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View submission: Anyone else not ever use TikTok whatsoever?
And basically every other social platform. I don't know why non-TT users are so vocal about their "superiority" of not using it or trying but finding it "not for them". It's fine if your interests don't have any content on a platform, but for platforms like Reddit, TT, Insta, etc. I find it hard to believe that's really ever the case - they just don't try.
Comment by derefr at 19/01/2025 at 22:05 UTC
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You know the people who feel motion-sick when playing 3D first-person games?
I think for the people who avoid TikTok, it's a similar thing going on — more an issue with how they feel consuming content *formatted and structured as short video clips,* than with the content *of* those clips. It's the medium, not the message.
Comment by JohnCR61 at 19/01/2025 at 21:06 UTC
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That’s not totally accurate. I have TT installed, I’m registered, I follow exactly one person. But I never open it. It’s not a “superiority” thing but to me it’s much to do about nothing simply because I don’t use it.
Comment by saturday_sun4 at 20/01/2025 at 01:23 UTC*
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For me, it's not so much a sense of superiority. I mean, if you're into weird toxic crap you're going to be into it on any site.
As someone who grew up on LJ, TikTok is just insanely hard for me to navigate and make sense of. It's overwhelming and chaotic to me and not worth the time of trying to find things I enjoy.