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In reply to the discussion: TikTok will be banned, not sold. [View all]Celerity
(44,281 posts)This board trends far older than the age cohorts who are rabid TikTok users, so I see so many just say 'No big deal, I do not use it anyway.'
Speaking as a 27 year old surrounded by hundreds of TikTok users (many are US citizens, I have a global social set) I can say that this is going to be a BFD, a bad one. I hope we can do a great job at damage limitation.
Gen Z is less tied to the Democratic Party than the last half or so of the Millennial cohort. I have posted on this multiple times over the years. It is a problem.
Many here would go absolutely bonkers if they engaged in a setting like DU (and one with no alert option other than illegal content) that was as dominated by the 15yo to 35yo cohort as DU is by the 45-50yo and up (a large chunk well up) cohort.
I am considered ancient at 27 by so many that I interact with outside of DU, and I am one of the youngest (that I have seen over the past almost 6 years) regular posters here.
If it were not against TOS, I could, instantly, with no looking at any search aids, jot off a list of at least 25 or so posters here who would have splodey heads if (on that hypothetical board) they started getting serious chatback from a a bunch of 18 to 22 yos, ones who those posters could not bow up on and shut down by appeals to authority (of the hypothetical board's TOS and site admins, and in all other power projections as well.
This place is extremely insulated and the rules of the road here enforce that. I chose to work within them, but I have had zero luck getting anyone to come and join and then stay. All it takes to blow them out is one student debt thread gone bad, or the typical casual youth bashing that far too often permeates here.
I have to truly laugh when some people here call late Gen Xers (Xennials) and first half or so Millennials 'kids'. Those 'kids' are mostly (or soon will be) in their 40's now, and some will hit 50 in a couple of years or so.