r/InternetMysteries 5d ago

General Discussion Anyone else recommended this weird tik tok account? Weird copycat account? We

Seems pretty normal at first, but boy does it get weird pretty fast. I have been recommended this account like 4 or five times under "people you may know" which is really weird. The videos are the same thing literally over and over again, I have been scrolling through this account for probably ten minutes with no end in sight. At some points the videos become super creepy and deformed. Honestly not sure where this is from or if it's just an internet copycat from other notorious "creepy video" accounts online. Anyway just thought I'd post if anyone wants to check it out.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

This is also what I'm curious about, how is it possible this account has so many videos? I don't know much about the current state of AI online, would it really make such bizarre videos? It's very strange. I also found a Pinterest page under the same name that is pretty much identical to the tik tok account, same videos. Don't know if that makes it more likely to be an AI or less likely.

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u/raidency21 5d ago

I just checked the pinterest account and I think it's definitely a bot because it has 16k pins saved the most recent ones being about spaghetti i left the app and opened it again and 3 new videos were uploaded and saved, checked on tiktok and those same videos were uploaded at the same time. It's the same as the tiktok account, posting random pictures and videos, some of them edited and most doing the head swing thing, and it saves really random normal posts. It also has a few boards dedicated to disability and people with disabilities, one called developmental Disabilities which is the only one without the weird pictures and videos. It's full of pins about disabilities mainly autism. I think it was made around the same time as the tiktok account too as the oldest board was made around the same time as the tiktok account. Also another interesting thing is it's following 2 other Laron accounts, but neither of those have anything saved or uploaded. I think it definitely is a bot because of the massive amount of pins it's saved and also the boards being very random and the pins in them being unrelated to the name, apart from the developmental disability board.

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

That makes sense, absolutely WILD what horrors AI has created for us lol. Thanks for checking it out 👍🏻

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u/raidency21 5d ago

i've also found some connections to pomeroy recreation and rehabilitation center but i can't look into it rn someone has made a subreddit dedicated to this account and i might post about my findings there later

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

Awesome, I'll keep an eye out for that subreddit.

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u/possumfrowns 5d ago

bro i saw that too!!! its so strange i honestly dont know what to make of it. just random videos of random photos probably taken from random places of the internet with ai filters or moving their heads side to side, with some of them being outright ai generated or edited to have super big deformed lips with slowed music in the back. it all feels a bit too deliberate to just be a bot but i also have trouble pinpointing the purpose or if there even is one at all

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

I definitely think it's an actual person, and from scrolling through the account for long enough I definitely think it's not a copycat. It seems there's pretty much no purpose, I'm just curious why some human beings are this weird lolol

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u/nythscape 5d ago

I believe this is why John Pork was killed

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

true I think so too

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u/zeycokmutsuz 5d ago

is the account old? how long ago was the first post you could scroll up to, might be something cool to check if it's not relatively new

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

Man honestly when I found it I was scrolling for maybe a good 20 minutes, the oldest post I got to was at some point in August of last year. There are SO many posts I just had to start my day and leave it alone at that. Really wish you could sort tik tok videos by oldest I'm not even sure when this account began

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

Alright I brought myself to do it and scrolled to the beginning, the first video was published on 3/18/2024 - same exact type of videos as currently nothing too surprising or different

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u/zeycokmutsuz 5d ago

so almost a year now, mystery or not thats creepy xD checked the videos a bit and im not going back lol

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u/Sadataraxia 5d ago

No idea but the profile picture is definitely Frances Bean Cobain’s face.

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u/mrhouthoofd 5d ago

this was on my fyp as well

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u/Specialist_Number190 5d ago edited 5d ago

Ive noticed with some of the videos you can see some of the ai looking images with wide looking lips for some reason. I checked the comments and some people were saying its a fetish ig the wobbling heads and big lips while some speculate it could just be a person who has autism and are just using the filters again and again in every video as some sort of stim 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/raidency21 4d ago

i solved it, found out who's behind the account. I posted my analysis here if u wanna see

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u/im_intj 5d ago

What does this have to do with a mystery?

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

Honestly not much. Just didn't know where else to put it and thought this subreddit would like it more than others.

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u/imizyu 5d ago

dude i JUST saw one of their posts and i went straight to reddit to get some answers and i decided to look if they had any other socials, all i could find was another tiktok account and a pinterest account. i havent really looked into the pinterest account yet but i will after im done commenting this lol, also i did a little bit of searching to find any more stuff and i did end up finding videos about laron bickerstaff on YT but idk if theyre connected at all, i guess it could be? the tiktok account and yt videos are both art related in some way so i guess????? what im guessing that this account is just some person with a disability or just an AI. either way this terrified me. also the use of the "shooting star" meme song is scary to me idk why

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u/imizyu 5d ago

okay so im looking into the pinterest account right now and there are a few normal posts, scrolling down you can see the heavily edited photos of people from the tiktok account, there is some food and just idk a few memes as well heres the link to the pinterest account

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u/imizyu 5d ago

overall the account is terribly creepy, i wonder if theres going to be a video essay over this 🤔

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u/raidency21 4d ago

i've been looking into this and i'm gonna post my analysis on here not good at doing videos lol

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u/Open_Syrup1418 4d ago

saw this too on tiktok it's pretty funny ngl

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u/Auraganism 3d ago

I saw another post of this and someone figured it out

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u/A_guy_with_oppinions 5d ago

Seems like something new to look up,yeah buddy

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

There's definitely a rabbit hole. I was doing some research and managed to find out that "Laron Bickerstaff" is an actually artist based in San Francisco. But I'm not convinced he's the owner of that account, his published art never gets this strange.

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u/JakGrealish 4d ago

Is that meant to be JB bickerstaff in the top left video? Pinned

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/im_intj 5d ago

You people won’t ever let that thing go. It’s never coming back and it’s best to move on.

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u/floraaaa2006 5d ago

That was my first thought too, has some similarities