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TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by ooli to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Short-form videos are basically a form of cancer that keeps you alive with shots of dopamine every 15-30 seconds. I avoid those things like the plague.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Brevity is the soul of wit

[–] sleepmode 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vine understood that. TikTok doesn’t and YouTube shorts is a glitchy mess. I use an extension to hide them because of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Why is youtube capping to that small time frame. Even most tiktok videos are like 2 minutes long minimum. Maybe that's just the algorithm working for me, because I refuse to invest my attention in anything with that low of an information payoff.