rant · moment 23 of 34
Mukbangs, ASMR, and Watching Strangers Gorge Themselves
from #231 - Giuliani And The River of Gold | The Tim Dillon Show · #231
3 min
An extended riff wondering what psychological need is fulfilled by watching mukbang eating videos and ASMR content, floating theories about repression and lack of filters.
- TikTok is divided into two camps: the cringy content with crazy people, and the young hot kids dancing in mirrors.
- Culture now seems determined more than ever by 12-year-old girls.
- The question is what's wrong with 12-year-old girls that they've gone from liking the Beatles to dancing in their house with low standards.
- People in their 30s determine culture through podcasts, MMA, supplements, and weird political discourse that goes nowhere.
- Kids dancing in mirrors isn't necessarily worse than what adults are creating, but the problem is the futility and complete lack of hope in the system.
- Even people talking about how screwed up the system is for decades haven't changed anything, even with someone like Obama.
- Everything gets more fake every year, which breaks the brain and makes you stop caring about any of it.
- Tim bought a vape hoodie for a sketch where he played an influencer and wore it in a clothing store.
- A Black man compliments Tim's appearance in the baby store, the first nice comment he'd ever gotten while buying clothes.
- Putting on the ridiculous hoodie made Tim start saying life is meaningless, but he almost understood hypebeast culture by embracing looking ridiculous in public.