What Are You Doing Right Now? (184 Viewers)

[s4tch]

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TikTok
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Dafuq am I missing, or is this really just it?

you're clearly not 14

i mean i have a colleague, and her 14 year old daughter told me about tiktok a couple of months ago. she's a dancer, she goes to a special dance school and stuff. they share moves with her mates on a daily basis, and they are checking the famous tiktok dancers' moves too. they stopped using fb, never used twitter, rarely post on insta, it's tiktok for them. the other, non dance-related stuff for her is just entertainment: short (completely in sync with that generation's attention span), funny (for them), won't do harm.

i heard that youtube shorts were fun too. they can be if you avoid shit coming from tiktok. my woodworker/handtool channels can have nice tips in the shorts, the other stuff is just meh like you described. it's not for us, it's for the younger generations. never installed tiktok, never will (or not before my son gets his own phone at least). i enjoy longer contents more. i'm prolly too boomer for tiktok.

 

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[lgorTudor]

So, I need someone to explain something to me.

TikTok

I mean, wtf?

Look, I survived Vine and thought that was just a more amateur version of America's Funniest Home Videos, with the benefit of it being over in 6 seconds to limit the agony. Grandma fell down the stairs. Heeelarious. A dog licks its balls in a wedding. Hooheehaaa. I get it.

But TikTok? I mean, I've long heard all about their great AI selection algorithm and the "creator economy" bursting at the seams there. But as many times as I have tried hard to find anything redeemable on it, I just feel like Jamal on Slumdog Millionaire when he escapes through the gigantic sh*thole toilet. Everything is revolting and leaves me feeling covered in excrement.

There's the videos of people in showers showing off the different brands of shampoo they use. WTF is that??

There's the thirsty white whores shaking their C-grade strip club T&A for the camera in a dance to some vomit-worthy song.

The sassy black women who can't stop looking at themselves and pointing fingers at you.

The psychotic wannabe docu buffs who replay videos of historical human atrocities and disasters.

Weird false color images of girls making dumb faces covered in sparkles.

The occasional chicks walking around with filters of Japanese manga characters.

Jason Derulo attempting bad comedy.

Insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different results, but I've finally and really given this a try over the past month or so. And out of about 300 TikToks that I was compelled to click "Not Interested" -- as in, "please don't show this crap to me ever again" -- I maybe let 5 slide. It's that horrifyingly bad.

Dafuq am I missing, or is this really just it?

It's funny how you always notice the dots but can't connect them to save your life.

 

[ALC]

So, I need someone to explain something to me.

TikTok

I mean, wtf?

Look, I survived Vine and thought that was just a more amateur version of America's Funniest Home Videos, with the benefit of it being over in 6 seconds to limit the agony. Grandma fell down the stairs. Heeelarious. A dog licks its balls in a wedding. Hooheehaaa. I get it.

But TikTok? I mean, I've long heard all about their great AI selection algorithm and the "creator economy" bursting at the seams there. But as many times as I have tried hard to find anything redeemable on it, I just feel like Jamal on Slumdog Millionaire when he escapes through the gigantic sh*thole toilet. Everything is revolting and leaves me feeling covered in excrement.

There's the videos of people in showers showing off the different brands of shampoo they use. WTF is that??

There's the thirsty white whores shaking their C-grade strip club T&A for the camera in a dance to some vomit-worthy song.

The sassy black women who can't stop looking at themselves and pointing fingers at you.

The psychotic wannabe docu buffs who replay videos of historical human atrocities and disasters.

Weird false color images of girls making dumb faces covered in sparkles.

The occasional chicks walking around with filters of Japanese manga characters.

Jason Derulo attempting bad comedy.

Insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different results, but I've finally and really given this a try over the past month or so. And out of about 300 TikToks that I was compelled to click "Not Interested" -- as in, "please don't show this crap to me ever again" -- I maybe let 5 slide. It's that horrifyingly bad.

Dafuq am I missing, or is this really just it?

there’s specialized DIY stuff for things like construction, home improvement etc. there’s also recipes if you’re into cooking. Car stuff if you’re into that.

there are a lot of niche channels you can find if you dig deep.

most people use it for the hot chicks tho

 

[DAiDEViL]

you're clearly not 14

i mean i have a colleague, and her 14 year old daughter told me about tiktok a couple of months ago. she's a dancer, she goes to a special dance school and stuff. they share moves with her mates on a daily basis, and they are checking the famous tiktok dancers' moves too. they stopped using fb, never used twitter, rarely post on insta, it's tiktok for them. the other, non dance-related stuff for her is just entertainment: short (completely in sync with that generation's attention span), funny (for them), won't do harm.

i heard that youtube shorts were fun too. they can be if you avoid shit coming from tiktok. my woodworker/handtool channels can have nice tips in the shorts, the other stuff is just meh like you described. it's not for us, it's for the younger generations. never installed tiktok, never will (or not before my son gets his own phone at least). i enjoy longer contents more. i'm prolly too boomer for tiktok.

Oh really?!! Installing it right NOW!

Just kidding. Never.

Insta is already cringe enough.
My explore page (which I rarely click on) is full of Racoons and I have no fucking idea why. Never clicked on any of them

 

[ALC]

I love it in theory, always loved trains. Travelled to Italy, Holland and Spain as a kid, also often up North to Hamburg or so

but they'll make it impractical, expensive and overall shitty

80€ - I can fly to Turin
120€ or so train ticket

weird experience. I took a train from Munich to Innsbruck, was like 12 euros and wonderful ride at 4 am in the morning

I guess the distance is really short there, from northern Germany to Turin it would take quite a bit longer

 

[swag]

you're clearly not 14

i mean i have a colleague, and her 14 year old daughter told me about tiktok a couple of months ago. she's a dancer, she goes to a special dance school and stuff. they share moves with her mates on a daily basis, and they are checking the famous tiktok dancers' moves too. they stopped using fb, never used twitter, rarely post on insta, it's tiktok for them. the other, non dance-related stuff for her is just entertainment: short (completely in sync with that generation's attention span), funny (for them), won't do harm.

i heard that youtube shorts were fun too. they can be if you avoid shit coming from tiktok. my woodworker/handtool channels can have nice tips in the shorts, the other stuff is just meh like you described. it's not for us, it's for the younger generations. never installed tiktok, never will (or not before my son gets his own phone at least). i enjoy longer contents more. i'm prolly too boomer for tiktok.

Yeah, I get that. But maybe I honestly don't remember being 14. Because while I agree with them that FB and Twitter and a rare Insta thing are irrelevant to them, and I agree I was into some questionable crap at age 14, do 14-year-olds honestly call that worth their time?

I just come away thinking, "Those are five minutes of my life I will never get back".

If that's the case, Gen Z and AA are screwed. Let's just end the planet now and do the universe a favor.

It's funny how you always notice the dots but can't connect them to save your life.

So this is a Q thing...

 

[swag]

there’s specialized DIY stuff for things like construction, home improvement etc. there’s also recipes if you’re into cooking. Car stuff if you’re into that.

there are a lot of niche channels you can find if you dig deep.

most people use it for the hot chicks tho

Around Lisbon I do see a lot of girls pairing up in front of office buildings with reflective windows to turn on their beat box and record their dance routines. Clearly it's for the Tok.

 

[ALC]

Yeah, I get that. But maybe I honestly don't remember being 14. Because while I agree with them that FB and Twitter and a rare Insta thing are irrelevant to them, and I agree I was into some questionable crap at age 14, do 14-year-olds honestly call that worth their time?

I just come away thinking, "Those are five minutes of my life I will never get back".

If that's the case, Gen Z and AA are screwed. Let's just end the planet now and do the universe a favor.



So this is a Q thing...

meh, I bet people said that when comic books first came out, when tv first came out and also when video games first came out.

it’s just an entertainment fad and people move on to other things after some time.

 

[s4tch]

If that's the case, Gen Z and AA are screwed. Let's just end the planet now and do the universe a favor...

yeah, kids watching short videos are hopeless. when i was 14 we used our sperm to stick metallica posters on the wall of our dormitory room. that was some quality fun, not tiktok.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

If that's the case, Gen Z and AA are screwed. Let's just end the planet now and do the universe a favor.

Rather, i hope i live long enough to see the visigoths breach the gates and rain terror on this estrogeneration(coined), now that's entertainment.

 

[Siamak]

once in the late '90s we got lucky with my father. we saw a guy standing on the bridge over the highway with something big in his hands. the guy aimed that thing (a full size car battery) on the car coming after us, the driver could barely avoid that shit. the story was in the news for a while, and apparently the same guy managed to hit a couple of vehicles before getting caught. i still check bridges over the highway every single time ever since.

When you're a kid, you don't really catch the adult innuendo like you do when you're an adult.

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yeah, kids watching short videos are hopeless. when i was 14 we used our sperm to stick metallica posters on the wall of our dormitory room. that was some quality fun, not tiktok.

For kids born in the early 80's, doing this such things was an absolute masterpiece.

 

[Hængebøffer]

My evening:

 

[swag]

Costanza makes a very nice Barolo.

 

[swag]

You know, if I ever posted something to TikTok, I think it would be this:

 

[IliveForJuve]

Going back to the third world as we speak.

Cry.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Going back to the third world as we speak.

Cry.

Why?

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you're clearly not 14

i mean i have a colleague, and her 14 year old daughter told me about tiktok a couple of months ago. she's a dancer, she goes to a special dance school and stuff. they share moves with her mates on a daily basis, and they are checking the famous tiktok dancers' moves too. they stopped using fb, never used twitter, rarely post on insta, it's tiktok for them. the other, non dance-related stuff for her is just entertainment: short (completely in sync with that generation's attention span), funny (for them), won't do harm.

i heard that youtube shorts were fun too. they can be if you avoid shit coming from tiktok. my woodworker/handtool channels can have nice tips in the shorts, the other stuff is just meh like you described. it's not for us, it's for the younger generations. never installed tiktok, never will (or not before my son gets his own phone at least). i enjoy longer contents more. i'm prolly too boomer for tiktok.

I thank God every day that social media didn't exist to forever record whatever cringe bullshit I was into at the time. Reading old Facebook statuses from 2010 already sends me into convulsions.

 

[DAiDEViL]

Why?

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I thank God every day that social media didn't exist to forever record whatever cringe bullshit I was into at the time. Reading old Facebook statuses from 2010 already sends me into convulsions.

Before Facebook there was Myspace.

How old are you?

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Before Facebook there was Myspace.

How old are you?

30, but I hated Myspace. And then I don't know of a single person to ever use Friendster.

 

[ALC]

30, but I hated Myspace. And then I don't know of a single person to ever use Friendster.

people our age only used MySpace for a couple years, Facebook hit while we were in early high school so we adopted into it pretty quickly

 

[DAiDEViL]

people our age only used MySpace for a couple years, Facebook hit while we were in early high school so we adopted into it pretty quickly

Did you like Facebook more? Always was boring af to me. Myspace might have been eye cancer inducing with all the gifs and custom fonts and shit, but at least the profiles were unique.