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
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:14 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/N1LzcVI.jpg
― c u (crüt), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:56 (five months ago) link
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 15:36 (five months ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:06 (five months ago) link
Interesting
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 16:27 (five months ago) link
― 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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 November 2023 16:50 (five months ago) link
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.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 16:53 (five months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:40 (five months ago) link
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
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2023 18:48 (five months ago) link
these people seem notably dumb and credulous though
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:49 (five months ago) link
the bin laden loving giants truthers
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:50 (five months ago) link
tiktok is not a how do you say high information environment
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:52 (five months ago) link
says the guy who just got whipped into a moral panic by a tweet!xpost
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 November 2023 18:52 (five months ago) link
these people seem notably dumb and credulous
allow me to introduce you to a little club called Q-Anon
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2023 18:54 (five months ago) link
tracer that is disingenuous
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:56 (five months ago) link
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.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:59 (five months ago) link
lol not apologising you left yourself wide open for that one treesh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:00 (five months ago) link
feel like this whole thing could be some sort of op to discredit criticism of israel, its prob not, but its all pretty weird
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:03 (five months ago) link
The zings of your so-called western cultures are as weak and corrupt as your empty morality.--- Osama bin Laden ---
--- Osama bin Laden ---
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:04 (five months ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:01 (five months ago) link
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2023/11/17/osama-bin-laden-just-a-misunderstood-cuddly-teddy-bear-tiktokers-learn/
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:57 (five months ago) link
He should have quoted Hannah Smith but hey the message is what counts pic.twitter.com/h5z0UAN8G0— lara 🇵🇸 (@laralevana) November 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 08:45 (five months ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
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.
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:59 (three months ago) link
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...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:52 (three months ago) link
I thought this was going to be about those videos where a guy picks up a hammer and it digitally sludges into a popsicle.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 January 2024 03:37 (three months ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:28 (one month ago) link
Very funny.
https://youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jinglong-glycine
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 April 2024 11:40 (four weeks ago) link
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)
― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2024 12:03 (four weeks ago) link
I love Tiktok but you have to curate your algo.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:09 (four weeks ago) link
thanks for that link!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:19 (four weeks ago) link