TikTok - WTF?

[UnaCorda]

Feeling a bit bored earlier this afternoon (and inspired slightly by the excellent Sarah Cooper), I had a look at TikTok to see what all the fuss was about. I'm still none the wiser (all the videos were utter drivel, imo), but amongst all the clips of mainly teenagers and young adults was one uploaded by Amanda Holden.

In this video she walks down the stairs of her immaculate house, stops by the door to zip up her hoodie and smile at the camera, walks though and closes the front door, and turns round for a final glance at the camera.

Please can someone explain how you attain the level of narcissism required to think that anyone would be remotely interested in watching a 49-year-old woman walk down some stairs and zip up a cardigan? (And please also explain why this epitome of mundanity has several thousand likes...)

I feel like I'm in an episode of Black Mirror and life has been reduced to 30-second segments of asinine inanity. (Yes, I know I'm being a bit of a snob about it, but I genuinely don't get the hype.)

It's just a bit of fun though, isn't it. There's tons of people on there doing the same thing and same routines. And my point was that she clearly knows she's attractive, very confident in herself but why does that make her a narcissist? If it was a man, if Idris Elba ,Brad Pitt etc made that video I highly doubt they'd be called narcissists.

But the some of the world does, or she wouldn't have a following.

The same is often said about Katie Price and Madonna, but they all have fan clubs, despite being 'older'. If age is irrelevant, why mention it?

Some people would rather watch famous people doing everyday things (as Big Brother's popularity shows), than teenage lads getting lucky and not ending up in hospital, with the stunts that they are doing. Or as said, the clips bordering on abuse.

I don't bother with Cleb stuff, insta, tik tok erc. But some of the older women celebrities are the one's who seem to be picked on to criticise.

It's just another platform for banal "look at me" anti- social media. Shame people don't put as much effort into their real lives as they do with their "reality" personas.

Children under 16 can no longer Pm or receive Pm to protect them. So a step in the right direction but we still need to be vigilant about what is being viewed and posted.

@cherrypi

#Hollayaboy" for your pool work ... love him

I've spent too much time on TikTok during lockdown, I follow a some really witty teachers, a chiropractor and an A&E consultant who are absolutely ace. There's a woman called Loubobang who is (was!) hilarious, but just lately there has been accusations of bullying and it's all gone a bit grubby and grim with big rough toothless woman threatening to chuck acid at each other!!

I saw the AH video and still don't get it!