> I asked him a question, he answered and left. I guess he didn't want to talk

If you have anxiety about talking to strangers, just remember that 99% of the time when someone doesn't really want to talk, this happens. Not really that scary after all

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an0malous 5 hours ago | parent [-]

My fear is I’m socially awkward, I might do or say something I genuinely didn’t know was awkward, and that person will make a TikTok video of me and ruin my life. I’ve seen videos from people posting about “creeps at the gym” and it’s just a guy looking in the direction of the girl taking the video, and it seems like just looking in the general direction of someone for too long could make you a public example of a creep, and that’s basically my nightmare.

And people might say “well if you know you didn’t do anything wrong so you shouldn’t be worried” but I’ve gotten into trouble many times for things I knew weren’t wrong but you can’t rationally argue with herd mentality when a group of people decide something is a faux pas.

	▲	IdiotSavage 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Luckily people don't film in my gym, but watching Joey Swoll [1] I've seen plenty of idiots (often young women) who try to make someone in the background of their video look bad. It's always completely obvious that the person in the background (who probably doesn't want to be filmed) is not staring or being a creep, even though heavy zoom and slow-motion is used to "prove" something. Ridiculous. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@thejoeyswoll/videos
	▲	cg5280 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You’re basically so petrified of bricking prod and getting fired that you refuse to even start on your first ticket. The catastrophic outcome is low probability and not worth fretting over. Going out and risking embarrassment is the price of admission for leaving the house. If you do say something silly, you have the opportunity to learn from it and grow a little bit. Those TikTok videos are usually fake or bait. 99% of people do not think you’re weird or creepy for existing.
	▲	matwood 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> ruin my life What trouble have you gotten in for doing what exactly? The stupid things you see on TikTok are (nearly?) all fake.
	▲	cindyllm 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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