Am I the only person who feels pretty neutral about short-form videos? Vine was a thing and nobody was complaining about that. I used TikTok for a bit and it was ok for entertainment but I don’t feel like the short-form videos were particularly addictive. When I was a kid, ads on tv were our short-videos. Memes are pretty brain-rotty too if you think about it. I put them all in the same category - just silly entertainment to chuckle at during downtime. I quit TikTok after the ban drama etc. and I haven’t missed it. On the other hand people bitch about people making dance videos in public and sure that can be annoying but then: I think it’s cool that kids get some motivation to dance. Obviously any easily consumed thing is going to be a problem for some people but I still feel like the particular hate short-form vids get is more about old folks (I am old folks) by default hating everything kids do.

It’s a bittersweet win that provides essential legal security for those who married abroad, but it also highlights how much work is left to do for gender recognition and marriage rights…

My answer again, Fast Fashion and putting a lot of money into completely useless (plastic, mass produced) junk. General unconscious consumerism.

Similar question was asked pretty recently.

Reposting my earlier comment because lazy and don’t wanna rewrite:

Fast fashion.

Unconscious consumption in general. People are pouring crazy amounts of money into plastic garbage, “collectibles”, general useless and unnecessary junk, lifestyle products etc. Then they defend it with a flippant “lol intrusive thoughts won UwU”. I wouldn’t even mind so much if it wasn’t too often the case that these same people also complain about environmental issues and capitalism.

“but but i’m a magpie, I’m a loot goblin” is just normalizing the behavior, trying to make it cute. It’s not. You’re very directly contributing to the increasing waste problem in the world and giving money to megacorps (think plastic production in particular). If you absolutely must do this, find products made of natural materials, produced by real people. Yes, it’ll cost more. Yes, that’s the real price of your obsession.

No. In this video a dude is explaining to you how your clothes are also being enshittified by capitalism and how marketing is covering it up.

Fast fashion.

Unconscious consumption in general. People are pouring crazy amounts of money into plastic garbage, “collectibles”, general useless and unnecessary junk, lifestyle products etc. Then they defend it with a flippant “lol intrusive thoughts won UwU”. I wouldn’t even mind so much if it wasn’t too often the case that these same people also complain about environmental issues and capitalism.

“but but i’m a magpie, I’m a loot goblin” is just normalizing the behavior, trying to make it cute. It’s not. You’re very directly contributing to the increasing waste problem in the world and giving money to megacorps (think plastic production in particular). If you absolutely must do this, find products made of natural materials, produced by real people. Yes, it’ll cost more. Yes, that’s the real price of your obsession.

Thanks for posting this. I’m really frustrated with how vulnerable people on Lemmy are to propaganda. The amount of upvotes on the post you responded to are just embarrassing. The post is exactly the same kind of bullshit cherry picking I see anti-trans people do.

Would be so nice if people would stop thinking that the whole diversity of human experience can be neatly fitted into a handful of categories.