TikTok is Slowly Destroying a New Generation
It’s digital crack cocaine for kids
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5 min readJul 1, 2022
TikTok is quickly becoming the most destructive social media platform that has ever existed:
- The interface is explicitly designed to hijack and shorten attention spans and dopamine receptors.
- TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app.
- And, on a personal note, seeing the endless stream of dancing teenagers on my little glowing box makes me feel like I’m a background character in Blade Runner.
What MTV, Hollywood, and Warner Music tried to do over two decades of internet marketing TikTok was able to do in one year. TikTok has taken final control of the two-thirds of society that Aldous Huxley said were susceptible to hypnosis, and has put them into a state of psychosis.
Millions of people, mostly kids, are now addicted to learning a new dance, a new lip-sync, a new prank; and those who do best at dramatizing this fervent, collective improvisation are rewarded with likes, comments, and shares.
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