POV TikTok Is Hilarious 

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!"

ikr, my mom never told me my bsf explained it and I did research on my own

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

my mum did that

So like, 98% of them

Pov you're reading this comment rn

POV: your gears are getting grinded

Exactly it's annoyingly irritating

…gears*

I mean the guys in it have the same name I think so it's possible

That’s better than what any of them could come up with 😂

​@@gooodmorning4526I think that's just testament to her lack of creativity

@@TheHeroOfTime520 I mean, it's a name. You don't need to be creative to come up with another name lmao

@@gooodmorning4526 whihh is exactly my point, she still opted to use the same generic name instead of making the low effort choice of using another

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

@@icantthinkofaname8139wow… these rules are… crazy.

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.

​@@MaddyBlu9724That sounds like it could be an interesting dystopian novel tbh

@@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.

i think everyone else doesn’t have that

i agree

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.

@keylimetea "home alone" has the same vibes tbf

@@CherryFairy02Like 13+ is a mix of innocence with dark topics as long as things are not glorified

I always think of that whenever I watch these (fellow aroace)

As an aroace, I love being _immortal_ 😊💞

Yesssss! Yessss, it is our time.... We RISE!

THATS CRAZYYY

PLEEEEASE

HELP YES

Yeah I kinda feel the same way. Very formulaic but super wild

right these are more like imagines/scenarios lol

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 😅

That’s a good solution in-universe, but holy shit does that sound bad out of context

Or wire her jaw shut

​@@keylimetea she does need to eat tho

@@sopapoppfeed tube maybe?

Human pet guy moment

Omg another Cajun French person! I totally forgot that ppl wouldn't know how to pronounce "Guidry" at first glance unless they're from Louisiana lol

@@cinderellacharming772 Hi!! And yeah haha it always slips my mind too but it's always fun to see a cajun name 'in the wild' so to speak

Waddup from a Quebecer, we have similar French :)

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 😂

@@Okayyyki 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)

Nah we'd all just be 100 years old

In a world where straight/gay people live to 50-60ish, and bi/pan frends live to maybe 30/40ish...? Pretty god like

*It's TOUGH TO BE A GOD* intensifies

People who live to 120+ aren’t treated like gods, why would you be?

He's so invested 😭

I need that clip of Jordan as a reaction gif

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 think that's a Grimm fairytale I've heard when I was a child? This was the first story that popped up into my mind too!

She probably learned through hearing others talk her whole life.

20 years gone

Is that Wiggly?

@@TheAmityElf is that a star kid fan?

⁠@@the_idiot_eris5029Make that two. All hail Wiggly.

Wiggly's great and all, but even better is Duck's personal home shredder! (Seriously though, that's a heck of a double fandom whammy!)

@@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

I know, it’s weird

Right lol?

fr

Same it always feels weird to be here before it has 1k views

you're under arrest

okay that last one is a lie, but everything else you said was true

that is good. let these kids cook

What’s wrong with that?

I’m confused why you’d be offended by this, that’s like being blind and being offended by birdbox.

i’m trans, why would i want to see this?

Mayne report the ad idk

LMAO! hilarious

*kills Stephanie*