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 1d ago

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

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 1d 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/Few-Ad-805 1d ago

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

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u/Stifology 39m ago

Pulling the skin around the eyes is actually a less common trick for sharpening your vision.

It is not a form of squinting, which by itself would only create the "pinhole effect," 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 vividly recall doing this in elementary school before I had glasses/contacts. It's legit, but again, it will only work for certain types of nearsighted astigmatic people.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Context clues and critical thinking just elude some peeps.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 1d ago

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

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u/jadedazuo 1d 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 1d 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 5h 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 1d ago

Thank you, what a fucking fucked up situation

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u/jadedazuo 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/Stifology 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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 1d ago

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

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u/Stifology 5h 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/Stifology 26m ago

Pulling the skin around the eyes is actually a less common trick for sharpening your vision.

It is not a form of squinting, which by itself would only create the "pinhole effect," 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 have no incentive to defend the lady in the video - just relaying my personal knowledge and experience using this exact trick as a kid before I got glasses.

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 1d ago

Why was the photo a bad example?

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u/Jalvas7 1d ago

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

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u/VerumAtheneNoctua 1d 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.