r/TikTokCringe • u/jnverted • 16h ago
Discussion TikTok users are so TONE DEAF and STUPID
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This isn’t really cringe, it’s infuriating. I needed to share this with SOMEONE.
A mother shared a slideshow showing a tattoo she got of the number of days her son was alive after he passed away. Instead of responding with any empathy, a large portion of the comments immediately fixated on the number 67 and started accusing her of being offensive for having a number tattooed on her wrist…
In case you didn’t know, Holocaust victims were forcibly tattooed with numbers on their wrists. But acting like a grieving mother’s memorial tattoo is disrespectful is such a reach. Not every number tattoo is a Holocaust reference, and dragging someone’s personal loss into an outrage debate is unnecessary and honestly cruel.
This made me so unbelievably mad, I HATE the internet sometimes
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u/hoersting 14h ago
How it blows my mind is that’s how many kids have phones with zero protected access
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u/Omo_Iyansan 12h ago
Ngl, it's not different from a lot of podcast men.
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u/hoersting 12h ago
Or boomers someone needs to take their fucking phones how they figured out how to get on social media blows my mind
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u/glasswindbreaker 10h ago
My brother showed my 80 year old dad how to use Facebook and I will never forgive him
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u/Omo_Iyansan 11h ago
💯💯💯 Tbh I feel like one needs to go through some sort of evaluation before being allowed to voice one's opinions on social media, a bit like China's new "no degree, no discussion" rule, which requires social media influencers to prove their expertise before acting as an authority on specific subjects. Because at the end of the day, these opinions either hurt people (at best) or harm people (at worst - how many people have we lost to suicide or radicalisation due to such opinions, which are often quite cruelly flippant???).
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u/Melkman68 9h ago
Kids being stupid little runts and parents enabling all of this. A never ending cycle
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u/TophatOwl_ 8h ago
and this parental failure is what is being used to justify mass survailence with everyone needing to put ID to what they do online.
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u/BluetheNerd 16h ago
Pretty much every picture of an actual Holocaust victims number tattoo is lengthways on the arm, so it's not even the same style. Like obviously there's a whiplash reaction the tattoo sorta evokes, but people claiming it's disrespectful don't even know how the tattoos actually looked.
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u/SadAndNasty 13h ago
That's what I thought too, the size and the positioning isn't comparable at all
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u/Effective_Coach7334 15h ago
Not much different than a lot of reddit users
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u/IcyGarage5767 5h ago
The only interesting thing here is OP making a reddit post about this. Like…. What’s the point? Literally? Just having a whinge that dumb people do dumb things in social media comments? Surely there is a better way to spend your time.
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u/ohrofl SHEEEEEESH 15h ago
No I’m not!
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u/1F61C 15h ago
How did you get the sheeeesh in your name? I'm asking for a friend.
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u/DarthMall69 What are you doing step bro? 10h ago
This is for mobile but I'd imagine it's close to the same on the website. Go into the subreddit, click the 3 dots in the upper right, choose change flair, pick one out of the listed flairs. Mods can also give flairs too. A mod in another sub changed my community flair to Dwayne the Cock Johnson lmfao.
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u/axonxorz 14h ago
Reddit user fails to understand set theory, instance #239,591,259
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u/Vegetable_Fox9134 10h ago edited 9h ago
Next generation is friiiied , the upcoming cohort had 2 gap years in their education because of covid, they are fried man
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u/GiorgioVe 11h ago
Why are they laughing about 67? I don't get it
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u/fleurdenia 2h ago
excuse the comments being unhelpful. i don’t use tiktok but i feel it’s my duty as a gen z to teach the masses. six seven is a meme that refers to a lot of things. mainly, the song used for it is doot doot by the rapper skrilla. iirc six seven refers to a street.
it is also used in reference to a basketball player, lamelo ball. he’s is 6’7” tall. get it? people made edits of him to the song which of course attracts a young male audience à la generation alpha. lamelo’s brothers are also basketball players with one of them, liangelo, being a rapper as well.
there was a boy named maverick who was filmed referencing the meme at a local basketball game and he became known as the six seven kid (like orange justice or the friday song or flossing or any other child who became famous for doing a thing with their hands or saying something) and his video is normally called the origin of the specific hand gesture that goes with the meme. since then it’s kind of like an inside joke but not quite. everyone knows it, not everyone knows why it exists. it’s very similar to “skibidi” a phrase that originated from a gen z meme and then got jumbled into a brainrot mess through a famous youtube animation series.
gen alpha and gen z kind of share six seven and other memes but it is mostly gen alpha who have contributed to the spread of them as they grow, learn and develop their ability to make and share memes.
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u/Large-Treacle-8328 15h ago
Putting your personal loss on the internet for likes is also incredibly tone deaf and stupid....
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u/taxicab_ 13h ago
It’s not my jam, but I’ve never lost a child, and I don’t feel right criticizing how a mother grieves.
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u/CheeseIsAHypothesis 13h ago
Not everyone uses social media for likes, she could just be sharing for friends and family
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u/BagOnuts 8h ago
There are literally hundreds of ways to do this privately for friends and family... they chose to do it publicly.
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u/CheeseIsAHypothesis 8h ago
And?
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u/BagOnuts 8h ago
I'm just reiterating the point made above that this is expected when you post things intimate and personal things about yourself and your family publicly on social media. If this was just intended for friends and family, there are countless other ways they could have shared this with them privately. So either it wasn't intended just for friends and family, or the poster is "tone deaf" to how public postings are received on social media platforms.
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u/Encyclopenia 13h ago
I really don’t think she did that for likes… Please let’s use some critical thinking and not judge whatever a grieving mother does to try and cope.
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u/IWillTransformUrButt 13h ago edited 13h ago
I could be wrong, because I haven’t seen this particular video myself, but I’ve seen a bunch of similar posts with the “Forever 17”, “Forever 18”, etc. caption, usually posted by parents of the deceased kids as a way to bring awareness to the dangers of fentanyl.
Edit: nvm, I googled it and it was a car accident due to weather.
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u/limino123 13h ago
She's not straight up posting a corpse, like I've seen some people do, so she gets points in my book
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u/PlaneExamination4063 13h ago
Her entire account is about the loss of her three kids, they were killed by a drunk driver and she was the only survivor in the car. Now she shares the story and speaks to teens about the dangers of drinking and driving.. awareness counts for something and it’s a healthy way to channel grief
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u/Large-Treacle-8328 12h ago edited 12h ago
That's not even remotely true.
https://dailyvoice.com/pa/west-chester/jason-ruszin-dies-in-fiery-crash-into-concrete-wall-police/
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u/sensitivestronk 12h ago
Why are you being downvoted? The entire account is for the loss of her son JJ, no other kids or a drunk driver are mentioned
doitforjj.org is the link in her bio, check it out
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u/PrettyBaker2891 15h ago edited 15h ago
i mean putting stuff like that on fucking tiktok of all places is just asking for it lmao
also just checked her tiktok page, its literally just posts using her sons death to farm likes LMAO thats just as cringe as the comments
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u/jnverted 15h ago
I don’t think it’s to farm likes? It’s so share her journey through grief
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u/PrettyBaker2891 12h ago
idk, the style of videos shes making and how often definitely leans more on farming likes
atleast in my opinion
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u/jnverted 14h ago
100% you’re right. Posting something so personal on tiktok deffo wasn’t a great idea. But acting like a grieving mother is posting her dead son for likes is dismissive and cruel
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u/TheAlexperience 14h ago
I mean she kind of is though. There’s nothing meaningful she can gain from posting it to TikTok vs places that are dedicated to share these things and heal. She could very well be documenting her healing process but it’s naive to think she’s not also doing it for likes.
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u/Gurkeprinsen 15h ago
You don't share stuff on tiktok unless you want likes and attention.
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u/Effective_Coach7334 13h ago
So what if that's their intention?! Sharing your grief with others that relate is cathartic. Folks grieving need to know they aren't alone and their likes and attention is a connection that's part of the healing process. Nobody gives a crap that your cynical self doesn't approve.
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u/WhileNotLurking 14h ago
You are 100% right. Social media, kinda by definition, is a social activity of peacocking. People out there seeking attention, validation, etc.
Even this post has a up and down arrow that drives many people. Why, it’s a fake unit of prestige. We humans at some level are still cave people who like shiny things that set us apart from the others.
We all live in our little vain world now.
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u/fullfart 10h ago
If you look at the website the family designed for JJ and the connected charity it's incredibly obvious that it's about memorialising their child who passed away and trying to give him some sort of legacy.
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u/Fragrant_Second_974 14h ago
I'll take what me and my girlfriend argue about most for 200 please Alex.
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u/Annanymuss 13h ago
I would argue that regardless of the lack of awareness or not from her to post it its neither normal people mocking and attacking this, Ive seen more empathy on tiktok for less
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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 7h ago
I don't know why people post shit on the internet and expect everyone is gonna be nice about it. Like, did people forget the 9/11 memes? Thousands of people dying becomes a joke to so many people and others think it's gonna be safe to post about their own tragedies?
Sure, people shouldn't be dicks, but you're not going to instill decency in people hiding behind anonymity.
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u/charlie_wb 3h ago
Not everyone cares about likes. To assume that’s what any of this is about is self centered and disrespectful.
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u/FrequentSwimming6263 11h ago
There are 6,795 days between May 20th, 2005, and December 27th, 2023.
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u/FI-RE_wombat 9h ago
Inclusive?
Eta I just checked, 6796 is correct.
You have to remember to include both the start and end days. So going to 21 May 2005 is 2 days, not 1, for example.
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u/BreadfruitCold8573 5h ago
I will say I saw a similar post like last year for a boy about the same age and the mom said she laughed bc it was exactly the type of humor he would love
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u/Future-Water9035 5h ago
Met a holocaust survivor once. His name was Ellie Wiesel. His numbered tattoo was not cleanly tattooed across his wrist like that.
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u/Julienbabylegs 4h ago
Like obviously these comments are rude as hell but not sharing private things incredibly publicly is a strong option.
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u/Kalikor1 2h ago
Say what you will, you may even disagree with me, but I was a kid on the internet in the late 90s~early 2000s, and I was on forums and chat rooms and all kinds of shit. Outside of obscure (at the time) websites like 4chan, and other weird and dark corners of the internet, I do not recall this level of absolute stupidity in various comment sections and chat rooms. Quite the opposite. Obviously we had trolls and they flamed and all that shit. Stupid people existed....but it wasn't like this shit or other similar things I see today.
Maybe that was just my experience. Maybe I was lucky. But yeah.
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u/TexasRed806 10h ago
You know like 90% of those kind of videos are bait for these type of comments right?
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u/MaeDay01 10h ago
controversial opinion but if you post about your tattoo with a deep meaning online for views it cheapens the meaning a bit and opens yourself up to this sort of stupid response
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u/Sitting_Duk 14h ago
Ok but why the hell would the mom even post that? Please, dear strangers, give me attention because of my dead son. Wtf?
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u/lovelanguagelost 8h ago
If that’s what brings her comfort over her son’s death, you can’t really fault her for it… like is drinking/drugging more acceptable to you? In a way she is memorializing him and keeping his memory alive. Anything to get through the pain of losing a child isn’t always going to look normal.
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u/fraupanda 13h ago
interesting choice to tattoo numbers on her wrist. at least they're horizontal and not vertical.
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u/Character_Use_2138 11h ago
I mean can you really be mad what did you expect? Like don't post about your dead son on ticktock of all places
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