okay the first time I listened to this podcast episode i totally thought the "falling in love removes 10 years from your lives" and the "AI assistant" stories were part of the same continuity and the AI Assistant was like, pretending to be helpful by killing the boyfriend so she would gain 10 years back LMAO
These moms remind me of parents who don't tell their daughters about periods and wait until the child thinks they're BLEEDING OUT to be like "oh yeah! :D"
My mom did that. She refused to tell me what a period was with "You'll know when you're older" Until the day I thought I was DYING and she was like "Oh yeah!"
My mom told me before my period started and I felt so scared about it (not saying that parents shouldn’t tell their kids about periods, of course they should. It shouldn’t even be an option to not tell)- I don’t know what my mom said but the fact that she has PCOS might have affected what she told me (she now also has endometriosis). I wish I could say that my worries ended up being false but I have endometriosis which is hell with no cure
That’s a good point. I’m never saying that these POV’s are unrealistic for parents not telling their children about the life changing and confusing things that will happen do them until they happen
3:18 I’m fascinated by the implication that due to her years only going down she is still simultaneously deeply love with all 5 boys, including the 3 six year old she met a decade ago
I think it doesn’t reverse unless you’re no longer in love with them in less than a day, if you’re still in love with them after that you never get your years back even if you break up
Wait so in that universe even an early childhood "crush" or fleeting sexual attraction counts as "falling in love"? How does anyone even live to adulthood? Unless everyone else is basically asexual/aromantic and the main character is just the horniest person in the universe. Too horny to live.
You'd have to find out your sexuality early and then stay away from every gender you know you're attracted to. Seeing as puppy love and a magazine cover counted as "falling in love", I wonder if it includes something as stupid as saying "I love you mom" before bed. A falling in love curse removing ten years isn't so bad (100 to 90 might actually be preferable for many people) under the condition that you actually will live to old age. It'd be horrifying being 6 and looking up at the number 7 over your head, for example. The implications that you know when you die because of this clause instead of just a -10, -20, etc. over the head are quite something.
@@baydiac Yeah it would have to be a society were people are almost completely isolated from unrelated members of the opposite sex, especially during childhood/adolescence. If you are attracted to the same sex I don't think there is any good solution tbh. Men and women both would have to wear something like burqas, and the entertainment industry would be unrecognizable to avoid people getting crushes on public figures. It would be like, a supercharged version of the most conservative religious society you can imagine, just to maintains peoples lifespans.
@@MaddyBlu9724 Especially since dopplegays are a thing (binary & mono-attracted gay people have a tendency to dress and present themselves in a way that makes them the most ideally attractive, and then date people they think are their ideal version of attractiveness, creating the unintended result of gay couples often looking like siblings if not twins), so if you’re gay you’d be kind of fucked since any degree of a Narcissus situation would lose years off of your life (and if seeing a hot set of abs in a magazine counts, admiring yourself in the mirror definitely would! And forget it if you’re bisexual, pansexual, or any other sexuality where you’re attracted to more than one gender. You’d literally never risk seeing another human being again. Can you imagine the impact that’d have on mental health, when mental health would already be practically in hell considering people can see the number of years they’re able to live over their head?! I don’t even think burquas would help the situation much in the same way if the whole world magically spoke the same language tomorrow, within generations there’d be dozens of different languages again and they’d keep multiplying from there. The tendency to speak differently region to region is just part of the human experience, much like attraction and standards of beauty. People would pay attention to how stylish your burqua was, or if to curb that you’re demanded to wear mono-color and mono-cut it’d be what height is most attractive, what physical demeanor (body language/way you walk) is most attractive, what accent is most attractive. Accent/voice being a big one, you’d either need voice modulators or for everyone to adapt to sign language but even then I’m sure there’ll be a boom of hand fetishists. People _physically cannot_ stop being attracted to others, aroaces would be the only ones with any shot at making it to a natural/old age death.
POV shorts/tiktoks are so fascinating because they are so formulaic yet simultaneously alien. I don't really enjoy them as stories but I'm always drawn in because it's so impossible to predict what's gonna happen; they're just so weird.
I like them to an extent but it’s the fact that the audience is mostly kids and it has very dark undertones in a lot of these povs such as death, murder, kidnapping, abuse, is overall creepy and just downright weird. Not very kid friendly but yk you’d think like adults would watch these with their themes but definitely aimed towards 8-13 demographic
@@keylimetea That's valid. I would argue that dark themes in children's media is not inherently wrong as long as it doesn't glorify abusers/destructive behavior, and none of these tiktoks seemed to do that (the ai assistant was clearly evil and at odds with the protagonist, etc.) I know that I and a lot of my friends were morbid little kids who would do crap like act out soap opera plotlines with our Barbie dolls. Children have a larger capacity for dark media than adults give them credit for, but it's still important to frame these dark themes in a responsible way.
Most of the "POV" content on TikTok are actually imagines; YA-inspired writing prompts that have been popular on Tumblr and fanfiction sites for years. Examples: "The world is in black and white until you lock eyes with your soulmate." "The first words your soulmate says to you are tattooed somewhere on your body." "Everyone receives a superpower on their 18th birthday but [main character] gets one they're not supposed to."
I love how they ignore the obvious and simple solutions to problems such as. “If you speak you die? Undergo an operation to remove your vocal cords to eliminate the danger and then learn sign language because you’re just mute, and it’s a thing in real world”
7:10 actually, a lot of people really believe this. One of the many things I learned in my American Sign Language class is that a lot of people think if you can’t hear, you can’t speak, and vice versa
Putting tape over your kids mouth seems like the crappiest attempt at a solution to the no speaking thing tbh. Why wouldnt you like, surgically remove her vocal cords? Like debarking a dog.
Also the implication that a person who's never spoken a single word suddenly being able to speak in complete fluent sentences without practice? It doesn't really work like that 😅
I'm less than a minute in so sorry if this gets answered later--but guidry is a pretty common cajun last name! it's pronounced like gid-dree (like kid but with a hard g instead of a k and tree but with a d instead of a tree. this might make it harder to pronounce not easier lmao) but yeah a lot of Cajun names trip people up, some other fun ones being Herbet as a last name being pronounced Ay-bear and Thibedeaux being tih-beh-dough (also knew someone who pronounced it Tebow). French pronunciation can be tough for english-speakers on its own, but cajun french gives both english speakers and european french speakers trouble haha It's pretty rare that I can be the person in the youtube comments going hey hey *I* know how to pronounce the thing, but I love talking abt Cajun culture. Now I'm onto the rest of the video and I'm sure it'll be a blast like the rest of y'all's content o7
I dont speak French fluently but have French Canadians on both sides of my family, and my last name is a very common French Canadian name. hearing how people pronounce it is so funny (I’m American). I don’t think anyone’s gotten it right first try unless they themselves are French Canadian too 😂
@@Okayyykian oof, yeah I feel you. One of my last names is Dutch and no one has ever known how to pronounce it except in the Netherlands (I don’t speak Dutch)
What I don’t understand about the “if you speak, you die” one is that if they knew she had that since birth, why the hell would they teach her to speak in the first place? Like just avoid the problem altogether by having her communicate by sign language or something. Or if you’re a REALLY fucked up mom, surgically get rid of her vocal cords-I don’t know! But teaching her to speak and then not letting her speak is the most idiotic thing you could do lmao
I actually love her account. I think to stay relevant she makes a lot of these that just silly and repetitive, but some of them are super cool with surprising plot twists. She is really creative with this formula
I'm sorry but the getting money while speaking is literally ripped from a gail carson levine fairytale. Except it was a fairytale so it was a fantasy setting with like a fairy curse/blessing and it was gems falling out of her mouth not a sims money counter lmao. (iirc her twin sister was a bitch to the fairy so got bugs coming out of her mouth? which I think ended up being more useful than the gems in application)
I love that book! But I think Gail Carson Levine’s book is based on the Grimm fairytale so I don’t think the tik tok “ripped” the story from the author. It’s a classic tale that is fully in the public domain at this point.
Whoa, this unlocked a memory from deep inside my brain. I loved this book as a kid even though I thought the premise was kind of unsettling! Pretty sure there was a scene where a prince forced her to spend all day reading a book aloud and some other shenanigans. I wish I could remember the name of it.
@@dubblebubbletoilandtrouble6646 I still have the collection of stories my copy was in, so I actually looked it up actually after I made my comment! It was called "The Fairy's Mistake" and published in 1999. Also @natalie4161 is actually right- it's a twist on the french fairytale "Diamonds and Toads" (it has the reward/creatures coming out of a girls mouth when speaks bit). tbf I was working off my memory of levine's from when a was a kid and lbr the tiktokker probably is too lol
It was frogs and toads coming out of her sister's mouth, yes. Which is fortunate since I had the mental image of a mukade centipede crawling out of a woman's mouth and I was not a fan. Something jumping out immediately instead of having to make its way out is preferable for sure.
I have to admit that my younger sisters watch compilations of this girls 'povs' on youtube, usually they're duetted with those weird 'satisfying' tiktoks or something like that. It's all very strange, but the worst thing I'm worried about are their attention spans more than anything else.
I love when they watch something ridiculous and Jordan swings his head to look at Jarvis faster than I’ve ever seen anyone move their neck. Hahahaahahah
@@vwing so far your the only person to point it out Everyone say ooo wiggly this and ohh wiggly that but no one cares about pour old ducks shredder Justice for the shredder
They always seem to take place in irl society, but if these povs were real, society would be affected & ppl would behave differntly. Ie. in worlds where youre only alloted a certain number of words, teachers wouldnt fail you for not being able to talk bc you have no words.
7:08 I will give them one: when I was in fifth grade I would frequently go nonverbal bc ✨autism✨ & I received this EXACT bullying, literally a boy throwing shit at me & calling me deaf bc I wouldn’t speak to him - so not entirely unrealistic
This is like the missionaries telling the people they’re "saving" that once they believe in God they won’t go to hell but also admitting they would never have gone in the first place by being ignorant of the faith now oppressed on them.
The idea that someone can go 17 years without making a signed language of some sort is where I draw the line, lol. Sadly however from what I've leaned, many ppl assume deaf people can't speak, so the opposite makes sense.
The song at the end sounded like my dogs gagging or throwing up, I had to pause the video twice before I was like oh good not them, but then why? why does the song sound like that?