#anti TikTok

[domithanasia]

the only reason why ten year old girls are destroying stupidly overpriced products at sephora to make “skincare smoothies” is because they aren’t being given access to a yard with a variety of mud, sticks, rocks, puddles, and old ceramic planters to make potions in. the children yearn for the apothecary

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[incognitopolls]

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[theboarsbride]

i saw people saying how TikTok is turning reading and publishing into the next 'fast fashion' and I feel ill. Because. Yeah.

[fridayiminlcve]

what is your problem with tiktok or booktok and colleen hoover lmao its not that bad surely

the fact that it actively promotes overconsumerism, the way it sells books to you by just playing into already heavily milked out tropes with very specific character niches that are seen in every book nowadays and how the reading is just seen as something aesthetic or a part of the "it girl routine" maybe? if those are enough reasons for you?

does the fact that these books are the first things you see when you walk into a bookstore not bother you? when you ask someone for a book recommendation they'll follow it up with "its a romance slow burn enemies to lovers". it's always about the aesthetic of the book, how many lines can you take out of context and post as a compilation of your super cute romantic annotations page on instagram. no analyzing the book, no theories, no symbolism or meaningfulness at all. how people stand reading those kind of books and still feel any kind of emotions over these flat as hell books with no world or character building is genuinely baffling to me

no one seems to know about actual literature anymore, which not to sound like a boomer but i think its definitely true. there's always been trend cycles, i agree such as the harry potter craze from the 1990s to the 2000s and the dystopia hunger games/maze runner/divergent blast in the early 2010s but tiktok has just.. shortened these cycles so much. as a result, people like our darling colleen hoover whose written around 46 books since 2015 (according to google) try come up with as much fresh content as they can as quickly as possible for the readers (see overconsumption). the fact that this lady outsold the bible is not outstanding to me, its fucking concerning.

and after all that, the result is badly written books with characters who're about as dimensional as a piece of paper, overuse of tropes, read like they've been written by a toddler, toxic-ass relationships being romanticised, very unnecessary sex scenes and countless other things. seriously if i wanted to read about the kind of stories hoover tells i would just open a wattpad account.

not clowning on those who made the choice to read it. i'm trying to highlight some of the flaws i find in authors like colleen hoover, sjm, ali hazelwood, casey mcquinston. some of them might be good, i wouldn't know because i actively try and avoid them at all costs. also i am BEGGING u all who will have an objection to this post to reach out of your comfort zone and read something different like non-fiction or fantasy or one of the classics for once if you only read booktok like seriously it might be hard but just do it for the love of god!! if you're annoying on this i will block you by the way i don't care

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

booktok canva covers are a hate crime against me personally

[g-on-ef]

I just found out people are binding Fanficion and selling it on Etsy to make a profit ... ... ...

I'm begging everyone who's reading this if yall see any binding Fanficion being sold please please please PLEASE report them don't buy from them do whatever we can to keep our Fandom space !!!!

[gummy-axolotl]

I know I've said it before but tiktok style word censorship makes me want to puke

[fixing-bad-posts]

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I gotta say this i hate tiktok ��🖤

[ratunderneathahat]

Thanks to tiktok seeing the word "oh!" Or "oh..." Directed towards me makes me want to kms.

[thejdog2000]

OK, new personal conspiracy theory

Those old Kidz Bop albums where they changed the lyrics of randomly picked songs that were popular at the time to be more "kid-friendly" (sometimes it was stuff that wasn't even suggestive or anything) were just a test run of the TikTok-style censorship of language we see today (like "unalive" instead of "die," for instance).

[you-need-not-apply]

tiktok people have ruined enjoying someones content. you can't "spam like" content anymore... WTF? how do i know when someone is obsessed with me? and loves me/my content? how do i know when ive made a forever mutual?

[3v3ry0n3z-fav3-al13n-x3]

Reason number 7373801019383770081232 why I hate TikTok:

The normalization of people getting filmed without their consent and put online for THOUSANDS to make fun of them thanks to that hell of an app.

Can't even go outside without being scared the same thing will happen to me. Maybe it already did happen without my knowledge, who knows

[robzombies-hotwife]

At what point are we going to call those invasive tiktok Man on the Street videos what they are: sexual harassment? Sorry to be a buzzkill (not really sorry) but a man with a camera going up to strange women and asking "what's your body count? what's your favorite sex position? how big are your tits? what's your ideal dick size?" etc is no different than a catcaller! Hell, he might be worse because a woman feels pressured to play along lest she become the next meme and star of a "PSYCHO KAREN FEMINAZI BITCH FREAKS OUT 😱" viral video if she expresses discomfort with the parasitic vlogger's sexually invasive questions.

[cherries-in-wine]

So I'm the opposite of a gatekeeper, if I like something I will announce it to everyone so we all can enjoy it together. I really didn't have a problem with tiktok finding Lana and Mitski because they're amazing artists that deserve more recognition. Same with things like coquette it's a fun aesthetic that I think brings us girls together. HOWEVER I hate how not normal tiktok is about these things like mfs listened to "my love is mine all mine" then proceeded to harass mitski at her concerts and make fun of the way she performs. Tiktokers turned coquette into a pretentious ass classicist "aesthetic". You get called being a trend follower or these mfs go "why are you STILL doing that?" LIKE BITCH STFU I'VE BEEN DOING THIS SINCE LONG BEFORE IT WAS TREND