ICYMI - TikTok Is Not Your Doctor
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🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
TikTok doesn’t know you better than you know yourself, even if you think it does. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison talk about two different ways the app leads people down dangerous paths. First, they discuss the recent uptick in posts and advertisements focused on diagnosing mental and physical health issues, and how it’s so easy to convince yourself that you’re suffering from whatever malady TikTok has presented. Then, they discuss the tragic death of Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst, who died by suicide last week, and the alarming development of TikTokkers convincing themselves that there was some nefarious conspiracy behind it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Is That ADHD or Am I Just Weird? |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.9 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:16.6 | You're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.6 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.9 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.3 | And it's Madison's favorite time of the year. |
| 0:25.5 | Olympic season, you get it back to back, baby. |
| 0:29.7 | D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D. |
| 0:33.3 | I love the Olympics so much. |
| 0:35.5 | I thought you're about to sing the Genovian National Anthem. Genovia, the Olympics so much. I thought you're about to sing the Genovian national anthem. |
| 0:40.2 | Genovia, the land I call my home. |
| 0:43.4 | The thing is, I don't know any of the words after that, so I usually just switch to the Canadian anthem. |
| 0:51.8 | It's just genoa. |
| 0:59.6 | There has to be words in the middle, and I usually just substitute in the Canadian national anthem. |
| 1:08.9 | The reason we're talking about nationalism is because it's the Olympic season, and that's basically all it is is nationalism. |
| 1:10.6 | Madison, you having a good time? Nationalism and athletic |
| 1:11.9 | prowess. Yes, I'm having a great time. I love watching hot ripped people do hot rip people things. |
| 1:17.7 | Though I do have one, one gripe, one request. What is it to stop the human rights abuses? |
| 1:25.2 | Okay, I have two requests. |
| 1:29.7 | What's the second one? |
| 1:33.8 | No, I was, I was angling for, you know, like feasible requests. |
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