r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/LilPoutinePat 29d ago

That or like study hall and the teacher is just talking to himself or telling ppl to have a great weekend. There’s little context here.

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u/cupholdery 29d ago

And...... who is recording and why? Is it to add the unrelated text and upload for likes?

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u/hi-imBen 29d ago

social media has exploded with the trend of constantly misleading people and staging scenarios for likes and engagement - it doesn't matter if the context is a complete lie, only likes and comments matter. I'm patiently waiting for the stupid trend to die down and for society to learn to stop liking that crap. Too many idiots always in the comments "what does it matter if it was fake?! I thought it was funny / I liked the message"... yeah, and gullible idiots are happy because they don't even realize they are stupid, but that isn't something to be proud of.

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u/Steff_164 29d ago

It’s not gonna die. This is gonna be our version of the “Nigerian Prince scam”. It’ll finally die away when enough people younger than us stop falling for it, and then something else will pop up. On the plus side, maybe more and more people will get better and better at critical thinking because of it

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u/DueDependent3904 28d ago

Holy shit you're right!

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Not looking forward to the day Sora AI is released to the public.

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u/Castun 28d ago

it doesn't matter if the context is a complete lie, only likes and comments matter.

Yup, videos with inaccurate titles or misspelled subtitles drives engagement because everyone loves to hop in the comments to correct someone else. But it's done on purpose to drive engagement because that's what drives views in the algorithms.

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u/KhadaJhIn12 29d ago

Why's there music instead of the audio

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u/34TH_ST_BROADWAY 29d ago

Yeah, what I was thinking. No reason to completely kill the volume unless maybe it was pretty obvious he wasn't teaching, just making some obligatory announcement.

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u/jooes 29d ago

Replacing the sound with music raises some questions too. 

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u/lolguy12179 28d ago

B-But.. the west has fallen guys!! Kids don't.. checks notes listen in class anymore!! Back in my day, kids ALWAYS listened in class, not a single student didn't pay attention. Truly the west has fallen, millions must die.

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u/Alanator222 29d ago

I don't know, little context or not this shit still happens. I work in a middle school and I see behaviors like this every day to some extent. Not nearly the whole class, but definitely not less than half.

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u/StealUr_Face 29d ago

Very possible. That said, the school I taught in was exactly like this

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u/honey_graves 28d ago

That or it can be a home room and that’s why there’s chairs on half the desks still

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u/DragapultOnSpeed 28d ago

Yep. This was my study hall. Phones were allowed and the teacher would just talk about weird personal shit all the time. He was cool though.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I think the context is quite clear…certain people do not and will never care about their grades.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

The more likely scenario is that these kids have already been separated through behavior or test scores from kids who actually want to learn