When I was younger my parents didn’t let me have Tik Tok, I was very mad and upset at the time, now I realize that was probably one of the best things that could’ve ever happened to me and I’m so thankful to this day that I don’t have it 😁👍 edit: Ok y’all can stop asking me for my age, please.
@@jametron6135 the way the videos download, how to live stream on both (when you need zero subs to live stream while you need 1k to live stream on tiktok) also the comments and the bio’s are different(in videos aswell) etc etc
I never did TikTok, but I did do drugs. So when my peers and friends were on TikTok, and they started tweaking out when they weren't on it after a few minutes. That's when I knew how bad this shit it.
@@thepariah3516 I guess they meant to ask have you been off drugs for say, a month or two. im not familiar with drugs, but i assume it takes about a few weeks or so for you to stop having extreme cravings
@@regularhuman7939 Not really, addiction doesn't take hold of me as hard as it does others. I quit smoking cigarettes two weeks ago and I don't really feel any cravings.
When tiktok came out I was still in my ''hate everything popular phase'' so I never downloaded it. Fast forward few years im out of this phase but now I have legitimate reasons for hating the thing and still not touching that garbage
I just didn’t get it because I had musicaly before and I got bored very quickly. Mostly because how the app was and how the people on app were. Plus, I don’t want to support them.
i simply just.. never download any other social media then discord and youtube, and if im bored ill just play games.. like eating leftovers when theres nothing else..
we r fucked. As a part of gen alpha or part of gen z depending what your views are this dosen’t make me so secure. The fact that these are our future soldiers, doctors and firefighters are making me not so sure about my life and safety.
Tiktok really is a hell hole. In my first week of using it I saw a naked woman on my for you page. What was even worse is the fact that it was a thirst trap, and I’m a minor. I rarely use/ever used Tiktok and i’m glad I did.
@@Pancha_ Eh, there's no point to delete it for me, some content creators that don't post on Yt that I like post there a lot, sometimes I check in to see what they're doing.
@@theguywhoasked9504 No, It's like when I get a notification that a creator posted, I check it watch it, then Immediately go back to what I was doing. Besides I only watch like 2 content creators on it and they're both animators, so I don't see no harm in that.
So a small story. All my friends were always on Tik Tok and I wanted to show the video Tommy showed in this video on our class. The teacher accepted but even when they were greeted with evidence that it is poisoning they just accepted it and continued scrolling.
@@organdonor9486 I think you had a misunderstanding. That is just a small story, an example of how addicting Tik Tok is. I was not expecting any change. Also I was not aware of how addicting Tik Tok is when I showed that video.
The mental illness/disorder content on TikTok (and other social media apps) doesn't necessarily cause the exact mental disorder in users. However, it DOES lead to people mimicking or copying the physical symptoms of a mental disorder. This phenomenon is most common with ticcing/Tourette's, ADHD, and autism content because all of those disorders have stereotyped, physical movements that people can copy. That's not to say everyone who develops new tics/stims after seeing them on social media are faking it, subconsciously or otherwise. Neurodivergent individuals can develop new stims over time - for example, I as an autistic girl have recently developed a hand-shaking stim that I tend to use when I'm listening to music. But with the rate at which people are developing these tics and stims, I don't believe the majority of these users have a pre-existing neurodivergence or mental disorder
From what I understand is that it's complicated atm because they seem to present like it's not just a thing they picked up but also don't to present like they have the true disorder. I could be wrong because I've looked into it only a little but that's what I took away from it. They aren't really sure why some things are spreading like that or why they seemingly do and don't present with disorder or what have you in question. Bear in mind again, I'm no expert, and I've only just started looking into it.
@@Shah_dat i can hold it in for however long, i release it as soon as i go showering at home. you can hold it in for a pretty long time if your a different person, most people cant hold it in for long or dont keep themselfs hydrated for much
most people in Gen Z aren't how the mofos on tik tok are, most of them I know are completely reasonable people and it's the pick me girls looking for attention that pull this type of shit like the holocaust stuff
As a person who was diagnosed with tourettes by a professional I honestly hated the people who fake Tourette's son tiktok. And I've never installed tiktok in my life
I'm 30 now but I have observed the crazy influence Tiktok has on the attention span my younger cousins who are teens now. These guys could watch movies with me when they were kids but can't even watch anything with them now without them losing patience and demanding the video is fast forwarded to the good parts. Many teens don't have the patience to even read books and novels these days.
I'm a gen z and my cousin who's year younger than me is on tiktok more than and like 2 minutes into the movie she's already bored and on her phone 😭😭😭(she's 14,I'm 15) she has a worse attention span than me(i naturally have a bad attention span therefore I spend my time on youtube watching long videos(lile coryxkenshin 40+ vids) and I get so disappointed seeing her unable to pay attention to a simple episode of a show
I abandoned all social media when my girlfriend broke up with me, so no Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, none of that. I just sat and used YT shorts, or Discord. Someone told me that Tiktok, in China, they give their citizens of the country, smart tiktoks, and educational tiktoks. Once it went worldwide, they started shooting off dumb titoks, screaming, nudity pranks etc. For the 3 years I used it, I have been absent in between. But thank god, thank you Tommy for being a pre-Gen-Z and not like the fuckers who defend it because of their cult following.
I'm happy to say that I've never downloaded TikTok, but I fear that I may have to at some point. I say that since TikTok is a prime place to grow a business or a RUclips channel. But if I can help it, I'd rather be bored watching the same RUclips videos and playing the same video games over and over again than become braindead through TikTok
@@dwaynethecuckjohnson2.08 I would, but I have a chronic condition called being a massive bitch. So, if it's not done the way I want it to, I become irrationally annoyed.
you can always just get the app only for business reasons I know this may be a bad example but kinda like drug dealing you don't have to do drugs you can only seel em and for tiktok you don't have to use it or watch videos on it you can just only make videos to grow
I never used Tik Tok basically because I didn´t care, now seeing all this China stuff and the addictive nature of the app itself makes me thank God for dodging a big bullet right there.
I used to have Tiktok and i got so addicted that it ruined my grades (this was during when online school was a thing) I would get F’s and D’s in all of my classes. I deleted Tiktok after my parents found out and noticed that my grades would get better everyday bc I focused on my grades so much. Was it partially my fault for watching Tiktok so much? Yes. Did it ruin my grades? Also yes.
i dont have tiktok and the fact that im watching these studies legit gives me all the gratitude i need im watching this again and gawd damn i never went down the tiktok rabbit hole like that before
I used tiktok once and it was because I wanted to see a cooking video, that's the only time I used it. And now I can cook pork schnitzels, but that is one of the few good tiktoks, thank the lord. I'd probs be doing a lot worse than I am now, because I wouldn't be improving on myself mentally and physically. But if I spent more time on tiktok than 2 minutes, I'd probs be in the trenches lol
I deleted tiktok 5 months ago (I had a following of 10k) and it was top 5 best things I've done in life. I was just sitting there constantly scrolling for hours and hours wasting so much time just for a bit of dopamine rush, ever since then I have gotten my life together and I've improved physical and mental.
I don't use TikTok, but my friends do. It makes me so mad, because they can't go an hour without eventually just mindlessly scrolling. And my friends who don't use TikTok, use frickin RUclips Shorts.
With me, never used tik tok but I can't read comments the size of paragraphs but I am able to read books, I finished reading the Bible and the encyclopaedia of world history
I deleted that like 3 months ago, now I’m more normal than when I had it 💀. TikTok is full of weird people with scary opinions. Not to mention the micro trends yikes
@@5starleo The ones that are LGBTQ and wanna force it on young children, not to mention the opinions with politics about guns and etc. people who wanna be different so bad they use non existent “pronouns”. Bunch of weirdos
TikTok has to be the most unhealthy app out there. I for myself am a relatively depressed person. I didn't take long for TikTok to show me a video from someone in the same situation. And after that it sends you down a rabbithole of this exact content. My mental health has been decaying gradually ever since i started using the app. And as of right now, my feed mostly contains slideshows of the most vile, heartwrenching, sad and traumatizing shit to ever face the world. And now knowing this stuff is going down as well, i might just quit all together.
Facebook showed people stuff like that on purpose to see if they could affect their users with it and low and behold they did it. They made a bunch of people depressed on purpose.
My best suggestion is limit it and use with caution. Also it may sound a bit simple and maybe a little condescending because it's not easy to do when depressed, but try to have positive thoughts. When you notice a negative thought drift in try to actively think of something positive instead. You might not be religious so maybe this ex isn't helpful but when thoughts of loneliness or being alone start to come into mind and effect how I feel I remind myself I am loved and that I'm not alone because christ is with me. I wish I had better to say. Good luck with getting off tiktok and with wish you well in dealing with your mental health.
You probably aren't gonna read this because you said for yourself that you don't read long paragraphs in comment sections. But anyways I've been trying to keep my distance from TikTok because of what is going on in society today and how it's affecting peoples behavior. I'm not no scientist but I have a noticed that all of these things that have been mentioned I can seriously relate to or at least not as much anymore because I've been trying to decrease the amount of TikTok I watch on a daily basis which is pretty sad that I need to track but my point is, I really think we are screwed .. So we all should just start praying for this generation to shapen up and become what we once called normal again :(
I agree with you on with one. I’m currently a computer science major at my local university and I made a presentation on this very subject. All of research I did for that project made me realize how much TikTok and social media in general changes the way we behave and act. Doing all of that research convinced me to limit the amount of time I spend on social media. It’s kind of sad seeing how apps like TikTok have changed the way people act, especially seeing the people I know become more glued to their phone than they already have been. Oh god, reading through make me come off sounding like a boomer 😅
I don’t even watch tiktok no more first it was bc i didn’t have a phone for a long time but when i got there again it all became so boring i’d rather watch a movie or sum i still have it for the occasional scrolling but more than 15min make me bored asf
Never used tiktok and now I never will It's a shame since there's some genuinely good creative and funny stuff on it that I've seen reposted on youtube and stuff that just gets drowned out by this shit It's gross and sad man
6:02 As a somewhat sane highschool student, let me indulge you. We have to worry about the part under stairwells, because our school is massive like that. There are couples doing some R-rated shit back there, so they put cameras in there that they don't check. So you could turn the corner and walk in on a sex scene without even knowing it. Secondly, vandalism, as you brought up. It's died down now, but in another comment I mentioned that someone stole a whole ass toilet and another person stole a steering wheel. It's getting to the point where people are shitting in the urinals and pissing in the soap dispensers, and that's why I don't use the main school bathroooms. If you push the soap dispenser you're either going to get soap or piss, it's a 50/50 chance. There are alternative ones that are fine, but at one point last year people stole so many soap dispensers they didn't replace them, so you didn't have soap to wash your hands. There are a lot of underhand fuckers around here. Pedophiles, sexual harassers, you name it. This shit went wild especially around last year, and so you really have to be careful with who your friends are now. They could be a kiddy fiddler and you would never know it until it was exposed.
i just gave up with public school altogether, i'd rather be lonely and isolated than physically traumatized/pushed to puking due to PISS IN THE SOAP DISPENSERS???? WHAT??? dude i'm incredibly sensitive to most icky stuff currently and i can't even stand smells, let alone someone else's pee. you okay bro???
I deleted TikTok a month or so after downloading it and I'm so glad I did that 😭 I just watch yt documentaries on obscure internet mysteries and stuff while gaming or drawing or doing my homework
31:50 70% the people that got they're account deleted were probably innocent TikTok's moderation is terrible like my friend he got ip banned for post anime content while my other friend is getting videos of literally nudity on his fyp
Honestly I never founded tiktok fun, I literally scrolled like 3 minutes and just give up scrolling and then deleted it, idk why y’all find it so addictive
I didn’t find it addictive at first but then I liked on video and other videos just popped up that I liked and then it got addictive but then I stopped using it
They’ll give you around one or two videos you like then keep on, and keep on showing until they eventually drop you down some… questionable shit and pipelines
personally, i think it's the /chance/ of dopamine. "well, maybe i'll find something today." or just because it's something that's mindless enough to be comforting in some way?
Deleted Tik Tok back in June and since then I’ve worked on myself mentally and physically. All of shit I went through mentally lessened since deleting that app. But now I feel a disconnect with some of my friends who still heavily use the app. Idk how to explain it but for example it’s harder to have a conversation with them because they’re not really listening. Sucks but not anything I can do.
My brother tried to introduce me to TikTok when I was younger and I’m glad I never picked it up and learned about the controversy soon enough to not get sucked in
I read a report that TikTok reads the facial expressions that people make after seeing a video. Even if you don’t like it - simply a smile, frown, or shocked face can change the face of your fyp.
The "self inflict yourself down to getting actual tourettes from your stimuli addited brain turning into an actual motor function" thing was a freaking South Park episode with Cartman. You telling me that's REAL now???
Also, if you're a girl and scroll for about ten minutes, you get TONS of ED content. It's so fucked up. I've never seen that kind of content before (though other people did), but I remember that last year I got so addicted to TikTok that I had anxiety attacks when someone replied to any comment I made. There's a lot of cyberbullying, sexualization of minors, and self-harm content as well...
Mark my words, someone's going to make a "challenge" like "grab a cop's gun challenge" and some poor kid's gonna pay the ultimate price for naively attempting to follow another man's 10 minutes of ill-gotten clout
I once had TikTok pre-installed on my phone and I was getting random notifications such as "I like old men" from it even though i had not touched it and uninstalled it. Glad I did stay away.
I went on TikTok for the first time and it seemed fine. But I saw ONE video of a woman 20-30 doing the splits, and ALL of the recommended videos were women doing the splits and sexual stretches and stuff.
One of the best decitions I have probably made during the soon fifteen years that I have existed is to never download tik tok as an app or visit their site.
5:32 yeah I remember i was a freshman in high school when that trend was popular, it was so bad that teachers had to stop letting kids go to the restroom because the trend was getting out of hand. We would go to restroom during 10 or 11AM.
For those wondering as to how social medias make estimates on those lying about their age on their platforms, they usually do so by the analysis of those users behaviour. They way they interact with others, the content they view, the way they comment, etc. Most people can agree that young kids commenting on a video for example, are very obviously young kids. Algorithms are very good at dissecting our behaviours and predicting them, so it wouldn't be too hard to pick out those that appear to be younger children out of the batch. If this makes sense.
@@TOTU I never implied they care, I was stating how they find out. I mean, they put up such a stink when the COPPA laws were put in place because they could no longer target ads towards those under their min age, let alone harvest their data legally anymore.
The only time I've "used" tiktok was when my little 6 year old cousin wanted me to dance or whatever and that's it, I use RUclips more than anything lmao
I remember I had TikTok for a month or two when TikTok dropped and thought it was cringe so I uninstalled and over the years I’ve just seen it get worse and have been so thankful that I’m no a part of it
A couple years back when I was younger my parents had my access to the internet be very limited. I never got a phone at the same time as the rest of my peers. When you’re a kid and all everyone talks about is the internet, and their phones, you get jealous. You wonder “why not me?”. Now that I’ve seen the internet I know how ugly it can be. Everyone who had unlimited access to the internet at a young age is messed up now. And I’ve seen this happen time and time again.
8:05 nah, not Tourette's, that's specifically a pineal gland malfunction. It would be causing Tic Syndrome, which is very similar but not as severe and easier to treat.
TikTok has my 32 year old ass over here think, "hello, fellow kids", or whatever that Steve Buschemi meme was. In the beginning he said this is the generation becoming firefighters, doctors, but I thought he said DOXXERS, and I was thinking they already are!
After watching the original video, I tested out myself and I encountered tween girls and the chat was asking to reveal her chest and she was on omegle and the dude behind the screen (omegle) was also asking to reveal her chest. I deleted the app like a week ago (Thank God)
13:35 I have a horrifying story of this, I actually started saving these videos and reporting them to try and get the trend destroyed, but there were 100’s of them, and it got so painful that I had to remove them from my saved list, there were actual children in them videos too who most likely will eventually find those videos of them
i used to have tiktok but uninstalled it on my tablet for about 10 mins after seeing what the hype was about, now i sometimes use it when i wanna search an art related tiktok that i might like but its rare lol.
I am glad I didn't have TikTok considering my already low attention span I am 15 and still put I am 18 in games so that I don't have to deal with the goofy restrictions like no multiplayer in Minecraft and stuff like that
I used to be addicted to tik tok so much like a year and and a half ago. Mainly cause I could use it at school whenever. But I don't use it much at all during summer when I'm at home and I finally managed to get it down to only using it when i got like 10 minutes of free time or like when I got time but not enough to do something worthwhile.
Lately I’ve been thinking about a law that would require people to put their real name as their username and an accurate picture of their face as their profile picture, and ya I don’t have that but I wasn’t thinking about that when I made my account. Failure to do this should be labeled as identity fraud because a person would be pretending to be someone they weren’t. I would love some discussion on this
Ive never used tiktok, first it was because I thought it would be a fast passing trend, but now im glad I didnt. oh and if im bored, I pick up my phone and play monke game where monke shoot dart
My average scroll time on tik tok was like 2 hours, me and my entire family was addicted to it, then we all kinda just Uninstalled it, and never installed it again. I just did, but after watching this video, I'm uninstalling it and never installing it again 💀💀
Idk how people can use tic tok, any short form content (anything under 5-10 mins) doesn't grasp my attention the same way 30+ min videos do, I'm able to weave in and out of a video really well so I can watch and retain videos while playing games. So shorter content makes me tab in to YT more and makes it more of a hassle to watch them in general
I have a hard time focusing when im watching shorts, so I usually watch all of one channels shorts because they're usually about the same stuff, but usually prefer longer videos of >30 minutes
Can I be honest, I had no idea how much TikTok influences our humor today until I realized that most of my friends' jokes are based off of TikTok memes. And man I'm thankful that I don't use that brainrotten app. But, I do feel left out of what pretty much is the world's current of humor nowadays. And as the class' jokester that kinda makes me look out of touch I'm one of those people who's really self-conscious about the information on the internet and the main reason why I don't use TikTok(and have never downloaded it) is because it's owned by a company based in China, and they legally have to disclose all the information they collect to their government(big NO from me). So yea that's another reason why
I've seen shit on the internet, and I'm NOT letting my sister use tiktok, instagram, twitter, or even facebook. Everywhere has some bullshit going on and she might get exposed to adult content on surface part of the internet which btw no one literally take responsibility for. So i am doing my best to look out for her just to not be exposed with all these shit. I don't have tiktok as well, no instagram, no twitter, no nothing just RUclips and messaging app to contact people. Life is so much better, feels like a breath of fresh air.
When I was younger my parents didn’t let me have Tik Tok, I was very mad and upset at the time, now I realize that was probably one of the best things that could’ve ever happened to me and I’m so thankful to this day that I don’t have it 😁👍
edit: Ok y’all can stop asking me for my age, please.
And now you are still most likely a child.
+50 innocent +50 smart points.
@@CheesyCrusaggy I mean not really but sure, haha 😅 thanks
When you where younger how old are you
Very cool pfp 🎉
@@stevenfoss3015 probably 18 cause tik tok popped off around 4 years ago
Makes sense why older people and parents blame TikTok so much...
not just them I’m 14 and NEVER gonna get that app 🙅🏼♀️ fuck social media
@@jametron6135 yt is different aside from shorts and yt is better otm
@@jametron6135 the way the videos download, how to live stream on both (when you need zero subs to live stream while you need 1k to live stream on tiktok) also the comments and the bio’s are different(in videos aswell) etc etc
@@jametron6135 not even there’s more queers and fake feminist on tiktok more than yt and basically any other type of person
@@jametron6135 yt needs talent to become famous. You can be a dumb ass or just click bait but who made it far without getting caught or losing subs?
I asked my mom for tiktok one day, she said no.
I told my friends she was “controlling”
but damn I’m fr glad 💀
same man my mom wouldn’t get me TikTok when I asked for it and i’m grateful she didn’t
why is this skull emoji used in literally every sentence these days?
@@jeremyeagle212is there a problem?💀
@@jeremyeagle212 Fr 💀
@@jeremyeagle212 Atleast they dont ruin the crying emoji finally
you know tiktok is bad if twitter is calling stuff out
FRR
You know its bad if Twitter is calling it out AND THEYRE RIGHT
I never did TikTok, but I did do drugs. So when my peers and friends were on TikTok, and they started tweaking out when they weren't on it after a few minutes. That's when I knew how bad this shit it.
the similarities are unnerving
Are you sober now ?
@@EmeraldtheGOAT Depends how you define sobriety.
@@thepariah3516 I guess they meant to ask have you been off drugs for say, a month or two.
im not familiar with drugs, but i assume it takes about a few weeks or so for you to stop having extreme cravings
@@regularhuman7939 Not really, addiction doesn't take hold of me as hard as it does others. I quit smoking cigarettes two weeks ago and I don't really feel any cravings.
My biggest flex is that I’ve never had TikTok
I had tiktok, only just to use some filter I found through a yt video.
having no tiktok is the best thing
Even bigger flex never had tik tok and also friends who don't have tik tok we all hate it
@@Arras13568 same but not all my friends hate it like I do.
@@Arras13568u most likely play video games all day your no better than people who scroll on tiktok
Tiktok should be 18+. Kids arent ready to handle this shit.
Agreed as long as they don't make
" Tik tok kids "
( given how yt kids turned out to be you can probably guess why )
When tiktok came out I was still in my ''hate everything popular phase'' so I never downloaded it. Fast forward few years im out of this phase but now I have legitimate reasons for hating the thing and still not touching that garbage
I just didn’t get it because I had musicaly before and I got bored very quickly. Mostly because how the app was and how the people on app were. Plus, I don’t want to support them.
i simply just.. never download any other social media then discord and youtube, and if im bored ill just play games.. like eating leftovers when theres nothing else..
good for you and tbh i stopped using tiktok years ago
@@PJ183 same here except when I got bored I just started working out
@@fardgarde4104 I dont focus on working out too much but i'd usually try it during a weekend
we r fucked. As a part of gen alpha or part of gen z depending what your views are this dosen’t make me so secure. The fact that these are our future soldiers, doctors and firefighters are making me not so sure about my life and safety.
It always gonna be like this things are gonna be fine.
@@StardustSpiritDragon i dont know man
they lick (or we) lick toilet seats for views.
True
It's just some people on tiktok. Not everybody will be like that
Nah fam, the future firefighters are out for a jog, not spending their whole day on TikTok
Tiktok really is a hell hole. In my first week of using it I saw a naked woman on my for you page. What was even worse is the fact that it was a thirst trap, and I’m a minor. I rarely use/ever used Tiktok and i’m glad I did.
Just delete it
@@Pancha_ Eh, there's no point to delete it for me, some content creators that don't post on Yt that I like post there a lot, sometimes I check in to see what they're doing.
@@Bagbonk that’s the addiction talking. Whenever this shit happens the only full solution is to delete
@@theguywhoasked9504 No, It's like when I get a notification that a creator posted, I check it watch it, then Immediately go back to what I was doing. Besides I only watch like 2 content creators on it and they're both animators, so I don't see no harm in that.
@@Bagbonk welp I get it, but honestly that’s basically how addictions start 💀 start small then turn big, but as far as I know ur good to go 👍
"Imagine having to watch TikTok to get a shorter attention span 😎"
- guy with ADHD
Chad
Introducing: ADHD+
Went from ADHD to AD4K
Im pretty sure most people have adhd, dont use it as if its some sort of disease or some shit
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This is the biggest reason why older generations think of our generation as underdeveloped
So a small story.
All my friends were always on Tik Tok and I wanted to show the video Tommy showed in this video on our class. The teacher accepted but even when they were greeted with evidence that it is poisoning they just accepted it and continued scrolling.
its a litteral drug bro, they are not going to stop
@@organdonor9486 I think you had a misunderstanding. That is just a small story, an example of how addicting Tik Tok is. I was not expecting any change. Also I was not aware of how addicting Tik Tok is when I showed that video.
@@DabUwU-San damn right you are.
yeah lets just hope and pray some random prodigy from the depths of europe saves us all
@@gideonadug3916 why Europe specifically lol
As someone with severe ADHD I SHOULD NOT FEEL LIKE I DON’T HAVE IT WHEN COMPARED TO TODAY’S GENERATION
I have adhd too and while I actually feel normal for once, I don't want everyone to have the same issues as mine.
fr bro
Same
Same
dont be talking about severe
The mental illness/disorder content on TikTok (and other social media apps) doesn't necessarily cause the exact mental disorder in users. However, it DOES lead to people mimicking or copying the physical symptoms of a mental disorder. This phenomenon is most common with ticcing/Tourette's, ADHD, and autism content because all of those disorders have stereotyped, physical movements that people can copy.
That's not to say everyone who develops new tics/stims after seeing them on social media are faking it, subconsciously or otherwise. Neurodivergent individuals can develop new stims over time - for example, I as an autistic girl have recently developed a hand-shaking stim that I tend to use when I'm listening to music. But with the rate at which people are developing these tics and stims, I don't believe the majority of these users have a pre-existing neurodivergence or mental disorder
From what I understand is that it's complicated atm because they seem to present like it's not just a thing they picked up but also don't to present like they have the true disorder. I could be wrong because I've looked into it only a little but that's what I took away from it. They aren't really sure why some things are spreading like that or why they seemingly do and don't present with disorder or what have you in question.
Bear in mind again, I'm no expert, and I've only just started looking into it.
this. i think i might have a weird fake/"plastic" form of adhd due to how i act and what i'm used to, since i'm so chronically online
Autism is not a disorder, that's an outdated conception
tic-tok
I'm glad tiktok got banned in India. Trends were almost this bad back then so I can't imagine how worse it would be now
With the devious lick thing it would just harm students more than the school, we couldnt even go to the bathrooms at one point dawg
who goes to them they are so bad the smell the people who dont flush it so awful
@@jellyevil7163 You don't hold on to that for 8 hours+commute before you go home, so it's necessary, sadly.
@@jellyevil7163 if you gotta go , you gotta go. No point in risking catching some disease from holding in your crap too much.
@@jellyevil7163 what kind of school do you go to?
@@Shah_dat i can hold it in for however long, i release it as soon as i go showering at home.
you can hold it in for a pretty long time if your a different person, most people cant hold it in for long or dont keep themselfs hydrated for much
most people in Gen Z aren't how the mofos on tik tok are, most of them I know are completely reasonable people and it's the pick me girls looking for attention that pull this type of shit like the holocaust stuff
Even then, most do drugs and smoke. I think we are heading towards dark times
@@ilovecakecanihaveapiece teens smoked and did that shit even before tiktok and social media in general
Darum where do you live? Cause all the mfs ik just vape and do drugs
@@Mona-zh1ml true
@@ilovecakecanihaveapiece always been drugs bro.
As a person who was diagnosed with tourettes by a professional I honestly hated the people who fake Tourette's son tiktok. And I've never installed tiktok in my life
And you shouldn’t
tiktok isn’t even a drug at this point it’s a lobotomy simulation
Nvm, I installed youtshorts is way worse then tiktok
I'm 30 now but I have observed the crazy influence Tiktok has on the attention span my younger cousins who are teens now.
These guys could watch movies with me when they were kids but can't even watch anything with them now without them losing patience and demanding the video is fast forwarded to the good parts.
Many teens don't have the patience to even read books and novels these days.
I'm a teenager, and I'm glad I don't watch YT Shorts / TikTok.
I'm a gen z and my cousin who's year younger than me is on tiktok more than and like 2 minutes into the movie she's already bored and on her phone 😭😭😭(she's 14,I'm 15) she has a worse attention span than me(i naturally have a bad attention span therefore I spend my time on youtube watching long videos(lile coryxkenshin 40+ vids) and I get so disappointed seeing her unable to pay attention to a simple episode of a show
those damn mfs had their attention spans thanos-snapped by tiktok 😭 like holy crap it just went *_poof_*
I abandoned all social media when my girlfriend broke up with me, so no Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, none of that. I just sat and used YT shorts, or Discord. Someone told me that Tiktok, in China, they give their citizens of the country, smart tiktoks, and educational tiktoks. Once it went worldwide, they started shooting off dumb titoks, screaming, nudity pranks etc. For the 3 years I used it, I have been absent in between. But thank god, thank you Tommy for being a pre-Gen-Z and not like the fuckers who defend it because of their cult following.
You watch moon too?
@@CheesyCrusaggy yea
I’m sorry for your loss bro,but remember that we’re always on your back. Stay strong king!💪
Discord ain’t much better
RUclips is social media, so you haven't abandoned social media yet. You're still wasting on pointless stuff
I'm happy to say that I've never downloaded TikTok, but I fear that I may have to at some point. I say that since TikTok is a prime place to grow a business or a RUclips channel. But if I can help it, I'd rather be bored watching the same RUclips videos and playing the same video games over and over again than become braindead through TikTok
Its sad that there's not really any successful competition for these bs platforms (YT & TikTok)
Maybe you could hire someone else to manage the tik tok page for you? When you got enough money to do that, that is.
@@dwaynethecuckjohnson2.08 I would, but I have a chronic condition called being a massive bitch. So, if it's not done the way I want it to, I become irrationally annoyed.
you can always just get the app only for business reasons I know this may be a bad example but kinda like drug dealing you don't have to do drugs you can only seel em and for tiktok you don't have to use it or watch videos on it you can just only make videos to grow
as ur watching a tiktoker
I never used Tik Tok basically because I didn´t care, now seeing all this China stuff and the addictive nature of the app itself makes me thank God for dodging a big bullet right there.
I used to have Tiktok and i got so addicted that it ruined my grades (this was during when online school was a thing) I would get F’s and D’s in all of my classes. I deleted Tiktok after my parents found out and noticed that my grades would get better everyday bc I focused on my grades so much. Was it partially my fault for watching Tiktok so much? Yes. Did it ruin my grades? Also yes.
Partially yeah, its not your fault someone made an addictive app. Good for you though
it's good you woke up
good job for beatiing this addiction :)
i dont have tiktok and the fact that im watching these studies legit gives me all the gratitude i need
im watching this again and gawd damn i never went down the tiktok rabbit hole like that before
Same
same
I used tiktok once and it was because I wanted to see a cooking video, that's the only time I used it. And now I can cook pork schnitzels, but that is one of the few good tiktoks, thank the lord. I'd probs be doing a lot worse than I am now, because I wouldn't be improving on myself mentally and physically. But if I spent more time on tiktok than 2 minutes, I'd probs be in the trenches lol
@@Impera._ did u see men kissing
@@RealVergilSparda No wdym?
I deleted tiktok 5 months ago (I had a following of 10k) and it was top 5 best things I've done in life. I was just sitting there constantly scrolling for hours and hours wasting so much time just for a bit of dopamine rush, ever since then I have gotten my life together and I've improved physical and mental.
Same
Honestly congrats my dude!
That’s good to hear!
Never used, but Congrats
Same for me when I realized how I was spending my life
As someone who is a kid I am sorry for what my generation has caused or did
I don't use TikTok, but my friends do.
It makes me so mad, because they can't go an hour without eventually just mindlessly scrolling.
And my friends who don't use TikTok, use frickin RUclips Shorts.
imagine not even being able to read a single paragraph, let alone a chapter
reading a whole novel must be hell . . .
I have dyslexia and ADHD, but I can read a lot.
well.. this is what happens whenever people, and especially the new generation, lose a part of their attention spam.
With me, never used tik tok but I can't read comments the size of paragraphs but I am able to read books, I finished reading the Bible and the encyclopaedia of world history
@@Arras13568 you are very interested in stuff like that i believe
I can read, I read plenty of books
But bionic reading is WAY more helpful for me
I deleted that like 3 months ago, now I’m more normal than when I had it 💀. TikTok is full of weird people with scary opinions. Not to mention the micro trends yikes
Scary opinions like what?
@@5starleo The ones that are LGBTQ and wanna force it on young children, not to mention the opinions with politics about guns and etc. people who wanna be different so bad they use non existent “pronouns”. Bunch of weirdos
@@5starleo like kitkats are better washed
@@gyutarofan4979 No. Just no
@@Citizen_001 thats why you should NEVER use tiktok
something smells mighty fishy right now regarding the people behind Tiktok. somebody gotta call the cops on them.
TikTok has to be the most unhealthy app out there. I for myself am a relatively depressed person. I didn't take long for TikTok to show me a video from someone in the same situation. And after that it sends you down a rabbithole of this exact content. My mental health has been decaying gradually ever since i started using the app. And as of right now, my feed mostly contains slideshows of the most vile, heartwrenching, sad and traumatizing shit to ever face the world.
And now knowing this stuff is going down as well, i might just quit all together.
Facebook showed people stuff like that on purpose to see if they could affect their users with it and low and behold they did it. They made a bunch of people depressed on purpose.
My best suggestion is limit it and use with caution. Also it may sound a bit simple and maybe a little condescending because it's not easy to do when depressed, but try to have positive thoughts. When you notice a negative thought drift in try to actively think of something positive instead. You might not be religious so maybe this ex isn't helpful but when thoughts of loneliness or being alone start to come into mind and effect how I feel I remind myself I am loved and that I'm not alone because christ is with me. I wish I had better to say. Good luck with getting off tiktok and with wish you well in dealing with your mental health.
You probably aren't gonna read this because you said for yourself that you don't read long paragraphs in comment sections. But anyways I've been trying to keep my distance from TikTok because of what is going on in society today and how it's affecting peoples behavior. I'm not no scientist but I have a noticed that all of these things that have been mentioned I can seriously relate to or at least not as much anymore because I've been trying to decrease the amount of TikTok I watch on a daily basis which is pretty sad that I need to track but my point is, I really think we are screwed .. So we all should just start praying for this generation to shapen up and become what we once called normal again :(
I agree with you on with one. I’m currently a computer science major at my local university and I made a presentation on this very subject. All of research I did for that project made me realize how much TikTok and social media in general changes the way we behave and act. Doing all of that research convinced me to limit the amount of time I spend on social media. It’s kind of sad seeing how apps like TikTok have changed the way people act, especially seeing the people I know become more glued to their phone than they already have been.
Oh god, reading through make me come off sounding like a boomer 😅
You have my respect for writing out this whole paragraph with the chance nobody is going to read it o7
I don’t even watch tiktok no more first it was bc i didn’t have a phone for a long time but when i got there again it all became so boring i’d rather watch a movie or sum i still have it for the occasional scrolling but more than 15min make me bored asf
@@Airwick_Trash true. I use tiktok to see how it affects me, i am really curious but also aware how it is destroying my sanity. Its fastinating
@@Airwick_Trash nope just a lad with a massive ego
Never used tiktok and now I never will
It's a shame since there's some genuinely good creative and funny stuff on it that I've seen reposted on youtube and stuff that just gets drowned out by this shit
It's gross and sad man
6:02 As a somewhat sane highschool student, let me indulge you.
We have to worry about the part under stairwells, because our school is massive like that. There are couples doing some R-rated shit back there, so they put cameras in there that they don't check. So you could turn the corner and walk in on a sex scene without even knowing it.
Secondly, vandalism, as you brought up. It's died down now, but in another comment I mentioned that someone stole a whole ass toilet and another person stole a steering wheel. It's getting to the point where people are shitting in the urinals and pissing in the soap dispensers, and that's why I don't use the main school bathroooms. If you push the soap dispenser you're either going to get soap or piss, it's a 50/50 chance. There are alternative ones that are fine, but at one point last year people stole so many soap dispensers they didn't replace them, so you didn't have soap to wash your hands.
There are a lot of underhand fuckers around here. Pedophiles, sexual harassers, you name it. This shit went wild especially around last year, and so you really have to be careful with who your friends are now. They could be a kiddy fiddler and you would never know it until it was exposed.
What the fuck bro im glad my school isnt like that
Bro what school you go to so I can avoid it 💀
i just gave up with public school altogether, i'd rather be lonely and isolated than physically traumatized/pushed to puking due to
PISS IN THE SOAP DISPENSERS???? WHAT??? dude i'm incredibly sensitive to most icky stuff currently and i can't even stand smells, let alone someone else's pee. you okay bro???
At least the media stopped saying bs opinions about video games and moved on to actual facts on how bad tik tok is
Why’s it so hard to believe that I don’t use Tik Tok if I wanted cancer I would go walk around Chernobyl
I deleted TikTok a month or so after downloading it and I'm so glad I did that 😭 I just watch yt documentaries on obscure internet mysteries and stuff while gaming or drawing or doing my homework
i legit got scared when i had a dream about me actually watching tiktok and deleted it in the dream, it was more like a nightmare
I dreamed ab TikTok it was my best dream ever
Yeah I've only had tiktok like twice and left after realizing how shit the app is
31:50 70% the people that got they're account deleted were probably innocent TikTok's moderation is terrible like my friend he got ip banned for post anime content while my other friend is getting videos of literally nudity on his fyp
Honestly I never founded tiktok fun, I literally scrolled like 3 minutes and just give up scrolling and then deleted it, idk why y’all find it so addictive
fr like whats so great about scrolling
I didn’t find it addictive at first but then I liked on video and other videos just popped up that I liked and then it got addictive but then I stopped using it
Same :/
I only used it for tutorials of art
But then Deleted it :/
The app was so BORING
They’ll give you around one or two videos you like then keep on, and keep on showing until they eventually drop you down some… questionable shit and pipelines
personally, i think it's the /chance/ of dopamine. "well, maybe i'll find something today."
or just because it's something that's mindless enough to be comforting in some way?
Deleted Tik Tok back in June and since then I’ve worked on myself mentally and physically. All of shit I went through mentally lessened since deleting that app. But now I feel a disconnect with some of my friends who still heavily use the app. Idk how to explain it but for example it’s harder to have a conversation with them because they’re not really listening. Sucks but not anything I can do.
My brother tried to introduce me to TikTok when I was younger and I’m glad I never picked it up and learned about the controversy soon enough to not get sucked in
I’m thankful for my autism cause I think that shit is what’s keeping me from losing my attention span on social media apps.
Lucky
I got autism and adhd so my attention span is already fucked
Luckily I have avoided til tok
Unluckily RUclips shorts is hard to avoid
@@Succatag67789it’s the exact same thing bro 😂
I read a report that TikTok reads the facial expressions that people make after seeing a video. Even if you don’t like it - simply a smile, frown, or shocked face can change the face of your fyp.
Yeah, i figured that out. Really interesting. I wonder how accurate it is
that's... that's somewhat scary
girls getting tics from tik tok makes alot of sense once you figure out what self actualization is
The "self inflict yourself down to getting actual tourettes from your stimuli addited brain turning into an actual motor function" thing was a freaking South Park episode with Cartman.
You telling me that's REAL now???
I remember that episode
Also, if you're a girl and scroll for about ten minutes, you get TONS of ED content. It's so fucked up.
I've never seen that kind of content before (though other people did), but I remember that last year I got so addicted to TikTok that I had anxiety attacks when someone replied to any comment I made. There's a lot of cyberbullying, sexualization of minors, and self-harm content as well...
Mfs: tiktok is terrible
*keeps the app*
Just like Twitter users
I did it because I believe it makes my discipline stronger instead of deleting it I resist the urge to go on it
Sometimes phones will make it undeletable lol
@@5starleo damn
Mark my words, someone's going to make a "challenge" like "grab a cop's gun challenge" and some poor kid's gonna pay the ultimate price for naively attempting to follow another man's 10 minutes of ill-gotten clout
I feel like i'm the last person in Gen Z that isn't stupid and watches tiktok all day. Tiktok sucks.
Same, glad there's some people who are still pure and arent intoxicated by that app.
I once had TikTok pre-installed on my phone and I was getting random notifications such as "I like old men" from it even though i had not touched it and uninstalled it. Glad I did stay away.
This is so true nowadays im starting to forget major words or mispronouncing words THAT I KNOW
speaking of restroom damage property, there was one restroom (spefically) that looked like a freakin' war zone
I went on TikTok for the first time and it seemed fine.
But I saw ONE video of a woman 20-30 doing the splits, and ALL of the recommended videos were women doing the splits and sexual stretches and stuff.
One of the best decitions I have probably made during the soon fifteen years that I have existed is to never download tik tok as an app or visit their site.
5:32 yeah I remember i was a freshman in high school when that trend was popular, it was so bad that teachers had to stop letting kids go to the restroom because the trend was getting out of hand. We would go to restroom during 10 or 11AM.
I’m so happy I don’t use tiktok, I didn’t feel like getting it bc I didn’t really like the format but I honestly feel like I’m happier without it.
The tourettes thing made the name "Tik Tok" much more literal. Tic Toc
For those wondering as to how social medias make estimates on those lying about their age on their platforms, they usually do so by the analysis of those users behaviour. They way they interact with others, the content they view, the way they comment, etc. Most people can agree that young kids commenting on a video for example, are very obviously young kids. Algorithms are very good at dissecting our behaviours and predicting them, so it wouldn't be too hard to pick out those that appear to be younger children out of the batch.
If this makes sense.
@@TOTU I never implied they care, I was stating how they find out. I mean, they put up such a stink when the COPPA laws were put in place because they could no longer target ads towards those under their min age, let alone harvest their data legally anymore.
So, I’m not gonna cap, but I’ve never even downloaded tiktok.
Never have, never will.
With you brother
me too
Me too Tiktok is a goofy ahhh app
Was with you until recently, downloaded then deleted it after a week.
@@Tizitoons_Tsepo.Mubita Ironic
The only time I've "used" tiktok was when my little 6 year old cousin wanted me to dance or whatever and that's it, I use RUclips more than anything lmao
I remember I had TikTok for a month or two when TikTok dropped and thought it was cringe so I uninstalled and over the years I’ve just seen it get worse and have been so thankful that I’m no a part of it
A couple years back when I was younger my parents had my access to the internet be very limited. I never got a phone at the same time as the rest of my peers. When you’re a kid and all everyone talks about is the internet, and their phones, you get jealous. You wonder “why not me?”. Now that I’ve seen the internet I know how ugly it can be. Everyone who had unlimited access to the internet at a young age is messed up now. And I’ve seen this happen time and time again.
8:05 nah, not Tourette's, that's specifically a pineal gland malfunction. It would be causing Tic Syndrome, which is very similar but not as severe and easier to treat.
This is completely insane, i never intended to download tiktok and i'm going to make sure i keep my fucking distance from it now
oh my goodness I am actually terrified of the future generations if this is the content they get on TikTok.
TikTok has my 32 year old ass over here think, "hello, fellow kids", or whatever that Steve Buschemi meme was. In the beginning he said this is the generation becoming firefighters, doctors, but I thought he said DOXXERS, and I was thinking they already are!
After watching the original video, I tested out myself and I encountered tween girls and the chat was asking to reveal her chest and she was on omegle and the dude behind the screen (omegle) was also asking to reveal her chest. I deleted the app like a week ago (Thank God)
13:35 I have a horrifying story of this, I actually started saving these videos and reporting them to try and get the trend destroyed, but there were 100’s of them, and it got so painful that I had to remove them from my saved list, there were actual children in them videos too who most likely will eventually find those videos of them
There's a timeline where tiktok got banned and it's a better one
i used to have tiktok but uninstalled it on my tablet for about 10 mins after seeing what the hype was about, now i sometimes use it when i wanna search an art related tiktok that i might like but its rare lol.
ngl I thought you were talking about Degenarocity the RUclips 😭💀
The problema it's NOT TikTok, is just the people that use it....
Did you watch the vid?
@@TargetTire no 💀
(kinda)
@@boomleon7224 lmao well I'm gonna just politely say: it is tiktok's fault
I don’t got TikTok. I have been avoiding it like the plague.
I am glad I didn't have TikTok considering my already low attention span
I am 15 and still put I am 18 in games so that I don't have to deal with the goofy restrictions like no multiplayer in Minecraft and stuff like that
i dont use tiktok mainly because of stuff like this and cause i wanna keep my actually decent attention span
i like watching u watch documentaries/informational stuff bc u make me able to focus on it and still be entertained tyy
Me who’s social media presence is limited to RUclips and Snapchat: “ah yes the fruits of mass social mind control”
THE UNENLIGHTENED MASSES.
bro the memers have more respect to the 9/11 incident rather than tiktokers
I've noticed that whenever I stopped using tik tok a month ago I felt happier without it, I use it less often now and I'm honestly better
one morning, my dad told me i couldn't get off tiktok and i promptly deinstalled it. never downloaded again and not using any of the other things.
im glad im older gen z so at least tiktok wasnt around when i was young and impressionable
I used to be addicted to tik tok so much like a year and and a half ago. Mainly cause I could use it at school whenever. But I don't use it much at all during summer when I'm at home and I finally managed to get it down to only using it when i got like 10 minutes of free time or like when I got time but not enough to do something worthwhile.
Lately I’ve been thinking about a law that would require people to put their real name as their username and an accurate picture of their face as their profile picture, and ya I don’t have that but I wasn’t thinking about that when I made my account. Failure to do this should be labeled as identity fraud because a person would be pretending to be someone they weren’t. I would love some discussion on this
The fact that you can be anonymos on the internet is what makes it the internet so i dont realy think that idea would ever work out.
Ya I get that it’s a part of internet culture, hope you’re having a wonderful day
When he said “Rose equals say daddy” I had a literal and genuine spittake
Ive never used tiktok, first it was because I thought it would be a fast passing trend, but now im glad I didnt.
oh and if im bored, I pick up my phone and play monke game where monke shoot dart
return to monke
Bro i deleted tik tok like a month ago and I feel so much better mentally
My average scroll time on tik tok was like 2 hours, me and my entire family was addicted to it, then we all kinda just Uninstalled it, and never installed it again. I just did, but after watching this video, I'm uninstalling it and never installing it again 💀💀
Idk how people can use tic tok, any short form content (anything under 5-10 mins) doesn't grasp my attention the same way 30+ min videos do, I'm able to weave in and out of a video really well so I can watch and retain videos while playing games. So shorter content makes me tab in to YT more and makes it more of a hassle to watch them in general
Just remember the dopamine effect still applies to RUclips shorts and similar things in other apps
“I was in my home making stew” is wild
I have a hard time focusing when im watching shorts, so I usually watch all of one channels shorts because they're usually about the same stuff, but usually prefer longer videos of >30 minutes
Since around 2020 I convinced myself not to get tiktok. Best decision of my life.
I unfortunately broke my promise.
I made the same problem and I’m super happy about that
This actually makes me thankful for youtube moderation
Can I be honest, I had no idea how much TikTok influences our humor today until I realized that most of my friends' jokes are based off of TikTok memes. And man I'm thankful that I don't use that brainrotten app. But, I do feel left out of what pretty much is the world's current of humor nowadays. And as the class' jokester that kinda makes me look out of touch
I'm one of those people who's really self-conscious about the information on the internet and the main reason why I don't use TikTok(and have never downloaded it) is because it's owned by a company based in China, and they legally have to disclose all the information they collect to their government(big NO from me). So yea that's another reason why
I used to use tiktok, however I quit a few months ago and never used it since. Back when I used it, my average time per day was like 1.5 hours
I never downloaded Tiktok out of skepticism and this just reinforces my beliefs.
I swear I go on tik tok to check one thing and then I end up scrolling for a couple minutes and completely forget what I was on there to do
I've seen shit on the internet, and I'm NOT letting my sister use tiktok, instagram, twitter, or even facebook. Everywhere has some bullshit going on and she might get exposed to adult content on surface part of the internet which btw no one literally take responsibility for. So i am doing my best to look out for her just to not be exposed with all these shit.
I don't have tiktok as well, no instagram, no twitter, no nothing just RUclips and messaging app to contact people. Life is so much better, feels like a breath of fresh air.
same, i aint letting my siblings consume bs. sorry for late reply