Social Is tiktok making people dumber ?

[Jesus X]

Obligatory:

Lmao I feel like the average joe that becomes the smartest man in the world in that movie I feel smarter now that im dealing with the dumber young generation at work they can't do anything without using a phone for reference.

This scene is relatable to me:

 

[Jesus X]

there was a tiktok challenge for people to hang themselves and people did it not understanding the consequences

Lmao that is sad yet hilarious

 

[turbotime]

Pretty early to be on the sauce there buddy boy.

Also, there are some pretty neat ones out there. Like this one I find fun from an editing perspective.

 

[turbotime]

 

[preppypyro]

It for sure is making more people dumber.

I teach high school and I can just about literally see if happen in front of my eyes.it doesn't happen with ever single student, but it happens with a higher percentage for sure.

 

[PBAC]

Lmao that is sad yet hilarious

another one told teenagers to jam forks in electrical sockets

 

[Fluffernutter]

It for sure is making more people dumber.

I teach high school and I can just about literally see if happen in front of my eyes.it doesn't happen with ever single student, but it happens with a higher percentage for sure.

I find it poetic justice that the Liver King's downfall started this week.

A few of my students will ask me health, nutrition, or fitness questions (I'm not a PE teacher). When I ask them what is the catalyst for their question, inevitably it starts with "I saw a guy on TikToc..."

There are a ton of people on that platform that are in the same ilk as Liver King.

 

[PBAC]

I find it poetic justice that the Liver King's downfall started this week.

A few of my students will ask me health, nutrition, or fitness questions (I'm not a PE teacher). When I ask them what is the catalyst for their question, inevitably it starts with "I saw a guy on TikToc..."

There are a ton of people on that platform that are in the same ilk as Liver King.

I thought he was just another health guru? I know he got busted but what was so bad about his content?

 

[Fluffernutter]

I know its easy to pile on newer generations, but this isn't a new issue:

 

[Fluffernutter]

I thought he was just another health guru? I know he got busted but what was so bad about his content?

Because out of his 9 tenants, he forgot to mention a 10th.

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

People always been that dumb, like saying the N word on a podcast, making other derogatory racist comments, before you blow up, and receive a little backlash but with all the money you've accumulated. People will forgive you.

 

[zapataxiv]

No it doesn't focus on science and engineering. The Chinese app is just as brain dead as the American one. @zapataxiv lives in China now. He should be able to shed light on the Douyin crackdown.

The Japanese one is braindead too. It's just lots of short clips of girls dancing.

yea man douyin is just as dumb here as it is everywhere else
im a daily user here and my favorite vids are prolly the food pron vids
its pretty much just hot chicks dancing, cooking vids, meme vids andsome other areas.

it is noticeably censored like for example hot chick vids cleavage is censored. traffic accident vids are pretty popular too and the gore is censored.

but its not some resource of knowledge its just a time wasting app like anywhere else in the world

 

[Squintz]

Bring back the milk crate challenge

 

[DougieJones]

Its not making people stupider, its just giving the really stupid people a platform

 

[Plissken]

More so keeping them dumber, they probably weren't the brightest bulbs on the ol' Christmas tree in the first place.

 

[Contempt]

Tiktok is all over the place … some people would do anything to get their moment of fame , I realized how many narcissist are there too on this planet.

Commenting about people wanting to be the center of attention online... while making a new ridiculous, random thread, approximately every eight minutes of a karate forum?

 

[Why did you]

Its exposing dumb people.

 

[Ladder Master]

Intelligent people don’t use Tik tok.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

i tried going through tiktok for a whole hour. it's mind numbing. never again.
it's mostly thots, feminine dudes, girl with giant tits showing you a list of the biggest capitals in the world for like 10 seconds, endless deformed animals that are somehow "cute", teachers dudebros in their forties explaining what the latest thing biden said means.

ghastly.

Not gonna lie, those thots can be nice to watch.

 

[William Huggins]

It's a generational thing...... It seems each generation has their social media software of preference..... It's all a waste of time just like me posting on a karate forum........ And instead of a western corporation mining my data it's the CCP........but yes the Chinese government does think it's helping destroy our youth, it's nothing new the USSR started infiltrating our education system back in the 50's......

The funny thing is when a government thinks its own people will not be affected by the same shit further on down the road......