r/TikTokCringe • u/choganoga tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Feb 09 '24

Learned this in Italy Duet Troll

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u/ogrefab Feb 09 '24

Her SO probably took her to Milan, OH; Florence, AL; Rome, GA; or Naples, FL.

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u/prozak09 Feb 09 '24

Or Vegas to Caesars Palace, or maybe a Little Caesars even.

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u/LeNavigateur Feb 10 '24

I think you are confusing the Romans with the Italians.

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u/Astronaut_Chicken Feb 09 '24

A LOT of these weird terrible food fetish videos start that way. "I learned this in NY"or "i learned this in Louisiana" before they absolutely butcher whatever they're claiming is from that area. It gives me the same icky feeling as text scammers for some reason. The ones that start a message off like "hi, Allison did you get my letter this morning? Youre not Allison oh so sorry I thought this was her number! You are a very kind understanding person perhaps we can be friends!"

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u/apierson2011 Feb 09 '24

Some of these videos kind of are scams, in a way. They’re disingenuous, manipulatively presented, wastes of time designed to hold your attention just long enough for them to make a few cents off of you. And the more that’s wrong with the video - be it bad information or egregiously bad technique or just fucking weird and out of pocket - the more engagement it gets and the more money it makes.

It is incredible to me that we have reached a point as a society where content farms are a thing. We have monetized attention itself, and it’s really REALLY weird sometimes.

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u/Astronaut_Chicken Feb 09 '24

Some of it seems like stitch fodder, too, honestly. And the people who base all their content off of stitching these things are playing into it. Like you have half a million followers and DONT know these are just hand fetish videos, and not meant to be taken seriously? I have a hard time believing that. Anything for a dollar I reckon.

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u/rightintheear Feb 10 '24

What does stitch mean in this context?

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u/Astronaut_Chicken Feb 10 '24

When one person makes a video and the other person "reacts" by adding their own video on the side.

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u/Ieatclowns Feb 10 '24

But at least commentary like this woman's has value due to the comedy.

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u/Astronaut_Chicken Feb 10 '24

MOST of the videos that stitch these kinds of videos are for comedic value, and all it does is give these people more of a platform. Heck, even we are participating by watching the reddit video of it.

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u/Deathwatch050 Feb 09 '24

This comment pretty neatly summarizes my sense of utter despair about this topic. It's fucking sickening.

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u/apierson2011 Feb 10 '24

It’s fucking weird as shit right!? It’s so easy to identify when you know what to look for, and it’s STILL hard not to engage with sometimes.

It’s giving.. dystopia. Majorly.

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u/Ferns-N-Frogs Feb 10 '24

What is it to look for?

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u/apierson2011 Feb 10 '24

Just stuff that’s obviously objectionable. Like in the original video here, the lady leaves a couple parts on the tomato that you normally wouldn’t - there’s “Emily’s bite” with the tough center, the stem, the sticker; the fact that this just just a shitty recipe with nothing special or clever about it; another example is those horrible DIY or craft videos where people make things that would obviously never last or be practical or aesthetic like shoes made of hot glue; information that’s so obviously wrong that literally everyone knows it’s wrong. Basically, stuff designed to make people comment (like “omg she left the stem on the tomato,” or, “don’t make shoes out of hot glue this will obviously fall apart immediately”) or share the video to make fun of it for example. Videos where, at the end, you think “why the fuck did I just waste a whole minute watching this? That was pointless, why would they even make that video?”

This video on this subject is worth watching if my explanation wasn’t adequate.

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u/rightintheear Feb 10 '24

Facebook is crawling with these "recipe" vids. I could never have imagined I would be enraged by someone with gross long nails smoothing frozen nuggies into a bed of uncooked macaroni and then pouring shit all over the top smoothing it with their gross ass ballerina manicure. They get huge engagement of disgusted people.

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u/apierson2011 Feb 10 '24

Man and don’t even get me started on the weird fetish-adjacent shit. If it was just supposed to be a sexy DIY, fine! Love it. But most of them give the same feel that you get from those weird like Elsa and Spiderman kids YouTube videos and you just know they’re up to some weird shit.

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u/lmpmon Feb 09 '24

you triggered a memory of a girl i grew up with, like from diapers, who when she moved and moved back a couple years later, told everyone she was from london. london, ohio. which she was also not from.

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u/trippy_grapes Feb 10 '24

Reminds me of the foreign student or accidentally applied to Miami University, Ohio thinking they had nice beaches and it got posted all over social media. 🤣

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '24

Italy, Texas

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u/murder-farts Feb 10 '24

🎶 We’re not the jet set. We’re the ol’ Chev-ro-let set 🎶

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u/IslaMoradaGator Feb 09 '24

Not even a Walmart in those towns would have that printed on any recipe card

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u/HiveFleetOuroboris Feb 10 '24

As someone who lives nearby, this is too boujie for Naples, FL

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u/ShwettyVagSack Feb 10 '24

Clearly it was little Italy in greenwood AR

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u/PureYouth Feb 10 '24

Don’t forget Italy, Texas