Neue Studie verbindet das Ansehen von TikTok mit „Durstfallen“ und einem geringeren Vertrauen und einer geringeren Zufriedenheit in Beziehungen. Dies ist ein Beweis dafür, dass das Ansehen oder Liken von „Durstfallen“ einer Beziehung tendenziell schadet, insbesondere wenn die Personen in den Videos körperlich anders aussehen als der tatsächliche Partner einer Person.
New study links watching TikTok “thirst traps” to lower relationship trust and satisfaction
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It’s just TikTok. The thirst traps are an excuse.
Watching excessive short form video makes you unattractive.
I had my girlfriend’s face laser-etched into my corneas so I literally can’t ever look at other women. Then I never have to make comparisons or judgments. I mean I could make efforts to think differently, but we have lasers these days so I did the right thing.
TLDR – your gf doesn’t want to see you looking at other hot girls on the internet all the time. It makes her trust you less and feel inadequate.
Surprise surprise.
What if I’m sending them to the other person to see if they like what they see too?
Meanwhile, my girlfriend and me watch NSFW content together
It’s funny that it’s seen as less bad that the person looks like your partner. I would think it’s worse because it makes you into a substituted type.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Honestly, I experienced it myself. I’ve been living with my wife for ten years, happily no issues.
A year ago I started a Twitter account trying to connect with my local TTRPG scene.
At first it was fine, I found locals chatted and had fun, but with time my timeline got worse and worse. I haven’t explicitly liked anything like that, but gooning content is something that pops up in my feed all the time.
At a certain point, I do not know what metrics they use our how they make their algorithmic feed, but at a certain point I had more gooning content than my local TTRPG stuff, and Ive never liked anything horny and occasionally blocked/used not interested button.
But what actually frightened me that I started having intrusive thoughts about finding another partner, like grass is greener on the other side. It’s not like I’m unhappy, she’s my best friend and I love her to death.
But the intrusive thoughts/feelings scared me because I’ve never had them before.
After a while I realized that people argue too much on Twitter and stopped using it and I really noticed the betterment of my mental health and satisfaction with my wife
It’s always great when science catches up with common sense. That said though we can’t ignore the part about people’s feeds being a reflection of what they’ve interacted with. There’s been talk about people’s feeds defaulting to thirst traps after interacting with that content *once* and having it drown out everything else. Or even after a long period of disuse.
Imagine TikTok ruining your relationship cause it decided to show you a bunch of thirst traps just cause you commented on a meme from a profile that exclusively posts thirst traps otherwise
This is why I quit social media (besides Reddit & Youtube) a few years ago.
It made me want things that I didn’t truly want, especially with thirst traps. I wasn’t even in a relationship at the time, I just hated the spiral it could cause.
This study feels vindicating.
Actively seeking out videos of other people you find attractive and watching them for that reason may hurt your relationship?
Wow… who would have guessed?
Somewhat related aside, has anyone noticed their reddit recommended page being all almost softcore porn in the last few days? If you look at my account interaction history I never interact with those communities (if ur into it that’s fine I just find is a bit, idk, sexist isn’t the right word but something similar) but every single sub outside of my followed ones recently have been literally just photos of women exposing their cleavage. I’ve had to block soooo many recommended subs over the past 24 hours, it’s genuinely maddening. It’s genuinely ruining my experience scrolling on the front page for hockey and news.
It’s strange to me that some people can’t look at other people they find attractive without wanting to throw their life away. I would like to see some analysis about things like how exposed folks were to sexuality throughout their lifetime and how things like a religious upbringing might influence the data.
I would guess that these studies may indicate less relationship satisfaction overall, but the videos they watch are giving them an indication of what they might want in their current reality. It’s like sex education in schools and then the students go on to have sex. The class didn’t make them want to do it, but it did show them how to do it safely and therefore alleviate anxiety.
This feels like that. People who are unhappy in a relationship watch thirst traps and then realize how unhappy they were. Just to turn around and blame the thirst trap rather than relationship dissatisfaction that was already present.
This is all speculative of course.
If you have a partner, you shouldn’t be indulging in such stuff.
Or
People who are into thirst traps just make worse partners for the same reason they are into thirst traps. Trashy romance novels have been around for centuries. It’s no different.
Since Tiktok serves up more of what you watch, it’s likely that the causal arrow is the other way around from what the OP title suggests. People with lower relationship trust and satisfaction, regardless of how they answer on surveys, linger on thirst trap videos, and so, have more served to them and thus watch more.
It’s more likely that the TikTok algorithm is uncovering unexpressed tendencies rather than causing these tendencies.
I’m gonna need the thirst tik toks they used for the study.
All this study boils down to is ignorance is bliss.
This is yet another study that could be better explained by reverse causality: people who are dissatisfied in their relationships will tend to watch more thirst traps.