i’m in that donut hole that’s old enough to have no cultural place for tiktok but young enough to understand how devastatingly bad it is. I think slightly older people are total marks for it and it’s actively upsetting encountering someone in their 40s who gets all their information from tiktok, which is a real type of person i’ve met several of and they’re actively worse-informed than they would be if they’d spent the last 10 years in a coma
to me tiktok is like the cinco i-jammer. it’s a sinister thing made for children, to take their money, and possibly perform some kind of evil experiment(s) on them. it is also maximally annoying in every possible way. the idea of getting onto it is like if i was to make my own cinco i-jammer despite being in my mid-30s and not having kids
Someone tell that bear he’s not supposed to eat that with the skin on.
I live in South Africa. And if you live in South Africa and you have any contact with people from the US or Canada you might have run into a question about wildlife like lions and elephants roaming our streets. Most South Africans get pretty offended by questions like this. We are a civilized country, our large and dangerous wildlife gets contained in properly fenced parks.
I use to get offended by this until I visited a few places in Canada and realized that the reason why you ask is that some of your large and dangerous wildlife does simply roam the countryside and sometimes make excursions into town.
This honestly blew my mind. What do you mean, you have bears just walking around? What the hell?
north americans don’t all encounter deadly megafauna on our porches and front lawns but it happens often enough that we all think this is a reasonable amount of gigantic animal to happen to your house. so when we think of africa we kinda imagine it like this:
like. if we had elephants here. this is what we would be putting up with on the regular. what do you mean you guys are more sensible than us.
TELL ME AGAIN HOW AUSTRALIA IS THE DEATH COUNTRY We have two spiders and (apparently) 12 snakes but we don’t have lions, bears, wildcats, AND crocodiles. We sometimes have crocodiles and large boas in certain areas. We don’t have to worry about a bear attacking our halloween decor. Or moose deciding to joust on the front lawn.
Maybe similar to Africa, America’s fear of Australia is because you all assume our wildlife is exactly as huge and space-invadey.
oh yeah i forgot about the gators
I live halfway between two large cities in a pretty damn suburban area and hearing the sentence “did you hear there was a bear* spotted on [road that is pretty built up and I don’t think of as wild at all]” only left me a little surprised. My mother once saw what she described as a coyote going to school- just walking around a university campus.
so…. yes I was absolutely picturing elephants reaching over your back yard fences for some tasty leaves.
* Ursus americanus for clarification not homosexual sapiens
Couple years ago we had a bear in the market of downtown Ottawa. Ottawa has a population of 1 million, and it made it to the largest market (byward), and had to be removed with sedatives.
There's something poetic about seeing you reblog the "TikTok is annoying and scary" post, scrolling, and literally the next post down is you reblogging a TikTok. This says a lot about the 1982 federal election
listen theres a difference between “i think this app is a horrible nightmare of a service that intentionally traps you in loops of endless scrolling that also enables the worst of online behavior along with bringing forth several infuriating trends to the online mediascape” and “hehe funny video” that was curated by at least like three people to get to me. my beef is not with funny little shortform vids, its with the platform itself and its impact.
moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.
[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]
Hawaii is not a trend. Support needs to be continuous.
There are more ways to help than just donations. Listen to locals, share their stories and support them directly.
Please support them directly.
Hawaii’s history is full of the government, military, and U.S. investors betraying Hawaii’s trust and desecrating our culture. TMT and Red Hill (Navy poisons drinking water) are just recent examples.
Another reason you should support locals directly is because some organizations like Red Cross have been treating locals like shit. Generally being uncaring or just standing around acting like security guards.
My roommate and I are disabled and trans, he is recovering from a major health crisis and I had a heart scare that landed me in the ER last night. We have been waiting on a job to get me through the onboarding process and things have just kind of gotten worse.
We need help covering my upcoming appt, our storage bill, food, and transportation. Right now the last thing I need is another appt to be paying for but it’s not something I can put off.
Dm me for proof or details
I will do art for anyone who gives $50+ just message me at my art blog @theartistrans
Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.
We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.
The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.
Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.
Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.
There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.
Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.
We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.
