Faced with the reality that many TikTok users who claim to be or are believed to be teachers and students record videos with offensive and anti-educational content to post on this platform, such as swearing, teaching how to love, dancing to "show off" their figure, smoking, "teasing" teachers, and showing how to cheat, as Thanh Nien Newspaper once reported, many professional TikTokers also consider school life a "fertile" topic for creating content. However, not all videos are beneficial and healthy.
"Teacher" and "student" act out offensive scenes
One of the prominent content that is frequently exploited on TikTok is the role-playing style, when TikTokers take on typical roles in the classroom such as teachers, supervisors, parents, students... to act out available scenarios, set in a school context, often with humorous elements. Typical of this trend are accounts such as YYD, HHO, GH... all of which have hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of likes on TikTok.
Many TikTokers make videos in the style of teachers and students with offensive content, gaining a lot of interactions.
On their personal pages, these TikTokers specialize in posting videos of themselves playing different roles to take turns responding, including quite a bit of offensive content. For example, in a video with more than 337,000 views by YYD, after the "teacher" said "I have to treat the school like my home", the "student" retorted "if this was my home, I wouldn't have let you in". Or a video that attracted nearly 1 million views posted by HHO, when the "teacher" said "whoever talks too much, get out of the class", the "student" replied "yes, I invite you out of the class, you've been talking the most", then the "teacher" slapped the "student" in the face.
In another video with about 2.4 million views, TikToker BL plays a role with a colleague, in which two wear white shirts, red scarves and one wears a long dress to illustrate the image of a student and a teacher, but has impolite lines compared to the image. Specifically, the "student" says "teacher, tomorrow take a day off", when the "teacher" wonders why, the "student" threatens "you ask too much, now give it away for free... in this underworld, I respect you the most, so I ask your permission...".
Talking about TikTok videos that "impersonate" teachers and students, Le Phuong Uyen, a journalism student at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, said that this is just "the tip of the iceberg". "I myself have seen many offensive videos about school topics posted on Vietnamese and international TikTok channels, most notably the 'sexualization' of teacher images such as 'teacher Thao' or 'teacher Wilson and student Jessica'...", the female student said.
Many professional TikTokers choose to create content based on school themes but have offensive and anti-educational behaviors and statements.
According to Uyen, the above videos can have a huge impact on the perception of students and teachers, especially the degradation of moral values such as respect for teachers. "For students, they can develop a one-sided view of the teaching profession, leading to inappropriate thoughts and behaviors such as treating teachers as 'equals'. As for teachers, the negative behavior of students, both in real life and on social networks, can hurt teachers to some extent," Uyen said.
Poetry, toxic career guidance
Close to school age are literary works in textbooks, including famous poems such as Luom or Nam Quoc Son Ha . This is also the material for many TikTokers to "remix" to create catchy music, but with offensive content and images.
Most recently, at the end of April 2023, the internet phenomenon "the little boy" that many young TikTokers responded to was met with fierce controversy because of its lyrics and images. Specifically, the music was adapted from the poem "Lượm" by author Tố Hữu but was adapted in a meaningless way, including the passage "the little boy, the pretty bag, the nimble legs, the... shaved head". Notably, the TikToker combined the parody music with images showing off skin, or female students wearing ao dai but posing offensively.
Currently, the parody song "The Little Boy" and many related offensive videos have been removed from the TikTok platform.
Or in a video that attracted about 6.2 million views, the work Nam quoc son ha , which is considered Vietnam's first declaration of independence, was also turned into a drinking song by TikTokers. Specifically, in the video, the lyrics were changed to: "Nam quoc son ha nam de cu, a cup of wine left for a long time will spoil, letting the wine spoil is a waste, brothers agree to raise your glasses!" with a picture of a drinking table.
Career guidance is also not immune to variations such as the trend of "the most useless university degrees in Vietnam" in March 2023. These are videos with the same content advising students to give up majors such as business administration, real estate, English, marketing... because they are "the most useless", "easy to become unemployed", "have no future", which are considered by many experts to be subjective, baseless with the main purpose of "attracting" views, have no career guidance value but cause a stir in public opinion.
To use TikTok effectively
Commenting on anti-educational content on TikTok, reader Phan Hung Duy said that a law is needed to protect traditional customs, thereby creating opportunities for authorities to take stronger action in maintaining national culture and traditions, as well as protecting the souls of minors. Agreeing, reader Hung Nguyen affirmed that TikTok can help users make money and become famous, but not at the expense of personality and morality. "I request that management agencies strictly control and impose heavy penalties to eliminate harmful content," he said.
The trend "The most useless university degrees in Vietnam" on TikTok once caused a stir in public opinion in March 2023
Implementing many lesson content on TikTok, Master Bui Van Cong, an online exam preparation teacher, commented that students can gain many academic benefits when using this social network. "However, everything has two sides," Mr. Cong noted. Accordingly, the abuse of this platform by students for negative purposes such as spreading tips for cheating on exams, attacking teachers or "following" toxic trends are urgent signals calling for education managers to quickly intervene.
"It must be affirmed that at school age, when many students have not yet formed the correct awareness, posting negative videos is sometimes just following the trend without foreseeing the consequences. Therefore, we cannot blame the students entirely, but this issue also has the responsibility of many other parties such as families, teachers and schools in the work of monitoring and educating students' ideology," the male teacher analyzed.
Master Cong suggested that teachers can guide students on how to use social networks, such as TikTok, effectively, instead of prohibiting them because "this is impossible". Teachers should even "engage" in experiencing this social network to serve teaching activities, thereby better understanding students' psychology. "The government must be strong in censoring and filtering harmful content on TikTok, especially needing to quickly end the current situation of many self-proclaimed 'teachers' who have behaviors that distort the image of teachers like today", Mr. Cong suggested.
Today (May 15), TikTok testing begins in Vietnam
At the press conference on May 5, Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications), said that the inspection at TikTok will start from May 15 until the end of May. The Ministry of Information and Communications has sent an official dispatch to relevant ministries and branches such as the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Public Security, the General Department of Taxation (Ministry of Finance)... to send people to join the working group.
Previously, in April, the Ministry of Information and Communications announced 6 violations of TikTok in Vietnam. From there, the Ministry of Information and Communications plans to focus on the distribution algorithm, content recommendations for users; management of celebrities, people working in the performing arts on TikTok; compliance with legal regulations on child protection; prevention and combat of social evils in cyberspace...
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