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I mean I'm not that surprised, MIB put it one way: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." I think TikTok has human el
by fennecfoxy 3y ago
I mean I'm not that surprised, MIB put it one way: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
I think TikTok has human elements that are interesting to think about. The short form content/attention span/apathy problem. It took what Vine started and then mixed it with psychological techniques/dark patterns to create what they have now.
For example, misinformation has always been a human problem, technology just makes it easier to spread it. But like...but I think it's interesting to look at different forms of content and how digestible they make false information, or hate, or violence.
If I speak for 60 minutes on how "zoo animals escaped in Paris during the protests" then people will likely not believe me. If I create a 30s TikTok video with a dark soundtrack people will watch it and move on, then regurgitate the false info later.
It's also a clout addiction engine. Humans are social animals and we want to be LIKED. Like SO MUCH. Attention is a drug and TikTok delivers, that has created a storm of content that used to be a "skit" and is now presented as something that "actually happened".
And the responses vary from someone watching the short form content and then moving on, believing it happened. To people claiming "well it's obviously scripted, it's a joke, duh". My problem is that skits are generally made obvious that it's a skit - see channels/people who are musicians who "just happen" to constantly play a public piano and then have a "stranger from the public" join them for a duet. It's all clout/attention generation.
It's not inherently bad I suppose, but the "this actually happened" style of content makes it especially easy for young people (TikTok's userbase) to eagerly swallow the false information content in between stuff like this.
Vine max users: 200M. TikTok current: 1000M! Hmmm.
Idk, maybe I'm just getting older lmao. Get off my lawn!