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I'm flabbergasted by the appeal Tiktok apparently has over the average Joe. I can't stand it. Vertical videos, combined with the exact duration of a short term memory loss affected person's attention span, make me want to throw my eyes into a furnace. I block Youtube shorts for this same stupid reason, even great channels can't resist Google's whip "incentivizing" them to make these AMAZING short vertical pieces of stupidity.

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90% of content is some scene that draws out 20-25 seconds of boringness in a suggested ascent to some expected climax or resolution at the end, screaming "watch it, wait, it's coming!" at you the whole time, with that resolution then being just even more boring and trivial than the 25 seconds before.

I don't get why anyone with an IQ above that of bread would fall for this lame trick more than a few times.

I am also really surprised by its popularity. I understand entertainment, don't mind watching something fun. But don't get the appeal of very short videos - it's just annoying. No real story, no characters, no (deeper) meaning. It's like reading a collection of jokes instead of a novel. It's ok for 5 minutes I suppose, but for several hours every day? Hm.

Tiktok in India had some of the most fun and entertaining short clips. Unlike instagram tiktok feed broke through class barrier.

The popularity does not surprise me considering the popularity of reality tv shows.

It seems completely alien to me to watch a scripted show that pretends to be real, and enjoy it. But people eat it up.

And people eat up all the fake stuff in TikTok.

I am wholly amused by the fact that you write your disappointment in a comment that is consumable faster than a TikTok video.

The same goes for the person replying to your comment sharing in your flabbergast.

Agreed. Furthermore the content is vapid, shallow, and the creators are overwhelmingly devoid of taste. It's all very low quality content. You won't find anything truly educational or with a good story there because the format simply doesn't support that.

It's crap for fiction, and crap for nonfiction. The only thing it could be good for is meme shit and dancing videos, but the creators have no taste so in practice it's not good for that either.

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