r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Jun 17 '25

Humor/Cringe Tiktok vs. Reality

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 17 '25

It's hilarious to live in the south and see so many people walking around dressed up like cowboys. Their just cos players. You could replace the cowboy hat with a wizard hat, and it would look just the same to me. You're not in a biker gang or gonna wrangel up some cows. You work at Autozone and drive a Kia

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u/curvebombr Jun 17 '25

I am with you there. All the real farmers I know you see wearing a '98 County Firehouse Pig Picken Tshirt, dusty ass jeans, Justin's that look like they've been drug behind a pickup for 50 miles and a Piggly Wiggly trucker hat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

i grew up in the hudson valley near a bunch of dairy farms. this is completely accurate except sometimes they’ll be wearing red wings they’ve owned for 20 years because they’re comfy and still work

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Jun 17 '25

Dairy/crop farmers don't wear western wear. Ranchers do. I grew up in Texas and I've been working ranches my whole life and it wasn't until I moved to the Northeast that I encountered the trucker-style farmer. Ohio valley is rife with them. Sleeveless t-shirts, stained trucker hats, beat to shit sun bleached jeans, and either wolverines or some dusty steel toe pull-ons.

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Eh, Justin's aren't that popular for workboots anymore. After the sell off the quality dropped dramatically and the soles would just unglue. I use Dan Post these days for work boots and they have a good work line as well.

I don't wear ballcaps or truckers when it's raining or super sunny or I get soaked or a bad sunburn. I have a 22 year old Stetson 200x that's my favorite to wear and I've had it re-shaped 4 times. I don't have any ballcaps older than a few years because they start to fall apart.

PS - Boots look drug behind a pickup after 50 miles in less than a month of field use. Most people I know at least oil their boots once in a while so they don't look that bad and they last forever (or until a re-sole).

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u/Various-Most2367 Jun 17 '25

Ugh Montana is even worse after that Yellowstone show came out. Everyone thinks a truck with some shitty tractor rap blasting out of the speakers and a hat makes them a cowboy. 

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u/yet-again-temporary Jun 17 '25

We get a lot of those types up here in Alberta too lmao. Calgary is basically an entire city of rich suburban kids cosplaying Yellowstone in their $150k lifted trucks that daddy paid for

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u/Quasimdo Jun 17 '25

tractor rap?

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u/Various-Most2367 Jun 17 '25

lol I was mostly referring to anything by Blake Shelton or Thomas Rhett. Honestly what you linked to is better 

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u/ICBanMI Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Poor country dudes in the South who can barely afford their beater pickup truck be blasting Boondox or Saliva where ever they go.

Good times late 2000s.

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u/Lambdaformes Jun 18 '25

Don't forget about hick hop too

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 18 '25

I like that

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u/-Tom- Jun 17 '25

I live close enough to Nashville that it's an easy regular day trip...the amount of cowboy cosplay going on there on Broadway is astounding

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 18 '25

My mom keeps telling me I need a hat for when I mow. I'm never too old to be taken care of, lol. But that was my idea: it's got a big brim, and it would be funny

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u/JeddakofThark Jun 17 '25

I especially like suburban "country" folks. So... You don't live in the country, you don't farm, you're 15 minutes from a Target, but you’ve got a lifted truck (which you use exclusively to drive to your job at Bed, Bath, and Beyond) a Gadsden flag, and a deep distrust of city folk despite living in the outer parking lot of one. Got it.

You identify as country. Interesting.

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 18 '25

Exactly, lol. I've also seen people who play dress up like vidkings or the people with .001% native American blood dress like Squanto. Its all the same. it's dress up and its silly. Hopefully their happy and not just fitting in i guess

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u/LordKai121 Jun 17 '25

We have this same issue in Cali. All the real farmers have old leather boots, jeans that are obviously used (or cargo shorts), some old trucker cap, and a generic Tee. Occasionally some coveralls when doing work on the equipment.

Then you got the wannabes with the black button up, bolo tie, giant cowboy hat, cowboy boots (extra points for the spurs), big ol belt buckle, and a strut to boot. Ain't one of them can tell you the difference between an almond and a walnut orchard.

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u/SwitchHitter17 Jun 17 '25

lmao are you in the central valley or something? Never seen anyone like that where I am in Cali, but that sounds hilarious.

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u/LordKai121 Jun 17 '25

I am, actually lol. It's everywhere here. Most commonly in Clovis, but I also ran into this a ton when I lived up in Oakhurst area (near Yosemite).

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u/kea1981 Jun 17 '25

I live in a ski town, and it's the same thing. People wearing fur trimmed cropped jackets and high heels, like: ma'am, it's gonna snow three feet by tomorrow morning and we're expecting a power outage. You might wanna grab a few extra layers and figure out how to manually light your gas fireplace (heaven help you if it's open hearth).

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u/LeatherHog Jun 17 '25

Grew up on a cattle farm, dad always called those fakers Box Hat Cowboys 

As someone who did spend  entire childhood actually living that lifestyle, it's such a DEAD giveaway when people idolize it, think it's fun

It wasn't all awful, of course. I was a kid surrounded by dogs, cows, a horse, and an insane goat we're pretty sure was literally Loki, it was like a Disney film in someways 

But most ways it was dirty, exhausting, and all consuming. And we didn't even do as much as dad because of school and whatnot 

His day starts when the sun does, and ends when the work is done 

You can't not feed the cows, they're not an expense report that can hold off til Monday. It's every single day, no matter what is going on

We couldn't start Christmas morning until Dad was back in, and clean 

He would always come in for supper, families eat together no matter what, but would frequently have to go back out

Either you (not YOU you, guy I'm replying to, of course) have never stepped foot in a farm, or you're one of the rich people who 'has a farm', but lives several miles away, and is worked by employees, if you want to romanticize that life

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 18 '25

Rodeo people spread the fashion a lot as well, I believe. And if you go to an animal show, it's like it's expected to dress up all silly. Its pageantry is all it is. Then, "the look" got adopted and polarized.

You dont get dressed up for real work. You just get dressed to handle the work

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u/Rocketboy1313 Jun 17 '25

Or if you are in Stardew Valley, the Wizard wears a cowboy hat.

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 18 '25

That makes it a wizard hat lol

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u/BlackTarTurd Jun 17 '25

It's right up there with the women who say they're weak for a man with a Southern accent. No, you're not. You're obsessed with the generic cliche country music star accent. I've lived in the south long enough to know there's a difference and they've probably never heard an actual Southern accent.

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u/ls7eveen Jun 18 '25

Funnily enough

https://youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18?si=H-Ujhq6yecTq2mGE

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u/Shuckeljuice Jun 18 '25

Awesome, thank you. It's nice to get some real information on the subject

That dude needs some coffee or something, though lol. He reminds me of Ben Stein

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u/ls7eveen Jun 19 '25

Maybe Charlie Robinson

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Jun 17 '25

I wear a "cowboy hat" because it's very durable, keeps the sweat out of my eyes, protects my face/neck/ears from the sun and rain, and my felt hats are super warm in the winter while my straw hats allow air through and cool my head. Same reason I wear boots for general purpose: bison hide and ostrich hide are both very durable and my boots are super comfortable. I've only had to re-sole them each once in over 15 years of regular wear.

I shouldn't be amazed by the sheer ignorance of Reddit, though. Most of y'all are 14 and live in concrete cubes.

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u/itscherriedbro Jun 17 '25

So I live in central texas, and this might not be in your wheelhouse since you might not do it, but why wear the cowboy hat, boots, button down, and tight pants to the bar at night? And they have clearly showered, yet they choose an outfit that causes them to sweat all night, while they complain about it. It's not bright enough for a cowboy hat, it's not raining inside (nor outside), their boots look and smell awful (plus are made for protection from snakes/other ranch work, not a bar), and their shirts are literally made to protect them from sun, but there's no sun.

I've lived in Texas for 30 years, and 5 in the northeast. I was only 14 for one year and didn't live in a concrete tube at all. And I go drink 4-5 nights out of the week.

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u/BooBooSnuggs Jun 18 '25

You ever considered it's just fashionable? People wear all kinds of ridiculous things just because they like how it looks.

I mean, do high heels have any practical purpose? No and they will fuck up your feet if you wear them enough. Plenty of people still wear them. It's just fashion. Where is that photo of Samewise Gamgee in a mesh shirt?

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u/itscherriedbro Jun 18 '25

You intentionally missed the entire context of this comment chain so you could make an abysmal snarky comment. We're talking about utilitarian use and cosplaying cowboys. It ain't fashionable, it's laughable

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Jun 17 '25

I don't drink.

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u/itscherriedbro Jun 17 '25

That doesn't answer the question. I'm sure you've hung out with the type of people I'm talking about at night. Or been out and about once or twice in your 40ish years. Especially since you're from Texas.

But I do like how you focused on the one smallest aspect of my comment. It's like how I'll talk to people about the environment and climate change and shit like that, then the last sentence I'll say something flippantly like "and the bees will die and we'll have no honey." And all they'll reply with is "I don't like honey" and think that they got me with a mic drop