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?
OP you might not understand just how deeply the shit goes. My 2 year old will only sit still if shes got my phone for YouTube shorts. Its bizarre.
https://youtube.com/shorts/zQ7fSDxwOCM
I just opened youtube, clicked the first shorts and scrolled once to bring you this. Since the algorithm learns what you watch and what you skip and shit like that, my entire feed is riddled.
Edit to add : https://youtube.com/shorts/pJB0qzS7Q_k scrolled again, this was next up. When people talk shit on here because someone made an AI picture and “nice waste of energy bro” and “u suck AI slop” etc, I always think of that simpsons bit
If you didn’t like it you’d be on Rednote. You love the slop. You’re no better
People will just stop watching after a while. It’s all “the sky is falling” (it’s not) or “Wolf” (there is no wolf) and not much else. Anything good or interesting will eventually bubble over to other platforms or not be seen at all.
You’re getting old :) i long ago stopped wondering.
The adults?? :) …well, arrested development and the infantalisation of western culture.
That’s like saying “I read a book once that I didn’t like, so all books are shit”
Tiktok is like all other streams - there’s a huge variety of content and it includes a lot of good and innovative creators. Yes, there’s a lot of utter shite, just lke reddit, facebook and even Lemmy.
But there’s also people who spend time making something good, sharing interesting things about their day and teaching what they know.
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.
I understand having a dislike for a medium that encourages shallow, gimmicky, reactive content
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.
I am a visual person. Regardless of platform the uniform delivery style of all videos and shorts is tired. The tropes, the doing it for likes, monetisation, the monotone voice. There is little originality or genuine creativity to it. It could be good but the cycle of garbage combined with the self juicing algorithm makes it really irritating.
Is normal, i would be pissed by a vertically video or photo
kids are growing up watching this trash for 8 hours a day
I remember my parents saying this exact phrase about Saturday morning cartoons in the early 90s. They became glued to Fox News the very same decade. Interestingly, (some) cartoons today have diversity, inclusion, and complex character growth. Others are made by PragerU.
These modern portfolios will also diversify. Teach your kids media literacy and critical thinking to ensure they can find their way. It starts with YOU reviewing these concepts today. Your ability to notice the problem will not protect you.
“Teach your kids critical thinking and media literacy”?
I guess Id best go learn that myself, then
Sir, this is a Lemmys.
*Fuck, *ass, *shit
No corporate censorship here.
You can’t say the fuck word here, this is a CHRISTIAN lemmy server
Fr though I don’t get how adults don’t get embarrassed when they censor their own curse words. Either say the fucken word or pick another word; asterisks are for wimps and children
This is your contribution? How about you respond to the question instead of being a soyboy that he chose not to curse. Maybe he is considering not everyone is an adult on the platform. Maybe he wants to stop cursing and is phasing it out of his life through small efforts. Imagine calling someone a wimp for not cursing but you get triggered and emotionally outraged like a LITTLE PUSSY removed that they don’t. Wouldn’t you be the wimp?
But they DID curse. Did those asterisks magically remove all meaning from those words, or were you still perfectly able to understand their meaning? If it’s the latter, then the asterisks accomplished nothing.
If they truly wanted to avoid cursing, those words wouldn’t be there at all. Self-censoring like they did is what needs to be done on some platforms to still curse, but bypass content filters. That isn’t necessary here, so it’s just performative. If you’re going to curse, just fucking do it.
I’ve never saw someone triggered over cursing or not cursing or asterisk. Take for example a redact; a black bar over a nude person on TV. Sure you know what it’s covering but it still adds some decency to the scene. Your imagination can fill in the blanks but you will never see what’s under the bar directly. We’d be better off if we didn’t curse honestly. It takes effort to restrain oneself, real power.
Does it really add decency??? One of my favourite shows, Arrested Development, uses bleeps over swear words as pure comedy; the black bars are similar to me, they draw attention to the oddity rather than just call it what it is.
Nudity in general is fuckin silly, people should know about their bodies, everyone knows what a naked human looks like from looking at themselves, censoring non-pornographic nudity is stupid and only serves to intrigue and create mystique where it should simply inform and demystify.
Yes, we have a lot of wonderful adjectives in English. Swear, and be profane, for fun and profit. If you don’t want to use The Vulgar Tongue, then lean on the lexicon.
The black bar really adds no decency, it’s performative and viewed by many as a form of hypocrisy.
Since this is a textual medium run with adult behavioural standards, the rule that infantilizes profanity with absurd fucking censorship is cringeworthy and likely to be mocked or pilloried.
While I agree with everything else you said, I would like to specifically respond to the following part:
Maybe he is considering not everyone is an adult on the platform.
God forbid a child hears the words “shit”, “ass”, or “fuck”. 1) That’s not the end of the world, no matter what conservative parents groups would like people to think, and 2) I guarantee you that 99.999% of children have heard at least 2 out of 3 of those words from television, movies, and elsewhere on the Internet. It’s a word, nothing more, and not that big of a deal.
Again, though, I would like to repeat that I agree with what else you said. I just wanted to respond to this particular part.
Have a great day!
Words are words. So don’t complain if they are or aren’t used I suppose and focus on the actual topic that was posted
LITTLE PUSSY removed
Ahem, sorry what was that? You cut out there for a sec
I’m a man of culture 🧔♂️
Its so bad, even parents and older people have been hooked on reels. Its destructive to attention spans.
You can say bad words it’s okay
There is a mind-blowing amount of variety on both TikTok and YouTube. Just because these “someones” to which you refer are posting brainrot garbage doesn’t mean the entire platform is like that.
It’s like the rest of the internet, a mirror of its users. Of course, the “worst” type of content gets the most views and people are encouraged to make that kind of videos to get more clout and attention.
What I dislike the most is that these platforms are constantly bidding for your attention and if you have any sort of problems with focus or attention… Well 💀 there goes the rest of your day. It’s ADHD kryptonite. And children are the most suceptible to it.
I’m not a TikTok user, but I’ve been shown some very funny clips on there. I think there is some good content and creativity happening on there. But I think the constant scrolling through short clips is doubtlessly terrible for people’s minds. Not to mention the algorithmic control, limits on speech, etc.
why are you getting angry at low quality content on reddit of all places?
Someone put shit in my cesspit!
