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How Much Damage is TikTok Really Doing?

#bodyshaming#rashard#tiktok#fifthgrade#spider
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0:00 I'm hip hop Anthony now you know what I'm saying were you dancing though like were you [Music] like all right all of you guys who actually have kid actually have kids are going to like this all right yeah I'll shut up for this one then so there's this childcare worker that was explaining on social media about how she has been seeing the difference in like how kids are today and how she thinks like Tik Tok is totally ruining them so she lists all these things that she observes in them and when I guess like guys like us start to read this it looks like we kind of did the same stuff but I don't know I'll let you be the judge okay so um is she like uh like older and she's seen like multi-generations of kids and she how many generations I think she's kind of like our age our like AG so she's seen one generation

0:51 yeah you too young to be talking about back in my day yeah you need to be like 50 or 60 we do that here all the time back in our day let's see if these things are unique to the social media age or if the television age kind of had the same thing cuz I feel like it did um so she's look she's observing these kids that are as young as nine that have Tik Tok accounts which that is like crazy Tik Tok is kind of wild though yeah that sounds like that shouldn't be but uh she points out these problems she sees the kids body shaming each other is that something that we had when we were we fing did that parents body shamed us but the but the level I'm curious but it made us better maybe this one's making them worse maybe the way and the tack that they're doing it is not as good yeah that's true I think I think it could be the way it's done and yesterday I just witnessed Tao being

1:41 self-conscious for the first time and I was like oh so like taica love Spider-Man right that's his favorite superhero and um so when he first started Jiu-Jitsu I was like crying already I was like get I'm gonna get him a Spider-Man rashgard and you know when you're a kid you just love everything that's you know so he has it and and he loves that ████ Rashard yeah even though I I love it even more because he looks ████ ████ in it but it's my favorite he goes to Jiu-Jitsu yesterday and he's and he puts on his regular Spider-Man Rashard a big kid comes in maybe like 10 or 11 and he's like Spider-Man Rashard and then he walks by and ta comes up to me and he goes Papa I don't want to wear this Rashard I was like man I was like why I you want me to ████ that kid up his guard's not that good

2:31 I was like why he goes I didn't like the way he said it I was like but he didn't even say it in a bad it was just it was one of those um just caught him off guard you know like a grasshopper like that but then I guess it was just such a big he's being vulnerable it was just such a big moment that he was like I never realized it was going to attract that kind of attention but also on the flip side it's one of those things when the adults watch the kids class all the adults all the parents like dude I need a ████ Spider-Man rush too but it didn't cool an adults say it no I know and I was like oh ████ so he he has self-consciousness for the first time wow so like I haven't experienced you know like body shaming or whatever at at like him and his friends level but I think he's probably going to enter into that where like now they're like oh look at your nose look at your eyes look at your teeth or whatever but I mean in in a in a maybe different uh positive

3:22 environment isn't that like a part of what makes him mature or stronger you know what I mean cuz like Tao probably also is not going to be the type of kid who wants to wear a Spider-Man rash car when he's like 14 but the only way to truly learn or like move past it is when another Pier you know what I mean kind of shames you in certain way that's how we all grew and learned about random ████ also I take everything with the Grandin of salt cuz he does have the memory of like a ████ fly so when it's Jiu-Jitsu tomorrow he might just put it on just go straight into it yeah you know a lot of like a lot of kids they just like that moment is that moment so I always have to like see if it happens three times I don't want to do it anymore yeah exactly like I hate this and the ████ him the next week he's like oh this is pretty good actually I had u i I have a an older sister so I I only had hand-me-down type ████ right and and I was too young to do anything myself and I remember when she got a CD

4:13 player I finally got to take her Walkman but I didn't know how to ████ do cassette ████ you know what I mean so I only had her music on her Walkman but I just wanted to be cool at school and have a Walkman right so on her ████ cassette tape there's like like a virgin is on there right that's one of the songs it's just like a mixtape be I'm listening to my recess cuz I just want to look cool a ████ kid Jacks it from me puts it on like let me hear this ████ here's Like a Virgin blast me in front of the whole basketball court and I remember thinking in that moment I remember thinking that moment from now on I'm only listening to rap I'm hi hop Anthony now you know what I'm saying were you dancing though like were you like no not at all I'm just trying to look cool like can have it on you know what I mean just like putting it close to people's

5:03 ears but you know what I'm saying like that's a core memory I'm I'm going to cry that's crazy there's those moments that shake you yeah that's ████ crazy I would have been like getting my best friend and I'll put like a virgin in the ████ speaker box so they could be like like blasting it loud and I'll be like I'm going to go ████ this ████ up so you play that really loud and I just start attacking him so he could listen to Madonna while I ████ his ass up every kid wishes they have that friend you know what the the inverse of that is there's always that kid like a that you can't even he's like bulletproof I remember in high school there was this one cool ass kid Nam Ryan and we were all no ain't me we were all making yeah we were making fun of like like everybody was like bashy boy is gay insync is gay like everybody was say that this one dude like really cool was just sitting there like like humming the lyrics and ████ and we were like a you're gay bro that's insane and he goes

5:53 it thing's pretty cool and we're like I guess I guess this thing is pretty cool Ryan could do that no dudee you say I wish I could do that ████ man you got to get T to do that you got to be like Spider-Man rest dude I remember it being in fifth grade and it's a clear memory because like my hygiene is because of this guy now I remember in fifth grade I go over to my homie house he's my best friend at the time right he lives across the street I go over there and I don't know if I was sweaty or whatever and I was just in his room we're just chilling and he was showing me this new turntables he has and he goes bro you smell like a dog I remember going like what the ████ is that even me from that point on two showers every day W take my you're very clean shower before you email take exactly take my laundry mom you ain't doing my ████ laundry anymore you put a ████ dog

6:43 sents in that's true dog shampoo I need to do my own ████ laundry just that one moment that's what I'm saying like are they talking about girls cuz I know they go through some completely different ████ but the thing is like body shaming I feel like was worse when we were kids because that ████ was on TV movies I feel like body shaming affects girls the most yeah for sure I think the guy kind of body shaming is different why uh we're like it's more like you ████ weak piece of ████ or like you fat ████ oh like ability no like the way that that it's like body shamed it's like it's more like yeah it's more like um for fun it's not so much yeah I think the the the way that girls do it to each other is different oh okay yeah so I don't know if that's what they're talking about though like how early the body shaming comes cuz that's that's how they grow up with all those ████ up things about like eating disorders looking you know like they had that ████

7:34 in our generation too where girls would be like ████ vomiting food and they're like trying to be a supermodel and they're like dude you're in the fifth grade why the ████ are you vomiting food when we were kids we didn't really have the example of like championing someone for being fat we didn't have that yeah right like the the plus-sized models back then are like the average woman today type yeah we didn't have that at all and also back then it's like if you weren't eating there's plus-sized models back then that's what I'm saying back then that was who's going to show the tri XXL vest that they're selling it it was a plus-size mon back then wore like mediums but now it's like they didn't even have them cuz that's like saying a smart dumb guy mediumsized model look like like like Anthony anyways um also back then like if you didn't eat it was anorex today they call it like fasting totally fine with that ████ you know what I mean it's like everything's just different even though it's the

8:24 same how about this how about um she said that she'll see people or kids bullying each other girls were bullying each other over their parents not being able to buy them Lululemon that's ████ oh so that's like a teen thing that's really the kids they're like nine and 10 dude lul lemon has a 9-year-old now yeah now well lul lemon's not the top dog anymore now it's like normal cuz L became racist or something that's ████ like $70 for kid pants yeah dude inflation inflation we had Miller's Outpost element pants yeah I was going to say like that sounds like some Palace verie struggles you know like kids that grew up in those neighborhoods even in the '90s they're ████ making fun of each other for like not having ████ that's true it never that always was a thing yeah so I don't know but being a baller on social media is I feel like in everyone's face all the time so it's like oh you broke it's like it's like

9:14 that type of ████ there different levels like now it's like Bugattis right but before like when I was a kid like you don't have airw walks you don't sag your pants you're lame airw walks with these sneakers and like before I bought anything fashionable it was Airwalk was the first one and I had to beg my parents to get me a pair cuz I for maybe they I don't even know how much they were like 50 bucks maybe or 30 bucks whatever was expensive back then 30 bucks 35 I had to literally like cried to get to fit in with the kids cuz they were getting me like knockoff shoes from Vietnam shoot my mom's getting me knockoff shoes from Vietnam now son you'll love these Nikes Mom they're not Nikes please stop buying me these things I'm like they don't look anything like dks here's here's a unique one um twerking like little girls are twerking oh that's s weird I don't know the equivalent of that from our age I don't I don't like the sexualization of like

10:04 younger people yeah but I think she's trying to say that because of Tik Tok that's like algorithmic I think Tik Tok it fastracks it for sure and it's like but did we have something like that as kids I mean no but the freak dancing was most cuz then like even in fifth grade that didn't happen for me until High School freak dance so it's it evolves sexuality evolves over time stuff but girls doing it by themselves just popping it like that's not that's probably not that good stripper ████ probably not that good gold digging was really frowned upon right and now it's okay or more okay gold digging like you'd be like oh you're just saying it for the money like you're a hoe blah blah blah and now it's like they're like promoting us like dude go be a gold digger get your B go get your thing you shouldn't pay for a meal you shouldn't be eating at TGI Fridays or whatever

10:54 that restaurant is yeah yeah 2 for 30 the uh 3 what's that restaurant that everybody's hating on is that expensive do you yeah which makes me feel like why it's so good the weirdest thing though is like why are you hustling for like $30 that's literally your your meal it's like 30 ████ it's like 2030 exellent moment to say buy our merch t-shirts are on sale right now from the normal $30 price buy it if you don't want to buy it have some dude buy it for you come on easy stay warm and careful boy T

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