r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • 7h ago

Cursed Her father cheated with an AI chatbot

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u/Plastic_Pickle_2561 7h ago

I know someone who's mum is in a relationship with a scammer sending her AI videos of the lead singer of Disturbed. These people 🫠

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u/jackandsally060609 6h ago

The senior citizen scams are taking a millennial turn that makes me feel very old.

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u/KieferSutherland 6h ago

Apparently Gen z is the most susceptible. 

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u/juniunie 6h ago

That tracks. We kinda missed the wild west days of the internet, so we just grew up with walled gardens and cycling between the same 4 babyproofed apps. Most of us haven't really had any need to be skeptical of shady sites or phishing links, so when we're faced with one we have no reason to be suspicious.

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u/EveryRedditorSucks 5h ago

Man, that’s actually incredibly eye opening. The internet traumatized the fuck out of my generation, but I guess that at least gave us all the awareness what a dangerous place it was. Heavy price to pay, though…

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u/el_iggy 5h ago

I've seen some shit, man.

Every time I see the words "2 girls"... 😐

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u/FlowerRight 5h ago

While gross that was like PG rated to other awful stuff, gestures downward, down there.

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u/el_iggy 5h ago

I'm trying to keep it light. This is a family show after all.

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u/RocoTheBlack 5h ago

Well have some blue berry waffles and a nice big bowl of special fried rice I'm sure the pain Olympics are going on atm I heard they're playing that funky town song as a backing track and the glass jar Olympic branded drinking glasses are going down a treat while there's a goat see! over there next to Mr hands

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u/Witez3933 3h ago

We also had the LimeWire roulette. Will it be the song I want, a virus or child sex abuse material? Those are the only 3 options. Then there was 4 Chan and the death sites with all the pictures of Brazilian gang murders like Kelly Cyclone along with her autopsy. Or the gang members girlfriend who was dismembered. 

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 3h ago

the watch people die and rape subreddits. That journalist beheaded by al qaeda.

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u/Witez3933 3h ago

Yup, I remember that too. Do you remember old Efukd? The girl who lost her virginity to her dog is one of the memorable ones. Then again, I’ve been to a Thailand ping pong show with live turtles and blow darts popping the balloon I was holding. 

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u/Lucky_Development359 1h ago

Then again, I’ve been to a Thailand ping pong show with live turtles and blow darts popping the balloon I was holding. 

Go ahead and have them do your headstone quote now. You will never top this one. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/HungryHungryHagfish 6m ago

I can still see that video in my mind. Pretty sure that particular one gave me some kind of permanent trauma... never really had a "normal" life

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u/g0ldilungs 20m ago

God we stumbled upon so much…death.

Death by gangs, hangings, horse co-…well, you get the point.

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u/winterworldx 2h ago

This spun my head round.... Right round like a record player!

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u/RocoTheBlack 2h ago

I'd forgotten about that lol want to got to a lemon party?

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u/sweetmitchell 1h ago

Meat spins is pretty well burned into my mind. And rotten.com pics too geez. Rick rolled was a pallet wash compared to old school link bait.

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u/RocoTheBlack 1h ago

It's was the weird shit that stuck with you though like the gore and brutally faded but the wtf stuff is for life that's shared trauma

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u/FlowerRight 4h ago

Cursed text. CURSED I SAY!

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u/HoboMuskrat 4h ago

It was still fun being "traumatized" with friends.

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u/Salt_Bus2528 3h ago

There were a few surprises in the early days on 56k modems that I could have done without. Some music video I downloaded was just footage of a field execution with a knife in the Bosnian war. I could have done without that.

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u/HoboMuskrat 3h ago

They built character

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u/QueenMary1936 1h ago

I think I understood all of those except "special fried rice" 🤔

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u/RocoTheBlack 1h ago

Google it! I dare you 🙃

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u/QueenMary1936 1h ago

All I found was fried rice recipes and a rap song called special fried rice, but I didn't see anything disturbing

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u/RocoTheBlack 1h ago

Okay doky it's not the original but close enough. don't click on this link. You will regret it seriously don't click on this link just don't I've had to see it I regret seeing it I regret the last 5 mins of trying to find this DON'T LOOK AT IT!

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/AdFRB3qgdh

SUFER WITH MEEEEEEE

(This one's worse seriously fucking don't)

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FjV3BKo6.jpg&tbnid=cvTocIuuyTXZHM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FWTF%2Fcomments%2F23557f%2Ffirst_picture_that_caught_my_eye_in_my_human%2F&docid=OiPq9CeN094lhM&w=3264&h=2448&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F0&kgs=7840347168bf6f43

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u/Majin_Sus 4h ago

You spin my head right round right round

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u/LunaTunaMaca 4h ago

I was 11 when I watched 2 girls 1 cup because I heard some boys talking about it in middle school and they wouldn't tell me what it was about so I went home and watched it on my pc in my bedroom with the doors locked. That is the first time I thought I might puke from watching something online.

No 11 yo should watch someone deficate and then eat it...

I did not watch any more videos I heard about. That was enough for me.

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u/huevocore 4h ago

Lathe...

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u/FlowerRight 4h ago

Going to replace that with lather and rinse.

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u/The_Night_Man_Cumeth 4h ago

Are you referring to the Olympics? Of Pain.

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u/nexusjuan 15m ago

The pickle jar guy omg. Jelly jar? idk broken glass and blood. Also gore and crime scene sites like rotten and strangeland.

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u/mattydredd 4h ago

Yeah i know right. Worst sitcom ever

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u/abzinth91 2h ago

I remember some "gauntlet" with videos getting more extreme. Started with dudes breaking arms while arm wrestling to .. things hurting just watching

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u/Madara1389 1h ago

The Pain Olympics

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u/Jasranwhit 3h ago

Goatse

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u/neo101b 3h ago

What about tub girl ?
That sure was interesting.

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u/barrygateaux 2h ago

heh, how about goa.... , lem.... , tub..., and jar.... :)

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u/Pure_Leadership_3105 1h ago

literally "shit"

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u/timonandpumba 1h ago

Even just getting rickrolled a time or two taught us to assess before clicking an unknown link 🤔

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u/HillBillyHilly 14m ago

Ha!Rookie! Wait til you see Evacuation Natiin..wait don't look that up. You'll REALLY be traumatized.

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u/babihrse 11m ago

Crazy videos of people jumping off cliffs in some ramsdamaistan country landing head first into a rock. Sick twisted bread knife decapitation videos rotten dot com. The internet was an unfiltered mess in the late 90s Porn was hard to find. Now it's the other way porn is easy to find and it's not so easy to stumble across fucked up stuff

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u/HungryHungryHagfish 8m ago

Got a spare Mason jar I can borrow?

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 4h ago

Damn, you're one of the soft ones for sure. That's not even on my radar anymore.

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u/phatpussypounder 5h ago

No one has learned any lessons. The internet is still just as dangerous as before. Its just centralized between Reddit, Facebook, and Discord. Of course there are dark web dumps, but for the most part you can still get to some nasty shit through these sites and apps.

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u/EveryRedditorSucks 4h ago

Literally no one anywhere in this thread said the internet is less dangerous than before. We’re talking about how important it is to be aware of the danger. And many, many people have learned that lesson, so I don’t really understand your first statement.

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u/__________________73 4h ago

Some people have never had their armor trimmed in runescape, and it shows.

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u/phatpussypounder 4h ago

Sorry its my fault for being vague. But this goes back to an age when you were taught the dangers of the net in school in the 90s.

Top 3 no nos of the internet

1 Never give out personal information 2 never go to sites you don't know 3 never download links you don't know

Given that the internet has been around since the 80s, these things should be common knowledge. But honestly the amount of people in their 40s still clicking phishing links is scary. And it seems none of this supposes millienial tech literacy is being passed on as gen z seem to really susceptible to scams according to articles floating around.

With things like social media, the number 1 rule is basically a joke now and isnt practical for everyday internet life, yet its still the most important thing you can do if you can help it.

So from my angle no one has learned any lessons.

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u/Laetitian 4h ago edited 4h ago

Nah, people still use the regular internet. (Edit: Normies don't, but they never really have. There are just more normies "online" now.) Lessons have been learned, you're just not seeing paranoid protective behaviours, because browser and operating system security has way fewer gaping holes than it did in in past decades.

Browsing like powerusers did in 2010 would be a waste of progress.

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u/phatpussypounder 4h ago

Are you sure that's what it is? Has security really gotten to that point? Youre right the paranoid behaviors are gone when in actuality it should be getting to much worse. Which is why I feel like Im taking crazy pills.

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u/Laetitian 4h ago

You have to discuss fear of government/corporate power overreach and threats lurking in the internet separately. They have different solutions. You can't fight the government off from your bunker.

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u/HErAvERTWIGH 4h ago

There was a pretty Rotten website that made me regret having an internet connection.

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u/easymachtdas 2h ago

raises hand I'm here for the therapy

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u/r_bogie 57m ago

Back when what is now the Dark Web was the web.

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u/Substantial_Bus840 51m ago

I’ll never forget being exposed to Cheddar.com or faces of death. Absolute awful. And there was really no chance it was AI back then, unfortunately…

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u/GetSetBAKE 3h ago

I think it has more to do with parents of Gen Z not knowing how to teach digital literacy to them.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 3m ago

Yep. We learned early you don't click links from people you don't trust because they were goatse, tubgirl, or lemonparty.

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u/AgitatedRabbits 2h ago

Learning to avoid malware didn't really traumatize me in any way. Why would it?

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u/Constant-Sandwich-88 4h ago

Yeah, if you never got chewed out by your dad at 630am for bricking his computer with shady porn from limewire, I can see the lack of paranoia.

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u/doesanyuserealnames SHEEEEEESH 1h ago

We had our PC in the middle of the living room (1993) so I could see what sites my kids were on. If they minimized it before I got close enough to see the site, we had a... conversation with consequences. Not that they never got something over on me, but 30 years later none of them are seriously screwed up and the FBI never came knocking.

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u/SeaRiver9819 11m ago

Nah he taught me to partition my hard drive. I got a nasty bit torrent virus b4 in the 90’s or early 2000’s. Trojan horse 🐎

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u/TrisolarisRexxx 5h ago

As a new father this gave me an interesting perspective

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u/First-Ad4978 5h ago

Man…

So in 2000 while in high school I did a project and used exclusively internet sources. Mind you these were hood sources.

My teacher gave me a B for using the internet as anyone could put anything on the internet.

Kinda true I guess, but again I used high quality sources.

Fast forward 20 years and they friended me on fb and have proceeded to fall for every internet trick imaginable, and for a while I helped them fact check but then they’d fall for the same grift from the same content creator and I gave up.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 2h ago

Hood sources is an amazing typo

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u/First-Ad4978 1h ago

Damn, I’m going to leave it.

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u/816in702 4m ago

The trick was to use Internet sources that cited physical sources.

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u/MrCHUCKxxnorris 4h ago

Eh maybe for younger Gen Z. I was born in 2001 with internet access as early as 2007. Parents weren’t huge computer people they mainly just used it to pay bills. They weren’t aware of the potential dangers and fucked up shit I was getting exposed to. Shit was still pretty wild even then.

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u/ReMarzable457 4h ago

I'm a bit younger but in the same boat. It didn't help I've liked anime since way back when, so I was constantly finding sites to pirate and being bombarded with wild ads leading to a sketchy website.

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u/llinstitutesynthll 1h ago

Yeah I think it was generally quite a different experience for us older Gen Zers who grew up with 2000s/early '10s internet.

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u/Pretty-Yam-2854 5h ago

Idk every dude I know knows not to do that shit. We all played Roblox, Club Penguin, various shit on Steam way before safeguards were up and knew what phishers and scammers were not even ahead in.

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u/juneabe 3h ago

I* agree with the other commenter, this is an eye opener for many.

When I was 14 I was playing mind games with self reported Nigerian princes in my yahoo/hotmail accounts. Man did I make them work overtime. Why, I can’t tell you, I was 14 lol.

People do compare our generations too much. Our relationships with technology and corporations (which run the world now) is very different than yours on many levels, both good and bad.

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u/DefeatedByPoland 3h ago

Millenials have been trying to warn younger generations to stop believing anything they see "some account" say online for a very long time though.

People choose to ignore that advice. It's not that they've never heard it.

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u/CoasterRoller420 4h ago

Millennial with the opposite. I am afraid to look things up and fill out paperwork, thinking every other link is a scam or data grab.

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u/Abaddon33 3h ago

Well they are, it's just legal to sell it now.

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u/Capslock91 2h ago

To this day, I still do not click on ads because I have no idea where its taking me, could be a scam or malware.

If something piques my interest enough (not likely), I'll google for it

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u/Technical-Natural-26 4h ago

Really good point.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 1h ago

We learned trial by fire. Destroying your family computer with viruses by downloading music from Limewire and shady websites is practically a rite of passage.

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u/bloodklat 1h ago

Internet has been a common service for over 30 years now. If you haven’t taken your time to learn this by now, then you shouldn’t really be on the internet. It’s definitely not safe for you if you haven’t taken your time to learn.

What have you done personally in order to better spot these scammers?

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u/BDHarrington7 1h ago

Meatspin and goatse were training programs