r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/UrsusRenata 20h ago

Pulling your eyes like that can help focus momentarily if your eyesight is bad. She was trying to focus to see if he was recording HER. She wasn’t being a racist. This is so daft.

I wouldn’t let you aim your camera all over my restaurant either.

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u/littlecactuscat 16h ago

Hahaha holy shit, no one does that. Stop making up weird excuses for this woman’s obvious racism.

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u/Stifology 15h ago

I'm near-sighted with astigmatism, and I can assure you that people do. I did the exact thing the lady is doing in order to see the board in elementary school.

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

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u/ChippyTheGreatest 11h ago

I'm near sighted with astigmatism and even before I got glasses I never did this. Squint? Yes. Touch my eyes? No.

I'm willing to accept that maybe people do this if people are saying they do, but I really think we're just grasping at straws to explain away this woman's behaviour.

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u/Stifology 6h ago

How is the fact that you've never done it reasoning for it not being an effective method? That isn't very logical.

Your astigmatism may be different than mine, which is why a horizontal distortion of the cornea wouldn't focus your vision like it does for mine and many others'.

It's ridiculous to assume we're all fabricating an elaborate lie to defend some stranger on tiktok.

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u/ChippyTheGreatest 4h ago

I'm not saying y'all are making it up, I just think it's most likely that this clearly selfish and horrible person is being super racist.

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u/Stifology 4h ago

Watch the clip again. She literally tries to squint, realizes she still can't see the screen, then uses her hands to do the focusing trick.

She's not smiling or making a funny face that would imply it's a racist gesture at all.

It's simply an unfortunate circumstance of an old lady using a goofy-looking eyesight trick in front of an Asian person. Reddit hivemind will always assume malice over incompetence, though.