because they're playing Tik Tok. The way you win Tik Tok is by getting attention. It's like those "cooking" videos where someone puts a plate of cookie dough, deli ham, shredded cheese, and food coloring in the microwave and captions it something like "Yum! Authentic Italian cuisine!"
"If you don't shower me in appreciation for doing the minimum legally required of me (or less if I think I can get away with it teehee) then I'm going to exert my existing power over you and steal it instead. I'm the good guy though."
My guess would be that the outrage engagement makes it irrelevant whether or not they're sincere
Anyone with a brain and a heart would be pissed at a smug, entitled and condescending landlord. Subtract the brain, and you get "let's hear them out" lib engagement. Subtract the heart, and you get "fuck the haters" chud engagement
So maybe one tiktokker is genuinely a Very Special Boy who Deserves the World, and another is an accelerationist making a point, and another is just doing whatever pays the rent. It's mostly indistinguishable
probably because there's no way to look sympathetic, i don't think. like i'm trying to think of an angle and i could only come up with this: "i need tenants to pay me so i can pay back my mortgage". and i mean, it makes them look financially irresponsible at best. this is why the most staunch defenders of landlordism don't rely on sympathy to defend landlords, just on the "natural right of capital investors to returns", quite the popular hit with kids i hear. maybe they'll add some red scare if they're feeling very bold.
Landlord tiktok is so weird to me because it is all obviously fake but it's fake in a way that make the landlords seem even worse?
Like of you have total control over the script, whay are you making yoursrlf the grossest guy possible? Are leeches that happy about being evil?
because they're playing Tik Tok. The way you win Tik Tok is by getting attention. It's like those "cooking" videos where someone puts a plate of cookie dough, deli ham, shredded cheese, and food coloring in the microwave and captions it something like "Yum! Authentic Italian cuisine!"
:anti-italian-action:
Is that not authentic Italian cuisine though?
"If you don't shower me in appreciation for doing the minimum legally required of me (or less if I think I can get away with it teehee) then I'm going to exert my existing power over you and steal it instead. I'm the good guy though."
Gonna guess that Landlord TikTok is at least 50% undercover Maoists.
Everyone freaking out about China doing a Communist Propaganda on millennials was right all along.
It didn't happen, and if it did they deserved it
It's like live action :porky-happy:
I feel like they know TikTok skews young, so they're trying to convince the youngins to do this when they start renting
Not grooming tho, grooming is when gay people exist.
My guess would be that the outrage engagement makes it irrelevant whether or not they're sincere
Anyone with a brain and a heart would be pissed at a smug, entitled and condescending landlord. Subtract the brain, and you get "let's hear them out" lib engagement. Subtract the heart, and you get "fuck the haters" chud engagement
So maybe one tiktokker is genuinely a Very Special Boy who Deserves the World, and another is an accelerationist making a point, and another is just doing whatever pays the rent. It's mostly indistinguishable
probably because there's no way to look sympathetic, i don't think. like i'm trying to think of an angle and i could only come up with this: "i need tenants to pay me so i can pay back my mortgage". and i mean, it makes them look financially irresponsible at best. this is why the most staunch defenders of landlordism don't rely on sympathy to defend landlords, just on the "natural right of capital investors to returns", quite the popular hit with kids i hear. maybe they'll add some red scare if they're feeling very bold.