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Mental Illness at the Comedy Club and TikTok Scroll
from #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show · #293
4 min
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Tim describes a comedy club that felt like a mental institution, riffs on endless TikTok scrolling through unwell people, and segues into a Keeps hair loss ad.
- Tim describes a comedy club that looked like the game room in a mental institution, with audience members rocking back and forth, talking to themselves, flicking their fingers, and one person wearing a helmet.
- He says he constantly feels like he's on a sheet of acid—a heroic dose.
- Internet-driven mental illness: Tim's mother, a therapist, told him the internet has ruined people's lives and it keeps getting worse.
- Tim describes scrolling through TikTok and encountering one mentally ill person after another, all completely out of control.
- There's a lot of neurodivergence now, and it's becoming a brand in a weird way—people struggling with mental illness are being made fun of on the platform.
- A specific example: someone who is 700 pounds, in a tight t-shirt and boxers with one sock on, singing—has 786,000 shares and is being made fun of everywhere.