The Weird World of TikTok Live

[@carliquinn7992]

Bruh that guy whipping out the aggressive gangnam style dance in response to gabi's accidental follow absolutely floored me

[@carmiebbt]

im weakkkkkkkk

[@aliaelkady3745]

HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂 same

[@izzahbelle8582]

what's the time stamp?

[@Anna-rk2wi]

11:40 ish

[@RainTheStrawberry]

I was wheezing so hard lmao

[@ElspethMary-Alice]

I stumbled across a 9 way TikTok live argument once and accidentally stayed on it for over 6 hours, throughout the night and didnt get a wink of sleep. It was riveting ngl

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

Sounds like the sort of thing I would do immediately after saying "I hate drama"

[@ElspethMary-Alice]

@@BadgerOfTheSea legit 😂😂

[@kaattt-21]

How do you argue for 6 hours 😭

[@fargoretro]

your favorite pc game is probably Simp City

[@tastyneck]

🤣you do you!

[@IvysWhackedWonderland]

Gabi accidentally following that guy is one of the saddest yet funniest things I’ve seen all day😂

[@amnoirgg8563]

^ boi get outta here the grown ups are talking

[@kenzij]

Well here's some sad/funny for this new day. I was trying to figure out how an online game worked the other day (this is why everything needs a tutorial) and accidentally reported another player.

[@IvysWhackedWonderland]

@@kenzij oh no 😭😭😭

[@agentash003]

feels like when i go to block someone in R6S and accidentally send a friend request

[@Squishmallowlov3er]

😂😂😂

[@leahpeachie]

that guy dancing with the animated sunglasses on him after gabi accidentally followed him made me laugh so hard. him celebrating and bringing attention to it while I imagine gabi panicking because she didn't mean to do that

[@thaliasiqueira1361]

There's a Brazilian KZbinr called Felca who did NPC lives on ttk for a week as a way of making fun of these lives and this ended up going so viral to the point that now, in Brazil at least, NPC lives are restricted, also Felca donated all the money won for charities a true hero

[@mastels]

someone in US has to do this.

[@PatrickBC]

Felca, also known as Goleiro Cássio.

[@thaliasiqueira1361]

@@PatrickBC kakskskskskskdkskdkdkkdkd lol

[@medd-lee]

why are Brazilian memes better lmao

[@ryyunoo]

mano as lives do felca foram maravilhosasKKKKKK

[@briellewagner519]

as a person in my 20s that doesn’t know how to use tiktok…i appreciate this vulnerability 😅

[@loveableheathen7441]

Not knowing how to use tiktok is a flex IMO

[@littleguy8714]

It’s how I just got Apple Pay and I’m 24 and I feel so embarrassed using it bc I should know how 🙃

[@NeldaYtb]

Are we old yet?

[@sappyzap]

same, I've never downloaded it and I've no idea how it works, im good tho it looks insane 🙏🏻

[@briellewagner519]

@@sappyzap it’s fine who needs it…..youtube reels fulfills the urge to scroll and the algorithm knows me better anyways

[@vraimothra]

"retail workers cosplay as npcs for 8hrs for money" is the perfect description for my job and i will be stealing it, thank you 🙏🏻 😂

[@hannahfuhlhage5342]

Yeah that one hurt a little bit ngl

[@jil12345]

Maybe pretending to cosplay a npc could help tho, escapism and stuff

[@Xvladin]

You're benefiting society though. Society needs retail workers to function. Society needs to NOT have TikTok live streamers to function.

[@Isabella.Ros33]

​@@Xvladinatleast you haven't seen cheese grater ASMR man

[@jakethejake1772]

@@hannahfuhlhage5342 im ngl since playing DnD ive grown much appreciation of npcs, there is no depth to the world without them

[@TheRacingWind]

the only tiktok stream i've ever joined was someone solving the new york times crossword and getting help from the audience. i loved it

[@SuperHGB]

You should check out Rin Penrose's The Sun DS game stream. Similar and Hilarious. And as always, She should stream Fallen London, there is literal item with the word "Princedom" (That's what she calls the fanbase) in the game

[@austinsanders-983]

That sounds rlly fun and wholesome

[@claytonberg721]

I don't tiktok or twitch. I love me some youtube tho. I'm all about Alveus animal sanctuary which is very twitch based. They their live streams to youtube. They livestream their animals 24/7. If you donate the right gif it triggers something that will feed the cow a treat. I would straight up go broke feeding the cow if I was on twitch.

[@thesingerintheshower]

That's pretty cool

[@Captainaceguy00]

This sounds like an interactive game show and is a great idea!

[@kathish1549]

Gabi didn’t even realize that she did the classic tiktok live hustle where you get gifts from viewers and go omg noooo stop sending me gifts 😭😭

[@ephanjoseph8333]

You accidentally following shirtless guy is genuinely the funniest thing I've seen this week.

[@claytonberg721]

I don't shirtless dudes on the internet just drive me up the wall. Maybe I'm biased just because I like looking at boobs, but women profiting off their bodies is one thing. They have to live in the patriarchy, they may as well profit off it if they can. But men, dude you can do better. Do you offer so little to society that all you can do is take your damn shirt off on tiktok?

[@ehrenloudermilk1053]

Can you imagine having a free moment between work and home only to spend it watching somebody pretend to be an NPC for money.

[@Jorge.ALXNDR]

every time someone talks about these weird stuff that goes on TikTok I actually am not able to understand why people use the app. I swear, my brain can't react good to any of that. I usually like good quality content and if I want to consume crap things I just eat what I shouldn't.

[@hicknopunk]

I'm suddenly an advocate for people to drink bleach

[@strangeaelurus]

Some people need the money tho

[@InaneBlatherPodcast]

​@@strangeaelurusthe weird thing isn't the person making needed money, it's the person spending it

[@vogelvrouw]

​@@InaneBlatherPodcastexactly! I kinda respect the hustle of doing that nps stuff but I cant imagine watching that and spending actual money on it, like just watch a fun twitch streamer and support them

[@lazyfoxplays8503]

There’s been a LOT of “children working in factories in China” TikTok. Realizing this was how children factory workers make extra money (or worse a boss exploiting the children for money online) while doing their factory job was a whole level of TikTok live I didn’t even want to know existed.

[@tatiana4050]

I hope the money goes to the workers

[@Vixa_Jaz]

There are so many deep & dark levels of tiktok that it’s insane

[@edayavuz1667]

Well ppl in China seem to just stream their work. I stumbled across some working Chinese ppl too (not in factories tho and no children) maybe there's a way to report that?

[@noranizaazmi6523]

@@edayavuz1667how come? It isnt too different from people doing those cfe jobs

[@AdamOBrien29]

Don't Google how your clothes and phone are made so

[@wonieism]

gabi getting exposed for literally everything on the scoop hair and armpit guy live is killing me omg 😭

[@shivalika10]

I rewatched that part so many times and it got me every single time!!😂😂😂

[@mac2040]

I was dying

[@rotciv9857]

in brazil a youtuber started doing those npc livestreams as a "joke", he ended up getting 6.000 dollars in only 7 days the trend became even more popular, so many lives started popping up that tik tok actualy began restricting those types of stream! (they were labeled as repetitive content) in the end he donated all the money to charity and did a video criticizing npc lives, truly a legend

[@estephaniezecena5113]

The amount of panic i felt when she was doing her live, like my blood pressure was gradually rising

[@misterkefir]

lol! same

[@aphrodieMonkey]

I'm pretty sure she felt it too, just by observing her. And stuck with her the whole live, she can barely think straight lmao. It's like getting up on stage and without experience

[@EatinPaste]

I feel comparing the NPC TikTokers to the ping-ponging DVD screen is a great insult to the ping-ponging DVD screen.

[@placeholderdoe]

The DVE screen doesn’t ask for money

[@palladium607]

😂😂😂

[@gracecormack7739]

I have to agree

[@Matanumi]

Jesus..... yes....

[@TarisLuna]

​@@placeholderdoe I mean, you have to buy a DVD player for that.

[@LunaDelTuna]

The IRS is about to have a field day because no way in hell these people pay their taxes

[@l0velycry452]

I’m 500% sure these people don’t know how to do taxes

[@tomfondly5266]

That's what accountants are for

[@shineymcshine5026]

@@l0velycry452I did my own or 2 years..😐 never again.

[@Matanumi]

....who says all these people live in America?

[@LunaDelTuna]

@@Matanumi Not me, I just mean the American ones who better be doing their taxes as I type this bc deadline is April 15

[@jackkraus6948]

I can't describe how uncomfortable these kinds of live streams make me

[@aphrodieMonkey]

Aw broke the 444. Actually I'll restore it. Gay, I know, but i like

[@quinnmccrae129]

“gabi i appreciate the follow” *break dances*

[@pinduxa2020]

"STOP YELLING AT MEEE, I'M SENSITIIIVE" I'm dying!

[@Your3rdBETRAYAL]

Gyatt isn't an acronym or adjective. Its primary use was usually with elderly black men saying "GYATT DAMN," when they see fine women. Its a play on GOD DAMN and more of a reaction phrase that's been used for decades before the Tik-Tok jungle began to convert it. Loved the video and editing! You're awesome!

[@silly-goofy-little-goose]

Some classmates of mine convinced a gym teacher last year that 'gyat' means 'Go You Athletic Teens' and he yelled it in the middle of class 💀

[@vfb66]

💯

[@butwhytho4858]

👍

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

so saying “I have three gyatts” is actually a statement of trinitarianism?

[@Matanumi]

​@@silly-goofy-little-gooseno way he does that without at least looking it up

[@luisdetomaso867]

The single easiest thing you can do to level up in life is to delete TikTok

[@GrinninGarfield]

I saw this comment and decided to finally delete tiktok. thank you

[@fynntasticmovienight]

xD ngl my life did get better after i deleted

[@saragomes5768]

I delete it and then go back after a year like I can’t run from it

[@yeoscore]

deleted tiktok felt a lil better, deleted twitter a few months later and have felt great

[@brad6546]

tfw ur a social media manager and tiktok is ur job :/

[@necrofai6713]

Gabi being such a boomer is amazing

[@Vixa_Jaz]

Honestly I’m older gen z and had no idea what GYAT meant 😭

[@necrofai6713]

@@Vixa_Jaz Same lol. Haven't even heard it used before today lol

[@SECONDQUEST]

Boomers are old people. Not being up on the hip lingo means your uncool.

[@loveableheathen7441]

@@SECONDQUEST it's not even "hip" lingo it's terminally online tik tok lingo

[@diandriasmith889]

​@@Ade-ingI ain't never said that shit in my life 😂😂😂

[@CarysCreatesThings]

I deactivated my TikTok account ages ago, but even though those “rating your profile pic” type lives are generally really toxic, there was one that made me laugh & was weirdly wholesome. This dude would rate everyone 10/10 and call them a “saucy minx”.

[@stevensam7800]

Does he mention if the person has a "gyabbb

[@CarysCreatesThings]

@@stevensam7800 I don’t know what that means.

[@stevensam7800]

@CarysCantDance If you watch the video above there is a portion where the youngens are using a new slang which rhe old 35+ generation is not hip to. It means someone had a nice butt. I belje

[@CarysCreatesThings]

@@stevensam7800 Well the dude in the video looked like he was at least in his mid 30s, so probably not. (Also I don’t think anyone under the age of 35 would use the term “saucy minx” though I could be wrong)

[@MartianMeli]

If anyone wants a live that is actually entertaining, Madison Ann roleplays as a dying victorian child, and if you reach a certain goal she gets eaten by a witch at the end

[@e4ty0ualive]

gonna go search that up rq lmao

[@butwhytho4858]

Not gonna go waste my brain on this BUT having read this, made my day hahah

[@soude85]

wtf

[@yurisei6732]

Just every day? The same thing? What the fuck?

[@McAllu]

Shits fire yo

[@stoned_isopod]

hi gabi! just wanted to let you know that ‘gyat’ or ‘gyatt’ is a term from AAVE, often used in place of ‘god’ in ‘goddamn’. it’s basically an exclamation. tiktok has just taken it and ran with it🙄🙄 16:19

[@Mila-Rosa]

And of course they say it wrong and use it wrong 99% of the time

[@TheRainyKingdom]

It’s also really common in the city I grew up in, in Texas, but I think that’s because a lot of Texans talk really quickly 😅 Edit: although this was in the early 2000’s and when spoken it sounded more like “gyad damned”

[@thiccysmalls]

fr idek how they turned it into a noun

[@kohai-kun9261]

It's been a long time since I physically cringed at something but seeing Tiktok apropriate "gyatt" hurt me in a way I wasn't ready for Zoomers, that's enough, your internet priviliges are revoked until further notice

[@tvisha.mishra]

it's the way i thought it meant "butt" since I'd only seen it used it that context for some reason 😭 but like, most people using it weren't even black, so of course they got the meaning wrong-

[@sophiaisabelle01]

I've seen this on Facebook as well. It's a way for people to make huge amounts of money for basically doing things that make them a total fool in front of the camera. TikTok Live is guaranteed to only you feel more and more miserable as time goes on.

[@vapidfreaknuts]

​@Alex-zp3kxwhat the fuck

[@erin1411]

You really took one for the team. Thank you for the sacrifice

[@alexandraefreeman]

This whole video just gives me extreme anxiety. I wonder if the world was always like this, and now we just have access to it, or if social media has created a whole community of monsters (the TikTok live people, not you Gabi, love your work)

[@lebubbledragon]

im so glad you talked about that weird couple with all the cameras for just a little bit because ive seen them THREE TIMES NOW and its SCARY.

[@dunebugs]

There’s some legit dark stuff on there, I once came across a Thai dude who had a monkey dressed up in clothes that literally had a huge metal collar and a chain attached. Reporting seems to do absolutely nothing. There’s also a whole genre of “Groups of uncomfortable looking Asian girls will dance for specific gifts” that honestly seems like human trafficking for beginners, they all seem to be in the same building despite there being 10’s of separate channels.

[@SalTheSalamander]

What?? That’s insane! Do you have any more info about that like account names or something? I’m not completely surprised but it’s still horrifying to think there might be legit human trafficking and people are naively sending them money

[@Thelastunicornlover]

OH GOD!😬

[@jbird4478]

​@@SalTheSalamander I mean... what do you think happens on adult cam sites? Trafficking is a huge industry, just behind drugs as the second largest criminal industry. It's no wonder it finds its way online as well. Every estimate of the scale of it runs into millions of active victims.

[@luckymars2410]

girl the live part got me so stressed out I can't even imagine how you felt 😭 thank you for the commitment to the video and great job!!!

[@ap0ll0slyre]

once i came upon a live where someone was reenacting a horror movie and then their dog shit on the floor and the person's partner yelled at them in a foreign language and the live ended. anyway haven't opened tik tok in months thank you for your sacrifice for this

[@Musicanimedork01]

Do u remember what the movie was

[@ap0ll0slyre]

@@Musicanimedork01 i wanna say the ring ?? i remember the person having a dress and long black hair like that character and i know that character from the ring but idk if there are other characters like that

[@FryedFairy]

Lmao 💀

[@KizuRai]

Appreciate you going through the embarrassment and anxiety of figuring out how to work a tiktok live so I don't ever have to.

[@PhoenixDesigns0420]

Thank you for this information... As a single mom with little to no social media experience i found the financial breakdown super helpful... Love your content, always so informative in an entertaining way...

[@ViridianCrisis7]

These lives are the true essence of cringe to me. Like I get so uncomfortable when they pop up. I’m normally a “cringe is dead” person but these are just ugh

[@marcusfridh8489]

Cringe has became the normal, good luck, becourse this nightmare is the future of this world

[@YogurtNight_]

Tik tok live is like that one room that you put all your junk in when guests come over

[@LivvyBooks]

I admit I laughed at Tiktok just announcing you liking the stream, Tiktok announcing you followed the one guy, and then sending a gift. I can sympathize with your embarrassment lol.

[@amnoirgg8563]

I’m so embarrassed for everyone on live..l I can’t do it. The secondhand embarrassment is too strong I might pass out 😹

[@mrsawesomesause6265]

Gabi being embarrassed trying to figure out how tiktok live works 😂😂😂😂 there is legit no stakes at all but I would feel the EXACT SAME WAYYYY😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@BeefIngot]

I never knew tiktok got this bad. Last I knew it was just a short video platform with poor monetization avenues. Now it seems like a weird mobile game hell. I just can't understand the mass appeal of this. So many of these things just seem weird and fetishy but they didn't seem actually sexual to me at all. We live in a society.

[@KrisBailey]

“Fetishy” is actually a great way to describe what I would consider some of the most concerning aspects of TikTok. It does intentionally push and emphasize content with sexualized undertones, without being blatantly sexual, particularly with younger users.

[@palemeadows]

I’m only on tiktok for edits of my favourite characters or fic recs.

[@AiLoveAidoru]

And yet no matter how vile the content is, you're only going to get "No violations Found" when you report. Tiktok's moderation is a joke, and THATS why so many shady people use it.

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Tiktok was so much better in 2018/2019 when people were embarrassed to be on it because it was like vine back then and really fun because people were on there for fun not for money and there was like next to no celebrities. No ads, no lives, no tiktok shop, no normies

[@marckhachfe1238]

Man, the last I knew, it was just teenage boys and girls dancing... WTF.

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

I love that the octopus on his head was presumably to distract from his blinking, but everyone is so focused on if he blinks that they don't even notice the octopus 😂

[@ARareAndDifferentTune1313]

I am so so glad I have never had TikTok. It really seems like an absolute hellscape. I can barely deal with YT shorts, if I watch it for too long I can feel how my mood and outlook is negatively impacted

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Tiktok was so much better in 2018/2019 when people were embarrassed to be on it because it was like vine back then and really fun because people were on there for fun not for money and there was like next to no celebrities. No ads, no lives, no tiktok shop, no normies

[@ARareAndDifferentTune1313]

@@KristenZianourry2015 yeah that sounds awesome actually. I never got in on Vine when it was around but I watch old Vine compilations now and that shit has me HOWLING 😂😂

[@unhingedhook]

KZbin Shorts is way worse and brain rotting than TikTok, not saying it's better but my KZbin and TikTok page are both pretty normal and filled with things I like and enjoy, then theres KZbin Shorts which is literary just a mind-numbing slop hellscape.

[@Sqwuench]

the amount of effort put into understanding TikTok's absolutely wack system so that it can be explained in a fun way is absolutely phenomenal. Well done for this crazy piece of work and thank you!

[@allenmontrasio8962]

This is so complicated that it actually makes working in a mine an appealing prospect.

[@cmac3530]

Honestly, staring at the DVD logo is less mind numbing.

[@olly344]

There's this Brazilian youtuber "Felca" that made a video joking about these NPCs lives and ended up earning quite a few bucks and created such a frenezy over this that tik tok restricred NPC lives in Brazil

[@juliasantos948]

And in the end he donated all the money to charity

[@Hookko]

Oh hi a fellow Brazilian on the internet como vai?

[@olly344]

@@Hookko Poderia esta rmelhor kkkkk, mas no mais bem, e você colega internauta?

[@edayavuz1667]

Not even tiktok himself can restrict his content

[@olly344]

@@edayavuz1667 Oh but it can by not recommending it anymore nor it is indexed on the search mechanism of tiktok... So yeah, even tho you can make it, its not profitable anymore

[@maxevocal]

This is like when gambling was illegal in Japan so you played pachinko, used the rewards to buy goods, then had to go to another shop to trade those goods for cash

[@mutleylaugh]

This is your best video. Genuinely laughed hard when you sobbed through 'i don't have a grandson to help me with this'

[@FullThrottlePod]

The number of times I clicked "not interested" only for it to show back up a few swipes later is literally insane

[@MomotheToothless]

"I'm not talking until I see someone attractive" Good, stay quiet.

[@maxdumpsterdive]

gabi ball moment

[@КатОщка]

​@Alex-zp3kx Ew.

[@Okurrrrrrrr]

baller

[@christianmorales8996]

yea

[@jfun1338]

gabi balls moment

[@marblestoday4526]

It’s Gabi Balls!

[@codyxvasco592]

The thing I find odd about the "livestream where viewers have currency that they give to engage" has already been a thing in adult live cams. It's weird to see there's a pg 13 version of this. It's one of the few times i'm actually behind the "tiktok bad, think of the children". I'm seeing how this could lead to "take off your socks and i'll give you a rose"

[@kenzij]

It's been months now, I think internet time moves fast, and somehow Gabi is the first person to help me undestand how the people being weird are acting like NPCs. I didn't realize that it was based on how NPCs can have different responses to certain gifts. I thought they were just doing different characters. The actual responses are still weird though and remind me more of low quality mobile games for kids than proper video game characters.

[@kas.jpeg-]

8:35 from 5 different angles is WILD

[@CharlieSimmer27]

i know this is a stupid thing to get upset about but it actually drives me to insanity when those lives come up on my fyp with the "hidden object" images that claim to have 4 hidden images and only have 3, they will tell people to spam the likes and when they hit a certain amount they'll "reveal the last object" but obviously they never do it's just a way to get more clicks. the girl who constantly spams "if i have this microphone/cup it means the other person is annoying" was an immediate block for me i cannot stand the new generation of people online doing the tiktok voice ps i'm like 99% sure the npc trend is f*tish content

[@derSkedda]

Im fighting my whole friend group that wants me to install Tiktok and im happy that I still go strong. Not like Tiktok is making it hard for me.

[@edayavuz1667]

Send em this video😂

[@derSkedda]

​@@edayavuz1667absolutely did!

[@macchupichu]

19:33 Gabi's TikTok live comment section is unironically the best thing

[@cn.st.182]

As someone who's never been on TikTok (and never will be) this is MIND-BLOWING.

[@tmcderm2272]

So cool to see other KZbinrs like Andy and Quinton Reviews pop up in these, just love thinking ab all of them being friends.

[@niiikaaa21]

every time i see other people's content about tiktok i get so much happier with my choice to never even think about installing that thing lmao, the time and sanity I've saved with that decision is absolutely worth feeling super old and "not getting what the kids are doing" in my early 20s haha

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Tiktok was so much better in 2018/2019 when people were embarrassed to be on it because it was like vine back then and really fun because people were on there for fun not for money and there was like next to no celebrities. No ads, no lives, no tiktok shop, no normies

[@FantasticaB]

Thank you for experimenting with this for us, it was hilarious. I’ve bought roses once and gave them all to a fellow Canadian because we don’t have access to the creator fund, but I don’t think I’d do it again. I’d find another way to support people.

[@pattyratick]

THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT BEING CHRONICALLY ONLINE IS THAT I NEVER MISS A GABI BALLS VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gameface6091]

Balls huh?

[@robertgaudet7407]

@TeaDrinkerOwOthe balls are inert

[@TableClothPersona]

I looove them balls.

[@OfficerZlock]

Didnt ask. my content is superior 🔥🎉❤....

[@GeminiPlatypus]

Ballas

[@sophieterry8175]

You’re doing the lords work gabbi. I’m in community college but like 5 years older than most of my peers. Some kid said gyat to me today and his friend asked if I knew what it meant. Thanks to watching your video yesterday I was able to say yes this is SH lmaooo

[@Felketi]

watching gabi trying to host a live made my day. her including the comments roasting her being a boomer made my year

[@Commander-Ledi]

my only contact with tiktok is whatever occasionally leaks over to my preferred social media sites like putrid waste from a landfill. watching this video gave me several coughing fits and little deeper understanding of the app. thank you!

[@quit3118]

The only good live I experienced is a girl I follow who does art on her live streams and she gave me advice about Sonic fanfiction lol It was the only good live The worst one so far is one that people were skiining and noiling chickens alive 💀

[@isazarts3159]

So true. I am glad I only see a fraction of these on pinterest. At least the ones that seeps through are a the generally better ones. I am glad that I never seriously got into tt. Just watching this vid was stressfull.

[@jackhebert2140]

Oh and not to mention, one of the most sickening things I’ve seen people do on TikTok is screen recording other lives, primarily rating pfp ones, playing it over THEIR live and basically scamming so many people into sending them gifts. IT’S. PA-. THETIC! 🤦🏻

[@orion10x10]

I saw two homeless men in a tent doing the NPC thing and all I could think was "This is the richest country in the history of our civilization and has been for the past 100 years, and this is what it looks like? where did that money go?"

[@KratosNotKratos]

To billion dollar companies and the military.

[@mythcat1273]

The American Dream

[@goose4717]

bezos

[@FaeQueenCory]

To the CEOs.

[@elfsongtavern]

Military economy :\

[@livennelili8740]

Not related at all to the subject of the video but seeing Gabi with skin texture similar to mine is so refreshing. Most creators these days either use filters or gallons of foundations to hide it, but she rocks it like a queen and inspires me to embrace it myself. You're such an inspiration Gabi, keep being an awesome representation of real natural beauty!!

[@hudy323]

I was in the comments trying to figure out if anyone else was worried she got punched in the left cheek or eye? Am I seeing things?

[@austinsanders-983]

I couldn't see anything, and tbh it's creepy to observe so closely so I'll just say that everything looks fine. Sorry, I don't understand anything, that Tiktok live experiment segment of the vid has turned my brain into mush :D@@hudy323

[@afz902k]

It's hella valid to be reflective. Love seeing myself in a person's forehead

[@djsleepyfruit]

0:32 im not gonna lie that two seconds of tiktok asmr kind of ate...

[@rottenhoney3418]

the amount of the secondhand embarrassment from that part of dipping iinto tiktok lives section is unbearable, I'm literally crawling my toes and pause the video over 6 times to proceed every second OMG

[@alch3myst]

Dude same

[@scoobiesnatches]

If this is Gabi being a boomer then I must be from the lost generation.

[@Nurse_Meeks]

Right? Tiktok is absolutely absurd to me. It used to be kinda funny when it first came out but I deleted it and will never use it again because I cannot fathom how the insanely psychotic shit on it is what we are doing in the world these days. I would take the bouncy DVD symbol any day over this weird shit.

[@claytonberg721]

@@Nurse_Meeks I tried tiktok for a hot minute. I signed up saying I liked animals and such. It kept feeding me videos of dogs being killed by packs of wolves and such. I couldn't figure out how to block the channels so I just deleted the app. I just stick to instagram which seems to know I want vids of cute dogs and cats.

[@debonairwhale605]

Seeing that definition of GYAT really hurt my soul. It's AAVE, it's an emphatic way of saying "God DAMN" usually used when you see a nice butt. It's simply an exclamation, and the phonetic spelling. Not an acronym, thats a lie white people were told 😂

[@YTmadeMeChangeMySensibleName]

Damn those whites, they’ve done it again😭

[@edayavuz1667]

Let's not tell the white ppl ;)

[@thatoneguy9582]

as a very distinctly white person how the fuck does anyone think thats an acronym that’s stupid

[@palemeadows]

@@edayavuz1667I think we should? In my experience they usually drop the word once they realise it’s disrespectful

[@edayavuz1667]

@@palemeadows you think if we don't tell them they'll stop🤔 I'm not their parents it's not my job to teach em to be "nice to each other" 🤷🏻‍♀️ you go ahead

[@bankableconcept]

The point of diamonds is to add another layer of obfuscation. Harder to figure out how much they take, if it's converted from money to poopies to dookies to turds to money. Especially if they never tell you how many dookies you're actually given.

[@William-Afton_jejcjschheiqx]

Is you described some of these tick tock lives (especially the npc ones) to me I would think it would be some weird ass unrealistic dystopian shit, I can’t believe it’s even real

[@isotopo4571]

I havent watched it yet but i hope you talked about Felca (brazilian youtuber)'s NPC lives that changed a whole rule on tiktok, bc that was WILD 😭

[@Lowcalcalzonezone26]

Uhh Gabi, are you okay with all this exposure to TikTok?

[@edayavuz1667]

She's gonna stop YT at this rate😂

[@alteregobruh]

^If the bait/bot comment is still here, don’t interact. Report and move on. If it’s gone, thank god. And I’m not talking about user Edayavuz.

[@snakestuffs]

ville__? im assuming so because i see them literally everyone screaming random bullshit@@alteregobruh

[@Zenoxx23]

15:06 when she tries to emulate how they talk made my skin crawl... Good Job Gabi perfect interpretation, no notes! 👍

[@lydiagentry6467]

This video was so well written and informative! Thank you so much for explaining the purposefully convoluted tiktok streaming economy

[@noah5664]

You can’t convince me Gabi wasn’t absolutely blasted during this whole video

[@benjaminparker5044]

Gabi, I don't know how you can handle this. Scrolling TikTok, seeing a Live, then an ad, then another live. It changes me. It begins a primal rage in me, something from before we had even evolved into humans, like a nuclear reaction that has already reached critical mass. And you just walk through those heaps of filth laughing and looking mildly confused.

[@laneyking2044]

I understand you

[@Senorcyborg]

the monetization system on tiktok seems suspiciously close to Japan's pachinko parlors. In Japan, Gambling is illegal nationally but to skirt around that law, your "winnings", which is represented by a bunch of silver balls, are weighted and counted which is then exchanged for prices. then you go to another facility (usually across the street) and exchange/sell those prices for actual money. Tiktok being a Chinese owned company might have used the same idea that Japanese use for Pachinko parlours.

[@edayavuz1667]

Gambling is prob illegal in China 2

[@Nurse_Meeks]

Yes but tiktok is not an american app.@@edayavuz1667

[@Dos_Caffeine]

I like how Gabi was a month late on this subject, bc the cringe was just too much

[@loralogue]

Having just watched the Strange Aeons video about tumblr live, the second you mentioned diamonds I was ready to jump out a window.

[@machouchacha]

This video is invaluable to all professional social media teams out there. Quality content right there.

[@Marinlss]

In my country, Brazil, a youtuber called Felca started doing npc lives ironically and showed how easy it was to make money. This started a wave of people doing NPC lives for extra cash and resulted in Tiktok limiting these lives 😂. Felca made 4k in a week and donated to 5 charities.

[@underpaidkid434]

WHEN THE DUDE STARTED DANCING AFTER GABI ACCIDENTALLY FOLLOWED HIM💀💀🚨 11:32

[@Pendragons_Art]

TikTok Live and Tumblr Live have the same cursed energy tbh

[@claudiaarbona9984]

Tumblr has a live feature now?? Oh no

[@Pendragons_Art]

Unfortunately since 2022 ;^; Tho just spread to outside the US like last month

[@tombsofak]

The thing with tumblr live though is that we don't want it lol it's a huge security breach for users, the only use it gets is spam videos from other sites, and as much as we the tumblr community hate it, tumblr is going to keep it because it's "good for the shareholders"

[@Cryptid_Renfri]

As someone who's never had tik tok before, I appreciate your sacrifice, going into the trenches and risking life, limb and sanity for our entertainment

[@brave86ify]

NGL, tiktok scares me. I barely have ten Likes regularly on my Instagram. Tiktok offers a glimpse into notoriety and then makes you dance to keep it, That's why I will not download it. My self-esteem couldn't take that.

[@arghyetlol]

As a millennial, I have to say that watching you 'feel old' is a cathartic experience I never wanted to relive, let alone through another younger person. I'm 35 so anyone younger than me assumes I'm Gen X or a Boomer. Well, I suppose at the very least Gen X brought us Daria and the art of comedic apathy. Gen X taught us millennials how to keep our expectations real real low and how to find the best weed, too. Now Gen Z is teaching me not to take litterally anything at all that they say seriously because when I ask sincere questions about wtf they meant I am laughed at and then feel very very elderly.

[@austinsanders-983]

I feel for millennials at this point, I dislike my generation so much

[@arghyetlol]

@@austinsanders-983 Everyone's generation was cringe when they were young, but some destroyed the planet. Gen X through to Z are breaking generational BS in a world that rightfully expects more of us.

[@sagegreennn]

gyatt is literally another way to say "god damn" i dont know how people made it a whole acronym 😭

[@rebeccadodd1394]

This is the first video I've ever seen of yours, but honestly you're so brave for putting yourself live on tiktok and I will definitely be subscribing to you now

[@xXxDeadAnaxXx]

Armpit sunglass man took me out & all the unfortunate events Gabi had to live through. Im honestly dying of laughter.

[@Vixa_Jaz]

I automatically skip lives like they are ads. Very very rarely do I click and stay on one.

[@Qbertbird]

the only thing I like about going live on TikTok is the multi guest feature. It's fun watching a bunch of parrots talk to each other. I post the replays on here.

[@darka310]

I used to stream on another platform and yes now most streams have lost substance, back then I used to host and take turns on people talking about real world topics but now most streams that get the most views are if you are extremely attractive or cause drama

[@PhailingMath]

Great video Gabi! At 12:05 I was dying of secondhand embarrassment, this was hilarious, thank you for trying these things out for us so we don't have to. Keep up the great work!

[@chriss7005]

Gabi going all in and doing a live herself was really not what I expected... Overall I am glad to see I am not the only one who can't wrap his head around tiktok live

[@Soockos]

nothing will ever compare to me to when i saw a live a few weeks ago on tiktok and the person was just informed that one of her mods cant make it because one of her family members just died that day the person who was live went "oh really? thats so sad i hope she's okay" went quiet for a few seconds and then went "alright guys we're trying to hit ___ likes so dont forget to tap the screen!" girl... the lack of respect. if i were that mod i'd quit and block her because honestly i couldnt imagine my boss/friend disregarding my loss like that by interrupting it with a like goal

[@austinsanders-983]

That sounds awful, and I would do the same had I been that mod.

[@aphrodieMonkey]

Haha, bold to assume the mod isn't like, Yeah keep it going, make sure we still get paid good 🤣