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Watching TikTok Videos of Kids Identifying as Hawks

from Baby's Gotta Go | The Tim Dillon Show #339 · #339

5 min

Tim plays and reacts to TikTok videos of a user identifying as a hawk therian with neopronouns and discussing 'systems' and splitting, riffing on whether this counts as a positive societal development.

In this bit9 moments
  • Tim jokes that Republicans would prefer their kid to be a hawk rather than trans.
  • Tim states flatly that children believing they are birds is not a positive development for society.
  • Mental illness spreads easily on TikTok and other apps, he says, which isn't great for kids.
  • Tim imagines showing this content to the Chinese president and him having no idea what's happening.
  • He tries to parse what the creator means by "splitting patterns" and gets increasingly confused.
  • Tim changes his mind: just ban TikTok.
  • The commitment to neopronouns and animal identities doesn't seem fun compared to 1960s counterculture, Tim observes.
  • He wonders whether being a hawk is actually supposed to be fun, then tries to find evidence of joy in the videos.
  • Tim looks for a moment where someone is actually smiling and having fun as a hawk.
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