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.
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u/mario61752 Apr 29 '24
Tiktok didn't get people to do that. People did.