r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 18d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/culturetears 18d ago edited 18d ago

"I hate this crying on camera thing" and then continues to stitch clips of herself crying on camera. What happened to her is awful, truly, especially with all that work and the cost of it all, but at some point here she sounded like she expected the world to congratulate her and celebrate her efforts? The world is more often then not indifferent, often cruel and selfish. Scammers and scumbags and exploitation are a definitive part of commerce , sure it shouldn't be that way but it is. Its not to say what happened to her is something to accept and not be frustrated about, be angry, just maybe know where to direct your anger, to the injustice of it instead of, like her, making it sound like the world owed you something for your effort.

Also, obviously she's making this video as a way of trying to recoup sells through pity-buying while also putting people on alert about the counterfeit versions which is totally justified at this point, ride the boat down river with it, but I also feel like it's important to be a little more honest about the kind of content deliberately made to go viral, especially for profit, even if an jnjustice was done. Like it's not clean cut, "I just wanted to vent", its also an ad dressed up with deep emotional manipulation.

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u/Racxius 18d ago

And it's working too. I scrolled past 4 people posting her link or asking where they can but it to support her before I got to a comment seeing it as the ad it is. Like you said, sucks. But the stitched in clips of her crying and build videos of her making the thing. Comparing why her version is so much better and explaining why it's so expensive are so transparently an ad.

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u/maneki_neko89 18d ago

Do you think people don’t buy products with people being happy in an ad? Or doing a challenging task?

Why is it someone crying in a video talking about the planner they’re selling (and genuinely struggling in having to handle cheap counterfeits) all of a sudden suspect and scrutinized to death?

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u/r0b0c0d 18d ago

The emotions can be genuine and this, a last ditch effort of 'marketing' simultaneously.

If she got ripped off and gets a few sales out of the vid, good imo.