boemTikTok is a Time Bomb
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TL;DR
THE CHINESE ARE ENDING THE WORLD WITH LIP SYNCING AND STUPID VIDEO CHALLENGES I AM VERY SCARED
MamboGatorIt’s more like “the Chinese government controls the thing an entire generation reaching voting age stares at all day.” If you thought Facebook and Twitter were bad for disinformation and radicalizing people just wait.
The only politics I learned on Tiktok was left leaning capitalism and basic socialist ideas.
If that’s radical then Lemmy is worse.
It highly depends on what the algorithm serves you. You might be insulated from the worst of it, especially if your opinions are cemented and you have some informational savvy. It’s a different story for kids and those who lack critical thinking skills
True!
What have you seen?
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.
RedFoxHa! I feel like there isn’t anyone who isn’t considered a fascist on Lemmy 😉
That’s exactly what a fascist would say!
Go on…
What are you scared of?
No, I don’t think you understand. You’re treating lemmy like it’s facebook or something. It’s just so out of touch
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I’m fucking dying. 🤣
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
It’s true that it’s affecting language, but if anything it shows that trying to force newspeak doesn’t really work. People get creative.
In monocultures like most of China, it can work locally, such as in suppression of knowledge of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but outside their direct control they can’t stop the signal.
“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.
Except the politicians are in the pockets of the corporations that own the platforms, so in a roundabout way it is.
Oh no ! All you had to do was uninstall it .
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dylanTheDeveloperMy god it’s Chinpokomon all over again
For us turning to ultranationalism will not be a move of racism, but of self-preservation.
shut the fuck up dork