RE: Is TikT0k Harming Therians?
Honestly, I think tiktok therians have kind of altered the definition of therianthropy. It went from being an experience, an identity to being an aesthetic. Something that can only be perceived one way.
As a younger therian thats been awaked for almost two years now, I actually did not find my therianthropy from tiktok. I found it from doing legitimate research, from doing internal seeking, looking into myself and my experiences. And I found that the therian identity fit me.
While many young kids see people like Opal or other therians and think "Ooh, I get to act like an animal and it's an acceptable thing?? Whatt that's so cool!" Or they do minimal research before suddenly deciding they are a therian.
I saw a person I was friends with on tiktok, who I was sure was therian, post about their experience.
They claimed that therianthropy was a choice for them, that they felt they had a lack of culture or meaning in their life and therianthropy brought both of those things.
so.
I've been posting on tiktok stuff like quadrobics, gear making, and talking about other "romanticized" parts of therianthropy, but not because I wanted to be a "better therian". I wanted my message to get spread.
Any time I talk about legitimate experiences I have as a therian, it gets shut down by other "new" therians.
A very good chunk of these "tiktok therians" are under the age of 12. That's really young to be submersing yourself into an identity.
Like a lot of new therians believe that mental shifts work like plurality. Where you forget what happens or have amnesia.
While I've had amnesia relating to my therianthropy, I think most therians can agree that mental shifts don't work like that...
Or the fact I've been put down for not overworking myself doing quads, or tried to be "famous like Opal". It's actually a beating to be on therian tiktok sometimes.
Another important part of this discussion is the misinformation that gets spread outside of our community. A lot of little kids will go on tiktok, find therians, and just decide they are mentally ill without doing genuine research or talking to any actual therians.
People with larger platforms than our own are spreading messages that absolutely don't need to be spread, which is why most normies will think of therians as mentally ill. That or the fact psychological therianthropy exists.
I'm sure that if maybe half of these kids actually understood therianthropy they would not be saying these things.
The part that worries me is that these kids voices are valued much higher than many therians are. So when people talk about misinformation or spread just blatanly wrong things about therianthropy, that stuff gets heard before the actual facts.
Overall though, I think it's a balance. Tiktok has helped a lot of people figure out their place in the world, whether it be therian or not. It's just that some people are not helping.
There are genuine therians on social media that are pretty popular and actually state the facts and educate people on therianthropy.
But yeah I don't like how we've romanticized and put standards on therianthropy. That's really weird.
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Is TikT0k Harming Therians?
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