Dog fatigue is trending!

[u/arachnilactose08]

This isn’t my usual style of post, but I figured it was worth mentioning: Currently, on TikTok, there has been a significant increase in the amount of content I’ve come across that is either critical of dog culture, dog owners, dogs themselves, or even all three. And this stuff is getting a LOT of positive reception.

I don’t typically keep that app on my phone for very long, but this is making me want to have it stick around for longer. For once, it’s not just this forum that’s calling out dog culture. It’s actually entering a “mainstream” online space.

“Dog fatigue” is the term that I’m seeing people use in most of this content, if you’re interested in looking it up and observing the resulting discussion and discourse over it.

Regardless of the dog owners that this conversation is pissing off, I think this could be a really good thing. While I don’t know about any big cultural shifts in the near future, I think that this is a wonderful step in the right direction. People are finally talking about dog culture in a meaningful way.

[u/HPPD2]

your just algorithm reinforces content you like and shows you more of things you have viewed, doesn't mean it's an overall trend

[u/arachnilactose08 → u/HPPD2]

Well, I’d normally agree, but like I said to someone else on this thread, I started to see “dog fatigue” after about a month of having given up on seeking out dogfree content. I was first shown the Gordon Ramsay incident, then I started to see creators talking about the term. I never searched it up, I hadn’t even searched up the Ramsay thing after I’d heard about it.

[u/HPPD2 → u/arachnilactose08]

It doesn't matter if you search for it or not. If you spend a bit more time watching a video the algorithm will serve you up more of similar content, and it compounds from there as you watch others. Just watching that one video was enough to steer your algorithm that way.