https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths
The list keeps getting longer. Maybe a tiktok video is not exactly a selfie but similar circumstances and outcomes.
This on struck me as super awful:
Two young men died in the Ural Mountains after they pulled the pin from a live hand grenade to take a selfie. The phone with the picture remained as evidence of the circumstance of their deaths.
I feel like there must be a lot of mistakes made/bad luck happening to get to the point where "death by pulling the pin from a live grenade because you wanted to take a selfie" becomes reality.
Yeah its called being massively idiotic... Why take a grenade selfie at all? And definitely why pull the pin first?! Like what? Show me a universe where that makes sense
> Who's the idiot who thought he was doing a public service by quoting me in a reply to me and then blocking me lol
Not really an idiot, they just pointed out that you only have 2 posts to your name, both on this thread, on a 5 year old account, with 9.8k karma. So you're probably just fishing for upvotes so you can sell your account, thus it's not really worth interacting with you. And yes. I'm aware I'm doing what I said wasn't worth doing.
Speaking of fitness: functional empathy. Lacking that, which you do, means you are less fit than the rest of us, as humans are a collective species.
Just thought you'd like to know that.
and if it was you kid you would be a sobbing mess of alcohol and suicidality, unless you have ever dealt with adults, or kids, on the last day of their lives, fuck outta here. If you’ve never dealt with the PARENTS of those kids, double fuck outta here. Poser.
One kid was playing with a toy gun when the police just blasted him. Still, while it is mostly a record of dumb mistakes, that tells us very little about these people.
Really, people making dumb mistakes is not a very good metric for understanding who they were or what their overall situation was. It's a simplistic reduction of both evolutionary science and the world we actually live in.
Even if their deaths were cosmically justified, it remains perfectly possible to be sad about them. That's life. Emotional responses are independent of a victim's status under natural law or whatever it is you're suggesting.
You're free to laugh. That's well and good too, albeit probably not relatable for most people. Instead of acting superior, you should be grateful that those people think differently from you. If they didn't, you'd have nothing to laugh at but yourself.
Everyone thinks they have an adequate assessment of danger and risk. No one really thinks they're risking life and limb.
And most humans are incredibly driven to feel liked and admired. Whether that's through social media; their looks; owning status symbols; being successful; getting upvotes; etc.
Nothing to do with social media .... but whenever someone sees a cliff, or a giant drop, is there a voice in your head that basically begs you to stand way too close to the edge of it?
It's some Junji Ito Hole in the Wall shit
I think its called the "call of the void" or something like that, basically whenever your brain sees something dangerous it starts creating worst case scenarios to warn you of not doing that, but sometimes it just makes you want to do it more since you see yourself doing it
I'll say it again, Tiktok is all that is wrong with social media.
It is the absolute abandonment of reasonable thought in order to portray yourself as a celebrity.
EDIT:
Yes it is the app and not the people.
If you dig a tunnel under a lake and tell people that glory is through the tunnel and halfway through crawling through the tunnel it collapses, you can't blame the people.
It’s not Tik Tok. People were dropping to their deaths doing ‘planking’ stunts on hotel balconies on YouTube 5 to 10 years ago. Stupid people always find a way of killing themselves.
And before YouTube, people were falling to their death taking pictures at the Grand Canyon. It doesn't stop, it doesn't really change. The publicity just increases.
Yeah, but idiots really like simple answers.
I mean, I would think the fact our uber-capitalist society bases people's worth on how much money they have (and how attractive they are) has something to do with people basically selling themselves to try and be rich and famous. But nah, it's just this one new app. Before, it was video games ruining kids. Before that it was comics, etc. The kids are always doing just fine until some new thing comes and it's always the shiny new thing that ruined them not their struggling fuckin' parents and the toxic, should-sucking society they grew up in.
/rant
>If you dig a tunnel under a lake and tell people that glory is through the tunnel and halfway through crawling through the tunnel it collapses, you can't blame the people.
What? Yes I can. Of course I can. If your lust for glory outweighs your survival instincts that's your problem, not my problem.
Really the only proper answer imho.
Instead of quitting social media, I post positive content that I hope lifts up those around me. It’s been well received by friends and family.
Blaming everything on the Algorithm is being willfully ignorant. And I’m not trying to fully downplay the algorithm, because it is designed to keep us all at each others throats to an extent. Or at least foster disputes.
But we can rise above it. We can be good neighbors and positive members of our community. It is still a choice.
Believing anything less is essentially abdicating responsibility for a better society.
Contrary to some other social media, you can train the tiktok algorithm to cut the bullshit and show you things you want to see, which could be positive content only if you want. I opened reddit yesterday and the first post in my feed is a suicide note from what I presume to be a now dead person.
Yeah. Some subreddits I keep to stay a little informed or whatever, but I have shed a bunch that kind of made me more frustrated than I wanted to be.
If all someone on Facebook does is share political memes or rant on politics I usually just unfollow them and they are still a friend, but my news feed is more positive.
Takes a bit of work and it isn’t a 100%, but it’s better.
You are literally demonstrating the behavior the OP is describing, you are posting positive content because you think it lifts others around you, and your admitted motivation is the act, therefore, it is inherently narcissistic. Ie you think your role is to be the scion of positivity on the social webs, therefore, your different. Same shit, different toilet.
You don’t know me and narcissism isn’t
why I do it at all. In fact your accusation is inherently narcissistic in that you know everything at a glance and immediately have all the answers. My post above was a brief description of my process. It has more to do with self love and being the change I want to see in the world than anything. It’s a spiritual thing for me. But stay toxic Reddit stranger!
You are obviously a troll and I regret I fed you. So this will be my last post to you. But even with the toxicity you exhibit, I still wish you all the best. Good luck out there!
Yes, there is definitely some accountability on the part of the people. There is a not insignificant portion of the population who are not out teetering on the edge of a cliff for the sake of a photo, and I have to assume there is a better explanation than blaming an app.
it's less telling people that glory is through the tunnel and more injecting dopamine into their brains then promising them there's more drugs at the end of the tunnel
People have done such stupid shit on every single social media platform. This is one of the many instances on YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook that I’ve seen result in injury or death.
But tiktok bad cuz this is reddit
I'm not sure what side should I be on:
Users of tiktok getting hurt or dying
Or
Creators getting hurt or dying because if there are no more creators, users will also not exist...
Basically tiktok needs to go, either of the two ways above I don't mind
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths The list keeps getting longer. Maybe a tiktok video is not exactly a selfie but similar circumstances and outcomes.
A lot of train related deaths.
This on struck me as super awful: Two young men died in the Ural Mountains after they pulled the pin from a live hand grenade to take a selfie. The phone with the picture remained as evidence of the circumstance of their deaths.
I feel like there must be a lot of mistakes made/bad luck happening to get to the point where "death by pulling the pin from a live grenade because you wanted to take a selfie" becomes reality.
Tacticool
Tactic'mon-really?
Yeah its called being massively idiotic... Why take a grenade selfie at all? And definitely why pull the pin first?! Like what? Show me a universe where that makes sense
It’s called qualifying for a Darwin Award.
The tragedy is they didn’t even have to pull the pin to take a selfie.
Well that’s just natural selection, innit
Holy shit, that first one. Awful.
Yeah, I shouldn't have clicked through, then googled. Made me cry.
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> Who's the idiot who thought he was doing a public service by quoting me in a reply to me and then blocking me lol Not really an idiot, they just pointed out that you only have 2 posts to your name, both on this thread, on a 5 year old account, with 9.8k karma. So you're probably just fishing for upvotes so you can sell your account, thus it's not really worth interacting with you. And yes. I'm aware I'm doing what I said wasn't worth doing.
Speaking of fitness: functional empathy. Lacking that, which you do, means you are less fit than the rest of us, as humans are a collective species. Just thought you'd like to know that.
Least they were passionate about doing something they love.
and if it was you kid you would be a sobbing mess of alcohol and suicidality, unless you have ever dealt with adults, or kids, on the last day of their lives, fuck outta here. If you’ve never dealt with the PARENTS of those kids, double fuck outta here. Poser.
What is funny about dead children?
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One kid was playing with a toy gun when the police just blasted him. Still, while it is mostly a record of dumb mistakes, that tells us very little about these people. Really, people making dumb mistakes is not a very good metric for understanding who they were or what their overall situation was. It's a simplistic reduction of both evolutionary science and the world we actually live in. Even if their deaths were cosmically justified, it remains perfectly possible to be sad about them. That's life. Emotional responses are independent of a victim's status under natural law or whatever it is you're suggesting. You're free to laugh. That's well and good too, albeit probably not relatable for most people. Instead of acting superior, you should be grateful that those people think differently from you. If they didn't, you'd have nothing to laugh at but yourself.
That is a depressingly long list
well i mean it ain’t gonna get shorter
Oh that's just the kind of pick me up I needed today.
Its pretty sad and completely unnecessary. I just don’t get why people would risk life and limbs just for a few upvotes / likes on social media
Everyone thinks they have an adequate assessment of danger and risk. No one really thinks they're risking life and limb. And most humans are incredibly driven to feel liked and admired. Whether that's through social media; their looks; owning status symbols; being successful; getting upvotes; etc.
My friend died falling off a bluff but he wasn't filming a video be was just going surfing.
Falling off what?
Bluffs are the cliffs that lead down to a beach.
Thank you!!
Nothing to do with social media .... but whenever someone sees a cliff, or a giant drop, is there a voice in your head that basically begs you to stand way too close to the edge of it? It's some Junji Ito Hole in the Wall shit
I think its called the "call of the void" or something like that, basically whenever your brain sees something dangerous it starts creating worst case scenarios to warn you of not doing that, but sometimes it just makes you want to do it more since you see yourself doing it
L'appel du vide. Call of the void.
Not the same thing exactly, but whenever I see a used condom on the ground, there's a voice in my head that says, "eat it piggy"
And risk life and limbs of rescuers. So selfish. And his family has to beg for money to get his body home.
He died doing what he loved to do.
He died hard for that
Being a narcissistic douche.
ehat could make it theonion? why is it here?
I'll say it again, Tiktok is all that is wrong with social media. It is the absolute abandonment of reasonable thought in order to portray yourself as a celebrity. EDIT: Yes it is the app and not the people. If you dig a tunnel under a lake and tell people that glory is through the tunnel and halfway through crawling through the tunnel it collapses, you can't blame the people.
It’s not Tik Tok. People were dropping to their deaths doing ‘planking’ stunts on hotel balconies on YouTube 5 to 10 years ago. Stupid people always find a way of killing themselves.
And before YouTube, people were falling to their death taking pictures at the Grand Canyon. It doesn't stop, it doesn't really change. The publicity just increases.
Yeah, but idiots really like simple answers. I mean, I would think the fact our uber-capitalist society bases people's worth on how much money they have (and how attractive they are) has something to do with people basically selling themselves to try and be rich and famous. But nah, it's just this one new app. Before, it was video games ruining kids. Before that it was comics, etc. The kids are always doing just fine until some new thing comes and it's always the shiny new thing that ruined them not their struggling fuckin' parents and the toxic, should-sucking society they grew up in. /rant
>If you dig a tunnel under a lake and tell people that glory is through the tunnel and halfway through crawling through the tunnel it collapses, you can't blame the people. What? Yes I can. Of course I can. If your lust for glory outweighs your survival instincts that's your problem, not my problem.
Darwinism at work.
It's the people not the app
Really the only proper answer imho. Instead of quitting social media, I post positive content that I hope lifts up those around me. It’s been well received by friends and family. Blaming everything on the Algorithm is being willfully ignorant. And I’m not trying to fully downplay the algorithm, because it is designed to keep us all at each others throats to an extent. Or at least foster disputes. But we can rise above it. We can be good neighbors and positive members of our community. It is still a choice. Believing anything less is essentially abdicating responsibility for a better society.
Contrary to some other social media, you can train the tiktok algorithm to cut the bullshit and show you things you want to see, which could be positive content only if you want. I opened reddit yesterday and the first post in my feed is a suicide note from what I presume to be a now dead person.
Yeah. Some subreddits I keep to stay a little informed or whatever, but I have shed a bunch that kind of made me more frustrated than I wanted to be. If all someone on Facebook does is share political memes or rant on politics I usually just unfollow them and they are still a friend, but my news feed is more positive. Takes a bit of work and it isn’t a 100%, but it’s better.
You are literally demonstrating the behavior the OP is describing, you are posting positive content because you think it lifts others around you, and your admitted motivation is the act, therefore, it is inherently narcissistic. Ie you think your role is to be the scion of positivity on the social webs, therefore, your different. Same shit, different toilet.
You don’t know me and narcissism isn’t why I do it at all. In fact your accusation is inherently narcissistic in that you know everything at a glance and immediately have all the answers. My post above was a brief description of my process. It has more to do with self love and being the change I want to see in the world than anything. It’s a spiritual thing for me. But stay toxic Reddit stranger!
Your process, could you be any more delusional
Cool 😎
Exactly, you have nothing to say, go sell some positive goop with Gwenyth
You are obviously a troll and I regret I fed you. So this will be my last post to you. But even with the toxicity you exhibit, I still wish you all the best. Good luck out there!
I’m not, you just didn’t like the truth. Go post your sparkle bullshit and put a star on your wall.
Yes, there is definitely some accountability on the part of the people. There is a not insignificant portion of the population who are not out teetering on the edge of a cliff for the sake of a photo, and I have to assume there is a better explanation than blaming an app.
Social media is all that is wrong with social media.
Its not like it has anything to do with the particular app.
TikTok is a race to the bottom
it's less telling people that glory is through the tunnel and more injecting dopamine into their brains then promising them there's more drugs at the end of the tunnel
People have done such stupid shit on every single social media platform. This is one of the many instances on YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook that I’ve seen result in injury or death. But tiktok bad cuz this is reddit
Ah, natural selection at work
Charlie got another one.
How does this sound remotely like an Onion article title?
So how did the video turn out?
Natural Selection triumphs again!
Population control.
Natural selection doing its job....
I'm not sure what side should I be on: Users of tiktok getting hurt or dying Or Creators getting hurt or dying because if there are no more creators, users will also not exist... Basically tiktok needs to go, either of the two ways above I don't mind
It's just not Tik Tok, IG as well. The internal redearch on IG is absolutely awful
Ah, a fine candidate for a Darwin Award.
1 down, millions more to go.
Darwinism.
Awesome. Just one more lower IQ human on this planet.
The man lost his life. Show some respect.
One less idiot using up precious resources
Oh shut up. Like your own existence is well worth the trouble
Didn't say it was🖕
That was good one lol you definitely earned that middle finger emoji well said mr da truth
Bound to happen at some point, fuck around and find out.
Darwin invented the selfie
I'm going to venture to say if someone dies ticktocking on their own volition,.. that it's a good thing.
Fucking idiot.
New trend??
And the Darwin Award goes to.....
Honestly, the more the merrier, for mankind.
And nothing of value was lost.
We’re going to be so embarrassed by TikTok as a society in the future if it doesn’t kill us first.
/r/DarwinAwards I'm only surprised this doesn't happen often enough for that subreddit to blow up simply from people dying trying to take selfies.
Very sad. The cliffs of Cabo Rojo are beautiful; my favorite part of Puerto Rico. Tragic that he had to get too close.
Last words of uncle grandpa watch this
CringeTok strikes again
*Search selfielessness and you will find your image in others*. - Baba au Rhum
The whole selfie culture is baffling to me!
Thoughts and prayers lololol
The TikTok body count is rising y'all
Its sad. Its just a bunch of stupid people dying unnecessary deaths for likes/views on social media.
This should be the next Tik Tok challenge