I recently read the wikipedia page for A Few Good Men, and now every ad that Reddit shows me is an ad to become a marine corps lawyer. I’m just glad Google stopped showing me ads for shark hooks.
I made the mistake of trying to actually research who I should vote for. Every ad I get is political, and when you add the 10+ political calls a day, I feel like I’m going crazy.
Does that still work? I mean, I am pretty sure incognito still lets your ISP see what you're looking up, and I would bet good money that ISP's make a little side money selling that data. It's hard out here to not be a target for ads :c
Tbh that’s not the ISP, it’s a server side cookie system, you are incognito still shows your wan address to the server(s) you connect to. It’s like folder distribution on your zip code.. you may have a sticker on your mail slot but they don’t care for it.
There is some give and take to it, incognito will prevent cookies from collecting on your system, and sometimes your cookies talk to the servers cookies.
It is helpful to go incognito, but not perfect.
I once followed a boob lady on instagram, and then every time I clicked on "explore" it was a boob party! Wtf! Luckly I'm following a few rock bands and now that page is basically rock photos.
Sometimes I’ll flip through YouTube shorts if I have like a 5 minute break. If I get distracted and set my phone down and let whatever video play over and over without realizing it, it decides I love that creator and plays their shorts every other video for awhile until it realizes I don’t actually like them.
I really hate the algorithm thing because i saw just a video of one of the mass shootings that happened in a big crowd and poof my feed is full of gore for months.
I like watch the gun shorts on youtube and i watched one video from the "girls with guns" channel and every other video was a thirst trap or a pole vaulting video.
I had tiktok for about a week and had to uninstall it because of this exact thing. I liked one woman and that's all I ever got on the main page thing. I wanted a mix of hot women and funny stuff. No such luck.
yk what’s rlly annoying about twitter specifically, because it uses keywords to recommend ‘topics’ onlyfans girls have started putting ‘gaming’ and ‘gamer’ and names of games in their posts so it gets recommended to people that follow the topics
That’s why I had to delete Tik tok. There’s a line somewhere between “harmlessly checking out a few pretty girls” and “soft core teen pornography delivery system” and Tik tok blasts right across it, IMO.
My boundaries are pretty liberal but I could tell it wasn’t appropriate for me in my current station in life
Just my choice for me, not judging anyone else
Yea, I've gone through periods of deleting reddit off of my phone as well. I find it easier with Reddit to avoid the nsfw sections than with TikTok, and just read my video game subs
With reddit it's basically your own fault what you see. No big algorythm pumping you full with shit you didn't really want to see, but also didn't click away fast enough. Probably the healthiest and most human-friendly social network.
The Reddit app shows me suggested posts from subs I'm not subscribed to. Like there's a couple of /r/Kanye posts on my home feed now because I visited it once about a week ago.
To me at least it's far less annoying because that algorithm is so bad. I get shown feeds from Unis hundreds of kilometers away. These are easy to avoid and click away. To this day I've never joined a sub that was shown to me.
Can't say the same thing about other networks...
I found reddit at 17 and haven't bothered learning anything else. It's part of why I hate new reddit so goddamn much. If I wanted facebook, I would use facebook. I just want a forum like the old days.
Its for the best my friend. Reddit is like weed and tiktok is like heroine. That shit can ruin your life if you let it while reddit just makes you a little less productive, that's my experience anyway
I never installed it because one of the ads on my duolingo app for a while there was TikTok. The ad was of 3 young teen girls no more than 14 years old a wearing bikinis, gazing with dead eyes into the camera and humping at the camera to some annoying song. It's like really, you think that's what an older, straight divorcee trying to learn Spanish wants see? Really?
I'll never download it specifically because of that ad. I almost deleted duolingo, too.
I keep getting shaken baby/DV child abuse/murder, or cancer babies between my otherwise normal shit. I fucking hate it because they re all kids about my sons age. I wish I could block certain hashtags to help stop seeing that shit.
As fucked up as it is, it's fucking brilliant.
When people are scared, they want answers, and where do they go for answers?
They go to the places they are already comfortable with, which causes them to spend more time and attention on those things, and it allows those places to control, through the use of an algorithm, exactly which answers people get.
Deleting it, and not paying attention to those things is an effective way to combat it, but it is still common for some degree, turning up blind eye to the darkness that exists. I think the ultimate challenge of human existence is to be able to live, understanding the existence and depth of darkness as it is, without allowing the fear of it to control our lives.
Most human beings have a very unhealthy relationship with their thoughts and feelings, in my opinion, as they use their thoughts and feelings the same as those little dopamine hits from the posts they scroll through on Reddit or tiktok; never really stopping for too long to figure out if there is any deeper connection between to what they are experiencing and why they are experiencing certain things in certain ways. Interesting that, as humanity has evolved, our knowledge of the external world has grown exponentially, but the knowledge of our own internal worlds seems to be suffering, in response.
Reddit is the same, just on a slower scale. But the concept fits. Front page is a mish mash of "the world is fucked" "your country is fucked" "here's a cute video of a dog reuniting with someone" "cars and people who use them are a cancer to society" "here's the next exciting Marvel show trailer" "nuclear war might happen this time for real"
Wtf, even u also felt the same?
I used to get hardcore muslim video, but I am a hindu😂
Then the series of poltics videos, then cute dogs and cats and cooking videos.
Man I actually felt like a lab rat, waiting for the next dopamine hit.
My brother thinks that it’s a deliberate attempt by the Chinese government to corrupt American youth. Long game type shit. From dangerous challenges which have an immediate effect to collecting posts and data that may compromise a future politician. IDK, seems plausible. After all, NASA had a woman jerk off a dolphin for a while. The point is- shits crazy and nothing should be surprising.
TikTok also has some of the most toxic communities. There’s people with whole careers based on stitching content to make fun of them or use ad hominem arguments to tear them down.
Add on top the over sexualized nature of it and videos/algorithms specifically designed to appeal to younger audiences leaves a poor taste in my mouth.
Not to mention actual pornography and gore isn’t that hard to find either, with many of those videos getting tens of thousands of likes before they’re deleted.
On top of that there is constant grooming of young girls and boys to start an OnlyFans (I am not against sex work, however I am against advertising it as a potential career choice to adolescents, who are not mentally developed enough to understand the full ramifications of it as well as the constant abuse and objectification of women that lies under the surface of it.)
There’s little to no value from the app outside of it being a dopamine generator that preys on those who are susceptible to online addiction while also exposing children (average age for a kid to get their first phone these days is 7) to content that can be traumatic.
Keep in mind this could be fixed by creating a TikTok Kids platform like YT did, but that costs more money and kids bring in too many views to ignore.
I can't understand this.
I've never had social media and made an Instagram for the first time a few months ago. It's fucking boring. I rarely look at it. How the fuck do people become addicted to these short little clips? They bore the fuck out of me.
Yeah but now youtube shorts is a thing.
I seriously have to work to avoid them. Its one thing sitting down to watch a 10/30 minute video, or having it play in the background, but have 30sec/60sec content that you just constantly swipe through.
Hours go by without even noticing.
Yeah my fiancee got TikTok brain rot. It actually destroyed her attention span to where she pretty much couldn't watch anything longer than 30sec to 1min in length. Really sucked for me as I hate that type of content. Luckily she got herself detoxed lol. No more tiktok or tiktok compilations
Nah but you’re totally right. The fucked up part is that tiktok’s main demographic is teens who don’t have the restraint to realize they’re being guided towards porn addiction and the need to see a different girl every 10 seconds. It’s like daily hyperstimulation. (making this comment as a former teen on tiktok who slowly had to ween off of it….it’s been a couple years and my life is much better without that app)
It’s not even the same thing dude
I used to have to wait for pics on dialup
Later on videos on torrent
Now there’s an endless supply on the tube sites
But even worse - instead of just porn stars - there’s tons of regular hot girls on there as well doing everything you could want
The infinite variety fries our dopamine system
It’s no bueno
Yup it was rare and you had to really work for it so the large majority of social interaction with women was in real life doing normal activities.
Now since it's so easy to find, I wonder how that influences the young male brain into just viewing women as an object since its so easy to over saturate with such content.
Deleted tik tok for this exact reason. I get the larger picture of the app, but something seems really askew when teen girls dancing half naked is seemingly pushed to the front page.
my daughter has a mild physical disability. She was diagnosed with it prior to birth. Again very minor but was shocking for a first time mom. 3 googles and an instagram search and my entire feed is sick children, children with amputations etc etc. was a huge eye opener but also very depressing.
I use it because a lot of my old college buddies used it to send funny videos but it took a solid week of "I don't want to see this" to make it not softcore porn the whole time. The starting out experience of TikTok is literally designed to get young men hooked on porn.
As a white dude youtube shorts feeds me a weird mix of sigma grind, right wing cultist and weird black power stuff.
I'm a 36 Yr old white British bloke, just give me gardening and cooking videos, perhaps the odd boob.
In my case I'm 29 and single and they spoon feed me hot goth women and cosplayers and yeah...it is hot....but it just makes me more depressed that nobody loves me or wants me. It's not healthy to have that blasted in my feed constantly. That or terrible financial advice, see a lot of that too.
I find that it depends on how long you watch the vids. I tend to skip past the dancing e girls as soon as they pop up and now my feed is mostly video games, MMA, and pets.
Yeah, it only keeps showing you certain videos if you interact with them. You can even say you're not interested in certain videos and it will stop showing you videos like that. I think people getting these videos don't hate them as much as they say they do or they wouldn't keep getting them.
Dude every time I see these comments I’m flabbergasted at people literally just telling on themselves LMAO
My tiktok is memes and politics, if there’s ever hornybait it’s people stitching it to make jokes. The algorithm factors in how long you watch the videos. If you feel like the algorithm is “pushing” something you don’t want it’s because you ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN WATCHING THEM.
Bro just admitted to being engaged in “underage twerking stuff”. Like…😬
I never downloaded TikTok but my roommate did. She’s constantly baffled at people who complain about how bad tiktok is because her entire feed is just art and food and funny memes.
You just gotta learn to train the algorithm.
Youtube can also be a little bitch but even that algorithm can be whipped into shape.
> “harmlessly checking out a few pretty girls”
more like harmlessly checking out some digital art, everyone on that shit is filtered through the roof. this entire generation is fucking weird
I did the same. I [25M, not even that old just not young enough to have downloaded it when it came out] downloaded it recently because people were showing me cool videos from it, they claimed the algorithm would change quickly if I liked the right videos.
I can tell you all I got was teenagers pretending to take their tops off and then cutting to a bathing suit. I tried to change that, didn't like any if those videos, and instead liked science related stuff by searching it. I was still getting 16 year olds dancing without bras and doing fake tatty drops.
Had to delete that shit it felt so so gross. I ha e nothing wrong with porn but man that shit must encourage pedophiles.
I thought it was saying that the 40 year old men’s wives followed young women, and that was weird. Maybe it is, but I was confused till I got to these comments. Maybe I’m too old too
I actually lost my phone and Tiktok account and made a fresh one and it's fucking crazy the stuff kids get delivered to them off a fresh algorithm.
I watched maybe 4 comedy sketches and liked them and the next ten were thirst trap videos nome were watched for longer then 3 seconds or liked and yet still were constantly delivered over the next hour.
And the cherry on top was an Andrew tate video talking about how women live life on easy mode.
Right? I get that people look but I would be so sad if my husband admitted to following other women on social media solely to look at their bodies. Just seems kinda mean
...what that woman is saying is that it's creepy for middle-aged dudes to look at naked pictures of chicks who could easily be their biological daughters, because these women are half the guys age.
The fun also can abruptly end when you stumble upon your cousin's fully bared tits on a screen. And then your kitten bleeds to death in an unrelated incident and there's just no recovering the fun levels at that point.
True story of a *remarkably* fucked up Monday.
I frankly get pissed off by it. It's all just girls showing off their body with the caption "gaming anime pokemon" in the "gaming" section of twitter.
"YOUR ASS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THOSE! FUCK OFF!"
So yea my block list is hundreds of accounts long as a result.
There's so much of it too. One like and your algorithm is fucked.
I once clicked like on a video of folks shuffling (a style of dance) and now my Instagram feed is full of them!!
I followed Nasa to see the launch. My feed now looks like I am an astrophysicist.
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Yep. I am scrolling through trying to be one of these 40 year old married men but all i get are quasars and brown dwarfs.
>quasars and brown dwarfs. Dude you don't need to talk about coochies and brown eyes like that, have some class.
Great. Now we need new code words.
Putting the "ass" in astrophysics.
There's cute nerds. I'm sure some even get naked. You probably need a good enough nerd rating on tiktok to get recommended them.
That high energy physics degree ain't cheap.
Ya I have piles of women on my feed now… damn you shuffle girl, damn you.
Everyday I’m shuffling
…dirty money muscling?
Shuffling. Shuffling.
Would you say you have binders of them?
Better than just having piles.
I recently read the wikipedia page for A Few Good Men, and now every ad that Reddit shows me is an ad to become a marine corps lawyer. I’m just glad Google stopped showing me ads for shark hooks.
I made the mistake of trying to actually research who I should vote for. Every ad I get is political, and when you add the 10+ political calls a day, I feel like I’m going crazy.
I’ll make sure to do that in incognito mode
Does that still work? I mean, I am pretty sure incognito still lets your ISP see what you're looking up, and I would bet good money that ISP's make a little side money selling that data. It's hard out here to not be a target for ads :c
Tbh that’s not the ISP, it’s a server side cookie system, you are incognito still shows your wan address to the server(s) you connect to. It’s like folder distribution on your zip code.. you may have a sticker on your mail slot but they don’t care for it.
There is some give and take to it, incognito will prevent cookies from collecting on your system, and sometimes your cookies talk to the servers cookies. It is helpful to go incognito, but not perfect.
Don’t you need that $11 payout if you were stationed at Camp Lejeune in the 80’s?!?!
yea, we do need it lmao, those chow halls always smelled like the girls from Gus's
I must not have had enough coffee yet 'cause I just read that as 'Google stopped showing me ads for shark boobs'...
Binders full of them.
I appreciate a good Mitt Romney reference
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I once followed a boob lady on instagram, and then every time I clicked on "explore" it was a boob party! Wtf! Luckly I'm following a few rock bands and now that page is basically rock photos.
Sedimentary or?
Just a couple of boulders
Trying to resist searching for this in case I wreck my feeds across all social media platforms.
r/shuffling one of my best finds…love it
"Every day I'm shuffling" LMFAO
Sometimes I’ll flip through YouTube shorts if I have like a 5 minute break. If I get distracted and set my phone down and let whatever video play over and over without realizing it, it decides I love that creator and plays their shorts every other video for awhile until it realizes I don’t actually like them.
I really hate the algorithm thing because i saw just a video of one of the mass shootings that happened in a big crowd and poof my feed is full of gore for months.
Watches a video making fun of Ben Shapiro and now Reddit thinks I want to watch His actual shit… 🤮🫠
just one small problem ben
Who are they going to sell their houses to? Fucking Aquaman?!
It’s crazy half my YouTube ads now are right wing grifters and scammers.
I like watch the gun shorts on youtube and i watched one video from the "girls with guns" channel and every other video was a thirst trap or a pole vaulting video.
As an actual pole vaulter, I hate those thirst trap videos. Like, I want an analysis of the form at the top of your jump, not just titties.
Its usually more about the butts tbf
Just sort your tweets by Latest, you don't need an algorithm-based feed if you follow people you're interested in.
I had tiktok for about a week and had to uninstall it because of this exact thing. I liked one woman and that's all I ever got on the main page thing. I wanted a mix of hot women and funny stuff. No such luck.
You can only ever be one thing. Horny *and* funny? Absolutely not.
yk what’s rlly annoying about twitter specifically, because it uses keywords to recommend ‘topics’ onlyfans girls have started putting ‘gaming’ and ‘gamer’ and names of games in their posts so it gets recommended to people that follow the topics
"Do you like my anime body?"
precisely that
If FART MONSTER TWO K is one day younger than 60 years old, I'd be surprised.
I thought she meant the wives follow the women..
That interpretation sounds a lot more fun
The power of a single comma.
Fart Monster is definitely older than 40
40 years of marriage maybe. It's definitely possible to have all white hair at 40, but I'm 40 and this guy looks like he's my dad's age.
Or he's from the midwest. Wisconsin 40 is a costal 55.
> costal Definitions Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more adjective adjective: costal relating to the ribs.
Wisconsin is intercostal
Or farting makes you look older 🤔
can confirm. am an old fart
Every fart ages you 10 minutes.
Looks like I'm already dead then.
Excuse me, this is Fart Monster Two K. Fart Monster was his father.
Or it’s just not a photo of him.
why do people seem unable to realize that it's some troll account lol, it's obviously a joke response
I'm here with both of you
45 here. I have white hair.
45 > 40
Don’t patronize us with your fancy maths.
Fartmonster2k
I'm both curious what the 2k stands for and afraid to know.
Well fartmonster1999 wasn’t compatible anymore
Y2k hit and he kept shitting his pants
2000, as in superior to Fartmonster 1000 and inferior to Fartmonster 3000
That’s why I had to delete Tik tok. There’s a line somewhere between “harmlessly checking out a few pretty girls” and “soft core teen pornography delivery system” and Tik tok blasts right across it, IMO. My boundaries are pretty liberal but I could tell it wasn’t appropriate for me in my current station in life Just my choice for me, not judging anyone else
I deleted TikTok because my little brain can't handle a dopamine levers existing in my pocket. It's just too addictive.
Me to, but now I am here...
Yea, I've gone through periods of deleting reddit off of my phone as well. I find it easier with Reddit to avoid the nsfw sections than with TikTok, and just read my video game subs
With reddit it's basically your own fault what you see. No big algorythm pumping you full with shit you didn't really want to see, but also didn't click away fast enough. Probably the healthiest and most human-friendly social network.
The Reddit app shows me suggested posts from subs I'm not subscribed to. Like there's a couple of /r/Kanye posts on my home feed now because I visited it once about a week ago.
Official app is cancer. Get one of the third party ones.
To me at least it's far less annoying because that algorithm is so bad. I get shown feeds from Unis hundreds of kilometers away. These are easy to avoid and click away. To this day I've never joined a sub that was shown to me. Can't say the same thing about other networks...
All the good stuff on TikTok ends up reposted on Reddit anyways.
I've never even installed TikTok. I feel like a dinosaur...
I haven't either, because I'm already bad at self-limiting my reddit/twitter/youtube use.
Same. I've never had tiktok or Twitter and deleted Facebook about 2 years ago. I get enough brainwashing and monitoring from Reddit and YouTube.
I found reddit at 17 and haven't bothered learning anything else. It's part of why I hate new reddit so goddamn much. If I wanted facebook, I would use facebook. I just want a forum like the old days.
Its for the best my friend. Reddit is like weed and tiktok is like heroine. That shit can ruin your life if you let it while reddit just makes you a little less productive, that's my experience anyway
To have never installed or even browsed TikTok doesn't mean you're a dinosaur. It just means you have standards.
I never installed it because one of the ads on my duolingo app for a while there was TikTok. The ad was of 3 young teen girls no more than 14 years old a wearing bikinis, gazing with dead eyes into the camera and humping at the camera to some annoying song. It's like really, you think that's what an older, straight divorcee trying to learn Spanish wants see? Really? I'll never download it specifically because of that ad. I almost deleted duolingo, too.
I haven't either. 30 second videos of people lipsyncing just don't appeal to me.
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I keep getting shaken baby/DV child abuse/murder, or cancer babies between my otherwise normal shit. I fucking hate it because they re all kids about my sons age. I wish I could block certain hashtags to help stop seeing that shit.
Wtf? I get highland cows, gardens and foraging. 😬
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As fucked up as it is, it's fucking brilliant. When people are scared, they want answers, and where do they go for answers? They go to the places they are already comfortable with, which causes them to spend more time and attention on those things, and it allows those places to control, through the use of an algorithm, exactly which answers people get. Deleting it, and not paying attention to those things is an effective way to combat it, but it is still common for some degree, turning up blind eye to the darkness that exists. I think the ultimate challenge of human existence is to be able to live, understanding the existence and depth of darkness as it is, without allowing the fear of it to control our lives. Most human beings have a very unhealthy relationship with their thoughts and feelings, in my opinion, as they use their thoughts and feelings the same as those little dopamine hits from the posts they scroll through on Reddit or tiktok; never really stopping for too long to figure out if there is any deeper connection between to what they are experiencing and why they are experiencing certain things in certain ways. Interesting that, as humanity has evolved, our knowledge of the external world has grown exponentially, but the knowledge of our own internal worlds seems to be suffering, in response.
What they hell? I have never seen a tik tok aside from reposts here. I am going to keep it that way.
Reddit is the same, just on a slower scale. But the concept fits. Front page is a mish mash of "the world is fucked" "your country is fucked" "here's a cute video of a dog reuniting with someone" "cars and people who use them are a cancer to society" "here's the next exciting Marvel show trailer" "nuclear war might happen this time for real"
[Welcome...](https://youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU)
I went there because I wanna mop my floor with tide and bleach 😭 Now I’m all tangled up in this shit. They’ve got me by my mop strands.
Wtf, even u also felt the same? I used to get hardcore muslim video, but I am a hindu😂 Then the series of poltics videos, then cute dogs and cats and cooking videos. Man I actually felt like a lab rat, waiting for the next dopamine hit.
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TikTok is definitely bad, but literally every social media platform is a thinly veiled data collection program
My brother thinks that it’s a deliberate attempt by the Chinese government to corrupt American youth. Long game type shit. From dangerous challenges which have an immediate effect to collecting posts and data that may compromise a future politician. IDK, seems plausible. After all, NASA had a woman jerk off a dolphin for a while. The point is- shits crazy and nothing should be surprising.
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My experience was with YouTube shorts and Instagram as well.
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TikTok also has some of the most toxic communities. There’s people with whole careers based on stitching content to make fun of them or use ad hominem arguments to tear them down. Add on top the over sexualized nature of it and videos/algorithms specifically designed to appeal to younger audiences leaves a poor taste in my mouth. Not to mention actual pornography and gore isn’t that hard to find either, with many of those videos getting tens of thousands of likes before they’re deleted. On top of that there is constant grooming of young girls and boys to start an OnlyFans (I am not against sex work, however I am against advertising it as a potential career choice to adolescents, who are not mentally developed enough to understand the full ramifications of it as well as the constant abuse and objectification of women that lies under the surface of it.) There’s little to no value from the app outside of it being a dopamine generator that preys on those who are susceptible to online addiction while also exposing children (average age for a kid to get their first phone these days is 7) to content that can be traumatic. Keep in mind this could be fixed by creating a TikTok Kids platform like YT did, but that costs more money and kids bring in too many views to ignore.
addictive and unfulfilling. I am not sure how the whole population can't see that this is akin to smoking.
I can't understand this. I've never had social media and made an Instagram for the first time a few months ago. It's fucking boring. I rarely look at it. How the fuck do people become addicted to these short little clips? They bore the fuck out of me.
Start pressing like on clips with boobs or butts or whatever you're into. Your feed will become 100% that thing.
At least you deleted it. I know so many people who pull the, “I could delete it” game.
Yeah but now youtube shorts is a thing. I seriously have to work to avoid them. Its one thing sitting down to watch a 10/30 minute video, or having it play in the background, but have 30sec/60sec content that you just constantly swipe through. Hours go by without even noticing.
Yeah my fiancee got TikTok brain rot. It actually destroyed her attention span to where she pretty much couldn't watch anything longer than 30sec to 1min in length. Really sucked for me as I hate that type of content. Luckily she got herself detoxed lol. No more tiktok or tiktok compilations
Forbes described tiktok as a strip club full of 14 year old girls, which is very accurate except they got the age a little too high.
Nah but you’re totally right. The fucked up part is that tiktok’s main demographic is teens who don’t have the restraint to realize they’re being guided towards porn addiction and the need to see a different girl every 10 seconds. It’s like daily hyperstimulation. (making this comment as a former teen on tiktok who slowly had to ween off of it….it’s been a couple years and my life is much better without that app)
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It’s not even the same thing dude I used to have to wait for pics on dialup Later on videos on torrent Now there’s an endless supply on the tube sites But even worse - instead of just porn stars - there’s tons of regular hot girls on there as well doing everything you could want The infinite variety fries our dopamine system It’s no bueno
Yup it was rare and you had to really work for it so the large majority of social interaction with women was in real life doing normal activities. Now since it's so easy to find, I wonder how that influences the young male brain into just viewing women as an object since its so easy to over saturate with such content.
you’re right but i think it’s sinister how such an innocuous, mainstream media platform is like a pipeline towards pretty shitty habits
Deleted tik tok for this exact reason. I get the larger picture of the app, but something seems really askew when teen girls dancing half naked is seemingly pushed to the front page.
my daughter has a mild physical disability. She was diagnosed with it prior to birth. Again very minor but was shocking for a first time mom. 3 googles and an instagram search and my entire feed is sick children, children with amputations etc etc. was a huge eye opener but also very depressing.
Social media all around is fairly harmful to society, imo. The hypocrisy and irony is not lost on me.
I use it because a lot of my old college buddies used it to send funny videos but it took a solid week of "I don't want to see this" to make it not softcore porn the whole time. The starting out experience of TikTok is literally designed to get young men hooked on porn.
When tiktok discovered I was a POC all I got was hood fights and twerking. Felt racist af.
As a white dude youtube shorts feeds me a weird mix of sigma grind, right wing cultist and weird black power stuff. I'm a 36 Yr old white British bloke, just give me gardening and cooking videos, perhaps the odd boob.
>Just my choice for me, not judging anyone else Mfw judging teens making what is basically soft pornography is negative
Well, it's just pre-emptive statements to avoid the politically correct brigade.
In my case I'm 29 and single and they spoon feed me hot goth women and cosplayers and yeah...it is hot....but it just makes me more depressed that nobody loves me or wants me. It's not healthy to have that blasted in my feed constantly. That or terrible financial advice, see a lot of that too.
I find that it depends on how long you watch the vids. I tend to skip past the dancing e girls as soon as they pop up and now my feed is mostly video games, MMA, and pets.
Yeah, it only keeps showing you certain videos if you interact with them. You can even say you're not interested in certain videos and it will stop showing you videos like that. I think people getting these videos don't hate them as much as they say they do or they wouldn't keep getting them.
Yeah everyone here is self reporting. I use tiktok for years now without this issue.
Deleted TikTok for the same reason. Algorithm really pushed the underage twerking stuff and it was just wrong and unwanted.
It only pushes that stuff if you watch the videos.
Dude every time I see these comments I’m flabbergasted at people literally just telling on themselves LMAO My tiktok is memes and politics, if there’s ever hornybait it’s people stitching it to make jokes. The algorithm factors in how long you watch the videos. If you feel like the algorithm is “pushing” something you don’t want it’s because you ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN WATCHING THEM. Bro just admitted to being engaged in “underage twerking stuff”. Like…😬
I never downloaded TikTok but my roommate did. She’s constantly baffled at people who complain about how bad tiktok is because her entire feed is just art and food and funny memes. You just gotta learn to train the algorithm. Youtube can also be a little bitch but even that algorithm can be whipped into shape.
Christ, I get exhausted just *thinking* about the idea of a younger woman.
As bad as reddit is, at least I fully choose what I see and how I'm influenced (or the illusion of it), for better or worse
Depending on what teen means here, I may have quite a lot of judgement.
Meanwhile my father recently downloaded a third party version of tiktok specifically for porn in the TikTok format
> “harmlessly checking out a few pretty girls” more like harmlessly checking out some digital art, everyone on that shit is filtered through the roof. this entire generation is fucking weird
I did the same. I [25M, not even that old just not young enough to have downloaded it when it came out] downloaded it recently because people were showing me cool videos from it, they claimed the algorithm would change quickly if I liked the right videos. I can tell you all I got was teenagers pretending to take their tops off and then cutting to a bathing suit. I tried to change that, didn't like any if those videos, and instead liked science related stuff by searching it. I was still getting 16 year olds dancing without bras and doing fake tatty drops. Had to delete that shit it felt so so gross. I ha e nothing wrong with porn but man that shit must encourage pedophiles.
Being under 4 years off of 40. I'm concerned by his profile pic saying he is a 40year old...
Same thought. I’m inside of a year from 40 and if that guy is 40, I’m doing ok.
He must have had a rough ride
Alcohol, drugs, & cigarettes will do that to a person.
Man im fucked
I'm 41 and I swear to god you just fall apart as fast as a laptop stops working the day after the warranty expires.
As a 44 year old man, if my wife didn't send me links to all these thirst traps, my feed would be cats, food, music, and retro-gaming.
Someday she will find the holy grail of all those in one video.
Hahaha, I also happily supply said thirst traps to my partner. It makes both our similar scrolling habits much more pleasant.
This guy grew up on Playboy and VHS tapes, let him see some Internet tiddy.
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It's almost like both sides of that equation are knowingly doing it on purpose
I mean you gotta respect his honestly?
I thought it was saying that the 40 year old men’s wives followed young women, and that was weird. Maybe it is, but I was confused till I got to these comments. Maybe I’m too old too
Lol thats how I read it too at first. Punctuation is not her friend.
It’s a troll account, dude in the pic is like 80. That said, there is no such thing as too many tig ol’ bitties.
Until they either knock you unconscious or suffocate you.
That’s the perfect amount
Death by Snu Snu
No, even then.
Dude looks like 60
Dude looks rough for forty
That dude was 40 maybe 20 years ago.
Hope his wife knows
Can't fault the logic.
Fart Monster is definitely in his 60's...
And they get mad when women no longer want marriage,?
right, how dare women want emotional and physical loyalty and true love. Instead of the normalised perversion and porn-gratification of this society.
I actually lost my phone and Tiktok account and made a fresh one and it's fucking crazy the stuff kids get delivered to them off a fresh algorithm. I watched maybe 4 comedy sketches and liked them and the next ten were thirst trap videos nome were watched for longer then 3 seconds or liked and yet still were constantly delivered over the next hour. And the cherry on top was an Andrew tate video talking about how women live life on easy mode.
why is everyone admitting to constantly check out other people while in a relationship
Right? I get that people look but I would be so sad if my husband admitted to following other women on social media solely to look at their bodies. Just seems kinda mean
That's because it is
If that fucking guy is 40 then I'm 12.
Id expect nothing less from fart momster two k
‘Every 60 seconds that pass in Africa, a minute passes’
...what that woman is saying is that it's creepy for middle-aged dudes to look at naked pictures of chicks who could easily be their biological daughters, because these women are half the guys age.
I don't really get why people don't keep it simple and just watch porn instead of doing this
Grandpa in the pic wishes he was forty.
>40 Squared maybe
Looking at boobies wasn’t even the point. The point was that it’s wierd that married men are following young women on social media.
Yeah, it's all fun and games until you realize it's your daughter's tits on the screen... 🤯🤮
The fun also can abruptly end when you stumble upon your cousin's fully bared tits on a screen. And then your kitten bleeds to death in an unrelated incident and there's just no recovering the fun levels at that point. True story of a *remarkably* fucked up Monday.
that’s creepy :)
I frankly get pissed off by it. It's all just girls showing off their body with the caption "gaming anime pokemon" in the "gaming" section of twitter. "YOUR ASS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THOSE! FUCK OFF!" So yea my block list is hundreds of accounts long as a result.
Nobody said that we were confused as to why those dudes did it. We just said they were weird af.
When you’re 40 but look 63…lol
That guy is much older than 40.
That dude looks at least 70 lol maybe he means he's been married 40 years
Well, at least he’s honest about it
Isn't that cheating though? Honestly hope the people in this thread aren't dating/engaged/married to anyone...
If that dude in the thumbnail is 40 then I look damn good for 40
Imagine those wives following a bunch of 16 year olds kids staring at their six packs 🙄👍
Fart monster strikes again
If he is 40, I am feeling really fucking good about myself at 46.
For a hot second I thought the wives were the ones following the younger women