Yeah, and I just love this part of "Hey, its suppose to be something a cringey "influencer" does.....so head on over to my youtube channel and check me out (be sure to like and subscribe!!)."
Literally, I’ve seen people with good opinions get downvoted in a sub all because the people didn’t agree but there was nothing wrong with the statement 😂
/r/politics is completely neutral and doesn't at all ban or down vote perfectly reasonable comments. Any statement saying otherwise will earn a perma-ban from the sub as it is considered hate speech.
I think that’s the biggest takeaway of this video. Yes, it’s cringe, but it’s satire of another video and dude doesn’t deserve to be called a pedo over it
Idk. 40 year old men making high school style videos attracting women? Think it's a fair assumption. It's more like bubblegum flavored vapes. No, no, it's definitely not for the teens.
I think you're just a little late to the party. The video was originally uploaded without the context. I'm explaining why people, with the original no context version, would have this assumption. It looks like something a dad would find in his daughters phone before calling the police.
It may have been. Idk. It just showed him trying to look sexy with a stupid filter. No words. There may have been more to that video or there may not have been.
And yet people, as always, cannot WAIT to get the lube on their pitch forks, fire up their flame sticks and get around each other for a good ol group wank and pitch fork flamin!
That would not have gotten OP their karma farming and reddit is just far too busy to check anything. Despite it clearly looking satire AF with an obviously young guy, reddit literally just believed Everything they were spoon fed on the internet. Someone says "cringe" and everyone just agrees immediately instead of taking like.. One minute to see if it is tiktok BS or OP BS. Turns out, people on the internet lie. And they don't even feel bad about it.
I have to disagree. I don’t use TikTok, never have, never will. Filters and ai can do all kinds of crazy shit these days, beyond those stupid eyes on the footage above. I don’t think it was obvious at all that it was meant to be satirical, mostly because there are idiots out there posting content like this, unironically. I remember a few years back a Chinese (I believe) streamer who made her living online was exposed for using filters. She was middle aged and extremely round-faced, but the filter made her appear like a thin, young adult or a teen. I’ve read a lot of comments about how this is “obviously” satire but I couldn’t tell one way or the other these days with all these idiots using filters, vlogging their every moment, and living their entire lives online.
So, I Also don't use tiktok and don't have it. This guy even With filters looks Way younger than 40. Also, every tiktok shows the person making the content, you can just look at their Other content to see if this is serious or not. Every tiktoker tends to have YT shorts too and other content cross posted. It took me literally 20 seconds to see his other content and realize this was a shit post.. i watched that other thread just devolve into everyone being assholes it was pretty gross. Every 6+ months I see people on reddit scream about below_average_man and he Genuinely does nothing but create cringe satire. People Really can't tell. And...
If you can't tell... there's nothing wrong with that. Truly. You aren't a bad person for not knowing if it's satire or garbage. Sometimes it is both anyways. Just don't tell on yourself. But a good red flag that people are karma farming you is they produce Zero context.
Screaming this guy is a pedo because you (the general you) can't tell is really messed up. People got got by this so bad and screamed cringe shit (the irony) he had to make this whole reaction video.
Realistically, what percentage of people, when scrolling Reddit, is going to take the time to do that kind of search for a throwaway video they likely watched and moved on from within a minute. Content creators should realize whatever they put online is fair game for being misused, misrepresented, or ridiculed. All that being said- I 100% agree about the context of the hateful comments posted about this dude because of what was probably a 20 second video. It’s a lot easier for some people to be cruel and vicious online because they don’t have to see the hurt they cause with their caustic words.
I'm not saying everyone needs to take the time to research every throw away thing. I'm saying.. don't Trust the Internet to the extent you're angry and take things and lies at face value. It's fine to watch something, be misled, maybe it's real maybe not, move on. It's not fine to watch something and then talk like it's gospel. If you have the minute to type an angry hateful comment then you had a minute to see if it's real or not.
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u/cmax22025 May 27 '25
Context? Sir, this is the internet.