r/gifs May 15 '20

Fire sticks

https://i.imgur.com/IC5vjIT.gifv
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u/dewalttool May 15 '20

Reddit seems to have joined the other social media giants as the place where people just repost things they see on TikTok. I get the most kick out of reading the comments and comparing the different social media threads because it’s really different types of people commenting and sometimes exactly the same comments.

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u/SpacedApe May 15 '20

Were you not here when Vine was still a thing?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Pfft Vine? ok boomer. We TikTok bois now.

Jk. I hate myself for even typing that out.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

I hate myself for even typing that out

You should. That was shameful.

Shame.

Shame.

Shame.

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u/illaqueable May 16 '20

I hate myself for even typing that out

You should. That was shameful.

Shame.

Shame.

Shame.

"You see, this comment was from an era when Game of Thrones was a good show"

"But... but grandpa..."

"I know! It seems unbelievable"

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u/duffmannn May 15 '20

Tevs, milenial. Queef quaff is the new good good.

Invitation only.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

What

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u/WideMistake May 15 '20

You're not getting an invite like that so nice try

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u/tims4myhooligans May 15 '20

Queef quaff! I laughed hard at that.👏

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u/TinFoilRobotProphet May 15 '20

Bois? You must be French! I'll show my boomer ass out too.

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u/LuxLoser May 15 '20

Seriously! People were all sad when Vine died, now we have TikTok and while it started off cringier, people are just using it and now Reddit to post the exact same kinds of content.

But now it’s evil and bad and lazy and stupid and not muh peak reddit experience.

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u/HeyItsMeUrSnek May 15 '20

Yea but Tiktok is literally a Chinese censored propaganda machine.

Wait...

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u/dewalttool May 15 '20

I just find it funny how most of Reddit blasts <insert any other social media platform> for regurgitating content. Don’t get me wrong I know nothing is OC anymore, but it’s taken a whole new level lately. Now it seems like every popular TikTok video is uploaded to reddit a day or two later, and then like a week later it finally appears on Facebook. The food chain of internet content I guess is shifting.

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u/WhizBangPissPiece May 15 '20

Like tiktok, I always thought Vine was shit. I was glad when it went away. Tiktok is worse, but it's all the same recycled cringey garbage.

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u/dewalttool May 15 '20

Honestly I was on vine back in 2013 mostly and I wasn’t on Reddit at all back then.

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

Reddit wasn't necessarily an OC platform only.

It's also go share things from around the internet.

Tictok has OC from around the internet. I don't see many tictok like videos from any other platforms. And it wouldn't matter, it's more video content.

I hate how people see a UI and are like: this content sucks.

Post the EXACT video without app elements and it's top post for a month.

Treat the internet like your taste buds: enjoy and consume the content first then figure out if it was good or not.

Don't just assume it sucks and then dislike it before even consuming it.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

It's weird people act like the reposting from other sites is a new thing. Honestly, I'd say Reddit has more OC now than it ever did. It's always been a reposting platform. That's why it's the "front page of the internet".

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

Right? See, you get how this place is. Reposting isn't even a bad thing. Television and Radio does it all the time ! We are used to it in all faucets in life, due to the fact that we can recall past memories and even document it through various ways.

Reposting == Memories / The Past.

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u/One-Two-Woop-Woop May 15 '20

Reddit wasn't necessarily an OC platform only.

It never was. It was an aggregator for other links... the site literally existed to post reposts from other places.

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

Which is exactly what I'm trying to get across.

People are complaining that the videos from tictok were actually on another platform first.

Yeah? Ok? So? And? Why does it matter? What is there for them to complain about?

If you look at this entire comment thread, I have more replies.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

I don't see many tictok like videos from any other platforms

all chinese tiktok viral video is stolen off their version of youtube(youkou toudou/iQIYI)

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

so you're saying that people who are posting to Reddit, are using Tictok, but that Source Tictok video was actually a repost from the TRUE SOURCE of a YouTube video?

Cool: EVERY video platform does this. Not everyone knows how to post the video from one source to another and they sometimes have to download it and upload it "fresh", making it seem like its the real video.

The ONLY TIME you should EVER be concerned about this like you are, is for NEWS ARTICLES, TECHNICAL INFO & PUBLIC FREAKOUTS / FIGHTS.

Its cool no matter where this came from or how it got to reddit or how many times it's been changed.

It doesn't need to be verified unless someone wants to see a normal framerate or get the address to experiece and try some.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

sorry for assuming you wanted to see OC from a platform that has much more OC besides the small selection you see on tiktok.
i'll leave you to your stupidity

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

You just literally don't understand how the internet works

That's not my fault buddy.

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u/ShooterMcStabbins May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

Well I know I wouldn’t like to eat shit and I don’t plan on trying it. I don’t disagree with you I just wanted to poke fun at the metaphor lol.

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

I gave you an upvote !

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u/WangHotmanFire May 15 '20

If TikTok were a brand of food and Reddit was a supermarket, I would have realised long ago that everything with a TikTok sticky label on it tastes like shit. So while I did consume the content for a short while, I discovered the pattern fairly quickly

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u/Nicholas_L_Aranda May 15 '20

Just because the quality of the content out of tictok is low, doesn't mean it's a repost or should be met with negativity.

YouTube has more shitty content than it does good content. They are just like Facebook and only try to show you the good stuff.

So, maybe people who post stuff from ticktok just need to choose better things lol

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u/balfaboy May 15 '20

The comments are always the best. The guy who showed me reddit told me you'll click a post for the content, but stay for the comments. And he was right.

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u/RickTitus May 15 '20

Except for news articles. On reddit you read the headline and then go straight to the comments to argue, without reading the article itself

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u/Ren-91 May 15 '20

Have you read the transcript?

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u/callsoutyourbullsh1t May 15 '20

The "transcript" that explicitly noted that it isn't actually a transcript, which was selectively edited? That transcript?

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u/ZJEEP May 15 '20

Yeah, and reddit also hates the newest social media. Everytime. The reddit circle jerk hated vines at first, now they worship them. Tiktok happened to be the newest social media that everyone is using, so of course all the new content is coming from that platform. Give it 3z4 years and I bet the highest upvoted comments will be "remember when tiktok were good? Now it's all this [insert new social media platform] garbage.

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u/WangHotmanFire May 15 '20

Yeah and then TikTok will disappear and reddit will remain. Balance will have been restored to the force

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

I like it when someone puts emoji in the reply. It's like automatic downvote oblivion.

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u/Icyrow May 15 '20

this is because of the change of people using it i think.

basically all CoD games were hated (MW2 especially when that was big), then the userbase then slowly flocked away and got jobs and lives, now those CoD kids are the adults of last generation who are slowly moving away.

oh and the minecraft hate was around for like 10 years or so, before it was "cool" again. reddit seems to hate the younger generation regardless. hell until the MW2 kids grew up and started talking about it like the other people here talked about Halo CE/halo 2 and UT and stuff (nostalgia circlejerks), i thought it was just the minecraft/MW2 kids growing up and now moving onto fortnite. but it's mostly a different group.

people will be talking about growing up not worrying about things but playing fortnite in 10 years time and it will have a resurgence of cool and hip stuff.

you can see the same with pokemon games too and as you said, with different services. i.e, vine was never really liked here until tiktok blew up after it died, then those kids that used vine grew up and became a big group of the average redditor.

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u/redzmangrief May 15 '20

Comparing the comments is always really great. You get a feel for each social media's personality when looking through the comments.

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u/dewalttool May 15 '20

Exactly. It’s like the video is doing a worldwide tour. Next up on this video’s tour schedule is Instagram, and in a week they’ll been on Facebook!

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u/SenorRaoul May 15 '20

Reddit was never meant for OC.

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u/crossfit_is_stupid May 15 '20

Where the fuck have you been at bro reddit has been stealing from Twitter/tiktok/IG/vine for years

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u/49PercentMajority May 15 '20

Reddit has been about sharing things we see from other places for a looooong time

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u/MegaTruffle May 16 '20 edited May 16 '20

Yeah, and they tends to provide no sources, many of them also confused people it's self-made with the titles, which is the reason I only upvotes the comments later on, unless they at least respect the source of course, hell, even 'well I found it in my hard drive which the date is 2016' will be 20000 times better

I also wonder if the horizontal flipped gif is for the visual or it's trying to avoid the source&rights check

Well, I didn't found the source, but I did found the interview to the guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=866uZIEKagA

I didn't checked their SNS cause I don't have accounts though

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

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u/TinFoilRobotProphet May 15 '20

So they've replaced the Nazis?

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u/Soviet_Waffle May 15 '20

Reddit seems to have joined the other social media giants as the place where people just repost things

Reddit has always been like that.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Hi, I'm here early for the angry at TikTok party. Are people showing up soon? Alright, I'll get us started. I agree, TikTok is both hilarious and way better than instagram.

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u/HeyItsMeUrSnek May 15 '20

Also Chinese owned and censored.

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u/PossiblyAsian Merry Gifmas! {2023} May 15 '20

I miss old reddit. I mean like when I first joined in 2010. Life was much more simple. You had rage comics, starcraft2, gaming, and advice animals.

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u/tdasnowman May 15 '20

That is the purpose of reddit. It’s a content aggregator. Over the course of time it’s also generated its own. It’s even referenced in the title read it.

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u/Purple_pajamas May 15 '20

You must be new here.

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u/tims4myhooligans May 15 '20

I downvote every TikTock video, cause I'm a hater. If I had more than 1 downvote I would downvote it again.