Modelled after TikTok, Facebook reels etc - comic series of overconfident bizarrely unqualified educators - SARCASM
Comic strip with overconfident educators - like the people on TikTok and Facebook reels.
This is SARCASM - e.g. a dream about a volcano does NOT qualify you teach geology.
Apart from the one about teaching Japanese, these are all based on common themes in TikTok / Facebook reels.
Try asking yourself, were any of the people who scared you qualified to teach you anything about the things that scared you? Either through their own expertise or by doing proper research / responsible journalism?
The aim here is NOT to parody any individuals. Apart from the Japanese tsunami one, any resemblance to any particular author of reels or TikToks is accidental. But they do represent very common TYPES of reels and TikTok videos.
These are all graphics auto generated with Bing copilot which uses Dall-E (useful because it gets the text right)
I did it with Bing Chat and it had various glitches such as the colours of their clothes changing between scenes which I could fix with easy recolouring. And the expressions on their faces are a bit random sometimes.
The chatbot defaulted to having all the scenes about a white boy asking a white adult man and I thought I’d mix it up a bit. But it got confused at times.
For instance the boy turns into a girl in the last scene of this cartoon when I tried to set it in India, and the Taj Mahal moving around. It’s just mockups done with a chat bot for fun.
Child: I am looking for someone to teach me geology
Adult: I can teach you! Child:
Do you study geology?
Adult: No but I had a dream about a volcano.
Child: I am looking for someone to teach me Japanese
Adult: I can teach you
Child: Do you speak or write Japanese
Adult: No
Child: baffled expression.
Child: I want to know if we risk a tsunami.
Adult: I can help!
Child: Do you know anything about tsunamis?
Adult: No but I did a comic strip about a tsunami.
Second version:
TEXT ON GRAPHIC:
Child: I want to know if we risk a tsunami.
Adult: I can help!
Child: Do you know anything about tsunamis?
Adult: No but I did a comic strip about a tsunami drean,Sarcasm - DOES NOT WORK
Geologists do not use dreams or draw manga comic strips to predict earthquakes or tsunamis
It DOES NOT WORK
Japan has a tsunami about once a year and dreams make NO DIFFERENCE to this risk.
Graphic auto generated with Bing copilot which uses Dall-E (useful because it gets the text right)
Girl with mask on and adult man with a white coat:
Girl: I want to know if masks and vaccines protect from COVID
Adult: I can help
Girl: What do you know?
Adult: Nothing, but I bought this coat from Amazon and made a Facebook reel about COVID
Child: I want to know what is happening in Ukraine.
Adult: I can help!
Child: Do you follow the Ukraine war closely?
Adult: No. But I tweet about it a lot on social media.
Child: I want to know if we risk a world war.
Adult: I can help?
Child: How?
Adult: I am an ex CIA agent who shares classified secrets on TikTok
Child: I want to know what will happen in the Middle East?
Adult: I can help?
Child: How?
Adult: I am expert on the meaning of Gog and Magog in the Bible
Child: I want to know what the future holds.
Adult: I can help!
Child: How?
Adult: I am a time traveller from the future, I swear!
Background in that picture shows Zuma rock in Nigeria.
Girl: I want to know about the future
Man: Sure thing I can predict anything.
Girl: How?
Man: Tell me what you want to be true and I will reinterpret ancient riddles to make it so"
SEE ALSO
Graphics to help people easily scared by stories on TikTok, YouTube etc with presenters who know nothing about the topic and should wear dunce’s caps
If you are one of the people who are repeatedly scared by stories like this, remember that there are people there just filling your head over and over with nonsense. Day after day you are reading and believing nonsense over and over.
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NEW SHORT DEBUNKS
I do many more fact checks and debunks on our facebook group than I could ever write up as blog posts. They are shorter and less polished but there is a good chance you may find a short debunk for some recent concern.
I often write them up as “short debunks”
See Latest short debunks for new short debunks
I also tweet the debunks and short debunks to my Blue Sky page here:
I do the short debunks more often but they are less polished - they are copies of my longer replies to scared people in the Facebook group.
I go through phases when I do lots of short debunks. Recently I’ve taken to converting comments in the group into posts in the group that resemble short debunks and most of those haven’t yet been copied over to the wiki.
TIPS FOR DEALING WITH DOOMSDAY FEARS
If suicidal or helping someone suicidal see my:
BLOG: Supporting someone who is suicidal
If you have got scared by any of this, health professionals can help. Many of those affected do get help and find it makes a big difference.
They can’t do fact checking, don’t expect that of them. But they can do a huge amount to help with the panic, anxiety, maladaptive responses to fear and so on.
Also do remember that therapy is not like physical medicine. The only way a therapist can diagnose or indeed treat you is by talking to you and listening to you. If this dialogue isn’t working for whatever reason do remember you can always ask to change to another therapist and it doesn’t reflect badly on your current therapist to do this.
Also check out my Seven tips for dealing with doomsday fears based on things that help those scared, including a section about ways that health professionals can help you.
I know that sadly many of the people we help can’t access therapy for one reason or another - usually long waiting lists or the costs.
There is much you can do to help yourself. As well as those seven tips, see my:
BLOG: Breathe in and out slowly and deeply and other ways to calm a panic attack
BLOG: Tips from CBT
— might help some of you to deal with doomsday anxieties
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The reason is I often can’t respond to comments for some time. The unanswered comment can scare people who come to this post for help on something else
Also even an answered comment may scare them because they see the comment before my reply.
It works much better to put comments on other topics on a special post for them.
It is absolutely fine to digress and go off topic in conversations here.
This is specifically about anything that might scare people on a different topic.
PLEASE DON’T TELL A SCARED PERSON THAT THE THING THEY ARE SCARED OF IS TRUE WITHOUT A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE OR IF YOU ARE A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE YOURSELF - AND RESPOND WITH CARE
This is not like a typical post on substack. It is specifically to help people who are very scared with voluntary fact checking. Please no politically motivated exaggerations here. And please be careful, be aware of the context.
We have a rule in the Facebook group and it is the same here.
If you are scared and need help it is absolutely fine to comment about anything to do with the topic of the post that scares you.
But if you are not scared or don’t want help with my voluntary fact checking please don’t comment with any scary material.
If you respond to scared people here please be careful with your sources. Don’t tell them that something they are scared of is true without excellent reliable sources, or if you are a reliable source yourself.
It also matters a lot exactly HOW you respond. E.g. if someone is in an area with a potential for earthquakes there’s a big difference between a reply that talks about the largest earthquake that’s possible there even when based on reliable sources, and says nothing about how to protect themselves and the same reply with a summary and link to measures to take to protect yourself in an earthquake.
Thanks so much for posting this! It does get exhausting at times having to repeat the same things over and over again because those with influence are abusing their powers. Meanwhile I, a person who doesn't claim to be an expert, welcomes being pushed back on and would love to learn new things.
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INSTEAD PLEASE COMMENT ON THE SPECIAL SEPARATE POST I SET UP HERE: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/post-to-comment-on-with-off-topic-940
The reason is I often aren't able to respond to comments for some time and the unanswered comment can scare people who come to this post for help on something else
Also even when answered the comment may scare them because they see it first.
It works much better to put comments on other topics on a special post for them.
It is absolutely fine to digress and go off topic in conversations here - this is specifically about things you want help with that might scare people.
PLEASE DON’T TELL A SCARED PERSON THAT THE THING THEY ARE SCARED OF IS TRUE WITHOUT A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE OR IF YOU ARE A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE YOURSELF - AND RESPOND WITH CARE
This is not like a typical post on substack. It is specifically to help people who are very scared with voluntary fact checking. Please no politically motivated exaggerations here. And please be careful, be aware of the context.
We have a rule in the Facebook group and it is the same here.
If you are scared and need help it is absolutely fine to comment about anything to do with the topic of the post that scares you.
But if you are not scared or don’t want help with my voluntary fact checking please don’t comment with any scary material.
If you respond to scared people here please be careful with your sources. Don’t tell them that something they are scared of is true without excellent reliable sources, or if you are a reliable source yourself.
It also matters a lot exactly HOW you respond. E.g. if someone is in an area with a potential for earthquakes there’s a big difference between a reply that talks about the largest earthquake that’s possible there even when based on reliable sources, and says nothing about how to protect themselves and the same reply with a summary and link to measures to take to protect yourself in an earthquake.
Thanks!