i remember hating on tiktok because i thought it was cringe like everyone else to it becoming my favorite app to just wind down everyday and watch silly videos. now i saw a live of someone reporting on a school shooting in iowa and the comments are filled with bs like "any kids acoustic?". i'm genuinely scared of what the internet has become the past couple

of months. bullying and shit like this has always existed but it seems like people have entirely stopped caring about digital footprints and empathy for others. i can't be the only one noticing how much worse everything has been getting. witb twitter it was easy to blame elon taking over and i'm sure most of it is his fault in one way or another. but tiktok?

i am on only the silliest sides of tiktok + fandom stuff. the videos i watch are mostly just trans joy and cats and feel good stories. and i STILL see hatred everywhere now. and the sad thing is, it's not even JUST conservatives.
"i will touch you lil bro" as a gotcha? what? why is this just a normal thing you say to people? "slit" "jump" wow...

transphobia and homophobia are being normalized again, christians complain about being oppressed, no one can have a simple debate and it has to escalate to sending death threats... what is happening? are we really just socially regressing?

sadly