The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    TL;DR

    THE CHINESE ARE ENDING THE WORLD WITH LIP SYNCING AND STUPID VIDEO CHALLENGES I AM VERY SCARED

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        9 months ago

        The only politics I learned on Tiktok was left leaning capitalism and basic socialist ideas.

        If that’s radical then Lemmy is worse.

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              Incredible right wing MAGA Russia brainwashing diatribe. Honestly. You watch one video and the algorithm has you. All I get is fake news pressed as fact and the comment sections are atrocious. Oh and flat earth videos. I wish I could get some left wing stuff, it would make me a lot happier. I can see how people would fall in to a pit of despair and believe everything they see on TikTok.

              I’ve heard “kids these days” don’t even google stuff any more, just search it on TikTok and have something explain it to them, wether it’s true or false.

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                9 months ago

                Part of me wants to investigate, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to mess up my algorithm. I wonder if I can have a second account somehow.

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          Ha! I feel like there isn’t anyone who isn’t considered a fascist on Lemmy 😉

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      You ever read 1984? You remember the bit about newspeak? Well go have a conversation with a zoomer sometime and pay attention to the word choice they use for controversial subjects like suicide and murder (self/other unalive), depression (big sad), pornography (corn), neurodivergence (neurospicy), etc.

      I’m not saying TikTok is solely to blame, but content recommendation algorithms are definitely warping the language people use. Almost all of these genZ slang terms originated as weasel words to talk about these touchy subjects without getting deplatformed by an algorithm designed to keep things advertiser-friendly

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        The kids are alright. Don’t let authors who write articles about the “woke mob” (yes that’s the kind of stuff this guy writes, check him out he’s trash lol) bait you into blaming the next generation for issues we need to deal with as they fabricate new reasons why young people “just don’t have any worth ethic like they used to” whatever their flavor of critique is this week. It’s so predictable at this point.

        Again, the kids are alright. We need to take care of our own shit and stop pointing our fingers at them.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        This is nothing new. This is just “new generation bad” with a side order of anti-woke.

        Perhaps you’re not old enough to recall movies edited for TV (e.g., “stranger in the alps”) or the moral panic if someone saw a nipple.

        I talk to Gen Z people, and they communicate just fine. They’re perfectly capable of discerning reality from Tik Tok.

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        9 months ago

        “Every new word the kids use is literally 1984” - an idiots guide to linguistics.

        The words you mentioned were made to appease the extremely sensitive sensibilities of advertisers, not really the effect of a government conspiracy.