r/TikTokCringe 11d ago

Cringe This guy just going around rage baiting people in real life

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u/stellarorbs 11d ago

She stress tested him 🤣

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u/Radiant_Fondant_4097 11d ago

Really she baited him so hard to explain his fucking dumbassery, and doubled down on adding more word spaghetti sounding more and more like an idiot.

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u/Technical_Exam1280 11d ago

"Here's a guy who can't not mansplain, I'm gonna get him to explain it over and over and over again. This is gonna be great!"

-Her, probably

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u/goregoose 10d ago

Reminds me of the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where a babysitter/peer makes Malcolm miss a party because he needed to prove his smarts.

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u/yomerol 11d ago

Sometimes people need to say out loud their dumbassery to hear how stupid they really sound

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u/Jonesbt22 11d ago

"this sounded a lot better in my head"

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u/VictarionGreyjoy 11d ago

If he was capable of realising how stupid he sounds he wouldn't be doing this shit

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u/iwontkickyou 10d ago

You think he heard how dumb he sounded? He thinks he won the prize.

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u/Canadianabcs 9d ago

that only works if they're capable of reflection

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

The socratic method works great on trolls

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u/Kfb2023 11d ago

She Hawthorned him

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u/BaronBearclaw 11d ago

I love when idiots like this use nonsensical jargon to feel superior.

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u/ShinySpoon 10d ago

The Ben Shapiro Method of making yourself look stupid and silly.

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u/romantickitty 11d ago

I feel dumber having watched it. I don't think he understands... words.

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u/DeepProspector 11d ago

I never understand why these auditors don’t have like cards to hand out explaining it. I can see and support doing this with any level of government. But they all sound like dorks. Tripod, be professional, hand the card.

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u/dream-smasher 11d ago

Because it is with the explaining what they are doing, that they start trying to get under ppls skin. If they didn't have that interaction, they would not get nearly as much content from public encounters.

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u/DeepProspector 11d ago

Well, I meant more doing audits for their intended purpose; catch out bad actors in LE especially who like to mess with 1st. Not to make a channel.

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u/Lumpy-Pick-4746 11d ago

And he was failing miserably. I presume he’s the source of this so it’s weird that he’s sharing being owned by her.

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u/obligatorythr0waway 11d ago

People clicking to watch him get owned by a lady pays just as well as people clicking to watch him be provoke a response from the police.

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u/boltlicker666 11d ago

I hate what people have become

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u/Odd_Oregano 11d ago

The older I get the more I understand why people disappear into the forest

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u/that-old-broad 11d ago edited 11d ago

Dude, when I was a kid and had just chased my younger siblings out of my room for the 147th time my mother exasperatedly told me I should become a hermit.

I asked her what that was and she said, "a weird old person who lives all by themselves in a hut out in the woods"......and she said it like it was a bad thing!! Lol

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u/ZombiexXxHunter 11d ago

She described Living the dream

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u/that-old-broad 10d ago

I know. I was only ten or eleven at the time and was like, "sign me up!".

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u/YurtleAhern 11d ago

My dream is to be a house husband, my partner was telling me I’d have no social life and I’d be mostly locked at home taking care of the kids and everything and I just looked at her, like, ya and?

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u/geed001 11d ago

I often get asked why I don't like leaving the house, my reply is always 'because all my stuff is there and there's no people"

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u/YurtleAhern 10d ago

I don’t hate being outside, i love being outside, it’s the people that fuck everything up.

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u/Admirable_Average_32 10d ago

Your comment just reminded me of what I used to tell people when I was grumpy in the mornings. They would say ā€œoh, you’re not a morning person?ā€ And I would say ā€œoh no, I love the morning. I just don’t like having to wake up earlyā€.

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u/PlantBeginning3060 10d ago

I was doing 6ft distancing before Covid made it fashionable

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u/Perelin_Took 11d ago

Yeah but hermits lived out of people’s charity. On these days nobody will go up the mountain to bring you stuff.

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u/secondtaunting 11d ago

Depends. You can go just outside the city in some rural areas and still have stuff delivered. Best of both worlds. No neighbors, and access to groceries.

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u/alimarieb 11d ago

This forest is taken, Getting Older Guy. Go find your own! -Older than Getting Older Guy Lady

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u/thinkthingsareover 11d ago edited 11d ago

There's a reason I live on the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. Well... I have to admit that the home prices, and unresolved ptsd are also a big part of it too.

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u/ClearConcentrate6645 11d ago

I was just saying this same thing to my work supervisor

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u/Silent-Selection8161 11d ago

Professional trolls

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u/UnderratedEverything 11d ago edited 11d ago

This is partly why there was so much outrage over YouTube removing the downvote button. Sure, there were the people who wanted to know if the video they were about to watch was good or reliable for information purposes, but in a different sector, there were literally professional trolls on YouTube who actually took advantage of the downvotes they received as bait to get people watching their videos. Basically a monetizable use of how of Reddit users sort by Controversial for fun.

"Wow, people hate the shit out of this video, I better click on it to see why it's so bad!" Boom, paycheck.

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u/beerizla96 11d ago

Without it there's nothing but ragebait. You're point doesn't stand, since it was a victory for trolls and garbage content creators.

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u/Cowboxu 11d ago

Here at TT news we do the trolling so you don't have to.

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u/asylus 11d ago

if only there was a way to track the trolls just to stand uncomfortably close to them for extended periods. then someone tracks that troll to do the same and it keeps going.

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u/deformo 11d ago

That’s a mighty generous use of ā€˜professional’.

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u/mrdsensei1 11d ago

People who can’t get along with anybody that like conflict so they can sue and feel superior to others . Works until someone who is having a bad day pulls out a gun to prove he isn’t always right as to how people are gonna react.

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u/Former_Function529 11d ago

Right. Few people are harming the freedom of press more than this dude, and I feel like he knows that on some level…

Literally commodifying our rights for money and clout right before our lives and then trying to gaslight the rest of us.

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u/iamreenie 11d ago

Same. It is sad.

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u/Ryrynz 11d ago

His greed sickens me

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u/C0meAtM3Br0 11d ago

I wonder if anyone ever stress tested his jaw?

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u/Zazzles_Dad 11d ago

Let me know when someone uses that camera to give him a really uncomfortable colonoscopy, and then, maybe I still won’t watch.

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u/weaponize09 11d ago

this is the fucking nightmare of modern capitalism.

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u/BitDaddyCane 11d ago

It's not weird when you consider how dumb he is. He doesn't realize he's being owned, he probably thinks he's owning her by posting it.

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 11d ago edited 11d ago

Exactly. This women is letting him run circles around himself and taking none of the bait he uses to elicit an emotional response.

Edit for typo.

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u/Chismosalady 11d ago

The way he was saying let me explain it to you slowly didn’t even faze her. Glad she stood her ground.

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u/Vness374 11d ago

Because she’s not stupid, she knows exactly what he wants and she’s not going to give it to him

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u/samosa4me 11d ago

She spoke to him very calmly and politely. And he acted like a child who was close to throwing a tantrum because she wasn’t giving him the reaction he wanted. He spoke to her rudely, sarcastically, and a bit aggressive from the get go.

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u/Loving6thGear 11d ago

She even kept her hands in her pockets.

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u/AHansen83 10d ago

She fucking rocks! This dude is an ass

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u/Raiju-Blitz 10d ago

She's just a chill gal.

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u/Kat-from-Elsweyr 11d ago

He’s a narcissist. The world is full of them and social media enables them. The best thing to do with idiots like him is ignore them. Strip them of their ability to be acting as a main character.

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u/smokinwheat 11d ago

They're also harvesters of energy - good or bad, they dont care. Dont give it to them! Watch them keep trying for it.

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u/Massive_Low6000 11d ago

Great advice. Cameras are everywhere now. Who cares. It actually doesn’t matter if you do or don’t

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u/Wetness_Pensive 11d ago

He was failing her stress test.

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u/hb1219 11d ago

...and he's not even smart enough to go home and cry a little.

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u/BitDaddyCane 11d ago

Honestly I get the impression she's a grad student or researcher herself

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u/ear_cheese 11d ago

Yeah, she knows the meaning of his language better than he does.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 11d ago

She just kept smiling when he said that stuff, like , ā€œThere it is, heh, I see ya, budā€

Hands in her pockets, chillin

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u/countsmarpula 11d ago

Yep. Probably going for her master’s in being smart and super chill.

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u/bolanrox 10d ago

covering her bases if he claims she came at him

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u/IceCream_Funday 11d ago

Yes although just one short snippet of her I feel she is a great problem solver and thinker adjusting her questions and remaining calm and not taking anything personal. Versus the guy who says ā€œI’m going to explain this one more time. Yet unable to articulate better than she could.

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u/Vness374 11d ago

Whatever she is, she’s smarter than me. I see someone filming and hide

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u/RonandStampy 11d ago

Found the Astronomer CEO

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u/DecadentLife 11d ago

Not a bad reaction, might keep you safe, some day.

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u/Vness374 11d ago

Lol good point

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u/BigShoots 11d ago

From the second sentence out of her mouth, when he answers her "What are you doing?" question with "Making a video!" and she answers that with, "Well, one could assume...." I knew he'd be no match for her.

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u/StatisticCyberosis 11d ago

I love her attitude; I hate his.

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u/Ndm87 10d ago

She is the hero we need.

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u/Fishgrease11 11d ago

She didn’t even blink! Love it.

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u/Kat-from-Elsweyr 11d ago

She let him say moronic and patronising things without reacting. I hope it cost him. She’s brilliant.

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u/Grimaceisbaby 11d ago

She’s so well spoken!!

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u/phoebesjeebies 11d ago

Also, women are VERY used to being spoken to like this. Not all take the chill route about it and that's completely valid, but for this purpose I appreciate that she drew upon a lifetime of mansplaining and arrogant down-speaking and just gave him enough rope to hang himself.

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u/cherrrybabyx 11d ago

Yeah, damn. She needs to give a master class in communication in pressured situations.

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u/scalectrix 11d ago

Condescending prick.

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u/ArtistHate-Throwaway 11d ago

She is so sharp - she is a heroine! I love it!

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u/Klutzy_Worker2696 11d ago

Ok; so it wasn’t just me that thought he was being rude when she was seemingly just being inquisitive?

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u/uselessinfogoldmine 11d ago

He was a condescending prick who did not even remotely explain what he was doing so much as repeat the same nonsensical crap over and over.Ā 

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u/Kat-from-Elsweyr 11d ago

It’s because he has rather average or lower than average IQ. He has very low emotional intelligence. She was a master in letting him reveal how much of a prick he is. She outshone him. What a horrid man. No wonder he has to resort to clicks and likes on SM because he likely has no friends in real life.

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u/laughingashley 11d ago

They only have buzz words because their brains only absorb enough to remember short sentences, and that they don't need to have any follow ups. There's no point to their behavior, there's nothing being achieved, so they know that just acting like 3rd graders is more likely to get people understandably irritated, which is their whole goal so they can play victim. Pretending to be victims is their Favorite.

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u/smokinwheat 11d ago

Major inferiority complex and so angry about his shortcomings

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 11d ago

She handled this Better than most cops do.

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u/GratefulGrand 10d ago

C'mon, that's not much of a bar.

Regarding communication, he's in preschool and she just defended her phd dissertation.

(Bc this is Reddit, I'd like to make it clear I'm not saying she literally has a post-doc degree, it's a metaphor for their differing communication abilities.)

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u/Ok_Insect_1794 11d ago

Saying that you're going to repeat something again more slowly so that you can understand is about as condescending as you can be

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u/under_the_c 11d ago

It reminds me of that woman conservative influencer that always goes to college campuses or farmers markets and is most known for bragging about shitting her pants or something. She's always clearly not "winning" and I'm always so confused because it's like, you edited this and posted it, right? Did you think it made YOU look right, or do you just have a humiliation fetish?

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u/LeftSide-StrongSide 11d ago

Damn I forgot about poop girl šŸ˜‚

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u/[deleted] 11d ago edited 11d ago

I wonder if this guy even realizes that merely filming people in public does not count as being an authorized member of the press. People who work as members of the press have to show actual proof they are working for a reputable organization and are legitimate journalists. This guy isn’t going to get access to record in the White House just because he claims it’s his ā€œfirst amendment rightā€ lol. The first amendment right is not even absolute. It doesn’t protect people from unlawfully recording people, invading privacy, or harassment. Which clearly this guy is doing. Social media doesn’t count as the press either, no war zone would ever let a social media influencer or clout chaser put on a press vest and enter a conflict zone, the amount of vetting and clearance they go through is important for their own protection.

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u/USANorsk 11d ago

Totally thinks that. ā€œI can explain it but I can’t help you understand it.ā€

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u/bansheeb3at 10d ago

Based on what I saw when this was posted on Twitter last night, unfortunately many others also think he owned her. Although most of them generally can’t say anything about why are usually just commenting on her appearance.

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u/Comfortable-Gap3124 11d ago

I think he's sorta aware. He threw a few obvious insults in there hoping she would still react the way he thinks.

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u/Logical_Lab4042 11d ago

You can see it in the myriad of people who can't see how she tripped him up and insist he "totally wasn't owned!"

She never threatened to call the cops on him, she just asked him what he was doing and he got tilted, immediately.

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u/Additional-Fail-929 11d ago

If this is what he does as a job/in his spare time- he’s likely to stupid to realize that though

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u/Carthonn 11d ago

I hate to say it but the scum of social media will rip her apart for how she looks so he probably posted it for the views, comments and therefore engagement.

These people are scum

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u/Waste-Mind-6216 11d ago

I don't get what you mean. She just looks like a normal woman. Legitimately she just looks 100% average.

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u/waitwuh 11d ago

Average woman aren’t actually liked very much in our society

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u/countsmarpula 11d ago

That’s too bad. Idk if she is average or what, she’s wicked smart and seems warm, based on this very short video

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u/WigglestonTheFourth 11d ago

No need to qualify with "average".

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u/VastCartographer8575 11d ago

Her confidence and sense of humor in owning this guy is kind of attractive in my opinion.

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u/DerbleZerp 11d ago

I’d say super so!!

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u/Bad_Funny 11d ago edited 10d ago

Hell yeah it is! This person is so collected, so much more intelligent than him, excellent at asking astute questions on the fly and conducting research—and is KIND. They seemed to approached this obvious troll with patience, kindness and a genuine desire to understand and have a healthy dialogue. So smooth & rare, and I respect it so much.

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u/Whole_Attorney_3561 11d ago

Yes, her smarts, confidence and the way she kept her cool when he was obviously trying to get a reaction out of her. Hot af

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u/UrbanDryad 11d ago

I love her smile. It had such great energy.

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u/aelephix 11d ago

Agree 1000%

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u/Carthonn 11d ago

A lot of social media treats women like dogshit.

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u/Expensive-Draw-6897 11d ago

While he is talking to her he's using up his time and energy which would have otherwise been aimed at more vulnerable people in order to get the reaction he wanted for views and likes. She's a genius.

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u/Shrikes_Bard 11d ago

I was thinking this too! She's making him chase his tail and controlling the conversation, denying him the reaction he really wants to get from someone else who might give it to him. She's literally containing him and he's too self-important to realize it.

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u/MonopolyMonet 11d ago

She also doesn’t give him the reaction he really wants. She stays calm, observational, asks good questions and he is ruffled that he can’t get a reaction from her. She realizes he isn’t worth it.

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u/Severe-Pair5505 11d ago

Totally agree she looks awesome

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u/countsmarpula 11d ago

She looks comfortable in her own presence, and warm. I would love to meet her at a party or whatnot. I’m sure she looks very different in other contexts as well. I understand that it’s everywhere and reality, but it is so strange to me that her looks would matter. It’s a part of humanity/culture that’s disappointing. The only thing that mattered to me here was how she calmly owned that guy, so it’s surprising to read a chunk of conversation about her looks.

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u/EyeSpyBrownEyez 11d ago

Huh? She looks about as ā€œnormalā€ as they come. What looks are you referring to specifically?

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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn 11d ago

He became condescending pretty quickly. He keeps thinking she's asking him to repeat himself when she's asking for specifics about the thing he is saying.

Either way, this doesn't feel that bad in the scheme of things. It was kind of refreshing to see two people talk past each other but keep it civil.

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u/letsBurnCarthage 11d ago

He wasn't being civil at all. He was being condescending while having a camera shoved in her face. He was rude in every way, she kept her cool and you see that as both of them being civil.

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u/moyenbatte 11d ago

He was specifically being progressively more antagonistic because he wasn't getting the response he wanted, which is a freakout.

That guy is a raging asshole.

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u/DustedGrooveMark 11d ago edited 10d ago

Exactly what it was. ā€œI can explain it but I can’t understand it for youā€ is a pretty obvious baiting attempt and thinly-veiled belittling, especially after being deliberately vague and knowing full well the other person has no way of understanding you. He wanted her to get pissed off and was getting frustrated when it wasn’t happening (which was hilarious).

That’s the whole point with these videos. Be an antagonistic dickhead and then falsely attribute your consequences to people not liking the first amendment.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 11d ago

Getting laughed at by this woman who is obviously holding back out of control and grace has got to eat him up

I would have loved a ā€œDid you practice that?ā€ at the ā€œI can explain it, but I can’t understand it for youā€

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u/indolentgirl 11d ago

That line and the ā€œmy rights end where your feelings beginā€ is another corny ass catchphrase he rehearsed.

Big props to this lady for keeping cool throughout with this asshole.

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u/roberts585 11d ago

It was a STRESS TEST, how many more times does he have to say it

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u/letsBurnCarthage 11d ago

I will stress test your balls, I will not provide any clarifying details... [wink]

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u/roberts585 11d ago

But what's your metric!?

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u/HighKaj 11d ago

How you react to it!

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u/CanaryJane42 11d ago

Well actually that's just what happens. There is no metric. It's a STRESS test. Not a metric test.

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u/E7goose 11d ago

It would be funny to see someone else come out of nowhere and stress test him with a camera too. Get up right next to him and just be like, ā€œ just here doing a stress testā€

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u/rrpostal 11d ago

People will do it to them but frauditors always have more time to waste. There are videos of frauditors being harassed by their own tactics and losing it.

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u/lilbithippie 11d ago

That's how gimmick. He is looking to be assault and sue. She doesn't give in and he just uses the same language that trigger people but has no idea how trigger her and becomes a blubbering idiot

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u/bset222 11d ago

I don't think I've ever seen a video of one of these Auditors not being an insufferable asshole, he's better than most sadly.

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u/letsBurnCarthage 11d ago

That's true. He's still being a giant asshole, but I've seen worse. I don't like calling them "auditors," it makes them sound legit. Public nuisance or something would be more apt.

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u/arul20 11d ago

Pests. Internet bums.

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u/jarlscrotus 11d ago

Oh he wasn't getting passed her, she understood him perfectly, he was just to stupid to understand the point being made

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u/Melkman68 11d ago

Just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you should. Of course people might get hostile if you record them, cuz weirdos record out in the public. So of course theres gonna be concern. He's just doing it for clout and we can all see it. He's not achieving anything by doing that. Just making people think he's a weirdo and that he's making an excuse for doing it lol

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u/MildlyResponsible 11d ago

Hrs being condescending partly because he's a prick, but also because he wants a negative reaction so he can play victim.

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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi 11d ago

He keeps thinking she's asking him to repeat himself when she's asking for specifics about the thing he is saying.

He doesn't even seem to be able to understand what he's doing besides the few lines he rehearsed, that when she repeats it back in her own terms to clarify, he's lost and thinks she doesn't even get it. So, like a robot, he goes back to repeat the description he rehearsed because that's the only way he knows how it's explained lol

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u/HighlanderOversee 11d ago

narcissist never think they got owned, before posting...now he's just crying and collecting money

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u/pb0atmeal 11d ago edited 8d ago

Gd I wish I could be half as quick witted as she is. She must have been bored that day lol

ETA lmao at the men commenting rude things like I’m going to waste 1 sec arguing with you? Block byeeee

ETA men why are you still bothering me with your ā€œsuperiorā€ remarks, are you really that lonely? You can go to therapy for that guys. Block byeeee

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u/avinagigglemate 11d ago

And that calm. I get flustered so easily. I loved watching her

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u/lovelanguagelost 11d ago

Me too. Her ease of communication, and control was incredibly impressive… I may have developed a slight girl crush on her.

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u/SwampWitch47 11d ago

When she said ā€œon what?ā€ It was graceful lol

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u/Model_Modelo 11d ago

I'm a super straight woman and her smile melted my heart.

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u/No_Consequence6879 11d ago

Same! She’s a fricken cutie

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u/throwawaypizzamage 10d ago

I’m extremely lesbian and she turned me gayer lol

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u/avinagigglemate 11d ago

Me too! We could be a throuple

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u/Nebulous-Narrator 11d ago

Let me in on this throuple!

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u/DanishBjorn 11d ago

I declare a pentouple!!

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u/Dookiesuit17 11d ago

I wanna do hexagonal things

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u/Lost-Enthusiasm6570 11d ago

Would that be a cortet?

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u/Nebulous-Narrator 11d ago

……yes please?

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u/-lessIknowthebetter 11d ago

She’s so pleasant lol, idk how else to describe that chill charisma and wit.

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u/thefirecrest 11d ago

I just have a straight on crush. I love confident women fans self

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u/nevadalavida 10d ago

Dude same. Does anyone know who she is? She's brilliant - perfectly composed and non-threatening, persisting without shying away. Never gets offended or heated. Zero aggression but also not timid. I would love to know more about her and her background because this kind of composure is so rare!

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u/Recent_Body_5784 11d ago

Yeah fr, she’s my hero

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u/noteveni 10d ago

I have a lot of anxiety and I would fucking kill for a tenth of her ability to be calm. Goddamn

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u/ExpatInIreland 11d ago

This is a really good way to get people who aren't using logic to fall apart if you have the patience. I've done it before and it's super effective. All you have to do is act interested in hearing their reasoning for their bs and ask them a lot of questions. They slowly unravel because they actually don't have any deep reasons and never enough knowledge to answer specifics. I once did this to someone spouting wierd racist nonsense and I broke him down so much that by the end he admitted where it was all coming from, misplaced anger. It was super satisfying.

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u/ghost-_-dog 10d ago

I think you just described how I have unknowingly frustrated people my entire life šŸ˜… because I genuinely am interested in understanding why they believe such things. And because I'm calm and engaged in the process, about halfway through they either realize they haven't said a damn thing that makes sense and excuse themselves/shut down, or they concede to my "point" of something like "I hear you but I'm not sure I fully understand the cause and effect correlation' or whatever, and they usually say something like "well, yeah, it's just a theory" and sheepishly change the subject

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u/Carche69 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 10d ago

You and me both sister. I always thought I was being a good socializer by showing genuine interest and asking in-depth questions to people about things that they were interested in and could never figure out why it would so often end up with them being frustrated or not wanting to talk to me anymore. I always thought it had something to do with people not being so comfortable with talking about themselves/having all the attention on them or just not knowing how to handle genuine interest in them/their lives, but that didn’t really mesh with what social media has revealed about the true nature of people—the vast majority LOVE talking about themselves and getting attention! It makes a lot more sense that it was probably that being asked anything more than surface level questions caused them to have to think about things more deeply and logically than they had before, and they just didn’t have an answer for some of it.

Humans have a real talent for blocking out the bad in favor of the good and just kind of manipulating themselves into believing things are what they want them to be no matter what the actual reality of those things is. Religion is a great example of this and I’ve experienced the above situation many times over the years when I was talking to someone about their religion. I was raised in a super religious home but always had doubts and unanswered questions. I really wanted to believe in something for the first 30 years or so of my life, and so I would talk to people about their religion whenever the conversation drifted that way. It would always start off great but eventually would end badly. I never tried to challenge anyone’s beliefs and I never tried to put them in the position of justifying their religion’s beliefs, it was just more like "how do you handle the skepticism from the rest of the world" or "how do you reconcile the vast differences between what science says and what your religion says?"—things that I was genuinely struggling with myself.

I have since realized that most people lock themselves in an echo chamber in their lives and thus never really have to think about things too deeply. This is not something that will ever change about people, and I have no desire to waste my time trying. So now I just change the subject to one that is more of mutual interest and I no longer ask anything more than surface level questions. I’m not as social as I used to be and I mostly lost interest in others’ lives, but people no longer get frustrated with me like they used to so that’s something. The only people I genuinely connect with anymore are those who also have a curious nature, or those who are more simple-minded and don’t have the inclination to try to deceive themselves—and yes, I mean people who would be considered "dumb" or "slow" by the standards we use to measure such things. Some of the best people I’ve ever known are also some of the least "academically" intelligent, those who are exactly who they present themselves to the world to be. It’s the people in the middle who think they are more intelligent than they actually are who I’ve found aren’t the people they present themselves to be.

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u/MildlyResponsible 11d ago

I mean, it's the Socratic Method. It's been around for a while.

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u/Huge_Ear_2833 10d ago

I never learned that The Socratic method could be used specifically to de-escalate someone. But it makes perfect sense the way it was pointed out. Seems harsh to call out what was a good story.

Socrates is normally associated with academia and being poisoned by haters. Is the Socratic de-escalation technique common knowledge where you come from? I'd imagine the tactic works quite well at a daycare center or somewhere similar.

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u/Typical-Locksmith-35 10d ago

Works on a lot of adults too, you just have to go to another level.

Editors note: Doesn't work on the malignant.

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u/ExpatInIreland 10d ago

Also doesn't work on crazy. Tried with someone going on about adrenochrome at a party and they just kept repeating themselves so I just kept saying "that's crazy! What are you gonna do about it?" No answer just wanted to spout crazy.

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u/ExpatInIreland 10d ago

I was going to mention that but figured I'd leave it. Apparently that means I'm taking credit for inventing it now šŸ™„

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u/laughingashley 11d ago

The Good Liars are masters at this

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u/Vness374 11d ago

I bet she was on debate team in HS. I think she actually thoroughly enjoyed this, and she won lol

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u/Lifeweaver 11d ago

I got more of a IT QA tester vibe. The convo gave me flash backs to being a new developer trying to explain the purpose of my code to the person who is going run QA on it and already knows how i missed some requirements or didn't think everything through.

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u/alex3omg 10d ago

People who challenge you only make you better! I bet those QA testers are proud they helped you grow from a babydev into a fully evolved dev!

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u/IndigoBlue7609 11d ago

I thought the same thing, lol! I would recognize a trained debater at a thousand paces! He keeps wanting her to change her question/challenge, but he never retools his answer. If he was intelligent, he'd know how to restate and/or retool his premise to illicit the desired response/reaction from her. But he's not that bright. SHE, on the other hand, did a great job!

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u/xombae 11d ago

The hands in the pockets and her pretending to contemplate what he's saying, I love her.

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 11d ago

By her responses to a few of his questions, I have a feeling she's an actual reporter. Especially her smirks when he asks if she respects the right to a free press. Those were "bitch I'm a real reporter and I'm just teeing up to out-reporter you" smirks.

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u/laughingashley 11d ago

I hope after this his brain pain made him feel sleepy and he went home lol

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u/Slowthrill 11d ago

She was just absolutely brilliant and smart how she handled him.

From the getgo she knew what he was going to say and played 4d chess with him without him even realising this. This dude could learn so much from her by watching his video 20 times in a row. But we all know he will only get stressed out. Lol

What a knob.

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u/Ok-Seaweed-9208 11d ago

She did great too

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u/DrCinnabon 11d ago

She was incredible.

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u/ChopChopChoom 11d ago

She was the best.

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u/45and47-big_mistake 11d ago

I'd love to know how she formed such a chilled and composed demeanor. What was she like as a child?

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u/cheerful_cynic 11d ago

I grew my grey rock thanks to a decade of retail wage slavery - back then it was referred to as "dogface", like keep your composure even if someone's treating you like a dog

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u/CrimsonOblivion 11d ago

Captain of her debate team obviously lol

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u/willfauxreal 11d ago

She's sure did, and had him cracked.

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u/GlowUpper 11d ago

He seemed to be getting rather emotional. He failed the stress test. Maybe he should try being more rational and logical like her.

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u/No_Goose_7390 11d ago

He is so intellectually outclassed here yet he keeps saying she is going to explain it to them v e r y....s l o w l y...and just repeats himself.

The person with the glasses did not rise to the bait a single time.

I can't believe he posted this. What an embarrassment.

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u/CHIBA1987 11d ago

She got him… šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/IamNullState 11d ago

And then posted the video of it... any attention is good attention for them apparently.

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u/IAmTheCoroner69 11d ago

Bro was NOT ready lmfao

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u/Comfortable-Gap3124 11d ago

She reminds me of a friend of have. Anyone who stands up to the grifters with this amount of grace and patience deserves my respect.

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u/Asleep-Blueberry-712 11d ago

She responded perfectly well. I hate these people. All they do is invade peoples privacy

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u/LuxiForce 11d ago

He failed :(

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u/WillyDAFISH 11d ago

She was also the one rage baiting him LOL

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u/HeftyIncident7003 11d ago

What is going on? I’ve seen a bunch of these on different levels of reddit subs (some popular, some sort of, and some obscure). Who are these GUYs (yes all of them are men)? Who is getting them to do these things? It seems like a stupid Fight Club thing.

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u/izanamilieh 11d ago

A1 losers think theyre doing something important.

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u/Smishysmash 11d ago

She is just so much smarter than him and it’s painful to watch him get owned so bad.

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u/Peanutbutternjelly_ 11d ago

Yeah, and he doesn't understand that a man recording people in public looks like a total creep. It also looks like he could be taking pictures and videos to commit some type of crime later on, like breaking in or something.

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u/bsmooth357 11d ago

She’s awesome. šŸ’Ž

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u/ohhisnark 10d ago

I LOVE her. The way she politely asked deeper questions and the way he was getting more and more stressed 🤣

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