TikTok is free ads for self diagnosing yourself with rare or even unreal disorders and also an ad for being “alt” by buying very normal clothes from shein. Like it convinced you experiencing regular human emotions makes you special and disordered (cool!) and that dressing in common clothing that isn’t that mainstream, like a white shirt with a few frills and a brown skirt is somehow alternative. There’s no culture around music anymore the trends have no meaning. Things like goth emo scene had music as the whole point. Nowadays all alt culture is just focusing on looking conventionally hot in clothes you only see in 6 out of 10 people ( so rare and alternative!). Also if you sometimes have moodswings you have DID or BPD. If you can’t pay attention to anything longer than a TikTok you have ADHD because consuming hundreds of 13 second long videos definitely doesn’t affect your brain. It’s very sad
like obviously i hate buzzfeed and would never work at a place that has such a large hand in destroying serious journalism but i cannot deny that it would be literally the sweetest gig of all time. work in an office with a bunch of other hungover 29 year olds, screenshot posts made by 16 year olds on tumblr who are funnier and smarter than i am and call it an article complete with my own byline, and finish off my day by getting drunk on camera and being paid to do it. that’s the fucking life babey
