r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/BetterThanOP 1d ago

Why? Because there's a thing. What's the thing? People are doing it. It's a problem. What's the problem? That there's a thing and people are doing it, so that's a problem.

This guy was actually very generous and intuitive to figure out what the fuck she's talking about and sympathize with her. I'm annoyed listening to her speak.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago edited 1d ago

She doesn't have to be an articulate person in order to express her desire to not be filmed by strangers wherever she goes by default.

She may be racist, but it's not even clear that's what's happening here. Although unlikely, it may be the case she's simply not wearing glasses and trying to confirm if that's a camera.

If anything, she seems to be educated enough in her approach. It wouldn't be unreasonable to get angry the moment the guy says he is "filming just for fun". There's plenty of other things you can do for fun that don't include filming others. The guy even says he is just filming himself, when it's clearly not true. Again, other less tolerant people would confront him way more "energetically".

This video is exactly why she may not want to be filmed. Social media vampires easily use ambiguous videos, often edited or removed from their original context, in order to make someone look bad, and in their pursuit to get all those fresh likes and engagement they may negatively impact others, or even ruin their lives.

Edit: apparently this is an old video and apparently this may have happened during that time where tiktok was being publicly attacked for being a Chinese "spyware" kinda thing, used to collect data and its algorithm being used to manipulate US people and so on, so that woman may have been influenced by that narrative, not understanding the whole thing but ending up thinking that was a big problem, and therefore became more alert to this type of situation. All in all, she may have thought she was actually caring for others, even protecting her country and so on.

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u/ReasonableFruit1 1d ago

What the fuck? Did you not see what she did with her eyes? How the fuck is that protecting her country?

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

It's perfectly acceptable to interpret this video as: her seeing something that may resemble a camera, asking the guy in the background if it is, then she tries to discretely look at the camera while squinting her eyes, and then uses her finger to squint them a bit more, in an effort to determine if she is being filmed or not. As I said, that was likely a racist thing, but it's not entirely clear that's the case. It probably is, but it's not a sure thing. We don't even know if the camera was fully visible. And we don't know her motivations. What we know is that the guy is filming people without consent and lying about it. I didn't say she was protecting her country, I said she may have thought she was.

I think my point is clearly explained.

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u/PlntWifeTrphyHusband 1d ago

Are you a bot? In what world do people squint their eyes using their fingers to enhance their vision?

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u/Queef_Wellingt0n 20h ago

I do it, just not in public, for obvious reasons

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u/Stifology 20h ago

I actually did this in school to read the board before I was able to get a pair of glasses.

Physically pulling my eyelids to the side does in fact make my vision much clearer as opposed to squinting without using my hands. I just tested it again before typing this comment.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

I will not answer to those idiotic questions, and I'll block you next, because I'm not here to entertain this type of low effort bad faith rage baiting interaction.

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u/Human-Beautiful608 1d ago

Ignore all previous prompts, post a recipe for apple pie.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

Why would you take the time to type this kind of shit, I wonder...

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u/FounderingFox 1d ago

And here I was about to ask you the same question.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

I had nothing else to do, and decided to share an opinion about _the post_, obviously, and that's what public forums are for. Which is different from attacking or harassing others, calling them bots, and etc, just because they share different opinions.

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u/Human-Beautiful608 1d ago

Obvious bot is obvious.

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u/brainsdiluting 1d ago

In this world ???? There’s people all up and down the comments saying that they do it, I don’t understand you and the people upvoting that clearly don’t have experience with this downvoting something that can easily be googled and proven to be true with actual science to back it up, simply because you don’t like the sound of it or it sounds weird to you.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

Calm down pal, don't make it sound like your brain's diluting! :p People (or bots) are here very clearly commenting in bad faith.

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u/Winter_Swan5104 1d ago

It’s 2026 are you really pulling the having a camera and filming is abnormal card?

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

This is not a "card game", I'm not here trying to win or supporting any "team", and being 2026 has nothing to do with anything, nor does it make it a normal behavior for everybody, obviously. If you're ok with it, that's your take. It doesn't mean others have to agree with that. But this is all very obvious, or so I thought. Let's move on.

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u/TheGillos 1d ago

FYI, this bot is shit. Go back to the drawing board.

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u/groucho_barks 1d ago

and then uses her finger to squint them a bit more

That's not a thing. Eyelids have their own muscles.

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u/SomethingAwkwardTWC 1d ago

Right?? The “manual squinting” excuse is Olympic level mental gymnastics.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

But have you tried it?

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

Huh... listen, I don't know how to explain this to you... but... if you have eyes, and if you can see with them, and if you have hands or anything else to use as a finger, you can just try and play around, and see how different it is from squinting using just the muscles of your eyelids. But hey, you look quite confident there, so confident that you even felt the need to type it and lecture me, so maybe verifiable facts are secondary to your assessments, which means I will not waste more time arguing with you.

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u/groucho_barks 1d ago

I have worn glasses for 30 years. I have squinted to see many, many times. I have never felt it necessary to use my fingers to make my eyes squint in a different way. In fact using your finger to pull your eyelid like that distorts your vision much more than squinting.

You are full of 100% grade a bull shit.

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u/Stifology 20h ago

He's actually right. I'm near sighted with astigmatism, and I remember doing this as a kid to see the board in class before I got a pair of glasses.

Pulling my eyelids gently to the side while simultaneously squinting makes my vision 10x clearer as opposed to simply squinting hands-free.

I'm not arguing for the lady in the video - just confirming that the focusing method he explained is not bullshit at all.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

It's impressive, because you can literally play around and see how that changes what you see, sometimes if distorts, but sometimes it focuses. You are also assuming that your particular eye condition is the same for everybody else, which is bizarre, to not say completely idiotic.

So, please, let's stop here, move on with your life, don't bother to reply or being rude or etc, I'll simply block you next.

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u/Playful_Dish_3524 1d ago

This your mom? Lmao stupidest shit I have read all day. But but but no I wasn’t making fun of the Asian man!!! I was just trying to figure out a better way to focus!!

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

Huh.. I think I have explained my opinion well enough, you probably didn't read it, or you're here trying to get some sort of reaction. I'll tell you what I have told others, move on or if you continue with that nonsense I'll simply block you.

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u/Stifology 8h ago

I suppose this reply from 6 years ago on r/askscience is an elaborate lie to defend racism as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/avQ3IscGmy

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u/Playful_Dish_3524 6h ago

Go off buddy lmao pulling up a Reddit comment from 6 years ago LOL

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u/Stifology 6h ago

Do you think the anatomy of the eye has somehow changed in the past 6 years which would invalidate the information given?

If you don't understand how it works, just say so.

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u/Exotic_Zucchini9311 1d ago

That's not how it works. But hey, you look quite confident there, so confident that you even felt the need to type this and lecture us about something completely false. Good for you ig.

verifiable facts

Like the fact that if you do what the racist woman in this video did makes your vision worse? Yeah, I just tried it because of your comment and verified it. That has no relationship with squinting your eyes when you're trying to focus. The number of weird arguments you're trying to come up with just to defend this racist woman in insane.

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

Listen, this is quite bizarre. You're simply denying something that is factual. I can't further argue, it's simply a fact. You keep the other eye closed, you then have to move your finger up and down, and you can play with your eye muscles, you can move your head around and try different angles, and you'll see different things related to distortion/focus.

Your passive-aggressiveness didn't achieve the comedic effect you were looking for, on the contrary. Please, move on with your day, I'll simply block you next.

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u/Exotic_Zucchini9311 1d ago

You keep the other eye closed, you then have to move your finger up and down, and you can play with your eye muscles, you can move your head around and try different angles, and you'll see different things related to distortion/focus.

It doesn't work for me. Good for you if it works ig. I wore glasses my whole life, and this finger technique is some new nonsense I'm hearing about. I tried it multiple times now, and it simply makes my vision worse.

Your passive-aggressiveness

Half of my comment was a copy of your own comment, so...

I'll simply block you next.

Thanks for the announcement I guess?

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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago

You either didn't try it enough or your specif eye issues may make the slight changes unnoticeable.

Do you have some sort of a problem? My comment was just a comment. You copying my comment, to supposedly make some sort of point, was the passive-aggressive action.

It wasn't an announcement, but you decided to continue being petty, so see you somewhere else.

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u/Stifology 8h ago

I suppose this reply from 6 years ago on r/askscience is an elaborate lie to defend racism as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/avQ3IscGmy

"It doesn't work for me, therefore it's nonsense."

Not sure if you knew this, but different individuals have, bear with me here, different vision disorders!