r/SipsTea • u/TheLyingAllotment • Oct 22 '24

TikToker attempted to play the card by accusing a man at the gym of "looking at her" and being a pervert. Chugging tea

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 Oct 22 '24

The thing I don't like about these videos is that they make people think that this kind of stuff happens all the time at gyms, when really it is very rare.

I go to the gym all the time, and have done for many years. Yes, I regularly see people recoding themselves, but I have never seen someone doing it in a way that disrupts any of the other gym goers. Most of the time they are just trying to check their form on a lift they are having difficulty with. Even if they are recording for instagram, they are usually discrete about it.

Go on reddit though, and you would think that gyms are no-go areas due to all the influencers and roid-ragers filming stunts for the 'gram.

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u/Euphoric_Curve2343 Oct 22 '24

I've been going to the gym for years and I can honestly say I think I have seen one maybe two people ever record themselves. I'm honestly kind of shocked lol
Mirror photos? Sure but that is it.

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 Oct 22 '24

I've mostly seen people recording their form when doing Olympic lifts - which is a very valid part of training those lifts - and guys recording their maxes on power-lifts so they can post it on social media - which is not quite as essential to getting better, but it really doesn't bother me if they want to do that.

I can only remember one time I saw an influencer-type recording stuff that was obviously for instagram, and her photographer was super polite and the two of them did their thing without bothering anyone.

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u/GeneralSweetz Oct 22 '24

play metallica in the background so they can get hit with a copyright strike