I Respectfully Do Not Look at TikTok
Oct. 26th, 2022 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingBehind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-10-20/behind-tiktoks-boom-a-legion-of-traumatised-10-a-day-content-moderators
I'm not going to quote from this article because it's horrible. I also can't help but take it with a grain of salt. Like, I understand why somebody would need to take down videos of 10yo children who pull down their pants and flash the camera on a dare or whatever, but how common is actual literal cannibalism? Employees only getting paid $10 a day to do anything is scary enough; nobody needs to come up with a story about snuff videos.
Still, people do indeed post bizarre things on social media. Here's my story:
I recently had to unfollow someone on Instagram. He's a friend of mine who lives a quiet life in Tokyo, and he takes lovely daytrips out to the country with his lovely husband and their lovely dog. When he's not frolicking through the fields like it's The Sound of Music, he tries out all sorts of vegetarian and vegan restaurants around the city.
This was all very wholesome until he took up urban cycling. Tokyo isn't dangerous for cyclists, as the infrastructure is impeccable and drivers are extremely polite. I guess my friend is just uncoordinated, because he started getting injured. All the time. And posting photos of his injuries. Like, super close-up high-def iPhone photos of open bleeding wounds. Every day. From multiple angles. So maybe he's uncoordinated, but probably something else is going on with him. And I definitely don't want to know about it.
Idk, I want to say that someone should write a dystopian novel about a world in which all social media users have to do a week of content moderation like it's jury duty, but I totally 100% would not read it.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-10-20/behind-tiktoks-boom-a-legion-of-traumatised-10-a-day-content-moderators
I'm not going to quote from this article because it's horrible. I also can't help but take it with a grain of salt. Like, I understand why somebody would need to take down videos of 10yo children who pull down their pants and flash the camera on a dare or whatever, but how common is actual literal cannibalism? Employees only getting paid $10 a day to do anything is scary enough; nobody needs to come up with a story about snuff videos.
Still, people do indeed post bizarre things on social media. Here's my story:
I recently had to unfollow someone on Instagram. He's a friend of mine who lives a quiet life in Tokyo, and he takes lovely daytrips out to the country with his lovely husband and their lovely dog. When he's not frolicking through the fields like it's The Sound of Music, he tries out all sorts of vegetarian and vegan restaurants around the city.
This was all very wholesome until he took up urban cycling. Tokyo isn't dangerous for cyclists, as the infrastructure is impeccable and drivers are extremely polite. I guess my friend is just uncoordinated, because he started getting injured. All the time. And posting photos of his injuries. Like, super close-up high-def iPhone photos of open bleeding wounds. Every day. From multiple angles. So maybe he's uncoordinated, but probably something else is going on with him. And I definitely don't want to know about it.
Idk, I want to say that someone should write a dystopian novel about a world in which all social media users have to do a week of content moderation like it's jury duty, but I totally 100% would not read it.
