This app could potentially supplant Tik Tok overtime. As Tik Tok’s censorship following it’s acquisition by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.

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    20 hours ago

    Is it so wrong to just take a little hit of heroin from time to time?

    Is it so wrong to make an absurd, pseudo-scientific claim that’s literally destroying the internet?

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      20 hours ago

      Don’t know what kind of work you do, but I work with people, my partner works with kids. Short form content is absolutely ravaging minds. But you can believe whatever you want.

      Fact is, we see kids that are and aren’t raised with access to short form content on social media, and the ones without do a whole lot better.

      Speech impediments are getting worse for a reason (the parents have a role in this too, if your around a kid, keep your damn phone in your pocket and talk to the poor thing).

      But again, you do you. You can claim its pseudo-science all you want when your kids end up needing a speech therapist and need medication just to finish an old movie 🤙