Bean Soup Theory

🫘Bean Soup Theory🍲

TikTok is a pretty incredible app. I thought it so strange how many people were scared of it for so long, especially when it came out.

You can waste an insane amount of time on it though, for sure. You can also learn a ton. You can see what people are doing, events that are happening often in real time and if your fyp is diversified, actually see others perspectives.

A lot of interesting phenomena and theories have come about from TikTok as well due to how the app is designed to see a lot of content in a short period of time.

One of those phenomena is the Bean Soup Theory. Let me explain.

A lady posted a video of her bean soup recipe. She made the soup and shared how you could make the soup too. Then the comments started.

There were tons of comments along the lines of, “but what if I don’t like beans?” or "but I can't eat beans", "beans upset my stomach", "this soup would be better if you did (x,y,z)".

😣🙄🤬😑🤯

THEN THIS VIDEO IS NOT FOR YOU!

I am sure you have seen it too. We have for sure.

Make a video or post and the comment section is filled with people saying how they don’t do it that way, you should do this instead, why don’t you do (insert anything), I don’t like that, that’s abuse, or even devolving into name calling. Someone recently commented “wanker” and I almost left the comment up because I thought it was hilarious.

BEAN SOUP THEORY

If you don’t like what you are seeing, or you don’t like “beans”, or you do it differently - cool! Then this content isn’t FOR YOU.

Scroll on by, you’re not the target audience. Not everything IS for you or should be for you.

Social media in general has caused some new interesting social issues we never had to deal with when I was young. It can be hard to navigate unless people set some serious boundaries and expectations. Then follow through with them. Just because you have an opinion or “free will” doesn’t mean you are entitled to hop in someone’s comment section to share it without consequence. It’s a jerk move.

Honest, genuine questions are one thing. Criticizing, complaining, critiquing and offering advice WHEN IT WASN’T ASKED is quite another.

So now I will have a little fun and just comment “Bean Soup Theory”. Those who know will know. Maybe the a**hole who commented will look it up and it will plant a seed.

It is not my responsibility to give you a platform to help with your lack of self-esteem and your fragile ego. To help you feel validated or important. To suffer your projections of your own issues.

You do you boo, on your page. I will do me, on mine.

If it’s for you, GREAT! Glad I could help.

If it isn’t for you - BEAN SOUP THEORY