that China and you wanted to disrupt
another country oh wow wouldn't you
reward the dumbest possible
Tick Tock today has become one of the
most popular social media Platforms in
the world due to its massive number of
followers the reason for this Rising
popularity is due to Unique trendy and
somewhat controversial content available
on the app and the opportunity to
imitate which has made many of them the
so-called Tick-Tock stars but in the
recent past Tick Tock has landed in hot
Waters due to many controversies
revolving around it from dangerous
online challenges negative impact on
Mental Health to spreading false and
misleading content now let's find out
how Tick Tock is actually making you
dumber
the top four Tick Tock accounts in the
world are Charlie demilio Carby lame
Bella porch and Addison Ray which of
these four create original meaningful
and beneficial content call me bad make
sure you put driver after it stupid
that's right zero that's the current
state of tick tock a place where
literally shaking your hand and folding
your arms gets you billions of views
where dance Trends and silly faces mean
you get all the attention a place where
the dumb Rule and the intellectuals are
pushed to the side first launched in
September 2016 the social media app
created by bite dance Tick Tock has shot
up in popularity within the last few
years today Tick Tock is the third
largest social media app in the world
only behind the two meta companies
Instagram and Facebook at this moment in
time it seems as though everyone is
aware of the problems with Mark
Zuckerberg and his companies however not
many people are apply the same level of
scrutiny to tick tock perhaps because
they're more attached to it because it's
a product of their generation if for
some reason you live under a rock and
you don't know what the hell I'm talking
about well here's a bit of an
introduction Tick Tock is a social media
app that's primarily used for sharing
short vertical videos with others on the
app the app has gained in popularity in
recent years especially among teenagers
and young adults the main selling point
of this app is that the videos are short
and sweet just like fast food this
brings me to my first big problem with
tick tock
Tick Tock is like fast food
Tick Tock is designed to be consumed
quickly and without much thought without
even owning an account you can literally
hop into the app and within minutes the
algorithm will start feeding you with
videos it knows you'll enjoy without
regard for whether it's healthy for you
or not it's the fast food of the social
media world just like how McDonald's
sells you a quick and easy meal that you
can consume on the go Tick Tock sells
you short videos that you can consume
quickly and without much effort the
videos on Tick Tock are short in fact
the shorter the better some creators
have recently come out on the platform
citing the fact that it appears that the
algorithm is starting to aggressively
push seven second videos and this does
not come as a surprise to anyone on the
outside looking in the app is designed
to reduce the collective attention span
of the Next Generation kids who grow up
watching seven second videos on their
smartphones quickly start to think that
that's how fast life is and should be
they'll no longer have the patience to
sit through a one-hour lecture on an
important subject or even consume more
boring but important content like news
coverage political debates and the like
we're literally raising a generation who
think that if it cannot fit in a 60
second video then it's not worth their
time there
scary future to think
to think of tick tock is turning us into
a generation of idiots if tiktok was
only just reducing our attention span
then maybe it would have been fine but
the reality is much worse you see Tick
Tock is actively encouraging the dumbing
down of our society the app is built on
a concept known as infinite scroll this
means that once you start watching
videos on Tick Tock the app will keep
feeding you with more and more videos
one after the other in an endless loop
you can easily spend hours on the app
without even realizing it and the longer
you stay on the app the Dumber you
become why because the app literally
encourages people to act Dumber in
August 2021 people starting stacking
milk crates like steps and then someone
would climb up to the top and back down
on the other side it was called the milk
crate challenge the challenge went viral
on Tick Tock with people across the
globe trying to outdo each other by
stacking more and more crates the
problem is milk crates are not meant to
be stacked that high and certainly
people aren't meant to be climbing them
sadly some people had to pay with their
lives before the entire world of tick
tock realized the madness they'd created
and that's just one of the many
dangerous stupid and dumb things that
the app promotes
just search up Tick Tock challenge on
YouTube and you'll see exactly what I'm
talking about the scariest thing about
all of this is that it only happens on
Tick Tock and not on doyin the Chinese
version of the app
the difference with Tick Tock in China
they say that to understand the correct
use of a thing you have to take a look
at its origin so why don't we take a
trip to China to see what Tick Tock
actually is
foreign
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and it might as well be a completely
different app because doyin and Tick
Tock couldn't be more opposite while
Tick Tock promotes nonsensical videos
memes and stupid challenges doyin
promotes videos of engineering Marvel's
inspiring stories and educational
content
the app is designed to make you think
not to keep you glued to your phone like
a zombie it encourages their kids to
fall in love with tech and Engineering
to boost their productivity and expand
their thinking capacity
doyin was literally made to make Chinese
kids smarter meanwhile the Chinese
Communist party has sent the complete
opposite to the other parts of the world
so that while its children are getting
smarter the rest of the world is getting
Dumber it's no wonder that countries
like India and Iran have banned the app
completely they understand how the
Chinese government can use tick tock to
control the thoughts and opinions of the
Next Generation using this app because
the algorithm provides you with all the
content you don't even get a say in what
you decide to watch so the Chinese
government can literally tailor what you
see until your for you page becomes an
echo chamber only showing you content
that agrees with the world view they
want you to have this is a scary future
to think about and it's exactly what
China through tiktok is doing to the
rest of the world
now here's the challenge not The Tick
Tock challenge but the real challenge
what do we actually do about Tick Tock
governments across the globe are
struggling to figure out how to deal
with Tick Tock but at the end of the day
it's up to us the users to decide what
we want to do with the app we can choose
to use tick tock like China wants us to
and let the app turn us into Dumber
versions of ourselves or we can use tick
tock to educate ourselves to make
ourselves better people and to fight
against the tide of stupidity that the
app is promoting I see accounts like
Hank Green teaching and trying to stop
the spread of misinformation on the app
if we the users can show our support to
these types of people instead of stupid
dances and challenges then maybe we can
make a difference we also need to be
careful about how much time we spend on
the app just because it has some
educational content doesn't mean that we
should be using it for hours on end it's
important to balance out our use of the
app with other activities like reading
studying and socializing go outside and
touch some grass and stop living in a
fantasy world designed by an algorithm
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