I wonder where this framing of people as narcissists and talking about narc abuse is on the popularity curve. It's not fully mainstream... but from being some niche lens ten years ago, it's something I see people refer to everywhere I go online now. I think people like categories of personality that they can ascribe to other people to make their actions more explicable.
I wouldn't be surprised if TikTok's algo organically promotes drama, in that that's it creates self-replicating engagement: once you're down a rabbit hole and watch two videos on some drama, you're way more likely to engage with loads more of it, which in turn boosts the chances of the algo putting it on other people's feeds.
More broadly, if Twitter is an engine for arguments (by constantly presenting decontextualised in-group language to hostile out-groups), and maybe Facebook is an engine for conspiracy... maybe obsessive drama is what TikTok most promotes.
I might be wrong! Only, I've seen a lot of people online, some people in person, and no people on mainstream media talk about it. That might say more about my media diet than about how in use a set of concepts are.
I agree that the VF article is "early majority," e.g. Bezos retweeting it with a noncommittal statement that it was interesting (not "OMG Nazis!"). For what it's worth as an observer, I'd propose spring 2020 as the "early adopter" moment, since (frankly) that's when I noticed: Bannon going on Red Scare was when I first thought something might be happening in the broader counterculture.
As one of the older readers I confess that these dramas do sound interesting. But in all honesty, they don’t seem to match the dopamine high of dancing next two sorority girls to Tainted Love in the 1980’s. “Oh baby, baby, where did our love go…”
"Normie" is a useless word, utterly bereft of meaning. Nobody is normal.
I wonder where this framing of people as narcissists and talking about narc abuse is on the popularity curve. It's not fully mainstream... but from being some niche lens ten years ago, it's something I see people refer to everywhere I go online now. I think people like categories of personality that they can ascribe to other people to make their actions more explicable.
I wouldn't be surprised if TikTok's algo organically promotes drama, in that that's it creates self-replicating engagement: once you're down a rabbit hole and watch two videos on some drama, you're way more likely to engage with loads more of it, which in turn boosts the chances of the algo putting it on other people's feeds.
More broadly, if Twitter is an engine for arguments (by constantly presenting decontextualised in-group language to hostile out-groups), and maybe Facebook is an engine for conspiracy... maybe obsessive drama is what TikTok most promotes.
Hmm. I wonder too, re: narc abuse. I'm surprised you don't think it's fully mainstream now
I might be wrong! Only, I've seen a lot of people online, some people in person, and no people on mainstream media talk about it. That might say more about my media diet than about how in use a set of concepts are.
It won't stop, I won't come down
I keep stock with the TikTok algorithm, a bump for the drop
And then I bumped up, I took the FYP that I was given
Then I bumped again, then I bumped again
I said
How do I get back there to the place where I fell for Caleb's "luv u's"
How do I get myself back to the place where you said
I want something else to get me to this selfie-harmed kinda life
Baby, baby I want something else, be doom-scrolling 'til you say, goodbyyyyyye
I agree that the VF article is "early majority," e.g. Bezos retweeting it with a noncommittal statement that it was interesting (not "OMG Nazis!"). For what it's worth as an observer, I'd propose spring 2020 as the "early adopter" moment, since (frankly) that's when I noticed: Bannon going on Red Scare was when I first thought something might be happening in the broader counterculture.
As one of the older readers I confess that these dramas do sound interesting. But in all honesty, they don’t seem to match the dopamine high of dancing next two sorority girls to Tainted Love in the 1980’s. “Oh baby, baby, where did our love go…”
Did you actually see someone reading Bronze Age Mindset in Dolores Park? That's like something that would happen in a dream.
A lot of people in tech were reading it + Google Trends seem to indicate it was pretty f. popular for a minute
(to answer your question: yes)
It's going to be interesting to see how your TikTok lolcow trends emulate KiwiFarms, with the moral absolution of "not being on KiwiFarms".
LOL
GENIUS!
Thank you!!!