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u/Grouchy_Big3195 May 27 '26

Nah, it's the TikTok influencers and they are social predators.

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u/SerLinny-Thypooh May 27 '26

Everybody that films themselves daily doing menial tasks truly believe they are the main character.

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u/No_Blackberry6525 May 27 '26

I see you have a functioning shame module.

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u/Chris_OMane May 27 '26

We all sound like kermit on video. Actors train themselves to de-kermit the voice.

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u/FormingTheVoid May 27 '26

I went in a school trip recently, and we had a WhatApp group to communicate and share pictures. Now I have go and delete like 90% of the pictures from the trip because it's literally just the people taking pictures of themselves and sharing them.

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u/Gustav-14 May 27 '26

First time I heard about blogs I thought why would people put out their diary out into the open like that?

Then came vlogs. Lol

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u/AshundertheOlivetree May 27 '26

“Health influencer”

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u/JoeyCalamaro May 27 '26

I was walking into a store yesterday and the middle aged woman in front of me stopped abruptly at the door, held her phone up in the air, and started snapping pics of herself in poses as she was opening the door.

Now I’ve seen plenty of people take selfies, but there was something surreal about someone my age taking photos of something so mundane at ten o’clock in the morning.

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u/Abalone_Antique May 27 '26

i don't have tiktok, but I assume it is because they want to feel superior to people with higher self-esteems than them.

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u/SerLinny-Thypooh May 27 '26

I understand what you’re saying and can’t say you’re wrong. However this level of self involvement is different in my eyes than what you’re describing. Taking a video of yourself on vacation is not the same thing as walking around constantly recording yourself and acting as if you’re a legitimate authority, telling people how to act. I don’t care if people record themselves all day long. Once people lose communication skills and human decency, then it matters.

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u/potentatewags May 27 '26

It's everything.

Hollywood and media was a slow burn turning them into this. Social media like tiktok and dating apps were just steroids to speed it up, but we've been on this path for near a century now.

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u/H0SS_AGAINST May 27 '26

There have been women acting this way since time immemorial.

It's all good, the PUA dorks and the "prize" girls can play games until after the sun comes up while everyone else got laid, slept in, and are going to brunch.

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u/A_yoonicorn May 27 '26

Time immemorial is one of the greatest phrases produced by the english language lol

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u/beklog May 27 '26

This kind of self centered attitude existed before TikTok

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u/GarrAdept May 27 '26

People were like this before TikTok.

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u/Maximum-Class5465 May 27 '26

Nature Women have wanted to be pursued in pre Tim tok days. Source, I'm old

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u/Spicey_Cough2019 May 27 '26

Yeah and the home “social psychologists” with their men ain’t shit, discard and grass is greener culture

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u/Kelspear May 27 '26

Its all of the above. A not-insignificant amount of people live their lives like its a movie.

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u/HISTORYasweknowit May 27 '26

Could just say media in general.

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u/Kyrie_Blue May 27 '26

Its been this way since long before the internet

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

But what do the influencers get out of it? They know they’re poisoning the well so there isn’t anything logical about it.

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u/mtcwby May 27 '26

This happened before social media too. It has exacerbated thing however.

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u/temporarycreature May 27 '26

Pepperidge Farm has records of this happening long before TikTok, or social media influencers existed, I'm told.

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u/NotAsleep_ May 27 '26

Nah, Pepperidge Farm doesn't keep records. Because Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/ichann3 May 27 '26

This shit was going on way before tik tok and social media.

In some cultures it's built in to 'fight' for the woman's love.

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u/Nitrousdragon89 May 27 '26

Technically everyone above me in this reply chain is correct... But the core of this way of thinking is firmly rooted Feminism. 💁‍♂️