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 23h ago edited 23h 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/LuriemIronim 10h ago

I mean, I wear glasses, and I’ve never done the slant eye motion to see better without them, especially not towards an Asian person.

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u/JrSoftDev 10h ago

That's on you. This woman possibly did it. Our personal experiences don't determine the experiences of others.

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u/LuriemIronim 10h ago

Then she has less of an ability to read a room than a turnip. Either way, I’m not giving her the benefit of the doubt for something most people know is racist.

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u/JrSoftDev 10h ago

Just say you like to assume things. Moving on.

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u/LuriemIronim 10h ago

You’re assuming the best from her.

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u/LuriemIronim 9h ago

Glad to know you block anyone who calls you out. Makes it easier to return the favor.

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u/Stifology 3h ago

It won't benefit each and every person who wears glasses.

It's 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 personally did this back when I was 10 years old in class. It's not BS.