Comment by diggan 2 days ago
Any parent (and even us non-parents who've spent a lot of time around kids) know that the best way to get teenagers to stop doing something, is to start doing it yourself. If you forbid them to do something, it's basically inviting them to try their hardest to do it anyways.
There are tons of people over 30, 40, 50 even over 90 on TikTok.
Sure. People older than 30 also dislike when the government tries to censor their access to some media.
It's a very American attitude to rebel against the tyranny of the government, after all. Something about taxation without representation?
PG is full of shit. "Woke" originated within the black activist community and culturally goes back as far as the 1930s. It got adopted and became mainstream within the white liberal progressive community through the popularity of black music artists and social media in the late 20th century. It has absolutely nothing to do with Mao's Red Book or communism.
The algorithm segregates based on physical features, which can make sure they don't see one another with frequency.
It's known to use facial recognition to boost videos of "beautiful people".
https://www.dexerto.com/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-prioritizes...
This is how I got mine to stop saying slay, preppy and sigma. The look of horror and cringe on their face when I say crap like "skibidi ohio rizz" in front of them and their friends, is a chef's kiss.
This is exactly why I’ve started slinging gen alpha lingo at our daughters: even doing it jokingly makes them cringe enough to stop using it themselves.