Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.

aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 145 points –

Socrates bemoaned those young'ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it.

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"TikTok is just like reading a book"

-OP

LMAO this is way too harsh on the OP, poor guy just wanted to draw a parallel. Please stop murdering them in the comments.

Pinpoint the exact string of words where that was conveyed by op

Learn 2 read, noob.

The point was people are always looking for a scapegoat when they don't understand shit. I'm not the one to "learn to read"

Edit: what the hell is that username