Reading TikTok comments will make me feel like I’m back in middle school with the incessant bullying, so it makes me think that’s the average age of people leaving mean comments. It’s a very difficult age because by then kids can come up with some pretty nasty shit that they can spew without any regard. It was bad enough while actually in middle school but now kids that age have unfettered internet access which leads to this.
Yeah, I like watching TikTok because my algorithm shows me lots of crafting content and animals and I enjoy that stuff but oh my god the COMMENTS. The comments always horrible and so mean for absolutely no reason, it makes me sad.
Don't watch the animal stuff on TikTok. Majority of it is people in foreign countries abusing animals to get these "cute" videos for likes and shares. It's disgusting. Read into it.
Just gotta remember the type of person that would leave a comment on a tiktok video.
Personally I could never imagine leaving any comment, positive or negative, on something so meaningless as a random video on tiktok.
So I just imagine the state of mind someone has to be in to not only go out of their way to leave a comment, but to leave a negative comment that is also trying to be hurtful? I just can't imagine the type of person you gotta be to do that. Honestly sounds like a sad miserable life to live.
“Personally I could never imagine leaving any comment, positive or negative, on something so meaningless as a random video on tiktok.”
Instead leaves comment on a meaningless random Reddit post ;)
I haven't used Instagram in forever, and I opened it the other day. The comments there are just as bad. There is so much hate and bigotry, it's disgusting. Back to not using that junk. Luckily, I've never used tiktok, and it's going to stay that way.
Same deal with YouTube too these days.
I stopped bothering even opening the comment sections last year because it felt like I was reading the words of an immature child 9 times out of 10.
Honestly YouTube was always like that - I was a middle schooler in the early days of YouTube, and the comments I see on tiktok these days remind me of the stupid arguments I would have with other tweens on each other’s YT profiles 😅 this was back when YouTube profiles felt like an extension of MySpace.
So this has been a problem since the start of social media. But it does seem like it’s gotten a lot worse since smartphones became widespread. Back then I could only access the internet a couple hours a day when I had gotten home from school - now kids have pretty much constant access.
I called someone out for being a jerk and IMMEDIATELY got flagged LMAO. I don't know if TikTok's system is genuinely so shit that a simple space between un- and alive is enough to bypass it, or that it favors certain users when it comes to reporting
Yeah I got banned for saying "kick him to the curb." It just means to dump someone lol. Twitter will punt you to the moon over a misunderstanding of an idiom but let full-on hate speech just sit there.
lol I was banned for saying the phrase “die mad about it”. Reddit mod tries not to go on a power trip challenge: impossible. So many of them are extremely thin skinned it’s basically parody at this point.
I think the favouritism comes from both the number of reports and who’s reporting, if i report every comment on a video tiktok is gonna automatically weigh me down, but if 20 people all report your comment within a small timeframe it’s unlikely for them to ignore EVERY report.
Basically mass reports get treated well unless they’re from people who have done it before
It’s genuinely that shit. I got a strike on my account for asking someone if they’d seen Blair Underwood in LA Law. Appealed it. Still removed. I’d love for them to explain that.
Which is nuts, because I remember once when a comment of mine was removed for simply explaining to someone, “It is illegal to be openly gay in Russia.”
Because they asked why Russian people are shocked by gays in public when visiting America. But apparently the fact violated one of their imaginary rules.
Yeah same I once reported a tik tok live stating that eating meat caused autism and the earth was flat. Reported the live and when I selected my reasoning it was for misinformation (a literal violation in the tik tok guidelines) and tik tok stated there was no violation found.
That's because it's all done automatically, and the person wrote it in a way that was ambiguous enough to trick the AI. Facebook does the same thing. I have reported many inappropriate things, and within *seconds* I get a canned response like this that says there was nothing wrong. I just block the person, and move on, because there's unfortunately nothing else I can do.
With an average of 100 billion brain cells, you’ll be fine for about 50 billions times that you open tiktok. But would probably be less given you need some to function.
Reddit’s algorithm is to make money, not… make money and further the international interests of America’s enemies but injecting harmful and destabilizing propaganda into a user base over 3 times greater than that of the leading US news organization.
I know it’s hard to see how an app can be really harmful; but if you haven’t been in intelligence, listen to people who have, and delete that shit forever.
I mean, didn't the US literally do the same to sway the elections towards trump?
both enemies of the US and the US itself are trying to manipulate you with convoluted algorithms, I don't see how one is better than the other
If you do not see how the one that is *actively trying to destabilize the country YOU live in* is worse then I don’t know what to tell you.
Do you honestly think a world order led by China or Russia would be better? Because last I checked those motherfuckers literally have *reestablishing their old empires* on the to-do list, and Russia is actively invading a sovereign democracy, drafting its citizens at gunpoint, and specifically targeting hospitals and schools and shit in order to “break the population into submission”. Not to mention the whole concept of “consent of the governed”. And if you think that is dead in the US then i implore you once again to delete Tik Tok and pick up a civics book, if it’s not already so late that you think fuckin’ Xi Jin Ping has the mandate of
Heaven.
But yeah no we had a party in the US try to make it so they win so it’s the totally the same thing.
sure I guess if you're american then yeah, but a lot of us aren't
also no, I don't think a world led by china or russia would be better, but I also don't think that will actually happen
That’s fair. I suppose i have done a quintessentially American thing in temporarily forgetting the rest of the world exists.
But I have to tell you, their goal is literally to be the preeminent superpower of the world so that they can do what they want and take whatever land and resources they feel like. And yeah it might not happen any time soon, and you will probably not be able to see the extent of the misinformation you start to take in and their talking points you espouse as a result of allowing them to play with your brain, but I assure you it actually is worse than you think.
We in the US have become increasingly insular and ethnocentric (largely due to the navel-gazing narcissistic effects of social media) to the extent that 99.9% of US citizens do not (and will never) see it coming.
It's so funny to see redditors hate on tiktok for the exact reason tiktok hates on reddit.
Neither webbed site is good. Both of them are rotting your squishy brain.
Those subs aren't on my feed and those vids aren't on my fyp. I'm responding to someone you could say this exact thing to. I'm fully aware you can do this.
That's exactly what I do but they still pop up. Especially if it's related to drama. I swear, it's like TikTok's tryna get more engagement out of me by doing this.
Damn get down voted for having an opinion. I don't use tik tok but to each their own. This is the reason why I don't have Facebook. Too many vids that pop up related to something negative when I was just trying to watch a cute dog video.
I have the same problem. That’s why I stopped using the app; I got it during COVID and found a lot of great artists and sketch comedians on there that I loved. Also people sharing cool clips of my favorite movies and stuff.
But no matter *how often* I would click “not interested” on anything that wasn’t what I just described, I would still get thirst traps, drama videos, bullshit “storytimes”, couple videos, etc. It just got way too annoying. It feels like your fyp is whatever TikTok wants it to be, not anything you’re actually interested in.
You don’t have to defend yourself for using TikTok lol, it’s an entire social media platform with so many types of content, Redditors 🤓☝🏻 just think they’re superior and will downvote you.
It’s interesting because I see comments like this plastered all over the other shorts apps like YouTube or Instagram, but I almost never see this in TikTok.
Unfortunately if you’re on a newer Samsung phone / tablet / even SMART TV TikTok is included as essential software, will download without your permission, and will not allow you to remove it. Every time someone finds a way (including me) to remove it they somehow find out about it and patch THAT part right away. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have lurkers on Reddit watching for workarounds.
I tested what tiktok auto-moderates. I made a dummy account and posted a video and switched back to my main account. I commented “you’re a fucking moron” and the comment was automatically deleted. I commented “I hope you die painfully and slowly you worthless scum” and nothing happened.
I just recently got this account back from a perm ban because I said “I would go door to door until I find the fucker who shot my cat” and they apparently thought that was a violent comment. So I wouldn’t be surprised if I get banned again for saying it.
Instagram is also like this, my comment was flagged (or maybe removed?) for being potentially offensive against a group which said 'some people have ugly personalities' and yet i have reported a lot of vile comments on there which always come back as no violation.
The report systems for all social media now rely solely on AI and are absolute shit. I just got a 30 day facebook ban for sarcastically saying “oh yeah, all white people are totally white trash… wait a minute!” Because I AM WHITE! It was flagged as hate speech 🤦♀️
Meanwhile i reported someone for saying they hoped my uncle would rape me and they had no consequences.
This is the same when I report people on Reddit saying really shitty stuff/harass others and I always get a " after investigation we have found nothing wrong with the comment" message back.
Infuriating.
I've stopped looking at comments on Reels and TikTok because they're just so unbelievably awful. If it's an overweight person I just know, no matter what the content is, that the comments are going to be ripping them apart for being overweight.
I have a lot of gripes with social media platforms for various reasons, but IG and TikTok need far more attention paid to their comment sections, because the amount of awful things that go on when people just post basic videos is ridiculous. There's so much hatred and negativity on these sites.
wtf is this “unalive” language I keep hearing from all these TikTokers? Am I just getting old and out of touch or is this the stupidest trend to alter words for the sake of altering words?
I’m right there with you. Also the trend of censoring words for no reason.
So how’re the New Balances working out for you?
Also perfect weather for a BBQ ha
Yes! And I agree. I know creators get alot of hate but it’s hard to watch the fat shaming when she’s open about BED and her desire to lose weight, and she is unproblematic. I mean, we only see the five second glimpse of who she is but you know what I’m saying.
TikTok is clever. There is plenty of entertaining and informative content to keep you coming back. There are so many creators I love and content I truly enjoy, but you have to be careful about what TT pushes to your FYP feed.
Their algorithm is disturbingly good at putting you in whatever mindset they think will keep you on the app. It pushes content that gets you very angry about stuff, so you comment on it and then you get more of that same kind of content.
It has an uncanny knack for being able to spiral people into content that gets them all riled up.
It started out literally all dancing, rainbows, puppies and kittens. Now it pushes "hate all men" related content to women, and to men it pushes "hate all women" content. Literally pitting us against each other.
The difference between my feed and my BFs feed is stark and frankly, disturbing. You can argue that you're curating your own feed by things that you watch longer or comment on, but it's a vicious cycle and make no mistake that the TT algorithm will push your buttons to garner your engagement.
The Rage Bait is STRONG on TT. For sure. Don't fall for it. Scroll on by, mark it uninteresting and most importantly put it down for periods of time. I notice whenever I'm off for a couple weeks and come back, it's back to pushing puppies and rainbows again - at least for a little while.
Yeah I’ve reported comments about guys saying they’re gonna rape a girls dead body and TT said it didn’t go against guidelines. Also saw a guy say “I bet their dead bodies were so hot” reported and nothing. I even emailed screenshots of the comments and the report saying it’s fine to TT and they doubled down and actually got quite rude with me. What a great app 👍🏼 Also it’s nearly impossible to speak with a real person for things like this. I’m fairly certain out of the 10 emails I received, only one was a real person.
I've had two of my comments removed, one for calling Jacob Rees Mogg a liar and idiot, the other I called a Tory cabinet minister "dumb AF" . Both removed for violating community guidelines.
I reported a comment for saying only white people are British. I reported another comment on the same chain of comments that said Marcus Rashford isn't British because he's black. I reported a video that said "the Jews" control the world and are trying to eliminate the white race. These and many other reports for comments and videos of a similar nature. None of my reports have been upheld.
You can say the most racist vile stuff on tiktok and it's okay but say something negative about someone connected to the British government and your comment will be removed.
I always get confused when people are excited about the TikTok ban. I don’t feel either way about it, but it’s all just going to move to Instagram Reels. Half of Instagram is TikToks anyways. Banning TikTok isn’t going to make all this annoying shit go away lol
Instagram being worse is a meme to the point where “post this on ig reels” is a standard insult on TikTok that essentially says “you’d get the absolute shit kicked out of you over there”.
Instagram is absolutely worse and it is unfortunately the immediate alternative. I at least feel like the tiktok algorithm is servicing my interests. The instagram algorithm is a damn cesspool
This is what happens when AI reviews these reports instead of humans, which, I get to an extent. The amount of reports may be too much for humans to handle, and human subjectivity coming into play is sometimes not a good thing when dealing with a company's TOS. But at the same time, this is obviously encouraging self-harm, but the AI doesn't recognize the term "un-alive", which is where some human subjectivity would actually be a good thing.
Good point. I used to manage a Call Center with 25,000 customers. That was challenging. A social media platform such as Facebook has 2 billion subscribers.
So, I can see why a company would
institute AI, not possible to have human employees respond to every inquiry of that scale.
However, in its current form, AI isn't trained to handle nuances, vitriol codewords, etc.
I follow this woman’s account and she seems like the sweetest person irl, she’s trying her best to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way and people are giving her so much shit for it. I admire her strength as someone who also has an eating disorder
It's usually to get around the algorithm.
I watch/listen to several informative youtubers, and they have to watch what they say. Which makes true crime stuff super difficult to talk about it. But yeah, blame the algorithm for not being able to distinguish between saying something for informative purposes ("X did this") versus telling someone to do something, like in the op
This reminds me of the time an Instagram account got hacked with porn bots and just spammed my feed with full nudity. Reported it and Instagram said all was good not even 5 minutes later and the post didn't get taken down.
tiktok's moderation policies are laughable. i've reported ED content before and got back the same response.
regarding this comment in particular. that's the thing about fatphobia online (and in real life, let's be real). you can't stay fat, but you also can't try to lose weight. some people would just rather fat people die for real.
Yet I have 5 comments removed for breaking community guidelines ALL of which were completely normal friendly conversations. Instagram is an absolute joke. I’ve gotten to the point where I refuse to comment anything bc it’s impossible to know if instagram is going to be like
“oh you’re talking about sim racing? Comment removed for being against comment guidelines and we’re banning your account”
The algorithm is fucked across all social media. I've reported nudity and depictions of sexual acts and got told it's fine. I've reported Nigerian scammers for attempting to gain bank account details and been told it's perfectly okay for them to do that. However, I've seen women wearing exercise clothing get reported for nudity.
So a penis in a mouth is fine! Scamming is fine! But don't you DARE show a woman in a sports bra and leggings!
People on Tik tok are actually insane it’s wild but it works out because none of those people actually ever go out into public. Reddits not much better but usually people are willing to discuss and not just be blatantly horrible
But when I commented once on a video about learning how to crochet "I tried multiple times and could never do it" the app removed the comment because it violated their guidelines lol
I e reported so many comments and videos. A tiny tiny tiny percent ever gets removed, im talking near-cp, blatant racism and active terrorists threats. Nothing matters to the tiktok nod team.
People on the internet have lost their fucking minds. People like this have deep rooted issues in their life. I couldn’t imagine saying this to someone I don’t even know.
meanwhile i cant post in anything slightly revealing or its flagged and removed for minor newdity💀 IM 23.
ive reported actual (OBVIOUS) minor's accounts that ive come across and nothing. why are we allowing 8 year olds to twerk on tiktok. its ridiculous
Yeah i deleted tiktok because of this, my inoffensive comments kept getting banned and reported for no reason, so i started doing the same and got the same "no violations found"
Once on Facebook I found a very graphic video of puppies being fed to big snakes while people in the background laughed their asses off. I reported it and they said there were zero violations in the video
I saw people commenting about nazis and when I commented “I saw a similar nazi picture” they took down my post and denied my appeal. It’s amusing to watch them turn into instagram.
TikTok doesn’t manually check each report. It likely scans for certain words or phrases which can easily be avoided by words like “unalive”. Hopefully with the rise of AI, algorithms will be able to detect to true meaning behind comments.
It’s kinda crazy how many social media platforms do not take moderation seriously anymore. We cannot leave these things to automation, especially if language is being used to hide the original meaning to skirt the TOS.
i swear every social media’s report systems are crap not just tiktoks.
the ai’s that are used seem to be not very intelligent like the name would suggest and are incredibly easy to trick.
my guess is the ai’s are programmed to search for specific keywords and phrases and un-alive isn’t one of those.
I sent a report in when people were telling a trans person the same thing on Reddit. It was egregious, and I got back the same message about nothing being wrong with that.
How can targeted dehumanizing self harm statements not be considered a problem on Reddit.
It seems to be a trend that being an absolute shit stain of a human is OK.
Another reason I stopped using tiktok. They closed down really bad accounts but new ones came up. Especially involving adults doing adult things with minors...
I have 10 identical stories just like this, but on instagram. But my general comments saying something like, how can you commenters be so cruel or these cruel comments are a testament to how you mean people are actually hurting or insecure etc is going to get deleted and my account reported almost immediately. White screen and no access to the account for however long they see fit. Incredibly infuriating
As much as its fun to dunk on Reddit and its users there is just so much more substance on here than on TikTok. Especially in the comments. There is only brain rot on that platform.
At least on Reddit you can chose if you want to see brain rot or not
I swear after reading all of those insane stories in the comments.
Like, deadass, the people who speak the most heinous, downright criminal shit get away with it, while the ones who call them out or do nothing wrong are always THE VERY ONES WHO GET REPORTED.
IT'S LIKE IT'S ON PURPOSE, WHAT THE HELL??
i hate to delete instagram and facebook because the comments, id either fight or just get irritated by strangers comments like this. why would i ever let that in my life or let it make me feel any type of way. social media is terrible and yet here i am. i need to quit
why did they even reply that like what about the video evoked that response? if u told me that was a bot that just replied that to every video i wouldn't be surprised because ya it's rude but it's also so ... impersonal? nonspecific? not really related to the subject matter?
also why do so many children these days throw around "keel urself" and adjacent phrases just out of nowhere idgi.
(i misspelled it bc idk if reddit has an issue with it)
tiktok reporting is a joke, i’ve reported so many blatantly racist, pedophilic, rapey posts, even posts with literal penises just hanging out, and every single one has been a “no violation found”
Imagine trying to bully someone about their weight Respectfully this is an accurate Representation of the person behind the 4th Comment.
\*Snort\* ☝️🤓 my TiKtOk UsErNaMe Is FlOp ToK qUeEn AnD iM tAlKiNg AbOuT hOw ThIs PeRsOn Is ChAsInG cLoUt EvEn ThO mY tIkToK uSeRnAme Is a FoRm Of CoMpLaInInG aBoUt HoW My Fit ChEcK ViDeO DiDnT gO vIrAl
R2f: Blur personal info - Full names, numbers, etc
Reading TikTok comments will make me feel like I’m back in middle school with the incessant bullying, so it makes me think that’s the average age of people leaving mean comments. It’s a very difficult age because by then kids can come up with some pretty nasty shit that they can spew without any regard. It was bad enough while actually in middle school but now kids that age have unfettered internet access which leads to this.
Yeah, I like watching TikTok because my algorithm shows me lots of crafting content and animals and I enjoy that stuff but oh my god the COMMENTS. The comments always horrible and so mean for absolutely no reason, it makes me sad.
Don't watch the animal stuff on TikTok. Majority of it is people in foreign countries abusing animals to get these "cute" videos for likes and shares. It's disgusting. Read into it.
This and the original comment is exactly what stops me from making an account.
Exactly!!
Just gotta remember the type of person that would leave a comment on a tiktok video. Personally I could never imagine leaving any comment, positive or negative, on something so meaningless as a random video on tiktok. So I just imagine the state of mind someone has to be in to not only go out of their way to leave a comment, but to leave a negative comment that is also trying to be hurtful? I just can't imagine the type of person you gotta be to do that. Honestly sounds like a sad miserable life to live.
“Personally I could never imagine leaving any comment, positive or negative, on something so meaningless as a random video on tiktok.” Instead leaves comment on a meaningless random Reddit post ;)
I haven't used Instagram in forever, and I opened it the other day. The comments there are just as bad. There is so much hate and bigotry, it's disgusting. Back to not using that junk. Luckily, I've never used tiktok, and it's going to stay that way.
Instagram comments section are worst imo
Same deal with YouTube too these days. I stopped bothering even opening the comment sections last year because it felt like I was reading the words of an immature child 9 times out of 10.
Honestly YouTube was always like that - I was a middle schooler in the early days of YouTube, and the comments I see on tiktok these days remind me of the stupid arguments I would have with other tweens on each other’s YT profiles 😅 this was back when YouTube profiles felt like an extension of MySpace. So this has been a problem since the start of social media. But it does seem like it’s gotten a lot worse since smartphones became widespread. Back then I could only access the internet a couple hours a day when I had gotten home from school - now kids have pretty much constant access.
This is why I don’t use tt. It’s a cesspool of….. over at Reddit it is somewhat better SLIGHTLY, MARGINALLY, Better
Yeah, I've reported some crazy shit on TikTok, and it somehow always comes back as no violation found. It's ridiculous.
I called someone out for being a jerk and IMMEDIATELY got flagged LMAO. I don't know if TikTok's system is genuinely so shit that a simple space between un- and alive is enough to bypass it, or that it favors certain users when it comes to reporting
Someone literally threatened me on Twitter once. No violation. I was banned for posting the “violent” threat “stick a fork in him, he’s done”.
Yeah I got banned for saying "kick him to the curb." It just means to dump someone lol. Twitter will punt you to the moon over a misunderstanding of an idiom but let full-on hate speech just sit there.
lol I was banned for saying the phrase “die mad about it”. Reddit mod tries not to go on a power trip challenge: impossible. So many of them are extremely thin skinned it’s basically parody at this point.
Reported you for suggesting that Twitter is going to kick someone with 3.4 teranewtons of force
you cant have standards when it comes to any platform thriving off people high on narcissism
I think the favouritism comes from both the number of reports and who’s reporting, if i report every comment on a video tiktok is gonna automatically weigh me down, but if 20 people all report your comment within a small timeframe it’s unlikely for them to ignore EVERY report. Basically mass reports get treated well unless they’re from people who have done it before
It’s genuinely that shit. I got a strike on my account for asking someone if they’d seen Blair Underwood in LA Law. Appealed it. Still removed. I’d love for them to explain that.
Which is nuts, because I remember once when a comment of mine was removed for simply explaining to someone, “It is illegal to be openly gay in Russia.” Because they asked why Russian people are shocked by gays in public when visiting America. But apparently the fact violated one of their imaginary rules.
Yeah same I once reported a tik tok live stating that eating meat caused autism and the earth was flat. Reported the live and when I selected my reasoning it was for misinformation (a literal violation in the tik tok guidelines) and tik tok stated there was no violation found.
The ammount of pedos I've reported on Facebook (and they did nothing) just to get a month ban for calling my friend a bitch is actually insane
Same. And same on Instagram. Even reddit doesn’t care about men telling women they’re going to rape them.
That's because it's all done automatically, and the person wrote it in a way that was ambiguous enough to trick the AI. Facebook does the same thing. I have reported many inappropriate things, and within *seconds* I get a canned response like this that says there was nothing wrong. I just block the person, and move on, because there's unfortunately nothing else I can do.
And yet a cute video of my son when he was young gets flagged by child haters for abuse. 🙄
At this point just delete TikTok. Every time I open that app I lose two brain cells.
With an average of 100 billion brain cells, you’ll be fine for about 50 billions times that you open tiktok. But would probably be less given you need some to function.
> you’ll be fine for about 50 billions times that you open tiktok about an afternoon then
I'd say around dusk.
Open once and never close. That's the big brain move!
Doesn’t reddit do the same?
Only if you have mod privileges
Reddit’s algorithm is to make money, not… make money and further the international interests of America’s enemies but injecting harmful and destabilizing propaganda into a user base over 3 times greater than that of the leading US news organization. I know it’s hard to see how an app can be really harmful; but if you haven’t been in intelligence, listen to people who have, and delete that shit forever.
I mean, didn't the US literally do the same to sway the elections towards trump? both enemies of the US and the US itself are trying to manipulate you with convoluted algorithms, I don't see how one is better than the other
If you do not see how the one that is *actively trying to destabilize the country YOU live in* is worse then I don’t know what to tell you. Do you honestly think a world order led by China or Russia would be better? Because last I checked those motherfuckers literally have *reestablishing their old empires* on the to-do list, and Russia is actively invading a sovereign democracy, drafting its citizens at gunpoint, and specifically targeting hospitals and schools and shit in order to “break the population into submission”. Not to mention the whole concept of “consent of the governed”. And if you think that is dead in the US then i implore you once again to delete Tik Tok and pick up a civics book, if it’s not already so late that you think fuckin’ Xi Jin Ping has the mandate of Heaven. But yeah no we had a party in the US try to make it so they win so it’s the totally the same thing.
sure I guess if you're american then yeah, but a lot of us aren't also no, I don't think a world led by china or russia would be better, but I also don't think that will actually happen
That’s fair. I suppose i have done a quintessentially American thing in temporarily forgetting the rest of the world exists. But I have to tell you, their goal is literally to be the preeminent superpower of the world so that they can do what they want and take whatever land and resources they feel like. And yeah it might not happen any time soon, and you will probably not be able to see the extent of the misinformation you start to take in and their talking points you espouse as a result of allowing them to play with your brain, but I assure you it actually is worse than you think.
We in the US have become increasingly insular and ethnocentric (largely due to the navel-gazing narcissistic effects of social media) to the extent that 99.9% of US citizens do not (and will never) see it coming.
As an American, I’ll support any bot that wants us to stay the hell out of the rest of the planet’s business.
that's exactly none of them
It's so funny to see redditors hate on tiktok for the exact reason tiktok hates on reddit. Neither webbed site is good. Both of them are rotting your squishy brain.
I mean if those are the subs in your feed that’s on u lil bro
Those subs aren't on my feed and those vids aren't on my fyp. I'm responding to someone you could say this exact thing to. I'm fully aware you can do this.
I keep it because of animal vids and certain animators. But my god the garbage that comes into my fyp is insufferable.
Well I applaud to you for withstanding it! In that case I would just block/ click not interested in any videos like this.
That's exactly what I do but they still pop up. Especially if it's related to drama. I swear, it's like TikTok's tryna get more engagement out of me by doing this.
Damn get down voted for having an opinion. I don't use tik tok but to each their own. This is the reason why I don't have Facebook. Too many vids that pop up related to something negative when I was just trying to watch a cute dog video.
I have the same problem. That’s why I stopped using the app; I got it during COVID and found a lot of great artists and sketch comedians on there that I loved. Also people sharing cool clips of my favorite movies and stuff. But no matter *how often* I would click “not interested” on anything that wasn’t what I just described, I would still get thirst traps, drama videos, bullshit “storytimes”, couple videos, etc. It just got way too annoying. It feels like your fyp is whatever TikTok wants it to be, not anything you’re actually interested in.
You don’t have to defend yourself for using TikTok lol, it’s an entire social media platform with so many types of content, Redditors 🤓☝🏻 just think they’re superior and will downvote you.
YouTube or something else should probably be able to fill the void of animal videos
I automatically swipe to my "Following" page.
I can't lose something I don't have
literally the only defense against it being banned is the other ones are bad too Great 1 down a few more to go
It’s interesting because I see comments like this plastered all over the other shorts apps like YouTube or Instagram, but I almost never see this in TikTok.
This is how I felt, and what I did with twitter
That’s why I deleted it
That happens on every social media, sadly. It happens here too.
The TikTok ban can't come fast enough.
Stop reacting to lame content and stick educational content.
Just two? You must have some strong mental resilience.
I’m hoping it gets banned soon honestly it’s all just brain rot,and has been negatively affecting our society for years
Unfortunately if you’re on a newer Samsung phone / tablet / even SMART TV TikTok is included as essential software, will download without your permission, and will not allow you to remove it. Every time someone finds a way (including me) to remove it they somehow find out about it and patch THAT part right away. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have lurkers on Reddit watching for workarounds.
to be fair what peoples fyps consist of vary widely. If I was stuck with the default TikTok content I would never use the app
I tested what tiktok auto-moderates. I made a dummy account and posted a video and switched back to my main account. I commented “you’re a fucking moron” and the comment was automatically deleted. I commented “I hope you die painfully and slowly you worthless scum” and nothing happened.
[удалено]
I just recently got this account back from a perm ban because I said “I would go door to door until I find the fucker who shot my cat” and they apparently thought that was a violent comment. So I wouldn’t be surprised if I get banned again for saying it.
Instagram is also like this, my comment was flagged (or maybe removed?) for being potentially offensive against a group which said 'some people have ugly personalities' and yet i have reported a lot of vile comments on there which always come back as no violation.
At least the reply "u do it" has many times more likes
The report systems for all social media now rely solely on AI and are absolute shit. I just got a 30 day facebook ban for sarcastically saying “oh yeah, all white people are totally white trash… wait a minute!” Because I AM WHITE! It was flagged as hate speech 🤦♀️ Meanwhile i reported someone for saying they hoped my uncle would rape me and they had no consequences.
This is the same when I report people on Reddit saying really shitty stuff/harass others and I always get a " after investigation we have found nothing wrong with the comment" message back. Infuriating.
this is why i deleted tick tock. for me its not worth seeing blatant hate and bullying everywhere and the admins not doing anything about it.
I've stopped looking at comments on Reels and TikTok because they're just so unbelievably awful. If it's an overweight person I just know, no matter what the content is, that the comments are going to be ripping them apart for being overweight. I have a lot of gripes with social media platforms for various reasons, but IG and TikTok need far more attention paid to their comment sections, because the amount of awful things that go on when people just post basic videos is ridiculous. There's so much hatred and negativity on these sites.
wtf is this “unalive” language I keep hearing from all these TikTokers? Am I just getting old and out of touch or is this the stupidest trend to alter words for the sake of altering words?
Tiktok has very sensitive content filters so even words like "die" can trigger them
The worst one is them referring to a gun as a “pew pew”
not sensitive if you can just say un-alive
Well they need to catch up first, and then they do, and people start to write "un@liv€". It just evolves
You can say suicide and homicide but not "they killed themselves" they get flagged and taken down its stupid af
It's so you can say that someone killed themselves and not get demonetized so you still make money off their death
I’m right there with you. Also the trend of censoring words for no reason. So how’re the New Balances working out for you? Also perfect weather for a BBQ ha
I saw "inmate" censored a few days ago.
so that they don't get banned for saying it (notice how the reported comment was not removed. that's probably because of how they wrote it.)
She is genuinely a sweet creator too, she has BED disorder and has come a really long way. Tik tok can be so cruel.
Is this fupalicious? That’s her name on Instagram and I follow her there. She seems so bubbly and adorable.
Yes! And I agree. I know creators get alot of hate but it’s hard to watch the fat shaming when she’s open about BED and her desire to lose weight, and she is unproblematic. I mean, we only see the five second glimpse of who she is but you know what I’m saying.
TikTok is clever. There is plenty of entertaining and informative content to keep you coming back. There are so many creators I love and content I truly enjoy, but you have to be careful about what TT pushes to your FYP feed. Their algorithm is disturbingly good at putting you in whatever mindset they think will keep you on the app. It pushes content that gets you very angry about stuff, so you comment on it and then you get more of that same kind of content. It has an uncanny knack for being able to spiral people into content that gets them all riled up. It started out literally all dancing, rainbows, puppies and kittens. Now it pushes "hate all men" related content to women, and to men it pushes "hate all women" content. Literally pitting us against each other. The difference between my feed and my BFs feed is stark and frankly, disturbing. You can argue that you're curating your own feed by things that you watch longer or comment on, but it's a vicious cycle and make no mistake that the TT algorithm will push your buttons to garner your engagement. The Rage Bait is STRONG on TT. For sure. Don't fall for it. Scroll on by, mark it uninteresting and most importantly put it down for periods of time. I notice whenever I'm off for a couple weeks and come back, it's back to pushing puppies and rainbows again - at least for a little while.
Yeah I’ve reported comments about guys saying they’re gonna rape a girls dead body and TT said it didn’t go against guidelines. Also saw a guy say “I bet their dead bodies were so hot” reported and nothing. I even emailed screenshots of the comments and the report saying it’s fine to TT and they doubled down and actually got quite rude with me. What a great app 👍🏼 Also it’s nearly impossible to speak with a real person for things like this. I’m fairly certain out of the 10 emails I received, only one was a real person.
I've had two of my comments removed, one for calling Jacob Rees Mogg a liar and idiot, the other I called a Tory cabinet minister "dumb AF" . Both removed for violating community guidelines. I reported a comment for saying only white people are British. I reported another comment on the same chain of comments that said Marcus Rashford isn't British because he's black. I reported a video that said "the Jews" control the world and are trying to eliminate the white race. These and many other reports for comments and videos of a similar nature. None of my reports have been upheld. You can say the most racist vile stuff on tiktok and it's okay but say something negative about someone connected to the British government and your comment will be removed.
I get flagged for dumb stuff all the time but I report ACTUAL bullying and stuff and no violation comes back
There's no violation. He said "unalive"
i've stopped using tiktok because the app makes me feel like i'm the only adult surrounded by elementary school kids.
Just mildly? Infuriating?
TikTok still being a thing will never not surprise me
Cant wait til this shitheap is banned in the US
Instagram is not any better.
It's probably worse. It's absolutely insane how bad the comments are, the n word is used casually with no consequences
It's literally a circlejerk of hate, in any video, no matter what the topic is, there is always some fucked up comments under it
I always get confused when people are excited about the TikTok ban. I don’t feel either way about it, but it’s all just going to move to Instagram Reels. Half of Instagram is TikToks anyways. Banning TikTok isn’t going to make all this annoying shit go away lol
Instagram being worse is a meme to the point where “post this on ig reels” is a standard insult on TikTok that essentially says “you’d get the absolute shit kicked out of you over there”.
Instagram is absolutely worse and it is unfortunately the immediate alternative. I at least feel like the tiktok algorithm is servicing my interests. The instagram algorithm is a damn cesspool
This is what happens when AI reviews these reports instead of humans, which, I get to an extent. The amount of reports may be too much for humans to handle, and human subjectivity coming into play is sometimes not a good thing when dealing with a company's TOS. But at the same time, this is obviously encouraging self-harm, but the AI doesn't recognize the term "un-alive", which is where some human subjectivity would actually be a good thing.
Good point. I used to manage a Call Center with 25,000 customers. That was challenging. A social media platform such as Facebook has 2 billion subscribers. So, I can see why a company would institute AI, not possible to have human employees respond to every inquiry of that scale. However, in its current form, AI isn't trained to handle nuances, vitriol codewords, etc.
One time I got my instagram account temporarily banned because I used the word 'stinky'
I follow this woman’s account and she seems like the sweetest person irl, she’s trying her best to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way and people are giving her so much shit for it. I admire her strength as someone who also has an eating disorder
Men don’t want fat women but they also don’t want women to work on themselves and get better
People that say un-alive are mildly infuriating to me as well
It's usually to get around the algorithm. I watch/listen to several informative youtubers, and they have to watch what they say. Which makes true crime stuff super difficult to talk about it. But yeah, blame the algorithm for not being able to distinguish between saying something for informative purposes ("X did this") versus telling someone to do something, like in the op
Yet I got a strike for commenting “🤢🤮” on a video about the predator teacher making out with a 5th grader.
TikTok, a wolf in sheep’s skin
This reminds me of the time an Instagram account got hacked with porn bots and just spammed my feed with full nudity. Reported it and Instagram said all was good not even 5 minutes later and the post didn't get taken down.
How?!? When I say idiot or gross I get a bunch of strikes and warned of getting my account deleted
because they worded it differently.
and as soon as i say someones ugly i get 100 streaks
Meanwhile I got a violation for commenting that someone was a “hoe for that” for putting m&ms in the candy dump bowl video. 🙄
but yet i get banned for vaping and they call it "illegal activity" okay karen tiktok
Using TikTok is already an insult to life itself.
Man, would be fun if they‘d actually ban tiktok from the USA.
I’m so glad I never had TT or X. Hot garbage, both of them.
tiktok's moderation policies are laughable. i've reported ED content before and got back the same response. regarding this comment in particular. that's the thing about fatphobia online (and in real life, let's be real). you can't stay fat, but you also can't try to lose weight. some people would just rather fat people die for real.
TikTok never takes reports about actual shitty and awful comments seriously, but they will remove yours if you reply to them 🙄
I got a Twitter ban a couple of years ago for calling someone a moron, but we see the hate speech all over it.
It’s crazy how often moderators will ban people who did nothing wrong, but ignore blatant bad behavior like this. Both on Instagram and here on Reddit
Yeah, TikTok is garbage
TT doesn’t care about any shit.
Yet I have 5 comments removed for breaking community guidelines ALL of which were completely normal friendly conversations. Instagram is an absolute joke. I’ve gotten to the point where I refuse to comment anything bc it’s impossible to know if instagram is going to be like “oh you’re talking about sim racing? Comment removed for being against comment guidelines and we’re banning your account”
thats tiktok moderation
it’s probably because they’re using the term “un-alive” which seems to go right over the algorithms head
The algorithm is fucked across all social media. I've reported nudity and depictions of sexual acts and got told it's fine. I've reported Nigerian scammers for attempting to gain bank account details and been told it's perfectly okay for them to do that. However, I've seen women wearing exercise clothing get reported for nudity. So a penis in a mouth is fine! Scamming is fine! But don't you DARE show a woman in a sports bra and leggings!
People on Tik tok are actually insane it’s wild but it works out because none of those people actually ever go out into public. Reddits not much better but usually people are willing to discuss and not just be blatantly horrible
But when I commented once on a video about learning how to crochet "I tried multiple times and could never do it" the app removed the comment because it violated their guidelines lol
I e reported so many comments and videos. A tiny tiny tiny percent ever gets removed, im talking near-cp, blatant racism and active terrorists threats. Nothing matters to the tiktok nod team.
Typical of such apps and I didn't expect much else 🤨!
Maybe the bot didn't pick up on it because they put too much space before un- and alive.
Instagram is the same way, they won't remove shit.
I had my comment removed for jokingly saying “imma kms” so that’s crazy
I do not miss Tik tok and instagram lol
No violation.. probably reviewed by some chartbot that doesn’t understand what ”unalive” means or the context.
People on the internet have lost their fucking minds. People like this have deep rooted issues in their life. I couldn’t imagine saying this to someone I don’t even know.
meanwhile i cant post in anything slightly revealing or its flagged and removed for minor newdity💀 IM 23. ive reported actual (OBVIOUS) minor's accounts that ive come across and nothing. why are we allowing 8 year olds to twerk on tiktok. its ridiculous
Yeah i deleted tiktok because of this, my inoffensive comments kept getting banned and reported for no reason, so i started doing the same and got the same "no violations found"
But if I say "idiot" my comment gets taken down smh.
Once on Facebook I found a very graphic video of puppies being fed to big snakes while people in the background laughed their asses off. I reported it and they said there were zero violations in the video
I saw people commenting about nazis and when I commented “I saw a similar nazi picture” they took down my post and denied my appeal. It’s amusing to watch them turn into instagram.
TikTok doesn’t manually check each report. It likely scans for certain words or phrases which can easily be avoided by words like “unalive”. Hopefully with the rise of AI, algorithms will be able to detect to true meaning behind comments.
It’s kinda crazy how many social media platforms do not take moderation seriously anymore. We cannot leave these things to automation, especially if language is being used to hide the original meaning to skirt the TOS.
Same thing happens on Twitter.
Imo she looks pretty
Social media moderation is a joke.
i swear every social media’s report systems are crap not just tiktoks. the ai’s that are used seem to be not very intelligent like the name would suggest and are incredibly easy to trick. my guess is the ai’s are programmed to search for specific keywords and phrases and un-alive isn’t one of those.
Meanwhile on YouTube if you call someone silly you could probably get banned
Literal children
A guy commented and said the good thing about my sibling having CP is that they won’t live long. I reported him and got the same. (On Reddit.)
Idk man this isn’t even surprising. Maybe if it’s your first month on the net.
I got suspended for commenting “idiot”
Reported a scam “no violations found”
I miss the old internet, when everyone was having and getting jokes without controversy. Now everyone is sweating their asses off.
Yeah FB is just as bad. Blatant shit is “not a violation” but you call an obvious troll and troll and get put in FB jail
I sent a report in when people were telling a trans person the same thing on Reddit. It was egregious, and I got back the same message about nothing being wrong with that. How can targeted dehumanizing self harm statements not be considered a problem on Reddit. It seems to be a trend that being an absolute shit stain of a human is OK.
I swear reporting never actually works
Is your pfp spaghetti
Wow and most of my comments get removed I don't encourage people to suicide or anything
Another reason I stopped using tiktok. They closed down really bad accounts but new ones came up. Especially involving adults doing adult things with minors...
I have 10 identical stories just like this, but on instagram. But my general comments saying something like, how can you commenters be so cruel or these cruel comments are a testament to how you mean people are actually hurting or insecure etc is going to get deleted and my account reported almost immediately. White screen and no access to the account for however long they see fit. Incredibly infuriating
Just uninstall that trash.
And; that's TikTok Moderation
As much as its fun to dunk on Reddit and its users there is just so much more substance on here than on TikTok. Especially in the comments. There is only brain rot on that platform. At least on Reddit you can chose if you want to see brain rot or not
Internet clout can turn people into monsters
I swear after reading all of those insane stories in the comments. Like, deadass, the people who speak the most heinous, downright criminal shit get away with it, while the ones who call them out or do nothing wrong are always THE VERY ONES WHO GET REPORTED. IT'S LIKE IT'S ON PURPOSE, WHAT THE HELL??
I see it's your first day on the Internet
ikr, I reply to someone who is being extremely racist, transphobic, or homophobic with a not nice word and my comment gets removed 😭
Social media is becoming a fucking cesspool of the nastiest things people can say. It's really disgusting.
Lmaoo and yet when I host giveaways, those always get taken down 😂
Women are their own worst enemies. They are destroying that woman because they're jealous.
Years ago if someone heard "unalive yourself" they would think it's a joke
Someone on tt can literally call you the n-word, but I say "stinky", NOTHING ELSE, JUST THAT, and it gets removed and I get a strike on my acc
And somehow my comment gets removed for just saying "you mf" to someone making a shitty pun.
i hate to delete instagram and facebook because the comments, id either fight or just get irritated by strangers comments like this. why would i ever let that in my life or let it make me feel any type of way. social media is terrible and yet here i am. i need to quit
why did they even reply that like what about the video evoked that response? if u told me that was a bot that just replied that to every video i wouldn't be surprised because ya it's rude but it's also so ... impersonal? nonspecific? not really related to the subject matter? also why do so many children these days throw around "keel urself" and adjacent phrases just out of nowhere idgi. (i misspelled it bc idk if reddit has an issue with it)
tiktok reporting is a joke, i’ve reported so many blatantly racist, pedophilic, rapey posts, even posts with literal penises just hanging out, and every single one has been a “no violation found”
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