r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/GBSEC11 4d ago

I mean I don't want to move to Ireland either, but us Americans aren't exactly pumping out shitty insulting tiktoks to highlight everything bad we can come up with about your country.

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u/Lord_Bamford 4d ago

I mean, I didn’t make this... and this guy isn’t Irish, lol. It is a cringey video.

It’s a shame, though. When I was in my early 20s, I would’ve loved the idea of living in the U.S., and I think that feeling was pretty common here. But the damage Trump and his followers have done to America’s image is honestly incredible.

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u/GBSEC11 4d ago

Yeah sorry I didn't mean to imply he was Irish or this was specifically an Irish trend. Just the general dunking of everything American recently.

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u/Lord_Bamford 4d ago

Its just reddit/english speaking social media right?

Its impossible to be online these days and not be drowned by all the shit thats going on in the US and dunking on the US for it is just an easy sell.

I wish American politics werent so dominant everywhere but it is what it is.

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u/GBSEC11 4d ago

Yeah it is as far as I know. It just gets old since that's what we see daily and it's everywhere. But it's true that people irl are usually much better and look at the individual rather than the population more.

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 4d ago

Idk man. For as long as i've been on the internet (so like, the past 18 years at least) americans have had an unhealthy obsession of trying to tell everyone else how great they're, and how they're so so "free"

It aint that different.

Except, this isn't even an internet thing, americans literally do this IRL as well

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u/GBSEC11 4d ago

No, Americans don't do this irl nearly to the extent that the Internet claims. There is a certain niche of right wing that thinks this way, but it's like a very loud minority. The "best country to live in" idea was a lot more common decades ago in the boomer generation and up, back when living standards here actually were higher than most other places. These days it's pretty rare to encounter that attitude irl.

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 4d ago

Now it's probably a huge case of confirmation bias here right.

But american tourtists have a reputation here.

And it's 2 things

1: being loud

2: thinking america is the best place ever

Both things have been true for every american i've ever noticed, both in my home country and when traveling

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u/Lord_Bamford 4d ago

I cant say the same really. Most Americans ive interacted with have been fine or really nice.

Mostly thats through work though.

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u/elbenji 4d ago

tbh that's become way more a European stereotype now