idk all signs point to Bytedance not budging on this so it will be really funny if this backfires and tiktok becomes unavailable in the US. Might see youtube shorts take off or something totally unforeseen pretty wild shit all around.
Wat zich precies heeft afgespeeld rond de dood van het meisje dat in het Venlose stadsdeel Blerick is doodgestoken, is nog onbekend. Buurtbewoners zijn geschrokken van het nieuws. Ze beschrijven haar als […]
I disagree, Proton is a privacy company with more followers on Mastodon than on Threads and TikTok. Should they also drop what Linux support they have to focus only on Windows because it has a large base? This feels alienating to their privacy conscious users if anything.
there’s a really bizarre wave of USSR apologism and revisionism on tiktok right now, Probably a Russian psyop or something like that […] Seems pretty on brand Putin would be spearheading something like this with his troll/bot farms. I mean, the man is set on conquest and admires Stalin, probably wants the USSR back as well. He does miss it Yup, Russia is now being sold as pro-christian-family-values-anti-woke culture. Scary as fuck, we’re basically occupied by Russia and the Trumpers are going to start cheering as we become Russia’s theoretical “51st state.”
My main concern is that, because the focus is primarily on making money, some young people might mistake entertainment for truth. The content creators are more interested in earning money and are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that, rather than providing accurate discourse. In reality, this election is not a viral video, a TikTok challenge, or a source of amusement. It is a serious real-life event with significant consequences. The other side of that coin is that society has been publicly parodying candidates since the beginning. So who am I to judge this new form of it. Edit: This keeps getting brought up about how it’s already happening in the mainstream. I’m in agreement with that and thought my last paragraph broadly covers that acknowledgment. We hope our kids are provided the education and tools to think critically when they are adults, but children ingesting financially driven politics on Chinese TikTok just hits wrong.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11371761 This is Alana Rosa, a 20-year-old Brazilian woman who was brutally attacked and stabbed 40 times for refusing to go out with the sexist criminal Luis Felipe Sampaio, whom she met at the gym. After emerging from an induced coma, misogynists in Brazil are making TikTok videos of themselves stabbing mannequins with titles like “What to do when she says no.” This is the patriarchal and misogynistic society that capitalism fosters; this sexist terrorism is fueled by the system itself, just like racism and xenophobia. Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045392279150460928/vid/avc1/1280x720/gYYwNjDYEz3t-1c_.mp4 Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045398894423544006#m
Ughh. The selective enforcement is maddening, both with this and TikTok. So much of the filed complaint especially applies to Roblox, but it’s clear that we’re only interested in protecting our consumers when it really means chipping away at a foreign rival’s burgeoning soft power.
This is Alana Rosa, a 20-year-old Brazilian woman who was brutally attacked and stabbed 40 times for refusing to go out with the sexist criminal Luis Felipe Sampaio, whom she met at the gym. After emerging from an induced coma, misogynists in Brazil are making TikTok videos of themselves stabbing mannequins with titles like “What to do when she says no.” This is the patriarchal and misogynistic society that capitalism fosters; this sexist terrorism is fueled by the system itself, just like racism and xenophobia. Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045392279150460928/vid/avc1/1280x720/gYYwNjDYEz3t-1c_.mp4 Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045398894423544006#m
he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt how much of a dirt bag he was when i brought on gov’t spokepeople to denounce tiktok as a spying platform; like facebook and twitter aren’t.
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A new compilation video features some rare clips of delivery robots getting their metal chassis kicked in. The compilation was posted to TikTok and has already been removed. Raise your hand if you’re surprised at all!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8290100 https://archive.is/2026.04.19-124113/https://fortune.com/2026/04/19/what-is-becoming-chinese-chinamaxxing-tiktok-trend-american-critique/ The subtext of every “very Chinese era” video isn’t really about China. It’s about what young Americans feel they’ve been denied. Chinamaxxing romanticizes things that feel structurally out of reach at home — compact, affordable-looking apartments; public transit that works; streets safe to walk at night; multigenerational households as an antidote to loneliness; communal meals as an antidote to atomization. The comparison is implicit but unmissable: they have this, and we don’t. Gen Z Americans now carry an average of $94,000 in student-loan debt, and the psychological weight of that number is fueling what Fortune‘s Jacqueline Munis has called “disillusionomics” — a generational rejection of traditional financial prudence rooted in the belief that the old rules no longer apply. One-third of Gen Z says they believe they’ll never own a home. Many are planning to forgo children. Youth unemployment hit 10.8% last year against a 4.3% national average. This is the context in which “becoming Chinese” lands. It isn’t that Gen Z has carefully studied comparative political economy and chosen Beijing. It’s that they were raised on a promise — get the degree, get the job, get the house, get the healthcare — that increasingly feels like a lie. American higher education, once the most reliable on-ramp to the middle class, now generates crippling debt in exchange for credentials that pay less in real terms than they did for their parents. Tuition at U.S. public universities has increased 153.8% since the early 1980s in inflation-adjusted terms, growing 65% faster than currency inflation and 35% faster than wages. The institution, sold as the gateway to prosperity, has become its single largest private obstacle. Slate‘s Nitish Pahwa captured the emotional logic cleanly: “You told us we couldn’t have a high-speed railroad and universal health care, and it turns out they have it across the street! I’m going to live at their house now!” It is, as he described it, a petulant-toddler reaction to a broken promise — and one that Western institutions have given Gen Z ample grounds to throw. The content gaining traction — tea rituals, slow routines, dense and futuristic cities, food culture that feels abundant and communal — maps precisely onto what young people say is missing from their own lives. “China becomes less of a destination,” Litman said, “and more of a canvas to project those desires.” A sense of wellness and calm. A feeling of prosperity. An everyday beauty that American strip-mall culture conspicuously fails to provide. Shaoyu Yuan, a scholar who studies Chinese soft power, told NPR the trend operates on two tracks at once: one that “weakens American narrative authority by highlighting content that highlights U.S. dysfunction,” and another that “makes China look more attractive.” The Week The dysfunction track, crucially, writes itself. Nobody needs Beijing to fabricate footage of American potholes, ER bills, or decaying Amtrak cars. Bullet-train footage isn’t just rail — it’s a vote. And the vote is being cast by a generation that has no Cold War precedent for its view of China. New Pew Research data shows American adults under 34 view China far more favorably than those over 50. The 2020s have been a decade of compounding American institutional failure — a pandemic, political rupture, an affordability crisis, student loan servicers treated as adversaries, a healthcare system that bankrupts the sick, and a growing sense that the system is not working as advertised. Chinese modernity, filtered through a TikTok feed, offers an implicit counter-narrative: cities that work, infrastructure that impresses, a culture that feels rooted and forward-moving simultaneously. Their power lies in the specific comparison they invite — not “is China better in every way,” but “why does an ordinary life there appear to include things an ordinary life here no longer does.” But the Cold War analogy cuts in both directions. American culture won the ideological struggle of the twentieth century not because Washington planned it perfectly, but because it generated something the other side couldn’t manufacture: a genuine, bottom-up, organic want. The “Becoming Chinese” trend, for all its irony and imprecision, is producing exactly that kind of signal — uncoerced, youth-driven, and spreading on its own momentum. The American century was built on the world’s desire to be American, a desire so powerful that it didn’t require irony or caveats. The question the turbulent 2020s is forcing is a simpler and more unsettling one: what happens when the generation that was supposed to inherit the American promise looks around at their student loans, their rent, their medical bills, and their crumbling train stations — and decides they’d rather be something else?
https://archive.is/2026.04.19-124113/https://fortune.com/2026/04/19/what-is-becoming-chinese-chinamaxxing-tiktok-trend-american-critique/ The subtext of every “very Chinese era” video isn’t really about China. It’s about what young Americans feel they’ve been denied. Chinamaxxing romanticizes things that feel structurally out of reach at home — compact, affordable-looking apartments; public transit that works; streets safe to walk at night; multigenerational households as an antidote to loneliness; communal meals as an antidote to atomization. The comparison is implicit but unmissable: they have this, and we don’t. Gen Z Americans now carry an average of $94,000 in student-loan debt, and the psychological weight of that number is fueling what Fortune‘s Jacqueline Munis has called “disillusionomics” — a generational rejection of traditional financial prudence rooted in the belief that the old rules no longer apply. One-third of Gen Z says they believe they’ll never own a home. Many are planning to forgo children. Youth unemployment hit 10.8% last year against a 4.3% national average. This is the context in which “becoming Chinese” lands. It isn’t that Gen Z has carefully studied comparative political economy and chosen Beijing. It’s that they were raised on a promise — get the degree, get the job, get the house, get the healthcare — that increasingly feels like a lie. American higher education, once the most reliable on-ramp to the middle class, now generates crippling debt in exchange for credentials that pay less in real terms than they did for their parents. Tuition at U.S. public universities has increased 153.8% since the early 1980s in inflation-adjusted terms, growing 65% faster than currency inflation and 35% faster than wages. The institution, sold as the gateway to prosperity, has become its single largest private obstacle. Slate‘s Nitish Pahwa captured the emotional logic cleanly: “You told us we couldn’t have a high-speed railroad and universal health care, and it turns out they have it across the street! I’m going to live at their house now!” It is, as he described it, a petulant-toddler reaction to a broken promise — and one that Western institutions have given Gen Z ample grounds to throw. The content gaining traction — tea rituals, slow routines, dense and futuristic cities, food culture that feels abundant and communal — maps precisely onto what young people say is missing from their own lives. “China becomes less of a destination,” Litman said, “and more of a canvas to project those desires.” A sense of wellness and calm. A feeling of prosperity. An everyday beauty that American strip-mall culture conspicuously fails to provide. Shaoyu Yuan, a scholar who studies Chinese soft power, told NPR the trend operates on two tracks at once: one that “weakens American narrative authority by highlighting content that highlights U.S. dysfunction,” and another that “makes China look more attractive.” The Week The dysfunction track, crucially, writes itself. Nobody needs Beijing to fabricate footage of American potholes, ER bills, or decaying Amtrak cars. Bullet-train footage isn’t just rail — it’s a vote. And the vote is being cast by a generation that has no Cold War precedent for its view of China. New Pew Research data shows American adults under 34 view China far more favorably than those over 50. The 2020s have been a decade of compounding American institutional failure — a pandemic, political rupture, an affordability crisis, student loan servicers treated as adversaries, a healthcare system that bankrupts the sick, and a growing sense that the system is not working as advertised. Chinese modernity, filtered through a TikTok feed, offers an implicit counter-narrative: cities that work, infrastructure that impresses, a culture that feels rooted and forward-moving simultaneously. Their power lies in the specific comparison they invite — not “is China better in every way,” but “why does an ordinary life there appear to include things an ordinary life here no longer does.” But the Cold War analogy cuts in both directions. American culture won the ideological struggle of the twentieth century not because Washington planned it perfectly, but because it generated something the other side couldn’t manufacture: a genuine, bottom-up, organic want. The “Becoming Chinese” trend, for all its irony and imprecision, is producing exactly that kind of signal — uncoerced, youth-driven, and spreading on its own momentum. The American century was built on the world’s desire to be American, a desire so powerful that it didn’t require irony or caveats. The question the turbulent 2020s is forcing is a simpler and more unsettling one: what happens when the generation that was supposed to inherit the American promise looks around at their student loans, their rent, their medical bills, and their crumbling train stations — and decides they’d rather be something else?
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instagram/pinterest-ish chinese app that was promoted on american tiktok as a possible alternative after ban. it has actual chinese users and they weren’t impressed when american transplants wanted everyone to speak english
Hi liberals, quick question, who signed the tik tok ban into law?
TikTok is literally forcing Americans to participate in a consultative democracy. This is the worst nightmare of any gop or dem staffer lmao.
My favorite part is how they keep talking about how dangerous China is, then they keep showing tik Tok ads
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