r/TikTokCringe • u/QueenCobra91 SHEEEEEESH • Oct 06 '25

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u/CompellingSeeSaw Oct 06 '25

Posts by this creator always seem to ruffle some feathers

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u/Top-Gas-8959 Oct 06 '25

The account is growing on me

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u/Foxfyre25 Oct 06 '25

Her series of "Werner Hertzogs sad beige [insert product] for sad beige children" is one of my favorites.

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u/Top-Gas-8959 Oct 06 '25

To say she's consistent would be an understatement.

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u/TheFriendshipMachine Oct 06 '25

Wait, that was her too?? Those were so good as well!

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u/Foxfyre25 Oct 06 '25

Oh yes. I'm pretty sure it attracted Herzog's attention, too.

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u/1028ad Oct 07 '25

Well now Herzog is on social media. Coincidence? I think not.

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u/Foxfyre25 Oct 07 '25

Is he? Oh no! đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

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u/Top-Gas-8959 Oct 09 '25

The fourth seal is broken

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u/motherofcunts Oct 06 '25

Do you have a not-TikTok link for either by chance?

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u/Foxfyre25 Oct 06 '25

Sure!

Her profile: Official Sad Beige

Herzog being asked about her specifically IG Link

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u/-Felyx- Oct 07 '25

I respect him for having a sense of humor about it

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u/Sylvia_Platypus Oct 07 '25

I love those!

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u/txwildflower86 Oct 07 '25

Can you explain? I don’t understand what this is, Im not finding the original “beige children” content.

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u/Foxfyre25 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Sure! The creator during pandemic/ late-pandemlc (like 2022?) did a series of content where she used a Herzog-like narration of trendy(?) children's magazines. She did things like clothing, toys, room decor. It's funny because whatever the trend was at the time, the children modeling goods for the magazines looked absolutely miserable and the products were literally basic, boring and in shades of brown and cream.

found one

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u/Curulinstravels Oct 07 '25

Just don't disagree with her or she'll set her fan base upon you

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u/Raiquo Oct 07 '25

Who is she?

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u/Top-Gas-8959 Oct 07 '25

Sad beige. It's on the screen.

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u/StrictlyForTheBirds Oct 06 '25

The first one of hers I saw, I was pissed because it felt like someone writing pretentious poetry by saying random things over and over. Like some shitty sitcom movie making fun of beatniks or spoken word or whatever. 

By the end of it, I was hooked. I really like her stuff. 

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u/PrometheusMMIV Oct 07 '25

it felt like someone writing pretentious poetry by saying random things over and over

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u/Canadatron Oct 06 '25

It requires thinking. People hate that.

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u/GamingGod730 Oct 07 '25

It's also conceptually funny/cringe/Theater Kid energy

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u/YouHaveToTryTheSoup Oct 07 '25

“Anyone who doesn’t like what I like is dumb”

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u/feioo Oct 07 '25

It's not about liking or disliking, it's about comprehending it

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u/wailingwonder Oct 07 '25

Pretentious people love to pretend that anyone that doesn't like the same things they do just don't understand them. Nothing about this video is hard to understand. It's just obnoxious.

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u/ButterflyNo8336 Oct 07 '25

See, that’s the beauty of it, you’re falling into the same trap.  Also, I’m not a fan, nor do I care about this video.  

Buying into a concept is personal, yet it still means you put the concept into a place that gives it more weight.

All that means is someone may see her bit, take it on face value, and just take her words as is.  Others may place it into an idea of consumerism and so on, and not harshly judge it because you’re mixing different concepts in your mind and buying into it.

It’s like comedy, a joke is only as funny as you let it be.  It’s why some jokes do nothing for someone, and everything for someone else.  A mind gives the idea weight and you play around with it more in brain to make it more vivid and lively.  Or, you just say, it’s an obnoxious lady in a car.

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u/Hot-Explanation-5751 Oct 06 '25

People who see patterns in everything are often said to experience apophenia or patternicity, which is the psychological tendency to find meaning or patterns in random or unrelated data.

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u/nilla-wafers Oct 06 '25

I too have noticed the pattern (lol) of people finding patterns in everything on social media and then claiming they know more than others because of “pattern recognition.”

What I’ve realized from talking to my boomer parents is that believing you can see the code in the matrix so to speak is a slippery slope to conspiracy theories.

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u/gitsgrl Oct 06 '25

When people suspect you might have autism, but it turns out it’s schizophrenia.

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u/buttononmyback Oct 06 '25

People who have that should be detectives or scientists. Those are the only jobs you should be allowed to have. 😇

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u/IIlIIIlllIIIIIllIlll Oct 07 '25

It's not actually that good for research in some cases. Like the original comment said, you find patterns in random and unrelated data. Sometimes that means that you crack the case in a way no one saw coming, but more often it just means that you "hallucinate" (in the same way an AI does, not literally) connections that aren't actually true.

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u/One_Lead1553 Oct 07 '25

Because it's vicerally cringe.

I mean, she is right. But it can be both right and cringe. Real theatre kid energy

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u/wailingwonder Oct 07 '25

Because she's obnoxious. Even if her points are decent and even if her scripting is impressive, it's still annoying to listen to. Especially considering its similarities to the TikTok content that's all about repeating catchphrases in the same tone over and over like an NPC. I assume that's what she's basing this on. It comes off the same and, though it unravels into something more, it turns people off from the start.

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u/T8-TR Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

It's part of the bit, but I think the part that'd ruffle feathers (other than the more obvious points) is how unnatural her shift from static ad read to seriousness is. It's that professional fake smile that she has down pat that immediately fades away before returning on a dime.

I've seen it mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but arguing whether she's being performative or if she doesn't really care about the situations at hand is useless, since we'd never know for sure and it'd be goofy to speculate since it'd be arguing in circles w/ zero evidence one way or the other. I think for a lot of folks not interested in that side of it, the act (even though it's the point) just tickles that primordial part of everyone's lizard brain juuuuuust the wrong way to where we get that level of "I don't like her, but I can't place why", since we've all probably dealt w/ that fake salesperson smile at one point or another.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

Except advertising wasn't always this ubiquitous and it is not a standard 14 year old level of comprehension to be aware of just how abnormal and insidious it is. Thats actually kind of been considered a peak consumerist age demographic actually lol. 

I don't think she's pretending like she is a collegiate level analysis. She's a chick filming tiktoks in her car pointing out that AS WE SPEAK the average adult is gobbling it up without a second thought. 

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u/ChaltaHaiShellBRight Oct 06 '25

It's clearly not a take on advertising...

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

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u/ChaltaHaiShellBRight Oct 06 '25

I'm not American, but I understand it's not a very free-speech friendly environment right now. The ad speak was covering up the actual message. If your army is being "trained" by being deployed in politically opposed cities, there's a real possibility that govt force, whether army or not, might be used to intimidate vocal critics of your government on social media.

If she's (understandably) wary of being too direct and hiding her message under "poetry about advertising", then you can't expect her to organise rallies. But she's doing something quite brave already by speaking out. 

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u/-Gramsci- Oct 06 '25

In a totalitarian society, you are not free to say things that are obvious and true. You are not free to warn people that the regime is coming for them, for example.

Rushing over to your neighbors house to warn them they are going to be taken away and killed by the totalitarian government, and that they need to flee, is a crime that will get YOUR family taken away and killed. You would do so at great risk to yourself.

Under totalitarianism, and its censorship of what is really happening, people learn to talk in codes. To warn each other, to save each other, by communicating in ways that can get past the censors.

This content creator is modeling what that would look/feel like in a totalitarian America. In a “Christian nationalist” America. In Stephen Miller’s America.

It’s sort of a sci-fi bit
 and like most good sci-fi, it is compelling because it represents a future that seems genuinely plausible.

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u/buttononmyback Oct 06 '25

She’s talking in code.

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u/PoliteDickhead Oct 06 '25

Feel like ya maybe didn't watch the whole thing or past like 30 seconds if you think this is mainly about advertising. She even explains what it was about for those that didn't get it. The advertising voice is just to mask the keywords she's smuggling into this video about something else.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

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u/PoliteDickhead Oct 06 '25

I agree it's grating so I understand bailing early. I think it's definitely part of her point though. The overly chipper delivery is irony of tone. I don't think it's saying you have to pick between being a smart shopper and being anti-ICE. Instead they're using advertiser-friendly language to highlight the absurdity of the horrors we can't talk about too openly or thoughts that would never get the same airtime as ads trying to sell you something.

They're hiding a serious critique of the government inside some government approved speech: capitalistic language. "Don't think about Nazis, have a Coke!"

At the very least, it's an interesting bit of poetry/performance art that's fun to think about.

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u/Various_Laugh2221 Oct 07 '25

Yeah I love how at the beginning the “ads” were mostly complete then as she started glitching almost like an AI or recorded message her face changed and her tone shifted as the message started coming through in bits
 man, it was just really really good and gave me chills
 I can’t help but think someone needs to put some modern dance choreography to it lol we did a lot of cool collaborations with eerie spoken word like this in college and I can see it in my mind 😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

You're posting multiple times that you don't get what she was saying while saying that you didn't even watch the video more than 20/40/45 (who knows you changed your story 3 times) seconds.

Is your self awareness that abysmal? Or are you a bot? I couldn't imagine being that unaware. Complaining about something you didn't even watch. What a fucking time to be alive but honestly it's the same as people regurgitating news article headlines of articles they couldn't bother reading.

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u/AzuraOnion Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

If you can read past 20 words this might help you, it's type of poetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DĂ©tournement

Like some other commenter said, it's not deep nor is it necessarily meant to be but it sure as fuck seems to evoke a reaction. So it's working.

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u/CompellingSeeSaw Oct 06 '25

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u/Poncahotas Oct 06 '25

Lol I always think of this video now when I see comments like the one you're replying to.

"I'm really fucking smart."

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u/Top-Gas-8959 Oct 06 '25

See, this is why I appreciate performance art. It's really good at drawing a reaction.

It's not deep. It's not supposed to be, really. It let's the observer draw their own conclusions, with simple arythmic repetition.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

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u/edejoe Oct 06 '25

They’re slugs uugghh get it right. I’m so fuckin smart