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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (3 children)

My only friend that really sends me memes started using TikTok a year or so ago, and sends the strangest, out of context shit. Like it will just start halfway into the action and end before it’s over, and I’m just like wtf did I just watch?

[–] jballs 88 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Half the shit these people send me is just someone staring weirdly at the camera or pointing up to text. There's no point in it being a video. It's just the text they want me to read. That angers me so much.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s really cringe, and even more cringe to realize that the general populace loves that shit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Eh, I was a misanthrope WAY before tiktok came along.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Or someone overlaid their face over another video as a "reaction" but they contribute nothing of value to the original video

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

This could be solved with an honest conversation. Simply say "dude, your tiktok meme game is weak af. Send better memes."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Strange out of context shit is what Tiktok does best - if you let it.

If your tiktok is all politics or dancing girls it's your own fault. Train your algorithm to be dadaist and absurd.

It's great.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dadaism is a political art movement. Your tiktok is all politics too. You're just in denial.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everything is political. That's not what I mean about politics.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you know everything is political, then you know you said something silly. Take the correction, move on, and do better next time. Denigrating politics has dangerous consequences.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If everything is political = politics then the term politics wouldn't be useful because it would mean everything.

You misunderstood me, took your shot, and missed.

Move on. Do better next time.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The word politics is more useful to misogynist gamers and incels than it is to anyone else. You certainly weren't using it for anything productive. I believe we should make the word useless for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

???

Politics is a very clear content type what the fuck are you on about?

I'm not saying politics like "if a game has a brown person that's politics". That's wrong - a brown person in a game is political because Republicans can't accept that diversity is real.

I'm saying if your entire feed is politics like "Today the White House said Palestinians aren't people" and "Today Trump tweeted incoherent nonsense again! Can you believe it" or "Marjorie Taylor Greene is being outrageous again: watch this video and be mad!"

That's politics. Everything is political - absolutely. That's different than politicians and politicking.

Politics as generally used is activities associated with the governance of a country.

You don't know what politics means. But you're right to say everything is political.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's news. We already have a name for that kind of content, it's news. What do you want to use the word politics for when we already have the word news?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Politics = activities associated with governance

News = current events. Sometimes this includes reports on the activities associated with governance.

When politics shows up on your feed it's news.

But when a cancer breakthrough shows up on your feed it's also news.

Politics often makes the news but the news consists of more than politics.

These are really simple concepts. I'm starting to think you must be trolling.

You're arguing semantics without knowing basic definitions. You're conflating terms that a simple dictionary could clarify for you.

Is English your second language?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about cancer breakthroughs like they're not politics. Cancer breakthroughs are political. The allocation of resources towards particular kinds of research and its payoff is a contentious subject. The breakthrough serves to justify money that has been spent on cancer research. Although critics may say that there's too much focus on cancer research when other illnesses are more widespread and more pressing. And for that matter, should we be putting more effort into limiting carcinogens in the first place instead of researching cures? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Maybe I'd prefer the government subsidize induction stoves so that I don't have to inhale carcinogenic stove fumes and later get my cancer cured in a hospital. That sure sounds like less stress for the patient, and it has the side benefit of improving climate change. Ultimately cancer breakthroughs are a deeply political subject, with a lot of different conflicting opinions on the subject.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh my God you really don't get it. Politics doesn't mean "anything that is political" - politics is an act of governance. Politics is what politicians do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I disagree. I think anyone can do politics. According to your definition, 10,000 people blocking the streets for a rally isn't politics. A man self immolating in front of the supreme court isn't politics. A scientist appearing before the UN to talk about the dangers of climate change isn't politics. That's silly. It's also a circular definition, given a politician is defined as someone who does politics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You define a politician as one who does politics for the same reason you define an artist as one who does art.

Everything you mentioned above is political but that doesn't make it politics.

It's defined as "the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power."

Politics is what politicians, aspiring or otherwise, do. Just like art is what artists do. And music is what musicians make.

You're using words wrong and then bitching at people for not using words wrong with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

All the things I listed fit your definition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Absurdist tiktok garbage has nothing on British comedians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

British comedians

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago

Where are the text and the image

Where is the gif that was moving

They have passed, like music on MySpace

Like a dead sub on Reddit

The days have gone down on the Net

Behind the schills and into shadow

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They’ll have to screen record and send because I definitely don’t use TikTok. Same with Facebook and Instagram. Nope

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean we can probably just keep going, Twitter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Good friends use Revanced patches to download tiktoks before sending them. Might even put it through ffmpeg to remove the music if it's annoying.

[–] vaultdweller013 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I had the wrong thought of ffmpeg meant. I am only now realizing I may be a bit too kinky.

[–] khornechips 3 points 4 months ago

Introducing ffmpreg, transcode a beautiful baby today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You're missing a space there for the meaning you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I want to like Revanced so bad but every time I try to open it to look something up on YouTube real quick there's a YouTube patch and revanced can't connect until I reinstall the whole system

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean it just opens as a link in your browser, the "can't" is just ideological.

Granted, it looks like garbage on the browser since all the UI crap loads on top of the captions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Just ideological" in the same sense I can't muder someone ideologically. Sure, I have the capability of doing it, but no sane person would.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Closer to the same way I can't drive a soldering iron all the way through my arm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh sure you can, just get a stick to bite down on and pretend the face of someone you hate is on the other side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Then why would I block them with my arm? That seems dumb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Anything that’s age restricted requires an account

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The content is also pretty revolting to me. I’m not a tween

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I can't stand tik tok.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tell your friends to download the video and then send it. Most of the TikTok Videos you can download directly from the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can actually send tiktok videos with VX in front of the URL and it will inbed properly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

FYI, you have to go into settings and go to Apps and then turn on all the default URLs for TikTok. Works perfectly after that.