TikTok Brain Rot: hyper consumerism and the age of influencer marketing

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@BuyLessJess 6 ай бұрын

I started asking myself “if you lost your job, would you regret this purchase?” and suddenly, I am ad-proof. Good luck selling me something.

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@BuyLessJess that’s a really good tool!

@SnazzyRazz 6 ай бұрын

Remember: you are not immune to propaganda. The more you think you are, the less you actually are

@Iquey 6 ай бұрын

Woohoo!!!🎉

@betaniaayala3832 6 ай бұрын

This is a great question and a sure way to buy just what we need

@Loeviis 6 ай бұрын

I’m going to add that question to my list! Thanks😊

@TheKnallkorper 6 ай бұрын

My flex is that I see anything advertised on social media as an immediate scam and I never buy anything 😅

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@TheKnallkorper me too! if it say “creator earns commission” i do not trust it hahah

@Cryinginthecloudssss 6 ай бұрын

We even have ads on tumblr now everywhere is so full of ads now. Once they can put ads in our dreams they will like in Futurama

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@Cryinginthecloudssss seriously! there’s no escape!

@Iquey 6 ай бұрын

"this singlehandedly cured my.." FTC and FDA Break down your door and put you in a chokehold. *"YOU CAN'T JUST BE MAKING HEALTH CLAIMS LIKE THAT, SIS!"*

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@Iquey i cut out about 10 minutes of footage of me just SCREAMING about this lmfao it takes everything in me not to comment on tiktok “SHUT UP!”😂

@mochiness 6 ай бұрын

Thank you this! I felt like i was going INSANE especially as of late- and i dont even have tiktok! it just feels like now more than ever, we're always being advertised, being sold something or some service, some app, and it makes me feel a little distrustful of all content creators and influencers. I like the little history lesson you added in the front to give us more of a rooted context- great video!

@silver_scythe_black_roses 6 ай бұрын

I hate this whole trap of that we HAVE to romanticize something, either the reality we want or the reality we have. We are bombarded with negativity day in and day out, we want to escape, and TikTok's easily accessible store can give us that escape with a tap of a finger. The only way to combat this is to unplug your brain from all of this asinine, empty content, retrain your brain to not be addicted to purchases, and live your life. Nothing is better than feeling financially secure. A shirt or a skin product will NEVER change your life. Only YOU will. Edit: I went on a rant without saying that this was a good video! Very well thought out!

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@silver_scythe_black_roses hahaha i loved your rant! i totally agree. a walk in nature or a couple hours with a book or some knitting cures way more ailments than purchasing crap

@vvitch-mist20 6 ай бұрын

I hate ads so much. They ruin the flow of what you're watching, and it's for the same like 10 brands. They always make you feel some kind of way about yourself in order to make you buy their product. It's a damn nightmare. I wanna see ads for small mom and pop shops, not corporations with international fame. Honestly I will say that it is important to give ads the coverage under the government because if they didn't then people will be bigoted about it saying they don't want "xyz group" in their ads. Like it sounds stupid, but given the country we live in it's best to also include this. Ads have artistic talent put into them, and art should always be protected under the law.

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

100% !

@Screamsinlowpoly 6 ай бұрын

I have huge respect for your integrity. I honestly feel like having to see ads in the middle of every yt video (except yours!!) is rotting my brain

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@Screamsinlowpoly haha thank you!!!

@thegirlwiththecurlyhair 6 ай бұрын

I havent even started the video, but today on linked in I searched my job field and every post was “promoted”. Then I applied to two that sent me emails asking me to “sign up for immediate interview!” So so much BS in the job search world. You can’t escape this crap anywhere.

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@thegirlwiththecurlyhair SERIOUSLY! the amount of “open positions” there are and you never get a response. so annoying

@BENHARRIS1955 6 ай бұрын

A tour de force, Dion. I am so proud and admiring of you. The image research that you put into this is staggering. "People capitalism"! Ho ho ho. I had never heard of that one before. I am not on Tik Tok but the title of this vid is TikTok Brain Rot and I totally get that. Dion knows that I don't have a television, I haven't had a TV in over 20 years, I didn't watch TV when I was in college. And when I went home on break and watched the same shows that I watched growing up with my family, I felt my brain rotting by the minute. You're a captive audience not only to the brain rotted sit com but also to the ads. The invention of the channel changer threw corporate America into fits. "Whoa! Wait a minute, you can't do THAT!" Little did we know. You can't escape advertising. That makes you a captive. Predatory advertising: YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA! I think it was in Marshall McLuhan's book The Medium is the Message where the SUBLIMINAL advertising of alcohol was exposed. Say, you'd have a good-looking guy next to a bottle of whiskey and a glass holding same. In the beautiful amber fluid was a stylized image of...a naked woman! Corporate personhood: When I first read i poli sci class or maybe in law school that way back, in the 1920's or something, the courts ruled that a corporation had many of the same rights as a person, I remember my instant reaction: "Mistake." If I only KNEW! BEEG MISTAKE!!!! Remarkable video, much appreciated and needed. One one captive to another, "This Bud's for all that you do".A million👍👏

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

thanks so much dad ❤❤❤❤

@Iquey 6 ай бұрын

I can't stand everything being an ad anymore too. I try to share very chill, silly, authentic, free content on TikTok, or talk about a topic I care about for maybe for 1-2 minutes.. and it puts me in 200 view jail no matter what, because people expect either thirst traps, dances with gymnastics, extremely stimulating ASMR, sports, or gaming, but if you're just vibing and trying to start real discussions?? Nope. 200 view jail. The algorithm punishes you for being *boring* , not exceptionally pretty, and not pushing any products. I would maybe start a new TikTok just for art but even that feels almost pointless unless I want to spend all my time making funny animatics, but I have a full time day job too, and TikTok seems to punish people who don't make the platform their primary use of time, or penalizes sporadic posting. And good art takes time!!!

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@Iquey i totally agree!!

@defsnotdevyn 6 ай бұрын

Honestly a really good video most consumerism videos are slightly surface level lol Love the points on having a credit card doesnt mean fashionable and the part about preying on the vulnerable

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@defsnotdevyn so glad you enjoyed!

@KeyshaeRobinson 5 ай бұрын

Favorite video you've done so far!

@SaMira-gb6vg 6 ай бұрын

I think I‘ll have to watch it again bc I was so distracted by the ads 😂

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@SaMira-gb6vg 😂😂

@connyhk5731 6 ай бұрын

Already loving it

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

❤❤

@karolinauk7836 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for deinfluencing me ♥️

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@karolinauk7836 hahaha anytime!!

@jenniferlynnkarr 6 ай бұрын

I think we need to stop saying things like 'get your bag' in defense of people filming this garbage bc economy things cost money etc etc but saying 'oo yeah get your bag' in reference to this kind of trash marketing gives people an excuse/defense to film it. like yeah they're gonna film it anyway but there's things we say that give them that defense.

@dionthetaurus 6 ай бұрын

@@jenniferlynnkarr i totally agree. on the one hand i don’t want to punish or shame people for trying to make a living, on the other hand im like how do you live with yourself knowing you’re selling crap to take people’s hard earned money??? like how are you okay with knowing your videos encourage people to buy fast fashion or trash from amazon😭 i cut out like 5 minutes of me shaming influencers in this video bc i was doing a lil too much 😂

@jenniferlynnkarr 6 ай бұрын

@@dionthetaurus I absolutely get it bc youtubers are forced to say so many ridiculous clarifying sentences and yeah if you straight up say anything fully factual like 'hey shein and temu hauls are bad and you should stop doing that' you're going to get an army of people in the comments calling you a bad mean evil person for the implication that THEY pulled out of your statement that anyone doing shein/temu hauls is a bad person bc the hauls are bad, even though you didn't say that!