#i blame youtube and tiktok reviewers

[ai-yo]

I really hate the fanfic-ifcation of books as in the way how people describe them

Like how people say "this book has enemies to lovers, found family, coffee shop lesbians"

Babes those are search terms, that is literally what you enter into a search bar on fanfiction.net and ao3 and wattpad to find the fic you are looking for.

I also hate how when talking about a book they use short hand pitching as if talking to an agent, publisher or TV/film executive "this book is like Earthsea set in a dystopian far future" "it's like avatar the last airbender but African" "lesbian sky pirates nuff said" and that's it no follow up no real synopsis.

The reason why some fic can go without a real synopsis is because we already know the story and characters and can cut to the chase. "Rae and Kelly finally talk, after *THAT* scene in episode 2x08"

That makes sense because we know the context, nobody knows your book ma'am.

[taviokapudding]

Simon's joke of "soup of theseus" is so damn good & way more layered than most people think.

Okay so first- what is the ship of Theseus?

So amongst his many misadventures and legends the ship of theseus was a ship the Athenians believed connected them to the divine living person that was Theseus. The thing is, he was maybe Poseidon's adopted kid/the King if Athen's son and probably not real (or at least if he did his misadventures were super exaggerated as royals = divity stories are) but the fate the Athenians had for him & Apollo (the 6 labors is a fun legend that explains their connection and what the original ship may have been) was so intense, they would constantly give maintence as a form of religious worship to said ship on the island of Delos (where Apollo's most sacred sancutary is) every year it would dock to pay respects.

Btw we don't need to know the specifics of Theseus but he did infamously slay a minotar and Finn did have a good exchange with the Mannish Man to get the enchiridion aka the book that sets Betty & Simon on the paths they are on now so that's neat af

So if you've ever heard about the ship of Theseus being paradox- it comes from the critique that's always existed about that ship's maintenance & religious practices tldr if you are constantly replacing each rotted and borken part of a ship, is it still the same ship?

The soup is a paradox like the ship

That paradox exists in many many scifi and adventure stories like the Nier series & Ghost in the Shell but in this instance we got to first look at the joke literally. Farm world's Finn's wife's soup is the same as the ship. The original soup farm world HW made no longer exists on a technicality, but the way Finn and his kids continue to add on and consume the soup is exactly like the Athenians. It's about the intent of carrying on the memory and keeping the soup around to honor the dead rather than the soup's original recipe {which also is incredibly sad & imples that farmworld Finn is both coping and never learned the original soup recipe}. It's a beautiful way to honor their dead mom/wife and it makes you wonder if that Finn did die if his kids will continue the practice.

But the paradox goes beyond the soup & into our reality

A lot of people have noticed that Fionna's last name is Campbell and Campbells is a real soup brand that would've been around before the great mushroom war. When Marceline gets sick as a kid, Simon goes great lenghts to get her chicken soup- that only worked out because the primordial version of the Mother Gum assisting {which is extreme Bubbeline foreshadowing}. And in that scene the can low key is a campbell design. But what if I told you there's more?

In Cheers, the tv show Simon is seen constantly watching and referencing throughout the original run of Adventure Time & in the recent Fionna and Cake had Carla Tortelli work at a Canpbell's Factory.

Neat references aside the soup ends the moment the main trio hit the remote button and I have a BA in psychology & interest in childrens media and entertainment that I want to milk for once. Metaphorical intention is beyond relevant episode specifics but actually the foundation of Fionna and Cake when it comes to the paradox.

Simon making the soup of Theseus joke is the main problem Fionna and Cake has to address

If Simon can summon his & Prismo's au from his head without proper MMS (Magic, Madness, and Sadness) where does Simon the human start and Ice King end?

As viewers who grew up alongside the series, the majority of 25+ watchers are finding Simon, older Finn, and Fionna painfully relatable because good fucking god we are all traumatized because of the ongoing pandemic.

If you want to focus on the main topic you can skip this part. But if you want to get very serious for a minute, please stay. The majority of people wont to accept what I just said about the pandemic being ongoing because global governments pretending the pandemic is over, the rise of depression and escapism in real time at a social level at a global level but especially in the US where the series is being made, and the daily interactions we have with most people refusing to mask up {with a violent reaction} when there still isn't a cure for COVID has created the perfect enviroment for most people to not accept change or crave extreme change. Fionna and Cake tackles these 2 very common forms of how depression tends to manifest when it's not fully manic to be displayed through Simon (self isolation from poor coping due to loss, detachment from society, dwelling on the past to the point it effects social interactions, extreme forms of religious practice, etc.) and Fionna/Finn (pretending everything is fine, avoidance, going through the bare minimum motions to survive, escapsim and dream of grandure, not caring about sel preservation, no/lack of self control with sweets/coffee, etc.). And I've noted there's a subset of AT viewers who don't relate or find the depections too real to the point they're upset the show's tone isn't as light hearted as AT. The thing is when a global disabling event happens, unless you were under 10 when it happened and even then it's a 50/50 because you probably did lose or know somebody who did die these last several years, you will have some kind of trauma response to it whether you like it or not. Hell, some of you unknowlingly have a gap in your memory about 2020 specifically due to inconsistent sleep schedules that have nothing to do with the shrinking of the brain mass COVID causes that we all call "brain fog" and now that I pointed it out you're probably going to go stare at a wall for 5 mins {sorry btw, doubly if you have long COVID and this is how you found out what brain fog partially is}. As someone who's been dealing with depression since I was a child, it's okay to be not okay given the last several years and doubly if you've been conscious long enough to see the US freefall into fascism too {which I hope encourages those who weren't aware that's been happening to go look into that because we can't get into it right now}. Because I unfortunately know what manic depression can look like - if you find yourself relating to Simon a little too much during ep 3, please talk to somebody who is licensed and trained to do so {not me, I haven't done suicide prevention work since 2017 and am not licensed- I genuienly won't be enough of a resource} okay? Don't throw away yourself nor change yourself for others only. You need to work to accept the past, move on to live in the present, and change yourself for yourself. It won't be easy and resources are out there to not do it alone, alright?

Becuase of how paradoxial and fluid mental health (espeically undiagnosed depression) can be and how AT has it's own version with MMS, could Simon have unconscious MMS still because of Betty's with without a battery but can't tap into it because of his mental state? And could Ice King as we once knew him even be considered a proper person Simon could return too?

The original wish of why Ice King's appearance & abilities is the way it is IS because of Evergreen's impression on Gunter {Evergreen was one of the ice elementals of the past btw- go watch the original Adventure Time for that context}. So Ice King isn't even an original character, just the crown building off the wishes and manifestations of each bearer by emulating a warped version of Evergreen. And that's the main reason why I speculate Ice Thing aka Gunter the Penguin is chill af to the point he got married and can exist with less gems. His wish didn't build off of power to protect Marceline (Simon) nor the power to copy Evergreen (Original Gunter).

As the main trio jump from connected universe to connected universe, more Simons and crowns will appear that are even more removed from our Ooo's crown and it's version of Ice King or Ice Prince or Winter King will only manifest because of the prior and current wishes made. So if Simon does get a crown that isn't the Ooo crown, will the Ice King that once existed even be THE Ice King he wants to be? And will Simon want to be Ice King or an Ice King when the trio do return to his Ooo?

The crown and it's many versions is a paradox that can only be resolved if Simon and Fionna can work together but also set aside their depression to address what they both really want and what that wish's intention will do to themselves and those around them. In short, shit's deep

I applaud the team for Fionna and Cake for tackling such a layered problem and I'm excited to see how Simon's soup of emotions, Fionna's growth, & magic crown of Theseus is addressed.

[ddlcbrainrot]

Monika, as we all know, has a Twitter that we can actually follow and stuff. But she is definitely also a Pinterest girlie 100% i will not be taking any notes on this thank you very much

Sayori used Instagram the most, its great for socialising with your friends ect. Then Tiktok came out, which is basically the social media for people with no attention span, aka Sayori's one weakness. You cant really blame her for getting just a tad bit too into it

Yuri ive never really though would use any kind of social media, at least not excessively. Maybe she'd watch book reviews on Youtube, but thats the most i thought she would use social media. And then @heartbeatbookclub made a post sometime back abt Yuri being a discord mod and i cannot believe i didnt think of this sooner. She canonically plays DND, i could definitely see her having a discord server for it and everything + she mentions having online friends and in my experience most online friends talk through discord

Natsuki uses Tumblr. Or, she did back in middle school. Then her friends started to make fun of her for it and she switched to Insta. She also mentions having online friends so her having a discord account isn't that far fetched. Maybe she watches Tiktoks from time to time, not that she would admit that however

MC is a Redditor.

[angelshizuka]

Wish is getting... polarizing reception (not unlike the Last Jedi, but that's none of my business).

So, I'm just asking... how long until people switch up and go "Oh boy Wish isn't that bad!!!"?

ESPECIALLY from the ones who posted YouTube and TikTok videos that negatively reviewed it after one viewing.

I barely know anything about nor pay attention to Star Wars, so can't say anything about that comparison.

Though I am sure at least some YouTubers only jump on the "Wish bad" train because it's the trending topic right now, I did notice some people who don't commonly review movies, still made a video just because of how bad Wish is (and honestly, I can't blame them). But it wouldn't suprise me if Wish becomes an "underrated classic" at some point in the future.

And I'm ngl, I love watching the videos completely tearing down Wish, I absolutely live for how widely hated it is, because Disney needs a god damn wake up call after Wish being the literal manifestiation of what's been wrong with this company.

[quoteablebooks]

Genre: Fiction, Adult, Contemporary Romance

Rating: 5 out of 5

Content Warning: Death of a parent, Grief, Sexual content, Cancer, Infidelity, Child abuse  

Summary:

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.

*Opinions*

I know I say this at the start of almost every review, but this read was influenced by social media. However, I do think that almost everyone heard of Beach Read when it came out in 2020 so I can’t blame Tiktok and Youtube for this one too much. Beach Read follows January Andrews and Augustus Everett, two writers that are suffering from a number of crises in their lives as well as writer's block. There is also the added issue that January has always seen Gus, as he went by in college, as her writing rival because he dismissed her writing of women’s fiction and romance for his high-brow literature. One ill-fated book club meeting later and a deal is struck, they will both attempt to write a novel in the other’s genre. Whichever book sells first gets the bragging rights. However, living next door to her college rival, whom she spent one steamy frat party dance with while dealing with digging up all the secrets of her father’s past might be too much for even disillusioned January Andrews to handle. 

This was a five-star read for me and there were only a couple of hiccups in the story that I found. However, because I read this book three years after it was released, I had also been warned that there were some heavier topics in the novel that had such a light-hearted title. I can see how some people would have been taken off guard when they thought they were going into a light-hearted romance and were hit with a lot of not light-hearted issues. In the Author’s Note, Henry stated that she didn’t write a romance novel, so perhaps it was the marketing team that got it wrong. That being said, I really enjoyed that there was a lot going on in both January and Gus’s lives aside from their jobs and their evolving feelings for one another. It made them feel real and well-rounded. It also made some of their miscommunication make more sense than just ‘they won’t talk to each other’. 

I related to January a lot more than I thought I would. While I don’t have a box of gin and an agent breathing down my neck for a new novel, the way her thought process played out was very familiar. While my outlook on the world might not be as happy and optimistic as January’s, I think I still try to find the happy ending, or at least the satisfying ending, in all the stories I tell myself in my head. Gus, at times, was a little too brooding, but understandable once you learn more about his background and past relationships. He also had some great romantic lines in this novel. 

The one gripe I had was that there were numerous miscommunications that, while cleared up usually pretty quickly, seemed to fall into a predictable rhythm. Gus would grow distant, January would blow it out of proportion (relatable) and then she would get emotional and he would comfort her. As someone with anxiety, my mind is constantly telling me that everyone hates me and will never talk to me again, but reading about it multiple times in a novel does get a little old. Luckily, I liked the characters enough and cared about their arcs enough that it didn’t really dampen my enjoyment of the novel. One more time and it probably would have knocked the novel down a star rating. 

Overall, I think that this is an interesting novel that takes a look at love and how our perception of our loved ones can change over time. How relationships don’t have to be perfect to be right for you. This isn’t a perfect novel, but it was perfect for me at the time I was reading it so it is a five-star read. I would suggest checking out the content warnings before going in though, so you aren’t caught off guard. 

[theriverdalereviewer]

I am so relieved that you haven't fallen for this obvious propaganda of the AH/JD trail. I would never wish violence on anyone, but after seeing the constant state of videos pushed and memes about this... I want violence now. The amount of White women making jokes at her expense is making me think that true crime as a genre of content was a fucking mistake.

Honestly so many people have fallen for the propaganda and a part of me doesn’t blame them because Johnny Depp’s team and his brainwashed fans have put so much effort into slandering Amber that some people have NO idea what the truth is. But that’s why people need to actually research the case!!! And I don’t mean TikTok’s or YouTube but actually look into the trial and review the evidence and decide for yourself who is guilty (spoiler 99% of people realize it’s Johnny). And man I despise that washed up rat Johnny Depp, that unprofessional troll we call a lawyer Camille Vasquez, and everyone of his supporters who have spent the last two years weaponizing blatant misogyny to convince a victim of domestic violence is the abuser. The fact that so many incels have taken Johnny’s side and his female supporters are convinced that this is about holding female abusers accountable like DO YOU REALIZE WHAT IS HAPPENING??? And YES true crime content needs to be banned like I don’t care. There’s something sick about watching these stories of real people (mostly women) brutally tortured and killed by sociopaths and finding it fascinating and painting the killers as these charming intelligent handsome men when in reality they’re just privileged and the police are incompetent. That kind of content has just led people to think of serious issues as entertainment.

[toshootforthestars]

From the report by Beth Mole, posted 19 July 2021:

Fully vaccinated people are largely protected from delta; the current vaccines are still highly effective against developing COVID-19 from delta and other variants of concern. Though a small proportion of people can develop so-called “breakthrough infections,” those infections will mostly be asymptomatic or mild. But, unvaccinated people are completely vulnerable. Moreover, those who have received only one dose of a two-dose vaccine or have only recovered from COVID-19 are not much better off than those who are completely unvaccinated.

But according to new polling data from CBS News, a new wave of vaccinations seems unlikely. Among unvaccinated and partly vaccinated people, only 48% said they are concerned about delta. Among fully vaccinated people, 72% reported being concerned about the variant.

Despite the fact that the current COVID-19 vaccines have proven highly effective and safe, 53% of those who are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated said in the poll that they are concerned about side effects. 50% of the group cited a lack of trust in the government as a reason not to get vaccinated. And 45% said they don’t trust the science. All of these percentages are higher than they have been in earlier polls, indicating that these anti-vaccine sentiments are hardening among the unvaccinated.

Some unvaccinated people who may be more persuadable have said they are waiting for the vaccines to receive full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (currently, they are authorized by the FDA under an emergency use authorization). On Friday, Pfizer and BioNTech said that the FDA had granted them a Priority Review designation for their mRNA vaccine, but they didn’t expect a decision on full approval until January 2022. Currently, vaccine providers are administering only around 520,000 COVID-19 vaccine per day, down from a record of 4.6 million in a day in April.

With over 161 million people vaccinated, only 48.6% of the US population is fully vaccinated.

See also: How much COVID misinformation is on Facebook? Its execs don’t want to know

For years, misinformation has flourished on Facebook. Falsehoods, misrepresentations, and outright lies posted on the site have shaped the discourse on everything from national politics to public health. But despite their role in facilitating communications for billions of people, Facebook executives refused to commit resources to understand the extent to which COVID-19-related misinformation pervaded its platform, according to a report in The New York Times.

Early in the pandemic, a group of data scientists at Facebook met with executives to propose a project that would determine how many users saw misleading or false information about COVID. It wasn’t a small task—they estimated that the process could take up to a year or more to complete—but it would give the company a solid understanding of the extent to which misinformation spread on its platform.

The executives listened to the data scientists’ pitch and then reportedly ghosted them.

The data team’s proposal wasn’t approved, and they were never given an explanation for why it was silently dropped.

The revelations come as Facebook has drawn fire from the White House for its role in the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccines that prevent it. “They’re killing people,” President Joe Biden said about the role of social networks in the spread of misinformation. “Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. They’re killing people.”

Biden later walked back his comments slightly, but they revealed the administration’s frustration with social media platforms—and with Facebook in particular—over their response to the pandemic.

For weeks, the White House pressed Facebook for details on how the company is combating COVID vaccine misinformation. The social network offered some details but gave unsatisfying answers to other requests.

Facebook’s unwillingness or inability to understand the scope of COVID misinformation on its platform was apparent in comments it gave to The New York Times, in which it blamed its nescience on the lack of a “standard definition” for pandemic-related misinformation. “The suggestion we haven’t put resources toward combating COVID misinformation and supporting the vaccine rollout is just not supported by the facts,” said Dani Lever, a Facebook spokeswoman.

“With no standard definition for vaccine misinformation, and with both false and even true content (often shared by mainstream media outlets) potentially discouraging vaccine acceptance, we focus on the outcomes—measuring whether people who use Facebook are accepting of COVID-19 vaccines.”

For researchers who study misinformation, that explanation isn’t sufficient. “They need to open up the black box that is their content ranking and content amplification architecture,“ Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, told The New York Times. “Take that black box and open it up for audit by independent researchers and government. We don’t know how many Americans have been infected with misinformation.”

Me: 

This situation is extremely bad!

First off, the individuals that aren’t getting vaccinated just do not care to. They’ve bought hook line and sinker into all the disinfo and misinfo on facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok, reddit, and/or whatever 8chan replacement one choosed. What they see and read reinforces their pre-conceived (and factually incorrect) views that “experts” “really don’t know shit about anything” and thusly are “blowing things way the fuck outta proportion,” etc. Their views are both informed by, and reinforced by:

what they read and see online

what they hear on FM/AM radio

what they watch on broadcast TV

what their friends and communities consume from media

what the prevailing societal and political attitudes in one’s community are

“rugged individualism” and the post-1980 erosion of the social contract

So, if your fb friends are covid truthers, if the on-air personalities you hear on the radio at work are covid truthers, if your neighbors and friends at werk are covid truthers, if the elected leaders are covid truthers, if the snippets of Fox News you get to see randomly are pushing covid truther disinfo, and if those in your inner circle at that 4th of July party you went to are covid truthers, then you yourself, at a minimum from peer pressure, will dismiss the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, scores of hospital operators, plus countless professionals in medicine and epidemiology in your decision not to get vaccinated, nor to mask up indoors in public even when “recommended”.

“I have rights. I know what’s really going on. I’ve got things figured out.”  Or, at a minimum, “I don’t give a fuck either way.” “Fuck you.”

Facebook absolutely is responsible for the covid truther disinfo and misinfo being shared on their platform.  I believe they are the largest vector of disinformation and misinformation to the public. So many people are chugging the “vaccines are a scam, masks don’t work and I have rights” kool-aid thanks to disinfo introduced and shared widely on facebook

Some other major vectors of disinfo: iHeartMedia - Premiere Networks - iHeartRadio, Entercom/Audacy, Westwood One, One America News, Fox News, Newsmax, Sinclair Broadcast Group, YouTube + Google, TikTok, and Reddit.

“I saw a video on YouTube where the military did a study…”  or “I heard a guy on the radio saying mask mandates are part of a plot…”  It's all bullshit!

At this point it cannot be anything but an active choice the leadership at these companies consciously make to pipe out total bullshit in a time of crisis. Content from all of the above easily makes its way to facebook, too, unrestricted!

The U.S continues to spiral into this post fact, post truth, anti-intellectual, anti-science neo-fascist hellscape where no lives matter and where mass death is AOK because “none of us get out of this world alive” or some asshat folksy quip that masks as wisdom.  Empathy, reasoning, established facts and observable reality have all become political statements… People hear what they want to hear.

IMO this is truly a disastrous situation with no easy way out.

Many, many people will not wear masks again.  Many, many people see the survival rate for coronavirus and they surmise wrongly that the risk for them of getting covid is worth it, that the risk for others isn’t remotely their concern, and that the entire situation is overblown. The social contract is in bad shape. Public confidence in the state is almost gone. Covid truthers are everywhere.

Getting a vaccine requires time off from work to travel to a mass vax site that’s still open, time off to recoup post-shot (if necessary), and overcoming fear that the anti-vax disinfo on social media was true after all. Plus overcoming peer pressure from unvaccinated friends and family.

Covid case numbers are likely undercounts. Test kits are still problematic. Persons with no health insurance have no PCP to call when they get sick. Underinsured persons may have to wait weeks for their approved PCP to get around to a telehealth call. Many people are getting sick and not getting tested and they’re not reporting anything to anyone. State officials, wanting to look good, may skew whatever data is reported to them.

COVID-19 is an airborne virus. Most people catch covid from contagious asymptomatic people. Coronavirus has always been a risk for children! Getting vaccinated is part of an overall good strategy to keep COVID-19 at bay. Masks work!!! If indoors, stay in a ventilated room if you’re with other people, and keep doors and windows open for air circulation. Coronavirus is producing extremely serious long-term cognitive and cardiovascular complications for many people who survive it. “Long covid” is real.

We don’t have to live with this! The political and business leadership in much of the United States today have collectively decided there’s nothing that can or should be done in regards to covid-19, no masking requirements, no easy supplies of N95 masks, and no mitigation efforts of any kind. They wrongly conclude that COVID-19, a new virus with so many unknowns, “isn’t that bad” and so the level of permanent damage or death resulting from covid is acceptable.

None of this is acceptable, the amount of permanent damage and death occurring from COVID-19 is far, far too high, and there’s no rational excuse whatsoever to allow this virus to spread across this country unchecked. There’s no reason to allow this virus to spread further. There’s no valid reason for me and anyone else to justify allowing covid to spread out of control.

[yxung-tree]

dear younger me,

fuck you.

why did you have to fucking give me iron deficiency dude like gahdamn nigga eat better. it’s not even a persistent thing, it’s just randomly i get the symptoms.

anyways today was shit and i was in bed most of the day, i couldn’t even be productive fr. i didn’t do any language shit, i didn’t do my driving school, i didn’t work on my MUN stuff (we will get to that). instead i laid in bed and watched a k-drama and some youtube.

speaking of which it got me thinking about my ex. (yeah you get bitches eventually. we’ll get to it eventually but long story short you’re kinda hot now) i don’t have feelings for them anymore and i know they feel the same way, but we are still close friends. i re-visited our breakup and it got me thinking about how badly i was bottling my feelings up back then. it took me 2 months to even write anything about it. not because i couldn’t bring myself to but because i just didn’t want to. idk why. at least i got it out of my system tho. oh yeah i forgot to tell you i’m a writer now. again i’ll get to how everything is the way it is in due time alright? i promise.

but yeah i also did another album review today so that was pretty cool. i filmed a tiktok too and i finally managed to write something, i think i’m getting over my writer’s block. i also sang a bit for a friend hopefully she likes it

i wanna talk to you about sand mountain. yeah i mean the girl you were crushing over that had the most obvious code name in all of human history. you and tarek need to do better fr. you will tho dw. but yeah idk how you were so persistent it was so obvious she never liked you. that shit u pulled on valentine’s day was mad corny too lmfao what got into you? i mean i can’t blame you she is really pretty even to this day. i’m glad you got over her tho fr it was beyond time. unrelated but do you remember that alex fierro character that you read about in that magnus chase book? yeah they’re going to be extremely important to realizing who you are. honestly i don’t know how you realized sooner

i’ll tell you what happens next tomorrow. it’s a bit of a funny story but it involves someone who is known as two dots.

[momonetmoproblems]

On Clout Nine

The Dangers of Social Media Pranks and Social Experiments

Have you ever seen something on social media and the only thing that your mind can come up with is “Why?!”

A popular saying on social media platform, Twitter, in response to the often obscene and unabashedly done acts and statements made is

“Clout is a dangerous drug”.

Lately, it seems like a lot of attention-deprived people on social media are trying to do the most shameful, extreme, scandalous, or ostentatious things for the rewards of the potential impact on each platform.

Clout is traditionally defined as influence in politics or business, but that definition has evolved to encapsulate having influence in online communities and, more accurately, wanting attention on social media. 

Over 2 million Instagram posts have been tagged #clout, videos with the same tag have gained over 3.7 billion views on TikTok and, words such as cloutchaser (Bamidele, 2019), clout check and cloutlighting (Nagesh, 2018) have been coined. The word even inspired an app of the same name — “Klout”, a service which boldly displayed one’s social media interactions and engagements in the form of an algorithm generated figure (Edwards et al., 2013.) And, had that platform survived, people would have definitely found a way to wear their scores on their foreheads if they could or add it to their résumé. (Hello, influencer marketing is the present and the future.)

From licking ice-cream straight from the tubs and putting them back in the freezer to persons falling to their deaths from seven-story buildings after failed Planking Challenge attempts (Shears, 2011) or YouTubers dying from a close range shot to the chest during a stunt with a Desert Eagle handgun (Brantley, 2018), so many people across the world are craving the fleeting sensations of clout.

Users will therefore use a sensationalized headline or caption, clickbait, to garner as many clicks or interactions with their content as possible in tandem with the already obnoxious or shocking display, and people fall for it every time. It’s like those completely obvious magazines in supermarkets from the early 2000s that you find yourself picking up even though you KNOW the headline is a trap!

(Just look at these stories. I mean, 2006 Me is SHOOK!)

The development of the internet and social media has created new opportunities for using pranks and social experiments as a veiled means of accumulating clicks and engagement by social media users. This clout manifests in the form of likes, quote tweets and retweets, subscriptions, reposts, shares, among other tools. Stacey Koosel, in The Renegotiated Self: Social Media’s Effects on Identity, states that this need for attention, to share and be a contributing part of the online community:

...motivates people to share more with each other in hopes of entertaining their audience and receiving positive reinforcement or reception of the content they posted, and in doing so, creating a sense of camaraderie or community.

Therefore, according to Koosel, some Internet users engage in “electronic exhibitionism” in an effort to lure as much attention as possible, and become celebrities by the careful construction of their online identity.

While pranks and social experiments can be a good laugh or even eye-opening, in the form of social commentary or satire, sometimes, things go a little too far. These pranksters tend to get so high off of the fame these stunts bring them and the effects can be sobering. I call this On Clout Nine. 

Physical Harm

The Tripping-Jump Challenge

Earlier this year, one of the most dangerous pranks to plague social media swept across the globe, claiming a few lives in its wake. The Tripping-Jump Challenge features an unsuspecting victim and two provocateurs on either side of him or her. The aim of the antagonists was to convince their target that they were all going to see who could jump the highest on camera, sometimes with a small cash reward as an incentive. When the middle person jumps, the persons on their right and left kick out their feet mid-air causing them to take an awkward tumble.

The injuries ranged from bruises to fractures to even death.

As news of the prank spread on social media, it wasn’t long before it was picked up by Jamaica’s youth and three Meadowbrook High School boys were met with the consequences. But, this challenge is merely one on a long list of pranks and social experiments that are steadily becoming a threat on our little island.

Popular local YouTuber and Prankster, iHeart Manii (née Kymani White), met his match when he scouted the Half Way Tree area for potential victims of his latest social experiment. For this act, Manii would pretend to find money at the people’s feet, hold the money up very obviously and either walk away or ask the person if the money is theirs.

Yuh ever owe a Jamaican money yet? Lol.

Naturally, the responses were downright comical as most participants were dishonest and, at times, convincingly insistent. Thus, the video was circulated on social media rapidly. Today, the May 8, 2019 upload has since gained over 187,000 views, 10,000 likes and almost 2000 comments. While this is a huge accomplishment for Jamaican content creators, any well-thinking person must wonder if Kymani has really assessed the risks associated with these stunts.

The woman in both screenshots above was the real star of this video as she violently challenged Kymani regarding the ownership of the money, even after being told countless times that the events were staged, eventually causing him bodily harm.

Despite run-ins with law enforcement and hostile responses to his antics from some Jamaican victims, Kymani continues to develop new prank ideas as his primary means of income and rise to fame, stating to Jamaica STAR Writer, Stephanie Lyew, “The more pranks I upload, the faster my followers grow; for example, each time I upload a prank I gain an average 400 new subscribers.” The STAR previously put Kymani’s page at 15,000 subscribers in May 2019, growing from 5,000 over ten months. Today, White’s channel boasts approximately 96,400 subscribers and the ongoing pandemic has not stopped him from executing and uploading his experiments and pranks.

Yes, these videos have proven to be profitable content but at what cost? The unpredictability of Jamaicans is what makes these pranks such a risk to the entire iHeart Manii team. Today, it’s the old woman stabbing him. Tomorrow, maybe the woman is a man, maybe the knife is a gun...

Furthermore, Manii’s pinned prank upload features himself and fellow Jamaican YouTubers, Gio of Gio and Ken, and Rolley of Trouble Link, calling local taxi companies under the guise of heading to the airport with an extremely heavy suitcase. Each of the young men takes a turn being secured within the luggage, unbeknownst to the cab drivers, until the hidden participant begins to struggle and groan giving the appearance of a kidnapping in progress.

The first and third drivers were perturbed and refused to take them upon the realization that the young men had kidnapped someone. The second driver, however, began negotiating the fare and admonishing them for not speaking in hushed tones due to the nature of the act they were about to commit. This was just as, or even more disturbing than, the prank itself and, of course, my mind took OFF:

This clearly isn’t the first time this man has done this!!!

Yeah, I’m never taking another taxi again, thanks, xoxo.

So many women have been kidnapped within the public transport system. Hello, Jasmine Dean?!

Which company does he work for? Mortec?! Gadgepro?! On Time?! Mortec????!

Would he have carried the act right through for the right price?! I bet he would, the scum.

Is he going to be investigated? Paging JCF!!!!

Not ONE of them couldn’t see something wrong with this???

But, I digress (one issue at a time, Monét, one issue at a time). However, my mental tirade brings me to my second point.

Desensitization

Around October 1, 2020, a chilling video of a woman being abducted circulated on social media. In the two-minute-and-20-second-long video, the woman is shown walking down a roadway before she is restrained and pulled into a motor vehicle by four masked men. The man, Nathaniel, driving the getaway car is the woman, Tish’s, boyfriend and the video was originally uploaded to the couple’s YouTube as a prank.

Scathing reviews were aired out on every platform the video could be found as social media users condemned the men for their insensitivity and came to the woman’s defense. However, story come to bump when the video was removed for violating the platform's harmful and dangerous content policy and the girlfriend blamed it on envious people and guaranteed that the couple would come back bigger and better. So...she was in on it?!

In an interview with The Weekend STAR, Trish claimed:

The prank was actually acted out. It can teach other persons. As you can see when I was walking, I was looking. Persons, young girls, should look around and know them surroundings. That was the whole idea.

These men seemed very experienced to several Twitter users, including myself.

Very believable, 10/10 performance.

Who knew Jamaica had so many fine male actors doubling as activists, aiming to raise awareness around kidnapping incidents?

Even if that was the intention, they went about it in the wrong way. There was no trigger warning to prevent potential viewers, or victims from having to see or relive their worst nightmare for a few laughs. The Jamaica Constabulary Force said it best in their statement addressing the situation:

Evidently, Cyberculture is blurring the lines between safe fun and harmful risks, between harmless pranks and trivialized social issues. For a little bit of clout, persons have been seriously hurt, sued, investigated by the authorities or have lost their lives. Social media has transformed the general perception on the value of lives as so many seem so eager to throw them away for a few clicks. 

Moreover, when we trivialize issues in the form of pranks and social experiments, desensitization is amplified exponentially. While there may have been outrage in response to the couple’s kidnapping prank, who knows how many men secretly thought this was a good idea, who may desire to attempt it, take it too far, not in an effort to cReaTe AwARenEsS, but to really catch a woman unawares with the intention to do more than shake her up a bit? 

Hopefully, these trends dissipate like so many ephemeral online fads. Until then, there is no doubt that these antics will only get worse, affecting more and more lives as this digi-cultural currency, clout, increases in its value and the risks increase in their damages. After all,  when it comes to Cyberculture, the road to fame is paved with shame, (Koestenbaum, 2011.)

Meanwhile, I? Feel zero remorse for these cloutchasers and the repurcussions which are sure to meet them when they come down from their high.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 

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Brantley, K. (2018, June 24). Pictured: Book that YouTuber died holding after encouraging his pregnant girlfriend to shoot him for videotaped stunt. DailyMail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5878953/Prosecutors-release-pictures-bullet-holed-book.html

Education ministry warns against 'Jump Trip Challenge'. (2020, February 16). The Jamaica Observer.

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Merrifield, R. (2020, February 24). Parents warn kids against YouTube 'killer Jump Trip Challenge' after two deaths. Mirror. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/parents-warn-kids-against-youtube-21563313

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Russell, T. (2020). Attorney Going After Miami-Dade School Board After Teen Injured In ‘Jump Challenge’ Prank. CBS Miami. https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/02/11/jump-challenge-prank-south-dade-high-school/

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White, K. [iHeart Manii]. (2020, March 28). Kidnapping Prank On Taxi Drivers (GONE WRONG) *must see* || Gio and Ken || Trouble link tv. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0HuRomRDzI

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Everyone is eager to know the main reason behind the huge reduction in the rating of such a trending and beloved application. Here, in this article, we will discuss all the major causes of the drop in the rating of Tiktok.

Why did TikTok Rating drop?

The TikTok rating drop has become the hottest and trending topic over social media platforms, so Let’s know why people especially YouTubers and their fans want to ban the application in the country.

#BanTikTokIndia Twitter trend

The latest reason for the TikTok rating drop is trending hashtag #BanTikTokIndia. The main cause of trending this hashtag is a TikTok video itself, a TikToker named Faizal Siddiqui shoot and posted a video that was promoting “Acid Attack“. This TikToker Faizal Siddiqui is followed by millions of users and after posting such cheapo content, he was accused to promote illegal and cheap activities among users.

As soon as his video got viral, everyone started criticizing the video, TikToker, and TikTok too. After the trending video and huge criticism from everywhere, the National Commission for Women India wrote a letter to Maharastra Police and asked for instant action. After this, people throughout the country started demanding to ban the TikTok, Faizal Siddiqui was blamed to eulogize the Acid Attack through his video, and this is shameful.

Also Read: How to Permanently Delete Your TikTok Account

YouTube vs TikTok

Another major reason for the Tiktok rating drop from the app stores is YouTube vs TikTok fight, which is being between various Youtuber’s and TikTokers. Due to this Tik Tok was already being criticized and roasted by various Youtuber’s and fans of YouTube. Before the trending video of Faizal Siddiqui another video posted by Amir Siddiqui, in that video, he was saying that TikTok’s content is much more interesting and entertaining than YouTube, funny right? But the real problem arises for TikTokers when CarryMinati a Youtuber roasted Amir Siddiqui and his video along with this he also roasted some other TikTokers too who were supporting Amir Siddiqui or posting some cheap content on TikTok and Instagram.

After the roast video of CarryMinati, a social media war gets started between YouTube & TikTok, both parties and their users were supporting each of their candidates, CarryMinati from YouTube, and Amir Siddiqui from Tiktok. After this, YouTuber’s and fans were trolling TikTok and TikTokers.

However, the roast video of CarryMinati is removed from the YouTube, because in his roast video he stated some statement which was giving a negative impact about the education system of Moscow (as Amir Siddiqui studied for six-year in Moscow). So, after this viral roast video, Minister from Moscow demands YouTube to remove this video.

In between of all this, another video got viral over TikTok, which was reinforcing the “Rape“. After this, the hashtag #BanTikTokIndia and #Justice for Carry got on more trend last week, while #tiktokexposed and #tiktokdown are currently trending over the Twitter. With these trending hashtags, Google Play Store and Apple Store flooded with a 1-star rating to the TikTok. And Due to all these videos, the Tiktok rating drops from 4.5 to 1.3. But YouTubers fan and Meme makers want to ban the TikTok in India and hence still criticizing the application along with some of its content creators.

TikTok rating drop stats

First day: 16 May 2020- 4.5 stars.

Second day: 17 May 2020- 3.8 stars.

Third day: 18 May 2020- 3.2 stars.

Fourth day: 19 May 2020-2.0 stars.

Fifth day: 20 May 2020-1.3 stars.

It took just four days to the YouTube fans for making such huge changeset in the rating of the app from the Google Play store, moreover, these fans are also encouraging other people including their friends and family to boycott TikTok India, and support #BanTikTokIndia.

Also Read: TikTok’s New Feature Helps You Report Any Misinformation Regarding COVID-19

Will TikTok App be Deleted from the Play Store?

No! Google Will Delete All Recent Reviews as Per Policy for Protection of App Publisher from Unusual Attack.

Google Can Take It Down For 2-3 Days, But They Have to Return the App Page Back on Play store Unless Government Puts A BAN on It or Google Finds Something Ultra Offensive.

Even, If Google Will Not Protect the App. Revenue of Just 3 Days from That Chinese Company Is Enough to Purchase Paid Reviews from Market to Manage the Star Rating.

Wrapping Up

These trends got a real hit, and this can be easily observed by the TikTok rating dropped from app stores. Also, these trends and criticism of TikTok got highly viral on Facebook and Instagram too. People throughout the country (especially YouTube’s fanbase) demanding to ban the application.

According to various people, Tiktok is a waste of time, after using it for a while they got addicted to it and forget about everything else, they are just focussed on uploading videos and increasing fan following. Yes, I do believe that if we use anything in excess, so all its benefits turn into destructive results. TikTok may also have some useful content creator, who really do arduous work and wants to spread good-quality, positive content.

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Faizal Siddiqui's TikTok Account Suspended: Acid Attack Video Controversy

Facts On Faizal Siddiqui's TikTok Video 'Acid Attack' Controversy: Account Cancelled - Check Here

Faizal Siddiqui's TikTok video has been charged of commending the acid assaults on women.

TikTok has suspended the record of mainstream maker Faizal Siddiqui after one of Siddiqui's recordings confronted enormous analysis and was blamed for extolling corrosive assaults on ladies. Faizal Siddiqui's record can never again be gotten to on the TikTok. The video got the attention of the National Commission for Women (NCW) yet in addition to a few VIPs who got Siddiqui out. The contention around the video likewise brought about several clients leaving 1-star audits for the application on application stores.

To review, the video by Faizal Siddiqui demonstrated the TikTok maker compromising a young lady who left him for another person. Accordingly, Siddiqui tossed some fluid on the young lady's face. The young lady has appeared with overwhelming make-up that many accept takes after the scars of a corrosive assault.

Here are the main five things about Faizal Siddiqui and TikTok discussion:

After the video turned into a web sensation on different internet based life stages, the NCW took cognizance of the issue and asked TikTok India to promptly expel the video from the stage and square Faizal Siddiqui. The NCW likewise asked the Maharashtra police, in a letter, to quickly make a move against the individual answerable for making the video.

Following the contention and calls for evacuating the video, TikTok suspended the record of the maker and it is not, at this point available. TikTok revealed to Gadgets 360 that the video being referred to was evacuated the maker himself yesterday (May 18), and the organization expelled the copies through the span of yesterday and today. "Protecting individuals on TikTok is a top need and we make it understood in our Term of Service and Community Guidelines that plainly plot what isn't adequate on our foundation," TikTok said in an announcement. "According to the arrangement, we don't permit content that dangers security of others, advances physical damage or extols savagery against ladies. The conduct being referred to damages our rules and we have brought down the substance, suspended the record, and are working with law requirement offices as proper."

TikTok application has seen a surge of 1-star audits on Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Many India Android and iOS clients are requiring a prohibition on the application and its expulsion from the application stores. A few of the 1-star audits are additionally an aftereffect of an ongoing fight between another TikTok maker and sibling of Faizal Siddiqui – Amir Siddiqui – and YouTuber CarryMinati that has prompted a few supporters of the YouTuber to show their abhorrence of the stage by leaving 1-star surveys.

In the midst of the discussion, a few outstanding characters likewise whipped Siddiqui over the 'debased' video. This incorporates on-screen characters Swara Bhaskar and Pooja Bhatt, corrosive assault survivor Laxmi Aggarwal, etc. #BanTikTokinIndia and a few comparable hashtags have been drifting on Twitter as a result of the contention.

In an announcement discharged on Instagram, Faizal Siddiqui protected the video and showed that it has been distorted. The TikTok maker likewise apologized. "As an internet-based life influencer, I understand my obligation and apologize to any individual who was irritated by the video," maker said in the announcement.

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Facts On Faizal Siddiqui's TikTok Video 'Acid Attack' Controversy: Account Cancelled - Check Here Faizal Siddiqui's TikTok video has been charged of commending the acid assaults on women. TikTok has suspended the record of mainstream maker Faizal Siddiqui after one of Siddiqui's recordings confronted enormous analysis and was blamed for extolling corrosive assaults on ladies. Faizal Siddiqui's record can never again be gotten to on the TikTok. The video got the attention of the National Commission for Women (NCW) yet in addition to a few VIPs who got Siddiqui out. The contention around the video likewise brought about several clients leaving 1-star audits for the application on application stores. To review, the video by Faizal Siddiqui demonstrated the TikTok maker compromising a young lady who left him for another person. Accordingly, Siddiqui tossed some fluid on the young lady's face. The young lady has appeared with overwhelming make-up that many accept takes after the scars of a corrosive assault. Here are the main five things about Faizal Siddiqui and TikTok discussion: After the video turned into a web sensation on different internet based life stages, the NCW took cognizance of the issue and asked TikTok India to promptly expel the video from the stage and square Faizal Siddiqui. The NCW likewise asked the Maharashtra police, in a letter, to quickly make a move against the individual answerable for making the video. Following the contention and calls for evacuating the video, TikTok suspended the record of the maker and it is not, at this point available. TikTok revealed to Gadgets 360 that the video being referred to was evacuated the maker himself yesterday (May 18), and the organization expelled the copies through the span of yesterday and today. "Protecting individuals on TikTok is a top need and we make it understood in our Term of Service and Community Guidelines that plainly plot what isn't adequate on our foundation," TikTok said in an announcement. "According to the arrangement, we don't permit content that dangers security of others, advances physical damage or extols savagery against ladies. The conduct being referred to damages our rules and we have brought down the substance, suspended the record, and are working with law requirement offices as proper." TikTok application has seen a surge of 1-star audits on Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Many India Android and iOS clients are requiring a prohibition on the application and its expulsion from the application stores. A few of the 1-star audits are additionally an aftereffect of an ongoing fight between another TikTok maker and sibling of Faizal Siddiqui – Amir Siddiqui – and YouTuber CarryMinati that has prompted a few supporters of the YouTuber to show their abhorrence of the stage by leaving 1-star surveys. In the midst of the discussion, a few outstanding characters likewise whipped Siddiqui over the 'debased' video. This incorporates on-screen characters Swara Bhaskar and Pooja Bhatt, corrosive assault survivor Laxmi Aggarwal, etc. #BanTikTokinIndia and a few comparable hashtags have been drifting on Twitter as a result of the contention. In an announcement discharged on Instagram, Faizal Siddiqui protected the video and showed that it has been distorted. The TikTok maker likewise apologized. "As an internet-based life influencer, I understand my obligation and apologize to any individual who was irritated by the video," maker said in the announcement.  For Regular & Fastest Tech News and Reviews, Follow TECHNOXMART on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Subscribe Here Now. By Subscribing You Will Get Our Daily Digest Headlines Every Morning Directly In Your Email Inbox.             【Join Our Whatsapp Group Here】

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