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So Adrien Brody flings gum at his girlfriend on live television for millions of people to see and her dumbass even tries to catch it... and if you watch the clip, he throws it at her like she's a dog, like she's his little servant. He does this after he wins an Oscar. Now he's a big boy with his second big award after decades of irrelevancy and he gets to spit on her lmao. And now she looks like an idiot too.

Like I said, they're really the most overrated gender.

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Reminder to everyone coming from the tiktok ban: no matter how hard it is that you want to see content of people talking about it, DO NOT go to meta apps RESIST FB AND INSTA. This is what they (oligarchs) want. Fuck them.

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Mourning Tiktok in a “brain rot” way, but also in a “the continual loss of information, creations, and a visual record of human activity via direct government interference breaks me as historian” way.

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i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

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I’m blocking you if you start sucking his dick after he brings it back in two days btw

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I think the wildest thing about the TikTok Ban is that TikTok decided to adhere to it beyond the letter of the law.

They bent their knee willingly and gave up space and a platform they did not have to. They consciously decided to fuck over their user base when there was no valid reason for them to do so.

I've seen people talking about how you absolutely do not want to obey ahead of authority, and to see TikTok do it is... weird. It's unsettling. It feels like a dangerous stunt.

Specifically, it feels performative. It's got the marks of a Great Drama™, and given Trump's first 4 years and his absolutely bonkers love for theatrics over anything else, this just feels hollow. Like TikTok is trying to turn it's - generally younger - user base into "fans" of the republicans.

They can't really scoop up youths any other way, honestly. But using a big impactful story and putting Trump as the "hero" who saves their beloved platform.

It's not even the 20th and I just don't like how this new administration is starting. I do not like a private company complying beyond the letter of the law in advance of that law either. Because the only thing the law laid down was that they couldn't update the app on Apple and Google.

There wouldn't have been any fines or legal ramifications.

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Despite the ban the american accounts are still up -for now- and i still see them in my fyp. Y'all are like little sparkling stars drifting into space. Your light can still reach us even if you're gone

You may feel alone and disconnected at the moment, but we still see you and can hear your voice

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I touched on this in my paper that discusses how the changing social media landscape will effect disaster management, but one of the biggest changes as we move forward is that we are not seeing the embracing of the changing landscape on a wide scale.

And what I mean by that is many websites still have a Twitter button or a place to put your Twitter link in your profile. You're damn lucky if you can find an icon set that has Bluesky, forget it if you want Threads or Mastodon. Want to add some links to your other profiles? Well half the built in options are dead now.

Social media sites are no longer integrated with the rest of the web, they are isolated pockets. It used to be each site had it's Thing but then they all decided they need to have All The Things, and that, I think, is when the break really started to happen. The internet stopped being "build your own experience" and became "take the experience we give you." The lack of anyone bothering to try and integrate things across the board shows that.

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even if tiktok comes back it wont be the same. it will probably have new content restrictions, rules, terms of service, and will probably be made worse for the consumer and better for advertisers. this is the end of an era

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watching in horror as i scroll through tiktok and video start to freeze or not load at all. profile pictures disappear. i am unable to leave likes. i felt like watching the ship sink.

i crawl back to tumblr on my hands and knees.

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it happened :(

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I feel bad for whatever tech person at TikTok had to be the one to pull the plug. To program in that off switch. That's gotta be such a shitty feeling.

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Yeah it is a stunt and it’s a stunt we can blame democrats for too. Like they didn’t have to vote for that bill and tiktok wouldn’t have sucked up to trump. They blatantly accelerated a rise in facism.

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“fortunate” and “president trump” being in the same sentence when i open the tiktok app was absolutely not on my 2025 bingo card

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so when trump takes office on monday and “saves tiktok” with a 90 day extension on the tiktok ban decision, then during that period mark zuckerberg “suddenly” decided to buy tiktok and have meta absorb it, then what.

trump created this problem when he introduced the tiktok ban in his first term and he’s going to take credit for “solving” it now. the tiktok ceo made a video thanking trump for “understanding the app” then the error message says we are grateful to trump for working with us on this ?? AND he’s invited to sit front row at the inauguration??? oh also new facebook/tiktok integrations popping up today ???

trump’s dick is in the tiktok ceo’s mouth the deal is already done