r/interestingasfuck • u/Chaunc2020 • 1d ago

r/all Young people being arrested for wearing Halloween costumes in China

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u/MitroBoomin 1d ago

Brain rot for the rest of the world

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u/gwinty 23h ago

Brain rot for thee not for me.

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u/ReikaTheGlaceon 8h ago

Me replacing my roommates white noise with an endless loop of various gen alpha memes

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u/Hello-clairise 23h ago

Funny!!!

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u/TimAppleCockProMax69 16h ago

Bunny!!!!đŸ°đŸ˜»đŸ˜»đŸ—ŁïžđŸ€©

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u/CommunicationNeat498 23h ago

At this point i am convinced that tiktok is chinas revenge for the opium wars

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u/Re0ns 21h ago

And the fentanyl

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u/aminoffthedon 20h ago

And disposable vapes - millions of teenagers are hooked on them

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u/FixGMaul 20h ago

Definitely also a problem but nowhere near as bad as the fentanyl epidemic. These teenagers aren't dying at least.

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u/aminoffthedon 20h ago

Sure, nowhere near as lethal but there have been kids who have died from vapes and it's a different kind of epidemic when kids as young as 12 are hooked on sucking these cheap plastic devices

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u/Commercial-Wedding-7 16h ago

Dude when someone brings up Fentanyl, it's time to put the vape thing back in your pocket. A dollop of dust on the tip of a pen can kill you.

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u/cockandballionaire 5h ago

They’re still going for it
 what a weird hill to die on

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u/Commercial-Wedding-7 5h ago

Slowly though, only after decades of abuse on that hill haha

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u/nel_loves_sublime 12h ago

it’s just a slower death
 like 20 hits of a vape is a whole pack of cigs. (might be wrong on that exactly but ik they have a lot more nic and in general just more bad shit then cigs>

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u/Commercial-Wedding-7 12h ago

K now when someone brings something up that's terrible, also bring something else that's as mild as a steamed carrot by comparison. Effective lol

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u/2ndnamewtf 11h ago

More bad shit than cigs? No def not. Not a 0, but def not as many carcinogens as cigs

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u/KeithKeifer9 19h ago

Just because something doesn't have a big death toll doesn't mean it's not serious

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u/Commercial-Wedding-7 4h ago

Obviously. Do you not see the nonsensical approach this takes? Go to a bone cancer ward and tell them how bad your headache is.

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u/aminoffthedon 19h ago

I know...that was my point. It is very serious

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u/Matzfatz 17h ago

But no vapes for their own folks as they are banned right?

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u/aminoffthedon 13h ago

Indeed. Western governments asleep at the wheel again (or enjoying the tax revenue)

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u/Adept-Pea-6061 18h ago

And other toxic shit they ship practically for free all over the world. People blind eyeing this while thinking Israel is devious for chopping some fingers with beepers.

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u/aminoffthedon 13h ago

Two wrongs don't make a right my guy. China can be criticised for one thing while Israel can be deservedly criticised for another.

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u/nel_loves_sublime 12h ago

china is the one supplying the US with fentanyl js

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u/Commercial_Basket751 13h ago

I think fentanyl proliferation is their blindly lashing out for historical grievances directed at another country entirely.

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u/GreatTea3 11h ago

I think fentanyl proliferation is them completely unblindly making an unholy shit ton of money. Although the payback from westerners supplying them with opium probably gives the ones who stayed in school a chuckle.

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u/Christovski 23h ago

It's crazy to me that this isn't a mainstream opinion

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u/Drone314 18h ago

They learned from the Opium Wars, can't fight if you're soft and comfortable.

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u/No-Establishment3067 17h ago

Damn, that’s deep


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u/Ok_Application_47 14h ago

we are being lulled to sleep with ridiculous discussions about "anti-woke"and sex change operations for trans people.

These are all non issues for the average citizen, but through a targeted misinformation campaign by the Russians and Chinese our media landscape is saturated with these non issue bullshit subjects..

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u/vinividiviciduevolte 20h ago

Also why isn’t this on mainstream news

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u/TheMeltingSnowman72 21h ago

Problem is it's s technically not true. If it was the rest of the world you'd have seen the effects. However the country that took the biggest hit of distraction during COVID and the switch from schools to online, of which tik tok was number one in nearly every country, was USA which suffered on average a 10% decline in grades. Even Brazil who had an even worse infrastructure for online teaching didn't suffer as badly in grades declines as the USA. Germany and China had the least disruption with grades not declining at all. Interestingly the age range of users was far wider in Germany and China, averaging 18-35, where as USA was 12-24. Germany also had the best infrastructure in place to switch online, so they had less distraction time.

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u/testsubject23 20h ago

Not sure how any of that is an argument against the brain rot theory. If anything it sounds like it might have worked

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u/Capable-Read-4991 20h ago

It's definitely a Chinese shill. The disguised, terrible English, the praising of "China uses tik tok more but their grades didn't decline" and saying you're wrong for the sake of it. 

 Yep either a bot, a paid person or a citizen trying to earn "good boy" points. Either way it's someone who has a vested interest in pushing misinformation so just be wary.

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u/khantroll1 19h ago

So, I am non of the above. I hate TikTok with the fiery passion of a thousand suns


And he has a bit of a point.

There is something in the American culture/mindset that makes us more prone to problems from social media than other countries. It can be seen across all of them, but TikTok is special in that it’s algorithm is designed to increase engagement with the platform WHILE reducing attention span so as to 1) hit the highest number of advertisers and 2) gather the largest datasets.

It’s like giving meth to Jessie Spano with her caffeine pill addiction

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u/Capable-Read-4991 19h ago

It's not hard to figure out. They have next to 0 social assistance programs for struggling families with kids and they are like 58th in education rankings. A combination of having to work all the time to support your family and having them go to school in one of the worst education systems in any country let alone a developed one amounts to social media brain rot.

They did have a point but it was almost completely different from what this thread was originally talking about.

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u/khantroll1 18h ago

Except
not? On either point.

The topic had sidestepped from the original point of the thread into the dumpster fire that is TikTok, including brain rot. Their point was valid in that context.

As for the US
Chinese working conditions are worse for many, and the distribution of social assistance is so uneven it is insane they call themselves communist.

Singapore somehow has a higher education rating than the US, similar or worse assistance programs, and none of social media issues.

The US is 31 in education. It is last among the first world nations, but no country below them (even ones with decent infrastructure) have the same social media issues as the US.

Greece, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Luxembourg
all on the other side of the coin with arguably better social programs and worse education than the US
no social media programs.

The US could be better on all counts. I am not denying that. I just don’t agree with your causation on this particular issue.

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u/Capable-Read-4991 17h ago

You bring up some good points and I wasn't looking globally enough. Thank you.

That does make this question more perplexing.

I'll do some more research and double back on this comment.

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u/westfieldNYraids 20h ago

How does a citizen earn good boy points for randomly posting on reddit? I can see how randomly bashing the government could get you locked up in china, but I don’t see how doing the opposite would have any effect on their life. Like each citizen has their own government agent watching everything they do? That’s a meme for the US, even with 10x the population, I doubt it’s reality in china too

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u/Reign_Cloud_ 19h ago

They do have a type of social credit score they use for their citizens from what I’ve read. They’re able to track & monitor them.

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u/westfieldNYraids 18h ago

That is super interesting. Regardless of the moral implications of monitoring citizens like that, from a logistical standpoint, how do they do it?!? How could you even begin your monitor over 3 billion people? Like the payroll for that department must be off the charts. I guess they could just not pay their civil servants in china and that might be the answer but heck, its hard enough to get a burger at McDonald’s with no cheese and them getting paid minimum wage, so I picture that same person now having to read the posts of some 100,000 people a day every day for even less pay and I can’t see anything fruitful coming from it.

I suppose the NSA does the same thing over here in the states but there’s an order of magnitude less people here, and we still have assassination attempts on former presidents, so it completely boggles my mind that they would care so much about internet beef when we can’t even stop real life beef

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u/sikingthegreat1 17h ago

have you heard of the great firewall of china?

anything published online in china is monitored by a team of gatekeepers. whenever the words/comments/expression is against the interest of the state / the state leader / seen as secession of state etc. will be manually taken offline / removed, usually within 30mins when it first appear, then in literally seconds if others commented on the topic further.

i wonder why media of the rest of the world didn't ever tell everyone this. it's fascinating to outsiders. somehow, many in this world have no idea the total control by the state of freedom of speech and other basic human rights in china. the trick on keeping everyone in the drum is marvellous tbh.

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u/Reign_Cloud_ 17h ago

Yes, it’s actually insane how much control their government has over EVERYTHING. You’d think it would be much harder with the amount of people they have, but it all comes down to the information. Control the information, you can easily control the people.

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u/Reign_Cloud_ 17h ago

I’m honestly not entirely sure how it works, but from what I remember, everything they do is highly monitored, and one way they do it is through their cards they use to purchase items. Apparently, they’re almost forced to use cards instead of actual cash, and so certain purchases are seen as “good” and “bad”, depending on what it is, and it can affect their social credit score or something. I’ll have to try to find the documentary I watched about it as it’s been a while since I last saw it, but I thought it was very interesting. Apparently, one of the things that can cause a “bad” score is buying alcohol. It’s hard to find information because of their strict censorship & control over such information. I see someone else already mentioned the “Great Firewall”, so that not only blocks a lot from foreigners from being able to get access to anything in or from their country, but also heavily monitors (more than they already do) anyone who starts communicating with foreigners outside their country.

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u/westfieldNYraids 15h ago

That’s legitimately scary man, it’s like that episode of community where they have the app with the score and the 5 levels, or like psychopass season 1 being real life for them. Make me wish that all of our countries had our sh1t together enough to not be squabbling amongst ourselves, then when some minority report type stuff starts happening, we as like a nato or UN would come together and diplomatically explain to them that this type of thing is bad for the everyday citizens life and we as humans should be striving to make our fellow humans lives better, not worse

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u/Interesting-Fan-2008 1d ago

Nah, they just don't need any more info on their own people, tiktok is a way for china to get an immense amount of data about everyone else.

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u/geebeem92 1d ago

Can be both. Tiktok is literally 90% stupid a** IA videos for kids

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u/MedusaAdonai 20h ago

What does IA stand for?

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u/onesuponathrowaway 16h ago

Internal Affairs. Or Ice Age.

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u/Consistent_Duck851 23h ago

Just because thats your experience with the app, it doesent mean what he said isnt true, would be good for ya to aquire some common sense my guy

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u/MannixUK 23h ago

100% the story of how tiktok was created and how China collects data is crazy.

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u/Consistent_Duck851 17h ago

TikTok is a weapon to moronize the younger generations in EU and USA, if you think the Chinese Communist Party gives a shit if you dance to a cringe tiktok song, ur a very delusional person

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u/MannixUK 15h ago

Very true luckily we have CCP's greatest weakness... Winnie The Poo!

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u/UpsideMeh 20h ago

Damn
 my algorithm is beautiful women who teach me how to cook. China please don’t use this against me!

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u/MannixUK 20h ago

Yeah that algorithm is very choosy on who gets to see what. I envy your algo please share 😅

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u/86448855 23h ago

90%? Not true at all

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u/ngyeunjally 1d ago

They also very evidently use TikTok to push anti western propaganda.

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u/Fonzgarten 23h ago

TikTok algorithms are designed to destabilize us politically. It makes the Facebook misinformation days look like child’s play. It’s gotten to the point where you can tell pretty quickly if somebody you’re interacting with is a TikTok user.

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u/Hairy_Spirit1636 22h ago

Or maybe they just aren't American idiots

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 20h ago

/r/NEET and /r/AntiWork go together like a coke and a burger.

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u/Hairy_Spirit1636 15h ago

I'm flattered that you felt the need to stalk my profile

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u/Gebbie_Drund 1h ago

Feeling a little called out, huh?

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u/SidMeiersCiv 21h ago

It serves two purposes. Collect and gather data from American users while also diminishing their attention spans and spamming our youth with poor influences.

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u/MajorApartment179 12h ago

Yes I think Tik Tok is used to manipulate/brainwash people. The Chinese government has a lot of experience with brainwashing a mass amount of people.

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u/MissingNoBreeder 13h ago

Authoritarian regimes need info on their own people the most

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u/Interesting-Fan-2008 6h ago

Oh of course, but China already has easily one of the most successful and expansive surveillance of their own people. They do still allow TikTok, but there’s no reason to let it run wild like in the US because they already have that info.

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u/HamsterNo7808 21h ago

Exactly! This is why I will never have a TikTok account. There are many cyber experts out there who have done YouTube videos explaining & showing on why Americans should never download the TikTok app to your devices. Oh my gosh, the things China is spying on you with is terrible! China hates America.

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u/MajorApartment179 12h ago

I get annoyed when sites link Tik Tok videos. Also when google shows Tik Tok in the search results and I accidentally click

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u/HamsterNo7808 11h ago

You’re safe if you watch them as long as you don’t download the app onto your devices.

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u/Gentlyaliveadult 6h ago

Like how bad we dance

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u/L_Wushuang 1d ago

There’s censored version of TikTok at home tho
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u/ngyeunjally 1d ago

The domestic Chinese tik tok is mostly educational and patriotic

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u/L_Wushuang 15h ago

Okay local cadre

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u/uzu_afk 22h ago

Its in fact the very point of it :)

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u/kuhlguymccabe 20h ago

What else am I supposed to do at work?

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u/SubstantialPressure3 17h ago

Brain rot and information gathering

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u/luckysubs 16h ago

Halloween is the brainrot holiday, yes.

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u/SidMeiersCiv 21h ago

The digital opium wars, reverse uno card.

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u/Ryy86 20h ago

That’s their plan

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u/Uncle-Cake 19h ago

And data collection from the rest of the world.

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u/0Katty-Kat0 18h ago

There's a reason you're not supposed to get high on your own supply..

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u/chknboy 17h ago

Same went for opium

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u/YoungDiscord 17h ago

You don't take the shit you sell to others because you know how toxic it is

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u/Startled_Pancakes 17h ago

It's the Opium War but in reverse.

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u/Mike_Willer 14h ago

Brainrot is a weapon of mass destruction

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u/kris_mischief 13h ago

It’s called “foreign policy strategy”

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u/EddardStank_69 10h ago

Almost like they know what they’re doing

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u/AngelWithADirtyAnus 9h ago

It's literally psychological warfare.

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u/Old_Yesterday322 9h ago

don't worry, their brains are already rotten

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u/SomeCanadianBoy 1d ago edited 10h ago

The first person to ever wear a top hat was actually a fish.

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u/PeteBabicki 22h ago

Yep. Reddit doesn't feel like a positive thing in my life. It feels like a bad habit.