#if tiktok is stupid

[ssmashley]

HIMMMMMMMMM

[thatscribblingrat]

this is like my most hit tweet of all time

[morganbritton132]

Eddie is live-streaming and Steve is hanging out in the same room, grading papers. Fans don’t even know that he’s there until he leans into the frame and presses a gold star sticker to Eddie’s cheek, “A gold star for my gold star man.”

Eddie: You know, technically I’m considered a gold star gay.

Steve: What’s that mean?

Eddie: it’s a dumb things assholes say to make themselves feel superior. It just means I’ve never been with a woman.

Steve: … Are there gold star bisexuals?

Eddie: Ehh, a bisexual that’s been with both, maybe? But like I-

Steve: I think all bisexuals deserve gold stars.

Steve: Because I’m not judgmental.

Steve: *smiles at the camera*

Eddie:

Eddie: Stop trying to get me canceled.

Steve: No. Not until you get off your phone and spend time with me.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Yeah I give up. I know this is a big joke to everyone but handing over your sensitive information to a foreign hostile government that dissappears thousands of their own citizens a year is not the big haha epic leftist win you think it is. I keep thinking I'm incapable of being shocked anymore and then this unbelievably brain dead generation proves me wrong over and over again. The Chinese government is not your friend and this shit about how "haha they can steal all the data they want if they keep showing me these gay mommy milkers" is just unbelievable holy shit how stupid are you people?? The CCP executed over 3k people in 2024 according to Amnesty international. They are currently occupying Hong Kong, unlitaterally ended the legality of a functional democracy there, and have arrested hundred of activists in the past year alone. They have been threatening to invade Taiwan and impose the same authoritarianism there for years, and have been occupying Tibet since the fucking 1950s. The CCP is currently committing a GENOCIDE against the Uyghur Muslim minority, something I KNOW you guys have heard about, but I guess that doesn't matter anymore since getting Le Epic Win meme moments against the US government by sharing your data with those committing the genocide is more important??

Holy shit. Holy shit! Are you people actually out of your goddamn minds? How can any of you call yourself leftist progressive anti imperial prison abolitionist advocates blah blah blah are you effing kidding me? The left has permanently turned a corner that I seriously don't think we can come back from. Actually advocating for human rights has been completely abandoned in favor of stanning actual literal totalitarian dictatorships to look cool and radical online, regardless of any reality on the ground. You are all literally enthusiastically throwing away decades upon decades of advocacy done by REAL human rights advocates, for a fucking meme. I am not even kidding anymore I am virulently disgusted by most of the people on this fucking backwards pro fascist website. You people are not communist intellectuals you are brain dead algorithm addicted ignorant children who are so overly confident and proud about your ignorance that you are actively bringing about worse and worse realities for people who ACTUALLY have to live under the oppression you so desperately want to pretend that you face.

[notquiteaghost]

re: that fucking staff post. obviously death to algorithms, but i also wanna interrogate the wider underlying assumptions of their logic there cuz. is 'success' having lots of followers & lots of popular posts??? why is that the end goal of using this website. i don't open tumblr to get attention from strangers, i open tumblr to read funny jokes and interesting commentary and to see cool art. encouraging clout-chasing will only increase user engagement if you successfully get people literally addicted to the associated dopamine hit. what if we didn't have to do that!!! what if a website could be a place you went to on purpose because you had fun there!!!!

[riddlerautism]

edward just trying to sleep:

joker:

[bookinit02]

i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

[fence-time]

FUCK IT UP WHITE BOY ‼️‼️

[lanavecorona]

today i offer you tmnt art. tomorrow???? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[visenyaism]

Being able to correctly pinpoint the stupid-to-evil ratio of any given policy decision made by the American government is one of the most important civic literacy skills you can have. And yet it is such a lost art

[enemywasp]

"Honey, I assure you as a condescending child on the interent that I know you better than a medical professional and your therapist is grooming you if they support you :/"

[pyr0frnzy]

gay ppl on my algebra II notes what the freak

[mothric]

with tiktok apparently being back after only 20 ish hours, what I plan to do is download my bookmarks like I wanted and then get the hell off it. I'm not praising mr president for "saving" something he aimed to get rid of in the first place.

that said I'm left with one main question which is: how?

as in, by what legal process did the man supposedly overturn a supreme court decision? yes, political theatre, propaganda, whatever, that's not the question I'm asking. I'm asking, what is the actual mechanism by which this is happening? how does this happen? is there any precedent for a president supposedly having this ability to just insta-reverse something that took months for a whole govt body to decide? I vaguely recall some bill passed late last year that would give the president more power than he constitutionally should have, but I wasn't sure I understood it. is this connected to that?

but also, how much did he actually overturn it? did he overturn anything at all? clearly something is still in effect since you cannot find tiktok in the app store and when you search for it, this comes up:

can somebody who understands legalese help me understand what is actually happening here? I will accept even a half-baked attempt at an unbiased response. I know people have lots of strong opinions about tiktok and about trump and i'm aware there is a great degree of performativity happening here, but let's save all that bs for a different post because that's not what i'm asking about. i'm asking what is Going On. is the man straight up breaking the law? like. help

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Ford loving his 6 fingered cat cause I’m tired of his mis-characterization

[beeduoo]

i really like that one tiktok