#What. What.

[imisskobeni]

Day 34. Weekly phone call from your older brother about how well film school is going (that you're putting him through)

[wayward-sherlock]

okay what do you mean there’s a “digital delivery fee” for my textbook.

[stone-stars]

BREAKFAST AFTER A NIGHT OF DRINKING IS SKYBOUND?????????

[trainingdummyrabbit]

hwat thats cool but whymst would you do a tool popup for a subscription only feature. whiteboard.

[broken-roses-]

Me reading wind breaker manga: sugishita and sakura are giving me big enemies to lovers vibes. Haha i gotta stop projecting that on everything

Literally two chapters later:

[mcybree]

its okay i dont think ur beastlife character is scott coded 💓 yet

haha tom youre so funny.

[blu3b1rdsss]

Where were you when they(rotomblr) were simping for terrorists

WHAT??? HUH??? THEY WERE HUH???

[weirdo-from-bonesborough]

I just saw someone say Jim Gordon would encourage the bats to murder the Joker to get revenge for Jason. BRO WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[invasive]

No way someone is about to commission me to draw my own rise gijinkas

[omorinintendoswitchedition]

wait a fucking second taylor swift has a tumblr

[sundancefemme]

why do you post so much about gay porn when youre a lesbian? would it be okay for a gay man to do the same about lesbians? genuine question, not supposed to be mean

this is…a very weird thing to say

[bleachersgirl]

what is even going on. taylor swift you are so deeply fucked up.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[mi1kw33d-2]

ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock