Broadcasting, publishing with instant and far reach, etc. with the power of the algorithms to amplify. Whatever you want to label it. I only used “broadcasting” because for the 1 to many communication. Many being more than a handful of friends.
It is different from word of mouth. It is another party amplifying the behavior you are saying already existed.
That’s my point. And you just stated it. The difference is they can show the world and perpetuate the “challenge” by modeling it for thousands of others instead of just their local friends/kid in the neighborhood.
you are discounting the power of the platform algorithms to connect these kids and to amplify the appearance of this behavior as normal.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Archie Battersbee didn’t even film it. This is a case where a child tragically committed suicide and the mother is trying to blame tiktok for some reason.