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🗓️ 16 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's the cinematic event of the year. |
0:03.0 | Critics are saying a stunning, breathtaking triumph of savings. |
0:08.0 | It's two for one cinema tickets from Compa's Market in cinemas all year. |
0:12.0 | That sounds like a great movie. |
0:14.0 | Serge is no movie, it's two for one offer on cinema tickets. |
0:17.0 | Oh yeah, I knew that. |
0:19.0 | Get two for one cinema tickets every Tuesday or Wednesday |
0:21.8 | with compares the market. Simple. When you take out a qualifying product to compare the market, |
0:26.2 | one membership per year, participating cinemas, two standard tickets, only cheap as free. Tis and Cs |
0:29.6 | apply. So first off, why don't you just say your name and introduce yourself. Tell me who you are. |
0:38.9 | My name is Vishal Karu Pissami. I'm a high school junior right now, and I'm in the Reno, Nevada area. |
0:47.6 | Vishal is 17, and he's been on social media since the winter of 2019 when he joined TikTok in middle school. |
0:55.5 | I'm not sure if I exactly like this, but one reason why I was using TikTok is because the |
0:59.4 | videos are very, very good at showing you what you want to see and they're really catered |
1:04.6 | towards your interests. So it's honestly kind of hard to get off TikTok once you start, but |
1:09.9 | I think since it's just so |
1:12.6 | catered to you, that's what drew me in towards TikTok, and I never really experienced the same |
1:17.4 | type of feeling when I was using Instagram or Snapchat. |
1:22.1 | Vishal's feed was mostly sports, basketball and football, with some memes and music thrown in. But earlier this |
1:30.1 | year, he started to realize that he was scrolling for no particular reason. And when he looked at his |
1:36.9 | iPhone's screen time reports, they started to worry him. There was a point where I was seeing |
1:42.7 | screen time of like eight hours a day. and then I would go in and try and investigate it a little bit more, and six of those eight hours are just on TikTok. |
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