I’ve been watching some of the NCAA tournament games, and there have been a slew of TikTok ads which are embarrassing and insulting. It always features some folksy parent-age Joe/Jane Everyman extolling TikTok’s “commitment to safety”, parental controls, and wholesome community. As if this isn’t the digital crack that has turned an entire generation’s minds into brain-dead mush.
Suddenly, as soon as the crony partnership between the corrupt government and its billionaire pals commandeered ownership, we get this onslaught of aww-shucks bullshit.
“I’m just a simple welding shop owner, and golly gee I love my kids using TikTok.” Fuck right off into the sun, you shitfaced destroyers of society. Sad thing is, I’m sure it works.
I usually really hate the whole: phone bad angle, but yesterday i went to a huge indoor playground with 3 kids from 5 to 8 years old. It was pretty cool actually and something i would’ve loved as a kid. But seeing parents just sit there beaming tiktoks into their brains while simultaneously “playing” with their kids was super dystopian. Many kids did the same. They played for 10min and then blasted tiktoks for 20. I wish i could say i actually don’t know what they were doing on their phones, but it was quite obvious because they didn’t care to just blast it full volume.
If you have never seen a guy laying in a ball pit, half covered in balls while blasting tiktoks while also kind of touching his child so it counts as an activity, it’s quite a sight to behold and i honestly don’t know what the future looks like, but it’s not gonna be great.