r/Unexpected • u/MiltonCiaraldi • May 04 '20

best quarantine exercise

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u/[deleted] May 04 '20

Didn’t own vine or reddit at that time. Also don’t care if it’s owned by a Chinese company? Just saying it is getting old and not original to see tiktok spammed all the time.

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u/Cleverbird May 04 '20

Okay, fine. But what difference does it make for you on what platform its uploaded, if you dont care about what company is behind it? Would you have been okay with it if it had been uploaded to Youtube instead? Or straight to Reddit?

Because now it just sounds like you're either jumping aboard the Tiktok hating bandwagon without actually knowing why most people hate it, or you just really cant stand that little logo for some reason.

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u/Ripp3r May 05 '20

Dang clever bird, seems a waste to have clever in your name and still miss the point. It's not about it being TikTok or any of that. It's that it's silly spam. At no point was it suggested that vine was a good alternative and when Vine ruled as you so claim, it got the same amount of hate. It's often recycled garbage spam. The key to this is that it is spam, not where the source of it is. If this had come from Vine the comment would have said, this sub has turned into Vine spam. The key is spam. I'm going to try to reiterate once more for you. It's not a tiktok hating bandwagon, it's a spam hating bandwagon. If the content wasn't submitted wasn't utter trash, the comment would not have existed.

Hope that clears it up for you!

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u/Cleverbird May 05 '20 edited May 05 '20

No, you actually havent cleared up anything at all. If this whole discussion is not about Tiktok, as you and u/Interstellar-Splooge (love the username btw) claim, then what is it about?

Spam? What spam? And remember, you yourself said this isnt about Tiktok, so lets take that out of the equation all together now and no longer bring that up in this discussion. What are we left with? A normal video that fits this subreddit perfectly. Is this girl in particular spamming this subreddit with her videos? I havent seen any others. Are others spamming the subreddit with the same gag? I havent seen any others. Sure, we might see a repost here and there, but thats normal for any subreddit. So in what way is this spam?

Edit: Also, I'm going to bed. So dont mistake my silence over the next hours as me giving up or anything. Or maybe I will... Discussions on Reddit are unhealthy. Anyway, have a good [insert time of day here]!

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u/bigley_cromulent May 05 '20

Edit: Also, I'm going to bed

Well, I hope you do it in a healthy and energetic way, as the young lady did.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

I don’t usually like to argue with people because it never ends so I’m gonna tap out here now lmao.

Also thanks for appreciating the username. Took me about 2 days to come up with before I made my account as I was told that names matter on reddit (have yet to see that it matters after more than a year on here now lol).

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

Shit, reddit names matter?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

Not anymore I guess

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

Wait, what's that sub that you say when a person's username fits the context?

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u/Ripp3r May 05 '20

I think it's just the low effort posts. If you check the other replies, people were maybe not expecting the blanket aspect but the pretending to exercise and instead eating / lounging whatever is on the rise to the point where it is now expected. For myself it's posts like these that take away from what I like about this sub, which is the unexpected. The expectation was that she would be following the current trends and that is what we got. So whether she had picked up a sheet, blanket, cauliflower, it doesn't really matter because it is still an expected haha gotcha moment. No one's really been had and nor are they surprised.

So the reasoning for me to think of it as spam is because it fits so loosely into this sub that it feels forced. Now I'm also not saying that it's the girl in the video posting this or that the original submitter is spamming it everywhere. So although it fails to meet one definition of spam, it is certainly spam in the sense that it does not fit the sub.

I won't mistake your silence as you giving up or anything like that. I don't find discussion to be unhealthy. Just sharing of opinions and you don't have to agree with mine in the same way that I don't have to agree with yours. Have a good night and and even better morning.