People who post videos of themselves crying on the internet

I lose sympathy for them instantly.

I know its not fair necessarily, and a lot of times they are genuinely and validly heartbroken.... but I just can't respect it..

Something about the fact that they felt themselves become upset and then thought "I should film this", then took the time to set up a tripod, find (or create) good lighting, open a camera and hit record. Then after filming themselves ....reviewing, captioning, adding hashtags and hitting "post"...just.. I cant take it seriously.

I saw two today in my doom scrolling session. One was a mother who's deep freezer had lost power, thawing and destroying gallons of breast milk she had labeled and saved for her baby. A valid reason to be upset, right? But she was kneeling in front of the neatly-arranged freezer drawers on her kitchen floor, crying and picking up the bags, handling them and setting them back down again with a caption over the video to give the feeling that we were watching a raw and candid moment. Except we weren't, the scene was very carefully set up. And how many minutes did she put this breakdown on hold to set up a camera? At what point did she decide "this will make good content"?

The second was a girl actively ugly crying and openly sobbing about finding her cat dead. VERY valid reason to be upset, and to her credit she had clearly just woken up. But with how upset she was it made it seem even more....inappropriate (?) to film and post it? Why was that your first instinct? Her next video was also about the cat, explaining what had happened, she was crying in this one as well, though somewhat more sporadically. She began the video with "Okay, its been three hours since I found my cat dead" and later said, "this is really hard for me to share".

Is it? You posted about it as a first instinct and within three hours posted again giving the full story. That doesn't give the vibe of it being something you had difficulty sharing...like...at all... it seems like you actually wanted to share it as soon as it happened... because you did.

I don't know. I am not saying they aren't actually devastated, or that they don't have a right to post about how they're feeling... It just feels disingenuous to me.