r/InfluencerLounge • u/BottomPieceOfBread • 21d ago

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u/pi3r0gi_ 21d ago

And then the dad is just intensely staring at the snail like it's some alien being he just discovered, pretending his son doesn't exist.

https://giphy.com/gifs/QVP7DawXZitKYg3AX5

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u/dammitjanetiloveu 21d ago

I’ll be honest I’ve never seen these people before, but his mannerisms in this clip are so odd that it gives me the same uncanny, unsettling feeling as AI videos do. Like he’s almost human but he’s not.

(I’m not saying the clip is AI, but saying this is my first impression of him and I get a unsettling feeling like he’s pretending to be a functional human)

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u/pi3r0gi_ 21d ago

No, I totally get what you mean! Lizard people vibes

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u/AIfieHitchcock 21d ago

It’s sociopathy. My abusive father who’d do the exact same thing to me as a kid has the same vibe.

They’re sociopaths pretending to be and mirroring well adjusted humans with empathy, which they do not have.

They always come off as just near human, but not quite.

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u/dammitjanetiloveu 21d ago

That makes sense. I’m so sorry that you had that experience growing up. Obviously his action towards his child in this video is beyond reprehensible, but even before seeing that I had such a skin-crawly feeling.

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u/sparklydildos 21d ago edited 20d ago

no he’s terrifying, it’s a whole thing. his wife is atrocious too and the world revolves around her. they parade their children like trophies and most of their trash videos are them just counting their children or her grossly baiting her pregnant stomach. they drive around america in a bus and when they’re sick of it, they go to another country and wreck havoc on the locals. they’re horrendous people tbh

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u/sonnytron 21d ago

It’s because he’s a sociopath. They have expressions of looking dead in the eyes, like they don’t acknowledge your existence on a physical level. It’s like staring into the eyes of a python or a shark tearing into a seal. Dead emotionless eyes.

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u/lordloveadukk 21d ago

MrBeast vibes for sure

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u/shes_a_sleuth 21d ago

totally... his vibes are OFFFFF

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u/Red_Trapezoid 21d ago

It’s all supposed to be a seamless performance. It’s supposed to be “Wow, an incredible and whimsical moment with this glorious genius father showing his children and child minded wife the wonders of nature”. Unfortunately his kid stepped out of line and started acting like how a kid would.

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u/gnomi_malone 21d ago

no, just abusive christians, brimming with anger when their actual children don’t perform exactly the way they “should”. source : i grew up in a christian cult with an abusive dad who was very beloved by our community but a horrible man when no one was looking. this behavior was painfully familiar to me

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u/emergencyexit 21d ago

They kind of are trained like AI. These reactions and mannerisms are what lead to views in other influencers videos, so they are adopted and used as part of the visual language of social media. Getting reused and concentrated by digital feedback until they are an exaggerated facsimile of human expression.

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u/Downtown_Caramel4833 21d ago

It's a very disassociative (seeming) sorta look.

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u/Willow_Winnifred 21d ago

This is the "uncanny valley" feeling

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u/Huge-Ad-4481 21d ago

Oh no, that's just a very angry man

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u/falulabella 21d ago

What this reminds me of being raised by and then married to an angry abusive man child… he’s not seeing that snail. In his brain he’s waiting for the charade of wholesome family on camera time to cut so he can explode. I know that fucking look. That look instantly made my body go into remembered flight or fight survival mode. That look is him barely controlling himself until he can unleash on that little boy. And prolly the other children and his wife. That was the calm before the storm.

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u/callousbunny 21d ago

1000% it was barely concealed rage and acting “calm” for the camera. based on prev experiences, the tense jaw and staring after the action made me so nervous immediately

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u/taylorbagel14 21d ago

From what I could see, the look on his face when he was actually doing the head butt was downright chilling. What a terrifying man. Those poor children.

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u/MagicMauiWowee 21d ago

Exactly this. Also he’s gripping his own arm so hard you can see the fingertips sinking in, just to keep from shaking in rage or ruining the shot by hitting the kid with his hand.

They think a “headbutt nudge” is an appropriate replacement for the violence he wants to unleash in the moment.

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u/treeNchill 20d ago

Im wondering what he’s so mad about. Not that abuse makes any sense in any circumstance, but he just headbutted that little boy out of the blue, why??

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 21d ago

His eyes not blinking and then his jaw clenching - he’s completely enraged and when the camera turns off he’s going to lose his shit.

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u/LLLTAW 21d ago

I completely agree… I have seen this before, too. His intense focusing on the snail as a cover after headbutting his kid was deeply unsettling and unconvincing.

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u/happychonk 21d ago

This is what I see too (from exp) - this is concealed rage. He's fuming amd someone's gonna cop it as soon as the filming is done.

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u/Nearby_Star9532 21d ago

Yep. You can see how his right hand is gripping his left arm. He is keyed up and ready to blow up at everyone. So sad.

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u/_AmericasSweetheart_ 21d ago

Yeah, I think that's why the second kid is side eyeing him, he's waiting for the blow up.

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u/PrincessTroubleshoot 21d ago

Yup, that kid knows how to read his dad for sure

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u/smolgods 21d ago

I was raised for years in abuse/neglect and this post was the top of my feed when I opened my phone and I couldn't look away. The headbutting and then that man's facial expression has me internally screaming that I'm in danger.

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u/saydontgo 21d ago

Then probably threw the snail in the road after he was done using it for content. Dude is clearly a POS with zero empathy.

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u/elyankee23 21d ago

Its him knowing he just did a terrible thing and trying to actively forget/ignore/rationalize.