TikTok very bad?

The Emperor's Lounge
#1

I don’t have this app but I just watched a 3min video on TikTok through my desktop browser, it was simply someone talking about a specific meditation technique, the video had these shiny effect and some filters on and I felt strange sensations while watching, when I stopped watching and even now after over 30 min I still feel strange sensations in my head from that video, I’m suspecting I have been exposed to some sort of subliminal messaging, and I’m pretty sure it’s not coming from the content itself but the overlays and whatnot.

I would steer clear from watching anything on that platform if I were you, I always had a very bad intuitive feeling about this app and I regret having spent even 3min on it, anyone else ever experienced something similar?

Be careful out there.

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#2

Never used and never will !

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#6

Never used it and have been warned in the past not to go there… although that was by my ex bf who was very narcissistic

My mom and others have told me to start a platform there thinking I’d be a success…

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#7

Good for business, bad for brain. 🥷

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#8

My 14-year-old son is on there often and I see how it doesn’t help his ADHD

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#9

Almost all the scrolling apps are having a hipnotizing effect, just to catch you to spend time on them.

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#10

You should see this, even if its not directly about tik tok, they use the same principles.
@TheEmpress @SoulFire

Frightening stuff

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#11

My youngest loved that show. She’s doing okay!

Oddly enough, my son destroyed my daughter’s cocomelon doll before. “JJ”

Edit: Peppa Pig had my daughter being super sassy

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#12

@TheEmpress I’d highly recommend the book “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt. Your intuition is right, ADHD and mental illness in general has SKYROCKETED since 2012, which is the year IG sold to FB and went from 10 million to 90 million regular users. You can refer to the book for an A-to-Z argument proving the social media/mental health link is causal, not corrolary, but it’s an incredible book about how childhood has been transforming since the 90’s in a variety of ways, not just technologically.

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#13

I just got teary eyed seeing this, wth. Im going to get the hardcover copy.

Thank you 🥹❤️‍🩹

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#14

This.

And ”Dopamine” by Daniel Lieberman.
I guess social media these days are using smart ways to trigger dopamine.

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#17

I think my attention span is cooked, lmao. I used to play a card game called Hearthstone when it first came out back in 2014. I played it quite fine back then.

About 5-6 months ago, before I decided to focus on getting better at Chess, I was trying out different games and settled on Hearthstone with the goal of reaching top 1% in the game. I like the idea of revisiting something I used to play and excel at it with renewed vigor. When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I played this game called Golden Axe and would always get stuck on this one part. When I was running Khan, I revisited that game and ran through it, lol. It was like a strange type of nostalgic healing, with me completing what I could never do as a child.

Anyways, lol. I intended to use Limitless to help aid me in becoming better and keep climbing higher ranks by playing only 1 game a day in Hearthstone. I quit very quickly because the turn duration was unbearable. This wasn’t a problem back in 2014, but now my brain gets really impatient. It’s either that, or my ROI is way higher, and I’m just not interested in that slow-pace of a game or waiting around. I have no clue, lol. But yeah, and I don’t even use TikTok.

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#18

Which part? I played a ton of golden axe as a kid. One of my favorites alongside Streets of Rage.

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#19

I could never complete Stage 3 as a kid. I would always get stuck at the silver knight.

Timestamp 10:53

I didn’t really know how to use magic or mount beasts. I was really young and just pressing buttons. At that age, we didn’t have energy drinks for gaming sessions. It was Twizzler sticks and Five Alive juice boxes, rofl.

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#20

This brought me so much nostalgia.
I remember playing these retro sidescrolling beat em up games when I was a kid.
Back then I didn’t even know English, so I was just going by trial & error.

The memories… :relieved:

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#21

Lol that’s the part I got stuck on too. But I always played with one of my brothers so you’d get two silver knights. And if one of us wasn’t pulling our weight those guys were ruthless and would beat one person to death. Also if one of us died before the silver knight you still got two lol.

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#22

Interesting how decades ago we use to invest time in reading books and now people want to watch short tik tok videos to learn anything and everything LOL. I think this exposure can rewired the brain in the long term to not being able to focus on one thing.

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#23

Now I’ve got him reading books and watching Star Wars :nerd_face:

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#24

Going by trial & error is kind of fun in my opinion. It’s like an adventure.

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