TikTok: C or D

be gay
do crimes
post about them
online

Do you see the perpetrator?
Yeah I’m right here.

this is pretty good: In the video, the voice over the intercom said they don’t have the resources to call each of their parents to tell them what’s been happening, so the “only recourse they have” is to remove the doors from the hinges in both the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms.

My worst possible nightmare as a kid

lol Andy i don’t know where that’s from but the whole thing sounds like a pretty elaborate wind-up

even if it’s true, if it wasn’t tiktok kids would find other reasons to be idiots. i think you were right at the beginning: it’s a tale as old as time. i have a 12-yo who’s a bit of an idiot and even he would know that doing this kind of thing for the likes is moronic

No, it's a thing. It's called "devious licks," and it started with just swiping random things from school, like boxes of masks, and displaying them on TikTok. Vandalizing bathrooms was September's "challenge" so we did have a lot of people trashing the bathrooms at my school. My guess is it's fading out now, though, because the next set of challenges issued involved actual physical assault and most kids aren't dumb enough to slap their teachers and put it on TikTok.

Lily and Andy are right, but so is Tracer. If it wasn't #deviouslicks, there'd be another excuse.

Yes, school vandalism is as old of time; but voluntarily posting incriminating evidence online seems purely 21st Century.

Apparently tiktok has started pulling all the videos anyway, which may help explain why the phenomenon is fading

if it's a no bones day, i vandalize a junior high restroom

The rabbit hole of this one user claiming Ancient Rome did not exist and all the answers from academia is pure entertainment.

Just found out recently that my neighbours kid is a tik tok star with like two million follows.

Most of this shit is just made up, right? The pranks, pratfalls and funniest home video BS? Like the kids are all just pretending something went wrong and planned it?

And ones like that "devious licks" upthread - someone started that a joke Tide Pods style to see what would happen, right? Tell me people arent actively this much Darwin Awards material.

devious licks is an actual thing but the note upthread that if it weren't this it would be something else is 100% accurate as well

New D&D player: so the one I really don’t understand is “chaotic good?” Like what does that even look like…

Me: I gotchu https://t.co/EH8oNjVbcO

— Rusty Foster (@fka_tabs) May 12, 2022

That is amazing.

the duddest
https://www.stereogum.com/2187634/halsey-tiktok-viral-song/news/

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/sexual-health/a40938627/what-is-vabbing/

● Washing your hands both before and after

● Not allowing areas you’ve ‘vabbed’ to touch anything or anyone

● Wiping down gym equipment before and after use

● Making sure you get checked by a professional if you think you sense an unusual or bad odour

TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63213567

"vabbing"

The wisdom of the ancients alive today

this overlong essay on the "enshittification" of TikTok makes a good case for the vicious cycle of social media

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Hmm

I wrote about the unhinged therapists making videos about their clients on TikTok, and how social media has smoothed over the ethical issues of certain professions turning their jobs into content https://t.co/u6kflar9NN

— Sarah Manavis (@sarahmanavis) January 26, 2023

Pretty incredible way for so-called professionals to behave.

First time I heard of this was a therapist bitching online about a client "traumadumping" on her. What did she think her job was.

Hey GUYYYYYYYS it's ziggy here back again from VIENNA y'heard and you are NOT GONNA BELIEVE who this crazy bitch I'm seeing thinks she wants to fuck

TikTok has insane energy, the Four Loko of social media.

whats going on over there

What in the fuck is this shit pic.twitter.com/YTABQF81mP

— Rascal ✝️ (@PeakRascal) July 27, 2023

There is no single app I’d like to crash and burn horribly more than tiktok.

jfc when i look at tiktok it's all classic video games, vintage audio gear and some DIY home improvement stuff mixed in.

three quarters of my instagram ads look like that AI scam shit

anyone got a playlist of semi obscure old songs whose play count has skyrocketed due to tiktok? (thinking boa’s “duvet”, pavement’s “harness your hopes”, duster, lwb etc)

there’s this Songs that became famous because of a system glitch

Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.

The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and… pic.twitter.com/EwjiGtFEE3

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 16, 2023

this is what weve been working for all these years

was going to get personal about my experience with 9/11.

decided not to.

but in any case

fuck these people.

https://nitter.net/broderick/status/1725210803698085946#m

Social media

One thing about this letter is that most of it is about how the jews control American finance and the country is corrupt due to secularism, with Bin Laden citing gay rights as an example of why Americans should be killed. All expected from Bin Laden, but I am not sure why American Tik Tokers liked it. Only a small portion of the letter is about the humanitarian conditions of the palestinians.

This leads me to believe that people cannot read.

Some tik tokers said the letter “changed their entire way of looking at the world.” So are they jihadis now?

is this like tide pods

Nothing will happen.

Interesting why The Guardian felt the need to delete it and why tiktok are allegedly banning videos. What are they afraid will happen?

tiktok teens should continue discovering and falling for various terrible historical political figures culminating in the platform shutting down because all its users have become stalinists

https://i.imgur.com/N1LzcVI.jpg

Ryan Broderick's full newsletter post about this is worth reading:
https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-teens-arent-stanning-osama

Yashar made this seem like a much more prominent thing than it was; that apparently wasn't even trending on tik tok until his dumb post.

Interesting

Ryan Broderick's full newsletter post about this is worth reading:
https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-teens-arent-stanning-osama

― jaymc, Friday, 17 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Good newsletter. The videos were pretty awful, but in the end what was interesting is the reaction, which is to ban and close down these things and make them into a moral panic.

What was surprising to me is that they never seemed to have encountered any non-al qaeda critiques of american foreign policy. They all had reactions like, “the scales have fallen from my eyes, the us was bad and bin laden good” without considering a third option.

In any case, it was more niche than I thought when i read the yashar ali tweet and reacted emotionally

What was surprising to me is that they never seemed to have encountered any non-al qaeda critiques of american foreign policy.

― treeship., Friday, November 17, 2023 11:53 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

a while a go a bunch of tiktokers were convinced that giants are real lol

the human tendency toward groupthink is as old as our identity as a social animal. the only new factor here is the speed with which social media can form a cloud of agreement around a dust particle of thought