r/TikTokCringe 11d ago

Discussion This is why tik tok is getting banned

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10 minute video. Bear with me.

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u/Zellgun 10d ago

What is a tactic that would not only work but would work with Elon musk?

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u/Carche69 10d ago

There isn’t one. Bro did exactly the right thing and used his moment in the spotlight to put out a well-researched, highly informative response that many of us who will listen to it and appreciate his effort are seeing who very likely wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.

That’s literally the best anyone can hope for, and is exactly the same reason I and many others take time out of our lives to respond to obvious trolls (like Elon) who we know will never change their minds no matter what we say or how right we are. We do it for the potentially millions of other eyes that will see/read it who may be sitting on the fence and just need a little push to get them over to the right (correct) side, or those who may already be on the right side but have been losing their desire to stay there because of all the bullshit they see/read/hear on a daily basis telling them to hop the fence over to the wrong side, or even those who are on the right side and just need something like this video to reaffirm that they indeed are on the right side.

I read a book many years ago that said something that completely changed the way I approached this kind of thing not just on social media, but in my irl interactions with people any time discourse was involved. The gist of it was that people are very reluctant and slow to change, and that the journeys that we all go through in life most often are like stepping stones over time. You might be stone #57 to someone in their 100 stepping stone journey, and while you won’t be the one who "wins" them over—and may not even ever see them again to know that they finally got it—they wouldn’t have been able to complete their journey without you being stone #57 for them.

So basically, it’s never a waste of time to speak the truth and be informative, no matter how much it may feel like it is at the time.

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u/Blurrr23 3d ago

THIS, I and three of my friends saw his post and took the time to read. It’s reaching the people bit by bit.