Bonus #161 - The Military TikTok Conspiracy
Added 2023-02-21 17:00:03 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/Gm5Xf3rcgRM
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We're back to TikTok this week, which is something of a blind spot for your ol' pal Buckley... I don't even have the app on my phone, and the only time I hear about anything going on over there is when some other social media site is talking about it. So I came across this girl recently and thought you'd all enjoy hearing about her, a young lady who is getting a lot of flack for potentially being a "PsyOp", state-sponsored propaganda, to try and "trick" dudes into joining the Army. Has the military weaponized eGirls? Let's find out!
The US Military has always used some interesting recruitment tactics, but... are they now using eGirls on TikTok!? Some seem to think so, with "LunchbagLujan" generating some controversy over the possibility that Uncle Sam is trying to get simps to sign up. Buckley looks at stats and data to see if this is a viable or effective tactic, instead of throwing a fit on Twitter like the rest of her detractors.
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for additional context, variations of “views are my own/ do not reflect the views of the DoD” have been a commonplace bio for active duty influencers, way before this e-girl schizo shit
Richard Scott
2023-03-29 00:05:09 +0000 UTCInteresting stuff, thanks. It makes sense, but as I mentioned in the video, it's really no different than everything they've always done publicly.
Adam Buckley
2023-03-11 19:49:18 +0000 UTCMilitary viewer here-for anyone interested, she is out of standards regulation, but only with her hair down. You can wear braids/ponytails now. Makeup is subjective since the regulation states you have to have a “natural” look (also uses the word “faddish” for haircuts so you can imagine how fun that is to argue about all the time) so probably those fake freckles are toeing the line. But yeah, she’s probably a plant. Most psyops jobs aren’t giving you all that brand new gear (clearly never been worn/not dusty/etc.) because it’s expensive and you’re not going out to the field so you’re not using it. So more risk of people losing it.
Morgan Fleming
2023-03-11 17:13:15 +0000 UTCThe snapping at or hitting the camera is pure torture.
bulletgirl2005 .
2023-02-24 04:53:45 +0000 UTCA recruiter came to my high school and told both myself and my friend that if we joined we could find husbands. This was a couple years after 911 and right at beginning of the war in Iraq.
bulletgirl2005 .
2023-02-24 04:52:54 +0000 UTCIf the states want the kids to fight you have to give them something to fight FOR. Currently, this country is handing us a big platter of working two times harder for two times less while other countries get 4 weeks off....what's there to fight for? No one wants to defend this garbage
TR4SHF1RE
2023-02-23 03:43:45 +0000 UTCThe US military, and especially recruiters, will do literally any dirty trick possible to get more warm bodies. Recently a senator said the quiet part out loud about how forgiving student loans would drive down military recruitment.
Eightd
2023-02-22 14:03:22 +0000 UTCI’d serve crack before I’d serve this country
Justin Rodman
2023-02-22 08:56:59 +0000 UTCAs an American i fuckin hate the military, they brainwash everyone to lick their boots and saying anything negative will get you called a commie, despite the fact that women often get raped and killed while “serving” and they dont do shit about it.
Josue guzman
2023-02-22 01:55:18 +0000 UTCcouldn’t imagine how fucking annoying it would be scrolling through the already chaotic feed of TikTok only to have that guy shouting at you about propaganda and loudly snapping at you like you’re a dog. TikTok is the worst social media invention ever
Ash Archer
2023-02-21 20:43:14 +0000 UTCI was a ROTC cadet in college. (I blew my knee out while training and never served.) None of the female cadets were allowed to wear our hair down, nor could we wear makeup when we were in uniform. Now that was in the late 70s, so for all I know you can show up at inspection in camouflage lacy lingerie now, but somehow, I doubt it It's a time of low unemployment. That's another reason their numbers are down. That, and the salaries are so low for soldiers that their families get food stamps.
Fiz Gig
2023-02-21 20:37:38 +0000 UTCI think it's funny that the article used the phrase "missed targets" when talking about the military.
Vanillastump .
2023-02-21 17:27:25 +0000 UTC
