Welcome to The Chronicles of Trevor, where silence is golden.
If you know me, you probably know that I hate TikTok with a fiery passion. There are many reasons for it. I hate its app icon, as it causes me to get a splitting headache. I hate that it's owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company that is known to steal the data of millions of users, and I also hate the unoriginal content that spews out of there, like the overuse of specific clips of audio, or "sounds", like that chipmunk'd "oH No nO No nO No" song, and similar sped-up tracks.
But there is still some major developments in the reasons why I hate TikTok.
First, there's a popular sound going around that has a tinny harmonica solo in it. Yup! An instrument played in a way I hate, blaring ever so screechily on an app with an icon that hurts my eyes? Heck no! The solo sounds like a knockoff of the various breaks in Billy Joel's iconic hit, "Piano Man", which adds more salt to the wounds of my ruptured eardrums. So whenever my mom uses TikTok, and that sound plays, and I hear "BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, BWEE-BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, BWEE-BWEEEEEEEEE BWEE-BWEEEEEEEEE BWEE-BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE", I feel like the world's smallest and sharpest adamantium knife is getting repeatedly shoved into my eardrums.
Also, they brought back the 2018-2020 version of the intrusive watermark (the one that has the "eighth note" logo vibrating rather obnoxiously), but instead of it being in the corners, where you could easily crop it out of view with your favorite video editor, it is on the edges of the screen, like how the 2020-2023 version of the watermark (which has a still note logo) was. Also, the 2018 watermark has the logo in a horizontal position, where the 2020 one is less cluttered due to being in a vertical position.
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