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Aug 17, 2024
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this is completely accurate; i have such a complicated relationship with that app. i've kept using it because seeing others expressing themselves and being creative on there really inspires me, but i also find myself comparing to them too much. it's like seeing all the possible lives out there on the internet inspires me, but it also makes me feel trapped inside my own. i think true originality will always exist, but that app always seems to prioritize trends over anything else and it's really frustrating
gforce2001 maybe try pinterest? or making asks on here for recs from others… i feel like most people here are cool (in a non-quick trend way)!
I’m not on it but I kind of like all of the new words and slang I get secondhand. But I love slang and new words and love using them in my own little way
marxinista thank you, nick3 u could also read literature from diverse places. john steinbeck, arundhati roy, douglas coupland etc. these writers entranced me with how their characters dialect...
letsgetiton1223 spec fic might also be fun! lots of interesting uses of linguistics (le guin, butler, bradbury come to mind). there’s also this specific sci-fi book called native tongue about a future where linguistics is its own societal institution of sorts and women are deeply oppressed and use language to free themselves — the author even created an entire language for it
letsgetiton1223 Wow, I cant Believe I forgot I asked for your advice!
But you’re right, that’s a great take man, I looove reading Steinbeck for fun new vocabulary to incorporate in my day to day. As a matter of fact, I just love reading Steinbeck period! bonus points if you put kid A on in the background 👍
nick3 your welcome:) i believe the nature of language allows itself for endless experimentation and fun same for reading(any use of non-standard english is enjoyable) but i find steinbeck a more mindful read so idk abt putting on a kanye album .
nick3 plz don’t bring negative vibes to my comment section also the premise of this app is recommendations so idk why you responded this way to someone who was… recommending things
marxinista letsgetiton1223 Allow me to explain: the rec is an anti-rec and negative (criticizing, not really recommending). Your comments are also evangelical, not gracious. Typically, an innocuous "Well I like what you're criticizing for x, y, z" as my friend nick3 did is ignored or met with some bridging comment. You chose instead to lecture and evangelize your negativity. You two are the assholes here. But of course, in this day and age, the fact that you're being douchey is secondary to the fact that you're on the right side (even according to me) of Tik Tok having nothing redeeming about it. The crux of postmodernism's paradox: is it okay to dismiss what's right for what's good? Is it okay to be a douchebag to someone and then call them the douchebag for being sarcastic/defensive in response because their position is, according to you, wrong? If so, hey, I'm onboard! But let's not pretend we're kumbaya mf's. We're just as insular, judgmental and douchey as X Twitters and dipshit, Bible-beating conservatives (a revelation that only the most self-ignorant are unaware of, i.e., almost every leftist, Nick, I think, and I being exceptions). Yay! 🙏🏼
nick3 i have the spirit of lord and buddha watching over me :/ my spirit is holy and indomitable so its hard for bad vibes such as urs to infilitrate sorry, i suppose. . . additionally, indianjones it seems u believe recs/anti-recs exist in a dichotomy well, is the act of not using tiktok an act itself? semantically a recommendation, nevermind the explanation given as to why. also shouldnt any postmodernist(whatever that means) know good/bad morality is a silly christain device? u r making a lot of assumptions maybe you should be having these with somebody u know, perhaps in real life.
I thought i'd get fomo from not being on top of the latest tiktok memes anymore but after deleting at a random brunch last December i don't miss it at all.
I just disabled my account the other day and I am so happy with not using it. I feel so free.
valoorie 🥳 welcome to the club lolll! i’ve not had it since 2021 and still so glad about it, i promise the feeling lasts!
Tik tok has also diminished authenticity I would say, so many micro trends that last for maybe a month or two then it's on to the next, people genuinely have no idea what their own style is and depend on tik tok to tell them what the next trend is, everyone is quite literally starting to look like clones.
i’ve slowly worked my way off almost all social media this year and the change it’s made for me has been HUGE. i still occasionally post on insta but i delete the app right after and only check it through my browser so i have to go through more steps to get to it, which i’ve found really reduces the time i mindlessly scroll on there. deleting tiktok did wonders for my attention span, too!
it feels like a distinctly awful evolution in online behavior compared to instagram et al. I was exposed to ”booktok” at an old job of mine and the way that app has flattened discussions of literature and art made me think those luddites had points
marxinista I'm used to bad Internet poetry going viral bc of tiktok but the entire concept of booktok which seems adjacent to it infuriates me and it's best left at that
i don’t disagree that it can be an awful place and once it disappears society will probably be a better place but there are a few political diamonds with like under 1000 likes per video so i always do my best to boost them when i can :( i think i’ve curated my following and fyp to be full of nuanced but extremely educated political “commentators”, sustainable fashion creators and open minded music reviewers but it also took me 5ish years to do so. it also makes me realize i don’t see a lot of the “popular” stuff so im sure the app is even more insidious and rotted than i realize but it makes me sad bc the potential for it to do good could have made a huge positive impact </3
also i hate when i ”discover”/enjoy a popular song and i find out it was viral on tiktok and i can sometimes tell because it RUINS my spotify algorithm. like when chappell roan got big, i had already liked her for a while and when “good luck babe” dropped spotify started suggesting random annoying pop music bc i was listening/adding it to playlists!!!!
aquaphormuffin OMG right 😭 the other time i remember it really upsetting me was when it happened to phantogram too
marxinista When I get big, I only want the fans who hate my getting too popular and keep me secret. Or Ima blow my brains out like Kurt.
