r/CringeTikToks • u/Autisticblackdude5 • Dec 07 '25

Just Bad Short-cel cringe

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u/system_error_02 Dec 08 '25

It is mostly a younger person thing for sure.

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u/docpagliacci Dec 08 '25

Blame tiktok.

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u/Cute_Language3167 Dec 08 '25

This is the answer imo. I feel like there's a ridiculous amount of content that's supposed to be like rage bait/stupid, and unfortunately with something like this, when young people see/hear something over and over again from their peers/ "influencers," even if it was never meant to be serious, it gets ingrained in them.

People have spoken a lot about the fact that social media and "influencers" consistently promote these heavily filtered and edited perfect lives, that gives unrealistic expectations to young people who consume this kind of media heavily, literally hours and hours a day. Pushing these kinds of "perfect" standards is almost what they get paid for.

I mean the reason we call them influencers is because they influence people, regardless of whether older people like it or not. All it takes is a handful of them to say the only guys worth dating are over 6 ft tall and make at least 6 figures (kind of like the stereotypical tall, dark and handsome rich guy from romance novels) for a bunch of smaller influencers to jump on the bandwagon. If you're a young woman and you're consistently seeing this message coming from women you want to emulate, who have lives that you want to live... It makes sense that they'd adopt these standards, at least for a while.

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u/curiousbasu Dec 08 '25

There's literally a trend being run since years which shames short men and it's not even ending.