all work hand in hand to get your brain to develop those chemicals instead.
And, to suit, slot machine manufacturers hire psychologists and use tuned sensory input to keep gamblers gambling. It's no secret.
Whether intentionally or not, systems like TikTok easily replicate this effect to keep people switching back and scrolling all day.
Yet people know better than to let kids into casinos, but they'll stick them with a tablet with TikTok.
That old dopamine hit; whether you get it through a drug, wins, or praise, it's the same "high". And you can lead any creature by the nose if you know how to induce and (ab)use it just right.
The same goes for those mobile games. Or, I guess, any video game. You do something, you get your reward. This makes you happy, and you want to do it again.
See: South Park: Freemium isn't Free
American Dad: Salute your Sllort (Klaus' B-story, where he gets addicted to a clicker). Yes, ironic, I know, but they both deal with this shit in their own absurdist ways. They know what they're doing.
Tiktok only makes these things worse. Just look at the fucking insane cringe compilations. All of them do the thing when they take some shitty bass boosted music and twitch and flop around like they are totally spastic.
Or when they talk about their headmates and such. They all have separate makeup looks and clothes and everything for all of them. Which looks fine in a video where they cut from one to the other. But in real life, imagine that bullshit, washing off your whole face, redoing it from zero, etc. Makeup is also expensive, who the fuck does a complete redo 5 times a day?
They have no identity beyond product consumption.
Fuck TikTok right in the ass. My gym has been overrun with people making TikTok reels. They spend more time doing that shit than they do working out. A lot of the girls will change multiple times during workouts or take videos over and over with their hair in different styles. One guy even cleared out a section of the weight room so he could do a Thanos dissapears scene. And this is a very hardcore gym. I can’t imagine what it’s like at the corporate gyms. I guess people are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to but that shit is so retarded it’s retarded.
We know that gambling is addictive, even though games of chance aren't literally injecting chemicals into your body. The lights, the sounds, and the feelings all work hand in hand to get your brain to develop those chemicals instead.
And, to suit, slot machine manufacturers hire psychologists and use tuned sensory input to keep gamblers gambling. It's no secret.
Whether intentionally or not, systems like TikTok easily replicate this effect to keep people switching back and scrolling all day.
Yet people know better than to let kids into casinos, but they'll stick them with a tablet with TikTok.
That old dopamine hit; whether you get it through a drug, wins, or praise, it's the same "high". And you can lead any creature by the nose if you know how to induce and (ab)use it just right.
The same goes for those mobile games. Or, I guess, any video game. You do something, you get your reward. This makes you happy, and you want to do it again.
See: South Park: Freemium isn't Free American Dad: Salute your Sllort (Klaus' B-story, where he gets addicted to a clicker). Yes, ironic, I know, but they both deal with this shit in their own absurdist ways. They know what they're doing.