TikTok is not bad because of 'disinformation', all forms of media are filled with 'disinformation' (even academic journals, le gasp). TikTok is bad because it is an incredibly aggressive engagement formula that manipulates you and your psychology.
You should know that, Hank, because so many of your videos follow a format to use that algorithm, but that would be giving up the game as a 'content creator'.
Clicking. Commenting. Engaging with their app as opposed to all the other ones.
It's an attention economy, it's not anymore complicated than that.
All social media companies run A/B tests which identify the parts of their design that give your brain a second to rest and consider whether you want to continue using the site. And then they remove those parts so your engagement is more “frictionless”
And tiktok does it the best. Pretty enjoyable if your not a masochist that ruins their day but engaging with online chuds
My lib friend sent me a video of this guy explaining, a few months ago, how amazing Biden's infrastructure bill was. I watched the entire thing out of respect for my friend, then wrote and self-published a lengthy essay about why Green was wrong about everything (which no one read, pretty understandably since the subject is ridiculously boring). But goddam, this dude is unbearable.
Also, complaining about conspiracy theory videos on tiktok when you almost certainly believe in Russiagate.jpg.
Can you share that article you published here? I’m sure we would appreciate it.
Thanks, I honestly thought no one cared. It uses my alt’s name so I would expose myself if I shared it here. We can all just pretend we read it and that it was really good and totally proved this dweeb wrong.
Is he wrong about everything or is he paid to be wrong about everything? (I don't know him)
He’s awful on politics and iffy on history. His science stuff is decent. Gets a lot of funding from the Gates Foundation
He is wrong about everything which is why he gets paid to continue being wrong about everything but with more marketing and production budget
Was your thesis involving the CIA in any way because if so you should FOIA all of their files on you cause I think it would be funny
I'm so glad I didn't have to learn about the CIA killing JFK to advance corporate hegemony into West Africa and Latin America from TikTok. That would have been the fucking worst.
I just learnt it now from hexbear. Until now I just assumed the CIA did it without needing to know the particulars of how or why, just seemed self evident it's the CIA ofc they fucking did it.
I mean, there are enough ambient crazies in America at any particular moment that I'm happy enough to believe JFK got off'd by a single disgruntled asshole.
But all the extra bits and pieces of the story paint a very different picture.
he is honestly the perfect display of "person smart at one thing thinks they're smart in general".
Lol I think the most honest/cynical answer would be marketing. But I honestly don't think he's bad at science communication, he (and his brother)'s just a fucking lib through and through.
This is the brother of the guy who wrote the stupid book where the teenagers make out in the Anne Frank house. They're such turbo libs.
Teenagers making out in the Anne Frank house
I mean, teenagers do dumb shit (see high school), but this is just fuckin' weird to write
I tried to read that in high school because a girl I liked loved that book. Was not good.
John Green, he wrote the book Fault in Our Stars. It's...not great
hell yeah. how about Shart in Our Cars and it's about me borrowing my dad's 1984 Buick Century to go to prom.
furthermore the book was written by a liberal YouTube guy who produced stuff under the name the "Vlog Brothers" because it just keeps getting worse
oh shit I liked that book
Oh damn that was a weird part
There is something very wrong about a man that writes several books about teenage girls. Especially if like John Green that man was a youth pastor
was a youth pastor
:cringe: inevitable countdown on horrible allegations coming out
He was a youth pastor? I knew he was a hospital chaplain but not youth pastor
Well, he worked with the kids ward. So I don't know the specifics of his org chart. But I still find it sus
Hexbear's predecessor, r/chapotraphouse, helped radicalize me, and then Hexbear itself pushed me from Trotskyism to Marxism-Leninism.
i don’t think i’d be a marxist leninist without r/cth, definitely “left” and almost definitely anti-capitalist in a sense but i would definitely not have that theoretical framework to base that off of and for that i’m forever grateful
i only remember that sub shitting on trotsky though so that’s kinda funny
It showed me a video of a water balloon exploding atop some weird spinny thingamajig revealing an artifacted jpeg of a cat badly composed on top of the video
i mean now that r/cth’s gone it absolutely 100% is, i’m guilty of using it for music and film subs every now and then when i’m bored but it’s by far the worst of any social media apps
I think it's an argument that comes from content creators on tiktok that have been able to make money off of it.
Maybe an otherwise repressed and isolated individual would learn some things but idk.
Mercury Stardust and Jory (aka alluringskull) just raised $1.6 million for trans healthcare a few days ago. Social media is good at fund raisers and it used to be good for event promotion. It’s not about the tech, just about the filters that a company goes through as they face public pressure from corporate-owned media. Old media wants YouTube to push SNL skits on the front page. Finance capital wants OnlyFans to cool it on the humanization of sex workers. Advertisers wants Facebook to be a little less mask off with enabling white supremacists because it’s fucking up their branding.
TikTok’s main strength is that it’s newer and its algorithm is more aggressive, which means it has gone through less of this kind of scrutiny and it will be able to speed through more cultural churn in the meantime. Capital incentivizes the acceleration of the speed at which people pick up and drop cultural trends. It’s fast fashion, but for everything.
Nothing, but unless you, or anyone else in society, has an alternative for young people to engage in immediately after TikTok is banned, then they're just going to flock to the next big app and then everyone is gonna complain about WalmartClips or whatever it'll be called. It's one thing to critique social media, but it's another thing to think you're above it and that the dang kids are always on their itouch when all you offer is... nothing.
I’ve been working on offering alternatives for about 3 years now and goddamn is it hard
I don't think TikTok is good by any stretch of the imagination but it's VERY ODD to complain about this when there's a bill in the works that gives the executive new faculties to literally ban any social network and heavily punishes petty shit like using VPNs and that is mostly backed by yellow peril and red scare rhetoric
honestly can't wait to get arrested for using a VPN, it will be like the purple heart of the Posting Wars.
It’s really funny to me that there are people who know Hank from individual projects he’s done and nothing else. I guess I never considered that someone might think Hank was given a PBS show about dinosaurs because he was an expert on dinosaurs and not because he used his success as an early YouTube vlogger to launch a career in science communication.
Is there a term for associating plausible conspiracy theories with kooks and antisemites? Like elite pedophilia and QAnon?
I think the term when this is applied to movies is "marketing strategy"
Ah yeah now I remember I saw that in an Aaron Good tweet. I guess it's a kind of "poisoning the well."
"Globalists" as a term is wild for managing to conflate "people who don't think you should get jumped in the street for speaking a foreign language" with "people who want to exploit the third world for slave labor"
lookin at international capital and the international working class like :same-picture:
I saw a video that was really really bad but I'm not going to show it you so you can judge it for yourself because otherwise I will look like a lying sack of shit so you'll just have to believe me.
What does Hank Green even fucking do all day besides making smug lib posts?
Hank and John have dozens of projects, most of them focusing on charity efforts and science communication. A lot of the science education is really high quality and is used by teachers I know in their classrooms. A lot of the charity stuff is well intentioned but ends up coming from a very neoliberal worldview because that’s just kinda the nature of charity.
Under no circumstances should anyone go watch John’s video on the history of the Soviet Union. Like, I’m begging you to not watch it. It will not turn out well for you.
PBSEons is actually a really good youtube channel, great peleoarcheology and deep time stuff
i mean, if they said globalists that was probably a fascist, but such a weird complaint to make on twitter
