Plenty of exploitation also happening of young men which has wide-ranging effects. This community seems to be mostly male (I’m guessing). Any opinions?
Without reading, does it conclude that they are all massive wankers?
Technically: Wank Stains.
Whatever they are, they are having a negative effect on boys and young men. That’s the issue.
So what is wrong with it?
??? What’s wrong with exploitation?
Our entire socio ecomic system is built on exploitation, seems beyond weird to pearl clutch over parts of it sans some holistic introspection.
How is this an exploitation? People just watch what they want to watch; it’s their choice and they don’t harm anyone.
I don’t know if you’ve read the article. Adults can watch “what they want to watch” but the problem is that these videos can attract boys and young adults who are still maturing and the videos can have negative impacts on their self image and their life in general.
This can happen with any demographic group, old people being fed propaganda and sitting in their echo chambers or girls being told their worth is only their body etc… The problem is the algorithm and the money inventive. Also this isn’t only happening on tiktok but on all platforms.
Men use tiktok? I thought it was only pre-teen girls.
Zoomers are graduating from college now, but it might surprise you to find out why those men where on the young girl app
A former friend of mine aged about 60 got into tiktok around the start of Israel’s attacks on Palestine, and dropped all his friends for not being sufficiently fervent about the genocide
It sucks in anyone who wants a purely automatic video feed
The manosphere doesn’t create these pressures – it finds genuine unmet needs and exploits them for profit and views. Often girls, women and other minority groups are at the receiving end of that harm, as well as the boys and men themselves.
Before TikTok/Internet, there was TV. Before TV was print media (newspapers, magazines).
Ad from 1932
This has been going on (for everyone) a lot longer than TikTok. That said, I don’t think it’s healthy. Also with print media you saw it once or twice in a magazine, and you didn’t have an algorithm feeding you a stream of content either.
Even the Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975 parodied the fitness ads “in just seven days, I can make you a man”
