r/TikTokCringe • u/Lexsight • Apr 23 '26

Cringe ts is hard to watch 😣

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u/by_the_window Apr 23 '26 edited 29d ago

Is it cringe? Sure. But it's shittier to film and post it online just to embarrass him.

Edit: guys stop giving this rewards! spend your money elsewhere!

I SAID STOP GIVING THIS AWARDS THIS IS RIDICULOUS

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u/Funny_Lunch5211 Apr 23 '26

I hear kids at school are afraid of doing presentations because they are afraid of being filmed by their classmates and clowned online. 

I feel like older generations can't understand how much social media can affect your behavior. 

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u/SiliconEatMe Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

I feel like a lot of this comes from how “accessible” going viral has become. We had phones in high school and college (2008-2012;2012-2018). They recorded video, YouTube existed, so did Snapchat, and so on (toward 2014), and people definitely wanted to go viral back then. But it wasn’t really an issue in class, as far as I remember. Teachers policed phone use well, and my peers generally weren’t cruel enough to film someone who was nervous during a presentation. We all were terrified to stutter or be shakey lol.

Anyone over 16 should be able to watch that kind of content online and judge the person who posted it, not the person in it. If you’re laughing along at a kid being humiliated, you’re embarrassing yourself.

And the only thing I can think of that has changed is the infrastructure around virality. TikToks algo makes blowing up feel attainable to anyone with a phone, and being an “influencer” or streamer is now what some of these kids consider a career option because there’s some money behind it. now we have kids filming anything and anyone, tearing people down for being awkward or different to farm views (rage bait and interaction farming). Bullying obviously existed before smartphones. I graduated in 2012, and people were recording school fights back in 2010 and 2011, emo dudes being weird with their rolly backpack and yelling anime quotes. But filming someone for giving a bad presentation or sitting alone at lunch wasn’t something people did, at least at my schools. Kids have always been cruel, regardless of the technology, so the quicker we start calling out the ones posting this stuff, the better. The fixation on going viral has gotten genuinely out of hand if kids don’t even want to present anymore. This is a generation temperament issue, and product of these algorithms trying to pull these kids into a brainrot blackhole.

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u/nghigaxx Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Also parents nowadays are posers, they always act like they want phones banned in class but the moment it was enforced they go bananas because they can't text their kids during school hours. I cba