created by _Caustic_Complex_ on 19/01/2025 at 20:21 UTC*
9860 upvotes, 331 top-level comments (showing 25)
Not a moral judgement about those that did or anything, but I’ve never downloaded it, try to mute subreddits based on it, every bit of content I’ve seen from it was without my consent.
It’s hard to gauge the exact quality/experience from the outside, but I know it was a huge and popular app that millions of people enjoyed. Just wondering who else avoided it like a mind plague, and why if you feel like sharing.
Maybe I’m just too much of a grumpy millennial but I did not jive with 99% of the content, delivery method, pretty much anything about. Got shown a lot of videos and don’t remember any worth so much as a chuckle on the humor scale.
Comment by Prudent-Reality1170 at 19/01/2025 at 21:00 UTC
524 upvotes, 10 direct replies
I used it for about a year. I enjoyed it quite a bit once I fine tuned my preferences, got a lot of creative ideas and found sub groups I really enjoyed. But I eventually quit because it was just TOO good at attracting my attention. Plus, I’d find myself all worked up about TikTok dramas that had no real impact on my own life. It was just too damn addictive. Deleted everything 3 years ago and I don’t miss it.
Comment by SkullThug at 19/01/2025 at 20:38 UTC
606 upvotes, 10 direct replies
After learning about the intense amount of creepy data FB collects, and that TikTok does the same amount of shady collecting, I never found it remotely appealing to want to sign up for *more* of that.
Comment by doinmybest4now at 19/01/2025 at 20:38 UTC
228 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Managed to avoid it completely
Comment by cmgstylist at 19/01/2025 at 20:24 UTC
314 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Never used it never will.
Comment by littlebronco at 19/01/2025 at 20:39 UTC
58 upvotes, 5 direct replies
My bf avoided it but started watching YouTube shorts instead lol.
Comment by PouncinPal at 19/01/2025 at 20:40 UTC
60 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I was that way too, until a few months ago; I downloaded it for the first time. It's a pretty cool interface, and I enjoyed that the algorithm catered to what you most recently watched, unlike other apps. I'd go weeks without even opening the app, though. I did enjoy that people were willing to openly share their opinions about what's going on in the world, and it didn't seem as edited, regulated, or monitored as other apps.
Comment by TheSaltyJM at 19/01/2025 at 20:40 UTC
28 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It’s been hard for me to keep up with so much different social media platforms. I knew I was set in my ways when I saw spooky ghost app and dancing videos, which I didn’t realize were two entirely different apps. No one in my age bracket was using it so, I never made the switch. Even starting Reddit was a huge leap out of my comfort zone for me. I respect that TikTok was huge enough to be a platform for not just misinformation (of which I’m sure there was a lot) but useful info too, but I hate how it became a tool for politicians to exploit for votes.
Comment by Lilac_Rain8 at 20/01/2025 at 05:04 UTC
24 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Thank you for saying you're not judging anyone. The hatred I've gotten for saying I had any positive experience from Tik tok is so weird....
Comment by brshipman at 19/01/2025 at 20:55 UTC
58 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Never had it. When friends send shorts/vids and I see it's tik Tok, I don't even bother opening it.
While I understand some make a living off of it and that sucks for them, but never was a thing this GenX'er cared for
Comment by xDeezyz at 19/01/2025 at 20:52 UTC
73 upvotes, 4 direct replies
I used TikTok almost daily since the start of the pandemic. Like most things it is what you make of it. That algorithm is good. I’d see a video about a random lake in Siberia, then a dive bar in Wisconsin, then a goofy video of a dog. My wife and i send each other videos and every few days we scroll through those videos together. It’s fun. Sure there’s cringe on it, but this site has plenty of cringe too.
Too many people on Reddit look down on TikTok users like they’re any better. It’s all a screen collecting your data and fighting for your attention.
Comment by CarbonChem95 at 19/01/2025 at 20:41 UTC
28 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I downloaded it once so I wouldn't have to work around the "sign up" roadblock in the browser version when my friends sent me vids. I started having sound issues when running other apps like Spotify. Found out that tik tok was always running in the background, ignoring my permissions settings and messing with my sound. I uninstalled it immediately and never looked back
Comment by Dazzling-Ad5889 at 20/01/2025 at 01:12 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I got spooked initially by how much info it wanted from me. Then annoyed by how much my friends would ignore me to watch TikTok’s. It annoyed me so much that I refuse to use it just to spite them. They send me memes and I can’t watch them without making an account. If your stupid 6 second videos are more important than the ENTIRE CONVERSATION we have been having then… I dunno.. it sucks though. 😕 It feels good to just exclude that bit.
Comment by Hitemwiththehein119 at 19/01/2025 at 21:24 UTC
22 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I used it for about a week. Only a week made me realize how dangerously addictive that app was. I deleted it after that. Anything that can lock me to my screen for hours, I stay away from.
Comment by inevitable-betrayal at 20/01/2025 at 07:45 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Ironic because reddit is absolutely full of tiktok content, if you see a video on Reddit it's most likely from tiktok.
Comment by shutthefuckup62 at 19/01/2025 at 20:38 UTC
70 upvotes, 5 direct replies
It's not different than Reddit, pick your interests and you will see stuff about that.
Comment by bnyryn at 19/01/2025 at 20:47 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I’m already addicted to Reddit so don’t need another app to take away all my time. I’ve never even downloaded it to have a look.
Comment by spaghettibolegdeh at 20/01/2025 at 01:01 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I had it installed on my phone for about 10 minutes back when it was a cringe-factory
I was morbidly curious, but then I looked into the privacy nightmare it has (or had, back then)
Never made an account, never even opened the app. Uninstalled within 10 minutes.
I try and keep up with trends and what younger gens are into, but I honestly thought Tiktok wouldn't last more than a year. I could already see the brain rot trends and weird sexual stuff getting exposed to kids.
Comment by Savy-Dreamer at 19/01/2025 at 20:54 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Never used it. Never downloaded.
Comment by DuffThey at 20/01/2025 at 01:02 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
There's too many comments here so this will go unnoticed but my issue was that Music.ly seemed horribly questionable and then when it rebranded as Tik Tok is advertised using hyper sexualized imagery of awfully young girls, it made me as a middle aged dude extremely uncomfortable. I've never been able to disassociate that. I've always felt like if I downloaded that app I'd end up on some government watch list lol
Comment by KaylaxxRenae at 19/01/2025 at 21:15 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I have it on my phone and follow maybe about 10 people, but I've only used it a total of maybe 10-ish times. I've seen plenty of the videos cross-posted in other social media sites though. I don't at all understand the hype, like...at all. I think it's fine, but so is IG, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. You can literally see all the same stuff.
So I'm not like "anti-TT" or in the camp of NEVER having used it, but its ban has exactly ZERO impact on my life. Zero. Those people can just be on the other sites I mentioned.
Comment by EstroJen at 19/01/2025 at 22:27 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I never got into tiktok myself
Comment by Holiday-Book6635 at 19/01/2025 at 23:06 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Nope. Never used it.
Comment by colormeslowly at 20/01/2025 at 02:47 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Not me. Wasn’t interested in it.
Comment by Mysta-Majestik at 20/01/2025 at 05:21 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I won't even watch videos from there when people try to show me on their phone. I've just got zero interest in anything coming out of that app.
Comment by MLockeTM at 20/01/2025 at 06:20 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Haven't used, and not going to ever either - I guess I'm basically immune to the TikTok algorithm, because I can't stand short form video. I've seen a couple of tiktoks on Reddit, and I get annoyed by the format bad enough that I won't even finish watching those.