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Social media platform discussed as having made niche subcultures accessible to children and teens, lowering the age barrier for cultural participation.

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"just scrolling through the absolute worst drivel and slop i have seen in my life. a 40 minute commute spent on tiktok where they consume maybe one full video."
"lets get rid of tiktok brains and skinnyfat right wingers in one fell swoop"
ban ppl born after 2000 from this subreddit · u/xd_out · ↑950 · 2023-08-29
"Every other sentence they're all using the word "demure" and not making much sense. I'm completely bewildered by the use of this fairly uncommon word and kinda lose track of the conversation. Turns out it's a meme from TikTok"
Not having TikTok makes me feel like an alien sometimes · u/ExpertLake7337 · ↑844 · 2024-08-23
"I told her I work in finance and she just responded by saying "a man in finance" in a weird voice. I respond "yes that's what I said". She just says it's a TikTok thing and the conversation trails off."
Not having TikTok makes me feel like an alien sometimes · u/ExpertLake7337 · ↑844 · 2024-08-23
"How the fuck is a 13 year old boy meant to develop into a functional and normal adult when they go onto tiktok and have their brains melted for at least four hours a day with a combination of looksmaxxing blackpill edits and esoteric nazi propaganda?"
"II'm probably gonna have some bitchy TikTok made about me…but whatevs"
"a crazy violation of ethics and deeply dystopian to be farming likes with your therapy clients"
"therapytok" is a thing · u/superballsmcgee · ↑646 · 2024-10-10
"TikTok is a psychological weapon that causes brain atrophy. The technological equivalent of a class A drug that destroys its users, and causes them to lose all interest in anything else."
TikTok is so insidious · u/swaneeriva · ↑634 · 2025-06-24
"I never know if this moment of just some psycho moment im in, or if this is just the common belief of someone who thinks they should also start a podcast and has had their whole perception of reality warped by tiktoks"
"It's not like posting a TikTok video. You don't have to worry about social media censorship."
"Despite stuff like TikTok and Trump both existing, the pandemic fundamentally changed everything"
2019 feels like a completely different timeline · u/AirbusAWS · ↑396 · 2025-07-09
"Community theater and tiktoks. HR-speak. Glasses. Jeans. Coffee."
The white woman's burden · u/ChicaneryMan · ↑335 · 2024-05-26
"i dont want to see tiktoks. i dont want to see any shortform videos."
nothing less sexy than a man trying to write you poems · u/labia--majoras--mask · ↑306 · 2026-02-10
"The way these short videos in rapid succession hypnotize you bothers me. I had tiktok for about a month but deleted because I could sense something uniquley strange about it."
The TikTok-ification of culture · u/butitsmylighter · ↑285 · 2022-10-19
"Went to the temple today and found 4 elementary school kids crowded around one phone watching tiktok with volume on. The entire hall was silent except for meme sounds that were changing every 2 seconds. But the worst part was the utter boredom on their faces. All 4 of them had this blank dead stare "
The effect of tiktok on gen alpha is truly demonic · u/low-timed · ↑262 · 2023-01-08
"The world of female perfumery is being ravaged by TikTok "I'm a total gourmand girly lol" types"
"It's probably fair to say that TikTok (and subsequently yt shorts, reels etc) is where the bulk of the young people zeitgeist is formed now"
Anyone remember when TikTok was incredibly uncool · u/hailhail7 · ↑255 · 2025-08-04
"2 people from my year at high school (a year group of around 100 people that graduated in 2017) are now professional TikTok influencers with millions of followers"
"because it already looks so opulent to me and then you have people here like 'lol coping zoomers my experience in googamabook 5 years ago was way cooler we got lobster for lunch every day and shit'."
"I guess TikTok is still pretty organically used but that's like basically it."
What is it that most people even actually do? · u/_AP0THE0SIS · ↑221 · 2024-11-03
"The most seemingly innocuous behaviors get posted on TikTok or whatever social media for the whole world to bitch and snicker at"
I feel deeply annoyed by the concept of "the ick" · u/xzpv · ↑195 · 2024-07-11
"have you ever thought that maybe you're just repulsed by them on some level that probably doesn't have anything to do with the actual action at hand"
I feel deeply annoyed by the concept of "the ick" · u/xzpv · ↑195 · 2024-07-11
"Just eat and drink well, stay active, and delete tiktok -- these are going to be status symbols sooner rather than later."
"everything was fine until she saw a TikTok of the Toronto Accent and that Wagwan Delilah song"
"25 yo Scandinavian woman displaying an array of sexually deviant behaviors, obsessed with Tik tok but also watches Gavin McGuinness videos, reads Jordan Peterson, and votes for local right wing party."
"She shrugged it off and said that she doesn't think most people care. Then literally the next day she was chatting with a group in one of her new classes and offhandedly mentioned she isn't on tiktok. One of the girls was taken aback and said "so. Are you like a psychopath or something?"."
My girlfriend got called a psychopath for not having tiktok · u/[deleted] · ↑181 · 2022-12-21
"These are huge on tiktok I'm told"
Crumbl cookies are fucking terrible · u/[deleted] · ↑174 · 2022-01-19
"I'm personally already started to get bored from TikTok"
Unpopular positive opinion · u/Then_Avocado3524 · ↑170 · 2024-02-08
"This subreddit, twitter, tiktok, reels, i saw that shit on 4CHAN."
the music industry figured something out · u/Technical-Boss-6344 · ↑168 · 2025-03-23
"I feel like whether I'm on this sub, Tik Tok or at work ( I work in a female dominated space, I'm a male ) there is this constant negativity and cynicism primarily thrown at the opposite gender. You have those stupid fake podcasts on TikTok where some MGTOW sounding white dude interviews the most ai"
Is anyone else tired of the discourse between the genders? · u/jnlake2121 · ↑158 · 2023-05-30
"Studies are now showing that zoomers are more likely to look something up using TikTok than Google"
Death of the Search Engine · u/antichristbasher · ↑151 · 2023-01-31
"churches become dusty museums for Chinese tourists and loud Ameriburgers posting TikTok with exposed shoulders"
It must suck to be the current Pope · u/hamburgertime55 · ↑149 · 2026-02-02
"They literally watched tiktok videos on silent"
"Got Harassed by 3 Different TikToker Wannabes Yesterday"
Got Harassed by 3 Different TikToker Wannabes Yesterday: · u/6DeadlyFetishes · ↑143 · 2023-08-06
"radicalized women on political tiktok"
"Now everywhere I go on the internet; Instagram. TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube...all I see is "red flags", "body count", "age gap", "grindset", "blackpill", "redpill" "rainbow pill", "pronouns""
2020s internet discourse is getting boring now · u/Silkikuri97 · ↑142 · 2023-11-08
"I know nothing is permanent and this era will be over, but it'll replaced by something even more stupid. I'm thinking next year will bring back 2017 political discourse...except this time we have TikTok and Reels"
2020s internet discourse is getting boring now · u/Silkikuri97 · ↑142 · 2023-11-08
"maybe i'm delusional but i feel like heterosexual women have become heavily influenced by tik toks and reels about what a successful relationship should look like and it's usually super ridiculous and not rooted in reality."
"To make matters worse, she's 30 making TikToks that she's single"
Is Selena Gomez mentally ill · u/redscare832 · ↑137 · 2023-11-22
"The answers are nearly always some combination of video games, Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, masterbation, sleeping and eating."
"Went to Barnes and Noble today—everything is designed to appeal to the TikTok crowd now. Bleak"
"oh my god you guys, walk don't run to the latest TikTok viral matcha cafe in New York"
"I made a tiktok account a few weeks ago out of curiosity and from my experience the most popular content seems to be"
Recently joined tiktok · u/whatif45678 · ↑127 · 2021-06-01
"I bet within 5 years because of social media/Tiktok a large number of 12 year old boys will be on HGH/secretagogues to grow taller."
looksmaxx culture going mainstream is sad · u/namakaG · ↑127 · 2023-07-22
"I've seen countless YouTube videos, tiktoks and other posts that get tons of engagement"
the internet and autism · u/changeusernamelater · ↑124 · 2022-04-03
"5 seconds of silence I between conversation? Load up tiktok."
worthwhile people I know who are ruined by their phones · u/Outside_Success3873 · ↑124 · 2024-06-20
"All of this talk about friends not "respecting boundaries" or the way people on the internet navigate relationships like a psychology book seems so fucking insane to me."
"I can't tell you the number of dates I went on with someone who looked good, dressed cool, only to realize they're terribly boring/have such a predictably curated personality based off of the same social media shit we're all consuming, literally reciting the same trite tiktok quips and jokes we've a"
"i don't use tiktok and i'm better than anyone who does."
Sorry, but I like my worldly comforts · u/sunset_starlet · ↑118 · 2025-02-11
"Also I've been seeing this trend on TikTok where moms try on their daughter's outfits and it's the same effect there but I assumed those are just cherry-picked by the algos."
Just saw a 40+ year old women who was dressed like a tiktok teenage girl · u/Narrow-Payment-5300 · ↑115 · 2023-01-11

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