Plenty of exploitation also happening of young men which has wide-ranging effects. This community seems to be mostly male (I’m guessing). Any opinions?
Men use tiktok? I thought it was only pre-teen girls.
A former friend of mine aged about 60 got into tiktok around the start of Israel’s attacks on Palestine, and dropped all his friends for not being sufficiently fervent about the genocide
It sucks in anyone who wants a purely automatic video feed
Zoomers are graduating from college now, but it might surprise you to find out why those men were on the young girl app
The manosphere doesn’t create these pressures – it finds genuine unmet needs and exploits them for profit and views. Often girls, women and other minority groups are at the receiving end of that harm, as well as the boys and men themselves.
Before TikTok/Internet, there was TV. Before TV was print media (newspapers, magazines).
Ad from 1932
This has been going on (for everyone) a lot longer than TikTok. That said, I don’t think it’s healthy. Also with print media, you saw it once or twice in a magazine; you didn’t have an algorithm feeding you a stream of content either.
Edit: female ad, same era:
Even the Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975 parodied the fitness ads “in just seven days, I can make you a man”
Without reading, does it conclude that they are all massive wankers?
Whatever they are, they are having a negative effect on boys and young men. That’s the issue.
Technically: Wank Stains.
So what is wrong with it?
??? What’s wrong with exploitation?
Our entire socio ecomic system is built on exploitation, seems beyond weird to pearl clutch over parts of it sans some holistic introspection.
I agree with you but it’s scientific research in order to find out how this particular type of content affects people. We have to at least do what we can protect those who are vulnerable.
You can see how the big picture affects the particular but also how the particular affects the general. By changing and/or becoming more conscious of the particular we can become more alert to the wider world and make changes there too. Nothing is simple.
How is this an exploitation? People just watch what they want to watch; it’s their choice and they don’t harm anyone.
I don’t know if you’ve read the article. Adults can watch “what they want to watch” but the problem is that these videos can attract boys and young adults who are still maturing and the videos can have negative impacts on their self image and their life in general.
This can happen with any demographic group, old people being fed propaganda and sitting in their echo chambers or girls being told their worth is only their body etc… The problem is the algorithm and the money inventive. Also this isn’t only happening on tiktok but on all platforms.
