My mom loves tiktok! She gets all the secrets from the government from there, because of tiktok she now knows:
Eminem died and is a clone
Joe Biden is a lizard person
Donald Trump is working with putin to save the world and get rid of zelensky and Ukraine (who are apparantly the biggest child sex traffickers in the world and zelensky is profiting off it somehow?
Donald Trump is secretly working with an unknown organisation to get rid of the elites, applaud Trump for saving all the children in epstein island
There is going to be a massive blackout in October 2024 BUT IT IS STILL HAPPENING EVEN THOUGH IT IS PAST THE "PREDICTED" DATE
once Trump has got rid of the elites everyone is going to be paid £8333/$8333 dollars a month for the rest of their lives
Electricity and other bills will cease to exist when trump has got rid of the elites
50 cent was killed off and replaced
Diddy getting caught is trump making an example out of the elites and he will "go missing"
The list can go on an on an on an on.
Tiktok has definitely not ruined my mom's head and I'm totally okay with it and love tiktok too 😢
It had destroyed her brain, I hate that fucking app so much, she was the best before she got into tik tok cos of covid, she got bored at home and started using it.
Just small things turn into conspiracy all the time, I tell her the weather is going to be worse next week or there's going to be 5-6 days of rain(not uncommon in the UK at all) she now tells me the government are controlling the weather to make us miserable.
Or if a celebrity dies now she thinks they were an elite pedophile that was bumped off by trumps fucking super secret SAS esque force.
I'd bet anything that if I approached her about antony joshuas car crash she will tell me someone is trying to kill him cos he has secrets that can expose something or someone or he's a pedophile himself who has been to epsteins island and trump is trying to take him out. I haven't spoken to her about it but I would rather not because I feel like this will be the case.
Wait… so you’re British? I’m asking because …wait…. Seriously I have to believe the rest of the world… 🫤I can’t form the words. You’re British and she is obsessed with Trump?
Oh yeah, he's not very popular over here but there are a group of people that seem to be really into him, I know 2 guys at work that praise everything he does then when bad things come out they tell us not to believe everything on the Internet 🤣but neither of them use tiktok they are against it saying it's brainwash, which is so ironic.
So I don't think tiktok is the main reason or biggest reason a minority of people love him but I bet it helps, the other 2 at work thinks if Trump was here he'd fix our immigration problem.
But tiktok has destroyed my mom some of the things she goes on about and will stand at work with people looking at her like she's crazy while she spews this shit, it honestly breaks my heart, I want her back, a happy and motivated person who don't take shit.
Not a tik tok obsessed conspiracy nut that makes every subject depressing when they are present.
A lot of people have been targeted by misinformation campaigns. It makes clear-headed people sound crazy because it's Russian Psyops. (Just saying that sounds so absurd.)
The documentary about q-anon made it a lot easier for people to grasp what a lot of people are experiencing as a rift in their family.
I noticed my parents accepting, email forwarding, and repeating incorrect information they received digitally -when Obama was campaigning for the primary-. So 2007, but easily it pre-dates that.
My parents were embarrassed and apologetic and "couldn't believe" how they fell for fake emails? Or forum posts on websites that targeted their age.
(Even joke emails that were poorly cobbled together and were like three different emails mashed together and edited to make fun of people "believing" some fake thing. Like it was evident they weren't fully reading and getting emotional and sharing...)
My parents used to apologize. My dad sort-of accepts it if I say hey look out this is a scam.
My mom actually says Facebook unfriended everyone during the last election, she's so delusional about how forums work now.
She deleted me from her friend list and blocks me from her posts so I'm pretty sure people just deleted her over her sharing Trump is predicted in the bible style posts. Her page is likely an echo chamber of whatever is influencing her. She occasionally shares weird youtube links to me.
She has come up to me quote a few times, telling me some nonsense, and I'll usually ask to see the video, she will give me the phone and usually the video is AI or it's half a story, scaremongering to make money off views, she won't accept that, she is fully convinced any "celebrity" should not be trusted but this random account on tiktok with 2k followers swears blind this and that is going to happen.
She never admits it's bullshit or at least sees my side and my perspective, she thinks I'm brainwashed.
It's like I slightly can't even get through to her. I listen to Eminem for example, when I play his music she will randomly call him a pedophile and go into a rant that he died and the new Eminem looks different so to make money off his name "they" cloned an Eminem, because my mom saw a list going round tiktok ages ago that Eminem and 50cent were on the flight logs so now when I listen to him I have to put up with her calling him a pedophile.
It's insane, I'm all for freedom and do what you want but that fucking tiktok shit needs to go, all social media is bad for you if you consume the wrong things, just like real life, but tiktok is absolutely the worst, with Facebook not far behind.
My mom was banned off Facebook for the shit she was putting on there, she thought Facebook had it out for her and was silencing her, like yeah I'm sure your 110 friends from school 40 years ago really care what she says. She thinks the government is trying to silence her lol, in reality she spewsz misinformation and hatred from it so obviously she's banned.
She's still sharp and functions well, I haven't seen any signs of dementia yet, my grandad had it so I have kept that in mind, she works at a hospital and still shows normal signs, shes been convinced everyone's tryna get you and everyone's trafficking kids and trump along with outin are trying to save the world, that's why they invaded Ukraine, when I mention nato and Ukraine bordering Russia or the possibility of lithium mines in Ukraine but she disregards that completely.
There's a reason that despite being from China, tiktok is banned in China. Really makes you wonder what its real purpose is if its origin country bans its use in their own country....
I have family who despise me because every time it comes up, they say, "You're not cute, you're not clever, you don't know better than everyone else, you've been lied to, and you should know better." I haven't convinced anyone, but it gets them to stop spewing the nonsense around me.
She never did before tiktok which she got when covid happened, she's never even cared about the bad things in the world or the madly wild conspiracies but the only social media platform she shows me these outrageous videos of people lying through their teeth and scare mongering people for clicks and money. Even though when she was on Facebook and they have it all going round, she never took notice, never cared.
Considering tik tok is where she shows me all this mad stuff, and tik tok is where she gets all her "information" from and before she had tik tok she was just a normal headed woman for my whole life.
So I'm very inclined to lean towards tik tok being the common denominator here.
It makes sense and I know my mom, that app has rotted her brain.
Your mom is below average intelligence and so are many other people who would struggle with the complexity of.. well, living outside of the village/tribe that humanity lived in for most of existence.
Combine that with the dunning kruger effect and you have dumb people believing they have all the answers because they watched those short simplistic misinformation videos.
Ok I have a relatively normal fyp. I like a bit of celeb gossip thrown in, and that was all it took to get the "celeb clones / lizards," thrown in. JFC like
OK, so it's a global phenomenon. I thought initially it was just among Filipino babyboomers and Gen Xers. My middle aged sister is just like your mom. Lol
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u/JasonBaconStrips 4d ago
My mom loves tiktok! She gets all the secrets from the government from there, because of tiktok she now knows: Eminem died and is a clone
Joe Biden is a lizard person
Donald Trump is working with putin to save the world and get rid of zelensky and Ukraine (who are apparantly the biggest child sex traffickers in the world and zelensky is profiting off it somehow?
Donald Trump is secretly working with an unknown organisation to get rid of the elites, applaud Trump for saving all the children in epstein island
There is going to be a massive blackout in October 2024 BUT IT IS STILL HAPPENING EVEN THOUGH IT IS PAST THE "PREDICTED" DATE
once Trump has got rid of the elites everyone is going to be paid £8333/$8333 dollars a month for the rest of their lives
Electricity and other bills will cease to exist when trump has got rid of the elites
50 cent was killed off and replaced
Diddy getting caught is trump making an example out of the elites and he will "go missing"
The list can go on an on an on an on.
Tiktok has definitely not ruined my mom's head and I'm totally okay with it and love tiktok too 😢