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TikTok is a Time Bomb(gurwinder.substack.com)

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The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

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trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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TL;DR

THE CHINESE ARE ENDING THE WORLD WITH LIP SYNCING AND STUPID VIDEO CHALLENGES I AM VERY SCARED

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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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The only politics I learned on Tiktok was left leaning capitalism and basic socialist ideas.

If that’s radical then Lemmy is worse.

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RedFox@infosec.pub
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Ha! I feel like there isn’t anyone who isn’t considered a fascist on Lemmy 😉

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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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

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trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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“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.

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dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
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My god it’s Chinpokomon all over again

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rhebucks-zh@incremental.social
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For us turning to ultranationalism will not be a move of racism, but of self-preservation.

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trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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shut the fuck up dork

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THE MASTERMIND@feddit.ch
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Oh no ! All you had to do was uninstall it .

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