I was watching a Tiktok a week or so ago and was immediately greeted with a F bomb. I swear, it couldn’t be more than three seconds into the video and the word just popped out right away. No greeting, no, hey, welcome to my Tiktok, just a big F bomb. And of course, the cursing only continued after that so we got a three minute Tiktok that has at least twenty curse words in it and I’m having trouble concentrating on what the short form makeup review is about because all the mother f*cking going on is short circuiting my brain.
Am I prude? Am I not liberal or hip enough to watch this mother f*cking Tiktok? Am I just too old to tolerate constant cursing? I do question how I feel about this particular topic sometimes and I thought we could discuss it because we haven’t really talked about makeup reviews that constant having cursing in the in three years. Have your thoughts maybe changed about it? Are you ok with? Do you hate it?
I’m not a conservative person by any means. I’m also, not a deeply religious much to my parents horror. So, cursing in Tiktoks shouldn’t really be a problem for me right? Wrong. I hate it. I find it annoying listening to someone drop F bomb after F bomb. It makes it a harder to concentrate on the makeup review or info about a new product. I don’t mind one f*ck but having every sentence with the word is distracting. I also feel like I can’t take the content seriously.
“This is the best f*cking thing ever! This applies f*cking smooth! This is a great f*cking shade” there has to be some limit to the cursing right? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want to change anyone’s personality. I mean, some people find some sort of expression in cursing that’s there thing who am I to say how they should talk? But I do think it’s excessive at times and can be a little overkill. I’m also always surprised beauty brands aren’t a little more reserved about how they want their products described. “It’s f*cking amazing!” sounds great in theory but I do wonder if that’s the image they want associated with their brand.
Also, we’re entering into an entirely new generation of beauty lovers and they are a lot younger than I was when I started. You know those ten years olds out there buying Drunk Elephant? I dunno if their introduction to makeup should be with a bunch of cursing. I don’t think enough parents do their due diligence when it comes to monitoring what their kids watching online and I just think some of them might be a little young to be exposed to a ton of cursing.
What do you think? Have your opinions or views changes about cursing in makeup reviews or do you still feel like it’s acceptable or perhaps not?
Do influencers and makeup gurus use the f word a little too much?
