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Anonymous wrote:All of this criticism reeks of sexism. If it were a 14 year-old boy who made TikTok videos about his gaming exploits that made millions of dollars, I'm sure you would all be cheering his entrepreneurial initiative. Obviously, the stalker is a concern, but that's really just an another example of the broken mental health system in this country- there could be (and have been) stalkers of all sorts of celebrities, whether they are on TikTok or not.

The boy in your hypothetical example is selling his gaming prowess. The girl in this case was selling herself. The income from her TikTok comes from men who like to look at teenage girls. That’s not a good population for a young girl to be associating with. What happened was horrible, and I do blame the parents for exploiting their daughter in this way.

Tell me you don’t understand til Tom without telling me you don’t understand tik tok

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Anonymous wrote:Geez - get over it. It’s another service. It may stay popular, or it may phase out in a couple of years. You can then complain about whatever comes next. Those damn kids with their rock and roll. Get off my lawn!

It is making a move into music that may prove successful. They are paying more than the other services and are not tied with right wing nuts so that is appealing. My kids’ band just released what passes for an album these days and have songs availability on TicTok. If all goes well they might make $10 from TicTok versus $1.40 from Spotify and Apple. (New bands release music more to generate a little buzz and get themselves bar and venue gigs.)

Did you miss the part where the girl was stalked by another teenager who showed up at her house shooting a gun, and the dad ended up shooting him dead? This is not so much about TikTok as it is about the dangers of exploiting children on social media, regardless of the actual format.

Happened regularly with Facebook. Still does. Did you complain about that too?

No, that is not something that happened regularly with Facebook. Facebook is not monetized like TikTok.

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Anonymous wrote:Geez - get over it. It’s another service. It may stay popular, or it may phase out in a couple of years. You can then complain about whatever comes next. Those damn kids with their rock and roll. Get off my lawn!

It is making a move into music that may prove successful. They are paying more than the other services and are not tied with right wing nuts so that is appealing. My kids’ band just released what passes for an album these days and have songs availability on TicTok. If all goes well they might make $10 from TicTok versus $1.40 from Spotify and Apple. (New bands release music more to generate a little buzz and get themselves bar and venue gigs.)

Did you miss the part where the girl was stalked by another teenager who showed up at her house shooting a gun, and the dad ended up shooting him dead? This is not so much about TikTok as it is about the dangers of exploiting children on social media, regardless of the actual format.

Happened regularly with Facebook. Still does. Did you complain about that too?

Anonymous wrote:Geez - get over it. It’s another service. It may stay popular, or it may phase out in a couple of years. You can then complain about whatever comes next. Those damn kids with their rock and roll. Get off my lawn!

It is making a move into music that may prove successful. They are paying more than the other services and are not tied with right wing nuts so that is appealing. My kids’ band just released what passes for an album these days and have songs availability on TicTok. If all goes well they might make $10 from TicTok versus $1.40 from Spotify and Apple. (New bands release music more to generate a little buzz and get themselves bar and venue gigs.)

Did you miss the part where the girl was stalked by another teenager who showed up at her house shooting a gun, and the dad ended up shooting him dead? This is not so much about TikTok as it is about the dangers of exploiting children on social media, regardless of the actual format.

Geez - get over it. It’s another service. It may stay popular, or it may phase out in a couple of years. You can then complain about whatever comes next. Those damn kids with their rock and roll. Get off my lawn!

It is making a move into music that may prove successful. They are paying more than the other services and are not tied with right wing nuts so that is appealing. My kids’ band just released what passes for an album these days and have songs availability on TicTok. If all goes well they might make $10 from TicTok versus $1.40 from Spotify and Apple. (New bands release music more to generate a little buzz and get themselves bar and venue gigs.)

DD said every boy wanted to copulate.

Anonymous wrote:She used to go to Whitman.

The girl? That doesn’t make sense. The family is originally from NJ, then moved to Florida.

She used to go to Whitman.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, this everything about this is gross.

TikTok is 100% gross. It is toxic - all of TikTok.

If you let your kids use TikTok, you are horrible at parenting.

What are you prattling on about? I'm mid-50s and love TikTok. I love BookTok, people posting about women's issues/misogyny, cooking, working dogs, dance and music. I, occasionally, get stuff I'm not interested in but simply indicated 'not interested' and I don't see it again. I've learned a lot and enjoyed it.

DP here. Did you read the article? I realize that the above PP was generalizing, but we aren't talking about a 50 year old's TikTok use. The fact that you responded to the original thread by immediately -- and only -- relating your answer to yourself shows a certain type of narcissism that is possibly fostered by these apps.

Saying that TikTok is 100% gross and all of it toxic is hardly a generalization. It is an absolute and easily disproved - as the 50 yo PP just did. And, narcissism doesn't mean what you think it means.

+1. The poster above clearly said all of tik tok is gross. And the person below pointed out that it has many useful qualities.

Oh, great -- you're back.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, this everything about this is gross.

TikTok is 100% gross. It is toxic - all of TikTok.

If you let your kids use TikTok, you are horrible at parenting.

What are you prattling on about? I'm mid-50s and love TikTok. I love BookTok, people posting about women's issues/misogyny, cooking, working dogs, dance and music. I, occasionally, get stuff I'm not interested in but simply indicated 'not interested' and I don't see it again. I've learned a lot and enjoyed it.

You are an adult with a fully formed brain ( I assume) You are not a child or teen. Huge difference!!!

Anonymous wrote:All of this criticism reeks of sexism. If it were a 14 year-old boy who made TikTok videos about his gaming exploits that made millions of dollars, I'm sure you would all be cheering his entrepreneurial initiative. Obviously, the stalker is a concern, but that's really just an another example of the broken mental health system in this country- there could be (and have been) stalkers of all sorts of celebrities, whether they are on TikTok or not.

Finally some sense.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, this everything about this is gross.

TikTok is 100% gross. It is toxic - all of TikTok.

If you let your kids use TikTok, you are horrible at parenting.

What are you prattling on about? I'm mid-50s and love TikTok. I love BookTok, people posting about women's issues/misogyny, cooking, working dogs, dance and music. I, occasionally, get stuff I'm not interested in but simply indicated 'not interested' and I don't see it again. I've learned a lot and enjoyed it.

DP here. Did you read the article? I realize that the above PP was generalizing, but we aren't talking about a 50 year old's TikTok use. The fact that you responded to the original thread by immediately -- and only -- relating your answer to yourself shows a certain type of narcissism that is possibly fostered by these apps.

Saying that TikTok is 100% gross and all of it toxic is hardly a generalization. It is an absolute and easily disproved - as the 50 yo PP just did. And, narcissism doesn't mean what you think it means.

+1. The poster above clearly said all of tik tok is gross. And the person below pointed out that it has many useful qualities.

Anonymous wrote:All of this criticism reeks of sexism. If it were a 14 year-old boy who made TikTok videos about his gaming exploits that made millions of dollars, I'm sure you would all be cheering his entrepreneurial initiative. Obviously, the stalker is a concern, but that's really just an another example of the broken mental health system in this country- there could be (and have been) stalkers of all sorts of celebrities, whether they are on TikTok or not.

What? No. I’d be thinking that was a horrible waste of young peoples’ time—both the making and the watching of the videos.

Anonymous wrote:All of this criticism reeks of sexism. If it were a 14 year-old boy who made TikTok videos about his gaming exploits that made millions of dollars, I'm sure you would all be cheering his entrepreneurial initiative. Obviously, the stalker is a concern, but that's really just an another example of the broken mental health system in this country- there could be (and have been) stalkers of all sorts of celebrities, whether they are on TikTok or not.

The boy in your hypothetical example is selling his gaming prowess. The girl in this case was selling herself. The income from her TikTok comes from men who like to look at teenage girls. That’s not a good population for a young girl to be associating with. What happened was horrible, and I do blame the parents for exploiting their daughter in this way.

Anonymous wrote:All of this criticism reeks of sexism. If it were a 14 year-old boy who made TikTok videos about his gaming exploits that made millions of dollars, I'm sure you would all be cheering his entrepreneurial initiative. Obviously, the stalker is a concern, but that's really just an another example of the broken mental health system in this country- there could be (and have been) stalkers of all sorts of celebrities, whether they are on TikTok or not.

You feel guilty for letting your kid on TikTok, don’t you.