Grown adults crying to camera with sad music overlay - TikTok

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Anyone else find this absolutely ridiculous / cringeworthy / sometimes hilarious?

Recent TikTok joiner - I don't post any content, I follow the educational hashtag #LearnOnTikTok and have come across some handy quick recipes on there but MY GOD, some of the videos that come up... this lunchtime was a man who easily looked 40, looking into the camera with wet and red eyes with the text box "when your kids go back to their mum until next weekend" and a sad ballad song added over it.

Maybe I'm getting old and/or this kind of thing is cathartic to some people who are upset.

Men are allowed to cry and show emotion

But doing it on tiktok for ‘likes’ is just weird

Tiktok is a weird place

Definitely odd, ridiculous, pathetic. Can't think if the right word. Crying for likes. Hope their kids don't see it!

I’d say that if the kids ended up seeing that, it would constitute the worst sort of emotional blackmail. I used to worry so much about the other parent when I was the child, and if my father had been wailing into Tik tok id have been so upset. What a Twat.

Not a TikTok thing, it's a social media thing. Sounds no different to attention seeking on any platform - Facebook, Instagram, MN.

I hate any kind of "sob story"and as soon as I hear one on the likes of X factor/Britain's got talent etc I have to turn it off!

I'd definitely roll my eyes at these TikTok videos

Don't use TikTok. It's for nonces and idiots.

Yeah it’s ridiculous. Also the ones where they use cards with words written on them.
Fuck off, basically.
I don’t know what’s happened to the world.

It'll go away if you stop looking at it just like MySpace

I can see why his ex left him tbh. Sounds like a moron.

But also I dont use tiktok because of this kind of stuff....

Sorry OP, I don't think grown adults should be on TikTok, full stop.

Everyone cries nowadays. What happened to the stiff upper lip??

Sorry OP, I don't think grown adults should be on TikTok, full stop.

Well it's not actually suitable for children

Everyone cries nowadays. What happened to the stiff upper lip??

Why does it bother you?

Well it's not actually suitable for children

Agreed, it's a teen thing imo

as you've just joined til tok i would recommend

yorkshirepeach
and luke hamnett....also monica geldert

The ‘doing it for likes’ makes me slightly uncomfortable, but I think it is important for emotions to be discussed.

The ones that get me are people doing the dances and captioning them with things like ‘my DC have X condition’, ‘their life expectancy is…’ etc! To Justin Bieber’s latest bop

I’ve never thought to myself while I’m genuinely sad and crying over something “hey you know what? Let’s get me fuckin’ camera out and show everyone how upset I am”

“Crying into the camera and uploading it for millions to see sounds like a great idea right now”

I’ve never once thought that. It’s all for clout.. and it’s embarrassing, yeah people cry, people get upset.. it doesn’t even matter why they’re crying.. it’s the fact they have purposely recorded themselves crying.. and took the time to edit their own crying video to include sad must and a voice over title.

Just why?!

Im not on TikTok but would automatically think #LearnOnTikTok was a joke.

I'm not on TikTok but I know someone who would do this. I think they have something on Instagram maybe, can't remember. Anyway, she's very dramatic and attention seeking IRL.

@DollyMixtureLulus agreed, so weird when people are doing dance routines but captioning sometimes serious content 🤷‍♀️

I saw a video the other day, fairly boring - a pregnant woman and the caption question was if she had any other children - she was doing a routine while the caption box changed to the answer and the overlay song was Usher with the lyrics "You can twerk while in a split, you racking up them tips, Your body rock and your booty poppin', I'm proud to call you my bitch" 😂what even!?