Fictional Influence

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TikTok Skits Are Driving You Insane
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TikTok Skits Are Driving You Insane

The lack of real life experience is ruining society

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Kristin McTiernan
Sep 06, 2024
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As an introverted weirdo, I don’t get overly pressed about how most people are living through their screens these days.

Most of the time.

The one instance that does strongly trouble me is in the way young men and women seemingly have no idea how to interact with one another IRL.

We take a lot of our cues for how men and women behave from popular media. Troublingly, a lot of discourse from younger people is based solely on staged skits for TikTok and YouTube clicks and those stupid “men with microphone” podcasts. You know, the ones featuring young men who have never had a successful relationship?

It’s not helpful, not even a little.

The kids aren’t interacting in real life. Boys aren’t walking up to girls to ask them out. Often they won’t do it over text either. The risk is too great. What if they’re recorded getting rejected and subjected to internet mockery? What if their screenshots are posted for the same?

Nah, forget that. Better to sink into porn. Less risk.

The result of this is that y…

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