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[Hope]

"Us millenials".

Gen X get's everything. We were around when the internet was birthed. 

[Lexi Darling]

"Us millenials".

Gen X get's everything. We were around when the internet was birthed. 

True. Though I've been using the internet since around 1997 (I was 8 years old) thanks to my programmer dad raising me on computers, so in terms of internet age I'm not that far behind some of the later gen Xers/early millennials.

My husband is three years older than me and he didn't start using the internet until around 2006 when he was 20. And even nowadays it feels like 90% of his internet use is just scrolling TikToks.

[Hope]

My husband is three years older than me and he didn't start using the internet until around 2006 when he was 20. And even nowadays it feels like 90% of his internet use is just scrolling TikToks.

I still can't get into TikTok. I started an account and saved some "interest" feeds, but I pretty much never went back. I'm not knocking him, but I just can't get into it.

[Lexi Darling]

I still can't get into TikTok. I started an account and saved some "interest" feeds, but I pretty much never went back. I'm not knocking him, but I just can't get into it.

Oh, believe me, I'm right there with you. I sometimes give him a little sass about it myself. There's the odd funny thing and trend on there, but the users on it have a habit of running anything mildly funny into the ground. And you hear those same trendy meme songs over and over, always the exact same part of the song, and just, ugh.

I'm happy my guy gets something out of it at least.

[jimmy jazz]

The shit that seems to become popular is the miming dancing and film quotes and shit like that. Same tunes over and over again.

Its better than what I was doing at that age but it is strange.

I also don't get 'influencer' boxing. I get that we now have a new form of media in the same way TV was different to radio, films are different to music and so on and these influencers are the stars of that but why would you want to watch them box? Just watch actual boxing?

[Hope]

The shit that seems to become popular is the miming dancing and film quotes and shit like that. Same tunes over and over again.

Its better than what I was doing at that age but it is strange.

I also don't get 'influencer' boxing. I get that we now have a new form of media in the same way TV was different to radio, films are different to music and so on and these influencers are the stars of that but why would you want to watch them box? Just watch actual boxing?

I wasn't aware this was going on. And it's interesting to think of what I was like at the TikTok age.

[jimmy jazz]

I wasn't aware this was going on. And it's interesting to think of what I was like at the TikTok age.

They sell out entire arenas and make millions in PPVs.

Its literally just Youtubers fighting each other. The fans get really into it and treat it like elite sport. Forensic breakdowns of each fighter's styles and who wins.

The guy who started it is also the same guy who start Prime so that should give you an idea of what the demographic is like.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306797/son-woke-me-sunrise-buy-prime-hydration-drink/

[Hope]

They sell out entire arenas and make millions in PPVs.

Its literally just Youtubers fighting each other. The fans get really into it and treat it like elite sport. Forensic breakdowns of each fighter's styles and who wins.

The guy who started it is also the same guy who start Prime so that should give you an idea of what the demographic is like.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306797/son-woke-me-sunrise-buy-prime-hydration-drink/

Wow.

[DJChameleon]

I still love this speech from Riley to this day. I miss Boondocks so much. I wish new episodes could be made.

[DJChameleon]

They sell out entire arenas and make millions in PPVs.

Its literally just Youtubers fighting each other. The fans get really into it and treat it like elite sport. Forensic breakdowns of each fighter's styles and who wins.

The guy who started it is also the same guy who start Prime so that should give you an idea of what the demographic is like.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306797/son-woke-me-sunrise-buy-prime-hydration-drink/

You don't like watching Amateurs box? I feel like the appeal is to watch Amateur over professional. Professional boxing is boring to most people so if they are already invested in the person from a different medium. They love to see them box over the drama of it all and the back story. I love influencer boxing. By them selling out all the time it shows how much influence they truly have with their audience base.

Older people like to look down on influencers when they find out that they are one but they have the audience to back up their title for the most part and can control sales and even introduce their audience to music they wouldn't have heard otherwise.


The main reason I love TikTok nowadays is finding music through it. People love to mock the dancing but honestly I love to see average people pulling off full choreographed dances that otherwise wouldn't have had the platform to do it. I don't have the courage to jump in on some of these dance trends because I feel like they are super complicated or I'm just not confident enough in my dancing skills but it is encouraging to see people of all generations jump on certain dance trends.

MomTok, BookTok and all the other like sub groups within TikToks atmosphere is great too. Older people(aka you guys in this thread hating on TikTok) just don't like new things when it comes to social media that you don't understand. Once you dive into it. Tiktok can be super informative. There are so many groups outside of just the humor stuff you see and the dance trends.

[Guybrush]

You might not guess if you just watched me go about my day, but I'm picky about how I spend my time and f.ex. I don't want to have more reasons to sit and play with my phone.

My wife had tiktok before her work made her delete it (due to potential Chinese spying) and a few things seemed off to me about it. The first was getting content just served by an algorithm. It seems so pacifying. I want to have to pick out things I watch. I want to choose. Second are the repeating sound bytes that I find annoying. The last is the short format of the videos.

It's like it's a perfectly made dopamine injector made to erode your attention span and turn you into a zombie that just digests whatever the algorithm serves.

I know I'm old and cranky, but I find it kinda vulgar and off-putting.

[jimmy jazz]

You don't like watching Amateurs box? I feel like the appeal is to watch Amateur over professional. Professional boxing is boring to most people so if they are already invested in the person from a different medium. They love to see them box over the drama of it all and the back story. I love influencer boxing. By them selling out all the time it shows how much influence they truly have with their audience base.

Amateur boxing isn't the same as influencer boxing, might sound pedantic but the current world heavyweight champ (Oleksandr Usyk) has had 350 fights as an amateur, the point being amateur can still be incredibly skilled. I get the back story thing but that applies to legitimate boxing as well.

MomTok, BookTok and all the other like sub groups within TikToks atmosphere is great too. Older people(aka you guys in this thread hating on TikTok) just don't like new things when it comes to social media that you don't understand. Once you dive into it. Tiktok can be super informative. There are so many groups outside of just the humor stuff you see and the dance trends.

The miming and funny faces is what goes viral on there though. That's why we shit on TikTok.

Is this still the most watched TikTok? It was for a long time:

[tristan_geoff]

Does anyone know where to find the video of that but faceswapped with Jesus and 4 other famous figures in all the corners

saw it years ago and can't re-find it

[DJChameleon]

You might not guess if you just watched me go about my day, but I'm picky about how I spend my time and f.ex. I don't want to have more reasons to sit and play with my phone.

My wife had tiktok before her work made her delete it (due to potential Chinese spying) and a few things seemed off to me about it. The first was getting content just served by an algorithm. It seems so pacifying. I want to have to pick out things I watch. I want to choose. Second are the repeating sound bytes that I find annoying. The last is the short format of the videos.

It's like it's a perfectly made dopamine injector made to erode your attention span and turn you into a zombie that just digests whatever the algorithm serves.

I know I'm old and cranky, but I find it kinda vulgar and off-putting.

Before Tik Tok existed there was Vine. Tik Tok just perfected the formula that Vine started off with. If you hate Tik Tok you would have hated Vine. It was 6 second videos, not enough time to get a full joke in but some how Vine stars pulled it off.

[Mindy]