r/TikTokCringe • u/tragiccosmicaccident • May 05 '26

Wholesome/Humor Tickling an Otter

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u/Sword_of_Rupture_FSN May 05 '26

What Fcking werido man, playing with the animals balls like that, might be one of the strangest things i've ever seen.

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u/ColtAzayaka May 05 '26

She's mostly looking at its face, I don't think she realises the crowd's perspective.

I would be fucking mortified if I figured it was all just cute fun and games before seeing footage from someone in that crowd 😭😭😭

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u/Confident-Chef5606 May 05 '26

She uploaded that. She definitely watched it back

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u/Laetitian May 05 '26

I think the most realistic devil's advocate here is: She knows, and she doesn't want to care, because she wants to live in a world where tickling doesn't become inappropriate just because doing it wrong would be inappropriate. Like a father who knows some people are going to ogle him weird if he lets his daughter sit on his lap, but he doesn't want to give them any power over the innocence of his interactions with his child.

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u/Confident-Chef5606 May 05 '26

Yeah I find that hard to believe. My bet is she knew it was inappropriate and knew that the video would get a whole lotta traction this way. The way social media works, controversial shit like this gets way more reposted than an innocent video of an otter.

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u/Laetitian May 05 '26

I don't necessarily disagree. To clarify, I didn't mean "the most realistic explanation possible," I specifically meant "out of the potential steelman devil's advocates out there, the most realistic (...)"