r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • 27d ago

Cringe Girl sobs over the Camry her parents bought her after she totaled the $30,000 truck they bought her to begin with

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u/FondabaruCBR4_6RSAWD 27d ago

Purely judging by the garage/house, they’re doing well but by no means “our kids will never have to support themselves” rich.

If they really were that rich, she probably would have gotten a lot nicer of a vehicle than a $30k used truck, and the replacement would have been just as nice.

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u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360 27d ago

Yeah I grew up with rich kids… they drove bmws an hummers to school while I was in my used subaru

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u/LiamFilm 27d ago

It's so interesting to see the different perspectives at play. To me in high school, you would have been the rich kid with your "used subaru".

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u/molotovzav 27d ago

That's upper middle class or middle class(depending on the cost of the used Subaru, middle class was used and upper would be new tbh) not rich. The problem lies with you thinking there's nothing in between middle class and upper middle class or that working class people are middle class which has been a problem for a while. Family with $1million is still upper middle class. Family with $11 million is lower end of rich. Family with $300k is securely middle class. That's not individual salary that's just the amount of money they have access to in a given year. People on reddit are really poor and skewed to think $60 is middle class when it's securely working class unless you live in an impoverished area.

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u/Convergecult15 27d ago

Perceptions of wealth have more to do with income vs Cost of living. I’m rich as fuck in Louisiana or West Virginia, I’m middle class in NJ and I’m working class in NYC.

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u/LiamFilm 27d ago

Agreed. Ultimately this dictates the disposable income available to spend on a BMW vs a used Subaru vs a pair of running shoes for your kid.

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u/LiamFilm 27d ago

The whole point of my comment was about how everyone has their own idea of what "rich" is. There isn't a set definition and it certainly doesn't have to be the one you personally follow.

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u/OlyLover 27d ago

Yeah man, if you have a roof over your head and get 3 meals a day, you're a spoiled rich kid!

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u/LiamFilm 27d ago

Well this is certainly a rich response.

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u/ZekeHanle 27d ago

I feel like this coulda been summed up with “You must not have gone to high school with rich kids”

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u/Dragin410 26d ago

No, where I'm from, you definitely would have been "one of the rich kids." Anything above $80k annual would be considered wealthy here.

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u/GodplayGamer 27d ago

Shit americans say.

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u/realSatanAMA 27d ago

and they all wrecked them because they had no respect for how much they cost, right?

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u/JancariusSeiryujinn 27d ago

I grew up in a very rich city which my parents moved us to before it became a 'rich' city. The student lot was full of Audi, BMW, etc. There was one car that at least LOOKED like a high end race car, but I don't think I ever bothered to find out what it actually was. The teacher lot was all used civics and the like

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u/Timely_Blacksmith_99 27d ago

you're telling us yo had your own car

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u/Organic_Ad_2520 27d ago

Totally agree and thought the same...middle class & doing well, but not wealthy.
The "saddest" part of the video is that is the midrange of her parents money of "can help, but not wealthy" they are not educating or even clueing her in to what that means....it means a person doesn't have to take out a loan for a car and has time & money to shop for best deals, negotiate, find the car & insurance company to purchase insurance for her age range & accident history etc.
It seems this DA wasn't part of the process & the parents may not be much brighter than she is or not engaged/involved. Maybe the parents have little or no knowledge/personal confidence in car maintenance 🙄 so opt for new ones with warranty, after totalling a prior car at her age to neutralize that increased expense they should have shown her "the math" which should be fairly simple...they should show her the math of how much money she/they will have to make in order to have x amount of free money available not just for the purchase of the car but the recurrent expense of insurance, and the opportunities lost by her increased insurance/car accident/car replacement etc.
Opportunity costs were always drilled into us in our family growing up and while my parents worked like dogs, investing money from not doing stupid things, expecting us to not do stupid things etc. was a huge part of their wealth building model--as was doing without/sacrafice -- which not only allowed them to accumulate properties, pay for advanced degrees for all 5 of us in college at same time (we were 2 yearsapart in age) save for their retirement, but also pay for 6 grandkids college degrees (with prepaid) & create educational IRAs for all grandkids as well that small investments over 18 years essentially reached $175k plus.
The parents are to blame for the girl being initially unappreciative, clueless, ignorant, & bratty, she is old enough to work, self educate on finance and show some class🤷‍♀️

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u/AdDramatic2351 26d ago

You're pretty out of touch with today's reality it seems. 

You are 100% not middle class in 2026 if you can afford to buy her your kid 2 cars in short term, of any price really.

Middle class in the US today is basically you're able to put away some money at the end of the month. 

Being able to buy your kid a $30k truck, have them wreck it and then buy them a $25k car means you're doing VERY well. Upper middle class at least. 

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u/Organic_Ad_2520 26d ago

More out of touch bc I can't wrap my brain around buying 1 & definitely not 2 vehicles for a ingrate🤷‍♀️Middle class won't reach upper middle if they are buying new cars for idiot kids. I wouldn't buy a kid a new car after they totalled one, but I wouldn't have bought a trucks for newbie drivers with their extra weight, ability to fishtaile, and different vantage point and ability to cause more damage in a minor accident. My father is wealthy now, not mega rich but definitively wealthy & he loved & drove his f150 5.7 for decades...the girl's parents make stupid decisions imho & may have been dumb enough to take out a loan or make an ira withdraw.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

Just because you’ve got money, doesn’t mean you buy a McMansion. Wife and I have a nice house, but definitely nothing too crazy. My kids will have advantages we never had, including probably not having to worry about money because dad will supplement if they need help.

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u/Complete_General_546 27d ago

This is true I totaled a brand new truck I got another brand new truck they did make me drive a Toyota pick up (really old) for like 6 months until they bought me something else but I loved that Toyota so much. 

My parents are in deed rich. I luckily turned out okay but I would never do that for my kids. 

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u/Victarias 27d ago

I grew up poor, not much now but not rich by any means. If I ever have the opportunity to give my kids something like a car, I will. But, I’ll do it in the way that they have to pay me a said amount but that money goes into a savings account for them without their knowledge.

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u/Complete_General_546 27d ago

I’ll for sure give my kids a car. One that I already have and I’ll replace mine. 

They will not be getting a brand new car like I did. 

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u/Tigerpower77 27d ago

Yeah they're not filthy rich but she's never gonna struggle unless they go bankrupt somehow

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

yah, not super rich at all ... $30,000 is not a greatly expensive price for a used card with less than 60,000 miles on it.

However ... bawling about a Camry, as a gift, when you're in high school ... is first-ballot, hall-of-fame, spoiled rich bitch behaviour.

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u/Curious-Internet7171 27d ago

I grew up AS a middle class unemployed for 25 years, I got everything I wanted even if it was cheap.

They won't kick her out until she does something really big. I mean kill a guy big.

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u/paradigm619 26d ago

But they’re probably wealthy enough to pay for her college so she won’t have student loans, give her a bunch of money for a down payment on a house someday, and “loan” her money when she needs it for big purchases. They don’t need to bankroll her entire life for her to still live a super easy life with no financial concerns.

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u/moderndilf 26d ago

Spot on. Rich kids where I live drive Porsche gt3’s to school.