Maybe I'm just defensive because I'm such a contrarian, but I'm so sick of whatever is trending on Tiktok dictating the way people see their lives.
One month nobody ever gives a shit about "golden retriever boyfriends", then suddenly that's what everyone is looking for - when it's trending on Tiktok.
Nobody ever bothered about "main character energy", then suddenly it's their prerogative to acquire it - as soon as it's trending on Tiktok.
And so a friend that maybe you would have previously called free-thinking, or able to see things from multiple sides, or a friend who is honest with you even when it isn't what you want to hear - now suddenly this all is filtered through the lens of "the contrarian friend".
It's incredible how none of us ever thought we had contrarian friends until Tiktok started talking about it, none of us ever thought about how Bob down the street has main character energy until Tiktok started talking about it.
My god, people, think for yourselves. It's great to learn new ideas and concepts and then try to see how they apply to your life, but does everyone need to learn the same homogenous simple concept all at once and shoehorn everything into it?
No, we don't all have contrarian friends, no, it's not driving everyone crazy. People are just forcing themselves to find examples of it to talk about it on Tiktok because that's what's popular on Tiktok right now. People like these are the reason the term sheeple was invented.
