Am I the only person who feels pretty neutral about short-form videos? Vine was a thing and nobody was complaining about that. I used TikTok for a bit and it was ok for entertainment but I don’t feel like the short-form videos were particularly addictive. When I was a kid, ads on tv were our short-videos. Memes are pretty brain-rotty too if you think about it. I put them all in the same category - just silly entertainment to chuckle at during downtime. I quit TikTok after the ban drama etc. and I haven’t missed it. On the other hand people bitch about people making dance videos in public and sure that can be annoying but then: I think it’s cool that kids get some motivation to dance. Obviously any easily consumed thing is going to be a problem for some people but I still feel like the particular hate short-form vids get is more about old folks (I am old folks) by default hating everything kids do.

My answer again, Fast Fashion and putting a lot of money into completely useless (plastic, mass produced) junk. General unconscious consumerism.

Similar question was asked pretty recently.

Reposting my earlier comment because lazy and don’t wanna rewrite:

Fast fashion.

Unconscious consumption in general. People are pouring crazy amounts of money into plastic garbage, “collectibles”, general useless and unnecessary junk, lifestyle products etc. Then they defend it with a flippant “lol intrusive thoughts won UwU”. I wouldn’t even mind so much if it wasn’t too often the case that these same people also complain about environmental issues and capitalism.

“but but i’m a magpie, I’m a loot goblin” is just normalizing the behavior, trying to make it cute. It’s not. You’re very directly contributing to the increasing waste problem in the world and giving money to megacorps (think plastic production in particular). If you absolutely must do this, find products made of natural materials, produced by real people. Yes, it’ll cost more. Yes, that’s the real price of your obsession.

Fast fashion.

Unconscious consumption in general. People are pouring crazy amounts of money into plastic garbage, “collectibles”, general useless and unnecessary junk, lifestyle products etc. Then they defend it with a flippant “lol intrusive thoughts won UwU”. I wouldn’t even mind so much if it wasn’t too often the case that these same people also complain about environmental issues and capitalism.

“but but i’m a magpie, I’m a loot goblin” is just normalizing the behavior, trying to make it cute. It’s not. You’re very directly contributing to the increasing waste problem in the world and giving money to megacorps (think plastic production in particular). If you absolutely must do this, find products made of natural materials, produced by real people. Yes, it’ll cost more. Yes, that’s the real price of your obsession.

Thanks for posting this. I’m really frustrated with how vulnerable people on Lemmy are to propaganda. The amount of upvotes on the post you responded to are just embarrassing. The post is exactly the same kind of bullshit cherry picking I see anti-trans people do.

I’m for Social Democracy.

Oh no, don’t get wrong. Dems are only ever slightly better but I’d vote for Bernie if they, you know, did the whole actually-caring-about-voters-humans thing.

No, it’s the Dems. Let me present you with a whole chart, manifesto and a dozen podcasts pulled fresh out of my ass.