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
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.
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.
What "good" has tiktok, or any social media, done?
Hexbear's predecessor, r/chapotraphouse, helped radicalize me, and then Hexbear itself pushed me from Trotskyism to Marxism-Leninism.
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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
chapo was nice. think reddit is a net negative though
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.
This is just the internet in general
hey there’s a lot of fl studio sauce out there on tik tok
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
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.