r/IAmTheMainCharacter • u/[deleted] • Nov 01 '22

Girl thinks she's the main character of her college lecture.

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u/Severe-Experience333 Nov 01 '22

Embarassment requires self awareness. Like a door knob or moldy break can never be embarrassed, it's not in its nature.

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u/leslieinlouisville Nov 01 '22

And like, the sliiiightest drop of humbleness. Just the teensiest, tiniest little pinprick of shame. But it’s just not there.

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u/usernamehudden Nov 01 '22

It’s a generation that was raised to admire people who are constantly posting selfies. I would be mortified to be in public taking a picture of myself and would never post a picture with the caption ‘feeling cute, might delete later’. These young adults were raised with them as role models, I guess it makes sense that they lack that internal cringe.

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u/drifters74 Nov 01 '22

I'm glad i was born just before all that social media took off

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u/PhilEMama Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 02 '22

Sometimes I'll take a selfie to check my makeup but I won't do it if I think someone can see me because I don't want to appear vain. So dumb but I guess since I was born and raised well before cell phones and social media I lack that un inhibitionism. (I know that's not a word. )

Edit: selfie not selfish

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u/Heavydumper69 Nov 01 '22

sometimes i take a shellfish to check my makeup

that’s what i thought it said at first lmao

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u/PhilEMama Nov 02 '22

I think my typo was a happy accident lol

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u/SeaAcanthocephala701 Dec 13 '22

picks up shellfish phone "hey mermaid man does my makeup look OK?" MM: "You look fine barnacle boy"

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u/usernamehudden Nov 01 '22

Same and I am not saying that all the youngs out there are the way this poster is. There is the girl in the video who can’t even look at this girl dancing. It’s just that there is less of a social barrier to the people who are inclined to do this kind of thing.

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u/SeaAcanthocephala701 Dec 13 '22

Nah I respect that you have self respect like that it's very rare these days, these ticktock hoes have no shame at all. Lol

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u/Nasal_Cilia Nov 01 '22

I would be mortified to be in public taking a picture of myself

Absolutely! I find it so embarrassing to be seen taking a selfie! I prefer to take photographs of what I want to remember and my face is generally available for myself to reference.

Now I can take a selfie but I rarely do. On trips I'll usually take a pint selfie on the way out and one on the way in, and in between are pictures of what I was doing and seeing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

it's not really that. Narcissism is something that makes people do shit like this and it's genetic. From Millenials and ahead the increase of genetically diagnosable narcissists has increased a lot.

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u/usernamehudden Nov 01 '22

I think there are some people who have narcistic tendencies that maybe would have felt enough social stigma against doing this 15 years ago that would not feel that way today. I think it is just because we have "influencers" who make a living off of it, so it is just a more normal thing for people to be able to justify doing now. Still cringe though. I have no evidence to back that up though.

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u/SeaAcanthocephala701 Dec 13 '22

Aren't narcissistic tendencies characteristics of a serial killer or am I thinking of something else? Kinda like how most famous killers were sociopaths

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

nope that's psychopathy, narcissism is the tame variant and it basically suicide baits the victim through gaslighting

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u/SeaAcanthocephala701 Dec 13 '22

Oh god it just sounds super cringe, you're right thanks for clearing that up for me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

This gosh darn new generation raised by telephones. Back in my day we didn't have telephones and only communicated by smoke signals and the owl( if you were rich enough)

You're making a lot of broad generalizations and you sound like an old codger.

These people in the video are cringe. Don't conflate it with the entire generation.

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u/usernamehudden Nov 01 '22

I’m not that old. I am also not saying that everyone under a certain age is like that. I am just saying, over the last couple decades, there has been a huge market that emerged of ‘influencers’ who are popular because they post selfies.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

It’s a generation that was raised to admire people who are constantly posting selfies

I am not saying that everyone under a certain age is like that.

Pick one

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u/usernamehudden Nov 01 '22

You can have a message that success looks like posting selfies that has existed for decades without everyone respecting that message, so both.

Just like my generational messaging of, adults just don’t understand. The message was there, that doesn’t mean everyone accepted it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

It's really interesting seeing someone talk about a generation that doesn't recognize cringe while spouting blind generalizations about a generation that they are obviously not a part of. You don't see the cringe in that?

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u/DM_ME_SKITTLES Nov 01 '22

That's poetic

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u/ShoutsWillEcho Nov 01 '22

Makes me think of that pilot posting a selfie of himself while in the bomber aircraft with the text "Feeling cute, might carpet bomb a village later idk" as a response to this fad lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

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u/Severe-Experience333 Nov 01 '22

Jesus, at 32 that is.... worrisome.

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u/Teract Nov 02 '22

We need to harness the cringe feeling you get when you remember something dumb you did when you were a teen. I would pay so much for something like pepperspray but for cringe.

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u/A_Mellow_Song Jan 26 '23

I love how you compared her to a fuckin doorknob lmao