If strangers at a party are talking about football and I go up to them and, before I join the conversation, they say “we’re talking about last night’s game,” I do not into a speech about CTE and the NFL and corporate media and how they should be spending their time.
I, as someone who hates football with every speck of my stardust, go to the other side of the room and start my own conversation about that or *anything I decide to talk about.*
@53de482a I don’t like either football or TikTok, but that’s a me thing. When I was younger I did build (part of) my identity around not liking “sportsball” or whatever. These days I like to think I have grown up a bit and am happy other people have a hobby that brings them joy.
All this newfound equanimity goes right out the window though if people watch football matches or TikToks beside me using their phone speakers on loud!
@53de482a it seems difficult for some people to just keep scrolling instead of starting an argument. I wonder where that need to comment on something they are not interested in comes from?
As proof of the platform’s vibrance, here is a TikTok that encapsulates this whole phenomena way better than my rambling, frustrated thread https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8MWGdhk/
@53de482a That video is insanely on point, holy shit. Why people act like that in social media?
@53de482a «with every speck of my stardust»
Wow, just
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