#tiktok sucks ass

[sorrowfulrosebud]

With each micro term on tiktok, I die a bit more on the inside. Your legs are beautiful, legging legs don’t exist. Body types do.

Tear stains are beautiful, but unnoticeable if they’re not pointed out.

Canthal tilts didn’t exist until a few months ago.

You do not need to spend thousands of dollars in ulta for a cream that does fuck all.

Stop listening to rich assholes on the internet trying to sell you stuff from tiktok shop. You are allowed to be human without someone capitalising off of it.

[dyslexicorn]

So I won't go on tiktok for literal money but this is....idk..it's something. Because I was one of the "rare cases" where my face WAS swollen from this bullshit tiktok term "cortisol face." I had a tumor on my pituitary gland making my body produce cortisol at an alarming rate. And it was literally killing me. I was an extremely lucky case, in that it only took about a year of diagnostics before I had two surgeries going in through my nose to the pit gland before it was removed. I am still recovering even three years later. Gotta say it feels pretty shitty to find out tiktok is reducing an multifaceted disease that kills people to "your face is fat!"

It's called Cushing's Disease. It can be florid or cyclic. It's debilitating. I was puffy, red, constantly tired, over heated. I gained 100 pounds in less than a year. I couldn't walk any significant distance. My heart rate was 133 bpms resting. My heart now has an enlarged left ventricle which I will probably have the rest of my life. I only narrowly escaped massive medical debt because of a fluke of insurance I happened to have. To hear that there are people peddling the thing that tried really hard to destroy my life as an explanation as to why someone does or doesn't look a certain way is just the brand of fucked up I expect from tiktok.

If you think you might have this disease I urge you to ask your doctor or endocrinologist for a cortisol urine and cortisol blood serum test to get checked out. It's real and allegedly rare, but this isn't time for my speculations on that.

So while it isn't a made up trend, it is a very real, very painful and damaging disease. I'm not really sure why I wrote this. Just that it upset me and I figured I'd crawl out of my cave to write about a singular thing I can actually speak to. Thanks for coming to my ted talk I guess.

Oh you think you’re fat? Actually you have CORTISOL FACE! Yeah buy this useless product on TikTok shop and follow me for more misinformation and general panic about the next made up trend.

[whyalesbianstakingtestosterone]

Tbh I am so tired of tik tok

Recording/posting videos stresses me out as an autistic person, with social anxiety. I really would like to participate in fun trends and just be silly on the internet, but people can be so mean sometimes.

It’s overstimulating in general. It fries your attention span so badly.

AND ITS JUST SO FUCKING STUPID

The watering down of subcultures, styles, terms is wild. Wtf do you mean you’re hetero and calling yourself a pillow princess?! WTF IS CONSERVATIVE GOTH/PUNK?!

the amount of hate towards nonbinary, he/him, transmasc lesbians in our own community is so fucking WILD

The constant invention of new insecurities. Repackaging old ones just to serve it to us on a silver platter. Strawberry legs, face harmony… WTF IS EVEN THAT?!

CONSTANT INVENTION OF NEW ABLEIST SHIT TO SAY?! I see a new way to make fun of autistic people like every two months. “He’s acoustic”. “HES RESTARTED?!?!”.

I just decided to come back to tumblr. It’s so much better in here. I really feel like I belong.

[fishtax]

why tf is tiktok actually bullying creators I don't get it

It keeps getting rid of my likes and views on my videos (if it even decides to show them to my followers in the first place)

like im not the only person experiencing this either like what's it problem why is it being mean and evil

[carpbait]

hey guys. runs into a wall

[thingstrumperssay]

Kinda wish that every Democrat would have the same kind of energy AOC has.

[matoitech]

if your app won’t let u look at stuff without an account it fucking sucks

[kamirai-k]

So tiktok got banned and now wtf do I do? There were so many cool ppl on there and I learned so much!

[oceanwithouthermoon]

the way some people straight up have no respect for asou's writing is actually kind of insane to me 😭 like youre a fan of HIS manga, but you outwardly express your disregard for the intentions he had when writing....... disregarding canon can be super duper funsies and cool sometimes, but to straight up say "i dont care what he intended and think my headcanons are more canon than what he wrote because i think he wrote it badly/he sucks at writing this dynamic/i dont like the ship (or whatever) he was trying to imply" is literally just insanely disrespectful IN MY OPINION 😖

i think maybe im just annoyed at how badly people misuse the words "canon", "coded", and "implied" (which im also guilty of occasionally- especially when i first came here) cuz like... "i choose not to acknowledge this thing that is canon or technically canon or implied" is fine (usually). "i know what the author intended but i dont like it or care, so im going to call my headcanon/ship canon and anyone who disagrees is disregarding canon and is stupid because i said so" is NOT fine... ☠️☠️☠️

[vixdesl]

you're telling me this orange bastard cares more about Tic Tac Ding Dong app.. than worrying about people receiving MASS GENOCIDE that the state is funding???

we are fucking doomed

bro what

"yes vote for me.. my voting points..uh.. I will let you have that app I hated so much I'm 2020 that I wanted to ban but forget that.... its 95% ai brainrot now anyways I'll fight for your tik take 🥺🙏"

[helloitshaley]

"Steven Lim was disproportionately blamed for the fiasco" and "Steven maybe isn't qualified to be a CEO and doesn't quite have the X factor" are two statements that can coexist

[isbergillustration]

I know we panic every few months collectively about this webbed site disappearing but since it is the source of 98% of my art related income and the only place people are sufficiently queer and mentally ill to like my stuff (which I, a fellow mentally ill queer, say with love & affection) that would kinda suck. Anyway if it does disappear you can find me on fb, insta and tiktok also as @isbergillustration, on twitter as @utgr1d and on my own webbed site where nothing happens isbergillustration.com

Here is an abstracted minotaur in progress for your trouble

[geekinthesheet5]

I'm tweaking my favourite Batman artist ever liked my art yall cannot compare this tremendous victory 🙏🙏

[dipshitgraphixtm]

Yeah we’ll ban an app that really hasn’t done anything wrong literally no one was complaining about anything they’ve done but yeah gun violence can still happen every day who cares!!!

[wormfarmm]

i’m afraid i need frank… it’s not even a joke anymore…

[kunikisss]

Idk man I'd feed you miso soup from a syringe if you were laying sickly in bed

thats so sweet awwh💗💗💗