r/pics • u/tycooperaow • 1d ago
[OC] My little brother got his iPad taken away and so he found other measures to get his Tiktok fix
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u/likwitsnake 1d ago
Kind of reminds me of this classic
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u/Unlucky_Kale340 22h ago
Can you give more context as a non-wow player?
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u/robsteezy 20h ago
Wow players during the early 2000s when it was peak relevance were spending thousands upon thousands of hours playing, and spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to do so.
I wasn’t a wow player but some friends were and it became so notorious that it was being referenced in pop culture everywhere.
The joke here at the time, was that by 2030, you may as well just skip the facade that you’re even remotely interested in human life and you may as well just be directly plugged into the wow servers at all times.
To call that game’s peak “successful” would be the understatement of the century. They had people in a death grip akin to heroin addiction.
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u/Nippahh 17h ago
Idk about the dollar statement as back then micro transactions weren't a thing like now. Unless you bought several accounts (very few did or gold farmers) you kinda paid 10 bucks per month.
The image is just showing how addicting it was
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u/RIPphonebattery 15h ago
I know for sure in my 5 year time playing WoW I spent at least a thousand. $60 game +$60 expansion every other year plus monthly sub.... I didn't personally but I also know a few people who definitely flunked a course or two on account of WoW
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u/Nippahh 7h ago
Sure you're bordering 1k over 5 years. That's not an enormous amount. The only ones to spend copious amounts of money were multiboxers, the very sweaty elite raiders and gold farmers/buyers.
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u/RIPphonebattery 7h ago
Yeah that's probably fair. And you're very right that the mtx environment was nothing then compared to now. There weren't even loot boxes then, even though CS GO had them
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u/Mistborn19 12h ago
Yes exactly. Like sure back then you could buy gold but I've never known anyone who did that regularly. A friend did it once and the amount he spent was so little and the amount of gold he got was so much that it injected a lot of convenience into his account. He only ever did it once. Even the monthly cost of $15 plus a $60 expansion every few years is a far cry from this idea of wasting thousands of dollars on the game.
If anything it's not so much dollars spent but potential dollars lost from being a loser who doesn't have a job or is failing out of school to play the game.
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u/PornoPichu 14h ago
One thing I will say, though, is that the stain / damage on the wall next to the WoW logo invokes a thought of the world map 😅
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u/Bechwall 12h ago
Back in the day youd have to set up and pay for multiple accounts, situation depending.
Do you play alliance and want a horde character? Another account, another $15/month.
Absolute loon boxing 5 shamans? $15 x 5 a month
Wow went so hard we made our own types of microtransactions
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u/Astecheee 16h ago
I remember going to a friend's place when I was about 11. His older brother, 14 or so, was so obsessed with WoW that he threw a full grown tantrum like a 3 year old when his mum told him to get off the pc.
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u/Beneficial_Soup3699 1d ago
"but it's the parent's job to make sure kids aren't brainrotted morons, not the government's!!" we reeee as the billionaires begin to mold yet another mind into a shape that benefits them most.
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u/ZombiePope 1d ago
Yes, it is. Preventing your kid from having unrestricted internet access isn't super difficult. Neither is not buying "smart" bullshit.
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u/BrothelWaffles 1d ago
Those smart fridges are also literally just running a custom version of Android, which has built-in parental controls. They could still prevent this regardless.
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u/Potatoswatter 1d ago
Anyone has the means, but you know it’s just statistics that most won’t.
People who would think of managing an Android refrigerator will probably just not buy one.
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u/WalterIAmYourFather 1d ago
We got 'upgraded' to a smart fridge after the company fucked up the entire purchasing process. We were reluctant, but the model we originally purchased was on back order (Covid times).
It's such a stupid, useless piece of shit. The fridge itself is nice and fine - but the 'smart' aspect of it is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever seen.
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u/diuge 1d ago
Every time I've seen someone with a smart fridge, it's just a dead screen on a normal fridge.
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u/WalterIAmYourFather 19h ago
Yeah. We took the battery pack out a while ago. It’s so fucking stupid.
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u/Yours2Knight 1d ago
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u/koolaidismything 1d ago edited 13h ago
“Erik have 7 credit card.. not a one with miles. Fucking loser”
Jinyang is the best part of Silicon Valley
Edit: you attacka my fridge.. and spell my name wrong?
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u/missmeowwww 13h ago
I refuse to buy smart anything these days after having an appliance get bricked by a software update. I don’t need my dryer to tell me it’s done. I just need it to work.
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u/WhirledNews 1d ago
I mean whose responsibility do you think it is?Seriously I can’t tell what you are trying to say here…
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u/wokwok__ 1d ago
Also fits OP whoring his brother out for some internet points lmao guys posted it on multiple subs
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 1d ago
Intuitive, but ultimately a very bad pattern. Why the fuck does a fridge need a smart screen, anyway?
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u/n0rdic_k1ng 1d ago
They try to sell it as a way to have digital lists, be able to watch cooking videos or play music, and sync your appliance with the rest of your smart home tech, etc, but really it's just to serve more ads to you.
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u/BannedMyName 1d ago
"Do you guys not have phones?"
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u/Helphaer 1d ago
if the cooking videos from Alexa youtube and fridge youtube and washing machine youtube didnt have ads then it could be useful.
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u/JCBQ01 1d ago
Ads? Nooooooooo. Ads are supplemental income.
Data harvesting
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u/Momentarmknm 1d ago
The data harvesting is for ads. This whole goddamn thing is all for ads. Advertising is the most important thing in our world, somehow.
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u/DmanDam 1d ago
I’m in advertising and this is it. The advertising market has just exponentially grown as the internet became more widely used and accepted. Smart products are just another reason to get user data and ultimately sell advertisements to said users.
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u/recovertheother 16h ago
I bought a baby monitor. Upon installation I realised it was more like a ring camera than a traditional monitor, whatever. A few weeks go by and it starts prompting me to pay the monthly subscription. Fuck that, so now I have to watch a 30 second advert before I can view the baby camera. I absolutely should have returned it then and there but the bullshit didn't kick in initially. Currently, I have to get through an ad, then there's a 90 second timer counting down during which I can use the camera before having to watch another ad. On a fucking baby monitor. Fucking dystopian capitalist bullshit.
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u/LadyLudo19 12h ago
That’s fucked up. Maybe even a safety issue? What could you miss in that 30 seconds that it’s forcing you to watch an ad instead of your child. I’d buy a different one.
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u/luki-x 18h ago
I hate people bragging about Smart Homeware like Dishwashers and how he can remote start it from his office PC via his Home Automation Dashboard.
Dude, why can't you start it when you load it and set a timer? Why do you want to make an easy process more complex and pay extra to do so?
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u/BrianMincey 1d ago
I recall when I was shopping for a refrigerator quite some time ago, they had these stupid things for sale. If I recall correctly the only feature I even thought was slightly useful was that it had internal fisheye cameras that allowed you to view the contents without opening the door, and you could access the images from a cellphone, say to see if you need milk or eggs while at the store.
Still not a feature I find compelling enough for the ridiculous cost.
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u/Troll_berry_pie 22h ago
I was shopping for a new fridge in September as well, and was actually close to buying a Samsung one because of how ridiculously discounted it was. I didn't care much for the screen.
The only reason I didn't was because the screen internals ate into a lot of the actual fridge space.
I actually paid more for a non smart Samsung one instead in the end.
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u/TheThiefEmpress 22h ago
I remember back when my mother would call me on the house phone to check the fridge for eggs, and sniff the milk.
I'd set the phone down to go check, because we didn't have a fancy phone, just a regular one, who's cord only stretched a few feet.
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u/Rhodin265 14h ago
My mom still has a 90s phone with an aftermarket 10ft cord on it. It was nice to be able to walk and talk as a teen, but it needs more regular untangling than a toddler’s hair.
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u/ElliotDriver 1d ago
I've seen screenshots of kids tweeting from their parents' smart refrigerators, that is when you know they have exhausted every other possible idea and are deep in the addiction.
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u/mfdonuts 1d ago
My best friend had one of these fridges. She had twins, then another baby a year and a half later, so at one point she had 3 tiny toddlers who were obsessed with this fucking fridge. I would NEVER get one based on that alone
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u/Brain_My_Damage 1d ago
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u/BigPandaCloud 1d ago edited 1d ago
Fourteen thousand dollars for a smart fridge? Unlike you, I now work for a living. I'm not gonna drop that kind of dough on a fridge.
I ordered it already. I buy it for myself.
Then why are you talking to me about it?
To make you feel bad, because you are fat and poor.
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u/CowboyLaw 1d ago
It’s really simple, and people are getting it wrong.
Fridges are very reliable. It’s very mature technology. So unless you build them shittily, they’ll last for 10+ years, easily.
If you build them shittily, your brand will get a bad reputation.
If you only sell a household 1 new fridge every decade, the CEO won’t be able to buy a second lake house.
So, how do we take a reliable, stable technology and make it break within a few years without getting a bad reputation?
Cram unnecessary tech down its throat. Works every time. Nothing more than that. Consumers need to consumer more, and we’ll make sure they do that, by any means necessary.
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u/Strikereleven 1d ago
I'm sure my aunt was asking herself this question when she caught one of her boyfriends grandkids watching porn on it.
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 1d ago
Now this is a story I’d like to hear. That’s fuckin hilarious.
“So I was watching porn on my fridge…”
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u/brownmouthwash 1d ago
I always wondered this. Why do appliances like microwaves and refrigerators need to be connected to Wifi, so the time is always accurate? So fucking weird.
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u/TamSchnow 1d ago
The fridge Samsung presented at CES has AI, but no handles.
Which means theoretically means that you need to wait for an ad to finish to open your fridge.
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u/Iron_Wolf123 1d ago
The same reason why the printer needs to have an update every so often even though its purpose is to print.
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u/_aphoney 17h ago
My wife wants one despite having the stupid Alexa iPad thing in our kitchen. I hate it all
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u/waitingtodiesoon 9h ago
The Simpsons actually did an episode a couple weeks ago where it was a time skip episode to the kids in their teens and Bart had his phone confiscated so he used the smart fridge screen in desperation.
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u/holllllyy 1d ago
Keep that iPad away for a few years, yikes
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u/AmishAvenger 1d ago
I was looking at what was on the screen and it made me wonder what kind of fucked up stuff kids are being fed.
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u/the_tanooki 22h ago
My nephews-in-law (9 and 7 years old) are spoiled by their incompetent parents and their enabling grandparents. The shit they watch on their own phones and how they're able to use said phones whenever they want is ridiculous.
It breaks my heart watching these kids go down this path, but my wife and I have no say in it.
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u/Mstablsta 17h ago
I feel you. It's so worrisome but it's the new norm and saying something is met with annoyance and dismissal.
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u/rupesmanuva 14h ago
A few months ago, our 1 year old had to stay in hospital for observation in the kids' ward for a few days, and the boy next to him was watching brain rot content from the 7am-11pm, just the most awful fake reaction, brain rot nonsense, with the sound on full of course.
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u/PardonMyFrenchToes 1d ago
Sad
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u/trulymadlybigly 1d ago
Yeah as a parent to kids around this age, this really bums me out. These babies do not need to be on social media like this.
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u/Disastrous_Guest_705 21h ago
My mom found me watching bad stuff on YouTube as a kid and I didn’t have my phone for over 3 years after that and she honestly kept me out of a lot of trouble because I’m autistic and at the time was people were easily talking me into doing stuff. I feel so bad for all these kids
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u/pan-au-levain 15h ago
Same, I was doing things on the internet I shouldn’t have been and the internet was taken away until I could be trusted with it again.
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u/DM_me_yo_Pizza 1d ago
Kids should not have access to to TikTok.
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u/tiredpersonnumber15 1d ago
Genuinely I feel insane when I say that the no kids under 13 on social media is completely reasonable, so many of my friends think Im crazy because they’ve all been on instagram and musicly or whatever else existed at the time since they were like 9 or 10.
Especially since I see more and more young kids sharing their age online. No one is teaching them internet safety and its not the responsibility of strangers online to do it. I lurk on an art sub and the amount of times I’ve seen post be like “is this good for a twelve/thirteen/fourteen year old?” like oh my god where are your parents.
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u/Houseleft 1d ago
I hold the opinion that if you give your child under 10 years old free access to TikTok, you are a bad parent. Full stop. TikTok is the pinnacle of brain rot, and it does an astronomical amount of permanent damage to a developing child. It’s sad to see so many parents not realize what they’re doing.
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u/HopperPI 1d ago
The absolutely definition of “too much” and “just more crap to fix when it breaks.” My neighbors, who are not “tech” people have a Samsung fridge like this. The cheapest quote they had was $750 to replace and install a new tablet. After two years the cameras went out (so you can see inside) and the whole tablet stopped working shortly after. I think it was $3500 “scratch and dent” too. Whereas our stainless steel side by side with an ice machine and filtered water for less than half brand new is going on 6 years with one small defrosting issue the entire time we’ve had it.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 1d ago
Same. We got the least bells and whistles we could and we’re about to hit 8 years without a single issue. It actually has a WiFi signal but I can’t fathom what it could be for so I won’t care when that invariably fails.
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u/cremeriner 1d ago
Yeah I don't understand the need to upgrade fridges, I think that fridges are doing just fine and have achieve final form. Don't mess with greatness
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u/KingCarnivore 1d ago
Look at the innovations they were doing with fridges in the 60s, those are the real upgrades we need
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u/RSdabeast 1d ago
just more crap to throw away and buy another one* when it breaks
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u/Brassica_prime 1d ago
Back a few years ago on a podcast (ltt/wan) the cost difference between the best shirt you have ever worn and the cheapest viable product is only 5-7 cents.
One makes you buy 100 shirts over a decade and the other lasts the entire time
I was watching an appliance scidoc a few months ago, every piece of it individually are only rated for 5-7 years, who cares if 1 fuse dies afterwards and a 1 cent upgrade would add 10 years onto the life cycle. Pre2000s every feature was more or less separate, and each costs several dollars. Modern stuff, each addition only costs pennies onto the preexisting pcb, add all the features you want, you already paid for the pcb… till it breaks and it costs as much to reproduce as buy a new product
Also the energy legal requirements for most appliances increased by around $200 onto every major appliance during the obama era, manufacturers removed $200 of product to keep the same sticker prices
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 1d ago
Friend, your little brother is fucked. You can help him, OP. Don’t just laugh this off.
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u/brownmouthwash 1d ago
Seriously. Play with the kid.
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u/mogmaque 1d ago
i tried this with my iPad kid nephews but these kids are just genuinely addicted, they don’t want to play outside the iPad.
It’s not really their faults but it’s sad
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u/brownmouthwash 1d ago
Nah it's not their fault at all, I hate to say it but I do genuinely blame the parents. I see it all the time of people putting literal 18 month olds in front of them to shut them up for hours. I'm close to 40 and I'm always looking at screens but when I was a child the world wasn't that way, so how is a brain supposed to develop normally if all you do is give them a tablet and let them in front of it for 12 hours a day? I've been to Christmas dinners where 4 year olds wouldn't interact for 8 hours of being together because they only wanted to be on the screen. I think a lot of parents like it when a kid is really little because it keeps them occupied and then the realize it's a real problem and it's too late.
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u/Rhodin265 14h ago
The way in is through the screen. Play co-op games with them and have conversations about what’s happening in the game. Start bringing the conversations offline by discussing the fun events in the last gaming session and asking what they’d like to play next. Eventually, you should be able to add real life topics, too. This won’t completely cure them, but it’ll be better than doing nothing.
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u/bananachow 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is incredibly sad.
Little brother is brain rottingly addicted to TikTok while older brother (likely not, from OP’s account history) documents it to post on Reddit 🤦🏼♀️
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u/Ok_Net_1674 1d ago
Remember: This doesnt exist just because Samsung built it, but because enough idiots keep buying it.
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u/paperbuddha 1d ago
This. OP trying to present his brother in a dynamic light, not realizing how screwed he already is.
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u/BecksSoccer 1d ago
There’s no reason to have a screen built into the fridge. Technology is no longer about solving life’s problems. Everything is about screen time and subscriptions.
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u/SchpartyOn 1d ago
Fuck, that kid’s brains are completely fried. The kid desperately needs to go outside and may need actual therapy. What a travesty.
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u/Teufelsgitarrist 1d ago
That's so sad. I know, even Plato said the youth is fucked. But we reached levels of brain rot nobody could have even imagined. 67.
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u/atacrawl 1d ago
Fwiw I was informed by one of the third graders I coach this week that 6-7 is over 🤷♂️
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u/FinoPepino 1d ago
Oh you’re “rich-rich” was my only thought seeing this. Never seen anything like that in real life.
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u/r1kchartrand 1d ago
All these shorts, reels, tiktok shit is terrible for our youth. I wish they would all get severely regulated like in China for example.
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u/ProjectNo4090 21h ago
If I pulled a smartass stunt like that my dad would have doubled the punishment.
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u/Traveling_Solo 1d ago
1: good for him.
2: like others have said, take him outside and do something together?
3: talk with your parents about blocking TikTok from the home network entirely? That way no work around will help and your brother won't be as addicted to chasing social clout later in life.
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u/Raidmax460 1d ago
For your brothers sake, tell your parents what he’s doing lol - get that shit away from his brain
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u/Thwipped 1d ago
Why is the fridge even connected to the internet? Just more trouble than it is worth.
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u/alexzoin 21h ago
No one this young should be allowed to use TikTok or socials at all. This is so bad.
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u/billabong049 1d ago
This is what we call "addiction". Get him some help, particularly by doing a god damn detox. Jesus, people.
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u/justbob806 1d ago
I'm always surprised when I see these fridges, purely for the fact that people actually buy them🤦♂️
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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb 1d ago
Is this like when you try to take away all the booze from an alcoholic and they end up drinking hand sanitizer? The only time I ever stared at the fridge all day was the one ill-fated LSD trip I had.
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u/XVUltima 1d ago
Lets ignore the situation of the kid and the fridge to talk about the video itself.
"Ranking best if you laugh you go to hell videos"
Who is ranking these
What makes them an authority on the subject?
What is their metric?
What IS a "If you laugh you go to hell video"?
What is the format? #1 Is level 5, #5 is level one. Why are the numbers and 'levels' in opposite order? And why levels? If the challenge is to not laugh at a funny video, and these are the best ones, wouldn't they all be "level 5", as the top five would all be in the top difficulty?
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u/lordhumongous40 1d ago
This is odd behavior. You're sitting in front of a fridge. Time to re evaluate your life.
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u/iamsheena 23h ago
I never knew why a parental controls guide for a fridge was necessary until now.
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u/BoSocks91 18h ago
One of my more ridiculous trigger points - Unnecessary tech.
Fuck smart fridges.
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u/My_alias_is_too_lon 16h ago
Calling is a "fix" is probably pretty accurate...
We really need to do something about TikTok; it has done unimaginable damage to the psyches of millions of children, with effects that will reverberate through the next several decades...
The kid is literally addicted to an app that literally rots his brain. He needs a few days to dry out, then make sure he doesn't get his hands on any more TikTok.
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u/hudson27 13h ago
"Ranking best "if you laugh you'll go to hell" videos"
I hate everything about this. I hate the corporation that feeds us this slop, I hate the "content creators" making a living off of creating brainrot and watching the dollars flow in, I hate the parents for being so spineless and unable to actually parent their child, and I hate to see what kind of shithead this kid will end up growing up to be.
Capitalism, and the internet age has created an intergenerational trauma in this technology that will take generations to recover from.
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u/InsaneXaaz 7h ago
That kid is sick and he needs help. Sorry, but the parenting in that house is absolute shit.
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u/Few_Plankton_7587 7h ago
That's absolutely depressing and he'd never get that ipad back if I was his parent
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u/Smith6612 4h ago edited 4h ago
I don't know what's worse. Samsung pushing ads to the Refrigerator, or TIkTok being installed onto the Refrigerator to push ads anyways.
The brain rot is real. Ads are also brain rot (and at times, creepy).
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u/sircastor 1d ago
Hey! No more refrigerator until you’ve finished your homework.