#and then tik tok is like

[sweetfirebird]

I just read something about some fanfic readers on TikTok, mostly younger ones, are against AO3 because it doesn't recommend fic to them. As in, it doesn't track them and auto-feed them content using an algorithm.

I am sure it's not every younger fanfiction-reading nerd. But....

The generational divide between old internet and new internet users is so stark sometimes. Like. That younger people don't remember the individual fanfiction websites days... okay. I get that. Some of them weren't even born and time is time and it moves on. It's fine.

But to grow up with an internet where you do not get a choice, or not much of a choice, except to be fed content? Oh wow that's a yikes I've never thought about before.

Yeah, there's some filter capabilities but companies override that all the time with subtle little changes. Youtube recommends stuff constantly (often conservative videos even to me who has no history of watching or liking that shit). Twitter and Facebook got rid of chronological posts and even when you try to get rid of suggested posts, they come back. Instagram is basically all ads now. And then TikTok literally doesn't even ask you to search (and as I recall, their search function sucks), and you can like videos to change what you see *a little* but ultimately the algorithm will lead you wherever it wants.

That's so sad to grow up with that. Choice and searching and relying on your judgment and the recommendations of people you like... those are good things.

I am not like "oh those youths!" here. I am "fuck these corporations!" here. Look at this shit. It's not a rec list from someone you like and trust--it's what corporate has decided you should like. And a lot of these kids have not known anything else. That's scary and infuriating.

#tiktok #it's not the devil because tik tok vs vine or whatever #it's the devil because you cant trust who is running it #same for any social media #but if you didn't grow up as these things came into existence how would you know that? #ARGH #i feel like i am always screaming these days

[revindicatedbyhistory]

guys i don´t think talking like this is in good taste

#you arent on tik tok you dont need to talk like a toddler #actually you might not even need to talk like this on tik tok

[strange-aeons]

what is it like to have to bathe a hairless cat?

(I'm thinking of getting one of those gremlins, so i need to know.)

slippery. giant squirming buttered ravioli. for the love of god do not let it escape because you will never recapture it (too slippery) (slippery all over your house) (horrible)

#i am convinced tik tok people posting a e s t h e t i c sphynx cat bath time videos are like #drugging their cats #my boys are RATS

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Catherine Tate having fun on the set of Wild Blue Yonder / Doctor Who 60th Anniversary

(and Bernard Cribbins too)

#david tennant #catherine tate #doctor who #how adorable are they!?! #behind the scenes fun #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #bernard cribbins #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #I'd already started making this set #and then they released that tik tok vid with all the little snippets #which were perfect for the post I'd already started #bless them for sharing the silly #this is a big part of what I'd been missing #I adore all of these people #stuff i posted #whoBts #this looks like fun!

[surrealtiktoks]

#tik tok #I just like this one

[cringengl]

Do you guys ever have fandoms-in-law??? Like I'm not a part of the fandom, I've never read it/watched it, but it's so closely associated with some of my fave fandoms that when it's trending it's all over my dash even though I don't even follow the tag???

#like this is me with good omens rn #i love ofmd and wwdits but i never got round to watching good omens and now its literally everywhere and i cannot escape #im pretty sure its infiltrated my tik tok as well #does this mean i should go watch good omens??? #good omens #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #our flag means death #ofmd #fandom #fandom culture #1k+ #cntp

[fyeahgothicromance]

#i can confirm this is exactly what its like #tik toks

[coldasyou]

I’m usually not one to police what people complain about but people who complain about their eras show surprise song or setlist are sooo annoying like idc if you wanted a mash up and didn’t get one or didn’t want a mashup and got one or you didn’t get long live or invisible string or whatever like do you know how many people would have killed to just SEE the show in person???

#personal #sorry. tik tok has me acting like I’ve lost it (I have) #like I got a rep surprise song im not a rep fan but I’m not bitching about it!

[white-noise-blank-space]

THAT headcanon about ineffable husbands where humanity started using “angel” as way to call someone affectionately, because from the beginning of times it was use by Crowley to refer to Aziraphale, and It sounded so warm and loving that it just stuck with the first human who heard them speak, and has continued to this day.

#good omens #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #saw it on tik tok I think #I’m so delulu I like to thing that the real reason why we can call our loved ones angel #aziracrow invented love #ineffable husbands

[assiraphales]

matthew lilliard has contributed so much to cinema

#most of the time by being a slutty freak #love u #and he’s such a nice guy #I saw on tik Tok he was like I know there’s a strike and I don’t know what I’m allowed to say but I just want to thank the fans 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[nightcorecarseatheadrest]

You thought I’d never leave, and I let you believe you were right

#did this for a tik tok but I spent an hour on it and liked it so. doomed yuri be upon ye #four draws tag #splatoon #splatoon art #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #agent 4 #agent 4 splatoon #splatoon oc #agent 8 #agent 32 #agent 48

[vyeoh]

I'm being 100% serious one of the worst things stan culture has done is making suicide jokes commonplace again

#like we had a brief period of time where people were getting over the edgy kys jokes and then twitter and tik tok brought them fully swing #i despise it so much its bad for your own mental health and its bad for others #vio.txt #vio.rant #tw suicide #call me easily triggered but it legit makes me so uncomfortable on a good day and makes me spiral on a bad one #and like u can't ask people to stop without it being weird

[enchantingtrash]

Can't stop thinking about her

#i love her #oh my god #the first sentence just hits you like a fright train #bbc #cunk on earth #funny #tik tok #god #chrsitianity

[psychopomparia]

You guys heard of DCKZ, 4GGRAVTE, and 6REEZE. Get ready for:

#genshin impact #wriothesley #alhaitham #neuvillette #kaveh #i saw this on tik tok and i really liked the idea #just a bunch of onfield dps #and people who are shipped #this is only vibes really so idk if this is pratical at all #ari rambles #wriolette #neuvsley #kavehtham #haikaveh

[tiktoks-we-like]

#i like when bands are aware of their weird fans #tiktok #tik tok #video #mod pastel

[domtopvarric]

Finding out that buy and large what people mean when they say "it's dangerous to reheat rice!!" is that if rice is held at a tepid temperature for an extended period of time it tends to grow cultures that can cause food poisoning. A fact that is true about pretty much everything.

#yes. cooked rice is a potentially hazardous food and if allowed to stay in the ''temperature danger zone'' for too long #for example when being cooled too slowly and then reheated to a less than bacteria killing temperature #it can grow stuff that makes you sick! #that is in fact how that works. this isn't actually particularly new information? nor is it terribly rice specific #i have a hard time believing that so few twitter/tik tok users are food workers that this could become a panic #guys they make us watch a video about this every time we renew our food handler cards #you remember the video? the annoying one? my state's video has a cartoon bleach jug idk what yours is like