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the rise & fall of the tiktok personality

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BENOFTHEWEEK

Fiction, News, Drama, Entertainment News, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ben knows you have never listened to Cocteau Twins in your life. Watch the video version of the episode here: https://youtu.be/YCrx4Bx4-Yw Follow my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benoftheweek Business Inquiries: [email protected] Originally produced by Studio71. But now it's produced by meee :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:08.0

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0:14.5

And 6th of May from 11 a.m. Mead or more large meal. Inclusive size of a combination

0:17.6

drink and side and one preselect to collectible while stocks last.

0:22.5

In 2020, something shifted.

0:25.9

And I'm not referring to the global pandemic that killed hundreds of thousand of people.

0:31.2

I'm referring to something potentially much more sinister.

0:34.7

And it was the advent of TikTok personalities. When I say TikTok

0:41.2

personalities, if your screen time is over six hours, you know exactly what I'm talking about. But if it

0:47.2

is below six hours, let me describe this term, this phrase. These are people who have crafted their personality from the media that they consume on their little glass and metal box that they carry around with them.

1:04.0

They aren't intentionally disingenuous, but the person that they have become is just from sponging up.

1:15.0

They just exist from sponging up different forms of media, whether it be like influencers, content creators, just the online sphere in general.

1:28.4

And it went unnoticed.

1:32.3

It was asymptomatic for a very long time in society because if you remember back to 2020,

1:41.1

we didn't have that much interaction with each other, with other humans outside of our own households and our families.

1:50.8

So there wasn't really any place to compare and contrast real normal people from people with these TikTok personalities.

2:00.7

And because of that, they were able to fester and these people were able to actually solidify

2:06.6

their TikTok personalities into their very being.

2:11.5

So why the fuck am I talking about the pandemic, how we acted in the pandemic in 2020, all the way in

2:20.3

2025, because I, I am happy to report that I believe that the, the typical archetype of

2:28.9

someone with a TikTok personality is dead. A, I don't think they are being manufactured anymore. And B, I believe they

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