my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

Girl……

This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!

Also it takes literally no effort to be kind and put on headphones. And you even enjoy the sound better that way. And don’t you say “but headphones hurt my ears” when there are so many options available including cheap but good large headphones

“You should feel blessed I’m playing my TikToks in public not everyone has a sense of humor like moi” is bar none the most gen Z thing I have ever read

also can I just say, as someone who uses public transport frequently here in Italy, that it is not only “gen Z kids” who do this? some of the most obnoxious perpetrators are grown people who blast their shitty conspiracy theory vids / nostalgic fascist propaganda gags / ~quirky fb vids / “”“hilarious”“” whatsapp viral vids / etc. etc. on their phones at fucking 8.30am on a tuesday