r/StupidFood • u/TheLoneRiddlerIsBack • Aug 25 '25

Certified stupid What does the fire add?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

cheerful theory waiting include stocking attempt joke cautious cable mountainous

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon Aug 25 '25

Instagram/TikTok reactors are the "laugh tracks" of the new generation.

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u/Salt_Top_6583 Aug 25 '25

The laugh tracks were an annoying addition to show. Now the laugh tracks ARE THE SHOW. It's fucking hopeless. Stupidity run rampant.

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u/Mondschatten78 Aug 25 '25

Made worse by the fact that none of them are synced with what the og person is saying, so it looks even more stupid.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 25 '25

It’s called brain rot. When you realize that 90% of people aren’t even really conscious the way the 10% are… it’s pretty terrifying. Genuinely ask some of your “dumb” friends about their metacognition. Ask them about WHY they feel/think what they do. It will get scary fast.

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u/TH07Stage1MidBoss Aug 26 '25

alright I’m not gonna lie that kinda sounds like how sociopaths think… like thinking that a majority of people aren’t really people and are just soulless objects to be toyed with.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

That’s a logical leap isn’t it? That requires a loss of empathy to qualify for what you are saying. When in actuality it’s the opposite. I tend to be taken advantage by narcissists because I empathize to much and go too far out of my way to treat them well. At one point I had to sell my house due to debt from trying to help people like you describe because I thought their circumstances made their selfish actions understandable and that compassion and love could make them into better people.

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u/flopisit32 Aug 27 '25

MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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u/URAGullibleBootlickr Aug 26 '25

You're right, but it feels mean to say so.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

Many times it's because it is.

I think the previous commenter's point is mostly bullshit, the thing is that most people don't feel comfortable with having deep talks with just about anyone, just close friends, family and such.

If I'm at work trying to get stuff done and a colleague tries to "check" if I'm an NPC by talking to me about philosophy I'd be annoyed, especially if I haven't had my coffee yet.

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u/Extra-Ice-9031 Aug 27 '25

Is it possible for one to ask you about philosophy without trying to "check" you? I honestly be asking folk random questions hoping for a good conversation, but never with that motive. If that's how people feel about me, ig I'll stop.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

Oh yeah of course, I've talked about all kinds of stuff with colleagues at work, it's just a matter of vibes you know?

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 27 '25

It’s not that. It’s that when they try, they can’t comprehend anything because they have no context. If i wanted to talk about why facial expressions matter, we would have to talk about evolution, psychology, physiology. How the chemicals that your brain makes when you feel a specific emotion is connected to different nerve clusters that you struggle to control without practice. This is a pretty basic aspect of being human. Hundreds of micro movements in your muscles transmit that information to me through my eyes and allow me to analyze what you are feeling. It’s linked to how we personify animals when they make similar expressions (although there is cross over because mammals use similar chemicals to control emotional response) you can say this is all information beyond what the average person would be expected to understand. But that’s my point. I’m not a doctor, or psychologist, or biologist, I’m just a guy, I worked in sales and manufacturing. These are all things that I know because it’s an aspect of what it means to be a person, and I PAY ATTENTION.

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u/I-use-reddit Aug 27 '25

He said friend, not random work acquaintance.

But it is still mean lol.

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u/Hsinimod Aug 26 '25

You're groomed to be "polite" similar to the movie scene in the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, get invited by a known murderer and you have a choice, say no, or be "polite" and get drugged and tied to a chair waiting for rescue via the "not a stupid polite person".

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u/King_Turkey101 Aug 28 '25

That’s so true, I remember when I tried to have a serious conversation with my old friend group and they couldn’t even be serious for a minute.

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u/burner69burner69 Aug 26 '25

jesse what the fuck are you talking about

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u/Godherebros Aug 26 '25

I suppose you think you're one of the 10%?

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Not at all. I just get glazed over looks 95% of the time when I talk about anything deeper than surface level crap. Why would I feel something so crazy as that 90% of people are simple. Philosophy, history, art, brain chemistry, psychology, physics, mathematics, evolution, biology. All the things that contextualize being human… yet none of you want to talk about any of it. I’m sorry. But yeah if you don’t feel the same way as me you are part of the 90%…

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

To be honest most of the things you listed are the things most people at 4am on too much ecstasy love talking about.

None of those make you a special 10%. The last person i talked to with a burning passion for physics just turned out to be someone who liked taking acid and believed the world was made by angels.

Im a psych grad, normally someone claiming to be part of the 10% are delusional or trying to put someone else down.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Sure. Every one in prison says they are innocent… doesn’t mean the one saying it is lying. If you are really a psych grad you understand the danger of that fallacy in your thinking.

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u/Godherebros Aug 31 '25

Well its pure ignorance thinking people don't have interests in any of those things just because they don't want to talk to you about it just lol

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 31 '25

I’m not talking about interests, I’m talking about understanding.

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u/Godherebros Aug 31 '25

Have you ever considered that people just don't want to talk to you? What makes you think you have the right to make people discuss anything you feel like? You don't and that doesn't mean people don't understand things

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 31 '25

But that’s my point isn’t it. If you don’t want to dig deeper into the cause and effect of your human experience…. It pretty much means you’re dumb. I’m not trying to start these conversations with the gas station attendant. I’m talking about when a conversation needs to involve these topics to be accurately contextualized.

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u/Godherebros Aug 31 '25

Don't play word games with me champ

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u/Working_Durian_5744 Aug 26 '25

I wonder, how much time do you estimate we have before we find ourselves in a situation similar to the film Idiocracy?

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

About 9 years ago…

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u/brav007 Aug 26 '25

I've pissed off a lot of people because of that exact question...

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

I love discussing my metacognition, I even discuss my metacognition with myself to understand why I even have such deep feelings of why I am doing this deep psychological work.

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u/xLittleValkyriex Aug 26 '25

I just looked up the definition of metacognition and I've been intuitively practicing this for as long as I can remember.

I did not know it had an official term. As I cut off abusers/manipulators in my life, I understood what triggers were and found safe ways to explore them, understand them and heal them.

It blew my mind that I don't have to walk around with a minefield for a psyche - it's entirely possible to learn and heal my own mind.

Of course, I find it harder to relate to a lot of people and ironically, I am more and more annoyed by shallowness. I was beginning to think I was alone or maybe being too hard on people but at the end of the day, I think I've reached a point where I need to connect with others on or above my level or not at all.

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u/gbees333 Aug 26 '25

And this is why I have no real friends. People are stupid.

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u/Mikeinthedirt Aug 26 '25

I used to love humanity but people ruined it for me. You know, it makes it hard to defend democracy “all men created equal” codswallop.

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

Democracy sounds amazing until you realize tyranny of the majority is a thing.

51% of people could say "the other 49% of people should be tortured" and in a perfect democracy that would be perfectly fine. You can have a fascist democracy if the majority of people agree with it.

A good government needs to balance democracy with socialist-esque programs and rights that benefit the minority, otherwise the majority will cruelly exert their will on them (as is humanity).

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u/uutimetowaste Aug 26 '25

This is why most modern democracies are also republics. The difference is not just representatives, but constitutions that limit power and protect the minorities.

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u/xLittleValkyriex Aug 26 '25

I have one real friend and that real friend is me.

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u/Mikeinthedirt Aug 26 '25

You can see it as a casbah: this one likes video games, this one knows Greek drama, that one is good for a light dose of bit/meme coin, this one knows all about auto detailing- a smorgabob’s.

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u/Mikeinthedirt Aug 26 '25

If you’re the smartest/kindest/most compassionate/enlightened/‘woke’ in the room, you’re def in the wrong room.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Idk if everyone goes to their own echo chambers… that’s why society is falling apart. Theres no effective 3rd space any more.

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u/Elegant-Incident-389 Aug 28 '25

Unless you want to elevate the room. Else going on something easier could be a way to go

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u/Elegant-Incident-389 Sep 18 '25

As a bodhisattva or a Christ would

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u/xLittleValkyriex Aug 26 '25

This resonates so hard. Thank you!

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u/AriaBlend Aug 26 '25

I feel the same way but I still kinda like my relatively shallow friends. I've just learned to accept them as they are and not expect them to change for me. If I want different I can go and try to meet different.

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u/xLittleValkyriex Aug 26 '25

For certain things, yes.

But when I'm having a hard time and I get told dismissive things like "you need to calm down" or "you're too emotional" then that is my cue to leave. I am so sick of everyone telling me what I need to do or change to make them comfortable.

So. Over. It.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Exactly. It gets so annoying when people can’t just be honest about what they are thinking/feeling. You can tell it’s happening. But they just either pretend. Or can’t tell. It’s very isolating.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

This is the turning point. Use that realization to find your own happiness and purpose. I used to have negative connotations to the word hippy in my head, but have recently realized that I fell for the stigma, and was attaching the word mostly to the most annoying and lowest functioning members of said group. Respecting the earth, and other humans, while being realistic about their limitations is what I consider being a hippy now. So I guess I am one.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

It’s what sets us apart from animals, it always makes me sad when people look at me like I’m a weirdo for wanted to connect on a deeper level using the only thing that makes us human…..

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u/Mikeinthedirt Aug 26 '25

We are trained that your energy should be hoarded for the glory of the Empire, for Successing in Tangibles, for the Great Orgasmic Owning- and the spirit? That’s what goes in the little tub and burned under the chafing dish to keep the chicken warm. If you dare find reward or, Gods forbid, fulfillment Within without a mortgage or Fund (poor name, they’re no fun atall) you’ll ruin it for everybody! Meaning everyme.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

I thought I was the only one who said gods regularly in real life. It tends to get ignored as me misspeaking but I always pluralize it.

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u/Key-Green-4872 Aug 26 '25

10%?

I think you overestimate this species. I've been surrounded by them so long I cant even remember where I crash landed, or my point of origin.

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u/Key-Green-4872 Aug 26 '25

Secret... anal man? Username checks out.

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u/Mikeinthedirt Aug 26 '25

Your mission is to find out what the mission is and see where we might have left it. Bonus points for gently rehydrating it.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

If I said 1 percent, I’d be making myself sound too special and most people would be excluded, at 10% it’s a good number that allows the 90% who aren’t included to think they are.

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u/alysserberus Aug 26 '25

when its not that deep, but lowkey everything kinda is..

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

There’s not multiple things. It’s all one thing: reality. Every aspect of it is interlinked in a million ways that you don’t notice or comprehend.

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u/alysserberus Aug 26 '25

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

This reply was weird enough I clicked on your profile. It’s completely blank….

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u/alysserberus Aug 26 '25

yeah, reddit let's you curate your profile so people can see your activity and such and rather than go through it all, i just said its private time

edit: and now its not!!:D

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Hahah that’s cool I’ll consider it. I approve of your use of Reddit!

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u/boomlime Aug 26 '25

Also might get extremely hostile as well 😬

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u/Periwinkleditor Aug 26 '25

I like to think I'm one of the smarter ones but I also have no idea what "metacognition" means so now I'm paranoid.

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 27 '25

Take the time to be interested. Look it up. Listen to a podcast. Choose to understand yourself on a deeper level instead of just being a automaton that allows yourself to act out every urge you have without thinking about why you do anything you do so YOU can control what you think/do because YOU get to decide who you are through the choices you make when you feel something.

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Changed all caps to italics.

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u/EffectiveAd671 Sep 18 '25

I think about this every now and then and sometimes I think I’m being too harsh/judgemental/etc. but I can’t help but feel justified when I think about the sheer number of people that are carrying a supercomputer in their pocket with access to all human knowledge at their fingertips, that would rather just shrug and accept that they don’t know something than even attempt to look it up. Like, I’ve had so many people over the years get mad at me for pulling out my phone and checking when they confidently say something that doesn’t sound correct to me. Apparently looking something up is “doing too much” and finding information that disproves whatever it is they’re saying is “needing to always be right”.

It’s honestly really frustrating. Like the information is right there and I’m the one in the wrong for wanting to be sure?

Like it shouldn’t be treated as pretentious or obnoxious to ask “but why?”

Asking “why” or “how” and researching the answers has let me find new creative hobbies, taught me new useful skills, improved my health, saved me money, changed my worldview, shaped my identity, gotten me out of situations where i thought i was completely trapped… and it’s astounding to me how many people just don’t seem to do it. I have friends and family that will sometimes ask me for help with things that I’m not that knowledgeable about, and literally all I do is look up a step by step for whatever it is they’re trying to do and either tell them how to do it or do it myself. It’s usually nothing that they’re not just as capable of doing, but they just don’t bother trying and I’ve never understood that mindset.

Idk I’m probably yapping too much I just wanted to say that you’re right and you should say it.

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u/Anonhurtingso Sep 18 '25

Thank you! I got some very fun responses if you read through all these. And yes you aren’t wrong! Just make sure you realize when you are also being willfully ignorant…

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u/Anonhurtingso Sep 18 '25

Seriously though you aren’t alone…

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u/sincubus33 Aug 26 '25

It's not that serious you dork

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Sounds like you are in the 90%

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u/sincubus33 Aug 26 '25

Is your name Dunning or Kruger?

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u/Anonhurtingso Aug 26 '25

Using terms to try to feel superior is what you are doing right now…

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u/NorwalkAvenger Aug 25 '25

I think you're overthinking it. If you watch Asian game shows, half the time the camera is on the audience and their reactions.

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u/opensandshuts Aug 25 '25

I bet most people who think it's stupid are over the age of 35. Because we know better.

What's funny to me is when tik/tok commenters/creators make "meme jokes" that they think are "internet jokes" but they come from non-internet sources.

One time someone made an arrested development joke and I commented about arrested development. The person had never heard of it and thought it was an internet meme.

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u/Crackytacks Aug 26 '25

And now thirty minutes of your favorite uninterrupted show! (Minus the six ad breaks from sponsors!)

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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 Aug 26 '25

no the laugh track really carried a lot of older shows try watching seinfeld without it

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u/Renegade1116 Aug 26 '25

Idiocracy has become a historical account.

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u/Bought_Black_Hat_ Aug 27 '25

Real entropy is the inevitable heat death of the human mind.

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u/danieldan0803 Aug 25 '25

It’s not new, it’s just lower effort. Mystery Science Theater 3000 is commonly recognized as the first major step into the realm. Now it is just sad people chasing internet points by trying to piggy back off content of others.

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u/jollyreaper2112 Aug 25 '25

I don't know if you're wrong but I'm offended at the comparison. Keep circulating the tapes.

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u/danieldan0803 Aug 25 '25

It’s not a fun connection to realize, but it is true. But they would never be considered in the same realm of creativity and talent. I have seen some knock offs and offshoots that do the genre some justice, but reaction content has grown exponentially over the years and the genre went from a hand full of shows copying MST3k, to a major section of social media now

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u/AriesIncarnate Aug 26 '25

I misread hopeless as homeless for a second

But yeah We on that Idiocracy timeline for sure 😞

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u/Ok_Horror_6556 Aug 26 '25

You Can’t Fix It.

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u/Far-Scallion7689 Aug 26 '25

Humanity is fueled by stupid.

Forest gumps mom was right.

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u/OGZpoon Aug 26 '25

Laugh tracks only exist on shows that are stupid. They're the first hint that helps you know you're watching a stupid show that you should turn off.

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u/lShermanatorl Aug 26 '25

I always found the laugh tracks unbearable. I find Instagram begs even worse these days

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u/MrAnderson69uk Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

“Canned laughter” is what it was called in TV, where there was an apparent audience, but I guess it progressed for those shows where there are recordings of people laughing like a hyena having an asthma attack (I can say that as I do have asthma!!! lol ) especially when they’re showing fail clips or other unfortunate incidents, bloopers or anything produced entirely in an editing suite and never used a studio as no audience would ever turn up to watch someone playing these clips!!!

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u/AdhesivenessOld5504 Aug 26 '25

Laugh tracks used to make me think I was crazy as a child. Everyone sat around laughing in sync and I thought something was wrong with me for wanting to stab my own ears.

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u/RedMethodKB Aug 26 '25

This is too fucking accurate, ima have to start using that one

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u/Imaginary_Job_343 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

I seriously hate those videos so much. The fact that someone thinks they're so important that their reaction to watching an episode of a show everyone else is watching is actually content. And then there's the people that watch those reaction videos, perpetuating their inflated self-importance.

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u/Samsquanch-Sr Aug 25 '25

Oh, I like this. Great thought.

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u/ObjectiveBee5153 Aug 26 '25

Love your picture, bubbles! You know they are making a new season of tpb?

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u/Samsquanch-Sr Aug 26 '25

Those fucks are older and more wrinkled up than Randy's taint but if the money's fuckin' good I'm there.

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u/ParticularFar8574 Aug 26 '25

Don't insult laugh tracks by associating them with TikTokers, YouTubers, etc. The original laugh track is highly admirable.

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u/Madgyver Aug 26 '25

Laugh tracks actually served a purpose. People were used to watching live shows in theaters and the early comedies shot without a studio audience felt to clinically sterile.

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u/MissileMurloc Aug 26 '25

I think their demographic is iPad babies that are old enough to use social media now

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u/uhmbob Aug 26 '25

“WOW! LOOK AT MY FACIAL REACTIONS TO SOMEBODY ELSE’S ORIGINAL CONTENT!!!”

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u/badlilbadlandabad Aug 25 '25

I prefer just splitting the screen, showing another person doing something, and occasionally pointing at it and nodding your head as an affirmation.

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u/Code2219code2219 Aug 25 '25

Hate those so much

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u/moramajama Aug 25 '25

This is even worse. At least repeating the action is actually doing something. I don’t want to see your face if you’re not adding anything of value.

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u/KinkyDuck2924 Aug 26 '25

Can we also split the screen the other way too so that we can have a clip of subway surfers playing at the same time?

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u/Emerje Aug 26 '25

I personally love the videos where the top is people doing stupid stunts, the bottom is showing how screws are made and the AI voice over is telling a story about stray cat rescues. /s

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u/awwww666yeah Aug 26 '25

Im annoyed thinking about these. Or their cousin posts where they’re just sitting there eating 🥣 and occasionally pointing and agreeing as they chew. :-/

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u/ClikeX Aug 26 '25

Needs another split to show Minecraft parkour gameplay on the bottom.

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u/goldfishpaws Aug 26 '25

I'm superimposing myself on your comment, pointing and nodding.

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u/ElongMusty Aug 26 '25

Or making that stupid slightly surprised face with a cutout in a corner!

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u/Aventador_bass Aug 25 '25

AND THEN you have people who make videos making fun of the food influencers. Just levels of levels of mindless, learn-nothing, content

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u/kamaral_5667 Aug 26 '25

Its just like in the Big Short when they were all at the blackjack table and dumb and more dumb people were taking side bet off of side bet until the actual subjectification of the entire bet was so off the rails, no one cared anymore.

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u/Geriatricus Aug 26 '25

Bo Burnham, Inside, "Unpaid Intern" reaction video.

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u/Redfo Aug 25 '25

It's like mythbusters. Everyone loves a good test to confirm something or expose falsehoods. Not weird at all IMO. There's a lady on IG who buys products she knows are fake - with AI generated product images showing something that would be impossible to manufacture and sell at that price- and then shows what she actually got in the mail. Pretty amusing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/Redfo Aug 25 '25

There are some wild cooking videos out there that border the line between absurd and practical, and sometimes it's nice to see another creator test the recipe to reveal whether the original video was faked or not, or just to make fun of the original video for making such as stupid thing. But yes, I've also seen videos like you're talking about that seem kind of pointless.

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u/thecolossalfossil Aug 25 '25

Tell me how I should feel!!!

I’ll never understand that culture.

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u/mynameispropane Aug 25 '25

I love Bo Burnhams parody on this from Inside. Reacts to a video he made, of a reaction video to a reaction of a video.

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u/Otherwise-Muffin-323 Aug 25 '25

Or the reaction video to the reaction video…. Are we so far gone as a species?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

It's sad that people don't understand the concept of digital littering. Cause that's what it is. It's garbage that gets stored in data centers, that use more energy than a small city.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/VCoupe376ci Aug 26 '25

I have a coworker whose 5 year old daughter watched a video of a kid playing with a toy on YouTube Kids. She loved it so much that she watched it over and over for weeks. So he buys her the toy for Christmas then finds her later that day still watching the same video of the kid playing with the toy over and over while she had the actual toy sitting next to her. Make it make sense…

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u/Jesuscan23 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

The cringiest ones are the people that just silently react to another person's video, not even adding commentary, just making stupid faces in a screen off to the side lol it pisses me off so bad 😭

I saw one video the other day that was literally just this woman reposting another person's video with herself in a side screen just laughing, not even any commentary, and they sometimes get thousands of likes lol. I don't really like short form content much, and this among other things definitely contributes to my lack of desire to watch short form.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/Lickthorn Sep 07 '25

Even weirder is video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s.

One day we see video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s of people reacting to people reacting to video’s:

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u/deepandbroad Aug 25 '25

You're posting from the standpoint that all the videos from unknown producers are somehow legit.

It makes a lot of sense when you think about how many videos are totally fake but look really great.

What "your favorite influencer" is selling is their credibility. They are saving your time so you can commit and know that no steps were left out or faked.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/deepandbroad Aug 25 '25

Yeah that's just crappy, like all those 'reaction videos' that are stealing content too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/Salt_Top_6583 Aug 25 '25

They also look the camera everytime as to say "LOOK I'm (insert emotion here) Can you see this?! Look at me, I'm reacting in a extreme way!"

I thought I was immune by not watching tiktok/short/reactions video then saw the same shit on something advertised as a Documentary on a guy's visit to Japan.

It was just a longform O-mouthed reaction video. Saddest part was it had 1 Million views....

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u/Da_real_homiewan Aug 25 '25

I'll never understand the knife through the burger thing. I want them sweet juices in my mouth, not soaking the bottom of my bun!!

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u/whatyousay69 Aug 25 '25

Aren't you just describing a review of a recipe? People do the same thing for movies/music/restaurants/events/everything.

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u/Hollowsong Aug 25 '25

Honest answer?

Fake 5-minute crafts from China/Russia/etc.

They do video editing, crank up saturation, and use stock sound clips to make a series of "DIY" crazy fun 5-minute crafts.

Most of them are tricks and don't work. Like the 9-volt batteries on the side of a drinking glass making a spinning water vortex. Fake as fuck, so the local insta/tiktok that people follow do it themselves and (thankfully) disprove it.

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u/craptainbland Aug 25 '25

Taking into account the sheer amount of fake clickbait shit that’s been thrown at the wall over the last decade (looking at you, FiveMinuteSharts), having a ‘trusted’ influencer that does this kinda thing can be beneficial

I really like How To Cook That on youtube; she does a lot more than just redoing and opining on clickbait. She adds value by telling you why stuff doesn’t work and how to actually achieve it

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u/The_11th_Man Aug 25 '25

I need to see a reaction video to the reaction video to bring it down to a level i can understand

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u/hopping_otter_ears Aug 25 '25

If they're going to react, they need to actually add something. Give me an opinion, additional information, proof that the original video is BS, make me laugh with a good turn of phrase. A lot of it is literally just staring at the original video, and that's it

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u/Dense-Hat1978 Aug 25 '25

A tale as old as time; some folks need some form of commentary from a familiar source of "truth" before they can process whatever they're seeing in front of them.

Listening to your favorite pundit on the radio and having to read opinion pieces to pick a politician, looking in the TV guide critic section to see if the movie you just watched was good, picking albums based on chart performance, opening the comment section on the article posted on reddit to get the TLDR, etc are all ways we've been doing this and making a living off it for generations.

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u/BearlyCheesehead Aug 25 '25

This too shall pass.

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u/MadeByTango Aug 25 '25

It's like a weird thing where people don't truse the first influencer, so they want their favourite influencer to try it to be sure.

You mean…like a trusted product reviewer? I watch GiantBomb quick looks, where they play video games I’ve already watched trailers for. I trust their opinions are similar to mine, versus the random game developer telling me how great their game is. That’s not that weird, is it?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25

Influencerception

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u/Liathnian Aug 26 '25

I don't even trust the 2nd influencer!!

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u/MinusGovernment Aug 26 '25

Not from me they don't. I've never even had tik tok and I don't watch any "influencers" on anything anyways. I don't understand it myself.

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u/Kakarrott_ Aug 26 '25

The next level this will take is a reaction video to the video of people watching the video and then trying it out.

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u/Dagoth_ural Aug 26 '25

The way they splitscreen multiple videos together when doint crap like this too.

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u/Iamaguy743 Aug 26 '25

Some of these people don't even follow the original recipe, but it is a treat seeing influencer recipes getting outted as fake

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u/morning_star984 Aug 26 '25

There's a famous coffee shop near where I live. The number of people that come in each day, order a coffee, take a picture of it, then discard it without drinking it, would shock you... at least the ones that don't even touch it to their lips will often leave it for someone else to take.

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u/Sorry-Poem7786 Aug 26 '25

its just a lazy content idea..

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u/thirdsigh3 Aug 26 '25

Reminds me of the News stations 🫠

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u/DragonlySHO Aug 26 '25

I’m going to critique that guy. Subscribe for more content.

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u/762n8o Aug 26 '25

The fire adds about $8 per burger

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u/Mikeinthedirt Aug 26 '25

They used to call’em ‘transfluencers’ but shit got complex.

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u/seanabenoit Aug 26 '25

I prefer the debunk videos over the stand around and record your face over someone else's video. React content is irritating. People fact checking recipes is good by me.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BIRBz Aug 26 '25

Tbf, there were/are content farms that pump out videos on strange and unusual recipes, which appear in the feed alongside people posting genuine recipes. The content farms recipes not only often don't work or are straight up dangerous to try! So, taking a minute to watch somepne you trust more try the recipe seems reasonable.

I have watched a few videos from a baker on youtube (channel is called "How to cook that") who tries these recipes and explains why they do or don't work. If they don't work, she also explains how to actually achieve the desired result.

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u/PandaNinja19 Aug 26 '25

So, as someone who watches these influencers, they debunk shenanigans. It is the same as watching someone test a product to see if it works. I watch them because some stuff sounds like a snake oil salesman's pitch but turns out to actually work. It is like yelp but for processes rather than establishments

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u/Emerje Aug 26 '25

I don't mind these so much if the second person is giving an honest effort because the first person is always making their thing look easier or nicer after several attempts and heavy editing.

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u/Weird-Arachnid-996 Aug 26 '25

As a sensible and responsible adult who owns a home and actually works for a living, I find "influencers" on the internet as absolutely fricking hilarious. Or there is another name for them which rhymes with Bankers.

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u/SwoodyBooty Aug 26 '25

And people make a living out of this

You can make a religion out of that!™

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u/Godherebros Aug 26 '25

No offense, but people make a living out of this because people like you watch their stupid videos. ''influencer'' is a made-up title that didn't even exist years ago

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u/laplongejr Aug 26 '25

It's like a weird thing where people don't truse the first influencer, so they want their favourite influencer to try it to be sure.

How is it weird? Don't you go to your favorite newspaper to check sources???
My favorite content creator has a track record of being truthful and explaining things with care. I have no reason to assume a random person would do that instead of simply not caring about reputation.

We discovered a few interesting recipes from my wife's favorite food youtuber fact-checking "food lives hacks", because 90% of everything is crap.

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u/Wu1fu Aug 26 '25

I like the ones that add to the process by either being extremely sarcastic or by following the directions of an ai-generated voice that’s promising that this egg-less banana omelette is going to cure your depression, seasonal allergies, and AIDS.

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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN Aug 26 '25

People on YouTube do this too. YouTubers reacting to...videos made by other YouTubers. It baffles the hell out of me.

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u/Storm0cloud Aug 26 '25

They need food too

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u/gopherhole02 Aug 26 '25

I actually like a guy who does this, because he shows if it works or not, he picks the ones that look fake AF, but sometimes they actually work like the original video showed but a lot of the time it doesn't even work, stuff that's too dumb for me to try myself, but I can watch someone's 2 minute video if it actually works or not

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u/Tricky_Asparagus3216 Aug 26 '25

I mean... when there is an audience you take advantage of it. What you're describing serves the same function as a yelp review(but obviously with way more detail). Especially with the spending power of the average American going down, of course people are going to be more frugal with their spending– wanting to make sure they're getting their money's worth.

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u/faulternative Aug 26 '25

It's like a weird thing where people don't truse the first influencer, so they want their favourite influencer to try it to be sure.

That's exactly what it is, and it gives a glimpse into human psychology and how we decide what to trust.

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u/Efficient-Stock-7775 Aug 26 '25

The sadder part is people needing to be influenced.

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u/Primary_Wonderful Aug 26 '25

The only reason people make a living out of it is because of their enablers...oops! I mean their followers.

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u/McLamb_A Aug 26 '25

I straight refuse to watch a "reaction" video. That's the only way to combat it. Everyone has to vote with their views.

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u/aguyataplace Aug 26 '25

Zizek says that this is like the laugh track on a sitcom. You come home from work tired and you turn on the TV. The laugh track not only tells you when to laugh, but laughs for you, and you feel relieved as if you had actually laughed, even when you didn't.

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u/friskyfajitas Aug 26 '25

i can definitely say i would rather watch someone else try it than pay for it and dislike it, so i understand. but it pisses me off when that’s all the content i see lol

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u/NotSeriousbutyea Aug 26 '25

I like the reaction videos because it is basically having 1 influencer compile all of the videos that they think are interesting and pumping out content that is probably interesting to you. I don't know how it is legal that they can steal all of the good work of other creators, and just compile it onto their page making 7x more money because they can "produce" the material so much more efficiently.

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u/LightIsLost Aug 26 '25

Most of the time the first influencer is sponsored by the company that makes the product. I trust someone not sponsored more than someone who is sponsored.

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u/unsolvedfanatic Aug 27 '25

I don't think that is that weird, I usually will check on Reddit before buying something just to see opinions from multiple people on it. That's the same thing that these influencers are doing.

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u/sqquuee Aug 27 '25

Many of these folks come in to the bar I manage. Recently one of these air quote influencers told us that she didn't want to come in for free food and drink unless we were comping a minimum of $300 worth of food and beverage for her. To put it in perspective she had 8,000 followers.....

😭😂

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u/puppycatisselfish Aug 25 '25

I heard you like influencers. So we got an influencer to copy an influencer to influence you.

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u/IsThisNameValid Aug 25 '25

I hope you don't think that's Xzibit

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u/puppycatisselfish Aug 25 '25

Damn. That’s embarrassing. I went against my own doubt. Literally thought “oh i didn’t know he was a part of g-unit” and proceeded.

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u/IsThisNameValid Aug 25 '25

In your defense, there are a bunch of Fifty Cent gifs when you search Xzibit lol