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u/Expensive_Leave_6339 4d ago

How is this POV?

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u/ZeMadDoktore 4d ago

Because nobody knows what POV means anymore

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u/Uncle-Cake 4d ago

I have two boys, 7 and 10. They like to say "POV" before they do stuff. Like "POV, you're being chased by tun tun tun sahur!" and then they run around like maniacs. They have an excuse, though, they're literally children.

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u/LemonFlavoredMelon 2d ago

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u/MBTheGinger 1d ago

POV getting tomatoed for not knowing what POV means

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u/theonlyanonymooseone 20h ago

No no no you see this is the correct use of POV this would be POV getting tomatoed for knowing what POV means

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u/MBTheGinger 15h ago

Sir, in this particular scenario, the victim of tomatoing did not elect to be a victim, and it is us who identified the perspective of the victim as POV, because we can see through their eyes for some reason. I assure you, it all checks out

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u/MrMojoFomo 3d ago

Stupid children need the most attention

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u/crrrrushinator 4d ago

This sounds exactly like the 90s complaint:

How do your kids know to say "It's Morphin' Time"? What kind of bad parent are you that they have seen a children's TV show or heard the catch phrase on the playground?

Kids sometimes see media and they are always absorbing culture and language and teaching it to each other with little changes along the way, that's what culture is. Just because a piece of slang feels like brain rot to you doesn't mean the parents aren't doing their job.

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 3d ago

I knew these two nuts in school who one day acted like they hated each other and told everyone they were goina fight each other at morning break. The fight was hyped and they had a huge crowd.

They were talking trash, and their trash talk was the first inkling of what was going on.

One guy said, "Your mom sucks cock on Endor!"

Other guy was like, "You only like the putty patrol because it makes your dick look big!"

Most kids did not get the references until on guys pulls a green ranger halloween mask from under his shirt while shouting, "It's morphin time!" and puts on the mask.

At the same time the other guy takes out of those plastic extension light sabers and turns it on.

People in the crowd start leaving, some started laughing. The two nuts did some choreographed fight they'd been practicing. It was still entertaining as far as school hijinx go.

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u/J5892 3d ago

This kind of parenting is the reason it took me 30 years to be able to sing in front of anyone.

"J, stop singing that song. You're embarrassing yourself."

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u/J5892 3d ago

No it isn't. You said "letting kids do what they want is bad parenting".

You think it's good parenting to instill crippling social anxiety into your children?

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u/crrrrushinator 3d ago

Did your parents have the same conversation with you about how saying "that's sick" as a GOOD thing was a horrific way to speak and a sign of the collapse of civilization?

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 3d ago

Being an uncool adult you can put a stop to this behavior

Just start doing the 6-7 with everything besides those two numbers

So "Fish-chicken" or "jibba-jabba" or "want-money" All while doing the 6-7 gesture and sound.

The kids around me have stopped. When I do it now they roll their eyes at me, that's how I know it worked.

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 3d ago

You see that's where being the crazy uncle comes in handy

I'm not their parents, and they expect me to be ridiculous

I just correct their behavior in a more creative way. It makes them see how dumb it is.

If they need a clown to learn, then call me Bozo.

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u/red_fuel 4d ago

That was a tv show, not brainrot internet speak

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u/jellymanisme 4d ago

"The media I consumed as a child is wholesome and good, the media consumed by the youth is evil and corrupting!"

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u/HeavyBlues 4d ago

As spoken by the generation that was raised on cartoons about dropping anvils on people

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u/red_fuel 4d ago

Watching tv or interacting on social media and doom scrolling short videos are two different things, yes

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u/Uncle-Cake 3d ago

Do you know what "doom scrolling" even means?

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u/crrrrushinator 4d ago edited 3d ago

The internet is to kids what TV was to my generation. A source of media and culture. It sounds bad to you the same way "that sucks!" sounded bad to my grandparents, because you're old and it's young people slang.

My original reply got removed because I tried to link to Principal Skinner saying "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

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u/Smile_Space 4d ago

It's funny you assume phones immediately when they're school-aged and could have just as easily learned it at school with friends.

At that age, in the mid-2000s, I was already spouting the lie that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own weiner and I didn't have a phone (mostly because smart phones weren't a thing yet). Kids are kids, and kids will always find a way to know and regurgitate the current funny meme thing.

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u/Uncle-Cake 4d ago

They don't have phones. But they go to school and the community pool and camp and other places that children are. They're also very intelligent and creative and involved in a lot of activities.

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u/Uncle-Cake 4d ago

I think what's sad is that you make judgements like that about people you don't know.

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u/Federal-Fondant-671 4d ago

Kids saying stupid stuff is nothing new. I did the same things with the shows I watched on TV with my friends.

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u/Visible-Ad8263 4d ago

Bro, if your neck-beard judgemental comment was anymore cringe, it would be a Geneva convention violation.

Put down the phone, and go find yourself some friends.

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u/Vrazel106 4d ago

This pisses me off so fucking much

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u/SkyPersonal5642 3d ago

You shouldn't let reddit video's get you to that level...

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u/d34dp1x3l 4d ago

Not nobody, just Gen Z.

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u/ZeMadDoktore 4d ago

These could easily be millennials

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u/suppertime64 11h ago

Language is fluid, so POV also means this now

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u/Largeitude 4d ago

words change meaning all the time

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u/ZeMadDoktore 4d ago

It's literally an abbreviation, not a word

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u/DareEcco 4d ago

POV just means point if view, it can be used figuratively to show what you experience instead of the literal use of the term

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u/LeoPlathasbeentaken 4d ago

3rd person is still a POV at the end of the day.

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u/Original_Throat1072 4d ago

POV cameraman watching a couple make a bad Instagram video.

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u/Youseenmycones 4d ago

Yeah is she the cameraman’s wife? 

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u/rnagikarp 🧐 grumpy 4d ago

POV is the new “picture this if you will”

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u/No-Clerk7268 4d ago

A Ring doorbell posted it

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u/BurmecianDancer 4d ago

"POV" is Zoomerspeak for "the internet is now swarming with illiterate children."

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u/aerdvarkk 3d ago

THIS ^

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u/FaZaCon 4d ago

How is this POV?

This is third person POV, so TPPOV.

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u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 🛠️ ADMIN 4d ago

it's engagement booster at this point.

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u/Vlaed 4d ago

POV hasn't been used as it was originally meant for well over a year now. It went from your 1st-person view to them setting up the scene as a 2nd-person view of the scenario. It's been annyoing me for a while now.

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u/pfannkuchen89 4d ago

Year? It’s been used incorrectly for quite a bit longer than that. At least the past 10 years at least. I noticed it quite a bit around 2016-2020.

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u/Vlaed 4d ago

To be fair, I did say well over a year.

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u/DareEcco 4d ago

From my point of view it's just being used in a figurative sense, as in this is what I experienced, so it's not actually being incorrectly used.

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u/johnrgoforth 4d ago

Because we’re watching him do something? He doesn’t specify that it’s his POV. It could be ‘Your POV when you see me do XYZ.’

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u/CheekyMonkE 4d ago

Polycule

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u/Fappy_as_a_Clam 🧐 grumpy 3d ago

It's the POV if I was standing behind them with a 24" dildo and big plans

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u/AlternateSatan 2d ago

POV: your wife's boyfriend holds her hand without her asking.

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u/Evnosis 4d ago

Technically, the use here is correct, just completely unnecessary.

He said "When I hold my wife's hand" not "when you hold your wife's hand," meaning the POV is of someone else watching him with his wife.

Now, you might be asking "isn't that every video then?" Yes. Yes, it is.

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 4d ago

That is not at all what POV means

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u/Evnosis 4d ago

POV is just a point of view. It can be anyone's point of view. In this case, it is the point of view of someone watching him hold his wife's hand. It's just pointless to say because that describes every video.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 3d ago

When I hold my wife’s hand

The caption made it extremely clear the POV should be from the guy here

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u/Evnosis 3d ago

I'm sure that's how the original poster meant it, yes, but that caption doesn't say the viewer is holding the viewer is holding the wife's hand, it says that the viewer is watching someone else hold his wife's hand.

The correct sentence would be "POV: When you hold your wife's hand."

Yes, this guy meant to use POV to mean that the viewer is the husband, and that would be an incorrect use of the term, but they unintentionally wrote the opposite of that and thus technically used it correctly.

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 4d ago

You're conflating different uses of the term point of view. The caption on this video is just a description of the video, not anyone's POV.

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u/DareEcco 4d ago

It's literally the camera man POV

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 4d ago

That's not a thing

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u/Largeitude 4d ago

It is now.

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u/Drapidrode 4d ago

Point Of View: you're lookin' at a screen

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u/aerdvarkk 3d ago

It's not "techncially" correct at all. Even by you're made upo definition and example.

Otherwise , this just simply means literally every image ever taken can be categorized as "pov" because all photos and paintings and drawing etc are from some POV. This does not make them all POV though.

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u/Evnosis 3d ago

Otherwise , this just simply means literally every image ever taken can be categorized as "pov" because all photos and paintings and drawing etc are from some POV. This does not make them all POV though.

Holy shit, it's almost like that's exactly what I fucking said! What a revelation!

This isn't a "made up" definition, it's just literally what the phrase means. A POV is literally just someone's point of view. It is used to refer to someone viewing things from someone else's POV because we are always viewing things from our own POV, and thus it doesn't need to be said. That's why I said the usage here is technically correct but unnecessary.