Why the fuck is TikTok a thing?

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The mass participation in trendy content seems to be the main selling point. Lack of originality isn't a problem for people. You see it all the time on social media, as soon as a popular meme appears, everyone immediately has to flock to post every iteration of it possible, regardless of whether it's funny or adds anything to the original idea, so that it ends up unfunny and thoroughly exhausted of lulz within a few hours. Tiktok is a distillation of this impulse, designed to provide the most audio-sensory stimulation and to appeal to the shortest attention spans possible.
 
I still find it incredible that people I know keep sending me TikTok links, despite the fact I tell them I refuse to use it or I can't see the video (The latter being a total lie, I can see it fine, but I have no intention of even engaging with that mind-numbing bullshit), yet they persist and keep bombarding me with this trash.

And the same people every time we meet up:

"Have you got TikTok?".
"lol no"
"Oh you totally should"

On New Years Day I had guests and they just sat in my living room watching TikTok for hours until they got drunk enough to be bothered to engage in conversation - And these are people in their 30s. Unreal.
 
Really the question I have with this thread is what is with this trend of internet things that are an existing thing, just with artificial limits imposed, becoming massively popular?

Twitter for example, its a blog service but with an extreme wordcount cap. Why would you use it instead of Livejournal or Wordpress (assuming they hadn't gone to shit)? But apparently people do.

Tiktok is basically the same deal as Twitter, except for video hosting. Arguably it has more justification because Muh Youtube Algorithm but still, its Youtube but you can only post short pointless videos. And yet people love it so much Youtube had to develop "Shorts" to compete with it.

Like what's next, a file downloader that always stops after downloading just ten percent of each file? (Actually that describes Netscape Navigator so nevermind)
 
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skykiii dijo:
Really the question I have with this thread is what is with this trend of internet things that are an existing thing, just with artificial limits imposed, becoming massively popular?

Twitter for example, its a blog service but with an extreme wordcount cap. Why would you use it instead of Livejournal or Wordpress (assuming they hadn't gone to shit)? But apparently people do.

Tiktok is basically the same deal as Twitter, except for video hosting. Arguably it has more justification because Muh Youtube Algorithm but still, its Youtube but you can only post short pointless videos. And yet people love it so much Youtube had to develop "Shorts" to compete with it.

Like what's next, a file downloader that always stops after downloading just ten percent of each file? (Actually that describes Netscape Navigator so nevermind)
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Because normalfags are fucking retarded and driven by social trends to do stupid shit. It's why plankong and other retarded trends were a thing for like a month in 2011 and this shit hasn't stopped since 2011. In fact, it has gotten worse. Also, while I'm at it, is there anyway to talk to Null. I need to talk to him about my old account @Tomboy Respecter and need some help getting it back.
 
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Becau

Because normalfags are fucking retarded and driven by social trends to do stupid shit. It's why plankong and other retarded trends were a thing for like a month in 2011 and this shit hasn't stopped since 2011. In fact, it has gotten worse. Also, while I'm at it, is there anyway to talk to Null. I need to talk to him about my old account @Tomboy Respecter and need some help getting it back.
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Is there a way to prove you actually own that account? Why is the normal route password reset not working for you?
 
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Is there a way to prove you actually own that account? Why is the normal route password reset not working for you?
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I can kinda prove it. I know the email associated with it and the password. Problem is that that was a throwaway lolcow email (I started my account way before trannies started DDOSing this site and never thought to use an email service that I would actually keep track of. That and it's been 3 or 4 years so I have no fucking clue what the email's password is at all).
 
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I can kinda prove it. I know the email associated with it and the password. Problem is that that was a throwaway lolcow email (I started my account way before trannies started DDOSing this site and never thought to use an email service that I would actually keep track of. That and it's been 3 or 4 years so I have no fucking clue what the email's password is at all).
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How did you get the account back during The Great Reset(TM)?
 
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How did you get the account back during The Great Reset(TM)?
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I didn't. I can log in but I can't do anything since the account is locked and it's sending that email to the old lolcow email I don't have the password to to unlock it. I want to change my old email to the one for this account so I can log into my old account. I'll even delete this account if that can be made to happen. I don't like shitting up forums with alt accounts, but I've been trying to get this solved ever since that stupid leaf troon ruined everything. My contempt for transexuals has grown exponentially since that day and it wasn't anything to scoff at before.
 
I've had a discussion with someone who is ex-military (high rank) about TikTok and essentially the answer I got is this.

It's a Chinese propaganda weapon that's algorithm has been so finely tuned that it essentially creates an endless feedback loop of feeding our own propaganda (i.e. shit) back to us. The Chinese are well aware how damaging and demoralizing of a tool it can be in making us dumber and making us eat up more of our self-destructive propaganda.

At some point our government did attempt to reverse weaponize it in the same way, but it backfired fucking hard to the point they flat out cannot control it. This is why every so often you find more and more politicians rallying for it to be banned outright, because the US isn't the one controlling it.


Obviously take this all with a grain of salt, I'm just dropping the "theory" I have available to me for the sake of getting it out there.
 
The tactic for China to enslave the world is to offer the people overseas with Dopamine. It's much easier than nuking everything and it works with India being the only country banning the platform.
 
Its sad that all I see is ebegging or stale memes that I first saw about 10 years ago or le epic prank vidz

And thats what other people have forcefully exposed to me from that shithole
 
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