Gabriel misunderstanding things is one of our most profound genres; I should make up a keyword based on this propensity and begin utilizing its subtle power.
I consider TikTok to be an objectively bad habit, roughly on par with heroin or murder. I take precisely zero pride in its use, I'm definitely not who should be using it, but its direct linkage to language formation keeps me ahead of my teens - dangerous foes indeed. I'm going to give you a core sample of who it thinks I am, a documentary with no participants, filmed inside a kaleidoscope.
I. This video is entitled "AAA Gaming Is A Male Humiliation Ritual." The video makes the case that Women, Redditors, and Democrats are why we have cucked males in Metroid Prime 4. It reminds me of this strip we did twenty-six years ago, where people become repeater stations for cognition free rebroadcast of memetic themes. The "author," if such a creature exists, is angry that this cuck he has just proclaimed to hate gets saved by a girlboss, but… that girlboss is the protagonist. I.e., you. I don't think I can watch anymore of this and I've only watched fifteen seconds.
II. This video, like many others, is a barely obscured advertisement for a tool that will let you create AI Slop videos or rip other people off by duplicating their content just enough to beat the system. These videos live and breathe in the same environment as the ones you might be trying to make, except they're crass duplications of proven performance and thus your competition. This is what "the feed" is for - an unlimited stream manufactures a synthetic habitat for inhuman filth. No one cares.
III. A clip from the Joe Rogan show. The only time I ever see Joe Rogan is on TikTok, as I've managed to scrupulously avoid him virtually everywhere else. I mean, it's whatever; Joe Rogan's omnipresence is a product of The Left in the same way that Speakeasies were a product of Prohibition. When you constrain speech, you, uh, don't. It merely gets concentrated and directed, minting Heretics with a patina of danger. The thing I find unsettling about the show is that it looks like the guests are broadcasting from the Red Room in Twin Peaks.
I'm sure it's fine.
IV. An AI video in an established genre - in this case, a deep cleaning video. Fake podcasts are an easy one to extrude from the corpus, and when you start noticing the tells you'll see them everywhere. AI has begun doing home renovations, tiny house builds, cooking videos, camping content, Van Life, any of the human endeavors people have engaged in on here has been belt-fed into a weapon that shoots a high ROF stream of inverted reality. The food is hideous as it is lifted from the un-dish to the not-plate by three impossible utensils. The ground beef crawls like bugs. No one cares.
V. This video suggests that Drake is the Taylor Swift of rap. Yup; that's perfect actually. No notes.
(CW)TB out.
