{"id":4066,"date":"2022-05-26T17:42:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2022-05-26T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:42:39","slug":"tikboom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/05\/tikboom\/","title":{"rendered":"TikBoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.profgalloway.com\/tiktok-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok Boom | No Mercy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wonderful article on TikTok kicking ass and stuff.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe biggest mistake we make in marketing is believing choice is a benefit. No, it\u2019s a tax. Consumers don\u2019t want more choices, they want more confidence in the choices presented. TikTok has taken this to a new level by eliminating the burden of choice entirely. Its content is a continuous stream of videos where the decisions are made for you. Your only choice: what not to watch.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yikes. New generations growing up thinking that choices are a difficult thing. Yikes. Wait for when you absolutely have none, you\u2019ll see. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cExpect an emerging field of academic research looking at the effects on behavior, and the developing brain, of rapid-fire media.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean, we already know that it\u2019s bad: it destroys the ability to sustain attention, which is essential in any task you want to do in life and obviously, even more crucial when you want to do any task as best as possible. We already live in short-sighted societies, I don\u2019t think this is helping.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAlready, the app appears to be linked with eating disorders and depression, and it may even cause motor and verbal tics among teens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because virality. That\u2019s how you become rich\/famous on social media which means doing\/saying\/singing the most outlandish shit possible. A teen killed 6 driving for a TikTok challenge last weekend, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Cute and positive at first, now TikTok is full of misinformation and absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t create culture with 60-second wide lens portrait clips. We need so much more. We are so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok Boom | No Mercy Wonderful article on TikTok kicking ass and stuff. \u201cThe biggest mistake we make in marketing is believing choice is a benefit. No, it\u2019s a tax. Consumers don\u2019t want more choices, they want more confidence in the choices presented. TikTok has taken this to a new level by eliminating the burden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}