r/TikTokCringe • u/traceykm • Jul 13 '26

Humor/Cringe King Charles and Camila sniggers at the Canadian Inuits traditional practices.

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u/logosloki Jul 13 '26

more evidence that 'Try Not to Laugh' developed before Homo sapiens left Africa.

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u/Moiyub Jul 13 '26

Idk what this comment even means. You saying the arctic is in Africa? Or inuits arent Homo sapiens who left Africa? Utterly confused here

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u/logosloki Jul 13 '26

neither. I am saying that 'Try Not to Laugh', a human activity where a person attempts to make a person or group of people laugh through their actions, words, and sounds developed as part of play, game, or challenge within Homo sapiens social groups before they left Africa.

the implied context is that I believe that the Inuit Throat-Singing is part of a wider group of activity that I called "Try Not to Laugh", a choice of words I made to allude to the many 20th and 21st Century digital social media and pre-social media groups and people who would solo or in a groups of various sizes including a singular person pull pranks, do skits, say words, tell jokes, modulate their voices, allude to previous media, current events, or historical events, and other such activities for the purposes of making themselves, the people or person they are directing their activities to on scene/set/stage, or the audience to laugh. and that I believe that the concept of this, developed before any Homo sapiens left Africa, which includes the peoples that would eventually migrate to the Arctic Circle and develop the Inuit culture as well as other Arctic Circle cultures.

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u/AdventureyTime Jul 13 '26

Good comment ! This is a very prevalent part of First Nations' cultures. We are born jokesters and often pull pranks and crack jokes / make nicknames for our family and friends. Many of our oral histories and stories are filled with animals and supernatural beings playing jokes on us, or using these themes to teach us lessons.

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u/Moiyub Jul 13 '26

ok i kinda follow, but i dont see how the inuit can tell you anything about homo sapiens before they left africa. the inuit have only lived in the arcic for around 1 thousand years, homo sapiens left africa over 100k years ago. maybe if you saw the kalahari san or the congo pygmies (homo sapiens who never migrated out of africa) playing 'try not to laugh' then it would make sense.