Comment by diggan
14 hours ago
Any parent (and even us non-parents who've spent a lot of time around kids) know that the best way to get teenagers to stop doing something, is to start doing it yourself. If you forbid them to do something, it's basically inviting them to try their hardest to do it anyways.
This is exactly why I’ve started slinging gen alpha lingo at our daughters: even doing it jokingly makes them cringe enough to stop using it themselves.
I do this to my son as well and I have to admit it is unreasonably effective.
Slay. No Cap, Fanum Tax that Skibidi.
Interesting that most of this "gen alpha" slang are phrases used by Black Americans for years
There are tons of people over 30, 40, 50 even over 90 on TikTok.
Are those people also making posts like "I'd rather get shot by Mao than use Instagram Threads/Reels" right now?
Sure. People older than 30 also dislike when the government tries to censor their access to some media.
37 here and: yes.
PG just wrote a blog, it shows the history of how students in the 1960s holding Mao's Red Book (pun intended) was the origin of the "woke" thing.
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Yeah… People just hate being told what they’re not allowed to do.
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That's true, but proportionally they're a vast minority.
The algorithm segregates based on physical features, which can make sure they don't see one another with frequency.
It's known to use facial recognition to boost videos of "beautiful people".
https://www.dexerto.com/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-prioritizes...
Not true at all. I see people of all ages.
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This is how I got mine to stop saying slay, preppy and sigma. The look of horror and cringe on their face when I say crap like "skibidi ohio rizz" in front of them and their friends, is a chef's kiss.