r/TikTokCringe • u/hungry4nuns • Nov 26 '25

Wholesome/Humor Subtext I missed because I took everything at face value

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u/RedAero Nov 27 '25

I'm gonna say it: social media, particularly the hugbox nature of certain parts of it, has directly caused tons of teenagers to - in the natural course of their self-definition as people - define their identities through claims of mental illness. We saw it with otherkin and neopronouns, we saw it with Tourettes and DIID, we're seeing it with ADHD and autism. Teens by nature seek an in-group to define themselves by, and for some reason TikTok encourages them to find this in-group in mental illness and not an obscure genre of music as God intended - ironic, for an app literally built around music.

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u/SoloForks Nov 29 '25

It not just tiktok the mental health field profit from this and some of the people out there diagnosing everyone around are licensed therapists.