A VERY LATE TikTok Tuesday

[@StarcleBlaze]

We played Gartic Phone in your server and drew you as a jellybean

[@ShortFatOtaku]

based

[@corenlavolpe6143]

He does have the rough shape of one

[@StarcleBlaze]

@@ShortFatOtakuthanks dev

[@conquest_of_apocalypse]

He has a fucking discord?

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

Yeah he has a Discord

[@Saint_Sigismund]

Being spayed/neutered doesn't make you "not male" or "not female" anymore, it just makes you neutered.

[@genevievec.8002]

Yeah, I get the concept.... But being castrated might remove a primary sex characteristic, but you'd still have the same chromosomes.

[@excalibro8365]

@@genevievec.8002 and bone density, and muscle mass, and upper body strength

[@penilescab]

Even the wiki page he shows says "the sex of a living organism is determined by its genes". I think he's just reading the first sentence "Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes" in a reductive or just incorrect way so he has another supposed gotcha for right wingers or something

[@redline1916]

@@penilescab He tries too hard to be inbetween to a point that he has to just make these up to not appear bias to his friends who are likely also left wing. It's not working well for him.

[@Stanton_High]

Sometimes dev says stupid things.

[@TheAurgelmir]

The whole "Intersex proves gender isn't a binary" line of argumentation also stops the whole "gender and sex isn't related argument. It's almost like they have an ideological conclusion that they are trying to warp reality to, no matter what.

[@priapulida]

Intersex proves the binary, because all of them are male or female (on closer inspection).

[@AppleManiagaming]

Intersex is also a genetic/chromosomal abnormality.

[@theknd]

​@@AppleManiagamingwhat's normal?

[@liamm1419]

@@theknd 10 fingers, 10 toes and one set of functional genitals. Some people are born without limbs - that does not make it legitimate to chop off healthy functioning limbs due to a mental illness.

[@AppleManiagaming]

@@theknd use a dictionary buddy.

[@corenlavolpe6143]

Holy shit that wing dysphoria thing is something I did when I was in middle school, it was fun to RP as an angel or Harpy or whatever. It's literally just a depressing refusal to grow up from make believe and hide behind Queer acceptance.

[@magicmanbran54]

I did lots of dumb stuff like that with friends. But we never thought that it was real or serious. It was absurd and we knew it thats why its fun.

[@blackosprey2219]

Funny thing about make-believe is that almost everyone understands that it is MAKE-BELIEVE. Even most kids will understand that it's imaginary and not actually real. This isn't failing to grow up, and many well-adjusted adults enjoy all kinds of make-believe (even if few are willing to act anything out in public). This is just lying for attention or delusion.

[@hellacoorinna9995]

"Alternate ID system.." Headmates Aka Pretend Schizophrenia.

[@Sigurther]

as soon as I started hearing nonsense like 'demigender' and 'buggender' and 'unicorgender', I knew these people didn't have dysmorphia, they were just roleplaying in real life and expecting everyone else to play along.

[@varnix1006]

When a kid did it, it's play pretend. When an adult did it, it's otherkin.

[@servicerifle16]

"I'm a biologist" Proceeds to show he's an idealogue and not a biologist.

[@creepyloner1979]

oh yeah? then explain the lab coat. **mic drop**

[@raggens]

In one of Dev’s previous videos - TikTok Communists - this guy who was featured basically admits to wanting to subvert the world into communism via propaganda and radicalization from his view

[@lastswordfighter]

He is a fraud.

[@metroidhunter965]

It goes to show that just because you have wisdom and education are not mean they are one and the same.

[@spencer77822]

People like these ones are why Senator Armstrong did what he did.

[@thecalmclone2813]

That’s a good argument, Spencer! Care to back it up with a source?

[@LR-jb6zn]

yup.

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

"Source?!? My source is I MADE IT THE FUCK UP!"

[@thegoldenphoenix3710]

"The stronger survive and the weak perish"

[@TheGreenKnight500]

Senator Armstrong turned out to be right all along if I remember correctly

[@davemarx7856]

I have Wealth Dysphoria - I feel like I should have more money.

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

everyone has that

[@mtegelaar]

And everyone should affirm this by giving me money

[@AlytheWolfcat]

I'm calling it, that afro doctor brought his degree online to make his dad look at him respectfully like Francise in American Dad did

[@jacobman12344]

He is the same guy that was calling for the gramcsian capture of all things from a few tiktok Tuesdays ago

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

​@@jacobman12344oh shit, he was the "gigachad bullet train" dipshit?

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

it's probably a useless degree in some woke flavoured kind of biology. A lot of current academia in america, and some other first world countries, have become tainted with "progressive" thinking and everyone does the bare minimum of their work to prove their theses. It's so sad.

[@sytzekamphuis2939]

The main problem with the guy in the labcoat claiming that "sex is a bimodal distribution" isn't that that's wrong. The statement itself is true. The problem is that he describes it as exactly opposite of what it is. A bimodal distribution has two peaks at the extremes with almost nothing in the middle; it's "almost binary, only with enough exceptions that they cannot statistically be called zero". What Diploma Mill Donald here is describing is a normal distribution (also called a bell curve): a large bump in the middle with small tails at the end. Since that is high school level maths, perhaps he shouldn't be giving off about people failing classes in high school.

[@Fureace]

Normally I don't respond to comments like this, because it comes off a bit patronizing, but here we are. You are right that the guy in the labcoat is wrong in whatever it is he is trying to preach and whilst you are a lot closer, you are still a little bit off in your conception. The guy in the labcoat is actually conflating a bipolar distribution and seemingly mixing it with a normal distribution (the latter you already pointed out, he would know if he actually paid attention in statistics). A bimodal distribution, as you correctly point out, has 2 peaks in the distribution, nothing more nothing less. These distributions can overlap by a lot or a little, but that is captured more by the concept of variance. Men and women are located on a lot of characteristics on bimodal distributions, in some they overlap a lot (EG: agreeableness in the big five personality model, men being a bit less agreeable) or almost not at all (things vs people preference in the RIASOC model, women having a much stronger preference for people vs things). When it comes to the categoric correlation between sex and gender identity, the correlation is so bloody high that we can almost call it a bipolar distribution... The guy in the labcoat won't say that because he seems more concerned with looking smart than actually putting in the work. Cheers and have a nice day 🙂

[@sytzekamphuis2939]

@@Fureace I've run into "bipolar distribution" referring to the presence of populations of a species in both polar regions often enough that I stick to "bimodal" when talking about statistics. Otherwise, I don't particularly disagree with you choosing to use a subset term for reference to the same phenomenon. And yes, you can chart many things to get a similarly extreme bimodal distribution. Either way, I think I can safely say that while we could nitpick, he's just flat out wrong😁

[@KingRyanoles]

While personality traits can be graphed as a bimodal distribution, I don't understand how sex could. Wth is measured on the axis? It sounds like people are using secondary sex characteristics to make the distribution, but that also results in absurdities like obvious females being more or less female than others. Isn't sex a clear binary? Reproductive system organized to produce small gametes or large gamete? Intersex conditions all fall into M/F with the caveat that the particular disorder has disrupted development such that the system cant produce what it should have. They shouldn't represent a third or spectrum option imo.

[@stevenschnepp576]

@@KingRyanoles Those would be intersex states. And what's wrong with the idea that someone would be more masculine or feminine than someone else?

[@KingRyanoles]

@@stevenschnepp576 More or less masculine or feminine would be tracking an axis that is a set of secondary or tertiary characteristics (including physical, psychological, or cultural depending on context) that correlate to sex, but importantly they don't define sex. Saying a person is more masculine/feminine is fine if a bit vague, but their sex is still a distinct binary. Intersex can all be put into the male or female binary sex categories, though they may be radically less masculine/feminine.

[@Treblaine]

I've actually heard from scientists and they HATE the "put on a lab coat and preach" to them a lab coat is not a uniform indicating their qualifications, it is safety equipment to be worn in the lab and ALWAYS worn properly, i.e. buttoned up to the collar. It's like someone in their apartment putting on a welding mask and saying "I'm an engineer, let me tell you about putting speed limiters on cars".

[@TwoBs]

Yea, you’re not going to have someone who is actually respectable in their field and good at their job waste time standing in front of their phone in their getup to preach at others about things on a social media site like TikTok, and the ones that have … immediately lose any sort of respect they may have had. Just like all these surgeons and doctors that hopped on the TikTok trend with “react” content, putting out a shit ton of videos every single day, building up a following, some even recording themselves while doing their job, and ultimately racking up millions of views to preach at others for their views while showing others how they’re so much more knowledgeable than everyone and shouldn’t be questioned because they have a stethoscope around their neck … all while trying to promote their practice. It’s so damn bizarre.

[@jimmy_kirk]

They call it "girl dinner" because they don't know how to pronounce charcuterie.

[@rothaarige3896]

And can't cook

[@PrincessTidge]

And no one taught them how to cook

[@gestaltblitz8296]

Damn this right here deserves more likes

[@mrtango1824]

Shar-coot-ery.

[@DJBSharpMusic]

I call that healthy snacking.

[@Sylentmana]

That walk downtown looks like it belongs in a 1980/1990s cyberpunk movie.

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

To be fair old movies did say thats what the cities would look like in the 2000's

[@joethewarthog]

When I heard that dude say he was a biologist, I immediately thought of a quote from H.L. Mencken. It was, “it is a classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a P.h.D will thereby cease to be a moron”

[@raggens]

Anybody surprised that this was the same guy in Dev’s TikTok Communists video where he outright admits he wants to make even the most apolitical spaces mouthpieces for his propaganda and sides with Marxist-Leninists despite claiming to hate the tankies lol

[@knerf999]

2020: "Its just a social construct it can be whatever" 2023: "it's an important social construct we can't change"

[@SubtleStair]

Social constructivists know that their social constructions are not real.

[@rgama1173]

That the problem with the idea of turning everything into a social construct, because they are man made, they can be change and alter according to interest of others, ow we have no concrete base to view reality, because it is all imaginary

[@levinicusrex1006]

6:24 As a senior year student of Biological sciences, we don't claim him.

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

But he's wearing a lab coat, surely he's legitimate lol.

[@alexfield3950]

The angry beavers taught me if you got the white coats,you are a scientist

[@Apostate_ofmind]

seconded

[@bsowers22]

If that dude really is a biologist, I’d love for someone to get his professors to stitch him. That would be gold.

[@Crusader9158]

Who do you think indoctrinated him?

[@moneygrab610]

Unfortunately, I think there is a lot of tacit pressure on professors to adhere to the progressive ideas. The ones that aren’t championing it are complacent with it if for no other reason than to retain their position.

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

@@moneygrab610 This is the unfortunate truth. I'm an adjunct at a University and my linkedin gets inundated with some of these professors spouting their progressive bona fides in post after post. I finally had to just mute them all because I knew at a certain point I was going to just snap and absolutely lose my mind on one of them and that would be the end of this second job that I actually enjoy. Not to mention the extra cash is what keeps my little girl in private school. You got to pick your battles.

[@bsowers22]

@@Crusader9158 not every Professor is a hardcore lib idiot. I can introduce you to a few Computer Profs more Conservative than Reagan. More likely he took some Gender Studies electives and swallowed it whole.

[@bsowers22]

@@moneygrab610 that’s pretty much it. I helped my cousin with some research work when he got his Masters in Psychology, the STEM Professors mostly aren’t pushing this shit, but they can’t fight it either if they’re not tenured. Most of this shit is coming out of the Liberal Arts classes and Poli-Sci.

[@CocktailsConsoles]

If I were the parents of the girl who thinks she's a hawk, I would sue her for my college tuition money back.

[@mjanny6330]

And feed her nothing but live rodents.

[@KuroNoTenno]

You should sue the college for indoctrinating her instead.

[@CocktailsConsoles]

@@KuroNoTenno Eh, if I'm bored. If this is my child and she chooses to live out her adult years in a fantasy world, I'll wring out every penny I spent on this id!ot's childhood.

[@giin97]

Yeah, I was eating lunch with my family a few years ago, next table over girl was home visiting her family from her first semester at college, literally everything she said was as a collective statement about her and the first years, "we don't like this" and "we like this teacher" and "the dean is new this year, so we haven't decided if we like him yet." Creepy as... If my girl came home talking like a hivemind after just a few weeks, I'd be taking a hard look at that college.

[@CocktailsConsoles]

@@giin97 It's a bad side effect of the "be their friend" and the "time out" parent. They waited too long to instill common virtues and life lessons and handed over to the colleges a blank slate. In fairness, many of us found out only recently that teachers had an ulterior motive. But then again, many got comfortable letting teachers take over the parenting role. Always thought it was weird that school teachers taught about things like menstruation -- that should be coming from parents, not minimum wage state employees.

[@eerohongisto821]

Wings are literally like the arms of a bird. These people are describing "wing dysphoria" like its phantom limb syndrome, but that makes no sense since they still have the corresponding limbs just without feathers.

[@scienceface8884]

Yep. This idiot seems to think that bird wings grow out of their backs or something rather than just being bird arms.

[@delfinenteddyson9865]

maybe they actually identify as a critter; that would explain why I find them especially irritating

[@edfmed1080]

I think the mental illness always existed but its easier to manifest it when there is social contagion attached. Makes crazies feel validated.

[@hellacoorinna9995]

*glances at Tumblr*

[@ultraspudd2486]

Both feed into each other don't they

[@JosephCapelli]

Doesn't help that we've had a culture of "validation at all costs" for at least 10 years.

[@eeelorde9962]

​@@hellacoorinna9995*Twitter staying in the background*

[@memnarch129]

We used to have a handful of "Village idiots" in every town or city. And the normal people knew they where crazy and out of their minds. With the Internet what is maybe a couple hundred crazies in bigger cities looks like millions and 10s of millions cause they can all talk with each other. It amplified their crazy talk and made it look like there are more then there are. Think Peterson quoted Andy Ngo who researched how many Antifa cells there where and how many where active and how many active members there where. You know what that number was? Think it was like 5 or 8 thousand. By the damage and discourse they have caused youd swear there was at least half a million but its likely less than 10k active Antifa activists in reality.

[@EnvoyOfFabulousness]

Atheists 10 years ago: "In a secular future, society will be far more intelligent and sane." Reality: "Hey guys I'm starting a discord for people who are wing-kin or wing-kin adjacent"

[@evanlogan3595]

Many people have just made their politics to be their religion.

[@SGresponse]

There's a deeper rabbit hole there of "lacking institutionalized religion makes the feeble minded masses latch on to other faith-based copium mechanisms". Karl Marx was right - most people need a religion-esque support system for their fragile personalities.

[@dix0n778]

They will never accept this as a cause for the societal failure, they will blame it on the zoomers, or millenials, or gen Xers, or boomers.

[@SubtleStair]

@@SGresponse Then religion isn't the opium of the masses, huh? It's more like the black coffee of the masses.

[@linhero797]

​@@SGresponseOh you are absolutelt correct. It's been this way sibce the very beginning of Atheism being a big thing. I have told people, many people who treat religion like the devil that once you remove religion people will cling to whatever identity they have or just make them up if they can benefit from making one up somehow. The Taoist monks of today learned that. Lao Tzu specifically chided the idea of rituals and practices being needed for the average man to value a religion. But that changed, Taoism became more ritual based and it held to people more. People need their rituals, their religions. These things provide them a feeling of purpose and place, and answer hard questions they like the mental strength to answer for themselves.

[@RrraverCrow]

*Shows off pricey snacks* "This is what the peasants ate"

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Cheese and dried meat with a little fruit is a peasents meal. Dried meat like jerky are expensive now, but they didn't used to be, and the same goes for cheeses.

[@RrraverCrow]

@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown but talking about it like it’s a poor person’s meal now is a joke.

[@live4hockey2]

When I first started tackling Aristotle's "Metaphysics" years ago I ran across his concept called The Fallacy of Expertise. It never made sense to me until the COVID "experts" came around. Same goes for this "biologist".

[@hengineer]

I took a course in introduction to logic. I understood fallacies quite well. Appeal to authority is an obvious fallacy because the logical arguments have to stand on their own. Otherwise it's akin to a religious person claiming "because the Bible says so" and that's the entire argument. Again the Logical Arguments have to stand on their own. It doesnt matter who is stating them.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Diverse, 60% of a full biologist

[@saisameer8771]

The experts are actually more dangerous in a way, because they can lie to your face by withholding information and using technical language.

[@genevievec.8002]

On the intersex/bimodal thing - he's still stupid, BUT there is a surprisingly high instance of people having unusual sex characteristics (secondary) where they still are identified as male/female (ex - unusually large clit). Not majority of people still. Chromosome wise, I looked into it a while back, and the answer is = if Y chromosome exists, then male, otherwise, female. To SFOs point, even if intersex people were more common, it wouldn't equate to transgenderism.

[@t.k.5844]

Back in the day we called an inability to separate fantasy from reality 'schizophrenia'. Now we call it 'progress'.

[@jamoecw]

'see that degree behind me? well i am going to talk to you about biology, which that degree is about.' - appeal to authority towards biologists 'biology has nothing to say about gender as it is a social construct and thus the realm of sociologist.' - arguing against the authority of biologists in the argument congrats you argued yourself from a weak position to an even weaker one.

[@Blader445]

The downtown core makes Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 look great.

[@averageanger7092]

At least you get cool stuff like Sandevistans and mantis blades in cyberpunk. I remember hearing somewhere that we live in some kind of dystopia, just a really really boring one.

[@eeelorde9962]

Where are giant robots or the cool drones tech .... fucking boring dystopia....

[@rwberger6]

I like how the degree guy made sure to wear a labcoat when making the video. Really sells it.

[@Ichthyodactyl]

'Girl Dinner' is literally just people eating snacks as a meal, which virtually everyone has done from time to time. There's a whole hyper-feminist explanation/defense of why 'girl dinner' is a real thing caused by the patriarchy and it's exactly as hilarious as you can probably imagine.

[@jcrosenkreuz5213]

Exactly, it's reinventing charcuterie or tapas

[@humblestumble497]

Tbh it's not that out there. My gf has food like this all the time whereas ill almost always have a full meal

[@MissRora]

​@@jcrosenkreuz5213Or a "mezze platter" if you want the Mediterranean term. It's great when you don't want to turn the stove on.

[@Tespri]

To be fair... who cares? At least they eat healthy.

[@papabird4425]

Everything in the modern day is just "rediscovering" shit that exists and calling it a new name.

[@trolleymouse]

Even though I lost my balls to torsion when I was 21, I'm still going to need my medical documents to say "male" for the health related concerns.

[@Fredy_The_Yeti]

"everywhere I go I get called sir" sounds like there is a common denominator

[@Douglemagne]

The concept of dysphoria is itself religious and nonclinical. It's absolutely insane that the word was entered into medical literature without protest.

[@ablebaker8664]

It's a DELUSIONAL mental health condition. It isn't listed in any legitimate biological pathology as an objectively physical disorder.

[@_Pyroon_]

I'm guessing that biologist (who needs a refund) also thinks humans aren't a two arm species because not all humans are born with two arms...

[@priapulida]

Some have them but can't use them. Those still are human. Denying that would overlap with Dev's shallow functional interpretation of sex.

[@mattd5240]

​@@priapulidaAnd what is your interpretation?

[@priapulida]

There is a Sex-determination systems section on that Sex wiki page. see there or the article on our system, the XY-Sex-determination system. Also relevant terms are gonochorism and anisogamy.. Point being sex isn't determined by the functionality of the primary sex characteristics.

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

It's interesting how they co-op terms about like phantom limbs like people losing limbs Compared to thinking you should have wings

[@scienceface8884]

Not only that, but of all features, wings? They're the same limbs as arms, flap away!

[@Mr.Slaughter]

The diversity hire biologist though 😂

[@metroidhunter965]

The university that gave him that degree, should retract his degree.

[@ablebaker8664]

​​​​@@metroidhunter965 He got it with $10 and 6 Fruit Loops cereal boxtops. The university advertising on the cereal box isn't gonna have a spare fk to give.

[@jadehakurei]

thank you dev for continuing the melting of our brains🙏🙏

[@MilkT0ast]

I always thought Age of Ultron was the weakest of the the avengers films. But now im thinking Ultron was on to something. He spent 2 seconds on the internet and realized humans need to go.

[@EarthForces]

He is still wrong. He only needed to target the insane ones but he got too megalomaniacal and had to be stopped. 😅😂

[@NekoBoyOfficial]

"I'll properly gender you. You're being a Karen." SAVAGE

[@pyro886]

earlier this semester in my anthropology course, my professor tried to pass off the idea the the sex binary's entire existence was upended by the fact that non XX and XY chromosome people exist. when i presented the same argument to her that dev makes in this video, she then promptly proceeded to berate me (in front of the class), calling me a bigot, and said that i didnt know what i was talking about while throwing a tantrum and not even listening to my side of the debate (argument). its absolutely a political motivation that drives how people view sex binary nowadays, and they're not trying to be subtle about it at all. she even did the same thing that pompous prick did in the video, trying to use her degree to justify why she was right and why i was wrong.

[@priapulida]

There are even tables which list f or m for all human karyotypes / intersex diagnoses. Show that to her.

[@pyro886]

@@priapulida its funny you mention that, because the very slide she showed us in class had medical examination descriptions on them that described the average physical characteristics of people with non XX or XY chromosomes. most of them described them as having down syndrome, infertility, yet still predominantly producing a specific gamete, therefore still allowing them to exist in the established sex binary while still operating outside of it.

[@willemdalebout3725]

That's awful. Sorry to hear you had to go through that

[@AtrusOranis]

Here is something to consider: If the existence of intersex people upends the sex binary, then should we accept "intersex" as it's own sex, it does not affect the root of the issue they present, where they argue that sex is a fluid spectrum. It just means that sex is still discretized, just in a trinary: Male. Female. Intersex.

[@pyro886]

@@AtrusOranis i think the reason most people decide to not actually count intersex as its own sex is because despite the existence of people having chromosomes other than XX and XY, they still largely only produce one gamete type anyway, which would classify them as either male or female.

[@xzylo451]

The second girl dinner with bread, cheese, and fruit is just a Dutch lunch.

[@ngsomeguy]

ok i have a Bachelors science degree, and my gf has an associates degree in biology. Her degree is marked as a Liberal Arts. This shocked me as i would think that Biology is a specific science, but i guess the colleges make sure they blur the line as much as possible to get their indoctrination in there. I would go as far as to say that much like her degree he went over basic biology and then the rest of the degree was (like hers) going over oppression in race and sex. So much so she had issues writing about so much stuff she knew wasn't true, like a paper on how white people are currently oppressing her, i had to help write half of it, and i just used buzzword bullshit.

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

Cyberpunk 2077 looks like a more pleasant urban environment than what we saw in that one video

[@chrissant6277]

"There is something that makes men and women latch onto these gender roles" THANK YOU, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW THIS

[@DNAsGhostzHouze]

So what you're saying Dev... is that they're literally bird brains.

[@TrickyMario7654]

Dev must love suffering through TikTok Tuesday. 😂

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

I’m glad he does it so we don’t have to…..but we do via proxy. We get the distilled elixir or ‘tard

[@SouthernGothicYT]

7:55 I love using this one particular example against this thought process when it comes to intersex people or anyone with a disorder around those lines: do my birth defects make my a different variant of human, like my MTHFR* gene mutation? _They never have a reply_ *if you're curious, it's a B12 deficiency. To get technical, it's a lack of an intrinsic factor that processes B12.

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

Nailed it, using genetic abnormality as a way to try and disprove evident natural processes is a really crazy road to go down. By this logic anyone with Dissociative Identity Disorder is now a new species called a multi-human (shit, I'm probably giving them ideas).

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

The very limited knowledge I have for (mixed) martial arts is more than enough to tell me the stance the German protester took was laughable. I mean, look how far off balance he was thrown just by the driver lightly swatting at him.

[@okami425]

I didn't even realize he was trying to square up with the guy! Lol

[@corenlavolpe6143]

A light breeze would knock him over. A light slur would obliterate him.

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

Best part was he immediately realized how badly that was gonna go when the guy moved forward and he immediately stood back up and assumed a non-threatening position. He knew that is god forbid he got in a fight he was gonna get his man bun smeared up and down that road, dude was clearly pissed at these idiots. That dude definitely had an anime playing in his head trying to assume a kung-fu stance lol.

[@thandokhan1962]

This happened in Switzerland.....

[@okami425]

@@thandokhan1962 eh close enough.

[@The_New_IKB]

Those wing kin types are what happens when the weird kids don't get bullied at school, and I say that as former a weird kid who had a rough time at school!

[@williambenton9959]

Ever look back at the shit you used to do/say in school and realized "fuck I would've bullied me too. Those kids knew what was up?" I did 😂

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

@@williambenton9959 I wouldn't go that far since I mostly just wanted to be left alone. That said, bullying builds up a type of psychic body armor that makes adversity in life a lot easier to deal with cause it gives you perspective.

[@altechelghanforever9906]

Usually I'd agree, but then I remember in my middle/high school years seeing very normally functioning people get bullied over the pettiest shit. I don't know what has happened to the internet after 2020, but why are we suddenly vindicating bullies? Y'all act like they disappeared from public schools after the mid 2010's? Hell no, if anything there's more of them now, they're just better at hiding themselves.

[@saisameer8771]

​@@williambenton9959😂 I would've totally bullied myself in school. Man I was super fucking cringe back then.

[@everythingthrice]

Only Dev would look up "Sex" on Wikipedia

[@penilescab]

and only to misinterpret the first sentence apparently. "the sex of a living organism is determined by its genes" is literally right there on the page he shows

[@priapulida]

@@penilescab I told him before to read the Sex-determination systems section. He did not.

[@alittleofsomething]

Just because I use logic and reasoning, don't do makeup or bother about my appearance as much as the other girls doesn't make my wide hips and big boobs go away. Still a woman, through and through. I want someone to punch sense into that biologist 🤦‍♀️

[@gestaltblitz8296]

Aha but if you put on a binder does your womanhood suddenly vanish?

[@alittleofsomething]

@@gestaltblitz8296 ew binders. No it does not. It damages tissue though, so I wouldn't wear it since I want kids.

[@c1a2t3a4p5i6l7l8a9r]

Wings or forelimbs on a human are typically called arms. I stretch my forelimbs/wings/arms all the time. Yeah when I wash my arms they do feel wet.

[@Sigurther]

Also, there are no mammalian, avian or reptilian creatures in all of history that have four legs AND wings. Some insects, maybe, but that's an entirely different kettle of fish. These people are just living out actual fantasies in real life in the most mentally damaged way.

[@sandyjourneys]

as a zoomer i have to say i don't understand thank you dev for explaining this tiktok language and giving me more reasons to not use the garbage spy app.

[@angrymob6714]

I can’t express how long I’ve waited for Dev to make a video covering the disorder fakers! It’ll be really interesting to see how he ties it in with a greater concept! He should also mention the Tourette’s and autism fakers. As an autistic person, it sickens me to see how these people appropriate people’s struggles to get social validation and oppression points. I swear, these “quirky” faker types are the reason I never tell people I’m autistic IRL. These people also seem to overlap with the transitioning for attention crowd. Unsurprisingly, these retards harm the people they claim to help. I’m proof of this since I never admit I’m autistic, on account of it being co-opted as a political tool or “quirky” personality trait.

[@totallynotfake1878]

I had a friend who tried pulling this DID shit in high school and it was so embarrassing. It was frustrating watching my peers put up with this nonsense, even though it was clear they didn't buy it either. Any time I tried saying something about it, I was told I was being "insensitive." Even better, this behavior only ever manifested online. In person, you'd assume he was completely fine. Wonder why. Sure enough, after a few months, all was well! He stopped being a dumbass. As if it never happened. 😂 The lengths to which my generation encourages and enables this attention-seeking behavior is astounding. Something something industrial society and its consequences

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

​@@zogwort1522There ARE people totally faking it, though, and it's really harming people who are actually autistic, particularly where it comes to 1) employment and 2) disability. Whichever path you're on, the way you're treated is based on people's idea of what "autistic" is. And that's turning out to be VERY harmful right now.

[@priapulida]

@@kateshiningdeer3334 some are also feeling the alienation of a more systematizing/male/introverted brain in an increasingly feminized society made for more empathizing/social brains. That alienation is real, but as you say, using/extending the category has massive downsides

[@debanydoombringer1385]

Psychology has noticed that people who watch, let's say tourette videos, do develop the tiks. It's not "faking" exactly. They still don't have it, but they subconsciously mimic it, it then becomes a habit. Real psychologists (as opposed to the ideologically captured ones) are trying to understand what's happening and treat them. It's very similar to a social contagion only they usually don't manifest with real physical symptoms like this. It's very bizarre. Now the multiple personality ones that can change on a dime and bring forward whatever personality they want is 100% fake. This happens on a pretty regular cycle. There was a rise in it after the movie The Faces of Eve and when a popular book has it in it.

[@angrymob6714]

@@priapulida Exactly, I feel like (at least in America) everyone is so obsessed with talking about feelings, empathy, inclusion, or whatever buzzword is most trendy to use. Cry-bullies and grievance grifters have completely taken over society. They actually seem to hate autistic people who don’t play along with their feelings. If God forbid you slip up and let people know your true opinions in public, they will absolutely tear into to you, regardless of you being autistic, socially inept, or just making an honest mistake. I’ve had first hand experience with this. Believe me, the people who talk so much about accepting people with differences, will be the first to destroy you for the smallest mistake.

[@akiraishin7141]

That last one was hilarious honestly. I would've loved to have been part of that situation. Would love to contribute to the "You need to leave, SIR."

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Girl/boy dinner trend is basically people desperately wanting to stereotype each other 😂

[@porcelainchips6061]

I went to a furry house 20 years ago. Basically someone turned their whole house into a public rec center for furries; fully decorated with things like an arcade room full of working cabinets, a giant comic book room just filled with stuff going way back from every genre and a padded "plushie" room. Everyone actually seemed rather chill, very; "we know we're weird" self-aware types... But in the corner, left alone in the plushie room, was the two-spirit person. Everyone left that one the heck alone with the shared opinion of; "they don't even know how weird they are" and that's what made them the weirdest of all. For the longest time two-spirit or systems existed in the furry zone and a lot of furries resented it because they felt like their fandom had become the containment thread for this homeless sub-genre of person that was otherwise culturally homeless. Looking back, I feel really bad sort of laughing at how the furries were "stuck" with dealing with the two spirits. I had no idea what would develop out of two-spirit getting it's own genre eventually on social media platforms.

[@vedritmathias9193]

As a furry, can confirm this is generally the view regarding twospirits and "otherkin": they're not with us. We know we aren't animals, or partly animal, or anything like that. We just like how anthro animals look.

[@tumultoustortellini]

That entire biologist's video was the equivalent of a sport medicine major swearing by the health benefits of orange juice. Every single argument he pointed out can be beaten through reasoning or google, neither or which requires a degree. It really makes one wonder if he just got that degree to say he has some form of authority.

[@priapulida]

There are practicing creationist evolutionary biologists. Having a degree and being a fundamentalist aren't exclusive. People can take a lot of cognitive dissonance,

[@Hammerhead547]

3:13 They've been doing that in spain for the last 500 years, its called: "tapas" which literally means "little bites".

[@maximk9964]

I'm glad somebody points out the non-science stuff from scientists.

[@draxomega]

"Scientists"

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

It's a bit like how someone can get a doctorate in another country and it wouldn't be valid in the US depending on where it's from. Just because someone has the paper, doesn't mean it means anything.

[@Eusong]

When I was around 14 I was put on antipsychotics because my OCD was so severe I was hallucinating sort of "phantom limbs" tied to it and it was excruciatingly painful. Sometimes I wondered if that psychosis contributed to how immersed I would be when roleplaying with friends as a little kid, that I was a non-humanoid creature with extra limbs. It was like I could feel those extra limbs rather than just imagining them. However the difference is, I could always turn it off immediately and stop feeling them. I couldn't turn off the OCD issues.

[@mikkohernborg5291]

Don’t be taken in by the terminology used by the decieved. There is *no* multiple personality disorder. There is a very rare mental illness known as Personality Integration Disorder, which is very far from the media portrayal of 'multiple personalities', with separate memories and expressions. PID is just a breakdown of consistency, erratic expression etc. Multiple personality disorder was fabricated by a few psychologists looking for the next new thing to get famous for discovering a new mental illness… kind of like how doctors elevate their position by 'assisting' trans people.

[@trevorsalamander8711]

I want the “biologist” drafted to the front line

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

Very late indeed, but the funny commentary over brain-rot is still appreciated.

[@Moofshire]

For a woman, there sure is a lot of testosterone behind that voice

[@vedritmathias9193]

And probably a beard under the bandana mask.

[@gellax111]

"The ideal meal is the one of a medieval peasant" Wasn't that a trend like a decade ago or so where the ideal meal would be one of a caveman? I remember some comedian joking about it saying "Sure, cavemen were stronger, but they also died of diseases you can heal from nowadays with hot water and positive thoughts".

[@asmkalrizion7078]

"girl dinner"? *me, literally watching this while eating my klondike bar dinner*

[@glanni]

My take: There's a huge difference between actual DID and "Tiktok DID". I do personally think the latter is also a condition (not necessarily made-up for fun, except ofc for the cases where it is, but something people actually feel even though it's delusional), probably a symptom of a larger issue. But they've built a sort of culture around it.

[@glanni]

*and btw to be more exact, with "something people actually feel" I don't mean "they are inhabited by the spirit of an eagle", but "they are believing this thing so much that they actually feel it because the human mind is pretty powerful with self-suggestion and imagination, and you can imagine sensations that you never had".

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I've done a little research into DID and I can't say with certainty that it is real. Last I checked it is a highly debated topic amongst psychologist as well with it being something like 60/40 split for and against it being real and not some other disorder. One can also look at the social contagion aspect as when media about the subject gets popular the cases rise as well.

[@glanni]

​ @imtakingyoutoflavortown3493 Interesting! But yeah, the social contagion is definitely real. But yeah, years before this trend was popular I read a bunch of online discussion about DID, and I remember that even then it wasn't really clear (I mostly read discussions though, so not scientific research). Still I do think that regardless of the validity of DID to begin with, Tiktok DID isn't even the same thing. People with DID don't just switch character on camera, or say "Oh let's talk to Timmy now, give me one second, I'll get him to front". The way DID was being discussed back then, and what people's alleged experiences were were so different from this modern issue, that I think kids just stole a label to call their delusion and/or roleplay and/or masking, etc.

[@TheNo15]

@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown That's what I found when researching it too. From what I could find, the mental illness seems to exist in some capacity, but whether it's possible to literally have multiple personalities in one brain is very controversial.

[@fidgetthecrazy]

I know someone with legitimate DID, and let me tell you, it is _nothing_ like what you see on tiktok. The switches don’t happen as frequently as they play it out to be, and it’s basically a very big drawn out trauma response on steroids, stemming from childhood trauma specifically, since your brain is still growing, and the compartmentalization part of your brain gets messed up, and your brain turns it into a defense mechanism, hence the “split personalities”, “fragments”, and possible “nonhuman” alters. Nonhuman alters are obviously not as common, and I’m not sure what to make of them yet. I will say this: what these people don’t realize well is that these alts are apart of them. They’re not “people living in my head”, they’re not “spirits trapped in my body”. They’re parts of you, they’re just not fused together.

[@compatriot852]

1:21 Please do. The recent influx of environmental nutjobs has been hilarious at times

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

I was praying the dipshit who assumed the kung-fu stance was actually gonna swing, That dude was going to fuck him up.

[@shawnganske8731]

8:55 thank you for using the word retard and not censoring your self!

[@Stillbourne42]

Fun facts about intersex: a high end estimate on the number of babies born with sexual presentations that don’t match their chromosomal characteristics is 1 out of 1500 births. A fun little game that is he trans community like to play is to include turners, adrenal abnormalities, and some other nasty stuff that can happen… which brings the percentage to 1.7%

[@priapulida]

They all still can be diagnosed as m or f too, on closer inspection, so it's all sophistry by them.

[@moneygrab610]

It’s really irritating when people parade their credentials, and even more when they use said credentials to purport things outside their scope of knowledge. The person in the TikTok is appealing to the authority of academia as if there is a consensus on social issues. It is braindead to find examples of anomalous or unusual behaviors in the animal kingdom and then somehow extrapolate to argue why some position on a social issue is good. Just because banana slugs are hermaphroditic does not mean humans should be striving for the same thing.

[@Sigurther]

"There are intersex people! That proves gender isn't a binary!" "But that's the exception, not the norm." "Well, I.." "Also, intersex people are very commonly sterile because it's a mutation, so they can't become a new type of human species." "Okay, but that's.." "Also, you already said sex and gender are not the same, so you nullified your own argument." "... Oh." "Yeah." ".... Uhm, well, how about..." "Shush, wrong person."

[@priapulida]

@@Sigurther intersex people all still are either f or m, on closer inspection, so they actually prove the binary. Humans are gonochoric.

[@scienceface8884]

Agreed. Neil Degrasse Tyson seems lovely and I could listen to him speak about stars all day, but he's got some pretty brain dead takes on anything outside his wheelhouse.

[@davidshiloh]

That first clip is in Philadelphia. Specifically, its an area in the eastern corner of North Philly called Kensington. Center City is, in fact, the urban center of the city. While it certainly has its problems, Kensington is particularly notorious for what the clip depicts.

[@genevievec.8002]

Ugh, I have an uncle (father figure) who's the virtue failing sad case. Homeless, drug addicted, and crazy. Keeps going to prison. He used to be normal, at least reasonably, but he just always felt like the world was against him, lacked willpower, and refused to take significant steps to improve his life (like keeping a job). I hate that it's his situation, but it's entirely self caused and avoidable. He had decades of help, but at what point do you just give up?

[@sethkeown5965]

First, im sorry to hear that. Second, the most you can do is offer a life line. A pamphlet for halfway homes, nightly meetings of like minded people trying to improve their lives. Things like that. Any more and youll run yourself too thin.

[@genevievec.8002]

@@sethkeown5965 I think that's generally good advice, but he's much too far gone. This started becoming a problem when I was 17, which was 10 years ago. Family has offered help or fully helped him many times, before it got to the point of homelessness, and after. Outside of getting him to rehab and then maybe a therapist, not sure much can be done. Not sure that'd do the trick even. Just... a broken person.

[@sethkeown5965]

@@genevievec.8002 might not be anything to do...thats why i say life lines. Just a rope that he can grab onto when he's ready. Otherwise, any more energy will drag you down too.

[@Sigurther]

I feel yah, man. Got a relative who's attempting to drink themself to death over a failed marriage (which was just as much their unfaithful spouses fault as theirs). Stayed with some friends a short time ago to try and get their life together and ended up drinking every bit of liquor in the house before getting kicked out. Drunk dials various members of the family and talks shit to their voicemail when they don't pick up. Been to rehab and detox multiple times, goes to AA, has a therapist, and still drinks themself unconscious every day. As much as I love them and would love to see them get healthy and whole again, they're literally the only one who can make themself do it and it doesn't seem like they have any desire to do so. I consider myself thankful that they aren't one of those 'Woe is me everything is terrible hey can I have some money' types.

[@Clown_the_Clown]

Cut him off

[@cynicalmage4840]

Seeing human beings like this makes me understand why 80 years ago there were cullings

[@andrewponder3855]

The breakdown about that use of scientific credentials to impose a point of view on a question of philosophy was ace!

[@WhiteNucklin]

5:00 these people never matured emotionally beyond the age of 7

[@Yorkington]

That "biologist" was in your earlier Tik Tok Tuesday prattling on about Leftist "unity", lol

[@Left4Coragem]

At 14:20 the meme became real. "Sir, this is a fucking Wendys!"

[@BoneWalker]

5:56 Berserk has told us that person needs to be stopped at all cost.

[@Theoscronos]

The wing dysphoria stuff is nostalgic, i haven't really heard otherkin stuff in years... still hilarious to laugh at

[@Theoscronos]

Tiktok is the new (2016-17 ish i think)Tumblr

[@blackosprey2219]

I'm shocked, I actually managed to hear about a tiktok trend ahead of a tiktok tuesday bc of my coworkers talking about Girldinner.

[@zoopdterdoobdter5743]

3:50 Yes, please? You know how the lockdowns zeroed more clocks than they extended? Celebrating Lizzo and similar has probably killed more than cheerleaders hacking up a Twinkie.

[@thelordofcringe]

Considering in one nightmare I had a tail, and could feel that shit, I wouldn't be surprised at all if shit like wings were within the realm of waking feeling for those with severe mental illness

[@herenaakuma85]

As a teen I used to feel as i had phantom wings and tail. I never EVER thought im a different species inside or have a "disphoria". I was always aware that it was just a consequence of my very active imagination and i loved playing with it ☺

[@NarrWhole]

And these are going to be the doctors diagnosing my strokes and cancer in 20 years

[@AceofWickedSpades]

It makes me sad to see people using DID like this… I’ve been trying to find a place to talk to others who have it lately because I’m struggling with it and it is so hard because of these people who clearly don’t have it but want to be special or something. I just want people who are also dealing with it more healthily than I am so I can get ways to cope with it better but everywhere I look it’s people talking about all this strange stuff that has basically nothing to do with the actual issue. Makes me sad..

[@fidgetthecrazy]

Hey, if it helps any, I know that you’re not alone. A have a dear friend that has DID, or at least OSDD, and she actually views it with a religious view, which is _not_ something you see, let alone on tiktok. I hope that you’re able to find that sense of community, and a good one that doesn’t reject you for having certain beliefs, or because you’re not “DID enough”, whatever that means.

[@compatriot852]

Good work dev. Made it just in time

[@monjheca]

About the "biologist": Remember that whole "the water turned the frogs gay"?

[@philagelio336]

1:35 this video and videos like it trend constantly on Twitter. It’s the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. It’s always been the worst part of the city but the drug problem has been fairly recent. Some lowbrows title it as “THIS IS AMERICAN CITIES” when it’s always, *always*, exclusively Kensington.

[@TheFatalcrest]

As someone who lves in the city...yep.

[@philagelio336]

@@TheFatalcrest Kensington has become twitter’s favorite America Doomer Porn

[@doopdoopdopdop7424]

No, medieval peasants didn’t solely eat bread and cheese. They ate vegetables and such that they grew in personal gardens, fruits from farms, etc. believe it or not, human diets have been diverse for a while.

[@AnAmericanMusician]

Neutering someone doesn't automatically make someone not male/female anymore. It's their chromosomes that ultimately matter when it comes to sex/gender. I seriously doubt a woman who became infertile due to outside circumstances wants to be told she's not a real woman anymore or vice versa.

[@Yipper64]

5:05 according to my research phycologists are generally split as to if DID exists, and if "systems" are a real thing. I cant remember what article said this but, given how much people lie about it, ive decided to take the hard stance that it just doesnt exist at all. If anything its some kind of schizo adjacent you know, "voices in the head" thing where people experience memory loss and such. The narrative that they develop a completely separate personality to deal with trauma just doesnt really make any sense to me. Like for it to be a physically new personality with no memory or connection to the other. I can see *pretending* as a coping mechanism but it wouldnt be like its own thing, it would just be one of many methods of coping with stress. And yeah, the fact they treat it with a more spiritual bend just kind of adds to that... I know its a lie because where are you even getting this concept from? Like the either. There's no person in history who did some kind of miracles and said "by the way people can have multiple spirits inside them" like you get kinda close with buddhism but that's reincarnation not multiple souls in one body. And as a Christian, my reference for multiple souls in one body isnt exactly a positive concept. I personally dont think it happens often if at all nowadays, mostly because its not really documented as happening, so I choose to believe they are just telling a lie. Probably including to themselves, but idk how much you can truly convince yourself of this stuff, like you have to know on some level youre BSing everyone with your nonsense. One of my core things, just as a person, is I hate lies. I hate telling lies, I hate being lied to. I prefer complete honesty in all things. And from the view of anyone with half a brain a vast majority of these people are lying. I had an experience directly with someone like this. I wanted to help out making a videogame so I got to talking with this guy. I think the reality is that he's between wanting to be trans but just doesnt want to keep that up *all the time* especially if he doesnt have access to a voice changer (so he doesnt want to change his voice either), because basically, he supposedly had two personalities, one male one female. And with trans ideology I would think that isnt possible because your brain has to be wired one way or the other... I digress, the point is, he had separate discord accounts for each, one he'd use on PC when he can sound like a girl, and one that he'd use if he cant access that at the time for his male personality. However he claimed that he shares memories between the personalities, something that is generally stated to not be the case for actual DID cases, which as I said, I dont believe even exist. So I was lied to. And I spent some time believing him. When I realized it was a lie I felt betrayed...

[@glanni]

I really liked your Science vs. Philosophy explaination.

[@LordBilliam]

The wing dysphoria thing is fascinating, because we know that mo keys can learn to remotely control a robotic third limb just like their existing limbs, so perhaps imagining wings can lead to the brain developing phantom limb syndrome for wings they never had?

[@pichugirl6]

The more tiktok tries to give out these fun little "lets call it this" when nobody ever calls it that is trying to prove my conspiracy theory that tiktok gives people tumors. the whole "girl dinner" looks pretty much no different to a snack tray or at the very least creating your own snack tray based on the things you enjoy consuming.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Yeah it looks like a protein snack thing that I've seen sold before.

[@seganesergrafxvision64_92]

1:47 hell yeah playing master of puppets which makes sense given that the song is about a person with a drug addiction

[@KnightOfTheWired]

I remember Jim talked about multi systems like 9 years ago. Why didn't we stop this...

[@osu-osu-osu]

"I won't put up with this shit anymmore" what are you gonna do, sh**t up the restaurant??

[@tylerfortniteninjablevins1457]

13:00 i think the tall and short thing is also based on how common a height is maybe anything smaller than the average is going to be classified as shorter same with tall anything bigger than the average is going to be classified as taller idk the average but i think its like 5'10 5'11 so 5'7 is short since its shorter than 5'11 and 6'0 is taller than 5'11

[@dylansmit3883]

I'm Dutch. 6'0" is just about exactly average. Nobody will call you tall over here if you're that height. So it is indeed a matter of perspective.

[@tylerfortniteninjablevins1457]

that seems to check out too ye

[@serrodderick]

The culture of tiktok is proof that we never should have tried to stop bullying people.

[@northerntoe]

4:41 Do you notice these people always talk fast? It’s not like too fast to be not heard properly, but it’s almost as if they are rushing through the sentence. Maybe that’s a consequence of TikTok because I’ve noticed that from short term videos. The piece of their speech tends to be hurried because it’s supposed to be short form It’s got to be some kind of weird trend caused by this weird era of short form video content