The evolution of the way people have presented themselves online is wild. Once upon a time, everybody hid behind aliases in forums and chatrooms, allowing themselves to be whatever they insisted that they were. 

After that, more image-based media and internet clout were thrown into the mix. This gave rise to the influencer, and even encouraged the normies to bring a polished version of their personality onto the World Wide Web.

Then, for some reason short form video was the breaking point where a significant minority decided to go utterly batsh*t insane. TikTok isn’t the first social media platform to encourage certain sections of the populace into baring all. However, rarely has it been this personal, or with full identity attached.

The clock app may be a symptom of our decades long societal addiction to screens, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t entertaining. Sure, a lot of this entertainment might be horrifying, but hey! So is being alive.