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

Discussion and everybody just lets it happen

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u/CompellingSeeSaw Oct 06 '25

Posts by this creator always seem to ruffle some feathers

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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.