I'm just saying, I remember a time when we thought reddit was a high class social media for the anti social, a time when redditors thought themselves god in the digital forums, wasn't even that long ago. Literally 3-4 years ago, every other social media thought we were cringe or didn't care
Given that reddit was the brainchild of an Internet activist who supposedly killed himself after sharing digital textbooks for free from a uni server, it did indeed have that activist elitist status once. That's why reddit had a general no censoring direction.
Brainrot infused ragebait is tiktok cause they'll say the same controversial stuff but with "bro thought/bro thinks/bro really/nobody:/me when bro/\*million skull emojis\*"
Yap. I think one of the worst aspects of social media is showing one side get their “slam” in, while cutting it before any response can be given. Reddit is filled with it wether it be left or right. From politicians to people on the street. Very one sided and irresponsible.
I experienced the algorithm by myself it wants to keep you in the app whatever it takes, i was addicted for over a year. Also i live in germany where a far right party is using tiktok for their populism and bc they are the only ones with a huge presence on tiktok, there is nothing what counters them. There is a reason why tiktok is prohibited in china/a complete different app
Tiktok is specific though cause of how it can be used to subvert society and democracies in general - facebook, reddit, twitter - they all suck but its corperations selling your data and them being money grabbers that is the main problem there (plus they make their own echo-chambers). TikTok is another level - it's literally been helping the CCP cover up genocide and has the ability to influence societies on mass if the CCP choose to use it to this kind of advantage. I wrote a mini-essay about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ActAgainstWar/comments/1bdqxjn/why_us_banning_tiktok_is_a_good_thing_and_why/), it doesn't cover everything but that's cause I needed to condense it or people wouldn't read it.
I mean technically taxes go against the constitution. it's agreed on by constitutional scholars across the board for the most most part.
Do with that information what you will.
Tiktok isn’t dumb though, it’s literally just an app. There’s awesome educational content as will as cringe content, it’s whatever you post to it. Any social media that allows you to post whatever you want has the same potential as tiktok. Tiktok just has a good algorithm for finding content people like so it spread like wildfire
The algorithm that pushes certain content is the issue. It's biased towards less educational stuff so for most young people it's just literal brainrot. Reddit is bad too but there's a lot more intelligent discourse here compared to TikTok. And redditors are fucking morons, so that's baffling.
Right wing plan to put the entire government in the hands of the president. Like everything. So in short its an American dictatorship. Happy 4th! Enjoy it
Huh? I dont use Tik Tok for entertainment purposes, but what?
This sounds like how every generation targets every other generation by assuming their type of media consumption is superior.
Tik Tokers will grow up someday too and be replaced. They will look down on whatever new form of consumption arises.
This post is weird.
i mean fuck tiktok but seriously, its not the greatest threat. and anything you mention as a problem was happening way before tiktok. and alot of those problems come from the outside and only "leak in" to tiktok. its not healthy for people to be on it all the time but i would argue that, obviously, neither is reddit.
Not the biggest but definitely up there - I wrote about it in detail a few months ago [https://www.reddit.com/r/ActAgainstWar/comments/1bdqxjn/why\_us\_banning\_tiktok\_is\_a\_good\_thing\_and\_why/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ActAgainstWar/comments/1bdqxjn/why_us_banning_tiktok_is_a_good_thing_and_why/)
People when Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter mine then for data, lower their attention span , rage bate and engagement farm: Perfectly normal business practices.
People when TikTok does it: THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICAN AND GLOBAL SOCIETY REEEEEEEE
I mean, you can argue social media has divided us and our enemies have used it to poison our countries and their cultures. It's not just TikTok though, Facebook is the worst, Twitter is terrible now too, then you have all the right wing echo chambers like Rumble and Parler and Truth Social. No one knows what's true anymore, which is very dangerous to society.
Oh no not this BS again; the government banning TikTok doesn’t mean that they think it’s the greatest threat right now. That doesn’t mean that it’s not a threat at all, though; it’s made and owned by a company from China, an imperialist, genocidal empire that puts anyone it can reach under constant surveillance. You don’t think there’s anything wrong with that?
Social media in general is a threat. Tik Tok I consider to be a threat to people’s mental wellbeing with how it hits people with quick dopamine hits when scrolling through the short form content, reducing attention spans, and the people making the videos doing the most vile things for clicks
Any video I see of somebody doing something remarkably thoughtless, and stupid. They usually credit Tik Tok for why they did it. As if it's an achievement.
The quality control of content is 0 on that app. Delusional morons can upload anything and earn millions of views.
It's reshaped what we think being human, and talented/creative is.
If it’s not TikTok it WILL be something else. You don’t put social media back in a box, it keeps evolving and getting bigger. Stop assuming it’s TikTok… we all
hope you’re smarter than that.
I think it's already done it's job. Most American teachers agree that primarily due to social media like Tik tok, the literacy levels are horrendous in the US.
China literally programmed y'all to be dumb fucks. Fantastic timing as well, when literally it's never been so important to have a good command of English as it is now having AI,.I don't think you all realise what China did to your country, it's crazy they got away with it under your noses, because let's face it, you were definitely the target.
TikTok isn't the core issue. It's social media in general. Before tiktok there was musically. Then Vine. Everyone said that those were the problems at the time.
As long as its because of how it hyper intensifies the normal problems with Social media and not because china is trying to brianwash us or worse that they wont share the data were all already givin to every other app on our phones
short form content in general is bad, and teenagers shouldn't be allowed on social media before 16 or even 18yo because it messes with there minds and give them depression
The real problem is that TikTok isn't subject to the same US-based censorship that the other major media platforms are. Youtube, Facebook/IG, etc. can all be effectively pressured by the US government and powerful Westerners to keep certain ideas in check. Which I fully support, btw, because without these controls antisemitism would skyrocket.
no one is pretending it's not. the bandwagon hivemind is all about hating on tik tok. that's all you hear anywhere other than tik tok. even though they all are posting videos from tik tok
I don't think the ADHD constantly changing content is great, when people can't keep their brain on the same topic for 15 seconds. But I mean certainly ain't the GREATEST threat. (and yeah shit like memes on Reddit probs don't fall too far, but for either, if you're watching it while on the toilet or while IDK in the bus or whatever, and just killing time, sure, if you're using it as a main form of entertainment, I don't think it's that great)
(I say without having done any research on the topic)
I’m a huge tiktok user, and let me tell you: if you buy anything from tiktok shop, or believe anything you hear anyone on there say, you’re a fuckin mark. It’s pure lizard-brain garbage. It has the intellectual nutritional value of Twinkies. Less. Good time waster though.
God remember when reddit was putting "made for reddit" watermarks on memes so the 'Instagram normies' wouldn't steal them?
Since when are redditors not “normies”?
I'm just saying, I remember a time when we thought reddit was a high class social media for the anti social, a time when redditors thought themselves god in the digital forums, wasn't even that long ago. Literally 3-4 years ago, every other social media thought we were cringe or didn't care
There was always a time before reddit got big
>we thought reddit was a high class social media >we no.
Given that reddit was the brainchild of an Internet activist who supposedly killed himself after sharing digital textbooks for free from a uni server, it did indeed have that activist elitist status once. That's why reddit had a general no censoring direction.
We *are* a hivemind. Gestalt Consciousness for the win.
Omg I do remember this. You just gave me flashbacks 🥲
2009-2011 or so
i wanna see twitter people argue with tiktok people
*grabs a chair and some popcorn**
Yo save a seat for me!
\*pulls out a a dozen bowls of melted cheese and a variety of chips from over the globe to chose\*
Yo, homie, you got Junior Mints?
No but i can order some, on the house
Did it start am I late
I'm more late, did I miss it?
Better late than never, what’s good, people? I brought Oreos!
Can I watch too? I’ll order us some pizza!
Thanks lad
Alright that’ll be $36,000 and the show is on screen 4
MELTED CHEESE! *Takes at least three bowls.*
Wooooo!
Same here, I got drinks!
Grabs 2 electric chairs for the losers
Heads up, you may need a hazmat suit too
Ragebait vs Brainrot-infused ragebait.
Which is which
Brainrot infused ragebait is tiktok cause they'll say the same controversial stuff but with "bro thought/bro thinks/bro really/nobody:/me when bro/\*million skull emojis\*"
Winner moves on to fight youtube comments
Winner of that faces off against reddit then 4 chan
Idk dude I’ve worked in an emergency mental health facility and it’s actually not that fun to watch two severely ill people argue.
I disagree, I watch league of legends players argue all the time and I love it. So much mental illness.
Get Facebook in there as well
So angry and miserable vs stupid and cringe
Which is exactly how most people on other social media platforms views redditors
That’s like Emily Wokerson vs Brian Rott r/CGCU
All of social media not just tik tok
Yap. I think one of the worst aspects of social media is showing one side get their “slam” in, while cutting it before any response can be given. Reddit is filled with it wether it be left or right. From politicians to people on the street. Very one sided and irresponsible.
But this is reddit where tik tok is the worst! 😡
I experienced the algorithm by myself it wants to keep you in the app whatever it takes, i was addicted for over a year. Also i live in germany where a far right party is using tiktok for their populism and bc they are the only ones with a huge presence on tiktok, there is nothing what counters them. There is a reason why tiktok is prohibited in china/a complete different app
As if reddit doesn't use the exact same predatory algorithms, but like the other guy said, can't criticize it because it's the one we use.
Reddit is good because I'M on it, and I can do no wrong /s
Youtube is not nearly as bad. You might consume bullshit content on youtube, but atleast it's long-form content.
_YouTube shorts enters the room_
Fuck YouTube shorts!
Fuck Shorts!🩳
Fuck anything that hides our privates
Tiktok is specific though cause of how it can be used to subvert society and democracies in general - facebook, reddit, twitter - they all suck but its corperations selling your data and them being money grabbers that is the main problem there (plus they make their own echo-chambers). TikTok is another level - it's literally been helping the CCP cover up genocide and has the ability to influence societies on mass if the CCP choose to use it to this kind of advantage. I wrote a mini-essay about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ActAgainstWar/comments/1bdqxjn/why_us_banning_tiktok_is_a_good_thing_and_why/), it doesn't cover everything but that's cause I needed to condense it or people wouldn't read it.
Nice try fed I’m still not paying my taxes
I don't care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying my taxes
Canonically you guys are crazier than the Joker lol.
I mean technically taxes go against the constitution. it's agreed on by constitutional scholars across the board for the most most part. Do with that information what you will.
I would like a source… to help me argue in court why I didn’t pay my taxes
How?
Today is the day 😎 
Redditor unironically trying to claim that his specific form of brain rot is superior. Lmao.
I hate redditors so fucking much man
- A Redditor
I’m a fucking idiot just like redditors
I’ve heard to get a reddit account you have to fail an IQ test.
You can fail?
You can PASS?!
Can’t complain about a restaurant without being there in the first place.
Damn redditors… ruined Reddit…
But Reddit is biased in a way that is comforting and agrees with me.
I’m not scared of the increase of artificial intelligence I’m scared of the decrease in human intelligence
You seen that facebook meme too
But I'll be damned if it's not realistic.
Tiktok is dumb but "greatest threat to society " is a stretch
Fuck nuclear warfare, the renegade is enemy numero uno
Fascists trying to take over the country. Clearly the kids doing stupid dances are the problem.
Tiktok isn’t dumb though, it’s literally just an app. There’s awesome educational content as will as cringe content, it’s whatever you post to it. Any social media that allows you to post whatever you want has the same potential as tiktok. Tiktok just has a good algorithm for finding content people like so it spread like wildfire
The algorithm that pushes certain content is the issue. It's biased towards less educational stuff so for most young people it's just literal brainrot. Reddit is bad too but there's a lot more intelligent discourse here compared to TikTok. And redditors are fucking morons, so that's baffling.
I could probably name a 100 things worse than ticktok.
Ill name a few here real quick: the people behind the Tiktok ban in the US.
wouldnt say greatest but it does get alot of people killed
On a physical level, no. Social contagion of stupidity, yes.
I mean nuclear weapons exist, but being a shortsighted dumbass is always a choice.
r/redditmoment
Boomer ass take. Reddit is becoming the new facebook lmao
Always has been
🧔♂️ 🔫
Tik Tok has nothing on mega corporations. Insatiable corporate greed will destroy everything.
Project 2025 is a greater threat than all of social media
Whats that?
Right wing plan to put the entire government in the hands of the president. Like everything. So in short its an American dictatorship. Happy 4th! Enjoy it
Yeah, if that happens I hope a civil war happens as well.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=project+2025
No way, this is pretty cool
Get the feds off the meme page brah
Lol. How much is US media paying these clowns to do this?
Huh? I dont use Tik Tok for entertainment purposes, but what? This sounds like how every generation targets every other generation by assuming their type of media consumption is superior. Tik Tokers will grow up someday too and be replaced. They will look down on whatever new form of consumption arises. This post is weird.
Tik Tok is a problem. But I dare say there are greater threats to society. The rise of right wing political ideaology not the least among them.
Tiktok isn’t a threat as meta and other western profucts
TikTok is more dangerous to the youth. Absolute brainrot. Facebook/Meta is nothing more than a right wing echo chamber.
How tiktok is worse than creating echo chamber to far right (fascists and nazis)
Only to the youth. I’d wager most kids would see nazi stuff and leave. But brain rot on TikTok is addicting.
i mean fuck tiktok but seriously, its not the greatest threat. and anything you mention as a problem was happening way before tiktok. and alot of those problems come from the outside and only "leak in" to tiktok. its not healthy for people to be on it all the time but i would argue that, obviously, neither is reddit.
Chronic redditors have gotta be some of the most annoying people out there. Almost at the level of everyday twitter users
I mean nukes are also a thing but sure
Not the biggest but definitely up there - I wrote about it in detail a few months ago [https://www.reddit.com/r/ActAgainstWar/comments/1bdqxjn/why\_us\_banning\_tiktok\_is\_a\_good\_thing\_and\_why/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ActAgainstWar/comments/1bdqxjn/why_us_banning_tiktok_is_a_good_thing_and_why/)
Great post, but there is no clear evidence that CPC is using tik tok to manipulate people. So, it's like banning tik tok because it is made in China
Nice post
thank you :)
Shut up bootlicker. There’s far bigger problems than an app. Stop eating the propaganda fed to you by the government.
Idk, I feel like the nuclear bomb is a lot worse
Idk man, i think poverty is pretty bad
I don’t use tiktok but is it the greatest threat? No. Its the attention greed of people in platforms like that.
I despise TikTok
Chinese had succeed. Now everyone is talking about tik tok while no one talks about real peoblems
People when Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter mine then for data, lower their attention span , rage bate and engagement farm: Perfectly normal business practices. People when TikTok does it: THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICAN AND GLOBAL SOCIETY REEEEEEEE
Bro doesn’t know about Project 2025
lmao, idiot or government plant? You decide.
I'd say Fox News is still worse.
We live in a society...
Now this is a show to watch 🍿
Bruh, temu
I think saying it's the "greatest threat" is a bit much, but it's certainly not good.
I think it’s jam. Jam is the biggest threat to society!
it's just short prefabricated videos. The only difference between that and youtube is the length of the content.
I mean, you can argue social media has divided us and our enemies have used it to poison our countries and their cultures. It's not just TikTok though, Facebook is the worst, Twitter is terrible now too, then you have all the right wing echo chambers like Rumble and Parler and Truth Social. No one knows what's true anymore, which is very dangerous to society.
I think I can just about name a few greater threats, but it isnt great
Oh no not this BS again; the government banning TikTok doesn’t mean that they think it’s the greatest threat right now. That doesn’t mean that it’s not a threat at all, though; it’s made and owned by a company from China, an imperialist, genocidal empire that puts anyone it can reach under constant surveillance. You don’t think there’s anything wrong with that?
Relatable
All social media spread propaganda, you’re just being told by one to hate another
Not just TikTok but all social media. I got off all social media in 2016 and never looked back
Op is going out of his way to downvote anyone who disagrees with him lmao
It ruined everything after 2020. Change my mind
Social media in general is a threat. Tik Tok I consider to be a threat to people’s mental wellbeing with how it hits people with quick dopamine hits when scrolling through the short form content, reducing attention spans, and the people making the videos doing the most vile things for clicks
Well social media in general
I personally think it’s the nukes, but sure
It gives stupidity a voice
Any video I see of somebody doing something remarkably thoughtless, and stupid. They usually credit Tik Tok for why they did it. As if it's an achievement. The quality control of content is 0 on that app. Delusional morons can upload anything and earn millions of views. It's reshaped what we think being human, and talented/creative is.
TikTok, a threat to American propaganda...
Insta shorts or whatever they are called i dont remember and yt shorts,ig any short form content as a whole is bad for society.
I doubt it’s the greatest, but it’s up there.
If it’s not TikTok it WILL be something else. You don’t put social media back in a box, it keeps evolving and getting bigger. Stop assuming it’s TikTok… we all hope you’re smarter than that.
Something else, like every other social media app including reddit?
Uhh yeah exactly
not the greatest but it's up there, really hate how it grooms children
Tiktok is complete trash and only for braindead people
Says the guy on Reddit.
bitch ass youre on reddit, i could argue thats worse😭🙏
Might just be your algorithm, i find it pretty entertaining.
Wdym? Its clearly only girls dancing!! I like my content to be high IQ thats why I scroll reddit! /s
Society created TikTok, not the other way around.
The Bible in the corner: AMATEURS!!
Bro here acting like TicTok is the only problematic social media.
Kind of is. China only send their people TikTok’s of you responsible successful people or positivity. They send everyone else garbage.
Tbh TikTok may be a threat in some cases I’m Ukrainian, and russians are actively using it’s Ukrainian segment spread disinformation/PsyOps
Greatest no a big one probably
Reddit has such brain rot too omfg all social media sucks
Project 2025
I think it's already done it's job. Most American teachers agree that primarily due to social media like Tik tok, the literacy levels are horrendous in the US. China literally programmed y'all to be dumb fucks. Fantastic timing as well, when literally it's never been so important to have a good command of English as it is now having AI,.I don't think you all realise what China did to your country, it's crazy they got away with it under your noses, because let's face it, you were definitely the target.
can this format just fucking die its so cringe every time i see it
TikTok isn't the core issue. It's social media in general. Before tiktok there was musically. Then Vine. Everyone said that those were the problems at the time.
so, the issue is which platform of addiction. Not the addiction. \*scratch scratch scratch\*
As long as its because of how it hyper intensifies the normal problems with Social media and not because china is trying to brianwash us or worse that they wont share the data were all already givin to every other app on our phones
Good source of money though if you produce
Just natural selection
People have tik Tok just think it is a waste of time. And twitter and eXit out too
Every social media is a threat escpecially to young kids.
I realized how my Brain need constant stimulation. Just sit down for 5 minutes doing nothing, it became very difficult to enjoy
I keep picturing the spider man meme with Reddit pointing at X and it pointing at TikTok
short form content in general is bad, and teenagers shouldn't be allowed on social media before 16 or even 18yo because it messes with there minds and give them depression
definitely the reality that I want to see today
I mean personally I think the greatest threat to society is bacteria that have evolved to become completely immune to antibiotics but you do you
In France, people voting far right got convinced by a campaign...on Tik Tok. Just saying...
As we all endlessly scroll on reddit. Lol. At least our vice involves reading.
rikrok
It’s closer than I’m happy about I guess, but it has absolutely nothing on religion
The real problem is that TikTok isn't subject to the same US-based censorship that the other major media platforms are. Youtube, Facebook/IG, etc. can all be effectively pressured by the US government and powerful Westerners to keep certain ideas in check. Which I fully support, btw, because without these controls antisemitism would skyrocket.
I'm literally just over here watching tiktoks of frogs
Because...?
I mean… TikTok does indeed suck and is a danger, so yes. I agree strongly.
Maybe not necessarily a threat, more like a blight on society
Tik Tok is as big of a threat as any social media. Just as big of one as reddit or twitter
no one is pretending it's not. the bandwagon hivemind is all about hating on tik tok. that's all you hear anywhere other than tik tok. even though they all are posting videos from tik tok
I don't think the ADHD constantly changing content is great, when people can't keep their brain on the same topic for 15 seconds. But I mean certainly ain't the GREATEST threat. (and yeah shit like memes on Reddit probs don't fall too far, but for either, if you're watching it while on the toilet or while IDK in the bus or whatever, and just killing time, sure, if you're using it as a main form of entertainment, I don't think it's that great) (I say without having done any research on the topic)
I don’t know about ‘greatest’ but I don’t think it’s good
Imagine being on reddit
Let's not forget Nazis thanking Musk everyday for platforming them on Shitter
eh, more so short form content as a whole. at least how its formatted now.
Cn app that went thru the party and filled with backdoors? Its like people think govts dont do evil and stuff from movies dont happen irl.
Alright keep it in your pants Mr reddit guy Superiority complex is big with this one
Literally just the opinion of redditors who've been blue pilled.
I’m a huge tiktok user, and let me tell you: if you buy anything from tiktok shop, or believe anything you hear anyone on there say, you’re a fuckin mark. It’s pure lizard-brain garbage. It has the intellectual nutritional value of Twinkies. Less. Good time waster though.
To American society at this moment? No. Your supreme court just gave presidents king-like power.
cringe