by Bowtied Robin on Twitter talking about how TikTok presents different content to Americans than it does Chinese youth. Do you see any problems? So TikTok, a Chinese company, we I guess we know this this is not a guess, presents very different information to youth in China than it does to Americans. What do you think it gives to Chinese youth that's different from Americans? What would you guess? Well they give American youth useless people dancing and they addict them to it. So they make American youth, they addict them to useless nonsense that doesn't help them and probably hurts their health. What they do to Chinese youth is the algorithm feeds them valuable life skills. Just think about that. China is feeding valuable life skills to Chinese consumers of TikTok and they're feeding useless drivel to Americans and everybody else I guess which teaches them nothing and actually removes their ability to have critical thinking and turns them into just puppets basically.

Now let me say something that just seems shocking to you. TikTok is not banned in America. How many of you remember the first time I said TikTok should be banned in America? Does anybody remember that? What happened the first time you heard it? First time you heard it you said that's a little too far right? And then I said it a few more times. I said it a few more times and then you heard you probably heard that the Trump administration wanted to ban TikTok right? And then I guess it didn't happen and the Biden administration doesn't seem to be on that track. But it doesn't sound crazy does it? Banning TikTok. If you know anybody who uses it you know what it's doing to them.

Now let me make a confession. I don't use TikTok and the reason is it's a Chinese company. I know it would be maybe good for my business you know raise exposure introduce myself to a new generation all that but I'm not going to use it because of the Chinese connection. But I have been consuming accidentally Instagram Reels. Now if you don't use Instagram let me explain. A Reel is a quick little video that's basically what TikTok is. So Instagram has within it a feature that mimics everything TikTok does and it's a popular feature. And I made the mistake of clicking on some Reels in Instagram I don't know some time ago and I flipped through and maybe one out of five was kind of cool. I liked it. Gave me a little dopamine hit. Four out of five were annoying people dancing. There's nothing more annoying than a Reel in which the woman acts cute and then she has to do a self-conscious laugh at the screen. I can't stand it. So you know what I mean. It's the woman's dancing and after she does the dance then or she's looking pretty and she's just walking and then after she's walking pretty she does the look at the camera this one and turn off the camera because I'm so self-conscious. I wasn't trying to look pretty. No no you might have thought I was looking pretty but no no no I'm not pretty. Don't stop it. Stop it. I'm not ready. I can't stand it.

I see those things and if I accidentally have the sound on now there's one that's worse because people use these voiceovers that they pair with their own video. Have you heard this one? I love my puppy dogs. My puppy dogs. Has anybody, you've heard that one right? And once you click on one of those you just keep getting it. Now my puppy dog my favorite dog is anyway.

So here's my point. Do you know how addiction works? It's not the way you think. Addiction is not getting what you want. Addiction is getting what you want occasionally. That's what makes you addicted. So if you look at four Reels let's say, let's say you look at five Reels, one of them is awesome and you love it and the other four you wish you hadn't seen, you will become addicted better than if you liked all five. If you liked all five you just get used to them then you'd be I had enough of that. But because you have to hunt for them you have to work for it and you're getting all these false ones and bad ones before you get one that just moves you, that's addiction.

Now I started using the Reels I don't know a few months ago and I found myself taken over. Right now it might be because I study this you know all my life brainwashing and hypnosis and persuasion. I'm kind of really tuned in to that part of life. I could feel my brain being taken over. I could feel my body no longer being able to stop doing it. I have the actual feeling of I can't even stop my finger. I would like to go like that's pretty funny. I would like to be doing something. Oh that's not funny. That's not funny. Listen I wish I were. Well that's funny. Have you had that experience yet? Has anybody experienced actually having their body taken over? Because that's a total takeover from my body. Yeah yeah.

Now Twitter does the same thing but I rationalize it as you know part of my entertainment and also part of business. If I didn't use Twitter for business you know it's part of connecting with an audience. If I didn't do that I would run from that thing so fast. Like I would not use it for entertainment. To me it just feels dangerous right? But for business you do some dangerous things. Risk reward blah blah blah. But I can't justify using Instagram and just looking at Reels because there's no business purpose there whatsoever and I can't stop. Yeah slot machine theory exactly.

So the TikTok question about whether TikTok should be legal in America is a no-brainer. TikTok absolutely should not be legal. It should be shut down today. It's one of the most dangerous things. I would also think that we should put some kind of limit on addictive social media. So the other thing that Chinese social media does, TikTok, is they ban it for certain hours for certain ages in China. You can't even use the damn thing during certain hours. That's not true in America.

So when we're watching the Chinese right in front of us destroy the youth of America and more than the youth because we're addicted to it too, destroying America while trying to build up their own internal capabilities, what side is our government on? Who exactly is on the side of keeping TikTok? Tell me. Worse off history. I'm going to guess that that's being funny but tell me this. I've heard an argument that TikTok should be banned. Ha