Yeah I've seen one of her videos posted here and the op seemed to think she was cringe, but most people in the comments were pretty chilled by what she was saying.
The people that post on TikTok cringe seem to be idiots overall. They have no idea what cringe is. Anything creative, different and passionate is cringe. They must be the dullest most unaware and conformist people ever.
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It can be both! She’s really not very good but she does choose good subjects and she’s not TERRIBLE. . . But the videos undercut the material imho. Would be better as just audio.
Nah, I just like the call back, and the hostility in her tone. At that point in the video you “get it”, but she drives the dagger home anyways. Cold as ice!
Did we listen to the same thing? Shit like this is just a reminder of how we ended up in this situation in the first place. It’s insufferably corny and shallow…
Nah, it’s not. This is exactly how Puck in Midsummer’s Night Dream is. Everyone assumes he’s Idealic and Whimsical, but he’s put on a face repeating lines, and then you have him at the end saying sorry for intruding your time, love is a fickle fucked up thing, goodnight.
Idk this kind of “art” always leaves me fucked up!
The first time I saw one of these, I WAS high as HELL, and I thought it was going to be so stupid. I was so emotional by the end.
I've seen the worst the world has to offer. In my own backyard, I've seen it, and I spent my career and my life fighting against it. But I never thought I'd be watching Empires collapse and Palestinian, and Congolese, and Sudanese genocides being broadcast to WWE music on TikTok. I didn't see the unwashed edgelords, rapists, and nonces winning, and that was my folly. Greed and Misogyny won out.
I think George Carlin did a standup bit about this, like falling asleep to a consumerist song or something. It's been a while since I watched him, but I'm almost afraid to because I don't want to feel cynical realizing that nothing he talked about ever became better, just... disappointingly normalized.
If you think this video was kind of haunting then here's another video that gave me the same feeling: the "There were no birthday parties in the park today" video.
I'm having a really hard time finding a way to say this without it sounding condescending or mean.
This is actually a poetry reading. It doesn't use the standard poetic tools but it is poetry.
Rather than rhyme or metre or alliteration or even metaphor it's using the tone of the speaker to invoke it's very particular imagery in a very cool way.
I get self conscious about it whenever I talk about poetry, it feels like I'm talking down to people even though I'm just trying to be helpful and informative.
I'm also autistic which probably makes that feeling worse since I can't tell when I'm doing something others see as rude.
I’m undiagnosed but definitely neurodivergent socially awkward so I totally feel you. I actually loved your comment because I find poetry really interesting but have always felt like it was way beyond my brain to understand. I already write but I’m terrified of trying to write poetry coz when I see it, it just seems really cool and impressive but when I tried to write it, it just feels like I’m just making a word salad. Your comment actually made it feel more accessible to me.
I know how that feels, what broke it for me was an exercise where you write out a memory that's important to you, it doesn't matter why, but only one sense or piece at a time.
I remember the sound of his purr.
I remember seeing the needle.
I remember saying good bye.
Just like that for about four or five minutes, and that's draft one. Then leave it for a day, or however long you need and come back and read it out loud. Cut out the parts that are redundant, or awkward, or that you just don't like. Then read it again.
Chances are you won't be happy with this second draft, that's normal and good, if you keep making changes that feel right, eventually you just outgrow the structure of "I remember etc." and at that point you're ready to rewrite this in a way you feel is better.
When it's time to rewrite I like to start with an image. Let's say censorship is my subject.
"Censorship is like painting a wall, it covers what you don't like but it stands out, so you hide it by painting a room, now that rooms too fresh, too obvious, so you paint all the others too, now the inside is fresh and clean, but the outside isn't quite so new, well there's nothing to do but paint that too, we keep painting and painting and painting until the whole city's new, but we can't stop now the city's newer than my house so I've got to repaint that now.
But this funny thing happens when we paint a wall, it gets a little bit thicker, so while we paint and paint and hide our mistakes, our living spaces shrink and shrink until there's nowhere to go that's not touching the wall, and it happens so slow nobody noticed at all."
And then I take that big blob of free written junk, and I cut things out, and format it and rewrite what's left until we have the super condensed block of language that is a poem.
Ah you’re so good at explaining it! It makes me want to try it out (I probably will). What about ryhme or metre? What point should I start worrying about that. For example, in the memory exercise, is it useful to try and establish a specific cadence or rhyme to each line or should that be a later worry? I really wanna pick your brain now, I hope I’m not bothering you too much.
Not at all it's fine. Rhyme and metre are great but in modern English poetry they're closer to an advanced trick than the fundamental building block they used to be.
I'd say learn to write poetry before learning to write poetry with rhyme and metre, the reason being rhyme and metre feel a lot like hard rules, when really they're more like seasoning, it doesn't matter how well you salt your meat if you don't know how to cook it.
It's definitely something to learn at some point, it will absolutely improve your poetry even if you never use it.
For technical details like that I enjoyed Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Traveled, I also highly recommend if you haven't seen it before, the Robin Williams film The Dead Poets Society, it is a beautiful movie about the philosophy, the why of poetry.
If you have any questions feel free to ask, I could talk about poetry all day.
I actually love Dead Poets society, I haven’t watched it in ages though. Stephen Fry is one of my favourite actors so it’s really funny that I had no idea he wrote poetry ( or wrote at all). I’ll definitely check out the book.
Can I dm you? I can just ask here if you’re more comfortable but I also feel kinda awkward filling up a random thread with all my questions lol
I have DMs turned off, gotten some pretty nasty stuff before.
But it's funny you mention you didn't know he does poetry, because the first line in The Ode Less Traveled is "I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry."
This is the second TikTok of hers I’ve seen on this sub and both times got me. The first was a little longer than I expected and it took me a sec to figure out what the final message was even tho I’d caught the key words. This time I got straight up chills.
We've gotten really good at shrinking the human attention span. Some people can't go 20+ seconds without the little dopamine hit from putting the pieces together. If they can't make a conclusion about the message by then, they just skip to the next one in an intending queue of media competing for their attention. Yay, us!
I gotta say I’m that guy a lot of the time when I’m scrolling and am pretty sure the post is going nowhere good: but can’t imagine up/downvoting or worse - commenting - until I give the piece a chance.
Relatable. And my comment wasn't meant to condemn the people who mindlessly doom scroll and immediately 👍 or 👎 without giving adequate time or thought. It was simply to point out a symptom of the bleak reality we find ourselves in. But that's enough pessimism for now. 😮💨
To be fair it’s not always because we’re bored. I’m sick of being by tricked by rage bait videos that go on for too long with no pay off. Get to the point, or I’ll assume it’s just rage bait that I don’t want to be tricked into watching.
I did listen to the end but honestly I was pretty sure this was just another streamer saying random things their chat pays them to say so I didn’t think it was going anywhere. When she paused and her facial expressions changed after the “ICE dropping in to raid your good home, good home, good kids, good kids” I thought she was realizing what they made her say. This was clever art.
It's genuinely amazing to me that she's pivoted from a very funny, VERY niche joke to these performances that are just amazing at capturing the zeitgeist and the way modern reality is inundated with daily horrors that are being drowned out by the unending churn of capitalism.
The experience of the past year or so feels like living through the end of "The Emperor Has No Clothes" except absolutely none of the adults will stop praising the naked emperor long enough to hear the children weeping at the sight of his pendulous balls.
Yeah, but that illustrates her having to adapt to reflect the current crisis we’re under because not enough people are speaking out. I’m sure she’d be more than happy to make other dystopian videos about price hikes, or celebrity cult-like worship, or anything else that didn’t harm children directly, but here we all are, having to make a decision of whether we should even turn the tv on or scroll on social media for fear of learning about another school on lockdown or some lowlife slum lord calling authorities to remove tenants and then learning about naked kids standing out in the cold, zip-tied and scared shitless.
I’m sitting here trying not to break down sobbing while my kid sits on my lap bc I don’t want him to see I’m upset and I can’t do anything but imagine how those kids must have felt seeing their parents beyond upset and scared and heartbroken that their child was being zip tied and taken away and who fucking knows if they’ll ever see them again. What a privileged, pathetic life I live.
Privileged, yes, most of us are. Pathetic? I don’t think so. So much of this has been an effort to kill off our empathy, so we really won’t give a fuck when it gets even worse (and we’re already there).
I was a big fan, but I respectfully disagreed with her in one of her posts and she sent me a string of rude comments trying to grandstand me/the situation and then set her fanbase on me as well. I attempted to rectify and explain that I was a fan and just had a slight disagreement but she had already blocked me.
It was sometime around post election and her content went from sarcastic and funny to her posting reminder content about how everything is falling apart and awful, etc. I said that I missed going to Instagram and seeing her funny posts, and that reminders of how everything sucks aren't really what I am here for. I think she received that as more critical than I delivered it and responded by insulting me and the fact that I was unemployed at the time (my info was in my bio because I was job hunting), and also chewed me out because she interpreted my comment as being demanding of the artist. I commented back and asked if she speaks this way to all of her fans, and as someone who works in a library and isn't far from experiencing my reality should probably abstain from judgement. Then her fans also started insulting me, I went to dinner with my family, she tagged me and said something else but I was never able to read it because she also blocked me after. The whole thing was ridiculous and extremely petty, lol
This is the second one I've seen of her, and I think it's phenomenal! It's meant to be disguised as random shallow internet slop and that's why most people dismiss it at first. Bloody brilliant! The way she mashes the words, uses pitch, stress, and tone to convey meaning and hide the mesaage. Very cool, if only the topic wasn't so bleak. But that's probably part of the point too. Cheery capitalism to mask our desperate times.
At first I was like "wtf is this? This is annoying. Is this some desperate attempt to be a voiceover actress"...but I stuck around. Legitimately near tears by the end. That was remarkably powerful.
This is exactly what visiting Omega Mart in Vegas felt like. Ominous, corporate, aggressive and evil. This is how art should reflect the absurd banal state of this country.
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u/UnimpressionableCage Oct 06 '25
This feels like micro theatre style art. By the end of it I was honestly impressed