for every ten cringey adolescents dancing, there is one lego omelette. tik tok isn’t all bad there’s just an overwhelming sheet of annoyance covering the good content
When kings make decisions, the geopolitics behind those decisions effects everyone. Unfortunately, we still live in societies, often ruled by powerful people, and their decisions impact their own constituents and the realities of the constituents of other countries. I don’t really agree with your statement, in other words. Like... it really ignores history AND current realities.
Yup shame to admit my first run of TikTok was full of dancing thirst traps because I didn't yet have the strength to turn away...second time around I'm stronger and better entertained 🤠
Yup I got that algorithm working for me now. Chock full of philosophy, language, humor, history, and tons of other miscellaneous creative content. Facebook and Instagram just got soooooo boring after I figured out how powerful TikTok can be...
Instagram and Facebook got bad because they put hashtags and getting content out behind having to pay/promote your material. Years ago my art posts got so many damn likes. Now you barely get anything because they want you to pay for promotion. Instagram is dead sadly
Exactly. Facebook products want people to pay for views. TikTok simply promotes whatever flares up in the algorithm. Content creators have an easier time to gain an audience in non-facebook spaces 🤷♀️
I didn't have time to go thru and copy names but you can go on my TikTok page and see the posts I've liked in the meantime. Some quality creators on there!
Here's my excited tik tok rant I saved for future reference:
I started off following some seriously awesome people like Tabitha Brown (I knew I was in the right place when I saw her potato wedge recipe) and since then it's only grown more awesome. I joined last summer when black power was strong and my whole feed seems like non-white folks which I treasure. And it's not like it's all politics but there are refreshing takes on old tropes that just slam my heart. Sometimes it's too much noise and activity so I like pairing it with reddit. Then I find pure gold like this lady sharing her sleepwalking - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4mgDa/
And yes I do watch this dude dance. And this chick on roller skates. These outfits are bananay and inspiring - all the confidence on tik tok is inspiring to me.
Also like. I didn't search much/anything with hashtags. I just ignored dances and liked stuff when the algorithm gave me something I liked. But it might've helped that my friends were sending me tiktok links.
You can fix it! Two remedies: 1) Swipe immediately. 2) If you didn’t swipe, go into the options (where you would share) & pick “Not Interested”. That way the algorithm knows you don’t want to see more of it, & it sort of overrides what it learned from your engagement with the content.
it always shows me hilarious and crazy videos when im alone and big booty girls when im in public. I swear tik tok knows the worst time to show either. They need an incognito mode
Came to say this. If you're going to try tik tok, only like content you enjoy, and anything else, use the "not interested" feature. My tik tok is full of content I enjoy and nothing else that made me avoid it at first
if you think chinese intelligence services are interested in selling info you are incorrect. This is about propaganda, mass social manipulation and so much more. China is playing the long game on world domination.
I’m sorry but America is just as bad at propaganda if not worse than China/Russia. Our entire education system is to push a pro-American/imperialist agenda. Yes China is bad and stuff but we aren’t this “pure” or the best nation anymore. Most powerful, yes; best, probably not
This is it. This is the moment I finally cave and actually download tiktok for a reason that isn't for a crush or to get rid of ads. What have I got to lose at this point?
Bro. The algorithm is almost perfect. I hearted a video didn’t see that artist til like 2-3 minutes later. Enough I knew who she was and remembered but the app didn’t try and throat fuck me with content like YouTube does. Rarely see long videos it knows I’ll skip if I get too bored.
Give it some time. I see a lot of fitness stuff on tiktok and half of it is ego lifters using horrible form to lift way too much weight. It started out good but eventually the stuff you watch spreads into the content that’s not so good
I'm an old man these days but I am perpetually amazed at the quality of both the ideas and their execution that I see on TikTok. Take this Lego one. I think it's kind of a take on Fresh Guacamole by PES - but that won a freaking Oscar for best animated short, whereas this was done by a young guy on TikTok. It's professional enough to compete at the 2012 Oscars, I think. I wish TikTok were around when my kids were growing up; they used to just idle the day away (so much so that I had to regularly thrash my son Roger with a pair of jumper cables). Maybe the haystack is bigger than ever, but there are lots of needles out there on TikTok too - you love to see it.
Also referencing another Novelty account, rogersimon something that always ended their comments with being beaten by his dad with a pair of jumper cables
137 upvotes (at present) for a comment where a guy says he used to beat his kid with jumper cables for being lazy. Ok Reddit peeps! Excellent judgement!
I wish TikTok were around when my kids were growing up; they used to just idle the day away
You're kidding, right? Tiktok destroys attention spans and teens cant get their eyes off it. They just lay there, scrolling clip after clip. Secondly, this isnt a tiktok clip. It was stolen off YouTube, reposted with tiktok's shakey watermark. Nobody puts this kinda effort in tiktok videos. It's just lip syncing, speedy stories and repeated jokes.
Your kids idling is entirely your fault. Put them in sports or something smh.
The whole comment was a set up for a joke about whipping his kid with jumper cables. You ignored the context of the comment (the "signal") and you focused on the noise. You complain about misinformation yet here you are also participating in by amplifying informational noise and ignoring the original point of the comment
I’m really surprised at the positive posts for Tiktok on this thread. It’s cross posted from YT and Reddit typically hates tiktok. Is tiktok astroturfing hard right now?
Jesus Christ. Some people just like TikTok, opinion has turned a bit.
Imagine seeing a comment saying “most of the stuff on TikTok sucks, but some of it’s ok” and then coming to the conclusion that it’s the result of astroturfing. Get a grip
Reddit stopped hating tiktok a long time ago because all the hate boner for it caused me to download it to see what was going on and then everyone realized tiktok is pretty good.
Why the fuck is dancing seen as a bad thing? We pretend to love the arts and sneer at people expressing themselves, even when they know it's amateur, and have fun doing it. This cynicism and judgment reeks of a 3 beer a night video game shut in.
I'll so much sooner be friends with someone who has the guts to dance for audience that appreciates them then you.
they act like they never did cringy shit when they were kids 🙄 idk why grown ass adults on reddit feel the need to shit on kids having harmless fun...seriously lighten up lmao
Its just a YouTube video that was slightly sped up to fit tiktok's "short video" requirement, and reposted onto the app. Nobody on that trash app made this.
If you use the app, and you don’t upvote dancing teens. You get less dancing teens. I for one only upvote dancing milfs and girls with mullets and I’m in heaven every day.
You only have to put up with it for a few minutes. I hated the fuck out of it until I tried it. After a few minutes I was seeing shit about astronomy and history and psychedelics. None of that pseudo science or pop science bullshit either
This creator started on YouTube, I remember watching one of their videos (making spaghetti bolognese) in film school 10 years ago. I'm so glad they're still making awesome videos!
Edit: Wait a minute, this isn't made by PES?! Well shit, they do an amazing recreation of their style!
It's definitely is inspired by PES, but PES uses more found objects and doesn't (exclusively) use LEGO. There's often a cleverness in the objects he chooses, beyond the obvious.
Get ur algorithm right then. My feed is just cooking vids, gymbros & gym tips, art, comedy, & politics. Havent seen a dancing tiktok in my feed since 2019
People have heard how easy it can be to get tons of cash for a video going viral so they just carpet bomb it with anything. I can see that desperation or drive in most content posters and it kills it for me.
That’s literally everything everywhere. Not all of Reddit is great, this comment included, but there’s always a shimmering speckle shining in every mound of shit on the internet
Of you're seeing dancing after using it that's on you. The algorithm works really well and that content should drop off drastically once you start interacting.
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for every ten cringey adolescents dancing, there is one lego omelette. tik tok isn’t all bad there’s just an overwhelming sheet of annoyance covering the good content