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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]So this is OP - and I was talking with a reporter friend about this yesterday. She observed that these TikToks seemed pretty random and obscure - until they got amplified by Yashar Ali on Twitter. And that's when they started getting insane traffic - and when the letter on the Guardian's website started getting insane traffic.

She thinks that basically this was a whole lot of nothing until excited old people gave it tons of attention - then it turned into something.

So, I guess yay to us olds for falling for it again.[/quote]

I hadn't seen this post until just now, but I wrote about this thread in my blog post today and came to the same conclusion:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/2023/11/17/update111723

It's the last thread that I discussed today.[/quote]

Sorry you found this embarrassing. Some of us are struggling with what we see among young people right now - on social media and in the world. It can mean that we might be more likely to take something like this seriously when we see it - because it's fitting in with the other things we're seeing and experiencing. But yeah, fell for it - and foolish me for that.[/quote]

Eh, I suppose I’m one of the posters who should be embarrassed…but I’m not.

I don’t care if it’s 274 tiktokers or thousands…it’s shocking.

I’m not looking at this thread in isolation. Rather, I’m astounded by the videos of young people talking nonsense about everything: Israel, Gaza, politics, etc.

I’m also concerned about how social media can be used to manipulate.

Criticize me as lacking critical thinking skills if you like. [/quote]

To be fair, it was picked up as a major news story by major news outlets including the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. So it's not just a few posters on this thread who were interpreting it as a significant trend. If a major news outlet reports it (i.e. a supposed "trustworthy" source), people interpret as a significant concern.

We need to stop taking videos on social media as evidence of what a majority of any particular group think/believe.[/quote]

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