It isn't that surprising, this girl has been my friend for most of my life, we have been classmates since we were about 8 years old, and I have seen her cry, and the crying videos on Tik Tok was already a trend among many youth anyway. I have certainly wished I could wipe her, and many other girls' tears, but the cultural taboo surrounding touching someone of the opposite sex stops me.

This is not one specific story or obs, but from a period of time. This girl is my friend and was my classmate in school and we used to spend a lot of time together studying as we also lived nearby. This was two years ago, before corona. One day, when we were just taking a break, and she asked me to help her film a Tik Tok video as her phone's front camera was not as good as the back camera and she wanted to post good quality videos, so I filmed a few videos for her, but at that time, she did not cry. At this time, I also didn't know about all the crying videos on Tik Tok.

I helped her like this a few times, and then one time, she asked me to take a video of her crying, to wait till the tears were about to drop from her eyes and take the video. I was really happy as I've seen her cry a few times before and she sheds many tears. I was curious to see how she would make herself cry, she did it by just not blinking and fanning her eyes with her hands, and tears started coming from her eyes. We did a few videos that day, so I saw her shed many tears.

Then, over the next few months, we did many such videos together, both crying videos and non-crying videos. Nowadays, due to studying in different colleges and corona lockdowns and Tik Tok being banned in India, we haven't been meeting much, so it has been about a year since I last saw her cry. But it was great to see her make those crying videos live. Through her, I discovered Tik Tok and thousands of other crying videos, though sadly it has now been banned. Sometimes, I try to access online with VPN, but it doesn't always work. But, this is my story of how I helped my friend make crying Tik Tok videos. Hope you liked it. Thank you for reading.

TorNorth wrote:

https://youtu.be/F-AXJM3LRkw

I don't understand German, but the tears were nice. I think Japanese girls cry even more than Indian girls based on what I've seen on YouTube. This Japanese channel has many crying videos similar to the supercut channel, but shorter videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8lAx_aKrEVPgFpx-cvbVCg/videos
 

Amans lacrimae wrote:

I see you are a good observer, you noticed that the first girl shed more tears and sobbed while the second shed only a couple of tears and did not sob. I find it interesting how the third girl hugged them (you previously mentioned hugging was seen with bad eyes) and more than one comforted them, I'll assume they patted their shoulders or caressed their hair (if touching the face is seen wrong).

Thank you for sharing, do you behave the same way (not touching) when the girl is crying to you and there is nobody witnessing? Have you ever cried in front of a girl (after you turned into your teens)?

Thank you, it was easy to notice, I was standing close by. It is okay for girls to hug other girls and boys to hug other boys, just not a girl and a boy.

When a girl is crying in front of me and we are alone, which has happened only about three times as far as I can remember, one time it was because I was arguing with this girl and when she started crying, I just asked her to calm down and apologised for hurting her feelings. The other two times, it was a good friend and it was while she was going through some family drama, and I just listened to her talk without saying much, one time she cried quietly with just tears coming out of her eyes, another time she sobbed and was crying badly, and I just spoke some comforting words.

I haven't cried in front of a girl since becoming a teenager. I cried in front of a male friend once, in front of my parents one and alone once as far as I can remember, I don't remember too much about my own crying or other boys or men crying, it's only girls crying that interests me.

Amans lacrimae wrote:

I understand, so it's not as common as Tiktok showed to thebrest of the world, I saw many girls from India and Pakistan crying in Tiktok, that's why I thought it was culturally acceptable.

I am surprised of the gender ratio in higher education over there, in Mexico it's the other way around, well, almost half and half, depending on the field, there are some careers that have more girls (education is one of them, I can estimate 80-90% girls), unlike computer science or electrical engineering where there is 1 girl for every 20 boys

Interesting how your crying frequency decreased when you reached your teens, I guess hormones played a big part, I also find interesting you usually sob.

Wow, in my culture is the other way around, we are very touchy and it is common to hug, and not unusual to wipe tears.

Maybe it is relatively more common to see girls cry here than in the west. Also, with Tik Tok, if you notice, in most videos, the girls are crying on their own at home, not in public. Also, in Tik Tok, most of the time, they are lipsyncing to some sad songs are something, and it is common in Indian movies and serials to have a lot of emotional crying scenes, so that explains the Tik Tok videos. I have only seen a fraction of the number of crying scenes in English films and serials. As I mentioned before, I used to help one of my friends make Tik Tok videos, including crying videos, before it was banned in India, and she used to just lipsync mostly to sad songs.

It is interesting to know that in Mexico not many girls study computer science or electrical engineering, here those classes will have a majority of girls. But in mechanical engineering or automobile engineering or similar courses, there won't be any girls. I think it is partly because of limited options, parents, relatives and society generally want people to do engineering degrees and not arts degrees, and if someone is studying arts and not engineering or medicine, they are looke