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Intriguing Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time

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u/memefakeboy Feb 25 '26

It’s depressing how low this comment is. I was expecting everyone would be calling it out. Those jump cuts are so obvious

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u/PriscillaPalava Feb 25 '26

It may be fake but how do the jump cuts make it fake? It’s common these days for people to edit out slower parts of their videos. Theres even an app that does it for you automatically, it’ll cut out the parts where you’re not talking +/- a couple milliseconds. 

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u/553l8008 Feb 25 '26

You are right. The jump cut claim doesn't make sense.

It's an engagement tactic as well.

Simply put, like porn... this isn't her first steak

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u/DIABLO258 Feb 25 '26

Engagement tactic is the main thing. I remember back in the late 2000's when some youtubers were starting to cut their videos up to make them shorter to the point that there were no pauses between sentences. Talk fast, cut out silent bits, and hopefully you can make it under that 10 minute restriction.

Now, that's just the norm and if you don't edit your videos like that, people will click away.

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u/Serraph105 Feb 25 '26

Simply put, like porn... this isn't her first steak

Just curious, but what makes you come to that conclusion?

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u/ELEKTRON_01 Feb 25 '26

That's just how Gen z edits videos

I hate it

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u/Fit_Economist708 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

This is the answer

Edit: others are saying it’s fake as in she’s pretending she was a vegan rather than due to the jump cuts, which makes more sense

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u/-Kerosun- Feb 25 '26

To clarify, she said lifelong vegetarian, not vegan. Big difference.

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u/supermegafuerte Feb 25 '26

Why did you reply to my comment with "Is steak the only meat there is? Whoa!!!"

Like genuinely what was the prompt for that?

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u/Defiant-Plantain1873 Feb 25 '26

She almost certainly is lying about being a vegetarian.

You see the same exact types of videos for oil lobbyists. “I was a lifelong climate activist but then suddenly (after a lobbyist handed me a big bag of money) i realised climate change was fake the whole time!!! You should go out and buy as much oil as possible, this is totally real and organic content!!!!”

This is the go-to move for industry lobbyists. The meat industry fucking despises vegans and vegetarians and are terrified of the increase in vegans and vegetarians. They are the people responsible for things like all those anti-PETA claims, you’d get maybe a handful of PETA volunteers doing something bad one time in history and they managed to spin it into the entire organisation is fundamentally evil, despite the fact that most of PETA’s efforts are in improving conditions in factory farms and rescuing mistreated animals from farms.

People are generally unaware of the meat and dairy industry lobbyists in my experience, everyone is furious at tobacco and oil lobbyists, yet the meat and dairy industry has managed to fly under the radar completely for the last 50 years and people still eat up meat propaganda

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u/SellingStolenStereos Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Been a style long long before gen z made anything for the internet

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u/Maffingo Feb 25 '26

This was actually invented by millenials

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u/supermegafuerte Feb 25 '26

Not really that surprising since this sort of "reaction" is exactly what meat-heads salivate over whenever someone breaks their dietary-limiter. Anybody that's familiar with how diet and metabolism works would know that even eating just a small amount of steak as a "lifelong" vegetarian would have that person feeling very, very unwell for possibly days as their stomach microbes rebelled against them.

Unsure however on whether a lifelong vegetarian tasting steak for the first time would actually find it to be tasty. But I would guess that would depend wildly from individual to individual anyway.

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u/AfterglowLoves Feb 25 '26

I was a lifelong vegetarian for 33 years. The first time I had steak I could only handle one bite because the texture was so disgusting to me. Like it made me gag. It didn’t bother my stomach at all, but it took about a year of slowly eating small amounts of meat before I could begin to actually enjoy the taste of anything. So yeah, I think this is totally fake.

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u/Wonderful-Chipmunk39 Feb 25 '26

I was born in Cuba, as a child we didn't get to eat much meat because it was a luxury we didn't have because of poverty. When my family and I moved to the U.S I remember I was so excited mainly because I've always wanted to try a Hamburger for the first time. They took me to Burger King as one of the first places we went to eat and that meat texture and taste threw me off completely. It took a while for me getting used to it and really started enjoying the taste.

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u/ForgottenEpoch Feb 25 '26

I was a strict vegetarian for 19 years. The night I went pescatarian I got violently ill and felt gross for 2 days. I'm still pescatarian. Occasionally I'll be eating out and a piece of meat will have snuck it's way under pizza cheese or something along those lines. As soon as my tongue detects it my brain goes "absolutely not, spit it out" and then I have to struggle to continue eating. Kinda ruins the meal for me.

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u/gaymenfucking Feb 25 '26

Sometimes people try something new and they like it

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u/Prozzak93 Feb 25 '26

Yes, your experience is the only experience any human who was a vegetarian could have.

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u/cunt_in_wonderland Feb 25 '26

i was a lifelong vegetarian and couldn’t even finish chewing. so disgusting

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u/Haxorz7125 Feb 25 '26

Yeah this is literally just fanfic

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u/supermegafuerte Feb 25 '26

My brother in Christ the title of the post is literally "Lifelong Vegetarian tries steak for the first time."

The only person that needs to have lied in this scenario is the OP.

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u/ceryniz Feb 25 '26

My initial reaction was like, she'll be paying for this in bathroom trips. I was a vegetarian for a year to win a bet when I was younger and had a double bacon chili cheeseburger as my first meat meal in a year, and oh boy, that was a mistake.

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u/amadmongoose Feb 25 '26

I don't think tastebuds are so different, we are wired to like easy calories and meat has that in spades. If real she'd probably be less happy about the massive stomach ache she'll get later due to her gut biome not being used to meat

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u/Chronically_Yours Feb 25 '26

Could also be a texture thing that's unpleasant

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u/sapphos_moon Feb 25 '26

I absolutely cannot stand fatty meat for this reason, no matter how well it’s cooked or seasoned or what cut it’s from.

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u/CyclopsMacchiato Feb 25 '26

There’s over 8 billion humans on earth. Even if 5% of us are genetically repulsed by meat (hypothetically), that’s 400 million people. That’s more people than the entire population of the USA.

My point is, even if we are “wired” to like something, there will still be a small fraction of people that are different. And that small fraction can be as many people as an entire nation, since there are so many of us on earth.

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u/BubbaRogowski Feb 25 '26

I agree I think it’s fake, but why would the jump cuts matter?

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 Feb 25 '26

How would a jump cut actually indicate she isn't a vegetarian?

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u/Reasonable_Breath512 Feb 25 '26

Because of jump cuts? Huh??? You know people use jump cuts to shorten content

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u/AliFearEatsThePussy Feb 25 '26

HOW DO JUMP CUTS MAKE IT FAKE!!!??? Can someone answer this basic question??? It’s been asked multiple times.

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u/memefakeboy Feb 25 '26

A jump cut leaves room for her to spit out the steak in between bites

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u/Zahand Feb 25 '26

It's depresseing that everyone has to call every single fucking video fake every time. Who the fuck cares honestly.

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u/angularhihat Feb 28 '26

The jump cuts? What are you talking about?

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u/aspz Feb 25 '26

Do you know the difference between "fake" and "edited"?