The man of culture part was.
Generally I think the dislike of Tiktok has to do with purity culture more than anything else. I typically find people who hate on Tiktok to be misinformed, willfully ignorant, massively hypocritical, or a combination thereof
I don't understand what those tiktoks have to do with the text. None of those tiktoks have clickbait titles or tags or anything. They're just silly fun videos.
That's some prescription strength copium you're taking.
Some real "everyone disagreeing with me means I'm right" type delusion
You drew a direct comparison between fascist states and social media, on the basis of their evil deeds.
stop being so butthurt in your comments. You're getting absolutely roasted. Just take the L
I know art is subjective, but like... 26 episodes devoted to watching an annoying little shit face become even more annoying and shittier?
I want to like the show so bad, but shinji is just so unpleasant to watch.
Generally I think there is value in engaging with media that makes you experience negative and uncomfortable emotions, but I think the exception to that is anger. If the predominant emotions is anger, then probably not a tremendous amount of value. Most other emotions evoked by media are either enjoyable themselves or produce enjoyable after effects (like the thrill of horror, or the catharsis of tragedy); but not anger.
Ignoring your mixup of persecution and prosecution, it's wild that you're even remotely putting mass execution and imprisonment on the same level as having your singular thread removed from a privately hosted forum that you voluntarily joined.
Censorship by privately run and hosted forums is not remotely equivalent to the horrors of totalitarian and fascist governments. Even if people were to agree that it's evil (which it's not, paradox of tolerance), the comparison is beyond the pale.
This is one of the most chronically online takes I've ever heard.
And that's honestly a real shame when you think about what that tells us about how our society values education.
But nobody does think about it, because thinking about it doesn't put bread on the table.
God I don't understand why people love this anime.
I know it's a deconstruction of the super robot. I know that shinji has a plausibly realistic reaction to his situation, especially as an unwilling Eva pilot. That doesn't make me wanna watch the psychological unravelling of a child until he becomes completely insufferable and wanks it over his comatose friend. Why does anyone wanna watch that, no matter how powerful?
See, this is the purity culture, and it's always so selectively applied.
Things can have both good and bad aspects. Lots of good things can be bad when used too much.
Lemmy is much the same way. You say it was specifically designed to be an addiction engine, but all that involves is showing you things you like. Lemmy is the same, just that the algorithm is so simple that it can't show you any discovery or new things.
You can find similar arguments about almost every part of the internet.
Are there problems with Tiktok? Of course. There are also amazing parts of Tiktok. Just like Lemmy. Just like Mastodon. Just like pixelfed.