I recently watched a BBC documentary about a supposed rise in "Gen Z" anti-abortion activism.
They featured a TikToker who they presented as a leading light of this "movement".
After the doc finished, I looked her up...
...and most of her videos get mere *hundreds* of views.
They featured a TikToker who they presented as a leading light of this "movement".
After the doc finished, I looked her up...
...and most of her videos get mere *hundreds* of views.
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But pretending they’re more popular than they are is neither helpful nor accurate.
It almost risks just serving as an advert.
Apart from its World service, it is no longer fit for purpose. It’s managed by Tories and staffed by right wing agitators and brain dead social media addicts. It’s even worse here in Scotland.
But as long as the drones get their Sat night crapfest…
The fact TikToks autoplay means this is the equivalent to *maybe* tens of YouTube views; someone who occasionally gets one like on an Insta post.
But it is a problem to imply a certain idea is gaining traction when... well... the very people you're speaking to are evidence that it isn't.
Polling data on this topic is a little "spiky" as this is a subset of a larger poll, meaning the 18-24 cohort is comprised of less than 200 people.
Still, even the anomalous spikes make it pretty clear where people's views are.
By 86% to 5%.
It's more that it presents her as a popular vector of a growing movement rather than a genuine nobody.
Leftists have to regularly top hundreds of thousands because they don't want to be seen as mainstreaming a bunch of loony hippies.
"Lots of people on Twitter are saying..." and it's just three people with no followers.