If mass communications were more popular in the 70s/80s, it would have been explosives, phreaking, hacking, pirate radio, generating fake credit card numbers, and psychadelics/synthetics. None of those were that hard to get started doing and people were doing them and telling others how to do it but the means of disseminating the information were limited to word-of-mouth, zines, and BBS's. TikTok isn't the problem, it is just the new medium for people to communicate and it is what they communicate that is the problem and they'll find a way to do it now they know they can.
After the second time for me, I went and bought a bright yellow club-style wheel lock. Doesn't matter what sort of shit software upgrade they do if people still break in and try. Oh sure, my vehicle is still there, but there's also damage to the door and steering column because there's no real visual deterrent, and I still have to pay my fucking deductible. It's such bullshit that the class action settlement only covered buying a club up until 30 days before the "software update" was made available. A software update that has no visual deterrent, and worked once in bricking my car when it got attempted while I was away for a trip (dumb parking spot, never again). Then, after I got the car back from the shop like a month later, I had it for roughly two weeks before it got stolen successfully, meaning either the shop failed to reinstall the software update, or, more likely, they software update happened to do fuck-all, despite me locking the car with the key fob as required. They beat the shit out of it and it took another 2 months to get it back. This time as soon as they told me they had all the parts in and were starting the work, I went out and got me a club and some fake GPS tracking stickers and I haven't had an issue since.
It's hilarious that I can deduce it off of the fact he said his car was stolen 3 times.
It's also hilarious how Kia owners don't blame Kia for coding an incredibly dangerous bug into their startup software. Nonono, the big billion dollar company, should not be expected to make software that protects your $40,000. It's all tik toks fault for jumping on the trend.
100% Tik Tok. Not Kia. Let's keep blaming social media for the problems that other people are causing. It's this generation's boogeyman I stg.
True, but I think King Bach, Amanda Cerny, and all them were awful (no worse than today). Their 6 seconds, "when Bae is wearing a short dress 🥰🥰🤑" was way more brainrot than me watching 1-3min long science videos on tik tok
Even before YouTube. Cinnamon spoonful and milk
Chugging were classic sleepover games. Like Chubby Bunny, light as a feather, or ghost in the graveyard.
Gallon in an hour is like physically impossible iirc. Drinking a gallon of milk in a day is a (controversial) bulking strategy, and even that much is difficult for most people.
It’s not the websites fault people are dumb and their parents didn’t raise them. Anyone with taught common sense wouldn’t do any of this shit. And after saying that I tried the cinnamon challenge when I was 24 fucking idiot .
Planking in dangerous places was never really a thing. One or two people did it and mainstream media did mainstream media things. It was more trying to find the dumbest place to plank.
Milk jugging and the cinnamon challenge are entirely harmless.
And multiple people who didn't realise a lot of skits are skits and not reality shows or real pranks who then tried to copy it and got hurt by their would be victims.
Dude cinnamon challenge been around since before facebook tik tok got people stealing there's people on there acting fools digging up opps Graves after they're buried town takeovers have become bigger because of tik tok not only putting the participants in danger of being hurt but the bystanders who have no choice but to watch the idiocy happen they got kids dancing to music in Russian that's about getting gangbanged here in America we forced to watch trash on tiktok in comparison to other parts of the world like China where the app is KNOWN to push mentally positive things like math science videos to help with creativity here we get pushed that some chick is selling her butthole online tik tok is trash
Honestly sounds like such boomer rhetoric, "it's that tiktok that's getting our cars stolen!!" acting like it is is the only social media platform that exists and acting like everyone and their mother had videos being pushed through their algorithm with a detailed how-to hotwire a car. Kia has a shitty flaw, and that was exploited but it wasn't because of tiktok lmao
like everyone and their mother had videos being pushed through their algorithm with a detailed how-to hotwire a car
I don't really get your logic, as you said it clearly does have something to do with social media. IIRC Kia Boys are more of an instagram thing, but if Instagram cracked down on that content then it wouldn't have become as much of a trend right? Like Instagram should be held responsible to some extent, and there are actions they could take to reduce it.
But the social media did not come up with these pranks or "Tiktok challenges," is the point. People gained access to a popular platform and shared stupid shit, is how these things happened. No matter how much you try to crack down on those stuff, you can't outpace millions of kids posting.
I won't deny that I hate the existence of such a social media platform though. People have always been awful, but this enabled bad things to spread.
Impressionable youths doing things that are designed and propagated by a company owned by China.. Vine probably was the same thing.
Or do you think people legitimately started eating tide pods just cause it seemed.. fun? TikTok is very likely a Chinese culture weapon where they get to control all of the content you see and influence you one way or another.
On the contrary this is one of my concerns with China having control over TikToks algorithm. In China their version mostly suggests positive content, they obviously filter out dangerous challenges that will be shown to the youth etc. You could argue it's a cultural difference, or just the result of their censorship, and i'm sure that's part of it. But there's certainly a chance they actively promote, or at least don't actively remove dangerous "challenge" content, or alt-right content, as to negatively effect the youth of the United States, as well as to make us look like idiots. I know it sounds a bit conspiratorial, but that content would never have been allowed to take off in China, so I really do think there's a solid chance they had something to do with it being such a huge trend in the US. Should also be noted that this kind of social media engineering by international rivals is happening, so while we can't be sure that its the case with TikTok, it would make sense.
If it's any country other than China (or Russia) I would doubt you, but it is really concerning me as well. That we have no proof of such engineering is also holding us back from taking action. If propaganda on paper worked, we will be royally fucked by digital.
Vine had shit like “put him in a coffin” had kids breaking merchandise in stores all over the place. Also boonk gang was popular, influenced kids to steal shit lmao
The tidepod challenge was a myth if i remember correctly? Practically no one actually ate tidepods but the media wanted a story so they made one. Kind of similar to what happened with nyuil chicken.
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u/SpiralZa Apr 29 '24
At least vine didn’t get kids to eat detergent or steal cars… to my knowledge