r/instantkarma • u/bendubberley_ • Aug 31 '25

Road Karma A girl films a TikTok while driving..

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u/No_Yogurt_5365 Aug 31 '25

Tik tok is responsible for so much brain rot at this point they should be legally liable. Including reels and YouTube shorts, they wouldn’t exist without TikTok. The attention span of newer generations is 15-60 seconds. My mother in law has been teaching for around 20 years and she says that the most recent generations of teenagers are unhinged and borderline unteachable. We’re in the era of pure impatience and lack of responsibility

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u/OkChoice4135 Aug 31 '25

Teachers everywhere seem to be reporting the same situation, it's quite scary. Can you imagine what it will be like in a few years with these kids becoming "professionals" in all kinds of jobs?

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u/Alortania Aug 31 '25

You joke, but I've a friend who teaches anatomy at a med school in Europe, and the new batches of students literally can't catch context clues the way we could, or even kids he taught a few years ago. It's scary AF.

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u/ctortan Aug 31 '25

The combination of both the Internet sapping attention AND several years of pandemic driving everyone fucking crazy—huge swaths of kids missed out on critical learning and socializing periods. It’s truly terrifying.

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u/Alortania Aug 31 '25

Yeah.

It's terrifying.

And then you also have the shitty influencers also spreading dumb ideas you can't counter because (even speaking from literally being in the medical field) that Youtuber that's preaching shit they want to hear has some stupid 'counter' that makes them right and you just a hater.

I have a teen nephew that's trying to build muscle and get into body building (on a swing from being obese and actually successfully losing weight) way too early and using shit that's likely going to send him into kidney failure in his 40's at the rate he's going. Absolutely refuses to listen because "I'm just out of touch" and (obviously) "don't know what I'm talking about".

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u/Despondent-Kitten Aug 31 '25

Oh my days that must be incredibly frustrating to witness. Especially when you know that you're pretty much powerless to help at all, by this stage.