Why TikTok is Messing with your Brain (On Purpose) | Salari
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2022
- Oh boy, it finally happened, a video on TikTok...
As you know, TikTok is massive right now, especially among younger, more impressionable audiences. At this time, it's difficult to quantify the effect social media has on a developing brain, but over time it's becoming apparent that what people see online can be incredibly convincing and influential, messing with their self-image and even how they perceive reality.
This video looks at how TikTok (and by extent other social media) affects children, teens, and even young adults. We'll also explore how the platform actively promotes impossible to achieve beauty standards and wealth, while shaming and shunning users who don't adhere to these standards. We'll also briefly touch on the disturbing amount of control the Chinese government has over the app, such as its censorship of posts critical of it.
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Because of my ADHD, I have limited my social media to Facebook, TH-cam, and a couple niche hobby sites.
It sucks, honestly. The FOMO is strong, particularly with Twitter and TikTok. I feel like there's this huge part of our global culture that I'm missing. But I know that, in the end, it's a lot better for me.
It is. TH-cam shorts are destroying my time management. I use TH-cam like 10 hours a day (listen in the background while I work) and I'm seriously considering dropping youtube completely with how often I find myself losing time to the shorts. Everytime I search for videos I'm exposed to those stupid shorts over and over. Can't resist them forever. Removing temptation has always worked better, far better, for me
@@Pensnmusic, ugh same. I wish I could turn off the stupid shorts button.
Also TH-cam shorts keeps trying to radicalized me to the right, when I have a solid ten year history of leftist watching. So that's pretty concerning.
Believe me, you're missing NOTHING.
LITERALLY THOUGH I GET SUCH STRONG FOMO
@@Pensnmusic I'm tempted to leave because they've started putting 15 to 30 second unskippable ads on 10 second videos. That and just how absolutely dogshit every function has become over time.
I would’ve rolled my eyes to “kids are impressionable” as a kid 😭
Here’s what would’ve got through to me then: our ability to control impulses and make decisions is something that develops over time.
Those areas of our brain aren’t fully developed until we’re 25. You can improve them yourself with practice, but full development doesn’t happen until then.
Companies know this through research. They will use your developing brain to their advantage. Their goal is to make money.
If you learn the signs of media manipulation, you can make choices you want to make, instead of choices they want you to make.
I thought this was a great video. Thanks for bringing some coverage to this with some humor.
Kids usually do the opposite of what the previous generation does. So what would get through is to show a bunch of GenXers/boomers using TikTok the way everyone's aunt now uses Facebook to post pictures of your baby nephew.
The hippies gave birth to yuppies. Yuppies gave birth to slackers. Slackers gave birth to this new crop which will be forced to deal with some serious global problems so they'll end up being super serious. And then their kids will be useless like the hippies.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 I think you make total sense :) tiktok infiltration is the way to go.
Stanford says that are brains are developing well into our mid thirties! Pretty crazy huh?
@@cosodesign8953 that’s awesome!
Fave human fact of the week! Makes sense.
Missed opportunity to title the video “We Need to TikTalk”
I did always wonder why there's so many hot and rich people on TikTok
wait how is your comment made 1 day ago but the video is 9 min ago? what is this wizardry.
@@sayantisto1236 Patreon my friend
@@johnnyd6027 oo okay thanks
It is apparently known that they boost conventionally attractive and rich people in comparison to ordinary looking tiktokers. Oh wait I think he mentioned it but yeah.. yikes
And Instagram doesn’t?
As a woman on the internet it's never been friendly to my self confidence, but when I started watching TikTok my feelings of self confidence tanked. Everyone is young, slim and perfect with a filter to take them beyond perfection. I physically can't look like that, even if my body/face fit the mold in the first place. I try to avoid it, but now that everyone is doing their own version it's an impossibility.
I've seen a lot of plus-size women on ticktock that have positive content, but even then some asswipe feels the need to comment crap.
Every platform where the teenagers are at is like that. Instagram wasn't too different. It is unfortunate.
I avoid it by not playing. Don't use the app. I'm not on social media in any way and haven't been for over 10 years. My mental health is more important to me than today's trending widget.
@@hellionshark3197 oh yes, everytime I see a chubby person I always see a comment of some random ass that can't help but make themself feel better by shitting on other. I am a bit chubby too, with belly fat and seeing perfectly fine girls with just a bit of fat get thrashed in the comments makes me feel like dogshit
I was never into Vine back in the day nor have I ever gotten into TikTok, but it is so ubiquitous you truly cannot escape it if you're on any social media at all. It really concerns me that there are so few spaces online for minors to spend time and socialize with each other without predators; certainly there have always been predators on sites catering to minors but at least Neopets and Club Penguin didn't have the kids' real faces and details of their environment that make them easier targets. Truly horrifying to think about.
It's the neoliberal order, money always matters more than health.
A libertarian hellscape of sorts.
@@ThaTruFily oh yeah, of course. And a crucial part of that is the commodification of self that takes place on social media, especially image based social media.
@@ThaTruFily i have many thoughts on this as a gender studies educator but i'll spare you all a dissertation lol
@@dylanreidmiller8562 Reality has a left-wing bias 😸✊🏻
I was 12 when chat rooms first became a thing and pretty much right away I had guys creeping on me. The internet opened up a whole new venue for them to access kids, and it's even easier because it's anonymous for the predator and there's often no parental oversight for the kids. But the way society works now you're considered a pariah if you don't use social media so most kids have no choice if they want any kind of social life. I'm so glad I'm not a kid in this day and age.
TikTok has already messed up my sister's mind, she's hopelessly addicted to it, virtually to the point she can no longer look after herself, so now she neglects her own health, and has become isolated from almost all human contact. Although my sister does have schizophrenia, TikTok has taken advantage of her, using its algorithms to get her hooked, and it's frightening to see what the price we pay for using their platform.
That really sucks dude, it scary bc of particular areas of those sites seem to really be ramping up on the mental illness 'communities' as well as the general ironic 'meming' of mental illness that has become was my more common online in general that has negatively effected me. I really hope you and your sister get through it to a healthier place.
If she has schizophrenia, then many things could occupy her mind the way TikTok does. Sucks that it's something so insidious and controlled by the CCP.
Lair lair
You forgot to mention the noticeable amount of bullying (and with it, nazism) that I, and others, personally have observed to be more prevalent on TikTok than any other social media platform
Every once in a while, I'm reminded just how lucky I am to have a brain that, for whatever reason, isn't drawn in by things like Tik Tok or Twitter. Sure, I waste a fair amount of time on TH-cam, but at least that's the extent of it.
I feel the exact same way, I think it has something to do with me wanting to stay private and use the Internet in a more useful but limited part of my life. But I still have to make the conscious effort to not frequently lurk on those apps because I know if it does tickle my ADHD, I'll struggle to stop. This is something I'm dealing with with TH-cam shorts, you watch one or two then you've realised you spent 45 minutes doing fuck all.
@@callumtyler1998 I almost got caught in the shorts cycle. Until I realised almost nothing ever actually happens in them, a heap are stolen content posted by bots, and the rest is all repetitive and boring. I find a healthy dose of disdain for basicness helps me here.
I totally agree. But even TH-cam is bugging me out. Being awake isn’t for the faint of heart..
Genuinely jealous. Stuff like twitter and TikTok is crack to my stupid brain, I hate it so much.
@@matthewclements3476 are you gen z? I’m 27 and I can’t stand Tiktok. But my girlfriend is 22 and she is absolutely obsessed and watches it for hours at night. It’s so strange to me because our age gap isn’t that big and I grew up with the internet about as much as she did.
The clear diffrence between the creation of older social media platforms like youtube or Facebook (not to mention their predecessors) and the creation of apps like tiktok is that the former were created to realize actual posibilities created by the web. Sure they were profit driven and it made them worse for users over time but they were created in times when web wasn't such a huge market and they at least represent cool, new, unique ideas that were ruined by capitalism. On the other hand new apps like tik-tok are pure commodities, typical "innovations" that capitalism offer, nothing groundbreaking, repackaged ideas with some gimmicks, just companies finding ways to make existing products even more profitable (which in case of SM just means more addictive).
Agreed! Tiktok is made from the research of how to captivate people and unfortunately its quite twisted. From my personal experience, Tiktok would bring my emotions on a rollercoaster because of the intensity of varied tiktoks showed at me. I would see two funny tiktoks, then two tiktoks which is “the world is ending” etc etc. Did I train my Tiktok to be like that? Yes. Did I mean too? No. That fine line is accidentally giving into the algorithm by keeping me addicted by making me want dopamine after seeing something extremely bad. I want more, but immediately I’m angry again after two tiktoks.
Also, tiktok has been sending me spam text messages despite not giving them my real phone number. AND I started to seeing tiktoks related to shit I only looked up on my Safari. I didn’t search it up at all on Tiktok. Tiktok is really shady.
@@thewolfstarfire yeah, and even when people running TikTok(or other platforms) don't actively makes those corrupt decisions, the A.I. behind algorithms just learns on it's own what is most """engaging"""
Your analysis of Tiktok is every reason why I stay off the app. While it has some decent content, for the most part it's a messed up app
The thing I've noticed about TikTok, isn't so much the whole body image thing because obviously any idiot who looks at those apps knows about photo shop or whatever, what does disturb me is how much pure, raw hatred there is.
SO much hate. Overwhelming hate, and ignorance, and stupidity. It's exhausting. The second you do anything, somebody decides to be the definition of why we deserve our destruction. The fact that one female nipple gets banned but a man speaking about how he's going to rape children, or threaten women, or that dehumanizes... anyone not like him, oh, no, that's okay.
A woman makes a video saying it's not okay to treat A group like shit and no because we're not treating them like shit anymore doesn't mean suddenly you're oppressed you nitwit- and a bunch of triggered haters that get it banned.
that’s why i deleted tiktok i’ve encountered so much hate and ignorance plus i’ve been reading more since i’m not mindlessly scrolling all day
I don't use tik tok so I don't know if it's comparable, but remember things like cringe compilations? People on social media have always been mean :/
Knowing the faces and bodies are photoshopped doesn't change how they affect you. It's like with the Placebo effect, it still works even when you know it's just placebo.
having grown up with ADHD symptoms my whole life with no access to social media until middle school and even then limited access, then getting diagnosed in the first year of high school, the problems with ADHD and social media really scare me. I'm afraid of misinformation spreading, and of the backlash then gatekeeping ADHD just when most people are still learning that ADHD isn't just "look a squirrel!" stereotypes but a disorder that can affect all executive functions, and I'm scared of continued fearmongering around meds that people need and access getting even more difficult, and of the accusations that "barely anyone actually has ADHD they're just lazy/faking for attention/made their own attention spans short on social media therefore any problems they have are their fault" that I've already seen both on and offline. i do obviously want the link to be further explored so we can know the truth and help people but the way society will react either way and already is reacting is absolutely abysmal. please, a short incomplete list of symptoms is never enough to self-diagnose off of, and claiming someone is faking a disorder unless you have verifiable actual proof is just so scummy and does nothing but make disabled people's lives worse. this is more of an add-on to the video than a response. especially since everyone seems focused on how social media shortens attention spans then links that to ADHD symptoms without connecting the dots to any other symptoms, like the interest-based rather than importance-based motivation, executive dysfunction actively interfering with completing tasks, hyperfixations where you become so focused on something you lose the ability to disengage from it (because ADHD isn't actually a lack of attention span but a lack of CONTROL over your attention), etc, and overall it seems really reductive and I'm really really hoping that people will learn about this stuff from actual credible sources and that the research is conducted by people who aren't holding biases of ADHD being mainly a cis white male child disorder.
Yes, and also important to note is that just as with autism ADHD isn't something you get, it's something that is part of you and always has and always will be. Certain things (like tiktok) can make the symptoms much more obvious, but the apps do not cause ADHD. It's a biological difference in your brain, not a developed behavioural issue
I don’t think these studies are distinguishing the difference between having focus disregulation, which is a symptom of ADHD and ADHD Itself. You don’t have to have ADHD to have focus disregulation. I think this is very dangerous consider how misunderstood ADHD is to the majority of people.
People with ADHD are A-Neurotypical meaning their brains themselves function very differently than a Neurotypical person. Sometimes this means you can physically see the difference between the two on brain scans. A Neurotypical person can develop focus disregulation but that doesn’t mean they now have ADHD. You can’t develop ADHD as a Neurotyical person. ADHD is caused by internal cognitive brain function not external factors like social media.
ADHD is criminally under diagnosed in women who tend to present different symptoms. Let’s spread awareness and understanding.
you are both VERY correct and that's part of my concern with conflating "short attention span" with ADHD, thank you for elaborating
i'd also argue that the "infinite scroll" model social medias use is a clear tactic to try to keep you online as much as possible--theres no natural stopping point.
also: what songs were you playing in the background?! i got distracted by perfect day by lou reed at the beginning and had to rewind! lol
one awesome thing i’ve come across scrolling through instagram reels is people making these “reels are now over” videos where they just say “this is a stopping point, stop watching now.” they are so helpful.
@@raynajcarter honestly! Those are godsend and it shows that people know these things
28:45 Shoot. I got called out for listening to the video like a podcast. But to be fair, you have a nice presentation voice, and your content is well organized and explained.
Oh shit, that’s me
But you're missing the kitty and posh nails 🐱
That made me laugh... While I was listening to it looking at something else lol!
But to be fair to me, I listen to long form TH-cam videos while at work, so no looking at the screen. I wish there were interesting podcasts like these researched video essays, frankly! Get me in trouble less when my lead sees TH-cam open on my phone lol
It’s just him sitting on a couch and talking, so it makes sense to me. I see it more as that one friend who comes over and knows you’re busy and just rambles while you do your chores without getting offended.
@@rembrandt1078 I agree with you completely
Unrelated to tik tok, but removing facebook from my phone was a great decision. I find myself reading books a lot more, and it has helped my mental health.
I'm both grateful to have grown up before internet was such a huge distraction and worried about what it means for kids nowadays. I keep wondering to myself if the pandemic has only made things worse - when EVERYTHING is done online, including classes, does it make it all kind of blend together? Cuz I've seen some downright dangerous takes lately; kids saying they trust influencers over professionals, discounting academia as elitist and skewed, and i could go on and on. And it's just like.. something's gotta give at some point, right? I hope?
I'd have to add that every single kid had dumb takes growing up, please give them a chance to realize their mistakes and grow out of those beliefs. As a Gen Z, the generation which pretty much grew up on internet I had some pretty screwed perception of reality and some pretty stupid ideas on how the world works. I am sure somewhere someone is looking at my shitty and cringe arguments in comments section and frothing at the mouth and I would agree with them now.
The mistakes I made are probably forever alive on internet and I can't really do anything about it. But just like I grew up and realized what is right and wrong, I believe so can my peers. There is an overwhelming rate of acceptance of LGBT+ folks in my country among younger people and it shows times are changing due to this constant connection and encountering opinions online. There will be good and bad effects of this of course, but I have seen way too many former radicalized people who found their way to respecting everyone. Hence, there is an optimistic angle to it all.
@@alaskabane5340 oh hey thanks for such an optimistic reply💜 I just reread my comment and uh, definitely sounded more 'those darn kids' than intended lol. You're totally right, there's lots of good things happening alongside the bad. The lgbt+ acceptance especially really warms my heart to see, after growing up in an environment where calling someone gay was almost always an insult. As for stuff you say being permanently online, yah that's tough. The only consolation is that unless people *really* want to dig up dirt on you, old comments and such are all but buried over time. Anyway, thanks again and my bad for sounding so negative lol💜
@@criminalsen2441 No problem and you're welcome! I am not afraid of someone finding dirt online on me since I am not famous in anyway and even if I was, I'd probably just clarify things!
I don't think you sounded like "those darn kids", just concerned which is always heartwarming to see! Plus you sympathized with us a lot more than every other person will, everything (school, entertainment, socialization) being online IS a major problem, but it have it's good sides and I am always grateful to see people caring about these issues including the negatives
I used to work at a Canadian telecom. I had this director and I hated him. He was so slimy.
The product that we worked on was basically a cable box. You could watch tv, netflix and youtube, rent movies, yada yada yada. The director's strategy was to add so much content that no one would ever want to leave to go somewhere else. He called this strategy "Hotel California". You can check out but you can never leave. It remains unknown if he understood that the song is a metaphor for Hell.
About a month after I left the company, so did the Director. He works at TicTok now.
Have you ever seen Stay Tuned? It's a movie where television and seemingly its industry is literally some kind of hell filled with demons. Great movie. If you don't know, John Ritter is a TV addicted checked out dad and he and his wife (Pam Dawber) get sucked into a spooky satellite during an argument about his TV addiction. They then traverse the channels of hell.
I do think of social media, especially ones that create misinformation, FOMO, depression, body dysmorphia... are adding to the veils of samsara. Seems like a hell realm.
As a (okay,) boomer, I am already lagging way behind on popular culture in general, and just vaguely aware of many of these social media apps. Your asture and well researched commentary reinforces for me that I'm not really missing that much, anyway. I do use Facebook in spite of its much discussed flaws, to promote my business and occasionally discuss topics of interest to me. Same regarding Instagram. But I will be pretty much ignoring the rest, with no regrets
Honestly, that you need to use it to promote your business is one of it's less addressed issues. It's not like you *can* reasonably avoid Facebook as a small business owner or sole proprietor.
I'm lucky, I don't have a business or anything like that so I can just ignore the hell sites.
Although even then, I'd avoid it because the website started misgendering me on an account that was never identified with any gender but woman. I think it heard my voice and just decided I was lying about myself- and that's not even to get into the whole part where it actively promotes bigotry in the timeline and I don't need that in my life.
It's very difficult to avoid FB, it has become so ingrained in our society. Even my local national weather service office only posts updates there. That and TH-cam are the only ones I use, simply because they provide content I can't get elsewhere.
I'm from Brazil and it always get me how these virtual problems are the same world-wide, but not much is done to counter em
Good video as usual! Except ducks don't struggle to float, since they have extra insulating feathers that leave lots of air between the outer layer and skin. Ducks actually have trouble diving, because they float towards the surface constantly.
That said, I'm glad I got to grow up without the internet. I feel social pressures very strongly, and can't imagine what this social media hellscape would have done to my young mind.
Also goldfish don't have 9 second attention spans. That's a myth based in the false assumption that they couldn't form proper memories. An idea debunked by a child when they actually tested the memory of a tank of goldfish by using a lego block to signify feeding time and effectively conditioning then.
I would have thought that Salari would know to question ubiquitously "known" ""facts"".
And yea, having grown up on web 1 and web 2, being the generation at the turning point of internet becoming an essential and not a luxury... I was taken advantage of online as a kid repeatedly by some not so good people. And I was internet smart, I'd been taught the whole "don't trust anybody online" thing long before I used the internet for anything other than receiving funny emails from my nan. I can't imagine the kids today who are just dumped into the netscape and left to figure out everything alone.
@@Jane-oz7pp What the hell are you on about? He literally says it's a myth within the first 50 seconds of the video.
So adhd is a neurodevelopmental disorder, anf its generally understood that you are born with adhd. For the adhd and media use study, another way to interpret it could be that people with adhd are more prone to use social media heavily and this therefore worsen their symptoms. I only could find a resume of the study online so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
I ended up deleting tiktok sometime last year. After a couple months, I tried installing it again, realized why I uninstalled so I unistalled again. As much as the trends were fun, you can always see those trends on youtube or something. Tiktok is just so damaging that it's not worth it.
yea i deleted tiktok the start of my spring college semester it’s just such a waste of time yea sure things are interesting but there’s also tons of negative things too. most people i know that have tiktok don’t really have things that they do in their down time because that’s the thing they do in their down time like i feel like no one has hobbies anymore (this could be said about all social media but i feel like tiktok takes up most of peoples time i know i used to be on it for hours)
A very informative video. Aesthetic is on point and kitty is adorable. 🐈
I was listening to this in the background. Helped me do the boring everyday tasks I needed to do to be a functioning human while teaching me a couple things.
I've always avoided getting into tiktok especially, at first it was mostly because I don't usually like following something very big and mainstream as it's popularity doesn't usually last that long after the initial hype so I don't bother with it much
But I did watch re-uploaded tiktok videos on TH-cam and it made me glad that I never got the app to begin with because I could easily end up scrolling for hours on end and get nothing done! It already happened several times with TH-cam shorts and I hate it, so much time passes without me noticing
I've seen it negatively affect attention spans as well, my younger siblings can't Pay attention to anything that isn't very short or simplistic anymore or without music, even my mother watches so much tiktok that she doesn't even want to watch any TV shows or even videos longer than 5 minutes as it's too long for her to watch, yet she spends many hours of the day on tiktok alone
I have a very complicated relationship with social media, specially places like instagram, facebook and twitter, i barely go there, but when i do, i manage to stay for a very short time and barely really interact (like, comment, watch a video, post anything), but with places like tiktok the thing changes. Maybe i went there to follow a creator i like on youtube to show support and then suddently im watching 5 different videos in different topics and am sometimes unable to even notice it. What i mean is that although i like tiktok for its ability to find the niche you love and show you things you appreciate, i also hate it for it, and for how addicting it can feel.
Anyway, great video as always! and i love your shoutouts! i always find great artists and inspiration through it
hope your doing great 🖤
That's the first time I've heard the words "Duck" and "MAJESTIC" in the same sentence.
It was quite a run-on though
This is the first I've heard of Duck Syndrome. Very appropriate.
Lol, same. I've heard of ducks disease, which means you're short
took a year off Instagram and Twitter and the whole shabang. felt a lot more confident and mentally stable. started making (art) reels again on ig(thank god tiktok for whatever reason is banned in my country) and can instantly see a decline in mood and restlessness since I started watching stuff and reading my insights. it's a plague
I love TikTok but also hate it. I have ADHD, and am very dopamine seeking. It can be a huge problem with TikTok as I can keep scrolling for hours and hours. I still use it because of all of the information I get from it, along with the tons of cat accounts I keep up with. It's really frustrating because of how addicting it can be.
A huge issue with TikTok is misinfo, though. So many fitness/diet people that lie about ingredients and products. It can be really scary how many people are lied to.
They get the neurotypicals, too, but I also have ADHD so I know it's worse for people like us. The only solution, really, is removing it from your environment. Sucks but.. if you don't you're stuck fighting temptation so often... Destroys your mental energy making symptoms worse everywhere...
That's my experience, anyway.
PLEASE do not get your information from tiktok.
The pace of your speech is refreshing. Speed is not always equivalent to intelligence of the meaning but nowadays I find that people listen to impressions more than the meaning.
loved the video! im of the opinion that the only reason these social platforms flourish is due to public ignorance of exactly how they profit off of each user's generated data and exactly who its being sold to. when the initial 'buzz' over byte dance's spyware was spreading it only took hearing one security researcher liken it to malware to make me content to never install it.
liked & sub'd!
That and the advertising early on getting a lot of initial downloads and creating artificial fomo
TikTok is from China.
They eat dogs and are cool with genocide over there.
Nothing good comes from China.
More cat cameos thx
as soon as I heard the Clown Core song at 3:57, I knew Salari was truly the most based of them all
It's made by professionals to keep you hooked just like videogames.
Even chapters of popular series are sneaky leaving you craving the next episode with cliffhangers!
This video pretty much matches why I don't like Twitter, Vine, or TikTok. I did appreciate you pointing out how some use it for good regardless. Thanks Salari!
I feel called out. (Listening while playing FFXIV)
Tiktok definitely is an intersting topic. As someone who's actively in an ED, I'm very glad that the algorythm quickly adopts to you, and I use tiktok for boxer dogs and drag race, so no real problematic videos come my way, but I can see how quick you end up in a dangerous place.
Twitter lately has been doing that, but for different reasons.
I've been addicted to TH-cam shorts this last week. Hours passed without me realising it. It was horrible.
But i found how to disable it. Finally. I swore not to use tiktok, but TH-cam tried to ensnare me. Fuck that.
You can disable youtube shorts? How??
omg howw 😭
You can either use a different TH-cam app, downgrade it to an older TH-cam version that doesn't have TH-cam shorts (tho that might stop working in the future) of download a TH-cam shorts blocker when using a web browser (either on mobile or not).
The use of Lou Reed’s Perfect day… brilliant!
Called out for watching / listening while meal prepping lol
The more I learn about TikTok the more I’m glad I have avoided it as someone with a shorter attention span to begin with. Thanks for your research and concise presentation! Always enjoy your content!
Loved this!:) There has also been a challenge to barely escape a car. Running in front of a moving car to barely escape.
A few adults have talked about it in a local Facebook group, because they almost had a heart attack and needed to slam their brakes when a child spurted from the sidewalk and intentionally ran in front of their car.
???????? ?????? You can't be serious. I don't even want to look it up. This can't be a real challenge. Omg...what is going on
uh- uh- uh- why do i even bother sometimes
I felt the same way on IG and had to stop using it. The funny thing is, I did not follow influencers or perfect, beautiful, better-than-I accounts. I just followed colleagues and accounts about plants, flowers, nature, ect… but the feeling that everyone else was doing something inspiring while I was not made me feel incredibly lonely and sad. The FOMO was intense. If I saw someone post something similar to I did but they got more likes, I felt excluded. If I DID get a lot of likes, it doesn’t make me feel good either, though. Social Approval Indicators are toxic hands down
The musical background was incredibly on point, beautiful!
God, I love your videos so much. You seem like such a genuine person, the exact kind of positivity I'm looking for atm.
Thank you for making this. "We're glad you came" ♡ this is how people learn and what will help the people that need to listen LEARN to listen.
I've only discovered your channel maybe a few days ago. Already though, I'm in love with your videos. I'll watch them when I have free time or if I'm just bored. As someone who loves learning and being introduced to all kinds of ideas/facts/perspectives, your videos curve that craving. I also like that they're longer, taking more of a deeper dive into whatever topic your videos are about. You've gained a new fan and subscriber. Your work is appreciated and respected, never forget that.
Thank you for your content, it's incredible!
As a 20-something that avoided TikTok for years, I just recently finally gave in and checked it out after seeing so many videos about how it works and its dangers. Knowing how the algorithm works, I exclusively focused on things that give me comfort and happiness. Now every time I use it, it's nice animal and wildlife videos that I almost always come away feeling better after using. I almost never feel that way from any other social media platform.
What I'm getting at is that with significant discipline and knowledge, I think it has potential as a good platform. What's missing is the platform making something like that more accessible.
I gotta be honest I had never heard of the “devious lick” challenge before and once you mentioned it I could not stop laughing. Kids are so insanely dumb some times that you can’t help but laugh lol
Why did I think of the music lick meme before the stealing lick
I had a tik tok ad play before this video started
Edit: AND at the end tooo 😂😭
Thanks for the awesome video! You did such a good job of breaking down and summarising how each of the big spheres of engagement on Tik Tok have their dark sides
It's funny, the blame used to be levelled at TH-cam. I know watch videos of 2 to 3 hours regulary all the way through on TH-cam.
Damn I love Mariya Takeuchi’s tunes. Great start.
I finally actually looked at TikTok for the first time a couple weeks ago.
Holy fucking shit, the sheer level of endless "jingle keys" was physically painful to observe.
Great analysis as always!
Wait...this isn't a podcast?! :p
Thanks for putting yourself through the research, scripting, and editing to put it together. Another great Salari video is on the 'Tube!
Wait...this isn't a cat video??
Always excited for your new content! KEEP UP! :)
Ok, I know I should talk about the video, but the cat though!! What a sweet baby!
Saw you on FD's most recent video and thought you were awesome!
Amazing as always ❤
I accidentally blew up on TikTok a while ago (and have since deleted my account) and it was… a fucking nightmare but at least I know TikTok moderators think I’m pretty 😍
Love that you're talking about tiktok! And as always: you're looking great! Love the nails and the comfy setting :3
Thank you for the video Salari🥰
Ha! I was cooking at the start of this video but was sitting down to actively watch it (a rare thing) during your faux "gotch" moment - I am victorious!
P.S. - THANK YOU for blocking the key part of the teeth-filing clip. I nearly disappeared into myself from recoiling so hard even at what I could see!
It's super weird to me how so many people are talking about everyone being rich, thin, and cool. I follow a lot of neurodivergeant, feminist, plus size creators and my feed is really joyful. I understand a lot of younger people with less experience may thing those things aren't fun or desirable, but a lot of the young creators I follow aren't like that. I think these critiques tend to sweeping generalizations when TikTok is too subjective based on a single person's feed. You can curate a feed to be more positive for your mental health, and maybe younger people aren't doing that but I've had so many positive changes in my life (learning about fat acceptance, finding a therapist, finding the conscious parenting community) through TikTok. Yes, there's lots of goofing off, makeup stuff, funny dances, etc. but those are just small section of TikTok.
*me listening to the video while drawing* omg Salari why are you calling me out like this!
(Great video as always dude)
Great video! Also - love your nails!
Love this setup, it's more relaxed but still formal! Also, cat.
Don’t normally comment but wanted to help with the engagement, great video!
I was called out!! Okay but seriously great video!
this is why i no longer have the app ! i’m much happier than before
Ahh youtube didn't show me this video in my subscriptions and I had to look the channel up to find it what the heck! But I'm glad I did search it up, what a great video! And I love the kitty! So floofy and cute
Great video!
btw your cat is SO adorable omg
It feels weird to hear my name in a video. You deserve the support. Great video !
Love your nails Salari!! And the cuddly doggy
It's important that more people know about tiktok's sick algorithm
Big thanks for editing the tooth filing.
This was very informative and even though I don’t use TikTok in particular social media like TH-cam in conjunction with games have similar effects on me.
I love the subtle piano covers in the background, by the way!
I love that against your preference, and to clear distain for the name; you still call it the "Boost Bus". 🚌 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜💖
Enjoyed the video, first time coming to your channel. I can tell you put a lot of work, time, and effort into your videos and I appreciate that. I really do love that you promote other people's work, its something different that most TH-camrs don't do. Much love.
I'm having a bad day, but this video really cheered me up (despite its slightly negative content!) I really appreciate your videos and the effort you put into it, especially since I'm getting these carefully researched social analyses for free. Love your nail polish btw :)
Loving that 28:48 implies you have striking visuals that demand attention lest you miss some critical part of your argument.
You are great at this, but I also want to mention your cat is a big MVP. World's greatest co-host
So it’s interesting.
I am in the yo-yo community where it’s been very easy to see the change in “attention span”
1-3 minutes is a standard competition performance length.
It used to be videos.
Then Instagram gave us 15 seconds which wasn’t enough.
Then 30 which was nice.
A minute started to be just too long.
Videos themselves on YT are so much less popular than these short bites now on tiktok.
Eating disorder tiktok seems to be the exact same thing as eating disorder tumblr used to be back in the day. Obvious thinspo and proana content to celebrate being as thin as possible. It’s scary to see.
beautiful... thank you
28:35 Hey now, I only had you on in the background for the first 5 minutes. I've been watching and browsing tiktok for the other 35 though so...
But seriously. Great vid.
28:42 you completely shattered my fourth wall, i wasnt even looking at you, i was working on my comic book while listening to you, totally felt called out xD
Same creeped me out
I felt soooo called out at 28:47 lmao
Um... I mean... Great editing, Salari!
I definitely looked at the screen the whole time and didn't play a rogue-like next to it or anything haha
Thank you for blocking out the tooth-filing part. Just *hearing* the words together made me feel it in my own teeth
Love your videos
Well done, as always Sal San :)
ducks don't struggle to float but it is funny how fast they'll kick to swim.
I forget which bird's mating dance is that they paddle so fast side by side that they walk on water together
Yay new video
The absolute irony of getting an ad for TikTok while watching this video.....
Shoutout to FD for sending some of us over this way!
"and it's a shame some people put them on a background since creators put so much effort into making them... yeah, I'm talking to you"
Me: fck, he's watching what I'm doing *literally working in CAD while listening to Salari*
Most of what I see on TikTok is people with severe facial deformities on Live getting donations, so I don't know about the whole 'only show pretty people'.
This is really interesting as, I hate short form videos. but there is so much control ... in the wrong hands.
I was about to write an angry comment when you told me to stop cleaning 😂 great video as always
1:12 yes it can and it should
Also, rocking that nail polish
You should have so much more views and subscribers !!!!!!!!