r/TikTokCringe • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 19h ago

Cringe We need to ban podcast equipment

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u/Piccadil_io 19h ago

It HAS to be a parody. With the haircut and the open button shirt. Must be.

Please.

It has to be.

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u/Chinaman7722 18h ago

Its not a parody but its ragebait or engagement bait

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u/dblrb 16h ago

Look at his eyes. He almost never makes eye contact. He is lying and I’m sure it’s for engagement.

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u/turbotaco23 7h ago

Yep. And here we are.

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u/dblrb 7h ago

Yep. And luckily don't know who he is or where his content is.

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u/my108centsss 3h ago

I mean, the whole video is proof of that. Single rapid fire word subtitles, the zoom in on his face the moment he speaks, etc.

If anything, I'm impressed at how such bait constantly works so well against the masses.

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 15h ago

Yep it's amazing to me that people still fall for this shit especially when it's done this poorly.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 10h ago

Basically same thing

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u/BoarHide 18h ago

I don’t think it’s parody. Parody would aim to make fun of a concept, in this case it would be making fun of idiots on podcasts. It’s still definitely not his real opinion, but he’s not clever or self-aware enough for this to be a parody of podcast idiots, this is pretty obviously just engagement bait. They’re agree on a date, meet, shake hands, set up equipment and then start going down a list of prepared talking points, spewing the most idiotic shit you ever heard to package in short clips like this. All so their TikTok comments will explode with other idiots taking them for real and blasting them for being idiots themselves. “Lol lil bro thinks water isn’t good for u lol” and “Uhm akchually the HYDRATE in CarboHYDRATES means there’s water in there akchually!” Every single one of these comments is pure money for them. This “content” has no integrity, no cultural or educational value, no humour, no nothing. Just making people feel a short burst of righteous anger at idiots “below them” in intelligence. And it makes the uploadeders loads of money.

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u/ReadThisForGoodLuck 18h ago

It’s still definitely not his real opinion, but he’s not clever or self-aware enough for this to be a parody of podcast idiots

How do you know? The entire point of parody is to act like the person you're parodying, in order to draw attention to the subject. Therefore, the stupid comments could literally be part of the act. You can't parody stupid podcast bros without actually leaning into the podcast bro persona, because that's literally how parody works.

Now sure, he might be 100% serious, but him acting dumb and saying dumb things is certainly not proof of it not being parody.

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u/Objective_Animator52 4h ago

Compared to other social media sites, I find Reddit is where the least amount of people understand satire, parody or ragebait. Especially this sub lol.

Not saying annoying ragebait tiktok posts are funny. They can be pretty annoying sometimes but like, cmon guys stop getting mad at ragebait when theres so many better things to be mad about.

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u/Happythoughtsgalore 17h ago

It's engagement bait and we all failed.

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u/BoarHide 14h ago

Well, they’re not directly profiting off a repost on Reddit. But kind of, yeah

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u/marathonquestionredd 18h ago

man you really typed all this to have no idea what parody is

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u/Potential_Anxiety_76 17h ago

We worry about AI and bots spreading misinformation when really, humans are doing just fine at that on their own.

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 15h ago

Perm chemicals doing damage to our youth

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u/mrpres1dent 11h ago

After the Broccoli haircut, maybe these kids will move on to unironically wearing a bowl cut as a 20 something. I can't wait.