Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not social media
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Wikipedia is not social media. It is not meant to be used as a vehicle for social popularity, nor is it meant for posting your cringe-inducing TikTok dances. Please, do not clog the Wikimedia servers with the Renegade, thirst-traps, conspiracy theories about how JFK is alive, gameplays, or anything else that belongs on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
One of the best ways to remember all of this information are the immortal words of "Weird" Al Yankovic:
Every stupid hoax, all those corny jokes
Stop forwarding that crap to me
Well, I don't need tons of cringe inducing puns
Stop forwarding that crap to me
No, it isn't okay if you brighten my day
With some cut and pasted, hackneyed Hallmark poetry
And I didn't request a personality test
Stop forwarding that crap to me
You're sending virus-laden, bandwidth-hogging attachments
To every single person you know
You're passin' 'round a link to some dumb thing on YouTube
That everybody else already saw 3 years ago
And wacky, badly photoshopped billboards were never that amusing to me
And I just can't believe you believe those urban legends
But I have high hopes someone'll point you towards Snopes
And debunk that crazy junk you're spewing constantly...— "Weird Al" Yankovic, Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me, Alpocalypse, 2011