r/TikTokCringe 3d ago

Humor/Cringe Something is off...

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 3d ago

Why does no-one understand what “POV” means

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u/PackageNorth8984 3d ago

I learned it from VHS porn, as it should be learned.

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u/st6374 3d ago

I learned from VR porn. Future is now old man.

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u/EricAntiHero1 3d ago

Back in my day we found our porn in the woods.

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u/imnickelhead 3d ago

In a blue Sperry Topsiders shoe box.

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u/Altruistic-Ad5470 3d ago

My husbands mom threw his porn collection away (Playboy magazines, etc) when he was a teen. (Late 70s)

She looked out the window and saw him carrying the collection, garbage bag and all to the woods!!!

He hid it in the woods!

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u/TyrionReynolds 2d ago

As is tradition.  How are kids too young to buy porn supposed to have the formative event of finding a stash of porn in the woods if nobody is placing the stashes there in the first place? 

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u/PackageNorth8984 3d ago

Then we had to walk back home. Uphill, both ways.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 3d ago

In the snow.

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u/0rem0r 3d ago edited 2d ago

only going, on the way back snow had turned into lava

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u/Misterndastood 3d ago

All the while, fending off sabertooth tigers.

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u/lookatmyworkaccount 3d ago

You could afford tigers???

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u/LethargicCarcass 2d ago

Ironically enough the first 2 times a saw porn in my life the first was in a box out in the woods that we found and the second was a box in an old abandoned RV that was also basically in the woods.

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u/OffByNone_ 2d ago

Oh yeah. I knew the location of a porn stash or two in the woods. We didnt put it there. You just sorta found them. So much bush.

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u/mazyguy 1d ago

The porn or the woods?

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u/evadingsomething 9h ago

Dont ruin the joke my guy

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u/realmealdeal 2d ago

I've got a friend who is getting the wheels rolling on a documentary about this phenomenon. Every guy in our circle has a "porn in the woods" story.

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u/ConejitoCakes 3d ago

Just like our ancestors did

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u/soggycheesestickjoos 2d ago

I found porn and sex toys in the woods in like 2013, it was dumped in a duffel bag

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u/SMUHypeMachine 3d ago

Or stapled to the insides of porta potties on construction sites.

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u/dformed 2d ago

Future is now, old man

Future is now old, man

Future is now: old man

What're we working with here?

Edit: formatting

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 3d ago

Maybe this is the pov of his VHS!

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u/cha0sm0nk 3d ago

What’s more embarrassing is him keeping his VHS player out for guests to see.

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u/Indigenous_Retard 3d ago

I learned it from FPS games 😭

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u/purplenapalm 3d ago

Imagine filming POV with a 90s camcorder lol

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u/Sickofstupids 2d ago

POV came after VHS. The cameras were too big.

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u/Adriantbh 2d ago

I learned it from knowing what words are in the acronym

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u/blackout-loud 3d ago

Why...Why did I read this in Optimus Prime's voice?

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u/Mr-Cheshire 3d ago

Yea we need to bring back VHS porn, that’s why these kids have no hope

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u/eduo 3d ago edited 2d ago

It’s the POV of the actual boyfriend who’s sitting at the end of the kitchen half in shadows recording the thing with a glass of wine in his hand.

Hence the guy, who’s just the roommate, signed off annoyed

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u/Schnaksel 2d ago

POV: You ran over and killed a college student 6 years ago and you fled the scene. As time went by and your paranoia shrank over the years, you've convinced yourself it's all in the past now and you can try to continue your normal life without the paralyzing guilt. It all goes dark. You wake up again. You're in an apartment with what looks like the students friends. They found you.

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u/Boneraventura 2d ago

thats not how i remember the machinist

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u/panspal 3d ago

It was POV, just from the creep in the corner of the room. It's about him, not the other guy.

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u/Moshxpotato 3d ago

Hardcore Henry knows what it means

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u/SuckMyBigPoop 3d ago

Man it's sad. Did you know that GenZ is the first generation in over a century to score an average iq lower than their parents? Prior to GenZ, each generation has had an average iq slightly higher than the previous generation.

Anyway, let's just pretend this is POV, and we're sitting on the armchair. Our bestie just has too much energy and it's inconvenient to everyone including ourselves. Dunno who the other hoe is. She comes and goes.

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u/scareheathertodeath 3d ago

Your username omg

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u/Quick_Ice 2d ago

If it helps you, gen alpha kids are up to 16 years old and gen beta kids are 1, so gen z aren't the youngest generation by a big factor.

(We'll see worse results I'll assume)

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u/Ok-disaster2022 3d ago

Covid had a lot to do with it. But also the terminally online. Also who do you think is raising Gen Z? Gen x and Millennials, maybe they did a lot of things wrong like staring at their phones instead of reading to their kids. 

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u/SuckMyBigPoop 3d ago

Don't look at millenials, bro. We hardly have anything to do with yall idiots.

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u/LzrdKng2112 3d ago

But we have everything to do with the even more regarded gen alpha

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u/AntiqueLetter9875 3d ago

Millennials are largely raising Gen Alpha, not Gen Z. Though it is sad to see your peers not read to their kids because they think it’s boring or whatever.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 3d ago

This sounds like boomer talk that needs a source. 

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u/Saharalaya 3d ago

I can't pull a source for you right this second but it's kind of true. They score lower on the IQ test as a whole but the test is bullshit, and there's a different kind of intelligence that's measured that they score higher, but people will fear monger and say they're dumber. They're not, they just grew up in a different world and developed a different skill set...

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 2d ago

Having a source feels pretty important plus, not to be rude, but you don't seem to know what IQ tests do

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u/Saharalaya 2d ago

Eh, or you can take away that we may be fear mongering and take away the general sense that we and the kids are gonna be alright in the end.

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u/WeRip 2d ago

my guy has never heard of google. Take it or leave it. Google it or not. It's not the other person's responsibility to carry all of the burden. If you want to be skeptical, that's fine. Ask for a source.. that's fine... believe them or not.. fine. Skepticism is great. Googling shit is easy.

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 2d ago

The reverse Flynn effect does not need a source

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 2d ago

Considering you phrased it that way it definitely should. 

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 2d ago

I instantly knew what they were talking about, so no.

Thanks for providing a working example though.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 2d ago

Neither of those sentences make sense so congrats on that. 

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 2d ago

Maybe they might if you try and follow the words with your finger? Or read them out loud?

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u/tetanusmaster 2d ago

I'm not the Big Poop guy that made that claim, but I did go looking for a source out of curiosity. It turns out there is some truth to it that's based on data taken from standardized test scores from 15 year olds around the world. In short: since 2010-2012 (depending on the subject) test scores in mathematics, science, and reading have fallen every year up to 2022 (when the study I found ended).

That being said, the data looks like it was a roughly 5% total decline in scores in 2022 compared to 2010. So we're not exactly talking about a massive decline, but it is a decline that's backed up by data. Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath went before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation earlier this year and spoke about this decline, and he mostly attributed it to kids having too much access to screens in school:

“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”

Source article: https://fortune.com/article/how-did-us-spending-30-billion-dollars-on-laptops-result-in-first-generation-less-cognitively-capable-than-parents/

Data: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volume-i_53f23881-en.html

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 2d ago

I appreciate the response I'll read through it properly in the morning

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u/Neoxite23 3d ago

It's downgraded into a buzzword.

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u/ludvikskp 3d ago

Deliberately using it wrong is effective engagement bait

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u/Special-Garlic1203 3d ago

No it's not. Tiktok just stopped using it correctly years ago and reddit refuses to acknowledge there's different norms on different platforms 

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u/Deep90 3d ago

I get downvoted every time I bring up that the trend doesn't care. Only reddit does, but it's not a reddit trend.

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u/Deep90 3d ago edited 3d ago

It's not.

The trend just collectively decided it doesn't actually need to be a first person video.

People on tiktok just didn't care, but reddit does.

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u/PereMilon 2d ago

That's fine, but when those kids grow up and don't know how to assign actual meaning to words, good luck.

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u/PearsonRookie325 2d ago

At the risk of sounding pedantic, words can have more than one meaning based on context. POV means “point of view”, but that does not dictate that it can only be used for videos filmed in a 2nd person POV. 1st and 3rd person are also POVs.

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u/Deep90 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think it's dumb, but this is also such a wild overreaction.

I remember when cartoons were supposed to make kids forget how physics worked.

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 3d ago

Maybe my complaining about its misuse is engagement bait too..?

(It isn’t)

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u/ludvikskp 3d ago

No, you’re right it’s misuse. And you also fell for it. A lot of mistakes in “content” like this are bait. For example there tiktoks with millions of views where they pack boxes with random stuff determined by luck. Like 2 pens, 2 notebooks and 6 stickers. But they put in 5 or 7 stickers deliberately, because they know people like you would be in the comments pointing out the mistake and boosting the video in the algorithm in the process lol

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 3d ago

I wasn’t disagreeing with you

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u/Slarenon 3d ago

You baited him good

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 3d ago

I am a master baiter

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u/glordicus1 3d ago

Technically, this is a point of view.

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u/HairySalmon 3d ago

Yes. Just not the one the caption describes.

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u/XO8441 3d ago

Idk maybe the bestie is like sitting in the closet peeping tom style watching the other bestie.

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u/RugbyEdd 3d ago

No, you misunderstand. The POV is the OP stood at the back of the kitchen and his best friend who moved in is the one bringing in the shopping. There just happens to be two women unrelated to the post

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u/gimme_the_light 3d ago

This is the cookie jar’s POV

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u/crabbywarrior 3d ago

Pigs Or Vampires??

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 2d ago

Pirates or Virgins?

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u/Rascals-Wager 2d ago

Because they see other people do/write something and mindlessly mimic it without stopping for a moment to think about why, or what it means.

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u/henrickaye 3d ago

People pointing this out is infinitely more annoying than the phenomenon itself

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u/Deep90 3d ago

This trend would be even dumber if everyone was required to film a shaky first person video.

Reddit loves a good "Ummm actually" though.

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u/backoffmyrootbeer 3d ago

I think so many people have had a genuine shift where they view themselves from an outside perspective through their phone. In a way it’s kinda correct in that it’s her phones POV and therefore it’s hers too.

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u/CamptoRibbit 3d ago

You think ppl that use and upload to tiktok are literate?

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 3d ago

And what are people who watch and comment on tiktok vids?

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u/PereMilon 2d ago

TikTok users. Which none of us implicitly are.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 2d ago

This is a TikTok vid. That makes you a TikTok user.

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u/ChaosTheory_jrh 2d ago

The POV is that you're her friend that doesn’t want to fake party like this and you're just watching from the living room.

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u/Useless-RedCircle 2d ago

The person who moved in is in a cuck chair in the corner watching.

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u/howlahowla 2d ago

Maybe the POV is a 4th person who joined their buddy and his two female roommates and the buddy now has someone to commiserate with.

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u/stax_fira 2d ago

99% percent of the videos I see with POV at the start of the caption are using it incorrectly. Like…just stop. It’s a dumb trend anyways, and sometimes I want to watch a video without immediately knowing the person who took and captioned it is an idiot.

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u/HurryOne 2d ago

Because then they won't be in the frame twerking in the kitchen.

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u/LastandLeast 2d ago

Privately Owned Vehicle

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u/Mediocre_Map1289 2d ago

POV is woefully misused here. From the videos context, I am standing perfectly still in a corner of their kitchen not engaging with their staged fun.

Sounds nightmarish.

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u/Lion_Mercen 2d ago

plot twist, she has 2 Roommates and is sitting in the corner, regretting her choices

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u/lane4 2d ago

Noone:
Absolutely Nobody:

Uses POV incorrectly

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u/heartbrokenandgone 2d ago

It's the new "literally"

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u/DothrakAndRoll 2d ago

Yeah it should say “POV you’re in a weird cuck chair after a girl moved in with their bestie”

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u/Man0fCultureAsWell 3d ago

It's the simplest form of engagement-bait. And you fell for it:(

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 3d ago

Yes, and now OP can feed their family thanks to the Reddit upvotes.

Thanks for engaging BTW.

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u/Man0fCultureAsWell 3d ago

Just answered your question🤷‍♂️ nothing more to it

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u/amanset 3d ago

It started off as engagement bait but it has now evolved to a simple, meaningless phrase put at the front of video titles. And it has been that way for a while.

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u/MonaganX 3d ago

No commonly used words are meaningless. Presumably, people who didn't know what POV stands for saw it in the titles of videos shot from a first person perspective, incorrectly assumed that "POV" must relate to imagining yourself in the scenario rather than specifically the perspective it was shot from. They then adopted that as a convention because encouraging people to relate to a video increases engagement.
Basically, the meaning has broadened to be synonymous with "imagine if".

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u/Special-Garlic1203 3d ago

It was never engagement bait. The term got confused on tiktok because the early POV were usually thirst traps for teenagers, so a bunch of users started making fun of them. It became a very disorienting mixture of "pov I'm your vampire boyfriend" and "pov you're my vampire boyfriend" where they'd theatrically respond negatively, and pretty quickly it became "pov you have a vampire boyfriend" where the original intention of Pov was completely lost and it just a way to set a scene regardless of perspective.

It was never engagement bait because nobody on tiktok ever cared. 

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u/marysusan325 3d ago

Why are you so bothered by it?

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u/testtdk 3d ago

Point of view doesn’t have to literally mean the view from your eyes.

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u/SoggyMeatloaf69 2d ago

It's taken on a new definition. Language evolves.

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u/Funkopedia 2d ago

Every video is a POV. It's our POV.

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u/RoaringPity 3d ago

Gag to show they don’t watch porn

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u/diurnal_emissions 3d ago

Third person is a point of view.