What's your least favourite type of social media content?

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AF_II@reddit

Honestly, all videos. I hate them! I can't bear the flicking through of moving stuff on tiktok like you're flicking through channels, it makes me nauseous. And when a total stranger starts telling me stuff face to camera or in voice over? Who cares! Who are you! Get off my phone, demon! I am very old.

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Rasty_lv@reddit

Ai generated slop. I hate it with passion.

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Temporary_Ebb9486@reddit

I also hate the pond life that thinks it’s interesting, why not go and fill out spreadsheets with fake balances. Why not say you’ve got a million pounds! If you feel sad add some zeros your a fucking billionaire, all you had to do is believe it’s real,

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Not really equivalent is it? People like fake things all the time, like WWE. If you enjoyed some content, and later found out it was largely AI generated, would you pretend you hadn’t enjoyed it?

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Proper_North_5382@reddit

I hate them as well. I sometimes go into the comments just to see who actually believes those videos or photos are real and to have a laugh.

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

Any video where they make an obvious deliberate mistake to encourage engagement. Just have to remind myself you beat them by not correcting it.

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Normal-Internal164@reddit

- fight videos - paedophile vigilantes - reform voters infiltrating hotels Etc etc

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

Fight videos where the context is definitely different from what actually happened

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

"I'm doing this to *raise awareness* of..."

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Lovehat@reddit

On Instagram, they post a video of something with them Infront of it. Adding nothing to it.

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

I just love hating stuff tbh.

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

When the Oxbridge grad journalist posts stuff where they pretend to be stupid, like: "Zack Polanski says people shouldn't be drunk in parliament, and yet his party wants drug reform 😏"

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

"Teens react to Led Zeppelin!" Who is watching this other than paedophiles?

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

Anything gym related. I just don’t find watching somebody lifting weights etc interesting at all

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afroafroafroafro@reddit

The hyper-aesthetic day in my Life videos. The 5am wake up, the perfectly curated matcha latte, the 10 step skincare routine, the clean girl workout set. It's not a life; it's an advertisement for a life that doesn't exist, designed to make you feel bad about your own perfectly normal, messy existence.

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

Worse is the "guys this is actually the real me, none of that fake stuff..." and then it's also a perfect life except with a few toast crumbs on the table.

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banananey@reddit

I want to see one where they stumble out of bed at 11am. Have a massive shit and a wank then eat leftover pizza for breakfast.

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Mccobsta@reddit

Those dances that only work on tiktok Its rather painful to watch someone try them in front of a crowd

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

Long YouTube videos where unfunny people try to analyse popular culture "Why The Office stopping being funny after season 6" or whatever. They clip up bits of the show and then explain to the viewer what happened in the show - we know! We watched it too. Bonus points for jump scare editing like it's 2015.

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Makemeup-beforeUgogo@reddit

Expressing uneducated opinions like they have weight grate on me the most

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afungalmirror@reddit

Long, earnest and humourless posts about important subjects. Worse thing twitter ever did was increase the character limit above 140. Even 280 is excessive imo, but "articles" can fuck off. It's not art if there's no restrictions.

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ThisIsAnAccount2306@reddit

Rage bate, with a specific mention for the "if you don't tip 150% on the bill, you are worthless, subhuman scum" type of crap that people put on purely to cause arguments and boost their own interaction.

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Sc0ttiShDUdE@reddit

asmr especially them whispering dudes

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SpectreSingh89@reddit

Young girls n boys licking / whispering anything on yt is just pure cringe. ASMR, to me, are natural sounds of people or objects for an example, the sound of people talking in a shopping mall or heavy rain in the background.

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Sc0ttiShDUdE@reddit

Yeah leave the whispering to the older generations

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mdmnl@reddit

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scruntyboon@reddit

"Auditors" on YouTube, absolute pond life, the lot of them

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

Guys who aren't fans of your football club getting tickets in the away end and then filming themselves. I don't want to be on your fucking YouTube channel, I come here to escape.

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WhaleSharkQueen@reddit

Anything that involves children. MLM huns using their kids to guilt trip people into joining up for their scam. Overconsumption tiktokers showering their kids in so much crap the poor things barely show a reaction to a mountain of sweets and toys perfectly tailored for social media, not for them Family vloggers showing too much of their private lives and trying to justify their shitty parental decisions and abuse ESPECIALLY ones that are constantly popping out kids but live in a fucking TINY HOME or a damn BUS where NONE of them can get any real privacy other than a tiny curtain in a tiny coffin-sized bunk bed pod Adult tiktokers buying into the latest viral lootbox toy trend complaining about 'oh it's so hard and stressful there were kids crying cuz there were none left' when they are only buying said thing because it's the Newest Trend (those fucking dumpling things) Parent tiktokers being ignorant of things they don't fully research complaining about/showing their kids crying and being upset blaming it on anyone but themselves (that glasgow KPop concert people assumed was KPop Demon Hunters and got horrifyingly racist about because they assumed anything listed KPop was KPop Demon Hunters instead of actually reading what they were buying the tickets for)

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Obvious-Water569@reddit

AI slop and racist shit. And Racist AI slop.

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

Anyone of any political persuasion trying to make their point with AI.

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mondo_generator@reddit

Videos that are broken into several parts and then are impossible to find the remaining other parts. It irritates the shit out of me.

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Bbew_Mot@reddit

These Facebook pages that claim to be patriotic and British but are all based in places like Vietnam or Sri Lanka and post either AI slop videos of pensioners who have worked hard all their lives but are now poor because of immigrants or posts that include a right wing talking point question like, 'should British schools teach British history?'

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UnderHisEye1411@reddit

Pretty specific: People in my industry posting smug and patronising explainers to "help" students. It's just an excuse to get clicks on Instagram, Julie.

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Fellattio_Nelson@reddit

Reactions to something, with some cunt sat there fake laughing at something that isn't.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

These are SO pointlessly annoying I’ve often wondered if it’s an attempt at a legal thing eg it doesn’t count as simply stealing the content as technically they’re providing “commentary” on it?

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TheToolman04@reddit

My personal 'favourite' is tagging oneself at hospital or similar then not telling anyone why, because people are nosey they want to know! "I'll DM you", fuck off, tell us all.

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pbfhpunkshop@reddit

Mostly TikTok shop stuff. I feel all the women who try to promote clothing by starting videos with something like "Where's my plus size ladies" or "This one's for all my short girlies" are all the people that used to be MLM people flogging stuff like candles or smudge proof lipstick. When people say "someone's getting fired for this" or "guys, I think there's a glitch on TikTok shop" and then show you some god awful tat that is still majorly overpriced. And the ones I'm really, really hating are the rage baiting ones where they're trying on clothes saying "guys I'm so confused" or "this doesn't look right, I think I'm doing something wrong" and it's a top where very obviously and simply their head is through an armhole, and it's done purely to get clicks on the item and comments correcting them, and worse is when they make multiple videos of all the suggestions but purposely changing an instruction to still have it wrong and get clicks and comments.

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Super-Surround-4347@reddit

Any short form video content. I'm just too old for that rubbish.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

My worst one is where people film themselves doing “good deeds”. Eg someone films themselves giving a homeless person £5000 or a car or similar. It’s so exploitative and inauthentic (the motivator is nothing to do with altruism but producing content).

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FMDollx@reddit

Thirst trap videos. Take a sexy picture, fine, you look hot, whatever. When people upload videos of themselves smouldering/stroking their chin/biting their lip all I can think of is how it would feel to be in the room with them watching them try to seduce an iPhone and I get SO icked out.

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Fufflewaffle@reddit

Usually just white American women. Doesn't matter what they're doing or saying.

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FornyHucker22@reddit

pet pics

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Apricot_Oasis@reddit

For me it’s pet pics where they say their pet “crossed the rainbow bridge”. I really don’t wanna see a picture of a dog I know has died.

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FornyHucker22@reddit

also I just realised I misread the title 😂😭🤦‍♂️

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FornyHucker22@reddit

yea not those posts☹️

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Johny_boii2@reddit

Everything ai

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Thi13een@reddit

Skincare influencers, especially when they’re young. Your skin is good because you’re 21! “OMG you are GLOWING” - yes she is, because she’s standing in front of lights and has oil all over her face. Also the little cheek press bounce back thing they do is beyond irritating - your cheek is supposed to do that. It’s not a result of your 8hr serum routine.

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Accomplished_Bee9033@reddit

this annoys me too, especially because a lot of the skincare influencers use filters to hide blemishes or any other imperfections. also constantly recommending products that they’ve never used, or only shown once ever and claiming that its their holy grail and this product specifically cured their acne etc as a huge undisclosed ad

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banwe11@reddit

Well this whole thread is kind of rage bait itself as it is just inviting people to hate on certain topics.

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PaddedValls@reddit (OP)

Oh my god... "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

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TheSecondiDare@reddit

Those videos of musclebound dickheads walking slowly through a crowd and editing the videos to make their presence impressive by zooming in on random people's faces. Fucking hate these losers.

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MrDavieT@reddit

The bit with the comments

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Wide-Landscape-3348@reddit

Any video that has music over it rather than the original sound

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djh_is_here@reddit

Also those fucking “auditors” are some of the saddest people on the planet.

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djh_is_here@reddit

I can’t stand the one-person am dram you get on TikTok. It’s normally one people pretending to be different Facebook market place personalities or something like that. There’s also that posh woman who pretends to be other mums at the park. She can get in the bin.

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BonchUK@reddit

Recycled content. Like you mentioned OP. Taking a video an critiquing it or reacting to it etc. The AI lyrics or joke comments to videos as well, they got old really fast.

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Jakevans97ss@reddit

Unoriginal content, influencers following trends

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MoblandJordan@reddit

Probably all of it?

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martinbean@reddit

Content created solely for clout/clicks/views rather than content created to sow discourse and/or connect with people over genuine interests.

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OneNormalBloke@reddit

Those silly emojis because you can't express yourself with words.

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JBEqualizer@reddit

💯

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Tenstone@reddit

🙉

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D0wnb0at@reddit

It’s a huge guilty pleasure to watch those “Reddit Story” (usually Ai) TikTok’s. I know they are fake, but I just really enjoy them. My least favourite type of social media content is when they only post part 1 of the story. JUST POST THE WHOLE FUCKING THING YOU MONSTERS. Doesn’t matter how many times I block accounts what only post 1 part, my feed is full of them.

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Fingers_9@reddit

Any sort of blind ranking.

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The_Makster@reddit

> are the videos where they have taken someones good content, superimposed themselves over it and they sit there nodding, or pointing up towards the stolen content. Agree with this though I take it a step further and when the clip has other clips of others reacting to something. So you take a 30 second clip and have it jump cut every couple of seconds to another clip of someone else reacting to it. It isn't so much the clip but how to breaks the pace of the clip so it chops it up even more. And related to movies is the AI summary voice over. I get we're all busy but there is something insulting about condensing years of work, hours of labour, into a 2 hour piece of media based on artistic vision only to condense it further to a 20 minute summary. And then there is TikTok/Instagram short compilations on YT where they don't credit the uploader..

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RainbowPenguin1000@reddit

Short form video.

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Apprehensive_Beach33@reddit

And what’s worse is when it’s a video that you would genuinely be interested in watching, but they haven’t linked the original video, so you are unable to watch it without a random person looking obnoxious for no reason being there.

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Spottyjamie@reddit

“What do you call this?”

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UtopiaFrenzy@reddit

“Run don’t walk” to B&M

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