I was so fucking confused by this scam at first because it's missing its demo target by so much that it's not only completely unlike any scam fake profile I've ever seen it's also actively offputting, but then I remembered while making this post that facebook is mostly for old people now
actually im having the time of my life. giggling and kicking my feet. i get a free dopamine rush from arguing and you think im crying?? lmao get some insults i havent heard a million times and maybe, maybe you'll hurt my feelings a bit. good luck tho, ive heard a lot!
i’ve complained about it before and the way it’s going, i’ll probably do it again. but i don’t like being recorded in my own home!! like yeah i’ll assert that every time no pause but i will complain about it because tell me why i have to do it soooo often
love going on facebook and reading advice posts cuz there's always some jackhole in the comments saying: "im petty so I would do xyz if this happened to me lol" and its always the like most passive aggressive, stupid ass take towards a situation where there's clearly just miscommunication or something and its like... you really thought it'd be in your favour to just admit to thousands of strangers that you're an exhausting piece of shit huh?
wish i could go back in time and shake myself and drill it in me to never, ever use my real name online and never ever comment using facebook or google.
A few years ago, I noticed that a number of factories in China had started opening TikTok accounts and posting footage from their assembly lines. The videos offered a rare glimpse into global supply chains, and millions of Western TikTok users marveled at teddy bears being stuffed with polyester fiberfill, machines dipping gardening gloves into hot liquified nitrile rubber, and quality assurance testers seeing whether cheap cigarette lighters worked. (My friend and former colleague Andrew Deck wrote a great story about factory TikTok for Rest of World in 2021.)
Since then, hundreds of other Chinese factories have joined TikTok. Some of them produce industrial equipment that would never be bought by normal people, like dump trucks or bottle labeling machines. And while the older factory accounts were often created by marketing agencies, these newer ones seem to largely be the work of earnest salespeople trying to find new customers. Many of them are relying on AI translation and text-to-speech tools, making the videos unintentionally sound very funny.
One of these manufacturers is a company called Donghua Jinlong, which is headquartered in Hebei province about 200 miles from Beijing. It sells “high quality industrial grade glycine,” a type of nutritional additive that evidently sounds silly and abstract to people who never need to think about how processed food is made. Donghua Jinglong and its glycine have become a relatively big meme on TikTok, Instagram, and X over the last few days, and some of the company’s videos are getting over 100,000 views (even though its official account only has roughly 4,400 followers).
Donghua Jinlong itself, however, doesn’t seem to have any idea what’s going on. People in the comments keep begging it to make official merch, but the company doesn’t understand why anyone would want a sweatshirt or t-shirt with the name of an industrial manufacturer on it. Shitposters have also started referencing the Donghua Jinlong meme in the comments of videos from other Chinese factories.
A company called HengYuan, for example, posted a video of what can only be described as a machine for filling Tide Pods, and one of the top comments is someone asking “Could you pack food grade glycine in this?”
Clearly baffled, HengYuan responded, “No. This is used to pack detergent in PVA Film.”
The Donghua Jinlong meme is a great microcosm of what’s actually happening on TikTok when it comes to content from China. Some people might argue that Chinese manufacturers are choosing to post on the app because its parent company, ByteDance, is also from China. In other words, these factories could be held up as an example of TikTok allowing Chinese influence to grow in the US (albeit a bizarre one).
But Donghua Jinlong also has a Facebook page with even more followers, it’s just that no one is engaging with its posts there. That’s because there are likely very few people searching social media for a new glycine supplier at any given time. TikTok, however, doesn’t rely on users to actively seek out content, it serves videos to them via an algorithm. So now tons of random people are coming across glycine manufacturers and Tide Pod machines by accident, and they’re happily turning the whole thing into a joke.
I personally find these videos to be fascinating, both because It’s cool to learn how things are made, and because they provide the opportunity to watch in real time what happens when random Chinese companies come into contact with American social media users. I don’t think this is the type of Chinese influence lawmakers are imagining when they worry about TikTok, but it’s arguably much more interesting and human.
you know I just saw a Facebook thread about "annoying chants at Eras shows" and I feel like 1, 2, 3 LGB vs all the tiktok nonsense - and the new fans not even understanding where the former came from and that making it worse - really like, sums up the difference between the fanbase then and so many fans now. like, people now want to create something with the intent of it going viral and it getting them Noticed, and 123LGB was just something that happened. a funny moment and an inside joke that grew within our community, and that's WHY it's so fun. Not some influencer sitting down and saying, "I would like to do something to get Taylor's attention" and shoehorning random phrases into the show wherever they can squeeze them.
and this is gonna sound so dumb probably but like, so many comments were like, "older fans decided to make 123 a chant, we can't make chants now?" and it's like. that's the damn thing. no one decided to make this. and you not even understanding that no one decided to make this, like you just hearing something related to Taylor and projecting what you would do onto it, without caring to learn where it actually came from, really sums the tiktok fanbase up doesn't it. I just miss things existing because they were fun, and not because people are trying to have a Moment. things weren't always like that. and hearing those new chants shouted, even if some are cute, just feels like I'm helping a tiktoker get attention, not that I'm participating in an inside joke bigger than one of us.
I feel like the Batfam are all only allowed 1 social media account for their hero identity (a rule bruce made as compromise for his kids wanting social media)
None of the bats are allowed a TikTok except babs who has an account called Gotham_Bats. Where all she does is post clips of the comms with scrolling text. Everyone is assigned a colour and modulated voice. She only posts vidios under a minute long so if she has a clip that’s longer she will post it in parts, exept she has a strict post schedule of one post a day at 4pm sharp. Everyone stopped begging for a second part bc they know it will be posted the next day.
Steph has an Instagram that Bruce made her promise to get peer reviewed before she posted anything on her story, reels, or regular posting. Not because he doesn’t trust her but absolutely bc he doesn’t trust her. She only ever gets Tim to peer review it bc she knows he will find something incriminating in the photo and she knows to edit that shit out.
Jason has a linkedin just because he thought it would be funny if he did that. He doesn’t regret his decision at all because he made it the most cursed profile ever.
Tim has a tumblr but you have to find who the real red robin is. And he doesn’t make it easy but once you know you know. (Tim gives me went to dashcon vibes Ngl)
Bruce and cass don’t have social media as their hero counterparts. Cass doesn’t have any social media full stop. And Bruce has it bc he was bullied into it.
Duke has a twitter (x whatever it’s called these days) bc he’s a daylight vigilanti people expected him to have the Insta. But no he has twitter. He answers the questions people have bc no one can find Tim’s tumblr to ask him and no one else looks at their comments.
Damian has a Facebook he has never posted to once and isn’t planning on it, everyone assumes it’s some fan account. But Damian gets bored and so he has a total of one post that says “yes I am me” with no other context. He only chose Facebook because he didn’t want to waste his one social media on something the others already had even if he never uses Facebook.
Dick has a Snapchat who like Steph isn’t allowed to post without getting peer reviewed. He always gets the closest person to him to review it esp bc they are usually in the story’s he posts. He doesn’t use the chat feature only the story feature.
The bats know they didn’t all have to choose a different social media but they find it extremely funny that they did bc if someone wants to follow and keep up with all their social medias they are gonna have to work for it. It’s also really funny the people who are searching for everyone’s social medias bc not all of them have them. And if they do they don’t look real (bc that’s the point)
this isn't smutty or anything (or it can be somehow??) but i honestly think it would be so funny if Ellie just.. googled herself 😋
I CANT STOP GIGGLING THIS IS SO SILLY AND SO HER .
lets say its modern!ellie and shes not a game character, just a goofy young adult, your roommate or something. this is a half assed drabble buut enjoyyyy<3
when she googled herself, there would definitely show up some random 40 years old ladies with the same name as her on facebook/instagram. she would scroll through them with her lips parted and wide eyes, showing you every single one. and shed be such a hater too😭 mumbling genuinely mean; "am i the only cool ellie williams?" and, i swear, its not like she does it on purpose. its just the things that come up to her head - hateful, highschool boys-type of comments. or the most random things (kinda like the headcanons tumblr writers make about her); "do you think her husband left her? she looks sad. i wouldnt blame him, tho" or "she looks like she cried while watching titanic" and when you nudge her, hissing; "i cried on titanic!" shed be sooo clueless. "i didnt say its a bad thing, did i? ....... but its weird."
she would be actually so invested — suddenly sitting up with a gasp when she reads that an ellie williams' (other williams, not her, of course) daughter died. "oh no!! she was my namesake's kid!! she would definitely be a genius if she got to grow up.. maybe she'd find the cure for cancer? or, even better, be an astronaut!!!"
CHARACTERS : captain price, ghost, soap, gaz, and alejandro
WARNINGS : non, this is literally me just making fun of what i think.
AUTHOR'S NOTE : idek what led me to thinking what phones do they even have.
JOHN PRICE :
; this man would have a nokia and not give a fuck about it, he's walking around with a heavy looking ass nokia from the ancient times and won't give a shit about everyone.
gaz and soap would 100 % make fun of him behind his back and would literally died laughing if they saw price using it, HIM AND SOAP WOULD JUST GO "HAHAHAHAHA" and price would look at them up and down judging their whole living and they would go "don't laugh,you can't laugh." to each other.
in the end of the day, gaz decided to give price a new phone and thought him how to use it like a grandpa and grandchild typa bonding.
GHOST :
; he probably doesn't have a phone but soap decided to convince him having one and he did, he definitely don't know what to get and price suggested for him to get a nokia. No jokes.
He wouldn't find it funny at all but he thinks that phone is reliable about everything since he's not the type of guy to be in the internet or bugging around taking photos of whatever. So he did buy one, not just the one that looks like nokia from ancient times that price has.
"what the hell" soap would die laughing seeing him having a keypad phone and ghost would be just "😐" like he doesn't give a fuck at all he wouldn't care what people think using that kind of phone these days.
He definitely had a black keypad phone.
SOAP :
; he definitely has a black iphone x, i can feel it and i can sense it.
he isn't the type of person to buy a new phone if the one he currently have is still working, he's the type of guy who would say "what do i need a new phone for?" then has a broken screen.
His phone would be filled with candid photos of ghost, price and anyone in the base and laughs about it at night. Definitely takes photos like a Facebook mom, ghod with that sunglasses. He felt so fucking superior about it.
HE PLAYS CLASH OF CLANS AND CANDY CRUSH ‼️
gaz would show him the new features of the recent iphones and would be convinced to buy a new one.
GAZ :
; this man would have two phones, Samsung and iPhone. He probably has some of the recent models but if the one he uses still working he wouldn't mind buying a new one.
definitely play games like shooting games or so whatever.
he would take photos of some aesthetic type scenery shit and would be so freaking proud of it, has an Instagram account and would post photos like this :
would be an internet all around guy.
(OUT OF TOPIC BUT I AM INLOVE WITH ELLIOT KNIGHT ‼️😍🥰😘)
ALEJANDRO :
; definitely has an iphone, I don't have a specific imagination what model though but i think he will be just like soap. If it's still working then he'll stick with it 🤷🏻♀️
definitely has photos of rudy and him in his phone, has dog photos too that he shows off to rudy.
HAS DATING APPS NO JOKE.
He loves selfies C'MON LIKE he be posing and feels so freaking hot about it, DEFINITELY SHOWS IT TO RUDY YES.
Has an Instagram and post photos like this :
DAD SELFIES FOREVER RAHHHH 🤯😵
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