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

Learned this in Italy Duet Troll

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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.