I had to deal with some guy at work trying to do some tiktok video and including me in it so I could complement his side gig or some shit (and likely only including me because women get views). And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with it. Jesus fucking christ, I hate people that try to constantly plaster their face and name on everything to make money. Fuck youtubers, fuck tiktok, fuck ads, stop stealing peoples work for a quick buck ‘by doing commentary’, leave me the fuck alone
No. I hate the fact that the world has forced people to need to do so.
Why not both?
While it‘s obvious that one income alone won‘t feed a family anymore, our culture pushed multiple-job-holding even further by normalizing several income streams and especially gig-work. A gym nearby now advertises „earn 1€ per workout“, which is effectively just a discount, but gives you the feeling of actual profit
Yeah kinda. But people value different things. I value time so work less hours at work and take an easy stress free job. I could earn double if not more working elsewhere but at what cost.
If I’m housed, watered, and fed then the next thing I want is time. I love my job and still hate going to work and I work from home. I hate the idea of giving so much of myself away for Monopoly money.
Late stage capitalism. That’s it.
Tell him that anyone over 18 who posts anything on tiktok is a PDFile & you want nothing to do on that platform. Let’s see how your colleagues back him up then.
Nope. I want and love to make money. I look for every opportunity to. It not only makes my line better, but it allows me to give to charity, provide for my kids classrooms, give to others, and so on. You can’t help others if you can’t help yourself.
I don’t see why you should put your face in his video if he isn’t sharing the money. It sounds like he wants free labor to me.
i would normally tell him to fuck off but the chief leeches were there and wanted me to. whats worse is he has a somewhat large amount of followers and the chief leeches like him being there because of exposure.
Jesus what kind of hellscape of a job do you have where you’re being forced into viral marketing for something that is unrelated to your company?!
i work in a software security department at a large corporation. I HATE IT HERE.
Why would software security need (or even want) “exposure?”
the corporation has a large financial wing, why they think im a good target to include in some idiots tiktok video is your guess. i dont speak linkedin
They probably see it as “woman in tech is rare, we show we have one”
Makes sense. Sadly.
Sounds like they aren’t paying you enough if your role includes being a performer.
They like this until he accidentally leaks something classified like the idiots that would upload their “Day in the life of” videos typing in pincodes and passwords and the wrong person sees it or goes back to see it an old video. Some horrible long term thinking for a software security team to allow
What the fuck? I was like dead certain that you were stuck with a bunch of high schoolers at a grocery store or something. That should never be happening anywhere remotely close to a cube farm.
Best strategy is to play dumb. “Hello, [fuckface’s manager], I have some concerns about the tiktok content [fuckface] is making for the company and some questions about my job responsibilities in relation to it. [Fuckface] pretty regularly interrupts my work to request me to act in these videos and it is getting in the way of my usual duties. If my participation is required, could you please let me know in writing? I’ll also need to discuss with my manager about how this should be prioritized and scheduled alongside my other job duties.”
Force their awareness in a way that doesn’t immediately look like an assassination. The more you can get in writing the more rope this guy makes to hang himself with. If somehow they claim it’s actually work related, keep pushing the edges of “I just want to be sure” until his channel is company property or he shoots himself in the foot.
Alternatively, get paid to intentionally do bad acting. “Oh, I’ve never been good on camera, sorry!”
“You know what my side hustle ad needs? A GIRL”
“Hey, I think a girl works for me. Let’s just use her.”
“Great thanks bro!”
Shit like this makes me want to become a terrorist. I wont, but I’m starting to get why other people do.
At a random time, when nothing is happening, hand him a “paid talent release form”.
If you look up “talent release form” it’s what allows a creator to use materials with another person. As it stands now, he asked you to participate but did not have you sign a release (with no fee), so you own partial rights to income from that video.
Say to him: “Since you are a pretty big creator I assume you’re familiar with releases. I grabbed a standard one to give you rights to my previously included videos, and here’s another for any future videos including me for a 50% share. I’ll sign them after you approve and sign unless you have a standard set you would like to use”
This makes it a business transaction, vs a “leave me alone”. He won’t want to figure out how to pay you, so he’ll probably stop.
My sister is so into this mindset but doesn’t do anything about it, it’s so annoying.
Every conversation with her ends up being about how to monetize something. Fucking A, I’m not gonna start a food blog and sell ads, I just wanna make dumplings!! I’m not gonna stream my boyfriend and I playing games, we’re just trying to relax! I’m not a brand or a product I’m just a person, get off it.
I hate that so much. “Oh, this hobby only brings you joy and happiness? Don’t you know you could make money out of it?”
I’m that neighbor thats really, really into Halloween. My whole family is. We do a pretty big yard thing every year and this year we had the scene change every week to tell a bigger story. On Halloween handing out candy and goodies, everyone was stoked and wanted to stop and say how rad it was and how much fun it was to watch over the course of the month. Except one person. She just kept on going about how I should charge people to see it. Dude, first and foremost, I’m not going to make one of the few things I find true joy in doing another goddamned chore. Also, how the fuck would I keep people from just looking at my front yard? How do you expect me to manage that?
One good thing came of it though, after her insistence again and again I told her the only practical way to charge admition would be to do an actual walk through haunted house in my back yard. So the neighbors and fam and I are going to do just that. But for free because fuck that. I might charge her a dollar though because I’m super petty.
I hate the idea that you shouldn’t freely provide joy to those around you for the sheer satisfaction of making it. The mammonite brain rot runs deep in a lot of people unfortunately
Should’ve charged only that neighbor for the “privilege”.
My one friend is the same. He laments how little ambition I have for being so creative.
I create beautiful things for fun and for people I care about. Any time I’ve done it got money, it has slowly but surely sucked the soul from it. No thanks. I’ll be happy with my creativity over here without a ton of money.
Capitol cuck mindset we need to get off it
Sorry if this is too personal, but does she have, or has she had in the past,
membership in a communist partya hobby which she did as only an amateur? It’s hard for me to take the perspective of someone who doesn’t seem to understand how monetizing a passion can completely ruin it.the thing that gets me is these people don’t realize there’s a much easier way to make $ not working…just play the stock market, that’s what all the big rich fucks who don’t do any real work do. it’s one big casino that most people buy into passively, especially in bubbles like this…it’s incredibly easy to make shitloads of $. it’s so easy that you quickly lose any interest in “grinding”.
it’s certainly not fulfilling though…gambling is no way to make a living.
It does suck. Watching all my highschool friends slowly lose the light in their eyes as the economy tightened its grip, becoming all more desperate just for basic necessities. The only way any of us can fix this is by making sure no one is run ragged by the fear of this fake ass scarcity.
The only way any of us can fix this is by making sure no one is run ragged by the fear of this fake ass scarcity.
By getting rid of capitalism, right? Right?
May we cast off these chains as comrades :)
Yes! :)
Hear me out, what if we use capitalism to fight capitalism. I’m sure it’ll work this time guys.
Most certainly! :)
At least you have empathy. My family deride me for struggling with affording housing my whole adult life. At least I dont have to see them more then a couple times a year. Love those douchebags.
It’s not you, I can tell you that. I won’t lie I feel that empathy because I was simply exposed to the horrors of capitalism before they were, my father losing his job, my family losing their house and having to work in a factory as a child. I can’t blame them for the conditions we’re all in.
I do indeed hate living under capitalism
do it in exchange of a share of the profit. nothing turns people off like sharing.
When someone asks for something, always tune your radio to station WIIFM. (What’s in it for me?)
The job market sucks and it’s only getting worse. A full-time job doesn’t provide the same standard of living it did for previous generations. I don’t like how there’s so much pressure to have a side hustle that makes money versus just having a hobby you enjoy, but for some people that’s their only option. But I don’t hate them, I hate the system.
That being said, it wasn’t cool for him to include you in his video. You have every right to push back and avoid this in the future.
I absolutely hate it. I just want to BE but that is impossible because we’ve turned modern life into an insufferable game.
I want to work a reasonable amount, and have enough time and money to create for my own pleasure if I so choose. I don’t even mind content creation in theory, I see it no different from writing or doing art. It’s the constant pursuit of more, more, more, both status and money, that gets to me. I want freedom, security, and comfort.
Yeah I mean if that’s what people enjoy I’m not going to yuck anyone’s yum (to a point), as long as they are not pestering people around them. Unfortunately that’s what gets clicks a lot of times, so you have these people creating these situations, harassing people at home and in foreign countries, creating all this fake drama between themselves. Yes I just wish more people would be happy with what they have and appreciate the things and people around them more (myself included.) All the flaunting and celeb worship is gross. Also the whole grind mindset, that’s great if you enjoy it but I certainly don’t have that energy and when people belittle other people for being lazy or whatever, it’s not even like that, I work very hard when I need to.
I want freedom, security, and comfort.
Unfortunately, you can only have one of these at a time
You can have all three under communism.
if it’s any consolation, this bubble with burst soon and most of these types will be too distressed working an actual job to bother chasing the rat-race
Just tell him no, tell him you don’t want to be on his social media.
Exactly this. And if they ask “oh but why not”. You just answer “I just dont want to be on your social media”. You never have to validate your reasoning for saying no.
If they push the why, then ask them if they’re genuinely interested in the answer before giving one. Force them to be a part of the conversation, because why people ask “aww why not”, its not because they’re interested in the answer, its because they wanta yes. Just say no.
