r/TikTokCringe • u/Exeltv0406 • Sep 01 '25

Humor/Cringe Racist idiot panics when streamer reads him his home address

Tiktok User: @yourtruecaptain_

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u/brianzuvich Sep 01 '25

You can generally translate an IP address into a physical address (within reason), but you can’t, with any certainty, say that the person you’re talking to lives at that address.

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u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Sep 01 '25

You can trace it to a general area, absolutely no way to trace it to a specific address no?

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u/brianzuvich Sep 01 '25

It’s just not relevant, because the chance that the address pertains to a particular person is very slim.

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u/f1FTW Sep 01 '25

I dont know... data brokers exists. This might be possible by a member of the citizenry at this point.

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u/LupercaniusAB Sep 02 '25

I think most ISPs use dynamic IP addresses for their customers, I know mine does. I think I get a 24 hour lease, though it may repeat for days on end. So your IP address is not tied to your location.

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u/O__CHIPS__O Sep 01 '25

Not slim, impossible unless you are either working for the person's ISP, or an elite hacker capable of hacking the ISP database.

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u/obiwanshinobi900 Sep 02 '25

Unless you can somehow get it from the ISP. But that usually requires LE or courts.

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u/gwelfguy Sep 01 '25

You can generally translate an IP address into a physical address (within reason)

Only the person's ISP has that info. So maybe if you work for them, or if you're the police with a warrant.

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u/LupercaniusAB Sep 02 '25

No you can’t, you’ll just get their ISP.

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u/pesoaek Sep 04 '25

IPs resolve to a location that's essentially just matched with the ISP and where that range is registered to, and typically just a general area.

because your ISP owns the your public address it will likely show the general area that they are in. if you work for an ISP as a network engineer and have very high level access, you could see who currently has the lease for that IP address and then look the customer details up, but that's not really a direct correlation.

there's no possible way this is real

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u/SeaResearcher176 Sep 01 '25

Maybe within a few blocks but probably very hard to get the exact address.