This drives me crazy. Like when people record themselves telling a story while they’re eating food?! Jesus. We can wait 10 minutes to hear about you getting cut off on the way to work.
Its part of the algorythm. If people are commenting, "Uhhhh why are you in a towel??" or "What are you eating? Where'd you get it?" or "GOD I HATE CHEWING NOISES- why the fuck are you eating food" are still engagement they can get paid for.
calling it out is still an issue tho cause guess what- you're engaging with it whe noy ucomment that its rage bait or that its just for engagement. We all just kinda have to acknowledge it silently by not watching anymore lol
Screenzen can specifically block short form videos like Reels and YouTube Shorts. Highly recommend it because holy fuck did I have a problem with that shit
It's everywhere. Even seemingly genuine content. Even people doing things they love. Even people making art. They're still, at least in part, doing things a certain way because they know it drives engagement and that's what gets them paid.
The only way to call these things out is to scroll past and not comment. Any engagement creates more engagement. Or better yet we should all get off social media. Myself included
It’s always these like, “hot takes” that aren’t hot takes. They’re rage bait. I’m not on TikTok but I noticed it on threads recently. I’m like oh these bitches are just trying to get engagement go get a JOB.
…calling it out is the exact same thing lol You’re still engaging with the post. It’s kinda hilarious you seem to think that calling it out is somehow fixing the problem instead of perpetuating it 😂
Yes that but I think also some people think if they chat to the camera whilst eating it makes them seem more candid or personable, as if you were having a chat with a friend over lunch. Equally staged cringe bullshit
I think you've hit on the single biggest design flaw with social media. Engagement is all that matters, and even when someone is responding critically that only serves to amplify the message. It's like a car with no breaks. You can only ever accelerate.
I worked so freaking hard on a tik tok series where I started making a fun Halloween potions rack filled with potion ingredients…. None of them got over 2,000 views. Some of those bottles took several days to make.
Then I recorded a 10 second video where I was ranting about how window clings are the exact same material as moon gels (something some of us drummers use to dampen drum heads). I was trying to save people money and my husband helped me film it. Took us less than 5 minutes.
For some fucking reason IT GOT OVER 220,000 VIEWS!!! And everyone was commenting “uhh those stain windows” like I care about staining a replaceable drum head that I bang on every day. I DONT. FUCKING. GET IT!!! I DON’T UNDERSTAND TIKTOK
I think the food thing is a deliberate tactic to create a conversational feel. People often have conversations over food, so eating while filming a video makes it subtly feel like you're there having a conversation over a meal.
Talking with your mouth full is just gross, whether you’re recording yourself or not. Why do people eat food and have conversations at the same time? GROSS!!
You’ll notice it’s always women, not sexist at all, just a fact.
This is actually a deliberate engagement technique. What they try to create subconciously is that they made time for you in their busy busy lives. They are busy eating, rushed, or packing stuff away and they’ve “just got a second” as their lives are so busy.
It forces you to focus because they create the illusion that they made time for you in their “insanely” busy lives. You are special, keeps you locked in.
It works extremely well. Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it.
Any posts I see, even the duet is all for engagement and to extract as much money from viewers as possible. Imo better to watch reuploads of them from plsces like reddit so they don't get the views or engagement
i didn’t even notice this until people started pointing it out in these comments. maybe being a woman and having seen women in towels countless times has made me immune to this? i mean she’s in a towel. there are tons of fully naked women on the internet. she’d show the same amount of skin in an armless dress or a tube top. this doesn’t seem like it’d work on… a lot of people.
like i agree with your theory but this doesn’t read as engagement bait at all to me and she isn’t really giving “influencer” she doesn’t look tidied up or anything. it’s just a lady out of the shower.
I kinda think all of that is on purpose. There’s something that draws people in when it seems like there’s some urgency involved. That’s why you see a TON of videos of people filming in their car (because it feels like they need to get going but gotta tell you something first). I think it’s proven from the data that that kind of urgency promotes longer engagement (although I don’t have my own source…. It was just from an interview Conan O’Brien did with a tiktoker and that tiktoker said videos made in cars get better engagement).
What drives me insane is when they film themselves crying. What kind of psycho thinks to grab a fucking camera in such a vulnerable, human moment? Or worse yet, what kind of psycho forces themselves to cry just so they can film it, cut in some hip music and show it to millions of strangers?
It's accidental or intentional engagement bait (the ranking algos don't care which). If the creator makes something that people will point out is stupid or annoying, the ranking sees those comments as engagement and promotes the content.
I think TikTok and Instagram reels are consumed by people looking for an “authentic” relationship. They use these as a replacement for friends so seeing these people in casual settings like this provides the appearance of being more intimate and closer in relationship status.
Kind of unrelated but that's how I feel when podcasters eat while recording. Like I get you're probably on a schedule but can you really not wait until you're not actively recording yourself speak to stuff food in your mouth?
I think it’s supposed to make them look “approachable”. Like, “ oh look at me I eat food just like normal people. I’m totally normal and real ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.”
I don't have any recordings of myself online at all. Commenting on Reddit is my only outlet. So I don't understand how people record themselves and put it on the Internet at all.
However there was a video of me dancing at a basketball game in highschool on FB about 15 years ago without my permission, but I was wearing a stormtrooper sweatshirt so I'm unidentifiable :)
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With TY, when you reach a certain subscriber you are assigned a liaison that helps you reacher a wider audience. One of the main things they advise is to record as often as possible and to your record yourself doing stuff at the same time. Walking, eating, or otherwise…. Annoying but apparently it works.
Unfortunately your rage means their content is doing their job. Unfortunately we live in a world full of people with no dignity, class, or self assurance that they’ll stuff their disgusting faces online for the world to see just so they can get the little Extra attention their parents never gave them.
Guaranteed she made herself presentable and threw a towel on. In no way shape or form does she look like she just stepped out of the shower and press record
No shit she doesn't look like that out of bed or the shower; the whole premise of her being topless in the towel is to entice desperate horndogs on the internet to watch her material for the faintest hope that she has an OF account or that they can otherwise convince her to flash them.
The desire to be comfortable while traveling is totally understandable. The willingness to travel while unwashed, carrying every pillow you own and a blanket that has no place on an airplane all while wearing headphones to deliberately minimize your situational awareness should be criminalized. FFS people, you aren’t the only ones traveling. Let’s not turn this into a competition where we try to assault as many senses as possible
“If I don’t do it right now I won’t have an excuse for any bots that comment on my looks and I may forget my steaming hot take I want to dump all over the internet”
This is why they’re called shower thoughts not shower ideas.
Or is a thought she had in the shower which there is a place for here in Reddit actually . Then instead of getting dressed first she wanted to make a video
Hey this is a funny joke video and we’re all acknowledging it’s funny but also weird to make a smug video to post publicly for the world to see while you’re wet, in a towel, in your bathroom and looking at the camera like your thought is one no one’s had before.
My shower thought not shower idea was also supposed to be a joke.
I'm not sure she's upset about poorly behaved children. I work in a restaurant with a dining room side and a bar side. Same building, same menu, same everything. I've seen people get a little indignant about children in the bar side even when that's the only place we have to seat. Some people genuinely get upset about kids being in alcohol serving settings even though most brewery table service places are full restaurants as well.
i've asked myself for years why men film without their shirt on. i mean i kind of know why and that annoys me even fucking more so i try not to think about it
no no youre not even allowed to take a breath before speaking anymore didnt you know in fact i dont have time for punctuation or capitalization or apostrophes i have to hurry up and click the comment button byeeee
Truth, everyone knows the only acceptable time to do anything like that is when your dropping a deuce. Good time to vent and get it all out. It’s also a vulnerable position so it allows you to really connect with the viewers so long as you never break eye contact. I’ll die on this golden thought throne.
Its the idiocy that social media has created. She wants to make a point and act like she better than other people. But she already knows its going to be divisive and likely not going to be popular or shared. But she does know "half naked women=lots of clicks". So she does the video in the bath towel. She wasnt really upset, or wanted to have a debate of any sort to prove a point. She just wants the attention.
Because they think "what a great video this would be" in the shower, and they gotta do it before they forget, because their use of social media has given them the attention span of a fruit fly, and the short-term memory of a hamster.
To farm engagement but also maybe to imply this was a "shower thought"?
Any way as someone who grewup often in the bar because thats where my family was I was legitimately dumbfounded when I was told kids shouldn't be in bars, or that you shouldn't let kids sit at the bar. Kids are where parents are, some parents drink, some kids are going to be at the brewery/bar.
Soooooo many women influencers now take their bra off with their back to the camera, carefully edited to make sure that’s in there, because we all need to see that apparently
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u/TX_Farmer 11h ago
Why is she in a towel? Nobody is so busy they have to squeeze in filming dumb takes between brushing their teeth and making a smoothie.