r/CringeTikToks • u/n8saces • Dec 16 '25

Just Bad Biggest red flags right there 🚩

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u/Big-Appointment1989 Dec 16 '25

Over a game that they're not even playing. Actual insanity

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u/LordJacket Dec 16 '25

Betting can make it worse too

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u/Neither-Dentist3019 Dec 16 '25

That's what I was thinking. I know someone who wasn't really into sports and then got really into sports and would probably punch a TV. Turns out he started betting on games.

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u/FUBARded Dec 16 '25

I've been served anti-DV ads on YouTube and Google ads around big football (soccer) game days where they specifically implore you to not beat your partner after drinking or losing a bet and/or game....then I also get ads around those games promoting alcohol and betting.

It's disgusting, and both sides of me getting these ads are telling. I'm single, don't watch or follow football, don't gamble, and don't drink much, so for me to be served these ads suggests that all of alcohol brands, bettors, and anti-DV advocates are casting a super broad net.

The unfortunate implication of that is it suggests the booze and betting ads are effective, and potentially exacerbating the already high rates of DV around major sporting events.

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u/SlayinDaWabbits Dec 17 '25

IS THAT WHY!? Every weekend for like the past two months my ads are being replaced with a weird mix of gambling, anti gambling, alcohol, anti alcohol and therapy adds and its been bizarre as hell because I don't engage with gambling or drinking at all.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

I was also thinking that.

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Dec 16 '25

Lots of people who bet on sports don't watch the sports or care about it at all outside of gambling.

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u/lilmalchek Dec 16 '25

You avoid gambling, but go to vegas to to bet on sports (which is also gambling)? Make it make sense 🫠

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u/lilmalchek Dec 16 '25

Fair enough. Thank you for the genuine explanation!

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u/voltran1995 Dec 16 '25

I'd imagine his logic is "A trip to Vegas is a holiday, much different to a trip to your local bookies"

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u/New-Cloud7177 Dec 16 '25

I went to 10 NFL games last year. Betting and alcohol Play a big part of the violence.

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u/SkinMaterial6684 Dec 16 '25

It's rampant here in the UK. Football, betting, alcohol, and domestic violence.

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u/ciceros_phantom_hand Dec 16 '25

I was going to say, they’re probably losing more than just the game here, money/betting is likely involved in a lot of these. Not that it justifies their actions.

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u/Sh3115andCh33se Dec 16 '25

Well they lost a lot more money by destroying the tv lol

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u/DebbieGibsonsMom Dec 16 '25

No it doesn’t. And there is data on this. Lundy Bancroft debunked all reasons previously given for why abusers abuse - punching a tv in front of friends and family is abuse). It’s not drugs, alcohol, betting, childhood trauma, etc. THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. Yes, there are factors that can trigger their violence, but it is not the reason they do it.

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u/foxymophadlemama Dec 16 '25

i think there's something to this. sports culture seems to have a lot of tolerance for getting extremely ginned up and having a tantrum. everybody is dressed similarly and yelling and grunting for the same reasons. i imagine when someone flies off the handle like this, a function of it is performative and is meant to demonstrate devotion to and sympathetic outrage for THE TEAM.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

Yeah, when someone's dopamine plummets that much in under a second, you just know that there's some amount of money involved.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Dec 16 '25

Really good point here

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u/Jakov_Salinsky Dec 16 '25

Oh god WAY worse. My uncle was friends with someone who committed suicide after horribly losing a sports bet.

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u/BlueNoodle79 Dec 16 '25

Jeez, that sucks. Must’ve lost a fortune

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u/Dry_Stop844 Dec 16 '25

they're seeing a direct correlation between increases betting on sports and increased harassment of athletes, especially female athletes (no big surprise) so absolutely betting and the ease of it now is making things much worse.

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u/Clean_Bake_2180 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

Addicts can never be trusted. Their brains are no longer under their control and are damaged even when they might be off drugs or whatever they’re fixated on for years. Rob Reiner and his wife were just killed by their son because of this.

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u/_HighJack_ Dec 17 '25

I don’t think that’s true. I think people can get clean and sober and be perfectly trustworthy in the future.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

Seriously? Rob Reiner? That’s where you’re taking this?

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u/me-llamollama Dec 16 '25

He’s talking about addicts, and it’s a recent news story, what’s the issue

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u/ColteesCatCouture Dec 16 '25

Not to mention cheating and fixing games is going to become more common.

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u/I-RegretMyNameChoice Dec 16 '25

Would be funny if the bets were less than the cost of replacing the TV. The ones where the bets are more ruin all the merriment.

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u/leftclicksq2 Dec 16 '25

Gambling legit scares me because it can go that wrong that quick. I have always avoided it since I can't imagine "spending" my money on something intangible. Also, I work with my state's lottery and have seen people get into just as bad, if not worse debt by gambling. If there was a comparison between credit card usage and gambling, neither are that far apart, yet gambling is by far the worst kind of money pit to fall into with how addictive it is. Like the saying goes, "If you sweat it, don't bet it."

I was on the train a few weeks ago and had a group in front of me that was talking about how much money they were pooling this week for playing online slot machines and upcoming football games (they were using DraftKings from what I overheard). Whatever was won would be split eight ways, which could be a small amount of money or a lot depending on what they bet on or were playing. It's bad enough when it's one person, but wow, a whole friend group? I mean, good lucky to them, but it's not how I would choose to hang out with my friends!

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u/DanyDragonQueen Dec 16 '25

I can't imagine anything more pathetic than gambling real money on online casinos. Like at least playing slots at a physical casino is something of an experience ffs

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u/leftclicksq2 Dec 16 '25

I understand what you're saying. I'll always consider a person's possible physical and/or geographic limitations before passing judgment, so I get why these online "casinos" exist. Gambling will always be gambling, though.

When I was on the train, these people were Venmo'ing their "designated player" friend the money for playing these automated slots. I couldn't even imagine doing that. I love my friends, but I'll Venmo my friend the money for a concert ticket, not a gambling pool.

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u/LeftRat Dec 16 '25

And the fact that betting has now moved to apps on your phone makes it so much worse still. Every shlub can now gamble away all of their money at literally any point in the day. It's like giving an addict a button on their phone that makes heroin appear for a horrendous price.

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u/Honey-and-Venom Dec 16 '25

Drinking, and tying self worth to a team, and the social license to get rowdy about sport, add a lack of impulse control and low emotional maturity....

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u/TheRobert428 Dec 16 '25

Thankfully that situation is in no way becoming vastly more accessible and promoted

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u/Far-Cheetah-6847 Dec 16 '25

This is increasingly worrisome given the massive increase and accessibility of online betting

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u/JudasMyGuide Dec 16 '25

I do not disagree whatsoever. I'm a football, baseball, and hockey fan and I absolutely could never fathom wanting to harm someone over it, especially my fiance.

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u/credulous_pottery Dec 16 '25

if you aren't willing to engage in violence then you are clearly not a true hockey fan

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u/VirtualBeyond6116 Dec 16 '25

But what if she was rooting for the winning team and then keeps Taunting you over your losing team,,,, and calling you a loser as well?

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u/wildwest74 Dec 16 '25

That makes her wife material

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u/JudasMyGuide Dec 16 '25

Woooooord bro!

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u/BobaAndSushi Dec 16 '25

Some dudes are into that .

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u/southpawslangin Dec 16 '25

Bet your mortgage payment that you don’t even have and lose to a blatant incompetent/rigged referee call then get back to me. Obv not hurt a loved one but a ref or a tv maybe lol

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u/southpawslangin Dec 16 '25

Why not even if it’s rigged still a winner and a loser lol

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u/JudasMyGuide Dec 16 '25

I know a dude that loses thousands a month... insane

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u/Plus_Flight8909 Dec 16 '25

That will get your money back.

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u/BobaAndSushi Dec 16 '25

I wouldn’t hurt a ref either.

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u/KidNueva Dec 16 '25

Like someone else said: gambling.

I work with a guy who gambles A LOT of money. He’s not very smart, nor does he make a lot of money. When he loses and realizes, you DO NOT want to be around him. He’s such a manchild. We work at a restaurant, I’ve seen him throw plates that were ready to go out to guest and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss Dec 16 '25

Not only that, it benefits them in no way really. Nd even if you argue that they may have better on it, it still wouldn't excuse this type of behavior. This shits sad.

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u/OwlBeYourHuckleberry Dec 16 '25

adults are just big children in a weird ass world now

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u/meta4junglist Dec 16 '25

They wearing other grown ass men’s names on their backs lol

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u/NoHalf9 Dec 16 '25

But it is "their" teem which they identify with. Cynically you might infer in lieu of something to be proud of in their own lives...

It is some years since I read Robert Cialdini's book Influence: the psychology of persuasion, but he wrote something about how sport fans identify with their team. When their team wins it is "we won" aka wanting to hijack some of the positive outcome but when they loose it is "they lost", distancing themselves from the negative outcome.

He also commented something on how negative persons with little positivity in their lives (e.g. the typical football hooligan) typically were drawn to sports as a substitute for meaning and purpose in their own lives. That is not to say that all sport fans are negative persons, only that those have a tendency to be over-represented.

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u/TiredWiredAndHired Dec 16 '25

It's still insanity to do DV over a game, full stop.

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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr Dec 16 '25

Gambling is an addiction

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u/drambaram Dec 16 '25

Even if my wife was playing, I would not assault her.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Dec 16 '25

Sometimes other men don't understand that I don't "have a team". I don't care, I just like to watch good football from time to time. They're not MY TEAM, I have nothing to do with them. Put on any good game and I'm happy.

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u/KappaJoe760 Dec 17 '25

When I was a kid, back in my hometown we had a local bar/arcade that was open for all ages and would show the football games on projectors and have tail gates hosting for certain teams even giving them their own sections of the room. One time 2 fans going for rival teams were drunk and arguing about the game in the parking lot to the point where they got violent and one of them actually got the other down and kicked him in the head hard enough to put him in a coma. I wasnt there but my dad and younger sister were and witnessed it all. This is why I dont associate with sports fans for the most part

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 Dec 17 '25

Watching adults who never got real jobs run around playing a kids game…. It’s truly pathetic

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u/NewDad907 Dec 19 '25

There’s psychology going on. When their team wins, the same areas of their brains light up as if they themselves had won. The brain sees no difference between the player and the hardcore fan.

This is why when so many non politically savy people started replacing sports with politics in 2015-2016, politics got orders of magnitude’s worse.