consumerism on tiktok

Perhaps I am old (I’m 32 🫣) but I’ve used TikTok for a couple of years now and I really enjoy it - obviously there are bad sides to it!

Recently though, all I see is videos of creators selling absolute trash to their followers. I saw one earlier where a guy was saying his mrs always smells and he wants a divorce and he’s told her to take some tablets which he showed in the video. The video was just dumb.

There was another guy, Ryan who I believe is popular for all the wrong reasons wearing women’s gym leggings saying how much he loves them.

Have I missed something? Why is all this cheap stuff being sold all of a sudden? Every scroll is almost a “commission paid” post now. I even saw my friends mum selling collagen powder on there…

Everytime someone says “I brought this off TikTok shop” I cringe.

Perhaps I am old.

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Sharp-Inflation4838•about 1 year ago•1

you are not old in the big picture, but unfortunately (or luckily), you are too old for tik tok.

Antique_Smoke_4547•about 1 year ago•1

Not old, just seeing the new gross reality. Tiktok is no longer a social media app, its used to simply make money or to watch people struggle to try to make money. Everyone sees creators making a lot, so now they all wanna do it too. Plus, we are still in that stupid ban so who knows what its gonna look like in a month.

But im with you...I scroll so fast all the time. Im not on there to fucking shop for garbage so I dont even give them the views.

consumerism on tiktok

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