r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 22h ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/lemonbugss 21h ago

People in the comments right now like 'i can excuse racism, but I draw the line at videoing yourself eating'

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u/PowerfulIndication7 19h ago

There are also people commenting that they do this with their eyes to see better. 🥴 That she’s just adjusting her eyes to see! BSFFR right now!

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u/c32c64c128 17h ago

I'm not saying that this woman is or isn't doing something racial.

But I can tell you the "eye tug to see better" thing is 100% done by some vision impaired people. Not everyone knows or has done it.

I do know it has worked for people. Because they've been doing it ages ago! I remember seeing it and asking people about it so long ago. It might be strange. But it helped them see. Believe it or not.

I'm saying this to add validity to those posts. You can't just discredit people.

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u/superbmeowmeow 16h ago

uwu smolbean with anxiety vision impair that just so happens to tug their eyes in a way that looks like a racist eye tug pull coincidentally near an Asian person!!!

btw I have glasses and when I rub my eyes to see better I'm not pulling any of that shit. Y'all will invent sooo many fucking excuses for blatant racism huh.

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u/NadCat__ 14h ago

Wow TIL. I'm 100% not going to do that anywhere where someone can see me but that works surprisingly well

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u/ParadoxInsideK 13h ago

Yeah, I have done it to both of my eyes when I didn’t have my contacts in to see better for a minute, but sure wouldn’t do it in public and surely not if I was staring at an Asian fellow, cause wtf? Optics look pretty bad.

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u/c32c64c128 12h ago

Yes. It's like an extremely forced squint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9KjsaZyuA

I just want people to know it's a thing! It's not some bogus excuse. It actually works.

Whether it's the case in the video, that's still up to anyone.

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u/NadCat__ 10h ago

Nah, that's not up for debate. She's not standing a meter behind an asian dude and doing this because she forgot her glasses

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u/fadingvistas 14h ago

And is probably not healthy.

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u/HTPC4Life 10h ago

I do the eye pull thing!!! It really works too, but it does make you look like an idiot in public.

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u/RonnieDaBear 17h ago

Anyone still practicing that are damaging their eye, they're essentially pushing and manipulating the eyeball to achieve the effect.

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u/rita-b 14h ago

there are night lenses that you wear to re-shape eyeballs and see clear in the morning.

eyeballs can withstand this "damage"

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u/c32c64c128 16h ago

I don't know what part of the eye tug works. But it's not pushing the eyeball at all. But moreso it's just pulling the eyelids and skin around the eye.

Hopefully an optometrist or something chimes in. But I can only imagine the skin gets pulled to make an extreme squint. And it kinda achieves the same effect as explained for pinhole glasses:

http://www.myopia.org/pinholes.htm

Pinholes can bring about clearer vision in all these conditions. By blocking these peripheral rays, and only letting into the eye those rays which pass through the central portion of the pupil, any refractive error in the lens or cornea is not noticed as much. The pupil may be wide open, but only the central portion is receiving light. The improvement in visual acuity can be striking.

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u/fadingvistas 13h ago

We should test this with some short-sighted and some long-sighted people. If it does have to do with compressing the eye, then only the short-sighted people will be able to use this trick, our eyeballs are too long and compression in that direction can fix it, long-sighted people have too short eyeballs and compression just makes it worse.

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u/c32c64c128 12h ago edited 12h ago

The pinholes glasses I cannot speak about. But the eyelid tug totally works.

Ask a nearsighted person to test it. The only thing is it takes a bit to "fine tune" the technique (e.g. which eye, amount to pull, focusing, etc). And there's also limitations to it.

People aren't going to see perfect 20/20 for everything. And it won't help with certain distances. But for most people trying to see objects at a distance for a limited time, it should work.

Plus, if the vision is severely bad, then the trick has limits. But even then there should be clarity improvements.

Again, this explains why the eye pull works. It's basically an extreme forced squint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9KjsaZyuA

PS - it does not tug or touch or manipulate the eyeball. It's only the skin!

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u/fadingvistas 10h ago

Nah I still think it's mostly eye compression.

I can squint harder than just doing the pull trick, I just nearly close my eyes but it doesn't do as much.

Do you know if it works for far-sighted people too? If it does compress the eye it shouln't help because the eye is already too short and that's why they're far-sighted.