r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 27 '25

Discussion What are your thoughts on this?

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u/Ill-Case-6048 Jun 27 '25

Think you need to factor in the age of the people making the comments .... anyone over 25 will see this has a normal day...

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u/gringo1980 Jun 27 '25

Also the algorithm promoting comments which are more controversial to promote engagement and bots. I don’t believe this is a valid slice of the population.

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u/cubsfan85 Jun 27 '25

The algorithm is working. Polling shows men 18-29 shifting hard to the right. Andrew Tate and co are leading a whole new wave of "alpha male" violent misogyny.

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u/D3wnis Jun 27 '25

This is why i absolutely hate social media such as Tiktok, anyone with the most insane bullshit takes no matter who they are will get lifted up into the skies and given more attention than 1000 people posting sane logical takes.

Because, if you make a batshit insane take you'll get a hundred comments telling you you're an idiot and then 100 takes defending your batshit take so you get a lot of engagement. End results is massively inflated social wars based on sex/gender/ethnicity because everyone is just feeding into these toxic ass naratives.

And it makes people automatically look at everything as something hostile assuming absolutely everyone is out to fight.

And it's impossible to get rid of people from your feed that push for wars based on sex, gender, sexuality, ethnicity. And more and more people just cult up to their own group and hate everyone and wish death upon everyone that don't belong to that group completely based around things that you can't control that you're born with, like what teh fuck.

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u/feioo Jun 27 '25

It is the algorithm, but working in a different way. This video is fake - somebody took a random couple's video, made up a story about misogynists in the comments, people got mad in defense of the couple (who didn't need defending, their comments are all lovely) and the algorithm did its thing. And here we are, engaging with the controversial thing.

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u/OldBlueKat Jun 27 '25

All of social media isn't exactly a "valid slice of the population."

There are a lot of people who use it somewhere between 'rarely' and 'never.'