[EdwardDiego]

Tik Tok culture also has a similar fascination with glamourising, well, any mental illness or disability really.

There's a whole subgenre of ADHD Tik Tokers, for example.

And it's also well observed that, monkey see, monkey do, when the monkey is a teenager looking to differentiate themselves. Like the mass German outbreak of "Tourettes". [0]

I feel your outrage might be better aimed at people trying to turn serious disorders into a cute personality quirk for social media.

[0]: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/145/2/476/6356504

[thelettere]

So I should save my outrage for juveniles acting like juveniles on a juvenile platform rather than a grown man playing psychologist and successfully clickbaiting a moderated adult platform?

One could argue I shouldn't be outraged at either, particularly given HN's track record of dealing with anything complex involving human beings rather than technology. But I haven't entirely given up on adults capable of engaging in extended discourse, for better or worse.