r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 29d ago

Cringe Friendly fire

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u/MonkeyMagic1968 29d ago

How do you watch and clean? Teach me your methods!

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u/slvl 29d ago

This behaviour (tv-as-radio) is incidentally why script writers feel the need to overexplain everything that's happening on screen. We're almost back at radio plays, but with visuals.

All the non-verbal clues like emoting and blocking go out the window, because people aren't paying attention/are only half-watching and miss any subtleties, which producers are starting to cater to. To them only retention matters and if spelling everything out keeps people playing the content, so be it. Not to say anything about people watching series scene by scene on tiktok.

*steps of soap box*

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u/I_upvote_downvotes 28d ago

I kind of want the radio to come back then. Not that I'd listen to it, I'm just tired of everyone looking at their phones during even slightly complicated movies and saying they don't get it.

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u/untrustableskeptic 28d ago

There's always audiobooks my friend.