Posted on 01/18/2025 9:46:07 AM PST by Twotone
TikTok has been officially banned over concerns of improper data collection and the spread of propaganda from the Chinese-owned app. Now Gen Z is in a bit of a pickle. What else are they supposed to do with their time?
The Babylon Bee had come up with 15 things Gen Z-ers can do with their time in a world without TikTok:
1. Use your phone to actually call people: Little do you know, but phones can also function as phones.
2. When wanting to watch TV, turn on the TV: The larger screen will shock and amaze you.
3. Now spend all your spare time watching useless videos on YouTube or Instagram instead: There are probably some pretty sweet reaction videos to the TikTok ban.
4. Watch a feature-length movie: It's like a thousand TikTok's mashed together.
5. Catch up on all 35 seasons of America's Funniest Home Videos: It's the TikTok of your parents' generation.
6. Instead of staring at your phone, stare directly at the sun: If you do it long enough, you won't be able to see your phone ever again. Just think of how much more fulfilling your life will be.
7. Touch grass: It feels weird, but you'll eventually get used to it.
8. Talk to another human being in person: You can bond over how much you both miss TikTok.
9. Instead of catfishing people, try catfishing catfish: It's a simpler life.
10. Learn a fictional fantasy language: Like Klingon, Elvish, or Latin.
11. Study Pythagoras, then develop your own theorem about triangles: It's everyone's dream to have a mathematical theorem named after them.
12. Try to beat a level 9 CPU in Super Smash Bros. while hanging off your couch upside down: Fox only, no items, Final Destination.
13. Watch the entire series of Disney's Bonkers: The main character, Bonkers D. Bobcat, had a catchphrase that was just him saying his name. "B-B-B-Bonkers!" What's better than that?
14. Just email your data directly to the CCP: Cut out the middleman.
15. Move to China where it's not banned, and you'll have so much more freedom: You may even be celebrated as a giant there.
There you have it — the list above should at least get you started on a fresh, new life away from TikTok. Have any more suggestions? Add them in the comments below.
LOLOL! I love these!
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The Bee nail gen-z drones
My boomer parents can fix things I can’t, or fix them faster, in many cases. But when they need to fix electronics they call me. Often it’s something very basic, like “restart your phone, that should do it.” But the first time I tried to play a 45rpm record, I needed instruction on how to center that big hole over that skilly silver pole. “Just use your finger” really didn’t suffice.
It’s mostly a matter of technology, which always changes but has been an integral part of human life for ages.
However, I’ve seen college students trip on curbs because they’re so absorbed in their phones. Zombies do walk among us, often right in front of our vehicles. I’m grateful they aren’t driving.
FTR, I have never viewed Tiktok. Far too busy.
They used to have little discs that fit into the hole of the 45’s with the very small hole in the middle for that purpose!!
Wait...you can talk on your cell phone? Who knew?
I think I still have a couple of those 45 adapters somewhere, despite not having owned any 45s for at least 40 years. Never know when I might need one, though.
Hat tip to the Babylon Bee spot on.
We've always joked, since the kid was about 8, this place would have fallen apart without him.
I know that this is the bee. But Tic Tok has not been banned starting tomorrow. Only the downloading of the app has been banned. That won’t even slow things down for a long time.
If at all.
Biden says he won't enforce the ban (for the 36 hours he'll have a say in the matter) and I doubt Trump, who opposes the ban, will enforce it either.
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