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Lucky Girl Syndrome to TarotTok: Is TikTok’s Algorithm Leading us into Spiritual Psychosis?
In this week's episode, I explore the spiritual-adjacent corners of TikTok like manifestation-tok, tarot-tok, psychic-tok, and astrology-tok, and how this content can lead users down a harmful pipeline. I look at how young people, Gen Z in particular, are turning to new-age spirituality to make sense of the world and how the TikTok algorithm contributes to increasingly extreme beliefs in this area. I also share case studies of users who have devolved into "spiritual psychosis" (an unofficial term) after becoming obsessed with this side of TikTok.
Timestamps:
4:05 Why I wanted to talk about this topic
5:13 Overview of the spiritual side of TikTok
10:30 Explaining “spiritual psychosis”
13:36 Creator case studies
17:44 The role of TikTok’s algorithm
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Timestamps:
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Timestamps:
2:01 Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake
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The biggest stories on the internet from May 2nd, 2024.
Timestamps:
00:57 Bella Hadid announces fragrance brand, Orebella
2:58 TikTok creator calls out Olivia Rodgrio’s team for “stealing” her merch design and selling it to fans
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