#online tik tok

[halfagony-halfhope]

i’m sorry but i needed to share this with you guys. one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while.

[flamedoesart]

I feel like people tend to forget that the reason children are on websites they really shouldn't be on, like Twitter for example, is because there are no spaces on the internet anymore specifically designed for children, unless it's for babies or toddlers.

The death of Flash also meant the death of thousands of games and websites specifically designed for the 9-13 demographic. Now granted, several games died long before Flash did (like the Holy Disney MMO trio - Pixie Hollow, ToonTown and Club Penguin) but there were other websites designed around what kids would enjoy. Sites like Kongregate, Sploder, GirlsGoGames and others were designed with kids in mind.

These sites were special in the sense that it gave fun games for children to play without even really needing to interact with other people directly. They could play the games and have fun. If they wanted to make friends they could, and oftentimes these sites had moderation to prevent kids from having full control over what they could say so as to prevent bullying and potential cyberstalking.

But now Flash is dead, and there's barely any hangout spots for that demographic anymore. I think the last remaining game you can play that doesn't require Flash that was a major part of the 2010s game nostalgia was Wizard101, but that game comes with the flaw of membership programs, similar to all the other MMOs that existed at the time.

Needless to say, the next time we ask in annoyance why there's so many 12 year olds on Twitter and Tik Tok, remember that it's because there's literally no online spaces anymore solely for them and only them, that majority of adults wouldn't step foot into anymore.

[triaelf9]

Two new designs in my store today!

One Ask Before Filming design and one Do Not Film design ^_^ In this day and age where so many think it's chill to just film strangers & post them online for clicks, make it clear where you stand.

(you can also get the image on the back of the shirt/clothing item if you like)

Check out my store here! I get a small cut from each item, but each penny goes to my monthly income & my comic-making

Get my stuff here!

[soullessbullshit]

Sheogorath: Minimalism can go die in a hole! It's just rich people cosplaying as the poor! And they have the audacity to look up from their artisanal coffee and go "yOu KnOw, MaTeRiAl ObJeCtS cAn'T bRiNg YoU rEaL jOy~"

Sheogorath: They are wrong! You're wrong, you little gentrifier! Because let me tell you something; I purchased a hyper-realistic plastic baby, which I routinely swaddle up in blankets, and then I go around and I deliberately drop it in front of strangers.

Sheogorath: And then I look them dead in the eye and I say, "whoops~! Mondays, am I right~?" Even though it is fully a Thursday.

Sheogorath: That little plastic baby? Has brought me more joy than some of my human relationships.

[lunar-years]

Don’t get me wrong I think the whole banning TikTok thing was a colossal interparty failure. however. I do I find it astonishing that the general reaction to TikTok briefly going dark, which the the Biden administration explicitly stated was an entirely unnecessary stunt, and coming back less than 24 hours later because it was, in fact, a STUNT, being praise for Trump’s ‘intelligence’ and clever ways of gaining young followers rather than utter dismay and disgust that our politicians are wasting time being manipulative and showboating. What do you mean you think Trump’s a genius for being deceptive and performative and spending all his time in dick measuring contests with Joe Biden? What do you mean.

[bloodpopsoda]

Can We normalize Having a dislike towards something without trying to make it seem like it's problematic or a bad thing. Like making up shit. "Ford x Bill. It's weird because Bill is older than Ford." Ford is a grown ass man. What are you talking about.

An artist got harassed at one point because they shipped their 33 year old oc with a 22 year old And they called the 22 year old, a minor. ( I wish I was joking)

Or saying, "It would be hell to animate." On a redesign video that obviously is never gonna get animated.

People Nowadays, just think that you need a general reason. To not like something, but they have to make up these problems that don't exist

[i-just-drink-coffee]

The Yellowjackets as some tik tok trends with no explanation

Lottie- Mama a girl behind YOU 💜

Natalie- What I Do

Shauna- That feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow

Jackie- Can I go Ellie and Mason house please

Tai- Black solo poly amputee hijabi

Van- I like my sootcase

Mari- Queen never cry

Misty- I just want to be a part of your symphony

Laura Lee- Hello Dubai

Akilah- Onika Burgers

Travis- My boy here/ I finna be in the pit

Coach Ben- Donatella VERSACE 💜

[sortagolddigger]

Girl all these videos of dusties attacking black women are starting to make me want to go on a full campaign that black women should only associate with a certain kind of man

Y'all need to make dusties suffer with loneliness. They are way too comfortable attacking us in front of the world!

[m1ckeyb3rry]

i should’ve unprivated my tik tok account and posted a lip sync video or two before it got nuked i might’ve made a few dollars or smth

[stanlinnm]

IDK

[agentfascinateur]

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Support Miss Rachel

[mangosmoothies]

i need ppl to understand it’s okay for fans to call Caitlyn a villain or dictator in this situation bc that’s quite Literally her character rn 😅 “but it’s because-!” U don’t have to make excuse on why u like her! Ppl can like characters that do bad things. admitting the bad things she’s done r great. I love sevika and silco and we’ve seen the shit they’ve done!

I’m tired of ppl trying to defend Caitlyn rn like she isn’t supposed to be the antagonist. And I’m tired of ppl immediately pushing Caitlyn into this hole of being a nazi cop. She’s a human being with human emotions. bad things happened to her so she’s retaliating by being bad and the show is obviously showing us that’s she’s being bad and it’s OBVIOUSLY gonna be resolved soon but just let her be bad! Let her react to trauma in ways a privileged individual with that much power can! It’s what makes her character complex !

No I dont like what She’s doing but thats quite literally trauma and rage responses from a human person. I don’t think it’s completely fair to downplay what she went thru but at the same time her reactions ARE deplorable and it just makes her current arc that much more interesting 🫣

[kittypersonal]

ohhhh yeah i’m obsessed with paddy pimblett

cr: bizzle.39 on tiktok

[cy-cyborg]

I'm seeing a lot of people here and on other platforms getting angry at people who have come from Tik Tok (and youtube to a lesser extent) who refuse to say words like death, racism and anything relating to heavy topics. Sometimes they won't even say the names of minorities either.

Any I get why this is frustrating and just not a good practice. The people criticising these folks are absolutely right, we need to get comfortable saying these words and discussing these topics. Not to mention the fact that self-censorship can cause issues for people who are legitimatly triggered by those topics (e.g. due to trauma), But as someone who spent a lot of time on Tik Tok and youtube before coming here, I think there's some vital context missing here.

I'd say a good 75% of the people on tik tok, and by extention, people who have moved elsewhere from Tik Tok, using words like "unalive," "r#pe," "sewerslide" or whatever else aren't using it because they're uncomfortable with the topic. In fact, it's quite the opposite. They want to talk about it, but Tik Tok's content moderation is so wildly strict that they can't. Even saying the words would get you flagged by the algorithm, ESPECIALLY if you had captions enabled or the actual word written in text from the in-app editor. This was especially true for people from minorities trying to talk about issues affecting their community or even just themselves (hence the hesitation to even say the minorities name sometimes).

This isn't just some conspiracy theory either. Tik Tok staff admitted to doing this intentionally on several occasions as a way to "keep the peace". I remeber when I first joined, it came out that they intentionally limited views on videos of visibly disabled people, both to prevent bullying but also because "some users find that content disturbung." I couldn't even show my stumps in videos without my videos getting stuck on 0 views at best or account warnings for "inappropriate content" at worst. I got DMs from several people after my video about disability pride month in July asking why their comments wishing me a happy disability pride month got removed, when I went into check the filtered comments, they'd all been hidden for "bullying". The same thing was happening with people commenting and saying the word "autism." And that's just the disabled community. I know similar stuff was happening in other communities too.

Most of the time, you had to speak in coded language to get your point out there. It's not that they're uncomfortable with it, it's because the videos would be dead in the water if they didn't. Getting the message out using these "toned down" replacements was better than not getting it out at all.

"OK, but this isnt tik tok, they shouldn't do that here" yeah, I agree, but for a lot of kids, Tik Tok was their first real experiance with social media, it makes sense that they're going to assume other platforms will be the same. YouTube is just as bad, if not worse, in some respects. Tumblr even has its fair share of censorship issues, too (e.g. queer people's posts being flagged as mature for seemingly no reason). It's not a stretch to make the assumption they'd need to continue the practice of self-censorship here, too.

This isn't to say that NO ONE is using the censored words to avoid hard topics/because it makes them uncomfy, but in my experiance, those people assume this is the best thing to do because everyone else was using it. They don't stop to ask why. They just repeat it, which in turn contributes to making them umcomfey with the real word.

I'm not saying don't pick people up on this stuff. We NEED those words, and we need to be more comfortable with them so stuff like the above situation doesn't happen and become a self-perpetuating cycle. But it started from a real, genuine need to censor ourselves to even get the message out, and I think it's important to keep that in mind. It's not just kids being "too sensitive."

[soullessbullshit]

Verandis: Oh my god, who hurt you??

Literally any of the Ravenwards: A surprising amount of people.

[regancastlelion]

ANOTHER UPDATE ON THE BETTERSSO!!!

The darling Emily Bondevik, have given Reddit another update with some screenshots.

Here are Bondevik's screenshots;