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@Extreme Z7 Exactly, enough said. That's what it's designed to be, extremely addicting. Other than marketing uses, it's a huge pleasure center.

@Juan I agree, I concede my point of view. I am going to make a user account in Tik Tok, and watch twerking or dance videos, with an open mind. I will epistemically be blind, start as unbiased as I can, and consume twerking and dance videos, maybe I'm wrong about Tik Tok? Maybe, even though this isn't sexually attractive or a fetish to me, as I'm more a chest, tummy and face person, maybe jiggling butts and yoga pants and hands are sexually appealing after all, in sped up videos? I don't know, the mysteries of Tik Tok imprisonment abounds. Am I the wise, or am I the fool? And yes, Naz X's cowboy rap songs did gain popularity on Tik Tok so I'll give you that, maybe my Eminem shorts might? Who knows, ad I don't know.

@Kksd74628 4. Well, drawing faces, or drawing any subject matter, within a sped up video is nothing new to Tik Tok. YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and other visually based websites have done the same with drawing tutorial videos. There's even historical methods and teachings of drawing techniques, already pre existing knowledge base already, so I don't see how this is a positive purely for Tik Tok, personally feels like theft. 3.Yes, I partly agree, stage green valued younger people, even the hippies and SJWs, and the hyperactive ones, value Tik Tok, due to it's algorithm being really quick to curating content to every single user's self biases and preferences, so effective it curates sexual content to specifically a user's bias, unconsciously, due to the length of time that user is viewing a video, and other contextual factors and user engagement. Yes, the algorithm is so powerful at this that it gave every single user what they wanted deep down. Stage of development, cognitive biases and moral development, personality types and traits, states of being, life experiences, and other lines of development in various areas of life, recorded and tailored by the algorithm, all that personal data tracked very quickly to ByteDance. 2. Sure, for the fads and trends, that's good for marketing and promotion. Don't care, especially when there's no intentionality to marketing and promoting your content, especially when the algorithm, again, hyper curates and tailors content to fit exactly your biases perfectly. 1. Faster /=/ better, haste makes waste, garbage input = garbage output, classic Leo Gura take. All may be good and partly true if contextualized, but that's assuming A LOT FROM 8-16 year old teenagers and children, as the major demographic of Tik Tok, on average, don't cognitively develop the same capacities for critical thinking as adults. For the adult demographic using Tik Tok I'll assume reasonable and intentional usage, but younger? No, in fact they're wasting time and energy, viewing content hyper curated to their biases, and not really learning outside of their perspectives. Tik Tok currently is the perfect digital trap box, the best ideology propagator and proliferator, the best piece of this fractured, fractal magnifying glass we call the internet, that force multiplies every single person's ideology. Tik Tok, if we're not careful now, in 50-100 years, will be the next virtual world prison of the world.

@Kksd74628 Okay, can you give me a list of the positive effects that Tik Tok has to younger people so far?

@Juan I am open minded, but not enough my brains spill out. You, and OP lately, are underestimating the devastation that Tik Tok can unleash upon the youth and future generations, and are spilling your brains all over the place, poisoning the well, and trying to sugar coat Tik Tok like it's safe. It's not.

@Kksd74628 Here are more studies that does show more negative effects of Tik Tok: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip_eO05679AhVSOMAKHYRcD64QFnoECFAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsocialmediapsychology.eu%2F2022%2F08%2F18%2Ftiktok-is-killing-your-brain-right-now%2F&usg=AOvVaw1ycqoDwg2gCjfnuR6EklBg https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip_eO05679AhVSOMAKHYRcD64QFnoECCgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencetimes.com%2Farticles%2F34138%2F20211025%2Ftiktok-bad-brain-constant-social-media-streaming-narrows-collective-attention.htm&usg=AOvVaw37YI0FN-y3cEFdU723E4sf https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjPnKSB6K79AhXlolwKHbsTBHcQFnoECC4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2022%2F04%2F08%2Ftiktoks-impact-on-childrens-brains-likened-to-candy-store%2F&usg=AOvVaw1IgPv9rbjpA0vGwRaseMvn

@Kksd74628 Unfortunately, Tik Tok has overall produced a net negative towards the younger generation. Based on the Spiral Dynamics stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types and traits, ego development, states of consciousness, life/lived experiences and other lines of development in various areas of life, and ideologies indoctrinated into the mind, Tik Tok has so far proven to be a collective trap box, by China's Hua Wei, to specifically perform a 'soft invasion' digitally, by corrupting the information ecology, spreading misinformation and disinformation into the majority of western teens' minds that are hooked and consume too much social media, as well as Tik Tok shorts. Here are a few examples so far of the negativity of Tik Tok, and how it functions as a long term corrosive mind trap, to slow down stages of development of western minds, to influence further cognitive decline and focus, to proliferate moral degradation, increase neurosis and Narcissism in young teens and increase social anxiety and introversion, feed false and BS garbage information intake to make users feel lower states of consciousness, and to distort and reframe actual life experiences to give them a false sense of reality, that this is the new norm, when in fact it's designed to give false expectations. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiv3O3U5K79AhXaiFwKHbQ5Am4QFnoECBMQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.attentionalways.com%2F10-bad-things-about-tiktok%2F&usg=AOvVaw13LGbKhKrUMIiQI6vxMAKF https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiv3O3U5K79AhXaiFwKHbQ5Am4QFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fauthenticallydel.com%2Fnegative-effects-tiktok%2F&usg=AOvVaw2q1X5y59jhUyAWc666cXKr https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip_eO05679AhVSOMAKHYRcD64QFnoECBAQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgamequitters.com%2Ftiktok-brain%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DThe%20term%20'TikTok%20brain'%20is%2Cproblematic%20and%20lead%20to%20addiction.&usg=AOvVaw0lPa-MAr1joJPFAu27Zl_G

@Juan What's wrong with it, is that you are a member of a different big cult, culturally appropriating from my big cult, looking and speaking from my big cult in your big cult, offending your in group because that's a different cult.

@Devin Yes, it's true, when I saw a white guy dressed in the oriental attire, in left leaning universities, sometimes that guy gets the cold shoulder or demonization, despite not knowing that part of the white guy's upbringing is Chinese! And for the most part the guy's treated fairly in places like China town cuz he dresses and speaks their language well.

Like it's considered racist to ban Tik Tok, even though there's national security risks with that app and brain damaging effects like ADD/ADHD and other garbage information that indoctrinates stupidity in the younger generation. I'm willing to bet at the dead pool, that China could send over Xenomorphs into America, and that trying to ban the parasitical life forms is xenophobic, and we should welcome them instead!

@D2sage The sad part here, is looking at how China handles their Tik Tok compared to the USA's. China restricted parts of Tik Tok from children, limited their time used, and flooded the zone with educational material than entertainment, so you see Tik Tok shorts of educational stuff versus entertaining mind numbing topics. In this specific case, China is outperforming the USA and other western countries. Ideally, the west should have outright destroyed and banned Tik Tok, but of course, it would be Donald Trump's fault for banning Tik Tok cuz he's racist or Xenophobic. Well, the well is poisoned now, is what hope do we have of reversing the neuroplasticity damage that Tik Tok does?

@Devin Hahaha, that also won't work either. Good luck stopping yourself being a parent, when you see your child doing something stupid or life threatening, and you need to interject fast.

@ValiantSalvatore Basically, power corrupts absolutely, and with great power comes great responsibility.

@Consept Not just that, but also lack of willpower and discipline. In today's age of information, with social media overconsumption, hyper consumerism, and rampant use and spread of Tik Tok like formats, has engineered the corrosive decline of focus, and increases of ADD/ADHD/, and designed an environment that increases neurosis and narcissism, giving lots of misinformation. Which is why you have to be in an environment that allows PUA to work more effectively, like Las Vegas for example, or other places that PUA is designed in to be expected and welcomed. Places where girls and women go to have fun and entertainment, are places that PUA works pretty well.

@Emotionalmosquito Even if you need to red pill yourself a bit in this situation, go for the cold approach. Hesitation and doubt are turn offs for women. If you have to make your innuendos slightly more obvious, go for it. All case sensitive and in context to the environment and time.

@Emotionalmosquito ?‍♀️ Just cold approach and initiate kino escalation, while making observational statements and being funny. Watch for her body language, from face, to arms, shoulders, chest, positioning of her body if she's facing you or diagonally or giving you her side, and her legs/feet. Look up signs of attraction, and not attraction, and in the kino technique and talking to her you'll know.

@StormLight I think Leo Gura has the potential to become a RAP GOD. Just got to work in the bars, the rhyme schemes, the themes, and it's a perfect post.

@Sucuk Ekmek I want to become a vampire. A vampire like the ones in DnD, with the magic powers.

It's actually a bit strange, considering cultural appropriation as evil. A white guy, dressed and speaking Mandarin in a progressively leaning university gets called all sorts of negative stuff, but the same guy, dressed, behaves and speaks Mandarin in a China town? Most people there are chill about that, and some support that guy for doing it their way. Culture = a BIG CULT.

This is a really good podcast about Tik Tok brain:

@Juan I'd agree only if it's for marketing, anything else is a no still.

@UnbornTao To really steel man this Tik Tok, the usefulness is really limited to two: marketing and promotion quickly eye catching click baiting shorts. And, if intentional, develop faster mental reflexes, but this is like an active spot the differences, in a content tailored specifically to your user content. Another form of entertainment, but again it's the mind equivalent to junk food. All this has to be intentional before hand for the user, and they know what they're getting into. If it's not for marketing, and no idea why you're consuming Tik Tok, don't use or consume Tik Tok content, simple. Most things overall, probably not as useful and is more negative, and some areas can be detrimental to mental health.

@Juan First, OP was more demonizing of Tik Tok and social media, and bringing up several leftist created issues as well. So, I was the one that placed more emphasis on the negatives of social media and Tik Tok overuse specifically, how it reduces focus ability and discipline, how it increases ADD/ADHD, how moral degradation occurs, and how children are getting more of the negative impacts of overuse, all these from a big picture multiplex perspective. Also, I chose to try and make this thread focus more on Tik Tok here because Tik Tok kick started the fad and trend that other social media sites, such as YouTube shorts, Instagram feed, Pinterest, and so on, in this information ecology, putting technological development pressures on big companies online to adopt a very similar to similar format to gain viewers rapidly, or risk losing out some competitive advantage in the market place of technology. And Tik Tok is created, again, by Hua Wei, from China, and they don't have the same privacy protections from western based websites, so if the CCP wants data from certain users, they just give it to them. This poses some risks. As a parent, the parents are responsible for disciplining their children a bit more, and to prevent at least too much exposure to those sites to their children if they can. I think being conservative here is more important, it's not worth risking the brain health of your children.

@UnbornTao ABSOLUTELY!