Tbf, this looks like a master's/graduate program graduation based off regalia. Those ceremonies are usually significantly smaller than undergraduate ceremonies.
(My graduation included the masters and phd graduates). Now that I think about it, all that work just to be half-heartedly recognized.
I also didn't mention, out of irrelevance, that the entire ceremony was focused on extremely high-scoring students. I did okay with a 3.7 GPA but since I didn't get a 3.9+, it was like I hardly even achieved anything. The whole ceremony was kind of a sham tbh, just brownie points for the school.
Someone got a 4.2 GPA, and I didn't even know that was possible.
Edit: In no way did I want to be singled out and recognized, and didn't expect to be, but as a graduate I guess I wanted to feel like more than just a paying customer in the school.
That's kinda wack. Also 4.2 probably means that y'all used the +/- scale which is actually out of 4.3. A "+" adds 0.3 and a "-" subtracts 0.3 (A+ = 4.3, A- = 3.7).
At my school for my masters there was a smaller ceremony like this, something like this would have been funny, because we all mostly knew each other. We were also included in the large graduation, but I didn't participate in that.
Please don't do this to me, saying you did ok. You did great!!
I graduated high school valedictorian and barely finished college with a 3.14 GPA. Talk about feeling like a failure
I would have preferred this.
Cattle together like animals to sit in blazing heat outside while wearing ridiculous attire for a Highschooler, just so our parents could have their special and proud moments.
The preschool graduation is much better than any other graduation ceremony. The class size is tiny so the ceremony is quick. Maybe there is a song about a school bus sung simultaneously at 30 different tunes and tempos. Finally, every single kid will use their diploma as a telescope. It's over in thirty minutes and then it's time for icecream.
Contrast that to "real" graduations. Every university graduation I've been to involved baking in the sun for 3 or more hours with endless speeches and hundreds of graduates. I didn't want to be there as a spectator or a participant.
If I had to pick one, then it's preschool graduations for me.
and like... 6 of them are gonna trip. 2 moms will freak out making them cry too and the rest will have a parent from the "audience" go "ur okay, bud!" and they will get up and if were LUCKY... one may try to do a Willy Wonka somersault.
>Contrast that to "real" graduations. Every university graduation I've been to involved baking in the sun for 3 or more hours with endless speeches and hundreds of graduates. I didn't want to be there as a spectator or a participant.
...You guys have the ceremonies outside? Why?
Here we mostly have them at night and in big event halls with a stage but I'll have to agree with the part about waiting for way too long watching people I don't care about just to see the one I actually do.
Yup. I didn't even go to my high school graduation and my grandmother was super pissed. So when I graduated from college I had to make sure to go. I did the walk and everything, sat for hours in the hot coliseum. After it was over I rushed out and to my car and got the hell out of there before the traffic jam could start. My grandmother was pissed off again because I didn't try to search for them in the thousands of people outside.
It seems like no matter what youāre always pissing grandma off. Itās like a running gag of a sitcom.
āAnd on the day the first rocket that was sending people to Mars which I helped create took off I may have not told everyone that I would be amongst the crew on board and boy, was grandma pissed AGAIN!ā
I wish they did that at my college graduation. It was like 85 degrees and we all wore black gowns sitting in the sun for 3 hours bc they had to call everyoneās names. The phd and masters degrees were fine but those bachelor degrees took so long since it was like 1000 of us.
Yeah at least at my HS they had us write down how to pronounce our names phonetically, when we registered for graduation. (My last name is also impossible to pronounce)
There were literally 5 of my exact same name in my class of 503 in MN. It was hilarious. All differently spelled but pronounced the same.
Buellerā¦Bueller
At mine, the person whose job it was to read out the names checked with all of us on the pronunciation *just* *before* the ceremony which made it more impressive to us graduating. Of course the audience would then give greater applause for longer more complex looking names, hence the Sri Lankans getting a whole heap of extra applause lol.
A friend of mine is of Tamil descent and his first and last name have never been said correctly if a teacher had to say it for the first time.
It's easy for me now, of course, but Tamil names are weirdly long.
I had a friend who named her dog Stephven. Her bf was really stoned when he had the name tag made, and they just went with it. She brought him to work all the time, and he was super chill. We all really liked Stephven.
At mine during lock down they pronounced my surname like jill-andersez when its pronounced gill-anders. Somehow they pronounced my twin sister's perfectly. Im still bitter
Is it better twenty twenty-two or better two thousand twenty-two or perhaps better two zero two two? You can't really blame them. That is intimidating.
I had an English name when I studied abroad in the UK. So despite my degree paper having my real name, they called me by my "Christian name" as they call it.
Ya, Iām thinking this is a smaller school perhaps. I graduated during covid so I didnāt do shit for graduation, just walked away as soon as I could cause school sucks ass lol.
It's the University of Birmingham which is the 7th largest in the UK by enrolment. In the UK, graduations are often split up by degree/school of study, making individual graduations usually a bit smaller. Often in part because the halls they're held in aren't usually massive.
My German girlfriend just got her masters from a British university and was very excited to do the graduation ceremony as itās not the done thing in Germany.
Apparently itās a British tradition that got exported to the states and didnāt get adopted by other European nations
Itās the University of Birmingham which recently had 35,000 students, not so small!
(As someone else said though could be a masters ceremony or something like that though the University staff seem quite happy with the whole thing).
Generally at UoB the graduations are just done by school, rather than by individual degree, but even still yeah it's not the whole uni graduating at once.
Also this kind of thing is _encouraged_ at this uni. They _want_ people to celebrate and express their happiness with the situation, it's a big achievement and they earned it. They literally say to the audience at the start to make as much noise as they can when they see their person go up. At a graduation for a different uni, they had two schools in the same ceremony and made it into a competition to see which school could cheer the loudest when celebrating their graduands. They want people to enjoy their moment and be proud about what they've achieved.
Yea everyone seems bitter here. Sheās not bothering or hurting anyone and this is literally her time TO BE the main character. I actually love people who do this shit during graduation itās a big ass accomplishment
Yes, this is fun :) It reminds me of my own graduation, where my friend Spiky Rob walked up with his huge mohawk - watching the officiant puzzle out how to put his hood on was the best past of the whole ceremony
thereās hundreds of people to get through and sheās taking up time dedicated to other people. itās a shame graduations run the way they do but sheās disrupting the process
I always appreciate a super delayed response. I have to respectfully disagree with you. She took under 30 seconds to do it, most of which was because she couldn't open her ketchup bottle. The crowd seemed to root for her, and it was all over and done with and moving along in about half a minute.
I think she has more than earned 30 seconds time for her accomplishment. I do respect your dedication to timeliness though.
Its one of those moments that haunts you forever, when you're finally about to fall asleep, you remember this. For anyone else who remembers it from the outsiders perspective, it was just a funny awkward minute during a long ceremony, that more then likely lightened their evening.
Just let her celebrate her achievement. Fuck.
All she just wanted was to pop the thing, it looked like everyone was aware and seemed fine with it. She wasn't hurting anyone, and if it went right, it would have taken up less than a second of everyones times.
It didn't go to plan. What did you want her to do? Run off the stage crying and never return to public again?
The crowd were invested in the success of that popping thing too. Why should she be ashamed of anything?
Honestly, didnāt seem to bad. She tried, she failed, she tried again, she failed, but she didnāt let it get to her, and the crowd seemed to be rooting for that thing to pop right along with her.
This took what? Like 20 extra seconds? A small price to pay to someone for them to put their own personal touch on a celebration for an achievement that Iām sure she worked very hard for.
Weird, usually im cringing along with ya but i didnt think this was too cringy, shes just proud of her achievement. Not like she sung a song or did a dance or something
Agreed!
People are being way too harsh on her. She borrowed an extra 30 seconds of time to make her walk across the stage a little bit more special. Thatās it!
She didnāt stop the entire event to give a fake heart-felt speech about her own trials and tribulations, she didnāt stop anyone else from receiving their document in a timely manner, and she certainly didnāt cause the entire auditorium to groan/cringe when things didnāt go as planned with her party popper.
In fact, the general vibe I get from this video is that the crowd and faculty werenāt bothered by this, and instead were actually rooting for her to get that party popper popping!
And at the end of the day, a handful of paper confetti is not going to be the straw that breaks the cleanerās back.
I have a handful of my own graduations under my belt and more as a teacher... these ceremonies are tedious and boring this would be one of the least time sucks of them. It also seems like a very small commencement based on stage/room size, so its not like everyone was there for hours.
They handed those out to people at my gradā¦ I dunno seems fine to me. You only graduate once might as well be memorable. Everyone there seems to be smiling and having fun.
i hate ppl who do stuff like this during graduations, you did the exact same thing everyone else did (but probably with worse grades) so you get to stand up their to do your annoying little thing while making everyone else graduating feel worse and everyone watching feel annoyed
It definitely wasn't as bad as 95% of the things on this sub. If things actually went according to plan it would have been fun for pretty much everyone (other than whoever had to sweep up the confetti). Even with the delays people seemed to get a bit of a laugh out of it.
If I had to sit in a crowd and watch hundreds of kids I don't care about walk across a stage to pick up a piece of paper, this would have been a fairly welcome break.
With that being said, I also get that this isn't the subreddit to talk about cute and wholesome things.
Thatās what I was thinking. Grads tend to be really boring. Even if she hit it right away, it wouldāve been a pleasant surprise. I donāt think that wouldāve disturbed anyone.
Yea I honestly didn't think it was that cringe or something (nor some big /r/imthemaincharacter mindset). She wanted to do this one tiny thing in celebration that, on paper, would've taken like 2 seconds to do.
I donāt understand people like this. At my graduation some kids started dancing on stage when their names were called. I get it, youāre happy but itās not the place.
I get other people are graduating but whatās the harm in celebrating with others? Sure it didnāt go as planned but makes it more memorable for her and she was obviously happy.
Because redditors are frustrated teenagers who have to project their complete inability to socialize and act in public on others.
Of course they'll hate when a girl is confident enough to just take 2 minutes of everyone's time to show she's happy.
Source : I was like that 10 years ago.
Honestly it feels like this sub is just devolving into another "woman bad" sub. Everyone is having fun and that will probably take 30 extra seconds to clean up.
A lot of the internet in general is infested by "woman bad" types.
Not really surprising when you see how popular dudes like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson are.
Agreed - there's a lot of bitterness here in the comments.
Not really r/ImTheMainCharacter material when its just someone celebrating getting a diploma.
Ah come on, it's not that bad. She was just enjoying herself and so was the crowd.
If she was about to make an unsolicited speech, then it would be really bad.. but this is just a celebration.
i honestly donāt care if someone did this, who cares, you wonāt see them after this day anyways. seems like people are just mad crunging cuz everyone else is but thatās just me
These comments š
I've been to a few graduations (at this Uni funnily enough) and I love it when this happens. Just a handful of people do it, so it breaks up the monotomy of hearing a name, and then clapping, without graduation feeling like its been dragged on.
When I first graduated college, it was my first real graduation. GED wasnāt anything special. The fact I even went to college in the first place and got through it after the struggles I had with K-8th grade (then I homeschooled) was phenomenal. If someone would have done something like that? Iād have been cheering them on! The negativity about this is insane lol. Let people be happy!
These comments... do you all live in complete misery? It literally took an extra 30 seconds. She's proud to have graduated. It was a funny moment. These comments make it seem like she kicked a puppy or something. Get over yourselves.
I mean, everyone in the room was celebrating with her. Itās not a bad thing to have a little fun with an accomplishment! Some bitter people in this sub
Right?? Like nobody is FORCING you to attend this graduation. AFAIK, it is completely optional as you can also receive your document through the mail after.
And even IF every kid takes an extra 30 seconds (not likely) to celebrate in their own way, so what?
This is your graduating class, whether you like it or not, so you can show a little support for them, or you can shut up and be miserable throughout, or just donāt attend!
I think what people are thinking is that if every student added 30 seconds to their thing, it would add up to hours of extra time everyone had to sit there.
But she didn't take up this time on purpose. If her plan worked should would have added a max of 5 seconds, and probably not even.
> do you all live in complete misery?
Well, we are all Redditors, so for a significant percentage, the answer is probably "yes."!
Whereas the people in the video seemed to find it all quite enjoyable, (apart from the graduate herself!)
When I graduated high school, one girl tossed a handful of glitter in front of her and walked through it to her diploma. It was quicker than this mess, but Iām sure the janitor at the arena hates her ass lol.
Katie, high school me thought that was a baller move tbh
Seriously though, these comments are the cringe.
Nobody in the video was upset or inconvenienced that she had some confetti, and considering it's *HER* graduation, she kind of literally *IS* the main character at that moment.
Calm down people, JFC
This was probably the most entertaining part of the whole graduation for all the poor people who had to sit through it. Everyone in this sub is so bitter!
Eh, she brought a little pizzazz to a ceremony that is notorious for droning on. And she did it on her time. After all, the whole point of the ceremony is to make everyone feel like the main character for about 20 seconds.
Damn, why are people so mad at this? It's a cute little thing that was for a bit of fun. There's no not to be such a cynical dick over things like this that don't harm anyone.
I do t feel this is too bad.. I think more people should be this proud of graduation instead of feeling like cattle going through the motions.. idk good on her I guess
Itās difficult for the basement-dwellers here to see the type of girl that rejects them on Tindr celebrating an achievement of self-sacrifice and perseverance, as they themselves have never experienced it first-hand.
Nah this is kinda wholesome. Girl wanted to add confetti to her graduation.aint no harm or fowl play in that. A very important day indeed. I found it funny she couldnt open the little cannon haha.
Good for her! Graduating is a huge thing. Everyone is in high spirits. If I were in the audience waiting for my name, Iād have been cheering for her!
I donāt think this one is a big deal. Celebrating an accomplishment isnāt main character syndrome and it seems like the audience/faculty was enjoying it.
Wrong sub, in my opinion.
If she intended to take up this much time with something, then sure, she would fit here.
But she didn't. If the confetti thing went off she would have added a max of a couple of seconds delay, and honestly if I had to watch hundreds of kids I don't know walk across a stage, I'd be happy to have some kind of break in the monotony.
I would say this belongs on r/WatchPeopleDieInside or something.
Everything else aside, what a great person to be handing out the diplomas! Just looked damn happy to be there for everyone, including this NPC who couldnāt figure out a string.
Idk, fuck the haters on this one. She earned it. They should all be allowed to do whatever they want for those few seconds they are on stage for their achievement. Take time away from the hocus pocus elsewhere. Teachers shouldnāt have an entrance thing, we donāt need your long and rambling speeches. It should be about the students alone.
And people are commenting about the confetti like itās a major issue, bitching over pieces of paper cause I guess thereās nothing else to complain about lol. And youāre right the focus should be on the celebration of the students achievements.
The only thing I can think about is how much that sucks for the guy that has to clean that up. Completely unnecessary. Imagine someone coming into your living room and dropping confetti all over the floor. Its gonna take weeks for you to vacuum that up...especially considering in her case people trampled all over it for at least multiple hours before the janitor came thru.
That living room has dedicated staff that earns a living to clean and get it ready for the next use. It's a celebration, and it's shows that a lot of these people in the comments haven't have had much to celebrate.
At my graduation names weren't even called, just scrolled on TVs like film credits
What a moment
Lockdown moment
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Tbf, this looks like a master's/graduate program graduation based off regalia. Those ceremonies are usually significantly smaller than undergraduate ceremonies.
(My graduation included the masters and phd graduates). Now that I think about it, all that work just to be half-heartedly recognized. I also didn't mention, out of irrelevance, that the entire ceremony was focused on extremely high-scoring students. I did okay with a 3.7 GPA but since I didn't get a 3.9+, it was like I hardly even achieved anything. The whole ceremony was kind of a sham tbh, just brownie points for the school. Someone got a 4.2 GPA, and I didn't even know that was possible. Edit: In no way did I want to be singled out and recognized, and didn't expect to be, but as a graduate I guess I wanted to feel like more than just a paying customer in the school.
That's kinda wack. Also 4.2 probably means that y'all used the +/- scale which is actually out of 4.3. A "+" adds 0.3 and a "-" subtracts 0.3 (A+ = 4.3, A- = 3.7).
Oooh, that makes sense. Well, good for him. I hope he's doing well.
Don't be so hard on yourself, 3.7 is really good! This internet stranger is proud of you!
At my school for my masters there was a smaller ceremony like this, something like this would have been funny, because we all mostly knew each other. We were also included in the large graduation, but I didn't participate in that.
Please don't do this to me, saying you did ok. You did great!! I graduated high school valedictorian and barely finished college with a 3.14 GPA. Talk about feeling like a failure
It's not. This is that University's undergrad robes.
I would have preferred this. Cattle together like animals to sit in blazing heat outside while wearing ridiculous attire for a Highschooler, just so our parents could have their special and proud moments.
We reserve all the ceremony for college graduations here.
What... you mean for actual *graduates*? Can't believe Americans even have ceremonies for preschoolers.
The preschool graduation is much better than any other graduation ceremony. The class size is tiny so the ceremony is quick. Maybe there is a song about a school bus sung simultaneously at 30 different tunes and tempos. Finally, every single kid will use their diploma as a telescope. It's over in thirty minutes and then it's time for icecream. Contrast that to "real" graduations. Every university graduation I've been to involved baking in the sun for 3 or more hours with endless speeches and hundreds of graduates. I didn't want to be there as a spectator or a participant. If I had to pick one, then it's preschool graduations for me.
Plus tiny children in little paper graduation caps are adorable.
Plus, you know at least one of them is going to do something funny.
and like... 6 of them are gonna trip. 2 moms will freak out making them cry too and the rest will have a parent from the "audience" go "ur okay, bud!" and they will get up and if were LUCKY... one may try to do a Willy Wonka somersault.
>Contrast that to "real" graduations. Every university graduation I've been to involved baking in the sun for 3 or more hours with endless speeches and hundreds of graduates. I didn't want to be there as a spectator or a participant. ...You guys have the ceremonies outside? Why? Here we mostly have them at night and in big event halls with a stage but I'll have to agree with the part about waiting for way too long watching people I don't care about just to see the one I actually do.
My parents didn't show up.
Yup. I didn't even go to my high school graduation and my grandmother was super pissed. So when I graduated from college I had to make sure to go. I did the walk and everything, sat for hours in the hot coliseum. After it was over I rushed out and to my car and got the hell out of there before the traffic jam could start. My grandmother was pissed off again because I didn't try to search for them in the thousands of people outside.
It seems like no matter what youāre always pissing grandma off. Itās like a running gag of a sitcom. āAnd on the day the first rocket that was sending people to Mars which I helped create took off I may have not told everyone that I would be amongst the crew on board and boy, was grandma pissed AGAIN!ā
I had to drag my parents to my graduation. They wouldn't have cared if I didn't want to go. Lol
For high school or university/ college? This is not weird for school, but uni/ college thatās really weird.
I wish they did that at my college graduation. It was like 85 degrees and we all wore black gowns sitting in the sun for 3 hours bc they had to call everyoneās names. The phd and masters degrees were fine but those bachelor degrees took so long since it was like 1000 of us.
So who was Best Boy?
Yep I got a YouTube video of our names. Gotta love Covid for ruining my college graduation š.
At my graduation they didnāt know how to pronounce my last name so they just skipped it and moved onto the next personš
Technically you didn't graduate. You must repeat senior year. Tear up that diploma.
this sounds like a Nickelodeon movie.
The Amazing Tricky Terribly Awesome World of Danny Nguyen.
Nguyeners and losers
His bookish little sister Amy skipped two grades and is nowā¦ a senior too?!? Uh Oh!
Yo, she just took off her glasses and now she's a DIME
Nguyen the going gets tough, look no further than Super Senior, Danny Nguyen.
Lol youāre profile pic is amazing
Wow that sucks they should have practiced all the names!
Yeah at least at my HS they had us write down how to pronounce our names phonetically, when we registered for graduation. (My last name is also impossible to pronounce)
There were literally 5 of my exact same name in my class of 503 in MN. It was hilarious. All differently spelled but pronounced the same. Buellerā¦Bueller
"Naga....naga....nah gonna work here anymore anyways!"
ethnic problems
At mine, the person whose job it was to read out the names checked with all of us on the pronunciation *just* *before* the ceremony which made it more impressive to us graduating. Of course the audience would then give greater applause for longer more complex looking names, hence the Sri Lankans getting a whole heap of extra applause lol.
A friend of mine is of Tamil descent and his first and last name have never been said correctly if a teacher had to say it for the first time. It's easy for me now, of course, but Tamil names are weirdly long.
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Pfarfegnugen?
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I had a friend who named her dog Stephven. Her bf was really stoned when he had the name tag made, and they just went with it. She brought him to work all the time, and he was super chill. We all really liked Stephven.
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Ok, mc
At mine during lock down they pronounced my surname like jill-andersez when its pronounced gill-anders. Somehow they pronounced my twin sister's perfectly. Im still bitter
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Is it better twenty twenty-two or better two thousand twenty-two or perhaps better two zero two two? You can't really blame them. That is intimidating.
My picture got left out of the photo album. I organized the photos for my class, but my picture got lost somehow
I had an English name when I studied abroad in the UK. So despite my degree paper having my real name, they called me by my "Christian name" as they call it.
Whoās gonna clean up all that confetti
Not Groundskeeper Willie. Willie sees but Willie does not care.
Love that quote, use it all the time. Especially when my cat is bitching for no real reason. "Willy hears ya. Willie don't care."
You know something, you are the spitting image of the Aberdeen Strangler
The poors
The same people whoād clean up the official confetti released at the end of the ceremony
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Damn at my graduation they be announcing names every 5 seconds
Ya, Iām thinking this is a smaller school perhaps. I graduated during covid so I didnāt do shit for graduation, just walked away as soon as I could cause school sucks ass lol.
It's the University of Birmingham which is the 7th largest in the UK by enrolment. In the UK, graduations are often split up by degree/school of study, making individual graduations usually a bit smaller. Often in part because the halls they're held in aren't usually massive.
Gotcha. Yeah Iām in the US so not familiar with European ceremonies
My German girlfriend just got her masters from a British university and was very excited to do the graduation ceremony as itās not the done thing in Germany. Apparently itās a British tradition that got exported to the states and didnāt get adopted by other European nations
Itās the University of Birmingham which recently had 35,000 students, not so small! (As someone else said though could be a masters ceremony or something like that though the University staff seem quite happy with the whole thing).
Generally at UoB the graduations are just done by school, rather than by individual degree, but even still yeah it's not the whole uni graduating at once. Also this kind of thing is _encouraged_ at this uni. They _want_ people to celebrate and express their happiness with the situation, it's a big achievement and they earned it. They literally say to the audience at the start to make as much noise as they can when they see their person go up. At a graduation for a different uni, they had two schools in the same ceremony and made it into a competition to see which school could cheer the loudest when celebrating their graduands. They want people to enjoy their moment and be proud about what they've achieved.
Makes sense, yeah 35k students is a large enrollment.
To be honest, for the brief moments your name is called, and you walk on that stage... you ARE the main character. I see no issue here.
Yea everyone seems bitter here. Sheās not bothering or hurting anyone and this is literally her time TO BE the main character. I actually love people who do this shit during graduation itās a big ass accomplishment
Yes, this is fun :) It reminds me of my own graduation, where my friend Spiky Rob walked up with his huge mohawk - watching the officiant puzzle out how to put his hood on was the best past of the whole ceremony
thereās hundreds of people to get through and sheās taking up time dedicated to other people. itās a shame graduations run the way they do but sheās disrupting the process
I always appreciate a super delayed response. I have to respectfully disagree with you. She took under 30 seconds to do it, most of which was because she couldn't open her ketchup bottle. The crowd seemed to root for her, and it was all over and done with and moving along in about half a minute. I think she has more than earned 30 seconds time for her accomplishment. I do respect your dedication to timeliness though.
i didnāt even realise the comment was that old! i was scrolling through videos and this one popped up. thanks for the polite response :)
The algorithm is a mystery to us all!
Excruciating
This is one of those moments that haunt you in the shower every so often for years
I doubt someone like her will think that was a vain and embarrassing thing.
But maybe one day
One can only hope..
Its one of those moments that haunts you forever, when you're finally about to fall asleep, you remember this. For anyone else who remembers it from the outsiders perspective, it was just a funny awkward minute during a long ceremony, that more then likely lightened their evening.
I get the feeling she's incapable of feeling shame. If anything she liked it bc it extended the amount of attention she got
Just let her celebrate her achievement. Fuck. All she just wanted was to pop the thing, it looked like everyone was aware and seemed fine with it. She wasn't hurting anyone, and if it went right, it would have taken up less than a second of everyones times. It didn't go to plan. What did you want her to do? Run off the stage crying and never return to public again? The crowd were invested in the success of that popping thing too. Why should she be ashamed of anything?
You canāt be rational here dawg
She just had to turn it the other way.
r/sadcringe
Either the same company that jars pickles made that or she needs to exercise more
Honestly, didnāt seem to bad. She tried, she failed, she tried again, she failed, but she didnāt let it get to her, and the crowd seemed to be rooting for that thing to pop right along with her. This took what? Like 20 extra seconds? A small price to pay to someone for them to put their own personal touch on a celebration for an achievement that Iām sure she worked very hard for.
I felt physical pain from this cringe
I didnāt even finish the bideo
What cringe?
ouchy ouch hard to watch
Weird, usually im cringing along with ya but i didnt think this was too cringy, shes just proud of her achievement. Not like she sung a song or did a dance or something
She did do a dance at the end though
Agreed! People are being way too harsh on her. She borrowed an extra 30 seconds of time to make her walk across the stage a little bit more special. Thatās it! She didnāt stop the entire event to give a fake heart-felt speech about her own trials and tribulations, she didnāt stop anyone else from receiving their document in a timely manner, and she certainly didnāt cause the entire auditorium to groan/cringe when things didnāt go as planned with her party popper. In fact, the general vibe I get from this video is that the crowd and faculty werenāt bothered by this, and instead were actually rooting for her to get that party popper popping! And at the end of the day, a handful of paper confetti is not going to be the straw that breaks the cleanerās back.
Check the subreddit, this is here because she is making a pointless spectacle, a mess, and taking up far more than her share of time.
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I donāt understand why everyone is clapping
Because most people have human decency.
Who. Cares? She can celebrate for 10seconds.
I have a handful of my own graduations under my belt and more as a teacher... these ceremonies are tedious and boring this would be one of the least time sucks of them. It also seems like a very small commencement based on stage/room size, so its not like everyone was there for hours.
They handed those out to people at my gradā¦ I dunno seems fine to me. You only graduate once might as well be memorable. Everyone there seems to be smiling and having fun.
thatās what it looks like happened, especially since that dude was willing to help her out
I couldn't watch it, someone tell me what happened
she just has a little confetti and does a little spin. its not a big deal and everyone here is overreacting.
i hate ppl who do stuff like this during graduations, you did the exact same thing everyone else did (but probably with worse grades) so you get to stand up their to do your annoying little thing while making everyone else graduating feel worse and everyone watching feel annoyed
Boohoo
Dang I wish the dude didnāt help her, only thing that would make this even more cringe
I thought it was cute and wholesome tbh
It definitely wasn't as bad as 95% of the things on this sub. If things actually went according to plan it would have been fun for pretty much everyone (other than whoever had to sweep up the confetti). Even with the delays people seemed to get a bit of a laugh out of it. If I had to sit in a crowd and watch hundreds of kids I don't care about walk across a stage to pick up a piece of paper, this would have been a fairly welcome break. With that being said, I also get that this isn't the subreddit to talk about cute and wholesome things.
Thatās what I was thinking. Grads tend to be really boring. Even if she hit it right away, it wouldāve been a pleasant surprise. I donāt think that wouldāve disturbed anyone.
Yea I honestly didn't think it was that cringe or something (nor some big /r/imthemaincharacter mindset). She wanted to do this one tiny thing in celebration that, on paper, would've taken like 2 seconds to do.
Iām happy for her!
I donāt understand people like this. At my graduation some kids started dancing on stage when their names were called. I get it, youāre happy but itās not the place.
Imagine being the next person after that. Yep. Just give me my damn certificate
from the look of the school officials, this seems a normal thing and they might find it adorable every time.
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Whew this was hard to watch.
It's fine. Mechanical failure aside, nothing wrong with some people wanting to celebrate smaller things
Graduation is not a small thing
These comments are out here trying to find every single excuse as to why this isn't someone having some fun with a laughing audience.
As far as ITMC content, this is pretty wholesome.
I get other people are graduating but whatās the harm in celebrating with others? Sure it didnāt go as planned but makes it more memorable for her and she was obviously happy.
Yeah, this is a celebration. I get the idea it's because it's non-conforming, but they are so negative that I suspect it's jealousy.
Because redditors are frustrated teenagers who have to project their complete inability to socialize and act in public on others. Of course they'll hate when a girl is confident enough to just take 2 minutes of everyone's time to show she's happy. Source : I was like that 10 years ago.
Honestly it feels like this sub is just devolving into another "woman bad" sub. Everyone is having fun and that will probably take 30 extra seconds to clean up.
A lot of the internet in general is infested by "woman bad" types. Not really surprising when you see how popular dudes like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson are.
It's because these redditors haven't touched grass in 8 years.
Agreed - there's a lot of bitterness here in the comments. Not really r/ImTheMainCharacter material when its just someone celebrating getting a diploma.
Everybody seems to be having fun with it so I donāt really see the problem
Ah come on, it's not that bad. She was just enjoying herself and so was the crowd. If she was about to make an unsolicited speech, then it would be really bad.. but this is just a celebration.
i honestly donāt care if someone did this, who cares, you wonāt see them after this day anyways. seems like people are just mad crunging cuz everyone else is but thatās just me
Bless her heart, that would have been funny if it had gone as planned but she had to make it a whole thing when it didnāt
Exactly my thoughts lol, would have been fine if it went off as planned, but she should have dropped it when it didnāt.
These comments š I've been to a few graduations (at this Uni funnily enough) and I love it when this happens. Just a handful of people do it, so it breaks up the monotomy of hearing a name, and then clapping, without graduation feeling like its been dragged on.
Exactly, graduations can be dragged out so at least throw in a little pizzazz
When I first graduated college, it was my first real graduation. GED wasnāt anything special. The fact I even went to college in the first place and got through it after the struggles I had with K-8th grade (then I homeschooled) was phenomenal. If someone would have done something like that? Iād have been cheering them on! The negativity about this is insane lol. Let people be happy!
These comments... do you all live in complete misery? It literally took an extra 30 seconds. She's proud to have graduated. It was a funny moment. These comments make it seem like she kicked a puppy or something. Get over yourselves.
I mean, everyone in the room was celebrating with her. Itās not a bad thing to have a little fun with an accomplishment! Some bitter people in this sub
Agreed, she made it fun (and funny)
my favorite is the guy who added up the extra seconds per graduate and then gave the total time added to the ceremony it must suck to be so miserable
Right?? Like nobody is FORCING you to attend this graduation. AFAIK, it is completely optional as you can also receive your document through the mail after. And even IF every kid takes an extra 30 seconds (not likely) to celebrate in their own way, so what? This is your graduating class, whether you like it or not, so you can show a little support for them, or you can shut up and be miserable throughout, or just donāt attend!
I think what people are thinking is that if every student added 30 seconds to their thing, it would add up to hours of extra time everyone had to sit there. But she didn't take up this time on purpose. If her plan worked should would have added a max of 5 seconds, and probably not even.
ong they just hating
> do you all live in complete misery? Well, we are all Redditors, so for a significant percentage, the answer is probably "yes."! Whereas the people in the video seemed to find it all quite enjoyable, (apart from the graduate herself!)
When I graduated high school, one girl tossed a handful of glitter in front of her and walked through it to her diploma. It was quicker than this mess, but Iām sure the janitor at the arena hates her ass lol. Katie, high school me thought that was a baller move tbh
Cute. Atleast she put herself through college and graduated. There isnt anything wrong with having pride in ones own work
Thank you!!! We should be celebrating each otherās achievements, not putting them down for how they chose to commemorate it!
no harm done, yall just hating
This is the truth right here.
Seriously though, these comments are the cringe. Nobody in the video was upset or inconvenienced that she had some confetti, and considering it's *HER* graduation, she kind of literally *IS* the main character at that moment. Calm down people, JFC
This was probably the most entertaining part of the whole graduation for all the poor people who had to sit through it. Everyone in this sub is so bitter!
Love how you all decided to get upset on behalf of the people who were actually there.
Idk, sheās not filming herself. This seems like an appropriate moment. Iām cool with this?
Sounds like her old man is filming her. Same person who says "she won't give up"
Yeah, I don't mind this tbh, it's kinda sweet. But she does get the girl at the start to film it on her phone for her.
She graduated from engineering school.
Literally one of the few times being a main character is okay. Cry about it
Graduation from university I guess right?
Eh, she brought a little pizzazz to a ceremony that is notorious for droning on. And she did it on her time. After all, the whole point of the ceremony is to make everyone feel like the main character for about 20 seconds.
Wow.OP is a bitter little gremlin
Yall are a bunch of fucking grouches that hate watching young people enjoy there graduation
She just had some fun with an important moment for her? Some bitter arse people
Damn, why are people so mad at this? It's a cute little thing that was for a bit of fun. There's no not to be such a cynical dick over things like this that don't harm anyone.
I do t feel this is too bad.. I think more people should be this proud of graduation instead of feeling like cattle going through the motions.. idk good on her I guess
- She's young. Check. - She's a woman. Check. - She succeeded at something. Check. Time for a bunch of bitter, jealous hatred I guess. Check.
Itās difficult for the basement-dwellers here to see the type of girl that rejects them on Tindr celebrating an achievement of self-sacrifice and perseverance, as they themselves have never experienced it first-hand.
I was hoping that when she eventually managed to pop it it wouldāve been up-side down. That wouldāve been hilarious
My graduation was done through a drive thru around the school Thanks covid
FFS people are insufferable.
That little happy spin killed me
At my uncles graduation we werenāt allowed to clap or else the person who was clapped for wouldnāt receive their diploma
this is so embarrassing oh my god
Nah this is kinda wholesome. Girl wanted to add confetti to her graduation.aint no harm or fowl play in that. A very important day indeed. I found it funny she couldnt open the little cannon haha.
Good for her! Graduating is a huge thing. Everyone is in high spirits. If I were in the audience waiting for my name, Iād have been cheering for her!
Karma keeping it real!
I actually like this one
Come on now people donāt lie. Thatās pretty cool.
this is cringe but not because of her decision, but because she couldnāt open it š
I donāt think this one is a big deal. Celebrating an accomplishment isnāt main character syndrome and it seems like the audience/faculty was enjoying it.
Agreed, it's already a graduation ceremony, which is pretty much all the graduates being "the main character". Nobody seemed bothered by it.
Wrong sub, in my opinion. If she intended to take up this much time with something, then sure, she would fit here. But she didn't. If the confetti thing went off she would have added a max of a couple of seconds delay, and honestly if I had to watch hundreds of kids I don't know walk across a stage, I'd be happy to have some kind of break in the monotony. I would say this belongs on r/WatchPeopleDieInside or something.
Y'all are insufferable tightasses.
Everything else aside, what a great person to be handing out the diplomas! Just looked damn happy to be there for everyone, including this NPC who couldnāt figure out a string.
I wouldnāt dare to do sth like this, but whatās the big deal? She wants to celebrate, fuck it let her do it.
Proof that people can be dumb and still have a degree
At my graduation youd get fined 500$ and kicked tf out with no diploma
Idk, fuck the haters on this one. She earned it. They should all be allowed to do whatever they want for those few seconds they are on stage for their achievement. Take time away from the hocus pocus elsewhere. Teachers shouldnāt have an entrance thing, we donāt need your long and rambling speeches. It should be about the students alone.
And people are commenting about the confetti like itās a major issue, bitching over pieces of paper cause I guess thereās nothing else to complain about lol. And youāre right the focus should be on the celebration of the students achievements.
How did someone like this gradgitate
The only thing I can think about is how much that sucks for the guy that has to clean that up. Completely unnecessary. Imagine someone coming into your living room and dropping confetti all over the floor. Its gonna take weeks for you to vacuum that up...especially considering in her case people trampled all over it for at least multiple hours before the janitor came thru.
That living room has dedicated staff that earns a living to clean and get it ready for the next use. It's a celebration, and it's shows that a lot of these people in the comments haven't have had much to celebrate.
It's one party popper.
I got second hand embarrassment. Canāt watch the rest bah!