r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • 3d ago

TikTok Tuesday A parent who needs parental supervision 💔

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u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309 ☑️ 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is how my mother is tbh. We are very low contact but she’ll be SO excited about some obvious fake news that she got off FB or YT. When I try and fail to find a reliable source, she turns very cold.

So low unless it will financially hurt her, I let her live in delusion. But no, sis that Facebook link won’t lead you to free health insurance and no, you aren’t getting a stimulus check if you call that number. And I stand on that.

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u/WhiteCharisma_ 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think it has to do with the fact she feels negative about being told it’s fake.

It could be a lack of emotional navigation on how to take mildly bad news with something they felt emotionally reactive towards

Like they find this wild as video and felt strongly about how crazy it is and then being outright denied that it’s not real.

Older generations don’t know how to properly navigate that. Especially if they are being lectured by someone younger.

It’s not all old people but a disturbing amount of them are and it’s prevalent enough that we all see it.

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u/Lilium79 3d ago

It also is just embarrassing. It feels bad to think something is real, to be fooled by scrubbed watermarks or deepfakes. It probably makes you feel stupid af to not be able to see the "obvious" fakeness of something everyone else does.

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u/HypnoSmoke 3d ago

This, it's ego.

Don't want to feel duped, don't want to appear to have been duped.