because it’s bad
Death to America
I like it specifically for the sound at the end of videos, zero other reason.
It is the most precisely crafted, most horrifying sound in existence. There is nothing which could ever precede it that could be powerful enough not to be flattened by it into ‘content’ and subsumed utterly into a morass of (post-)Nirony. The moment that sound plays, it smooths over anything: jokes, thirst traps, fascist propaganda, activewear ads, speeches that defined eras or concentration camp footage; it simply does not matter any longer and becomes nothing more than the last thing you watched, as your mind is reset to its receptive state to receive the next stimulus. It is the essence of ‘scrolling’ distilled so perfectly that even the vestigial act of scrolling is stripped away.
It is the sound of the human mind as it performs reification at the level of pure aesthetic, the thing than fills the screaming void where an Eldritch horror has not been perceived.
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reading someone pretend to have deeply reflected on this cultural phenomena to present it as existential horror on the level of cthulu, while predicating it on something that proves they actually only know about it through reposts on their esoteric reddit clone and in fact have not once actually used the thing they’re morally panicking about, is indeed profoundly funny.
that does actually make it much funnier, yes
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content_consumption_complete.ogg
GOOD post
I hate anything that has advertising I can’t skip and refuse to ever make use of it
You can skip tho lmao. Like, immediately. Ads just up as regular videos in your feed, I swipe up on them in a millisecond
i hate algorithm based social media
and tiktok is currently the best in the businessi am old and afraid of change
Why do so many of you hate peepoo?
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They’re almost definitely running filters though
Counterpoint: No amount of filters could make me look that hot :(
Have you considered contouring
Their webpage is pretty easy to navigate on desktop. That’s based on, maybe, six whole minutes of browsing. Like all
social mediablogs, the best way to interact with it is to let someone else sift through and find the gems.Also, China has better captchas, but i don’t get to poison some tech dork’s data pool with malicious answers.
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So do you hate China?
uyghurs
pooh (like poopy)
because it’s literally a fucking skinner box
Please explain why you think so
much like a slot machine, it is a device designed to totally monopolize your attention for long stretches of time with randomized releases of dopamine rewards based on some minimal mechanical input from the user (the buttons in slots, scrolling in tiktok’s case) for the purpose of monetizing you. it is weaponized psychology.
engaging arrangements of pixels and audio beamed to your eyes and ears, ceaselessly. You make a simple swipe motion to get fresh slop. It certainly resembles a skinner box, whether or not those specific kinds of conditioning are literally happening. (and yes, other social media also functions like this, but far less refined, with more pretext of actually facilitating human interaction)
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social mediasmulti-user blogs are. It’s a behavioral thing. If a specific behavior always guaranties results, then it makes sense to only do it when you need results. But if that behavior only sometimes yields results, then the brain kicks in and goes, “Oh, I should do this frequently, so that I already have [results] if and when I need them.” This is good tactics, evolutionary. The brain that persist and has [results] should generally be better suited for survival than the brain that gives up and has no [results]. On an individual level though……it’s only good tactics situationally. When the behavior is [LOGGING ON] and the results are [GOOD POSTS], then it’s more of a vicious trap than good tactics. Especially when your time almost certainly could be better spent doing anything other than sifting through posts. This doesn’t just apply to websites. Gambling exploits this behavioral tendency as well. Most video games employ it, intentionally or unintentionally, to varying degrees.
yeah as I was writing my response I realized, aw, fuck, I need to get off hexbear for awhile because it’s the same kind of drug
but tiktok is more aggressive and capitalist, therefore more malicious
:hexbear-static: this is my blog. there are many like it, but this one is mine
:meow-hug: Goodnight and good :logout:, I shall be doing so as well
Shittiest way to consume content.
The idea that you should intentionally be gimping yourself to a certain amount of seconds/text just seems fucking stupid. Forums are the superior way to post.
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I don’t hate it but I think the extreme short format combined with aggressive algorithm baiting leads to the most boring, brainless content imaginable. I’ve seen some fantastic content on Tiktok too - but I’m not sifting through the rubble looking for it.
I prefer long-form video content. Also y’know the whole thing where the algorithm is optimized to exploit every vulnerability in the human psyche to keep people glued to their screens is a bit sus.
the enshittification of youtube started a long time ago, but when they started pushing “shorts” on people, I knew it was truly
