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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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Like TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube aren't basically the same thing as TV.
Video content, sometimes live, loaded with commercials. Just like TV.
Dude, what TV were you watching? Even clip shows like AFV weren't as WarioWare as TikTok is. TikTok is a nonstop whiplash of extremely short-form shit which you're incentivized to absorb emotionally but not to think about – way moreso than TV. The content is way shorter, and importantly, it's bouncing back and forth between completely different subjects every dozens of seconds or so. Even in the era where TV is mostly VoD, this doesn't hold up.
The parallels are there with YouTube if you watch it in a certain way (I'd argue saying "YouTube is the same" is wrong too because there are a trillion ways to watch it that act nothing like TV, i.e. that this comparison is a subset of YouTube), but to say "video playback with ads, therefore TV" for TikTok is the most ridiculous oversimplification of it I've ever seen.
TikTok is like TV in the way that a machine gun was like a musket. Like, kind of? Technically? If you want to strip away all nuance? Shooty thing go pew?
I mean the oldest one of these is YouTube, which was literally named after an element of TV technology. The name implies that it's a TV program made by "you", the user. So this isn't new knowledge at all.