Comment on Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.

• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You realize that’s still true, right? You’re posting this as some big own as though it’s somehow not harmful to mindlessly consume any form of media to an extreme extent, especially in the learning years.

  Somebody been watching too many tik toks?

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  • Bipta@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Somebody been watching too many tik toks

    What a ridiculous logical leap.

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  • aCosmicWave@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it isn’t true. I’ve never used TikTok, Instagram, and avoid YouTube shorts. I saw some articles about “TikTok Brain” making their way across the internet yesterday and I wanted to call out the hypocrisy.

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    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How is it hypocrisy if the previous forms of media were also bad for you, Tik-Tok is just more efficient at funneling meaningless drivel down your throat?

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      • Polydextrous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly. We’ve also been saying that burning coal was destroying the climate, and then we said CFCs were destroying the ozone, and then we said massive deforestation is ruining the climate…doesn’t make any of them less true just because we’ve said similar beings about less efficient means of destruction.

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    • some_guy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “I’m not saying it isn’t true I just wanted to imply it’s true to drive enragement engagement”

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