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The Insane Culture War

When did we decide that TikTok was an app for children? Is all I'm gonna say. Disney also got caught up in this insane culture war, where Disney had opposed a Florida bill to ban discussions of sexual and gender orientation from elementary school curriculum. An adult YouTube is insane just because they're worried that kids are gonna see it. Why do we have to cater our entire world to basically speaking to children when it's like children have their own media to watch and to listen to? It's just insane.

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When
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did we decide that TikTok was an app for children? Is all I'm gonna
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say? I think it used to be, like, majority kids on it, but then when the pandemic happened, the majority of people on there are adults. Let's make TikTok kids is
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all I'm gonna say, because actually, like, people are allowed to
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talk about their jobs. Oh my God, if I could talk about this with YouTube. Like, at the same thing with YouTube, YouTube has a YouTube kids, yet they're policies on what you can and can't say. An adult YouTube is insane just because they're worried that kids are gonna see it. And it's just like, why do we have to cater our entire world to basically speaking to children when it's like children have their own media to watch and to listen to? Like, it's just insane. Disney also got caught up in this insane culture war, where Disney had opposed that bill in Florida, where, like, in classic, floridian fashion, they were trying to ban discussions of sexual and gender orientation from elementary school curriculum. We call it the don't-say-gay bill. So when Disney withdrew political donations to the state, a bunch of people on the far right accused them of grooming children into becoming gay. And then, like, all these, like, QAnon ass far right pundits, like, Matt Walsh and Haya Rechik, who runs Libs of TikTok, have accused the LGBTQ community of grooming kids into being trans. This guy, Graham Linahan, who is into quote, anti-trans activist, got banned from Twitter for starting the hashtag OKGroomer in response to trans people who opposed his hateful beliefs. I guess it's like a play on OKBoomer. Yeah. And this has become one of the most popular usages of the term online today.

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