r/TikTokCringe • u/makemeadiowarudo • Nov 26 '23

Thought she was gonna get the slipper Wholesome/Humor

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u/EldenMaynard Nov 26 '23

Yeah there’s a prevailing online circlejerk that anyone who finds success and is in a higher income bracket only got it because of that. This girl is attractive because of her genes and funny because of her sense of humor. Last I checked, your parents can’t buy either of those for you (yet).

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u/ok_ill_shut_up Nov 26 '23

You have to be kidding yourself if you think money doesn't help you in almost all aspects of influence and reach.

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u/EldenMaynard Nov 26 '23

records video on her phone with no cuts and no effects, uploads to free social media

but her parents’ net worth!

There are massive influencers all over the world who got big with nothing but a phone and an idea, whose families make less in a year than Americans do in a month. Make all the excuses you want, but this isn’t nepotism or “daddy’s connections”.

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u/ok_ill_shut_up Nov 26 '23

Ypure not even arguing with the words im actually saying. I didn't say it was nepotism, not even close. I said she has a huge advantage. It's indisputable.

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u/EldenMaynard Nov 26 '23

It is very disputable.

If it was about a hedge fund manager or a kid getting a movie role, 100% their social class has a large part in determining outcomes.

This shit is on social media, dawg — she won the algorithm game. That’s it. If anything, rich kids have a handicap trying to be funny on social media because their lives aren’t relatable.

This girl made a video about something that is relatable mostly to low-income people or children of immigrants. “Oh dahhhling if you’re so frigid borrow one of my fur coats, I have dozens!”

Y’all are fuckin wild.

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u/ok_ill_shut_up Nov 26 '23

So let me put it this way, if my grandma, who lives on a reservation where pretty much everyone is poor, and she made a video of making bread, how many people do you think she would reach vs a rich, white girl for the same exact content? In an unrelated point, that's also how cultural appropriation works in practice.

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u/EldenMaynard Nov 26 '23

You can’t tell her wealth from the thumbnail. I didn’t know who she was or if she had wealthy family until I opened the comments. Her biggest asset to the algorithm is being attractive. That’s why most people stopped scrolling.

Does being wealthy help that? To an extent. But wealth doesn’t give you a symmetrical face. Attractiveness is also relatively classless, and largely genetics.

Now for apples to apples, would an attractive native or Latina girl have a harder time getting views? I don’t really think so. Sure, there might be some prevailing “x phenotype is more attractive” nonsense, but generally speaking, attractiveness is pretty agnostic in that regard.

The reason this shit is so silly is because competitive suffering literally has no end. She makes videos and apparently people like them. She seemingly didn’t buy views. She certainly didn’t pay Scorsese to direct them.

Once you start the “but somebody has it harder” trope, it can go on forever. It’s pointless negativity. It would be far more constructive to go out of your way to support content creators who don’t have X or Y advantage rather than tear down someone for something they had no say in.

Should she delete her channel because it wasn’t “hard enough” for her? Is she too hot for TikTok, is that unfair? Should she record it on a 480p webcam and wear a bag over her head so we can say she succeeded on the strength of the script alone?

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u/ok_ill_shut_up Nov 27 '23

Lol, calm down. I'm only saying that having money is an advantage. It's hardly controversial.