#i fucking hate tiktok. dude

[smodypers]

don't look at me, this was meant to be a silly personal joke on for a silly little fb group

someone re-uploaded this without my consent on tiktok (AND WIHTOUT CREDITS), now y'all have it on all of MY accounts, it's not like if i wanted too.

Based on the original @artofzue's video

I don't have a TikTok. and im a guy btw

[royaltea000]

- Sanzang <3

[thanes-krios]

What it is about kind male video game companions that male gamers absolutely HATE?

I've seen it happen with Dragon Age's Alistair, Mass Effect's Kaidan, and even lowkey KOTOR's Carth Onasi (emphasis on kind, not necessarily nice, cause dude had a bit of an attitude in the beginnning). Now I'm seeing it with Gale of Waterdeep from Baldur's Gate 3.

Men hate him! Admittedly, many women seem to also hate Gale (Though from what I'm observing, it seems to be because his romance is bugged in a way that doesn't recognize when you've rejected him, so to many it comes off as not taking no for an answer -- but that's the fault of the game, not the character). The other reason I'm seeing from women is that he supposedly doesn't respect boundaries, citing his relationship with Mystra, but... were yall listening to him at all?

1. This goddess took interest in him as a *child* prodigy, became his mentor, and then his lover??? That's sus as hell.

2. It's not like he and Mystra had personal boundaries set specifically for their relationship, and he decided to cross them, it was that Mystra has general magical limitations for magic users in general, and Gale thought he would be an exception because she treated him as special, and because his reasons for pushing his magical limitations were to restore a part of her she'd lost. I've also seen people say he downplays that as a simple mistake made in his youth, but from the actual conversation with him, it's very clear he regrets that so?? I don't get it. (maybe I'm misremembering or missing more of the story, I'm only at the beginning of Act 2)

But this post is a reaction-rant to seeing too many male creators on tiktok hate on Gale so badly it's becoming obnoxious. And their reasons are so weak, yet fuel hatred so strong. They just find him so annoying, and I guess to each their own, but I don't get why, and I don't get why men always seem to find those kinds of emotionally available, kind for the sake of being kind, male characters annoying.

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

[batcows]

u.s. congress: we're gonna have a hearing with all the major tech CEOs on child safety. save the children, guaranteed campaign home run, whoo!

some republican senator: im gonna break the world record for saying "chinese communist party" as many times as I can in under five minutes

[madwickedawesome]

every day i log onto tumblr and pray i have a hater

[dungeonbf]

oh my god. i'm going insane i'm clawing at the walls. situationship so bad i started making music

[satvrn046]

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[fadewalking]

It's like normal and fine to have body type preferences for the people u date and are intimate with, but if you're applying that standard to platonic friendships, you're a freak

[birthdaysongs]

imagine paying actual dollars of your own money to blaze not even a video from tiktok but just a straight up fucking hyperlink that you’re expected to click on

[mzcain27]

The worst genre of like podcasts and YouTube channels and whatever is where they’re like “welcome to our podcast about *thing* we LOVE *thing* it’s our favourite thing to talk about we love it sooooo much and we can’t wait to discuss it with you guys” and then they just talk about how much they hate everything about it all the fucking time

[ppulverse]

how can some people be so heartless lol

[special-agent-spooky-mulder]

i need everybody to stop fucking sending me tiktoks or i'm going to cannibalize myself

[reserwrekt]

It took less than two days for tiktok to give me depression

[thepisserrrrrr]

i hate very little things more than i hate those 'fake disorder cringe' videos that keep popping up on my feed. literally a good fucking majority of the people in those tiktoks have no reason for people to believe theyre faking it. most of the time theyre just talking about their experiences with a disorder, people with DID and tourettes get it the worst usually, and theyre told theyre faking it. a disabled person will do ANYTHING related to their disorder and theyll be put in one of those videos

"but its so rare so they have to be faking it!!" dude what do you think rare means. rare means very uncommon, not that its a myth and no one on this planet actually has it

"people with xyz disorder dont talk about it so they have to be faking it!!" this might be shocking to you but not everyone with xyz disorder is the same

"thats not how it works!!" womp womp read the previous paragraph i wrote

you have no fucking idea whats in someone else's head or body so how dare you dictate it for them. i dont give a shit if you have the disorder yourself, i would hope you'd understand that not everyone's experience is the same. i dont give a shit if it actually seems like it might be fake, cause that doesnt mean you get to harass them. im not gonna fakeclaim someone for saying they have ADHD just because their experience isnt a carbon copy of my own

so moral of the story those 'fake disorder cringe' videos are extremely ableist and also just incredibly stupid and i hope anyone who watches them is ashamed of themselves

[ro-is-here]

Very very silly. Just thought about how old most of my friends are and realized I'm a little fucked up.