Federal Republic Of America And The Cari wrote:Ghost Land wrote:I'm young enough to remember Vine and the whole stupid "nine plus ten" thing that actually got quite a few teenagers in my area legitimately thinking 9+10 equaled 21.
I wouldn't mind if this TikTok ban were to come to fruition. I've never used it myself, but I've seen other people use it and I've read enough about it to know this isn't too much of a loss really.
As someone who's going into 7th grade,I can agree that many of my classmates still think 9+10=21 is still a relevant ass meme,and since the majority (if not all) of them used TikTok,I can bet you $100 bucks if they all got super fucking pissed when this news came out. As I said through my puppet nation(The United Russian Commonwealth),my sisters have been using this shit since late 2019/when COVID-19 emerged,so if y'all can help my to try to convince them that that is spyware (like Google)I'll appreciate it.
You know the NationStates forum requires users to be at least 13, right?
Even the co-founder of Reddit refers to TikTok as spyware. Just from what I've seen of the app on other people's devices, each user's stream of videos they see is customized based on the videos they've watched already, which means TikTok is DEFINITELY collecting data as to who watches what video, and it's a great way to find yourself looking at a big echo chamber of similar and useless content.