• Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      9 months ago

      As I approach 40, I’ve decided to give my ADHD a break and never use Tiktok. I’d say about 60% or so of my peers are on it. Supposedly, even though its seen as a younger person thing, the demographics of Tiktok lean heavily towards millenials.

      • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Tiktok is the only social media I’ve seen promoted at live sport events I go to, and it’s been continuous for many years now. Celebrity endorsements and sponsored content, huge TV spots, they are pushing big marketing dollars and based on the placement, its meant for gen X if anything.

      • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        At 44, also with diagnosed ADHD, I decided to not do TikTok. Still on Lemmy tho.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      8 months ago

      About half of my friends use TikTok but it’s not as aggressive as this pic would imply. In fact most of them are pretty good about citing a specific user to checkout when they are sharing something informative

      That said my friends are all 25~35 and are generally nerdy types who self educate so ymmv

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Nah there is a HUGE female millennial user base slice in there. It’s a little QVC and drama app all in one.

    • Dackel@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Its a young people thing.I’m the only one in my class who doesn’t have TikTok.(Sorry for my bad English)

      • Psychodelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Tiktok still seems to have the best short/mid-form philosophy and history/political content - excluding the ones that moved to Instagram or something. Some of the creators on there are legit amazing, based on the videos they make.

        I’m always blown away by how good their algorithm is, too. It’s way better than any other site, by like a mile. The only thing that keeps me from using it more is how long the videos I get recommended are. They’re usually too mind-blowing and I can’t just start another video right away without a minute to process it or look it up in more detail elsewhere.

        That said, the things my friends send me are absolutely not. It’s insane how they never get anything remotely interesting - it’s all bottom-tier trashy stuff on their feed. You def reap what you see on there

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Only 1 does in my group, the minute I saw his links included his full profile/username I noped out from even opening his links.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      Older nurses do, I can say. It’s not just an age group thing, but also relates to personal interests. The people interested in what lemmy’s got won’t really get anything of value from tiktok.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        People using Snapchat over texting because of the auto-deleting messages is by far the stupidest thing I’ve encountered. Snapchat stores all of it still, and it’s not encrypted in the slightest.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yeah the auto deleting is a very misleading point that Snapchat likes to make. It feels secure and less tracked but only in feel, in actuality probably collecting all the same info as TikTok, which is a fuck ton of data and keeping it.

    • Synthuir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      29·
      9 months ago

      Need to defeat repost protection? Horizontal flip won’t work because of pesky people not wanting to read mirrored text? Slap a lil 2.5° rotation on that baby! See also: random markup line added that looks like hair/dust.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, no, it definitely is. I’ve professionally zoomed in on my phone and then dragged the image to the screen edge. The bottom end of her user-tag is particularly obvious.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, one of our students pulled the “I watched a documentary” line and it just completely threw us when she admitted that it was actually just 4 TikTok posts. I mean, it was enough superficial knowledge to fill a conversation, but we all expected a TV documentation from the olden days.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    Remember kids, if you can’t cite your sources in APA format, you got it from TikTok and nobody believes you.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      YouTube will at least have some really long form well written content (1-4+ hour long videos). Tik tok is mostly 30 second videos, and their idea of long form is 30 minutes assuming they even go that far.

  • FrostKing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    135·
    9 months ago

    As a teen—I don’t use tik Tok, nor does anyone I know. It’s easy to believe everyone uses something, when people are saying that everyone uses something. Compare active users of tiktok in the US to the entire US population, for example. About 1/3 of the population. Sure, that’s a lot, but it’s not even a majority. The way people talk about it, you’d think it was an overwhelming majority.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      That wouldn’t surprise me at all given the fact that they had to tailor his security briefings with a mention of himself every 30 seconds to keep his attention. He’s exactly the TikTok demographic, and “loves” Kim, and was certainly more than friendly with Xi.

      I also wouldn’t be surprised if Xi Jinpooh himself was the one that told Trump about TikTok. Especially since it was released in September of 2016.

  • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I’ve noticed people I know actively avoid talking about their tiktok media around me 😅 they go for “I saw somewhere” 😂

    fuck tiktok, amiright?