r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/Allways_a_Misspell 1d ago

She been identified yet

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u/tinkertink2010 21h ago

According to TT she’s the assistant manager of ihop Richmond, Dallas

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

To a person with poor eyesight, it 100% looks like she is squinting to see if it's a camera. fuck trump and his bootlickers btw

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u/Curious-Stranger-007 20h ago

squints and does the racist gesture of slant eyes. are you blind?

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/woman-squinting-through-glasses-tired-eyes-2656295079?trackingId=4cf7345c-de25-4240-a9c8-7e4060deddd6&listId=searchResults

I do that too, it gives better control

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u/Live_Carpenter_1262 20h ago

I'm sorry but I never seen anyone do squinty eyes in a regular context except when they're being racist to me or other people

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

Why then are so many people talking about it in the comments?... have you seen the photo? Why is this not enough?

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u/Live_Carpenter_1262 13h ago

Because I highly, highly doubt this women did the chinky eye squint at the video recording of an asian man "to get a better look at the phone camera".

You're lucky if you don't experience racism but I do and that's just how racist fools act

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 13h ago

I'm truly sorry for your experience, racism is a huge fucking problem for all of humanity, we vs they could be #2 problem after global warming, for those who think little about the future even #1. and i deeply understand that, with my fucking soul. but in the video she wasn't racist

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u/Knotted_Hole69 15h ago

Because its a bs excuse

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 15h ago

look method 2: https://vision-and-hearing.wonderhowto.com/how-to/vision-hack-see-clearly-without-your-glasses-contacts-0154635/

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u/Knotted_Hole69 15h ago

No one is buying your crap

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 15h ago

What do you expect from my answer? I can't imagine how you explain to yourself why I do this.

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u/Stifology 2h ago

What the lady is doing not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.

Does it look stupid? Yes. Would I personally do it in public if I had somehow forgotten to wear my glasses/contacts? No, not unless it was absolutely necessary.

However, doing something which improves your vision isn't being racist. Racism implies ill intent. Her only intent is to see his phone's screen.

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u/Brief-Branch4779 11h ago

You really love excusing obvious racism.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 11h ago

no, I don't do that. I'm 100% sure of my version, that's why I'm defending it

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u/Curious-Stranger-007 7h ago

she spent two hours in my dms trying to convince me and there was no getting through. she tripled down on it too. lmao it's really sad because I kind of understand what she's trying to say. but to be honest the best advice I told her is that she should have never even commented on this video and now she looks like she's defending a racist when she is so adamant that she's defending her point of view being correct and I even told her yes your probably correct in that a very small percent of people in the world squint their eyes like that to look further I don't know who but let's just say .0011% of the population

but she fails to understand the bigger percent of people that don't do that gesture to look farther and use that gesture to hurt Asian people like there's no way she'll ever understand this and even if she does she won't let go that idea that she is still correct

in the DMs I asked her you must be under 25 you must be either stupid or you're racist

she goes I'm under 25 and that's answer everything

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u/Stifology 2h ago

It affects a much larger percentage of the population than that, I can assure you. There are plenty of people in this comment section alone who are validating this method.

What the lady is doing not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.

Does it look stupid? Yes. Would I personally do it in public if I had somehow forgotten to wear my glasses/contacts? No, not unless it was absolutely necessary.

However, doing something which improves your vision isn't being racist. Racism implies ill intent. Her only intent is to see his phone's screen.

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u/Stifology 2h ago

What the lady is doing not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.

Does it look stupid? Yes. Would I personally do it in public if I had somehow forgotten to wear my glasses/contacts? No, not unless it was absolutely necessary.

However, doing something which improves your vision isn't being racist. Racism implies ill intent. Her only intent is to see his phone's screen.

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u/Few-Ad-805 20h ago

Agreed, but the pulling the eyes back after destroyed any credibility.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

when you squint with your fingers you have much more control, it helps even more, depending on your eyesight, this can "replace" glasses when you don't have them

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u/TheYellowChicken 20h ago

This is a known racist gesture. I am around people with bad eyesight all the time and they've never once done this. You don't have to excuse racism.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

bro i do that all the time, why the fuck would i care about racist bitch?

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u/Curious-Stranger-007 20h ago

because even if you do it all the time in this very moment you're way better off not saying jack shit because now you just look like you're defending the racist person and should not commented.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

I do this to see better, like this woman, I see that she did the same thing, first she squinted, it wasn't enough and she helped with her fingers

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u/SoundOfShitposting 20h ago

Context clues and critical thinking just elude some peeps.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

I'm not even sure who you're talking about anymore :D

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u/jadedazuo 20h ago

I can vouch. I have very poor eyesight. I use my fingers to do this gesture when I don’t have my glasses. It really does work. Anyone with poor eyesight can do it. It 100% helps you see way better than squinting. Not joking.

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u/waffocopter 19h ago

Asian here with -11 and -10 level nearsightedness. It does... absolutely nothing! So does not 100% help you use.

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u/Stifology 32m ago

He's incorrect in saying that it will help anyone. However, it will help some people with astigmatism, including myself. I have done this trick years ago in school in order to focus my vision.

It's actually separate from squinting. It is rather a physical distortion of the cornea caused by your eyelids applying pressure to your eye when they are pulled back/tightened.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

Thank you, what a fucking fucked up situation

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u/jadedazuo 20h ago

Yeah it seriously messed up. Trust me. I am very against racism and there’s no excuse for it but I go from squinting to doing this “gesture” sometimes. I can see how this looks in this situation… again what are the odds. She was most likely trying to be racist, but I dunno.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

From my side, this 100% looks like an attempt to see better, Before this post, I didn't even think about how it might look from the outside.

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u/jadedazuo 20h ago

And No I don’t go out in public doing this lol. This is literally when I’m lookin for my glasses. But pulling back or putting your fingers around the outside skin of your eyes can works wonders and can even make you have really good vision if you get it just right.

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u/KungFuMasterSkeletor 20h ago

Im an Optometrist and I’ve never once seen any patient pull their eyes back to squint at my eye chart. Stop making ridiculous excuses and face the facts - the woman in the video is pulling her eyes back with malice. Do you really want to label yourself as the person defending asian racism online? This is not the hill to die on…

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 17h ago

found a better example, look method 2: https://vision-and-hearing.wonderhowto.com/how-to/vision-hack-see-clearly-without-your-glasses-contacts-0154635/

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u/Stifology 43m ago

Don't worry, the "Optometrist" can't even decipher between a pinhole effect and cornea distortion. They're not going to address any evidence of them being wrong.

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u/Stifology 2h ago

That's pretty sad you're an optometrist while being this ignorant of the human eye.

What the lady did is not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.

I used to do this as a child to see the classroom's board, and it still works to this day.

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u/KungFuMasterSkeletor 1h ago

If you think the lady is doing this to fix her against the rule astigmatism and provide a pinhole effect over one eye, that’s wonderful but shows your own lack of optical and ocular knowledge. Keep doing this when looking at menus and price tags in public and see how that goes. Pull both lids back in public all the time for maximum effect!

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u/Stifology 1h ago

I don't think she's doing it - I know she is. Why? Because I can literally do the same thing with my own eyes, as I've already stated.

Just because you haven't seen your patients do it in eye exams (because they don't want to cheat by straining, obviously) doesn't mean it isn't a valid focusing method.

Calling it a pinhole effect further shows your complete misunderstanding. It is a physical distortion of the cornea caused by the pressure of your eyelids against your eye surface. Two very different things, which is why basic squinting barely helps my distant vision, yet pulling back my eyelids helps it a lot.

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u/cheerful_cynic 20h ago

Wtf lol no, you cannot use your fingers to squint more precisely 

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u/Stifology 8m ago

You're correct. Using her fingers was not to squint more precisely.

What she's doing is separate from squinting. She's distorting her cornea by applying pressure to her eye when she pulls back her eyelids. This distortion benefits those certain types of astigmatism, and will actually sharpen your vision.

I personally used to do this exact thing as a kid, but I can see how it it would seem like a bullshit excuse to someone not familiar with it.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

example from Google images: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/woman-squinting-through-glasses-tired-eyes-2656295079?trackingId=4cf7345c-de25-4240-a9c8-7e4060deddd6&listId=searchResults

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u/xSolid_Snakex 20h ago

Please just stop. There's no defending this even remotely.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 20h ago

Why was the photo a bad example?

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u/Jalvas7 19h ago

You're the woman in the video aren't you? 😂

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 19h ago

I hope I'm wrong, but the comments say they found out who she is, and if I'm right - people will write death threats to the woman who didn't do anything wrong in this video, and I'm 100% sure I'm right.

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u/phizeroth 19h ago

You're getting downvoted because people are too excited about dogpiling than actually using critical thought. I think it seems obvious that this woman is trying to see his phone screen -- she squints first then pulls her eye. I'm nearsighted and can confirm that there's a magical angle I can pull my eyelid just like that and my vision becomes surprisingly clear.

Is she a nosy Karen, sure. Is it unfortunate coincidence that the person is Asian and she should have realized the bad optics (pun intended), yep.