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She spent her inheritance sending money to TikTok Livestreamers. What started as a game turned into addiction. (www.businessinsider.com)
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She spent her inheritance sending money to TikTok Livestreamers. What started as a game turned into addiction.::Cindi White spent more than $25,000 on TikTok Influencers. TikTok's Live Matches have a dark side.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Be! Excited! Be, Be Excited!

Edit: To anyone too young to know, or simply out of the loop, this is from Requiem for a Dream. No doubt you recognize that music; the ubiquitous "oh so dramatic" music. That... Was scored for this movie. This was it's original application. There's a reason it's ubiquitous today. Fuck. The gravity of this movie is bringing me to tears rn and I haven't seen it in over a decade. If you haven't seen it, watch it.