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Tiktok has gone too far.
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I’m waiting for the No Parachute Skydiving Challenge.
TikTok trends are proof common sense has left the chat
I love committing a crime and hand the evidence to the cops.
I must have been a boring child, I knew well enough that you could google such information (Lets not pretend TikTok is the only place kids can learn this) and I would never in my wildest dreams go joy riding in someone elses car… Not only out of fear of punishment, but also out of knowing cars are valuable to people
Let’s be fair, all that this has changed is the speed and scale of the feedback loop of social mechanics. Disaffected young people will always be doing absolute nonsense, the difference is that hyper-speed parasocial communication allows these acts of youthful stupidity to be co-ordinated, instant trends. I doubt there’s more stupid acts of vaguely self-destructive bravado than before, they’re just extremely noticeable when they are this combination of unusual and coordinated that social media trends thrive on.
If I ever have a kid, they will be banned the hell out of every social media until they learn to think for themselves and not give in to peer pressure bullshit. If TikTok is the worst thing today, I shudder to think what will come next… It always gets worse.
This is and was big down in my old town, Grand Rapids MI. The biggest issue with these dudes is they’re quickly graduating from simply taking cars to taking people’s wallets at gunpoint. There’s been at least two incidents involved with this in which they never caught a few of the perps when they shoot at cops and leg it away.
My dad had his van stolen back in the late eighties. It’s incredible how violated it makes you feel. He did get the van back, but they never found the thieves. EDIT: I’m glad I have a car with an immobilizer. And my dad’s van – they broke the ignition when they hotwired it, so the cops showed my dad how to do it! It was a conversion van, so they stole our 9 inch tv, VCR, and his briefcase car phone. I’m not being ironically funny, either.
With the advent of technology, I’d figure commiting crimes would be significantly skewed towards easier/harder, but the incredible amount of stupidity some people got still amazes me.
Stupid wasn’t invented yesterday, it’s just easier to see it now with everyone having access to a camera
*EDIT*
I still blame Kia and Hyundai for designing cars that a fucking 11-year-old can hot wire
The second half of video is quite entertaining to show how companies dont care much about safety of product or in this case your bought car being hijacked. Until it costs them more in legal fees and stuff than to do it from outset.
So how have these recent trends caused this mayhem but over a decade of Grand Theft Auto has not?
It’s because kids can actually tell the difference between reality and fiction. TikTok showed them real people doing a real thing that can be duplicated. That’s why social media is a bigger corrupting influence than video games, comic books, or movies.
When I hear “impressionable” my brain automatically translates it to “stupid”.
I’m laughing about the fact that there are people who says we should lower the voting age to give more young people the vote… but it’s not a happy laugh
The fun thing about the tide pod challenge is that it originally was just a joke on the internet, then the news made it sound like it was a legit challenge and that’s when people started doing it for real.
I feel like ever since the Tide Pod challenge, things have just taken a downward spire. The fact that people will literally commit crimes for a few seconds of fame and record themselves in the act, is incomprehensible to me.
If Tiktok can’t moderate harmful content, get rid of Tiktok altogether.
You know, I would agree that adolescents are approaching the point where they can be reasonably expected to know right from wrong. I understood that you shouldn’t steal a car when I was 13. It is also true that information about how to commit crimes exists outside of social media here, but I don’t think that social media has nothing to do with it.
Anyone with a younger sibling knows, if you teach them how to do a bad thing and then they do it, the adults are definitely going to come after you for it. Sure you can say they could have learned it from somewhere else, but you definitely had something to do with it. If you are going to be interacting with children, then I believe you have an ethical duty to be mindful of what you do and say to them. My school would fire me at light speed if they heard that I was explaining to kids how to break into cars, as well they should.
“children ruining their lives” no, the consequences are way too small. No one is held accountable for their actions these days and when they are they have the nerve to complain.
It’s easy to blame TikTok, but let’s be honest, this is the parents’ fault for raising kids that would do this kind of thing in the first place. I wasn’t even allowed on social media until I was 16, and even if I had, I never would have dreamt of trying something like this.
The issue is it gets to a point where they might be kids, but they know exactly what they are doing. It’s not like they are living in a third world country with zero access to information. The fact that they use TikTok so much immediately excludes them from any sympathy.
These kids know exactly what they are doing. They know it’s bad. They don’t care.