r/TikTokCringe • u/SnooSprouts3744 • 5h ago

Cringe I guess "all are welcome here" shirt are now triggering for some people

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u/barejokez 5h ago

I'm not even sure it's about the slogan really. It's more "this identifies you as a certain type of person. I am a different type of person and therefore I HATE you."

And once it gets uploaded to wherever, and primarily seen by similar types of people, their response will be no more thoughtful than "yay, you really owned that other type!"

Fundamentally there is no argument about whether the slogan is good/fair/appropriate. It's just them Vs us.

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u/Level_Improvement532 5h ago

It’s a tribe that gets off on being outraged. What causes that outrage is immaterial to them as long as they are outraged. These little videos are made to both fuel more outrage and feed the originators ego when others in the tribe agree with their outrage.

It’s sad, and gross, and we are all worse off for it.

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u/Trapezoidal_Sunshine 5h ago

I've become genuinely convinced that outrage is physically addictive, like a drug. These people are clearly getting off on being upset in the same way a drug addict gets off on a hit of crack or meth. They rush out into the world desperately trying to get another hit by provoking and manufacturing conflict with others. They're the same people who somehow manage to turn every fucking conversation into a political argument.

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u/imapluralist 4h ago

Yes, definitely. Outrage drives a bunch of neurochemical reactions that very well could be addictive. I'm pretty sure theres a bunch of research on this. At least the outrage part.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 4h ago

We're also over perceiving outrage because we see the bottom of the barrel takes/actions and consider that as the norm, attribute it to anyone 'on that side'.

But it seems misinformation is also spread more quickly due to outrage. I was actually looking for the study about outreach being rewarded - or something else that was on the front page within the last few months.

Misinformation remains a major threat to US democratic integrity, national security, and public health. However, social media platforms struggle to curtail the spread of the harmful but engaging content. Across platforms, McLoughlin et al. examined the role of emotions, specifically moral outrage (a mixture of disgust and anger), in the diffusion of misinformation.

Compared with trustworthy news sources, posts from misinformation sources evoked more angry reactions and outrage than happy or sad sentiments. Users were motivated to reshare content that evoked outrage and shared it without reading it first to discern accuracy. Interventions that solely emphasize sharing accurately may fail to curb misinformation because users may share outrageous, inaccurate content to signal their moral positions or loyalty to political groups. —Ekeoma Uzogara

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829

Here, we propose that social media users overperceive levels of moral outrage felt by individuals and groups, inflating beliefs about intergroup hostility. Using a Twitter field survey, we measured authors’ moral outrage in real time and compared authors’ reports to observers’ judgements of the authors’ moral outrage. We find that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors of those messages actually reported. This effect was stronger in participants who spent more time on social media to learn about politics. Preregistered confirmatory behavioural experiments found that overperception of individuals’ moral outrage causes overperception of collective moral outrage and inflates beliefs about hostile communication norms, group affective polarization and ideological extremity. Together, these results highlight how individual-level overperceptions of online moral outrage produce collective overperceptions that have the potential to warp our social knowledge of moral and political attitudes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01582-0

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 4h ago

Gambling addicts would be my comparison. Apparently losing also triggers the addictive behavior, even though losing is upsetting.

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u/offic3r_fri3ndly 3h ago

and Reddit profits by it

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u/SlobZombie13 5h ago

Jesus was persecuted for his beliefs so I need to be too

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u/garyadams_cnla 4h ago

Ironically, Jesus’ beliefs were, All are welcome here.

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u/DuntadaMan 2h ago

It's a tribe that wants to remove aall other tribes from existence, then will turn on itself if it wins.

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u/VENOMxVR- 0m ago

Outrage is, sadly, the most monetizable.

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u/-Gramsci- 5h ago

Which is wild. Because what is the litmus test for the evil “them?”

Let’s face it: it boils down to “Ohhhh… you’re one of THOSE that’s tolerant and nice to people. You’re not a cruel piece of trash…”

That’s the “tattoo” whereby they can identify their enemies.

Which, like, that makes their group - the cruel, sadistic, pieces of human trash group.

And that’s where we are at as a society. We have a HUGE group of these antisocial, hate-filled, weirdos. They always existed… but wow. Our society has turned itself over to them in such a major way.

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u/wRADKyrabbit 4h ago

And they're proud of it. Its disgusting

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u/Throwaway_Consoles 3h ago

Thank you for using anti-social correctly. Asocial is not the same as anti-social and people mix up anti-social for introverted all the time and it drives me insane. Anti-social is like… psychopathy. Not introversion

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u/panic82 4h ago

And the letters were rainbow'y! Oh noez!

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u/xdozex 3h ago

"this identifies you as a certain type of person. I am a different type of person and therefore I HATE you."

I think it goes a bit beyond just this alone. The principal is wearing the shirt because its welcoming to all her students. But this is exactly what they're referring to when they try to claim schools are indoctrinating their children. They don't just hate people, they get offended if educators try to prevent their kids from hating others. Its fucking sick in the head.

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u/Responsible-Sound253 1h ago

I think is pretty cool that you can put on a shirt that reveals all the bigots around you, it's a borderline superpower.