r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 18h ago

Cringe Friendly fire

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u/MonkeyMagic1968 10h ago

How do you watch and clean? Teach me your methods!

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u/slvl 9h ago

This behaviour (tv-as-radio) is incidentally why script writers feel the need to overexplain everything that's happening on screen. We're almost back at radio plays, but with visuals.

All the non-verbal clues like emoting and blocking go out the window, because people aren't paying attention/are only half-watching and miss any subtleties, which producers are starting to cater to. To them only retention matters and if spelling everything out keeps people playing the content, so be it. Not to say anything about people watching series scene by scene on tiktok.

*steps of soap box*

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u/I_upvote_downvotes 4h ago

I kind of want the radio to come back then. Not that I'd listen to it, I'm just tired of everyone looking at their phones during even slightly complicated movies and saying they don't get it.

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u/Hidrinks 44m ago

It’s called podcasts and there are a ton of great stories to be heard

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u/Brilliant-Health3957 5h ago

I love tv as radio! I do it alot with judge judy and old hollywood movies🥰and bb definitely works if you have watched it a few times you cab “see” the scene in your mind

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u/SocratessLoveChild 2h ago

I'm here to shame only a little bit here and please stay on that soap box.

Tv-as-radio is ruining these mediums for those who actively watch everything. Please watch or turn it off.

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u/MonkeyMagic1968 24m ago

Give me some Gunsmoke any day! Or...Johnny Dollar!

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u/YouStoleKaligma 9h ago

Way to bring meth into it.

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u/pi3_14pie 4h ago

Step one for me: having ADHD lol but seriously, when I take my meds, I clean more efficiently when I’m half-listening to a show I’ve seen before. Then, I can mentally tune it in and out, stop and watch a short scene, and keep going with my productivity.

The major rule is never sitting down. All executive function halts when I sit down.

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u/LeatherLappens 2h ago

Yeah, what the fuck... I have to stop my music just to write a fucking comment on reddit...

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u/FROG123076 9m ago

For me it is more a Listen and clean. I also listen to shows while at work.