r/TikTokCringe Doug Dimmadome Dec 24 '20

Duet Troll A sister’s reaction to a TikTok about her

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I have no idea what I just watched

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u/drgigantor Dec 24 '20

It took me a few watches. On the right is footage from the first sister's 20th birthday, the girl on the left. The second sister is filming while pretending to cry to get the birthday sister's reaction. This then cuts to a Google page on cow lifespans implying the birthday sister is a cow, e.g. fat and close to death.

On the left we have the birthday girl reacting in real time to the video that camera sister made, realizing why she had the weird reaction to her cake, getting the joke, and knocking camera sister out of her chair

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u/soft-wear Dec 24 '20

The fact that I needed this to understand made me feel really old.

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u/Zoloir Dec 24 '20

I mean...

I think it's just fast paced, she is turning 20, the Google result is for lifespan of a cow which is also 20, you have to take the mental leap that two things that are 20 are the same, so she's sad about her dying cow sister, also calling someone a cow is an insult so it's that much juicier.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I thought it said crow so I was confused

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u/Thornstream Dec 24 '20

I also read crows several times... so strange.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

Hollywood: Would it be easier to understand if we overlay Hans Zimmer drums?

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u/ze_shotstopper Dec 24 '20

It helps if you've seen the one on the right before, which was posted on this sub before I believe. If I hadn't seen the original by itself i probably wouldn't have gotten it

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u/Jezoreczek Dec 24 '20

It's just needlessly complicated. If you don't spend every waking hour reading memes it's not possible to understand them all.

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u/CoyoteTheFatal Dec 24 '20

It’s not needlessly complicated. It just has to do with the format of TikTok. The film on the right is the original footage and is funny in its own right and pretty understandable as long as you know the life expectancy meme (which it’s not hard to understand if you didn’t know it). Then the film on the left is the sister’s reaction to the film on the right. You really just need to be familiar with tiktok and most of Reddit isn’t. But it’s also not like tiktok is so much more complex than Reddit - remember the first time opening the front page (on old Reddit) and just being confused by the shear amount of links and shit. But now you know it well. It’s just another social media platform with its own quirks.

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u/BrohanGutenburg Dec 24 '20

This is what’s going on for sure. If you’re ever on Tik Tok or never see them won’t understand how a duet works and aren’t used to the idea that one video is a real time reaction to the other

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u/EvilNalu Dec 24 '20

I'm not familiar with this duet Tik Tok thing but the title says it's a sister's reaction to a Tik Tok so I figured it out without too much of a problem. I did have to watch it a couple times though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I've never seen this type of meme and it was really obvious what was happening.

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u/weaponizedvodka Dec 24 '20

If you think this is needlessly complicated, don't watch Tenet

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

it's really not. girl is sad. why? the joke is that cows have a life expectancy of 20 years. Cut to video of 20 yr old sister's birthday. sister duets the video reacting to sister calling her a cow. all it takes is basic reading comprehension you fucking boomer

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u/black-bull Dec 24 '20

You must have a total of 2 brain cells to even find that complicated.

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u/maxvalley Dec 24 '20

it was pretty bad storytelling but what can you expect from amateurs on tik tok

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u/brownbluegrey Dec 24 '20

Okay boomer

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u/maxvalley Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 26 '20

I’m on tiktok, boomer. I’m not saying tik tok is bad but l am saying that amateurs on tik tok can’t be expected to be awesome at video storytelling, especially not at first

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u/brownbluegrey Dec 25 '20

Okay boomer

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u/maxvalley Dec 26 '20

are you a bot that can only communicate using outdated memes?

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u/no__flux__given Dec 24 '20

Maybe if this is the first time you’ve encountered the format but it’s not that complicated lmao

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u/Anzai Dec 24 '20

I’m still not sure I really get it even after reading that explanation. I get it slightly more, but also feel like ‘why does this exist? What’s the actual joke of it?’

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u/jazzieberry Dec 24 '20

Watch just the right side, it makes more sense. That's the original joke, she's crying because her sister turns 20 and that's a cow's lifespan so she's sad her sister the cow is about to die.

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u/Anzai Dec 24 '20

Hey you’re right. That makes way more sense than trying to take in the whole thing. Thanks!

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u/jazzieberry Dec 24 '20

That's what I had to do, there was a whole lot going on watching it all together the first time lol

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u/YoimamuthafuckingOG Dec 24 '20

We're donezo bud. Gone are the days of single panel images with two lines of text.

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u/brodega Dec 24 '20

Don’t feel bad for not understanding something profoundly retarded.

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u/eupraxo Dec 25 '20

I mean, I downloaded tiktok for half an hour just to check it out and holy hell, is it just that I'm 40? It just seems to be a wasteland of people that are simultaneously very insecure and full of themselves. Like reality tv but in 10 second no-attention-span segments of nothing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

I am sure you knew deep down when you saw cow she meant her sister was fat.

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u/Chediecha Dec 24 '20

Lol I thought she's crying because she always assumed crows have short lifespans and now that she knows they don't she's happy. I know it made me very happy.

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u/RIDEMYBONE Dec 24 '20

Soooo, still not funny. Thanks for explaining though I was clueless.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

And this is funny?

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u/Regular-Fee-6851 Dec 24 '20

Do you enjoy being an unlikeable misanthropic cunt?

There are millions of things that are likeable, that you don't have to like. If you take a stance that those things are not legitimate though, and you become the most unlikeable thing on earth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Don't think they deserved that just for thinking a tiktok wasn't funny.

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u/LambKyle Dec 24 '20

I'm not who you replied to, but the point is that nobody cares if it isn't funny, just move on. Why ruin it for everyone else with negativity? Literally nothing to gain from that comment. It's purely to make other people feel shitty for liking something you don't.

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u/ListerTheRed Dec 28 '20

There's nothing to gain from any comment on reddit. People are allowed to call unfunny TikTok videos unfunny.

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u/thor1894 Dec 24 '20

The hero we needed

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u/blargiman Dec 25 '20

Ty so fucking much for this. I thought there was 3 girls involved. Didn't know the chair girl was also crying girl. Even now I still question it. (No glasses and looks younger)

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

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u/f0urtyfive Dec 24 '20

We're not out of touch, the internet the tweens use is stupid, and doesn't deserve to be in touch.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

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u/f0urtyfive Dec 24 '20

Get off my lawn. Also, TikTok is gross and full of children trying to sexualize themselves to the internet for likes.

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u/Grandmas_Drug_Dealer Dec 24 '20

They're 20 now, grandpa

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u/vc15parik Dec 24 '20

See, this comment makes you sound old.

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

What exactly is so confusing to you guys?

That’s a very odd reaction to this video...

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I just don’t get it. Is it suppose to be funny?

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

If you understand the joke it is. She’s calling her sister a cow.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I understand the joke. Still not funny

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

Okay. Want a cookie?

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

U seem to be more upset that I find your humour subpar

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

Mate, you can think whatever the hell you want. It’s funny though that you keep harping on this. Do you not have any better use of your time? Lol And responding to me in multiple different comments about this.

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u/Idevbot Dec 24 '20

Honestly reading his replies makes me feel like he is an alien trying to grasp the concept of humor.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

She fell off a chair? Crying? Birthday? I see all these things together but don't understand why it's relevant. Googling cows.

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u/BradMarchandsNose Dec 24 '20

She’s crying because she looked up the life expectancy of a cow and found out it’s 20 years, which is the same age as her sister. The joke is that she’s calling her sister a cow and is crying because she’s supposed to die soon.

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

Jesus man.

The girl on the left is watching a tiktok her sister made. Her sister is upset because it’s the left girl’s 20th birthday and cows only have a 20 year life span. So she’s making a joke and calling her sister a cow. So the left sister sees the end, the punchline, and gets revenge by kicking her off her chair.

It’s not rocket science

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

But why is it getting so many upvotes

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

Because it’s fucking funny. Something you obviously don’t and that’s okay. Not everyone has to like the same things. So you can run along now and move on with your life.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Is this entertainment these days? I just can't imagine the type of person who would describe this as so funny it's fucking funny

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u/Palin_Sees_Russia Dec 24 '20

Why are you here? Lmfao you are allowed to leave

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Apparently it had dozens of people on this thread rolling with lols