#I FUCKING HATE TIKTOK CULTURE

[rideroftheoctocorn]

Maybe this is my “I’m from New York so I didn’t choose to live here I was just already here” kicking in but can we actually learn to respect people’s privacy and acknowledge the fact that not everyone who lives in a major city is doing so because they want to be famous or the main character or an influencer or whatnot. I’m so sick of seeing tiktoks go viral that are just plainly stalking or doxxing random people who didn’t ask for attention or fame and are just living their lives. Especially given how many people in NYC are living with a wide variety of mental states, abilities, divergencies, and diversities treating them as a spectacle for your entertainment is deeply dehumanizing. Particularly in the past few years seeing so many content creators move here and gain their fame here it is becoming increasingly frustrating to feel like just existing in my home is not coherent with the burgeoning voyeurism culture that’s growing online. I, nor anyone who lives in a large city, should have to leave their homes every day worrying about the potential of being recorded and ridiculed online for just being a person.

People should be able to live their lives with the right to privacy. This isn’t to say that certain instances of internet activism shouldn’t have happened; for instance the Central Park bird watching incident (google it if you aren’t familiar but a woman was being racist towards a black man bird watching in central Park and his recording on the incident vindicated him). But instances like those are the exception and not the rule and many cases of publishing interpersonal conflicts/interactions is not from good faith activism or even from an activist point at all. Honestly what sparked this for me was that dumb tiktok that blew up of that girl looking for the person who kept writing “monke” on the whiteboard at her gym and the series of videos she made amassed more than 25 million views as she made a very public game out of trying to find the identity of this person. Some of her tactics included staking out at the gym waiting for this person or even asking the employees at the front desk who the person was. Maybe this person didn’t want to be a viral tiktok sensation and just wanted to write something goofy on the whiteboard at their local gym. Instead, this person has millions of strangers online seeking them out using unethical/invasive methods. All over someone who just wanted to write “monke.” Can we not just be a little silly in public without being at risk of it being the next internet sensation? If you live in a busy metropolitan area is it now your responsibility to make yourself as invisible as you can every time you step outside your front door? I genuinely leave for work each day wondering if I’ve maybe picked the wrong outfit, makeup, or maybe there’s an embarrassing stain or issue with my appearance that someone is going to see, record, and share online. I’ve even now seen TikTok’s of people recording through peoples windows commenting on how they’re living in their private lives now as well (the video in question is of a young woman recording a couple dancing through their apartment window). Even the guy who goes around “turning average people into models” initiates these videos by first taking non-consented photos of strangers on the street. Invasion is not flattery as much as people on the internet might like to think it is.

It is deeply unfair to ask human beings to live their lives in an unending panopticon. We should be able to go outside, make a joke, leave a silly note, have a bad day, an embarrassing moment, an emotional outburst, leave the curtains open with the knowledge that these moments belong to ourselves and are not suddenly (and without our consent) just become something for the masses to consume. Small spats that should remain small spats become global debates, a conventionally attractive or unattractive person becomes the internet’s object of desire or disgust. Let people exist. Let them have their dignity.

#I FUCKING HATE TIKTOK CULTURE #This is also hitting a bit close to home for me but I work at a museum and I constantly dress to hide my identity #because of how many cameras are pointed at me all day everyday #and in the year of two thousand and twenty three it’s pretty hard to be a person #so to ask people to be media ready all the time is just impractical and inhumane #we aren’t all public figures but we are now expected to be ready for that level of attention #even certain internet phenomena that came from a good faith place such as recording Karen’s as a way to combat a certain kind of a racism #was co opted by non black people to publicly shame and embarrass any older white woman they don’t like #now the entire concept of a Karen has lost its original meaning while still existing as an open threat to older women who don’t behave #as expected in public #and yes I have seen white teenage boys yelling at women calling them Karen’s for just asking them to stop being rowdy #which is anecdotal evidence so take with a grain of salt #but I am simply EXHAUSTED #apparently I need to live in the mountains if I want to live in peace #also I wrote this in like a 5 minute rage so feel free to DM me or comment if I got something wrong

[plaguedocboi]

I just saw someone censor the word Death in a screenshot on Instagram

#WHY ARE WE SELF CENSORING NORMAL ASS WORDS #I HATE YOU I HAGE UPU #TIKTOK CENSORSHIP CULTURE IS A FUCKING CURSE

[myaspdnpdnotes]

A friend (now no longer) drove me home the other day and the conversation revealed he believes people with personality disorders ~change their voices~ when their ~other personality~ comes out

Let me tell you I almost put his head through the steering wheel

#he admitted his so-called research is TikTok and Google #I hate that app for a reason #ableism #personality disorder #antisocial personality disorder #narcissistic personality disorder #npd #aspd #cluster b #multiple personality disorder #actually npd #actually aspd #npd tag #npd thoughts #aspd tag #aspd thoughts #aspd feels #the youth are fucking dumb and brainwashed #npd culture is #npd posting #npd vent #actually narcissistic #vent

[scrapnick]

I always wonder about people who spend all their time on looking perfect, avoiding the sun, avoiding straws because it gives you wrinkles, avoiding food and drink because it makes you fat, getting plastic and toxins and chemicals pumped into them to look younger and more perfect.. when are you done?

When are you so pretty you’re finally allowed to live your life instead of manufacturing an image for everybody but yourself to enjoy? Because in the end we all age, we all die and we all rot in the same dark ground. Come sit down and have some good food in the sun before that.

#scraps.txt #I saw that fucking TikTok where some lady talks about how she’d change that Stranger Things girls face so she’d look better and I had #simply HAD to get this out of me #I hate you make up I hate you plastic surgery I hate you Botox culture

[fleshdyke]

yeah not listening to goth music but still dressing goth makes you a poser i guess but who cares a goth that listens to ed sheeran is objectively hilarious. however not following punk ideals but still dressing “punk” makes you a fucking poser in the bad way

#i say ‘punk’ bc the people that don’t subscribe to punk ideals but still claim to be are always buying like $80 distressed ripped punk jeans #and pleather jackets with random zippers that do nothing in an attempt to be punk #like. goth and emo and shit are music based subcultures so like technically yeah not listening to the music makes you a poser #but honestly who fucking cares. you’ll get barked at in hallways and posted on some kid’s snap whether you listen to the music or not #however. punk is different. its still partially music based but punk was born in poor communities that were predominantly black #and so a big part of punk culture is cop hating and anticapitalism and nazi punching. and the distinction between performative tiktok kids #and punks that will actually punch a cop in the face is huge #also keep in mind forever and ever that the very foundations of punk are being nice and standing by your punk siblings no matter what #and the corporations that make punk clothing made by employees with no union and sold for $80 will never be punk #rambles #punk #goth

[taehyungfirst]

so big army translator with 1M followers can openly read smut and be shippers as long as the ship is jikook and the other hand taekook biased acc can't even draw taekook fanart without fandom cancelling them even when jungkook follows them himself bcz the ship is taekook got it

Most, if not all of them, hate the shippers so much that they projected on Taekook too, so they’re scared about anything concerning them, that’s also why when tkk was at a concert posting videos was “stalkerish” but when namseok was at a concert everyone was posting everything. Different standards. And also most of the fandom are jkkers rn so there’s that too.

Haru is a bit of a weirdo anyway, when the paris video dropped they let people drag Tae in their qrts in the name of “jokes” and they never delete tweets when Tae is getting dragged but they do when another member is. Ehh, but armys are fans of fan accounts too so.

#ykw i really don’t care about haru reading fics bc im sure everyone does that but it’s annoying the moment someone can do it but fanarts #on tiktok that jk followed needs to be cancelled and shamed and mass commented #the double standards piss me off. bc someone said ‘fanfics are fandom culture’ but fanarts are not? #and also i really really really hate people that jokes at taehyungs expenses so fuck haru i guess #ask #taekook

[dawningfairytale]

"what type of pretty are you? bunny, cat, fox, or deer?" i'm a sleep-deprived university student, hope this helps

#anti tiktok #we don't have to be pretty #tiktok culture #let me be - well not ugly - but actually fuck that #some days i am ugly. or at the very least not pretty. and that's not me hating myself or not valuing myself. #it's that my value in that moment is not dependent on categorising my appearance #sometimes i try to be pretty. sometimes i am on my period and had 3 hours of sleep in the past two days and need to wash my hair. #and sometimes i just don't need to care about being pretty #why do we have to act as though women have to be some sort of pretty to matter or be desirable #i don't know what my point is #if you like identifying as fox pretty or whatever then i'm not going to stop you #but. i don't know. it just seems like another category some tiktokers are pushing that we don't need

[papaemeritusiiiownsmyass]

when pearl clutchers on the clock app are upset about a group of grown men who smoke and have girlfriends they purposely keep out of the public eye

#this is about tiktok stans harassing jutty's girlfriend #and teenagers upset and accusing swiss of 'forcing' sodo to vape on stage #i hate stan culture so fucking much #the band ghost #nameless ghouls

[batemanofficial]

hello upper middle class northern usamerican tumblr user. i want to play a game. you will notice that you are in a super america convenience store in rural kentucky - you have three minutes to purchase a snack and drink of your choice and make normal small talk with the cashier. however, if you use the word "cryptid" or generally make reference to appalachia and its inhabitants as "wild", uncivilized, or lacking restraint around alcoholic beverages during your time here, i will personally tie you to the chassis of a four wheeler and tip it into the river. live or die. make your choice

#speak friend and enter #i can appreciate mothman as much as the next guy but can we stop treating appalachia like it's the subject of a richard attenborough doc #i come from a long line of hillbillies and i like to think i've got a good sense of humor about it but sometimes i am tested #like. this is not a lawless land with a moonshine still in every holler and nameless voices in the woods!! this is a normal town!! #idk maybe i'm reading too much into it but i'm just tired of the cultural fetishization of appalachia by people who aren't from here #and who don't know anything about it. like yeah you know mothman and what hooch is and that's all well and good #but do you know what the opioid epidemic really is. do you know about the structural injustices that keep people like mcconnell in power #i'm not saying you have to apply dialectical political analysis to every issue that occurs in the region to be able to have an opinion #but also like. i'm tired of people looking at places like where i grew up and making them into things they aren't #like. on the one hand we have ''ooh spooky hills!! run if you hear the trees whisper your name'' #and on the other we've got ''isn't appalachia so depressing...so hashtag ethel cain core...shame it's got no value beyond aesthetics'' #and on yet another hand we have ''i - a person with no ties to the region - am going to take up the cause of every social issue #occurring across the entire appalachian region so the world will see just how bad these poor hill people have it. i am very smart'' #and like. it's frustrating #i'm not saying you should never speak about appalachia if something we have is interesting to you #nor am i implying that i want to gatekeep discussion of the region's issues to the community bc that won't accomplish anything #i'm just saying that like any place it's complex. it's got its good things and it's got its bad things. #and you shouldn't isolate the good from the bad or vice versa - especially if you don't know the context in which those things happen. #and for the love of god dont let your own ignorance cause you to boil down those issues into a reductive and inaccurate set of stereotypes #learn about us from us. not from tiktok not from movies and for christ's sake not from hillbilly elegy. i hate that fucking book #anyway that got weirdly serious but i mean it. putting appalachia as a talking point up on the shelf until y'all can speak intelligently #ok to rb

[k1rishiki]

The Tiktokers Are Saying That Romeo And Cinderella Is About Grooming

#HELLO???? NO IT FUCKING ISN'T??????? don't f w me when it comes to romeo and cinderella i'm literally named after that shit #inb4 i also know more abt grooming than the average tiktoker bc i was Literally In The Situation They Say Happened In The Song #ie. groomed by an older teenager when i was 13-14 #the entire claim is based around a. the romeo and juliet metaphor and a random ass claim about romeo's age (he doesn't have one but is. #based on context clues. two years older than her tops). and even if it was true r&j still wouldn't be abt grooming bc that would require it #writer to view the relationship as such. which shakespeare obv didn't. + it's not literally about r&j it's abt a teen girl comparing her #relationship to famous love stories and the pop cultural perception of them. b. the bit abt her parents not liking her 'romeo' when like #there are half a million reasons someone's parents could disapprove of their relationship that don't involve an age gap. also the parents #are shown to be v overbearing throughout the song so like . if anyone is mistreating her it's them. c. any of the various childlike #references. she's a teenager reaching for the adult world while still experiencing childlike naivete. this is to emphasize that. it doesn't #mean that she's secretly younger or anything. d. the school uniform line. she means that she's willing to run away at a moment's notice #without looking back home to go get her real clothes so that her parents could have the chance to stop her. it's a statement of devotion an #there's nothing to imply that romeo isn't also dressed in a school uniform. e. the you'll hate me line. a major part of the song is her #internal conflict of having to choose between her parents and romeo. her concern isn't based on the idea that if she does something wrong #romeo will hate her it's based on the fear that her indecision will hurt romeo's feelings. which is seen again in me and juliet. the #official sequel song. which is about how after they run away together she becomes overwhelmed by her internal conflict bc it didn't just go #away after she made her choice and she still loves her parents enough to question it. and finally f. the wolf line. which is about her #indecision. it's about her indecision. if romeo doesn't whisk her away quickly enough while she's leaning in that direction she feels she'l #have more time to doubt herself and it'll eat her up inside. it's a common metaphor babes and it's LITERALLY WHAT THE SEQUEL SONG IS ABOUT #romeo.txt

[ofhisdeaddoveways]

We all know that cringe culture is fundamentally ableist right?

If you don't, cringe culture is rooted in ableism.

I just saw a tiktok of an extremely hated trans person (fuzzz99) where they said that gay ppl who act better than others cuz they find others "cringe" shouldn't be part of our community, which I personally 100% agree with, cuz a community should stick together and not bully/harass each other. Anyways, most of the comments were stuff like "Oh but they are just too cringe" "I'm fine with that" and shit like that, so I'm like... They're all fine with being ableist? I'm just so sick of these kinds of ppl.

#cringe #proship #proshipper #comship #comshipper #dead dove do not eat #proshipping #roleplay #roleplayer #proship discourse #not safe for work roleplay #Ableism #Discourse #Cringe culture #Cringe and proud #Ableists #TikTok #God I fucking hate tiktok

[shinygemstone]

fucking hate twitter because I'm in two different fandoms. One of them has really cool stories, but if I scroll too far, I get HEY YOU ENJOY X THING??? HERE'S ALL THE REASONS YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON!!!!! THE ONLY WAY TO FIX THIS IS [redacted because Tumblr deserves better]

The other has pretty mid content, but important information that makes my life easier about events and updates in splatoon. The issue is that I don't have the motivation to delete my first account and I can't just uninstall Twitter outright because of account B. Honestly it's better to just not look because Twitter loves prancing around with its holier than thou attitude

Fuck twitter. Fuck Elon Musk, but also fuck the culture Twitter has developed. A Twitter refugee will never be truly welcomed on Tumblr because being on twitter requires a tolerance for some pretty heinous comments and the absolute worst of cancel culture.

Someone who belongs on Twitter is likely to agree with the sentiment that someone is a bad person for enjoying Harry Potter or dsmp or Homestuck or whatever other controversial fandom. They're the ones engaging in sexuality discourse.

It's just exhausting to deal with, and it's exhausting to have to get news over that platform because there's no other real way to do it. Nobody takes Tumblr seriously, reddit serves it's own purpose, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok just won't work for that, and facebook is Facebook. Unfortunately Twitter isn't being replaced, so we have to deal with it

#I love you Splatoon #social media #Twitter #twitter culture #this is why we hate twitter #even without Elon musk #his name is so fucking stupid #I shouldn't have to scroll through your hate and calling me every name in the book #and accusing me of horrible things #and telling me to kill myself #just to get to the difference analysis between patches #honestly it's shit for my mental health but I need to stay up to date on challenges #like I hate TikTok too but at least TikTok keeps me coming back for the content #I dread logging onto tiktok because I know it'll suck away more time than I'm comfortable spending watching stupid videos #and I don't want to get called things that have historically sent me into DAYS LONG DEPRESSIVE SPIRALS on Twitter #fuck social media man #it's all bad #but Twitter is particularly evil #wait is this just me getting trauma from Twitter #don't let the Twitter bitches see this post they'll call me slurs and doxx me #reddit bitches are cool though #y'all are great here and I'm glad you're enjoying it

[uncertain3teeth]

if i see a man call a girl "goth" just because shes wearing black and has her hair dyed i will blow MY FUCKING BRAINS OUT like goth is loosing its term lik ever since tiktok became a thing lik ffs sub cultures are loosing its meaning and i hate it like FUCK its so annoying lik ya know tha shit that men say a lot last year or so saying "i want a big tiddy goth girlfriend" lik sit down just say you care abt what a womens body looks like and youwant to date her bc she has big tits and also why tf would you want to date a girl just because of what she wears its pathetic and makes you look desperate for any sexual attention from a women like its embarrassing honestly lik ffs you'll cum if you see a sholder or some shit calm down and go watch porn like literally its so fucking stupid and it infuriates me on how alt shit or if a man sees a girl that looks "goth" to them they IMMEDIATELY get horny and saying mommy n shit its disgusting like i have a mommy kink myself but if a man is saying that shit to a random ass mf women and thirst over her saying mommy n all of that shit it just looks embarrassing and its just sad lmoakoa like get a life i hate men sm like why like who raised you to do that shit and treat women with no respect and shit but back to the sub cultures thing like i hate how its just loosing its meaning day by day like i saw this one clip on yt where there was this cop or some shit idk and she had black short haired pixie cut and the title was jus calling her goth and men in the comments were thirsting over her and im like wtf shes not even goth like yall men need a specialist or something fr or an exorcism lik get.help. LMAO

#i hate tiktok #sub cultures #aesthetics #goth #big tiddy goth gf #ew i hate that term sm i dont even want it in hashtags #i hate men #men are shit #fuck men #men are annoying #tw men

[biprotagz]

ive gotta read more Black thought books bc. my brain won't stop thinking about the cultural condition (detachment, alienation) of the african american.

#lauren.txt #i saw a tiktok a while ago with that fame audio (“fuck being underrated i wanna have everything they did”) where a black person #talked about how african americans don't have culture like other people do and my mind travels to that a lot. bc it's true. #even some white people can have claim to a specific language homeland traditions etc. where we don't have that luxury bc #of the effects of chattle slavery. we are so far removed from african culture that we can't lay claim to it #let alone a specific culture or country in africa. we don't have a right to. it's not Ours. and if that isn't ours then what is? #the largely white american culture devoid and unaccepting of black people to the point of government and institutional violence? #the western culture that steals from us time and time again without giving back? the african american culture that is still #detached from our african roots and sometimes even hateful fearful or even xenophobic towards said roots? #im not saying african americans don't have culture bc we definitely do but i am questioning our similarities to other cultures #since we are a disenfranchised and systemically traumatized colonized and enslaved people. #that don't have a lot of the things people of other cultures or nationalities (not even poc exclusively) possess.

[tragicomedys]

fuckign hate straigjt cis dudes even the “cool” ones

#why are they so obsessed with concepts that low key connect to gender essentialism #Like fr they’re so obsessed with the ‘differences between men and women’ and reproductive shit and whagever #brothers trying to say there needs to be an inherent instinctual trait that has made people give girls dolls across cultures and history #that goes beyond social/cultural norms and pressures but connects to something inherently linked to their psychology. even during stone age #times/times where the world wasn’t so connected and stuff #Like bro…. and the thing is neither of us have even researched this topic well #so fucking arguing with him about this is literally like grasping at straws #and i’m not out either so i can’t pull my nonbinary card LMFAO… #like geez i’m not great at arguing against gender essentialism but you’re not qualified at all to be making connections across history/ #cultures/sociologically speaking on how many girls have this instinct to care for a humanoid doll and how guys probably have this instinct #to be interested in shit like. Fucking a boulder falling in a pond or shit (tiktoks this ones for my male audience type vids) #like those tiktoks are jokes dog #anyway it’s so tough arguing w him cuz he’s also so defensive and sure he’s correct. sir you don’t fucking know shit on this topic and #neither do i. i just know that gender essentialism is stupid and we’re seeing that more and more in today’s times as lgbt communities make #themselves and their thoughts more known #No but for real straight cis dudes even the ones that are accepting actually make such a big deal about figuring out differences between #(Cis obv) women and men. and ofc it always goes back to reproductive functions + ‘hunger gatherer times’ #it creates such an echo chamber bc his essentialist ideas are what is more generally believed by cis people and since he will never go #beyond that to research the topic he will always keep believing in this popular notion that isn’t necessarily based in facts. and that’s why #i hate arguing with him. i’m stuttering and confused for a reason and that’s bc i can admit i can’t argue this topic properly 😭 #💭.txt

[gn4wz-0n-b0n3z]

fuck cringe culture i like using emoticons and "cringe" ways of talking over text because i grew up around it and it feels so nice to use "oh thx!! ^^" to show genuine appreciation

#i hate cringe culture!! #i want to use emoticons so badly but im afraid of getting attacked by 14 year old cishet boys on tiktok /hj #fuck cringe culture #cringe culture is stupid