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Rollos
Aug 11, 2007

Hold on, won't be long
I read someone describe TikTok as a platform for uncreative people to feel creative and that made it make more sense to me.

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nullEntityRNG
Jun 23, 2010

Mostly pseudo-random.
Can I instead complain about the source of your article and how its just citing cloudflare's metrics on dns hits for tiktok and means absolutely nothing?

(In fact its been 1st 6 times in the last 3 months)

Ooh I should make a tiktok about it!

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
I know a few people who use TikTok. They bounce between loving it and hating it. They tried to show me some videos and it just didn't interest me. I don't really care for soundbites of 10-30 seconds or whatever, I'm either gonna read shitposts at my leisure or watch a longer form video on something I specifically find interesting.

The idea of being spoon fed a bunch of clips one after another for eternity is weird. People showing me the videos couldn't help but ask me to look at each one and after the third 12 second video I was like "yeah nah, sorry, this is actually pretty tedious".

Also every time someone talks about getting their video from "left-Tok" or "queer-Tok" or "food-Tok" I laugh at them. I've asked them to explain it to me even tho I know what they mean, and when they're slowly explaining that the app just tailors what they want to feed them a continuous stream of the same poo poo they start getting embarrassed. When you have to admit you consume the same media over and over out loud to people who don't care about it you tend to feel like an idiot.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

BING BONG


gently caress YA LIFE

Ashmole
Oct 5, 2008

This wish was granted by Former DILF
Well I saw a TikTok of this girl answering questions about her kid with birth defects while dancing over the kid sitting in a little incubator thing. That's one of those TikToks that makes me agree with op

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

as long as i can say MY WIFE!!!!!

maybe the kids wont get it

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN SALE
Nov 5, 2017

The icing on the cake is using papabless unironically in the hashtags

Szyznyk
Mar 4, 2008

I just use YouTube Shorts to get videos of a Korean woman throwing sandals at her husband.

Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



I don't til tok but if I did I'd..

https://youtube.com/shorts/d2B_vJXIm0c?feature=share

Jimlit fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Dec 29, 2021

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Rollos posted:

I read someone describe TikTok as a platform for uncreative people to feel creative and that made it make more sense to me.

Holy poo poo, with some exceptions (people actually putting up some original and interesting content), wow this is accurate.

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


there's actually loads the cool stuff on tiktok. the problem is sifting through the shite, which there is much more of


what i'm saying is that as per usual, the problem is actually people suck

The Bramble
Mar 16, 2004

In 10 years this thread is going to be proof that millennials are just as out of touch and curmudgeonly as we claim boomers and Xer's are.

TikTok is great.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

The Bramble posted:

In 10 years this thread is going to be proof that millennials are just as out of touch and curmudgeonly as we claim boomers and Xer's are.

TikTok is great.

Attention youths! Official cool guy tiktok liker spotted!

ElectricSheep
Jan 14, 2006

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
y'all mad about tiktok yet ignore the one true scourge of social media that is boomerang

Prism Mirror Lens
Oct 9, 2012

~*"The most intelligent and meaning-rich film he could think of was Shaun of the Dead, I don't think either brain is going to absorb anything you post."*~




:chord:
the berries and cream meme phase was very funny to me but then it turned into astroturfing

Anyway generally tiktok just shows me animals and nice gay couples with houseplants, what’s so horrifying about that you BIGOT

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Picnic Princess posted:

BING BONG


gently caress YA LIFE


Are these the hot new apps?

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009
I've seen some TikToks that are funny and/or amusing.

But I also read these stories of people doing cruel and hosed up things to friends and family for a TikTok joke and find that disturbing. IMO, it's not TikTok that is specifically to blame, but doing bad things to people you know for the amusement of the internet is very bad and we shouldn't do that.

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
While the revolution will probably not be televised, it might be tik-toked

500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

syntaxfunction posted:

I know a few people who use TikTok. They bounce between loving it and hating it. They tried to show me some videos and it just didn't interest me. I don't really care for soundbites of 10-30 seconds or whatever, I'm either gonna read shitposts at my leisure or watch a longer form video on something I specifically find interesting.

The idea of being spoon fed a bunch of clips one after another for eternity is weird. People showing me the videos couldn't help but ask me to look at each one and after the third 12 second video I was like "yeah nah, sorry, this is actually pretty tedious".

Also every time someone talks about getting their video from "left-Tok" or "queer-Tok" or "food-Tok" I laugh at them. I've asked them to explain it to me even tho I know what they mean, and when they're slowly explaining that the app just tailors what they want to feed them a continuous stream of the same poo poo they start getting embarrassed. When you have to admit you consume the same media over and over out loud to people who don't care about it you tend to feel like an idiot.

Is the weed community called tik-toke

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7046481293990907183

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

I don't use it and I'm not going to

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
Lol if you think that’s the internet’s final form. Bro there’s at least three phase changes left and you ain’t gonna like em.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Infrared drone spy footage is gonna be SWANK

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

#crack #crackcocaine #rock # smokingrocks #base #wethair

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Bags Fly at Noon posted:

Lol if you think that’s the internet’s final form. Bro there’s at least three phase changes left and you ain’t gonna like em.

Yeah we are just finally getting headsets we can jack into the web with. Hilarious and scary William Gibson is the most right author about the future.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000

I LITERALLY SLEEP IN A RACING CAR. DO YOU?
p.s. ask me about my subscription mattress
Ultra Carp

WhyZodiac posted:


Have you ever used it?


No

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM
tiktok is if harlem shake were turned into an app

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Internet made y'all stupid

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...


I enjoy a lot of different kinds of pizza, but goddamn, he's dancing around two of the most unappealing-looking pizzas I've ever seen.

Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry
my girlfriend had a video go viral on tiktok this summer and i asked her which video "tik took off" and she didn't laugh 0/5 garbage app.

satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

It's an app where the computer decides what you watch instead of doing that boring poo poo where you look up some ideas of what to watch and/or make decisions in any way besides swiping yes or no, except there isn't porn on it.

Once they can do this but for food I'll be set for life.

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

Why go outside and enjoy life when you can stare at your phone screen all day long?

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Rollos posted:

I read someone describe TikTok as a platform for uncreative people to feel creative and that made it make more sense to me.

lol

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
The genre of women dancing and pointing at blocks of text that describe their purported crippling mental illnesses or some nonsense about the realities of being a mom is the most annoying thing to become popular in a year chock-a-block with annoying things

Also anyone that does Tiktok pranks or "challenges" should be assessed by some kind of professional

a peck of pickled peckers
Aug 3, 2014

I am your Redeemer! It is by my hand that you arise from the ashes of this world!

Kirk Vikernes posted:

Why go outside and enjoy life when you can stare at your phone screen all day long?

*Looks back at 2020, 2021, and the dread future of 2022*

Lmao yeah I’m just gonna be over here enjoying life! Hakuna Matata!

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
I LOVE BIG TIKTOK TITTIES!!! :D

roomtone
Jul 1, 2021

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 27 days!)

The Bramble posted:

In 10 years this thread is going to be proof that millennials are just as out of touch and curmudgeonly as we claim boomers and Xer's are.

Nah. I was on youtube, facebook, forums etc from my preteens onwards and I recognise now that a lot of it is really bad for you mentally. I've cut back on a lot of it, or tried to switch to less harmful forms (unsuccessfully so far, i spend way too much time on here now). I don't use twitter at all even though I could easily have gotten sucked into that as a teenager because the brain assault of that place is so obvious even I can manage to stay out of it.

Some things just aren't good for you and just because kids love it doesn't mean it's progress. These are products where life-consuming addiction is their goal.

hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

100% DOG LOVER
ALL DOGS LOVED, ALL THE TIME

Chinatown posted:

I LOVE BIG TIKTOK TITTIES!!! :D

yup, this

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Chinatown posted:

I LOVE BIG TIKTOK TITTIES!!! :D

Post your favorite tiktok titties itt.

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mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.
Youtube shorts get me sometimes. My preschooler son steals my phone, and he'll start humming that EDM song with the pallbearers dancing with a coffin. It's hard keeping garbage out of his brain.

Rollos posted:

I read someone describe TikTok as a platform for uncreative people to feel creative and that made it make more sense to me.

:stare: Fuckin' nailed it.

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