i think tiktok is uniquely deleterious and harmful specifically because of how it is designed but i can never reblog any posts about it because people keep rehashing degeneracy theory about it and warming over societal decline narratives instead of meaningfully critiquing the design of the object itself
i would love to hear you talk about the details of this just saying
magic beans 🫘
5317 Can I just say a thing I've observed? So I checked out tiktok once in the past just to see what the fuss was about, and the content aside (yikes), I instantly hated the "tiktok scroll" effect. You can scroll for hours and hours without ever reaching the bottom of your feed. The content just NEVER stops right? And it's how you get stuck on your phone for hours without realizing how much time passed. And apparently it's not just me, a lot of people hate that because well, for obvious reasons, it can mess with attention spans, and be a time suck, etc. But here I am on tumblr, and if I even dare mention that I only follow 30 or 40 people, because I don't like scrolling and never being able to reach the bottom of my feed (like it happens on tiktok), because I like to know when to stop and feel like I've actually "seen everything I had to see" for a given time, people look at me like I'm an alien. Even the ones who actively say they hate tiktok's endless feed thing. Make it make sense??? Which is it???
Posting as a response to a previous problem.
Tumblr has a dash pagination mode, which I use. Very beautiful, very powerful
I have thoughts about the last part:
This is what mass consumerist art has done to the idea of selling that as a product when it's so clearly fine art. Like, with the effort she's putting in x20 for a decent wage and materials?? That's a $80,000 piece of art a member of the landed gentry would commission a year in advance for his wife on their 20th wedding anniversary. This is a priceless heirloom. How can you say "Oh yeah, I wanna buy it, you should sell them" as if you could ever turn something like this into a product??
This is fine art, period. That piece will be in a museum, or if not is should be in a museum in a hundred years.
I already said this in my tags but:
Hey, y'all in the notes: she wasn't asking you to call her beautiful or say she's adorable or "uwu she's so sweet i would die for her". She's asking you to interact with physically different creators regardless of if you think they're beautiful or not. Beauty standards are a farce and we need to stop implying that beautiful is the most important thing someone can be. Every person who says "oh she's so sweet I would die for her" or "anyone who calls her ugly is getting their kneecaps caved in": this is for you. You are being madly infantalising. It's like when you say to a fat person "oh you're not fat, you're cuddly" like, shut up! I thought we were past this by now. She is a PERSON and you are all scrambling to say just how beautiful you think she is, without even thinking about the message she is trying to send.
This isn't me saying she's ugly or whatever the fuck. I don't believe in ugly. This is me telling you all to stop being so fucking surface level with your beauty 'activism'. She knows what she looks like and she probably doesn't need hundreds of people infantalising her because they need to performatively show off how good they are and how much they don't care about traditional beauty standards. Grow up and interact with her like she's a person, not a fuckin three-legged puppy.
Y'all need to re-learn some disabled activism 101 here we stg:
Peer reviewing these tags cause this is the third time I've seen this on my dash, and these tags are what made me actually watch the video
would you still love me if i was a worm? wait no sorry that’s stupid let me rephrase that would you still love me if I was of no value to you anymore? if I broke my vows by turning into someone you never agreed to be with if I suddenly couldn't be a wife couldn't be a mother if I couldn't clean the house and I couldn't put dinner on the table and couldn't have sex would you still love me? would I even be me, to you? do you love me or the things that I do? when wives get life threatening illnesses 1 in 5 husbands leave those don't seem like good odds so I'm just asking if I turned into a worm tomorrow and I could no longer provide you with anything at all, would the love remain? would you find a terrarium and fill it with mulch and keep me in the bedroom? would you spray me with water? would you keep me alive? would you throw me out onto the pavement? I think I would make you a house of popsicle sticks if you were a worm
Best part is the background commentary from the other seventh graders:
Student 1: How does he do that???
Student 2, in a bored tone: he’s gay, he can do anything 🙄
yeah you kind of know where this one is going
Whatever you think the song is, you’re not ready for it
this one’s for all the teenagers who think their generation invented sex
This counts as science
well there was a conclusion, a list of ingredients, a research question, and the result evidence so yea that most definitely is science
and while he didn't write it down, he did make a record of it! So yes, that is science!
We ll knew exactly how this was going to go the second the question was posed, and none of us were disappointed.