Every single time someone posts some random Tik Tok or Youtube short style video on Reddit… My blood instantly boils.
I don’t even know how to describe it, everything from the Editing, the stupid a*** click bait thumbnail, their tone… Literally all of it is just diarrhea of the mind 😣
Why is this s**** so popular? And kids are growing up watching this trash for 8 hours a day? The hell does that do to someone’s personality? Their psychological health?
How do ADULTS watch that crap non stop. How are they not embarrassed?
I understand having a dislike for a medium that encourages shallow, gimmicky, reactive content. I would put short form video and micro blogging (Twitter, etc) in the same category. I wouldn’t say “its all shit, why does it exist”, etc. But I know I’m not going to find much of my interest so I avoid it.
But then Reddit (and even Lemmy) get flooded by people just copying over that shit comment from other platforms. I understand the frustration of not really having any good way to avoid the trash.
That’s all social media.
And Reddit has a huge amount of reposting/karmafarming bots as well as a lot of political/troll botfarms targetting it, and a lot of human trolls. And if you don’t have an adblocker, a sometimes miserable user experience. But Reddit also has the biggest userbase by a huge factor, a lot of really interesting subs with some really good content and people.
You can find positives and negatives about any platform or, really, anything anywhere. At least with social media platforms we have a choice as to whether we engage or not. That’s how you avoid the trash if you think the pool is full of shit - don’t swim in it.
Honestly, if someone genuinely believes “everything is shit” then maybe the problem is with them.