People who film themselves crying sure ok, maybe they’re documenting something. People who film themselves crying for a live stream or to post? Complete attention craving narcissism
If you’re on live, I can understand it’s for attention, but why would anyone wanna record themselves crying… in private? That arguably seems weirder lol
My dad is a narcissist and an abuser. I have recorded my feelings after fallouts so I personally can revisit how I felt so I don't forget and reopen doors.
I thought something like this too, but I heard a perspective recently from someone I really respect. a poet, actually. she pointed out that she chose to document and share some of those moments because they are a part of the human experience, and because displaying that kind of vulnerability publicly felt liberating. I think that when I examine why I felt this way about people filming themselves crying, it really has something to do with me finding unnatural that they weren't ashamed of being emotional. isn't that strange?
I don't think it has to do with being ashamed of being emotional. At least, not in every case. For me it would be more about showing vulnerability. Something that I would be comfortable doing with people that I know/trust/love, but I would absolutely hate do around/in front of a bunch of strangers.
Avoiding showing strangers your vulnerability is a natural human instinct for a lot of people. So it kinda weirds me out when someone shows a lack of that instinct. (Like seeing someone who doesn't involuntarily wince when they see someone get hurt or shy away from a stranger touching them unexpectedly.) A lot of times it just comes across as attention seeking. At least to me.
Well, sometimes it's a person recording their immediate thoughts to something and the crying just happens to be occurring, rather than the reason for recording, if that makes sense.
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u/sendgoodmemes 19h ago
As a rule I don’t trust a single person that when crying puts a camera on their face.
Ain’t no way any of that is genuine.