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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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And? I put in thousands of hours of video games and TV.
Tiktok is going to be the video games will rot your brain of this generation.
I don't know, seems like TikTok may actually be doing that though. The format completely destroys attention spans, it spies on you for the Chinese, and is a huge propaganda machine.
Video games don't do any of those things and at least with TV, you have to pay enough attention for 20 minutes to an hour to get anything out of it.
there is a ton of propaganda in TV too. And even on videogames, to a lesser extent. An example, the other day my niece was playing FarCry 6 and when I read about the story it was clearly American anti-Cuba propaganda, appropriating "revolutionary fighters" that fight to make Cuba a capitalist democracy.
Edit: just for clarification, I do not support the Cuban government, but neither I do support the US and how historically they've wanted to make Cuba one of their satellite countries.
It's a bit different because the short videos are algorithmically targeted for individuals, as opposed to the viewpoints just being broadcast. This makes it much easier to manipulate people in specific ways