I hate to frame things this way but a lot of women who struggle with mental illness (and men with a poor sense of self esteem) are the greatest consumers of the mind virus on TikTok.
A few months ago this was the now-forgotten Free Palestine movement and today it’s the Free Luigi movement.
The recipe tends to be the same - the weaponization of empathy, groupthink inspired by algorithms, and the desire to destroy one’s own voice in order to destroy the voices of others.
Overtime what happens is an increasingly disinterest, depressed and disconnected collective of people who lose touch with society. A cult of sorts.
This mind virus expresses itself in many ways, and is typically rooted in anti-American sentiment. Very common in Latino media.
Thankfully, TikTok is being banned. And rightfully so. The algorithm is designed to achieve this outcome, which is why it will never be open-sourced.
It’s easy for Americans to reverse engineer it. It would be bad politics for bytedance to do so.
Loneliness is an epidemic for women too.
They are addicted to The Current Thing™.
