By Kolin Kriner
Scrolling through my TikTok for you page, I always start off by getting hilarious clips that time after time get laughs out of me. However, after about three minutes I begin getting absolutely bombarded by out of context clips of TV shows.
This is something in itself that I don’t mind.
Where my anger with these come in is the fact that the clip always ends with a cliffhanger.
What really pushes me over the cliff is the fact that when I go to the page to find a second part, there never is one.
And then just to rub salt on the wound — they don’t even include the name of the show, so I can’t even find it.
This is the sickening reality of the for you page.
As if TikTok isn’t ruining my attention span as is, when I finally find something that holds my attention, the ending is nowhere to be found.
It actually really irritates me.
Did this random lady who got run over by her car to save her kids live? Did those surgeons resuscitate the dying person in the OR? I’ll never know.
I can’t express my anger over this phenomenon enough. There are hundreds of accounts that do this, all of which have some sort of quiet pact to never let the viewer know what happens next.
I appreciate it to an extent. It gets the poster clicks and comments, building engagement, therefore making them more money. I respect the hustle. These comments aren’t helpful either, as they all are addressing my same question: “Show title?”
What I don’t respect though is the personal attack my for you page has made on me. If I spend an hour watching TikTok, 45 minutes of it is just these clips.
I hate TikTok because of this. It’s a shame that I’m addicted to it.
