rant · moment 5 of 19
TikTok Kids, Cameron Kasky, and 'Get a Real Job'
from #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show · #208
5 min
Tim reacts to Parkland activist Cameron Kasky's tweet about 'real jobs' for creatives, then pivots to defending TikTok teens who are making six and seven figure deals while his friends mock the platform, and argues life doesn't 'even out in the end.'
- Tim doesn't understand why lip-syncing to other people's songs or Donald Trump impressions gets praised as genius.
- He won't constantly mock TikTok because it's just what kids are doing, though older comedians obsess over banning it.
- Established TikTok kids have six and seven-figure brand deals and endorsements—they're already set financially.
- A Long Island friend asked if Tim was getting unemployment, unaware that the podcast was doing well.
- Tim rejects the childish belief that everything evens out in the end; it statistically does not.
- Mediocre talentless people make millions while talented people die alone in the street.
- He didn't start a TikTok and doesn't jump on new apps if something doesn't immediately strike him as funny.
- The only funny content on TikTok is random crazy people; dancing videos are not funny.
- If the government bans TikTok for being Chinese spyware, it should ban Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat too.
- Tim prefers American surveillance through Mark Zuckerberg over Chinese spyware collection.