TikTok Livestreams are a Disaster 

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The mustache made Ted go from "your friendly neighbor that you say hi to every morning" to "the neighbor who is definitely sleeping with your wife"

Ted with a mustache is literally my new sleep paralysis demon.

I saw a stream with the same setup as the one at 9:50. Someone asked “I just lost my wife to cancer, is she in heaven?” To which the pendulum said no, which made the streamer stay awkwardly silent for about 20 seconds, then said “sometimes it’s wrong”, then continued the stream like nothing happened.

Nothing will ever beat the tiktok live stream of the DVD logo bouncing around on screen and watching everyone freak out

Saw Ted yesterday at my local Rainforest Cafe! He was wearing a robe, and was chanting in some lovecraftian language as the souls of everyone around me was taken out of their body as he absorbed every single one of them. Unfortunetly he vanished before I could say hi. Such a saint of our time 🥰

Man TikTok streams are like the public access of livestreaming.

You forgot about the ones taking the shell off of an egg, but they take absolutely forever doing it and stop to say 'out may gohd guys almost there' every minute and stop for another 5 straight minutes to read the chat or something.

The worst is the TikTok lives of poor families in third world countries who just keep repeating "we are poor we need food we love you send money" over and over and over while forcing these poor children to be overly animated and chanting and screaming these same phrases over and over again

Just met Ted a few days ago he was screaming at me as I ran down the sidewalk, it was like something I’d never seen before he was different almost like a demon possessed him and started flying at me he pulled out a baseball bat and started to hit me in the head with it was a great time

Ted reasonably skipped the genre of TikTok Lives I can only describe as "Terminally Ill Baby Streams" where people will genuinely set up a camera and point it at their very very ill baby while the baby sleeps and somehow people watch them.

the sleeping streams fills me with so much fucking rage for some reason. I cannot understand how people are actually sending them money. Also, doesn't tiktok take like 50% of the money?

The worst part about the tiktok live donations is they keep like 90% of them. I livestreamed a few times and got like $150 in donations but they only allowed me to withdraw like $12

Ted, I am currently studying for a very important exam. But because your upload schedule is so consistent I have decided this video is more important than my future.

“My landlord owns a gun” glad to hear schlatt finally got into real estate

The fact that Ted doesn’t know about the TikTok farms in Asia. Those giant smartphone women are usually lined up outside with devices farming TikTok coins for a company that may or may not pay them

My favorite live streams that show up on TikTok are the scratch-off ticket players. You basically get to watch someone with a gambling addiction go through completely worthless cards 90% of the time while people support their addiction by giving them more money. It helps me know gambling is not worth it.

Recently, I somehow met Ted here in Germany (he was definitely doing something important, i guess) So I went up to him and said hi Then he kicked me in the nuts, broke my legs, so i couldn't escape and the tortured me for hours. Was some of the best hours of my life.

I've seen videos of streaming companies in office blocks with hundreds of individual cubicles. In each cubicle there is a worker with a ring light and those large screens/pointer sticks you mentioned and they're all doing it at the exact same time. Essentially a conglomerate conveyer belt of tiktok lives to generate profit for a big business rather than the individual.

Ted's news reporter voice is so accurate that it is genuinely terrifying. And with the mustache? It's a beautifully terrifying combo.

I think the crying stream guy will haunt me forever

12:37 'Okay, so we are doing your cousin'

Speaking of TikTok disasters, I actually have a funny story about Ted Nivison and TikTok disasters! Back in 2018, I remember being in the middle of a hurricane! It was extremely dangerous, but lo and behold while I was seeking shelter, I saw the one and only Ted Nivison filming a TikTok in which he was hitting the Luddy (a famous dance popularized by Ludwig Ahgren)! I thought this was so cool, and as Ted's biggest fan, I thought I might come ask Ted if I could get a picture! As I approached him, though, he slapped me on the face while hitting the Luddy, and said, "You don't have enough charm to talk to me!" He then simultaneously whipped and nae-naed before pulling out his trusty hammer and breaking my kneecaps. He told me, "Good luck surviving the storm, dingus," and left me alone, as the hurricane was approaching our location. I ended up getting sucked up by the hurricane, never to be seen again... Classic Ted!

Deleting tiktok (and my account) was one of the best decision that I’ve made this year. Watching videos like these is like opening up the bag of hornets to take a look inside and then remembering exactly why you threw it over the fence in the first place.

Has anyone else seen the really creepy ones where there’s someone sleeping and some shadow or person in a costume is just standing there watching the person sleep??? LOL

TikTok live streams are just another way to remind me humanity is going downhill

I was gathering footage and research to do a video on this myself. But wow, this hit the nail on the coffin. I felt like it was at topic that NOBODY was talking about or even acknowledged

I swear to god Ted can get me completely invested in something that I have less than zero interest in. This man could get me to watch paint dry and I'm here for it to be honest.

My word, opening RU-vid bored and finding a Ted video uploaded 55 seconds ago is a euphoric feeling

The messages from heaven lady is wildddddd. My tik tok is covered in clips of her doing 'readings' but in the background you can hear that she's on the toilet 😭

12:24: Ted Nivison brings his glass of water up to his mouth, only to realize the glass is empty and he is now thirsty. Please send a galaxy to know what he does next.

Just yesterday I met Ted as he walked in on my family's Thanksgiving dinner. I will never forget the way my family yelled and screamed in what could only be elation. He broke a window to get in and ate the entire turkey, bone and all. It's an experience I will cherish forever.

Oh my gosh, THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS TOPIC ! I swear the Tiktok Live section has always been very cursed and weird. Especially those giant phone thingies ! People really be mindlessly going through that type of garbage.. and donating to it.

this makes me very glad that the lives on my fyp are usually just people singing or like "watch me study so i dont go on my phone"

I enjoy tiktok for maybe a handful of videos I find in a day, but so much of tiktok consists of repeated ads and livestreams that aren't even live. I deleted tiktok after getting 10 videos straight of different Indian guys begging on camera with a kid looking sick with an IV. One even had another kid begging with the guy and the child with the IV was visibly deformed. It's not normal nor healthy at all to view stuff like this, especially daily and as easy as a swipe away

That was one of the few ads that I didn't skip over. Good job, Ted

Thank you for talking about this. I’ve gotten so many weird TikTok live streams. Many are downright disturbing. There are so many of babies and toddlers with deformities or practically on life support struggling to breath while their mothers ignore them and talk to the live chat. It just feels weird

the giant phone ones are literally sweatshops. its just cubicles filled with women doing those streams for a whole day. other entertaining ones are Drake v. Juice Wrld, two guys share a stream and viewrs vote on who they think is better. the one whos in the lead gets to play that arttists song while the other one cries like the "im not emo" kid until their artist goes back in the lead

Ah, my favourite moment of the day, Ted talks to a mirror for 15 minutes and he's unaware he's part of a social experiment! Great "video", Ted!

I did one of these fortune tellers and I asked if Ted was coming for me and it landed on yes. I was sceptical at first but then Ted burst into my room and broke my spine with his baseball bat it was pretty cool !

Ted, on this Thanksgiving day I give you thanks for giving me more reason to avoid TikTok.

Saw Ted at a gas station the other day. I walked up to him and said “hey! love your videos and wanted to say hello! I hope I’m not bothering you.” And he turned to me and said “oh like you’re doing right now?”. I started to apologize but he cut me off with “losersayswhat?” So I just walked away. A few minutes later I was in line to check out and Ted was in front of me buying a carton of cigarettes, and a case of Miller Light. Suddenly he yells “WHAT THE FUCK! YOU’RE OVER CHARGING ME!!” And when the cashier tried to ask what he meant he said “I’m just taking these” and walked out with everything, but not before turning to me and winking as he walked out the door.

I accidentally made friends with a guy on TikTok live. I was joining random lives and sending them likes so I joined this guys and he was listening to anti-hero so i said that I loved Taylor, and then we started talking about her music. He asked so I told him my favourite song was all too well ten minute version. I followed him and then he sent me a follow request back. and then i left for like maybe two minutes and when I came back he played all too well for me 😭😭

I wanted to see how long it took to find one of these lives and I found a kid saying December is just a myth from the government.

The giant phone one might be from content farms: giant warehouses (typically in China) where a bunch of pretty women do these kinds of livestreams. In the past, it used to be makeup streams, but the point is the "cubicle" description is probably way closer than you may realize

i ACTUALLY met ted around a week ago. what a kind soul i just say. i got a picture with him and also met his wonderful girlfriend. all before he sparta kicked my fucking nuts and laughed as he and his girlfriend walked over me like a rug while i was in pain on the ground. i could never ask for a better experience. thank you ted ❤

I remember doing a TikTok Livestream once! It was going great, and Ted even started watching the stream! However, once he pinpointed my location, he burst down my door and used the doorknob to chop off my kneecaps! Boy that was a great stream, loved seeing Ted again.

13:45 all I can imagine is like hundreds of girls with these giant phones lined up in cubicles like scam call centers

The more I watched the more it gave Black Mirror "15 Million Merits" episode especially when that kid was throwing a fit in front of a whole iphone for a 10 dollar virtual emoji.

met ted not too long ago, he randomly approached me and started yelling at me that i had been in a coma for 7 years and that my family misses me, he then threw a drink in my face and ran off. what a nice guy

I LOVE getting these livestreams. It's really like a win-lose situation. You either get something really entertaining and enjoyable, or something extremely pointless. But you know what's a 100% a lose-lose situation? The fact that you haven't let them go even though I have begged and pleaded countless times. What a great video Ted!

I remember once I saw a TikTok live of a woman opening a book with messages as the book ‘would answer the TikTok messages’ when she opened a random page as the ‘book decided’ and one message said ‘Do I deserve to die’ and she opened the book to ‘yes’ and said ‘oh book that’s so mean of you, they don’t mean it comment’ and really hoping that comment is okay

The only Tik tok live I’ve seen made me never wanna go back to that side of Tik tok again. The guy was so over the top, yelling. He had some incentives for donations and similar to the sleeping guy he’d would get angry when people would donate and he’d slap himself. That was the most odd live I’ve ever seen.

I love Ted, so factual + funny. A wholesome and good man, a milk man if you will. Thank you Mr. Nivison for living

0:30 Ted that's literally just regular New York

THANK YOU for talking about this cause I feel like no one does and it’s so bizarre 💀💀

I can't normally stay engaged with yt videos, but every time I click on a ted Nivison video, I watch it all the way through.

2 Ted uploads in a month? What a treat! Thanks, Theodore. Please don't harm them

13:20 i once saw a video where it showed the behind the scenes of these streams and there was actually like 10 of them in cubicles next to each other.

You forgot the ones who do the egg shell peeling and the ticket scratch offs, not to mention the ones who do the belly jewlery. (tbh i just want to watch that one but just her stringing them, no talking-)

ted please do another video there are live streams where they take egg pieces off so slow and it the most insane stuff i have seen

I met Ted a few weeks back. He chased me down a dark alleyway holding a baseball bat shouting that he would take my kneecaps. He was a great guy and I loved meeting him

ain't no wayy

7:08 had me CACKLING

i’m so glad someone is talking about them bc they are def getting out of hand

Ted's such a nice guy for including "schlatt" and Ludwig's song! 2:03

Give Ted a floral shirt and he becomes a dad with bi-wife energy. 7:34 holy shit, it's a dad with bi-wife energy

That lady at 11:10 is like the catholic church during the middle age when they wanted the people to pay in order to get a place in heaven and she's literally doing the same with children and young people🤢 Btw you forgot the parents that discover that showing your disabled child on livestreams is an infinite money glitch

The more I learn about tik tok the more I am concerned about all the kids who are growing up on it.

1:33 *puddleoffish:* "is this a kink" LOL

Honestly finally someone is talking about this, like that emo kid with the cards has been haunting me for like a month now and none of my friends have seen him and I think they think I’m crazy

13:12 THESE EXACT lives scared me off of TikTok

I'm glad I'm too old for Tiktok. I feel like my grandmother trying to understand how a smart phone works

7:41 Ted does Swaggersouls impression

FINALLY SOMEONE IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE HORRIBLE LIVESTREAMS😭😭😭 this video was hilarious

1:52 was a solid old timey cartoon comedy reference

9:11 Wha-those are dowsing rods. They aren’t meant to be used like that. Like, at all. Dowsing rods are sticks that can be used to tell where water is, and it’s usually made out of wood usually (it can be metal). These actually do work and has helped tribe’s people find water throughout the years. I don’t remember the science exactly right now, but those things actually do work and have a scientific reasoning. Just not at all for answering questions. It was used in a horror game once, but it actually worked because it wasn’t to tell where a ghost in general was. It was to tell there’s water in front of you so you don’t walk there. The ghost was a water ghost that tried to lure you into deep spots of water so she could pull you in. TDLR; they’re using dowsing rods completely wrong. They aren’t at all meant to communicate to dead people. They’re just to find water.

therapist: ted with a mustache can’t hurt you ted with a mustache:

12:56 that's not a massive android phone, she screen mirrors her phone to a display with touch support

i love the news segment ad i didn’t skip it it’s so entertaining

Okay so I got one of those sleep streams for the first time like, yesterday. And the person had a full on fit when someone sent an alarm thing and sat up and rubbed their forehead for a while then laid back down without once even looking at the camera and it made me very uncomfortable

Last week, I met Ted! I saw cops drag him into a car as one explained his miranda rights, and the other talked about how his was going to rot in jail for elder abuse. Has got to be one of my favourite celebrity meet and greets so far!

I met Ted a week ago, such a great experience. I said hello and he violently started beating me up with a metal pole and screaming "JOIN ME" to the people around. Ted then cloned himself and started beating me up more. Such an awesome experience

I never laughed so hard as when this man compared someone’s grandpa to a Buzzfeed Article coded with buzz words 😂 my guy it’s so true!

I’m watching on my tv and had to pull out my phone to comment, everything you pointed out is perfect and just what I have been talking about when I scroll lives lol you’re so damn funny, I’ve never seen your videos before but I’m glad I clicked on it hahaha

THANK YOU. Oh my god, the card house guy made me crazy, and litterally EVERYONE pays him to freak out. Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention

The slot machine footage at 3:25 is from "SDGuy 1234" here on RU-vid. I'd recognize that crack head laugh anywhere 😂 His content is so damn funny. He will straight up swear at the slot machines and yell way too loud. Definitely a fun watch

Ted i am so glad you made a video about this bc the livestreams have been DRIVING ME INSANE! Has anyone else been seeing the livestreams where there is a guy peeling an egg and there is just a little bit of shell left on it??? Like everytime i see those or any of the sleep livestreams, it feels like we are becoming a dystopian society closer each day.

Ted, you need a lot more attention then you get. Your amazing and make my days better.

Being scared by tiktok livestreams is very relatable, Ted!

I actually ran into Ted yesterday, which was weird as I live in Darwin, Australia. He was just kind of standing on the sidewalk and when I approached him his mouth opened impossibly wide and light began radiating out from it. He then rose up from the ground and the earth began to shake, as hellfire rained from above. Such a great guy, really down to earth when you get to know him.

A few days ago I met Ted. He broke my window, climbed through and ate my lunch including the plate and left.

13:30 i think those are celebrity farms..😭

Met Ted at a grocery store the other day. Said hi as he was grabbing some green beans, he offered to take a picture with me. After he turned around, with a sick grin on his face and tore my kneecaps clean off! He ran away screaming something about galaxies. Amazing experience, what a great guy ❤❤❤

ted, i’m thankful you’re alive and thankful you upload on thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving King 💯💯💯

For some reason a bunch of lives that I come across are people with obvious deformities making music or DJing and I always see them when I’m just scrolling through and I only get a glance at them and I always have to scroll back up to see if I saw correctly

I either get art streams or ones where people study so I'm okay with my fyp honestly

the big phone ones are insane, i visited a lot of them one night because i wanted them all to like a tiktok i posted and they did (it got like 80 likes in the end idk) and i found one where there was a whole TEAM OF THEM. the girl on the screen was even talking and said to another that she's been working for FIVE HOURS ON THIS like that is insane

I was walking around in Atlanta and saw Tednivison TV! I asked for a photo and then he promptly shot me in my knee.while I was on the ground breeding out he asked me where he could find the peaches. I could only scream and cry, but I forgive him it was probably for a video. Sending lots of love from my wheelchair🌌🌌🌌🌌

Ive been awake for way too long and I can feel this video making my anxiety significantly worse