Okay that was the first main topic, China. There’s probably smaller more unique points I forgot, but those were the most spoken about. The other big thing was the safety of children on the app. Now, surprising to me, Chew states early that the biggest demographic was like in the 30s followed by 20s and then teenagers being the demographic with the fastest growth. That’s surprising as hell. To follow up, people who log into their accounts as under 17 get less ads, no chance of being viral, no livestreams, no dms, can only scroll for an hour, and less curated content. Those under 13 get even less stuff but I forget exactly what he said since he got interrupted. Now of course, a teenager could log in as 50 when they start an account but tik tok mods try to match a person’s content to their age. So if they say 50 but only post about high school, they could get banned. Same for the reverse.
This actually explains the tik toks that have the caption “I am 18/not a minor/fake body”. They always stay up while lewd/mature vids that don’t have this for a younger looking person may get taken down. Us zoomers already figured out this loophole on the low. The fake body loophole is another used by us that completely validates anything happening on the video to the tik tok algorithm so it won’t take down the video, even if it has extreme violence, because it’s fake. At that point, it’d be up to the human mods of the site to delete ‘fake stuff’. Chew nor Congress seem to know about these hacks as they never mention them. This what they mention.
“Why is it that I just asked my teenage kid if he gets the hour warning and he said he doesn’t?”
“I’ve heard from my kids that you can just ignore the hour warning and keep scrolling.”
“My kids don’t even get the warning.”
“My kids say they can just change the time limit so it doesn’t matter.”- worst parenting ever.
Guys, we did it. Well, you guys did it, I’m of age. But they don’t know about the loophole. These Congress people don’t know that you can just lie about your age, (and of course rarely post age specific content so the algorithm doesn’t detect you) and then use the app for as many hours as you want. That’s hilarious! This is the funniest most disconnected thing I’ve ever heard about boomers. The guy, in the fourth hour, had texted his kid at this point and then he reveals that his kid doesn’t get the warning. This retard doesn’t know his kid didn’t log as a kid on the app! I was legitimately dying of laughter when I heard that. But it sucks cause Chew didn’t have a response since he’s also too old to know of the loophole. He’s never been to a porn site. He just restated the rules of the app. It was so funny.
“We ask users to input their age and if they are under 17 then they get the time restriction”. He also one time added, “we do have a sister app that parents can download so they can set the time limit for their kids-” “but but that means we would have to download it which means you trying to get us addicted and more money in your pocket”. I promise you, one of them said this. Like they just would have a desire to use the app just cause it’s on their phone. Feening to feed China some information. Lmao.
There were some parents at the meeting who didn’t speak but got their stories said by the members. The members mentioned several lethal challenges (what are you kids doing on this app). One of them led to an accidental death, another was a death from a fentanyl challenge. Uh, what you kids doing on this app? Unfortunately, if any of these lethal viral challenges happened, I never heard about them. Chew would try to give his condolences but the angry bicentennial who reported them completely shouted over him as if he thought an East Asian man could not feel such regret. Frustrating because they just threw this at him without really a question attached. He just tired to reassure them that the mods are doing their best since such content is against the guidelines. About the fentanyl one, one old southerner incorrectly called the challenge a Chinese plot to kill all American children. I say incorrect because fentanyl’s ingredients can be found in China but it’s manufactured and sold by the Mexican cartel (who use full blooded citizens, not illegal immigrants who are already under threat). A simple Google search although it could be China masking themselves. There was one clip they played that made me burst laughing. Which is unfortunate because they introduced it as a child’s feed before that child committed suicide. Ouch. It was just also the funniest tik tok they could’ve found followed by some actually depressing ones. “Oh word”, I can’t- that’s just comedy.
There was another clip that they would’ve liked to personally hang Chew with. This a cgi gun unloading into darkness with the caption, “me asf” and I fucking burst laughing. I was rolling on the floor. Why did Florida Kayleigh show that? (That isn’t her name just her archetype of women. She absolutely misspelled on of her kid’s names despite the phonetics being unchanged.) You guys were threatened by this? And it’s actually even funnier since the meeting was on that date and the Chair was the person mentioned but posted 41 days before the meeting was scheduled. That’s prophetically funny. Also, if they saw the clip and knew it was 40 days old, why did they actually schedule it on the day? Like that’s Franz Ferdinand assassination avoidance tactics. Not to say I agree with the clip after how frustrating the Chair and Committee was BUT they continued to needlessly harrass Chew about it (as if he personally posted it) even after he had some worker delete it. The post itself was not even that popular. Not at least as popular as the actual violent insurrection that Trump supports tried to perform on Jan 6 which was spawned by Facebook community organizing. That tik toker wasn’t trying to threaten or warn you guys (considering that they didn’t even know about the meeting when it was posted), they didn’t even hit 10k on that shit. Also, let me defend the app on why the algorithm couldn’t detect this. It was a fake gun. Not in the caption but it was a cgi gun. It’s not gonna delete that shit or every Fortnite, COD, ect clip would get deleted. There was no real violence displayed and if you could convince a judge that it was a real threat, then you should just arrest the op. A 4channer was arrested just weeks prior for a joke. You’re the fucking government. Imagine if it was still real, they still planned for the meeting on 3/23, and the Chair fucking died? Retards, I tell you. An unreal conversation.
Okay let me give my arguments because I will say that this general topic of kids was a fumble from Chew. He kept giving them reassurances that the app is doing the best it can to delete illegal, dangerous, or lewd stuff (someone suggested there was porn on tik tok, we can confirm it’s not fully nude or whatever) but its not enough for them or for me to be honest. I mean, this was an informational part for me too. I didn’t know minors had so many restrictions, especially the dm thing. Facebook/Twitter doesn’t have that holy shit. That’s cockblocking the pedos. He also mentioned that they rely on third party allies and experts to strategize how to shift the algorithm so the app is still fun for kids, lessen the addictive nature of the whole app, and that they will try to be as vocal as possible with their policies. He kept repeating about how transparent Tik Tok will be from now on in order to look for mercy for the app. He also kept reminding them that despite some suicidal or dangerous tik toks, that it is a genuinely positive place and nearly every user comes away with a good experience. Also about suicide, they have alert on the app meaning if you look up ‘kys’ they might try to get you to some suicide prevention which is not something ANY website does.
But my argument, if I was there, would actually to lay pressure on parents. I fucking hate the culture of parenthood white Americans fostered over the last few generations. I’m a Haitian immigrant so I got love from above and most other immigrants are able to but white American families (and even black) can be so dogshit. One aspect for today is how some treat school as a daycare, just somewhere to shove your kid while at work. Yet at the same time, if anything happens to their kid, it’s the school’s fault. Not theirs. “Why do you have students selling drugs to my child on your campus” is what a Karen would say to the principal while he clarifies with her that drugs are illegal and they will try to solve the problem. They won’t ask their kid why they are buying drugs. At the end of the day, I personally think these type of parents need to take blame. Actually, not blame, its Responsibility. That’s you’re fucking kid. He didn’t get drugs from the teachers, that was the other students. Take care of your kid, make sure of their friends, actually act as a wise resource and they won’t be using drugs without your permission. That’s how the cool white parents do it and their kids don’t kill themselves.
The same is for this app. You gotta download it with them, to be frank, unless you raised them well enough. Even then, you gotta check up on their general mentality. The kid who killed (I don’t know the story since it was underexplained) himself didn’t do it because some goofball on tik tok said “Suicide is badass”. It was because they were already suicidal. You gotta take care of that yourself. Tik Tok has rules against drug usage and other stuff. They can try to take down as many videos as they can but the kid still has some problem and only the parent/guardian can take it out at the root. I apologize to the parents who’s kid offed himself but I promise you it wasn’t just tik tok.
So I would’ve argued that parents need to genuinely cooperate with the app. We have rules but kids can easily bypass them. You need to make sure for your own innocence that your kid isn’t apart of the problem or has a problem. I would’ve highly recommended the app that let’s parents limit their kids’ time. Looking directly into the camera like some sponsorship, “hey everyone, open the App store right now”. Do you guys remember commercials for online games like Wizard 101 or even for kid-network websites (Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney)? At the end of the ad they would mention “ask your parent’s permission before coming to our site” and that was for a completely safe website? But they told you that in the ads to legally remove themselves from the potential evil a kid may find on there. It would then be the parents’ fault because obviously you would ask your parents, right? (lmao) Or at least your good natured parent is checking which website your using on the family computer. Tik Tok doesn’t even advertise to kids but I guess maybe they should bring that back for their own innocence. Indeed, the old internet had such clear divisions between minors and majors but now I have to fear a 14 yo’s opinion on Twitter.
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