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The Illusion of Control: Embracing Uncertainty in a Chaotic World
You map out your day, tick off the to-do list, and even check the weather forecast. Everything feels handled. And thenāyour car wonāt start. The project you poured your soul into gets canceled. Or one unexpected text flips your entire mood. š We build fortresses of control, convinced that planning equals safety. But life has a way of swinging wrecking balls through our carefully constructed walls.ā¦
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[W10: Last Night on TikTok: Like Puppets on a String]
āI may win on the roundabout Then I'll lose on the swings In or out, there is never a doubt Just who's pulling the stringsā _Puppet on a string - Sandie Shaw_
Digital spaces sell us the dream of community, but letās not kid ourselvesāsocial media isnāt a utopia; itās a battlefield. Conflict isnāt a bug; itās a feature. Harassment? Profitable engagement. Moderation? A joke. Rules? They bend for the rich, and snap for the rest. Governance is a power play, and weāre just the pawnsāoutraged, entertained, and utterly powerless. Think you have control? Thatās adorable. Now, keep dancing, puppet.
1. All of Us Are Dead: Spoiler - It Was Never About āUsā
_ A Clown Show in Three Acts
Ah, the never-ending TikTok ban sagaāback again, like the reboot nobody asked for, or a toxic ex swearing theyāve changed.
The government āthreatensā to shut it down (again), TikTok plays the helpless victim who screams about free speech, influencers clutch their ring lights in despair, and users? Theyāre treating this like the season finale of Twilight - a joke. High drama, no stakes. But hereās the real twistāit isnāt about protecting your data; it was never about protecting YOU.
If governments actually cared about your data, they wouldnāt be singling out TikTok while letting Meta, Google, and basically every other tech giant vacuum up your personal info like a Dyson on steroids (yet, no oneās banning them).Ā
This is a geopolitical chess matchāpower-hungry governments using "security concerns" to flex ābeing caring to online usersā, meanwhile, TikTok isnāt some underdog fighting for free speechāitās a billion-dollar empire using this ābanā drama and chaos as free marketing with great publicity.
And influencers? Please. Their loyalty isnāt to TikTokāitās to views. A fight for digital rights? More like a power struggle wrapped in a PR stuntāand we all fell for it.
Privacy? Security? Eghhh! (buzzing sound) Itās about control.
_Who Runs Social Media? Not YouāTHATāS for Sure.
Social media was supposed to be the great equalizer, a space acting as a global town square where every voice mattered. But letās stop kidding ourselvesāusers donāt run these platforms. Governments and corporations do.
š Governments want controlābans, regulations, data lawsābut only when it benefits them. š Tech CEOs pretend to enforce ācommunity guidelinesā on platforms, but their real priority? Ad revenue. š° Money over morals all day every day, so look alive people! (Suck it up, they mean) š Users? We think we have power, but in reality, weāre just unpaid content creators feeding the machine. Weāre the audienceā¦until we become the product.
Social media āgovernanceā is a rigged system where the rules change depending on whoās in power. The only consistent law? Engagement = money.
Online harassment is so baked into digital spaces that people donāt even bother fighting it.
As Haslop, OāRourke and Southern (2021) point out, itās become āthe normāājust another part of being online.
And thatās exactly how platforms like it. Less effort on moderation, more engagement from outrage. Profits go up, but user safety? Who cares?
2. The Chaotic Clout Chase of the Mediocre: Just How Desperate Are They?
_Clout-Chasing Carnage
When influencers thought TikTok was on its deathbed, they went FERAL, always in full survival mode.Ā
I mean, letās not pretend influencer drama is just āorganic chaos.ā Itās a gameāone thatās strategically played.
Marwick and Caplan (2018) argue that harassment is often ācoordinated and organized,ā and guess what? So are these influencer meltdowns.
ā Fake scandals. ā Over-the-top meltdowns. ā Conveniently timed ābrand exposures.
Suddenly, everyone had a crisis to capitalize on.
_The Algorithmās Freak Show
But letās zoom out: this wasnāt just influencer nonsense. This was proof that social media āgovernanceā is broken. While real issues like misinformation and privacy violations get ignored, the algorithm prioritizes drama, hysteria, and chaosābecause it keeps us watching.Ā
And the worst part? We enable it. We reward the most toxic behavior with views. We rage-comment, hate-watch, and click ājust to see whatās happening.ā Every time we think weāre above it, we prove weāre just as hooked as the rest.
Yes, thatās the harsh truth: While creators scramble to survive algorithm shifts, the real decision-makers (platform CEOs, investors, politicians) sit back and profit off our panic.
3. Doxing, Drama, and the Rules? Oh, You Thought There Were Rules?
_Rules for Thee, but Not for Me
Online harassment? Donāt act like itās a one-way street. Yeah, itās not just a ātoxic masculinityā thing like people love to claim.
In reality, men actually report experiencing it at slightly higher rates than women, with 43% of men and 38% of women saying theyāve faced some form of it (Atske 2021).
Power imbalances exist everywhere online, and women? Yeah, they can be just as vicious. Just look at the SSSniperWolf doxing messātextbook proof that social media āgovernanceā is a total joke.
šŖ Jacksfilms calls out lazy content. š SSSniperWolf retaliates by literally posting his home address. šØ And YouTube? They hesitate. Drags its feet on punishing her, because⦠money.
If you did this? Instant ban. But when a high-earning creator does it?Ā
The āinvestigationā suddenly takes weeks.Ā The rules suddenly become ācomplicated.āĀ
The message is clear: The bigger your platform, the fewer consequences you face.
š Rules existābut only for small creators.
This isnāt just favoritism, heck, the unfairness is the least on the worry list. This is purely dangerous. If ārulesā can be bent for profit, what happens when real harm is done? Who decides which threats are taken seriously and which ones get buried under a PR statement?
Spoiler: Not you.
_āYouāre a Monster.ā Laughs. Try Looking in the Mirror.
This is where it stings: The real villain isnāt just governments, influencers, or tech CEOs. Itās us.
We reward bad behavior with clicks. We complain about toxicity but canāt look away. We outrageously demand accountability from regulation failures, yet never leave the platforms that exploit us.
We built this beast. Now, weāre stuck, waiting for the fate of being eaten alive.
Oh, You Thought You Could Win? Cute.
Social media should be a fair space where digital citizens have rights, where governance protects users, and where tech giants are held accountable. Instead?
š¢ Protecting us? No! Governments use it to push their own agendas - They made the rules. š°Keeping us safe? Is that even a question? Platforms profit off our addiction and outrage. š Users get the illusion of controlābut never the power - We just watch.
Social media isnāt failing usāitās doing EXACTLY what it was built to do.
This was never a democracy. Itās a dictatorship run by algorithmsāand weāre just the fuel keeping the fire burning.
Welcome to the Hunger Games, darling. And spoiler alert? Weāre not the winners. Weāre the game pieces.
You wanna stop being a game piece? Start questioning the rules. Stop feeding the machine just because itās the ONLY game in town.
References:
Atske, S 2021, āThe State of Online Harassmentā, Pew Research Center, viewed 21 March 2025, .
Haslop, C, OāRourke, F & Southern, R 2021, ā#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online cultureā, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1418ā1438.
Marwick, AE & Caplan, R 2018, āDrinking male tears: language, the manosphere, and networked harassmentā, Feminist Media Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 543ā559, viewed .
š„ The illusion of control is just another blindfold.
Hereās to taking life in with all of its messy twists and turns, its unrelenting knack for humbling us, and its wonderful capacity for magically turning things around every time, just when weāre about to give up. This oneās a New York babe, for sure. š½
New research: Understanding usersā negative emotions and continuous usage intention in short video platforms
Short videos are very popular but if they take up a-lot of peopleās time, they gradually change peopleās living habits. Therefore it is useful to understand the negative implications of short videos. The results show that usersā viewing many short videos can have negative emotions, and these negative emotions can affect usersā intention to continue to use short video platforms. The model developed in this research shows that there are three negative emotions caused by six factors. Two of these three negative emotions then influence the intention to continue using short videos.
Fig 1. Model of usersā negative emotions and continuous usage intention in short video platforms
From the six factors that cause negative emotions, the five are related to flow theory. Flow theory is relevant here because watching short videos is a flow experience. Flow theory is a state where someone is fully immersed in an activity, they are enjoying it and other things do not seem to matter as much.
The first of the five factors related to flow theory is the low efficiency the user has in their work and other tasks, due to watching short videos. The second is time distortion, meaning that the users perception of time is not as accurate during this activity. What might feel like a short amount of time can be much longer. The third is the harm to their health. Both mental and physical health can be harmed by spending a long time watching short videos. The fourth is the online addiction they experience, making them want to keep watching the short videos. The fifth is online procrastination, making the user watch more short videos to delay working and making decisions related to their work.
The sixth factor that can cause negative emotions is illusion of control. The theory of illusion of control suggests that in some situations a person can be overconfident about their control of a situation. A person can have a level of optimism that they will get the outcome they want, that is unrealistic. The negative emotions include anxiety, sadness and remorse. The research found strong support that sadness and remorse influence the users intention to continue using the short videos.
Reference: Cheng X., Su X., Yang B., Zarifis A. & Mou J. (2023) āUnderstanding usersā negative emotions and continuous usage intention in short video platformsā, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, vol.58, 101244, pp.1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2023.101244

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MY PEOPLE
āThe father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them.ā (John 6:37, NCV).
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Open to OUR Spiritual Power
Open to OUR Spiritual Power
Our spiritual power is enhanced with each blessing we give. And as our spiritual power is enhanced, lifeās trials are fewer. Our struggle to accept situations, conditions, and other people, or our struggle to control them, lessens every day that we recognize and revere one anotherās individualistic existence.
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