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What is with the TikTok panic posts? I don’t like that a Chinese social media app has so much influence in the West either, but articles like this are getting d
by eloisius 4y ago
What is with the TikTok panic posts? I don’t like that a Chinese social media app has so much influence in the West either, but articles like this are getting downright silly.
The NPC in real life videos are mostly play acted people doing NPC stuff like awkwardly running in place while colliding with an obstacle, or repeating gestures stiffly. Some of them are actually really well acted and look like Skyrim or something. The closest thing to what this article describes that I’ve seen usually appear to be a chance encounter with an irate “Karen” who is making incoherent arguments and threats that are reminiscent of the threats Grand Theft Auto NPCs make if you walk into them. It’s usually over something stupid like skateboarding in their neighborhood. Never seen one where they go out and do something mean to an old person and film it.
- ccvannorman 4y agoThe best Irate Karen videos are the ones with the correct game music theme added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXqWdtsFqsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXqWdtsFqsc
- NickRRau 4y agoNot to immediately downgrade this into conspiracies, but these types of articles do give off the impression of invested interests trying to fear monger. If we wanted to inform people of the "danger" tiktok poses to our country it would involve giving power to the public to see that we have domestic actors that are _nearly_ as bad... Maybe I'm just biased because I love the NPC in real life trend as well.
- vineyardmike 4y agoEh I don’t buy it. We always had scare articles. Not to defend the deplorable behavior, but it’s just another complaint about the newest young people. Remember YouTube? Kids did stupid shit and harassed people for views. They still do. New medium, new names, same kids doing anything for a few internet points.
- hairofadog 4y agoThe trend she's complaining about (rightly, in my opinion) is people filming themselves trying to make other people uncomfortable, with the justification that other members of the public are only NPCs, not real people, and so there's no moral problem. She gives several examples (although she does also give one example of what you're talking about, which is someone acting like an NPC, which is fine, if unoriginal). I've accidentally come across many examples of people harassing other people as a "prank", and my impression is that the harassers have been late or deficient in developing empathy.
- jopnv 4y ago
- hairofadog 4y ago?
- eloisius 4y agoI agree that the “prank” shit is obnoxious. Like videos of a guy cutting peoples’ headphone cords and then “lol it’s a prank bro here’s some free AirPod.”
- jacooper 4y agoImagine if he had cut an expensive headphone like a Sennheiser that can easily be double the worth of an AirPod. An Airpod wouldn't even be close to being a replacement.
- strulovich 4y agoYou’re confusing two types of videos. There is one like you describe where people act a GTA like scene while replicating animations that make no sense in real life. That’s cute and funny. There is also a trend of people harassing unwilling bystanders. That’s shitty.
- kcplate 4y ago> There is also a trend of people harassing unwilling bystanders. That’s shitty. Also dangerous.
- robswc 4y agoIt’s nothing new. Remember all the crap the “tide pod” challenge got? I see no reason the place most these trends spawns gets most of the attention.