TikTok: C or D

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

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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

these people seem notably dumb and credulous though

the bin laden loving giants truthers

tiktok is not a how do you say high information environment

says the guy who just got whipped into a moral panic by a tweet!

xpost

these people seem notably dumb and credulous

allow me to introduce you to a little club called Q-Anon

tracer that is disingenuous

yashar ali's tweet wasn't wrong. the thing was trending. the substack post just tried to contextualize it a little. perhaps it was confined to certain niche parts of tik tok, even though he also admits the videos got millions of views.

lol not apologising you left yourself wide open for that one treesh

feel like this whole thing could be some sort of op to discredit criticism of israel, its prob not, but its all pretty weird

The zings of your so-called western cultures are as weak and corrupt as your empty morality.

--- Osama bin Laden ---

The thing that was off about the videos as compiled were the weird emotional reaction followed by asking for engagement. It's a kind of grift that just stops me in my tracks. A laugh at something dark.

Good to see the substack filling in the detail.

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2023/11/17/osama-bin-laden-just-a-misunderstood-cuddly-teddy-bear-tiktokers-learn/

He should have quoted Hannah Smith but hey the message is what counts pic.twitter.com/h5z0UAN8G0

— lara 🇵🇸 (@laralevana) November 20, 2023

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sludge-videos-are-taking-over-tiktok-and-peoples-mind/

Love to see how bog standard video art content is being written about when it's tiktok content.

lol

What is happening to the brain as it tries to process all the information in a sludge video?

Brain activity in response to sludge content hasn’t been studied directly, but experts say such content likely has similar effects on the brain as multitasking.

Guess this means those tv channels (like cp24) with a traffic cam, weather updates, stock ticker, news ticker, newsreel and sports results are proto-sludge...

I thought this was going to be about those videos where a guy picks up a hammer and it digitally sludges into a popsicle.

what is the legal basis for congress banning tiktok? i mean i don't dispute that is foreign-owned and bad for americans, but so is fox news, which i'm pretty sure they could not get away with banning

Very funny.

https://youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jinglong-glycine

as i am not signed up (timethief concerns) my intermittent guide to super-weird tiktok is twitter-user @nudeobama aka "pikachu headpat girl": she has set her alg to an insane pitch of excellence (esp. if you appreciate hyperrealistic latex skinsuit guys)*

*(i beg you never appreciate this)

I love Tiktok but you have to curate your algo.

thanks for that link!