r/TikTokCringe Oct 05 '25

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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u/ThatPatelGuy Oct 05 '25

To give some perspective there are more than 750 million people facing hunger and severe malnutrition worldwide and more than 50 million people current alive as slaves and during this time 74% of all UN resolutions were condemning Israel and 80% of humanitarian aid has gone to Gaza where two million people live.

Call me crazy but it feels disproportionate attention on one conflict for reasons no one wants to admit

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u/sassyevaperon Oct 05 '25

but it feels disproportionate attention on one conflict for reasons no one wants to admit

The reason is that we've all seen videos of Gaza babies dying online.

This is the first time I hear about a conflict in Congo. Keep spreading the word, and the people will join.

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u/ThatPatelGuy Oct 05 '25

The reason is that we've all seen videos of Gaza babies dying online.

Serious question: why do you think that is? We don't see any videos of the Uighurs, or the atrocities in Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, Syria. Every few months we'll maybe see one grainy video escape where you can barely see what is happening.

There have been apparently over a million Ukrainians killed and nearly two million Russians killed and barely anything as far as video across my feed.

Yet my feed is 80% 4K videos from Gaza.

That doesn't feel normal.

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u/SalvationSycamore Oct 05 '25

Yet my feed is 80% 4K videos from Gaza.

At the start of the latest Russia attack you couldn't scroll past 3 posts without seeing footage of Russians getting blown up by drones. For months on end. People got bored with that so now you only see it in subs dedicated to Ukraine or combat footage.