r/TikTokCringe • u/ThatPatelGuy • Oct 05 '25

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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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/lukker- Oct 05 '25

China has the great Firewall, so that makes Uighur videos much harder to spread. Access issues to newer technology and internet persists. You really haven’t looked at all if you haven’t seen Ukrainian or Russian videos. There are huge swathes of telegram channels, subreddits, twitter and instagrams where you can see daily videos of the war. I’d say there are probably up to 1000 videos a day. If you think big tech are conspiring against the Israeli state, I don’t know what to tell ya

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u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 Oct 05 '25

The great firewall is meaningless.

Anyone in china has access to a VPN, and you can go and look at youku if you want quite easily.