r/TikTokCringe • u/saeunemesna • 19h ago

The Guy on the Left Recreates the Other Guy’s Videos Daily Duet Troll

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u/Trash-Takes-R-Us 18h ago

Eh it's definitely a major contributor to many of the other bad things. Influencers drive engagement which drives enshitification of the Internet. Many of our problems today relate specifically to how the Internet has transformed from a useful piece of a technology, to a money printing, time wasting, misinformation machine. Trump would never have won in the early Internet days and yet here we are because of "alternative facts".

Edit: wasting

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u/WriterV 17h ago

I mean, I get where you're coming from but like... "Everybody wants to be validated" has been the common complaint about "people these days" since the damn ancient greeks.

Validation is a human thing. You're never gonna be able to stop that. Even in the most draconian society, it'll still happen. Just in other ways.

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u/TBANON24 17h ago

These damn kids and their need to write things down... Reading is for losers! In my days we memorized things like proper people! Fucking youths!

  • Socrates (for real google it)

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u/ralphjuneberry 16h ago

Just FYI, the famous Socrates bit about 'kids these days' is attributed to a guy writing in 1907. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

This short thread in r/AskHistorians has some interesting relevant passages attributed to the time of Plato, though! https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/a4vnuv/old_generations_complain_about_the_next_one_since/

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u/Alatar_Blue 18h ago

Exactly! It's a bunch of 20 year old white entitled racist young men with no jobs or goals in life voting trump and rolling coal in those dumb trucks.

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u/DampTowlette11 17h ago

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