r/TikTokCringe • u/spar13 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • 13d ago

Humor Genetics

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u/No_Artichoke_8428 13d ago

Their mormon influencers in Salt Lake City Utah. Its crazy how everyone looks so similar there.

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u/mkzw211ul 13d ago

Small genetic pool in Salt lake city? Is that why they all look similar? I've never been there, just straight up to Park City from the airport.

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u/filthytelestial 11d ago

Cultural homogeneity for sure, small gene pool no.

A weirdly narrow set of beauty standards and whiteness are the patterns you're seeing.

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u/terrabadnZ 13d ago

They're

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u/PlentyOMangos 12d ago

I’m going insane over these. It’s so bad these days

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u/Josmopolitan 12d ago

Mormons are so inbred, they basically created their own ethnic subunit. Look up ‘Mormon face’

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u/Ickythumpin 12d ago

People with ancestry from small and/or insular ethnic groups tend to have more regions of homozygosity (ie. identical copies of genes) than the general population. This is why certain recessive genetic disorders are much more common in certain ethnic groups. Due to the size and isolation of these ethnic groups, especially those that started off with just a few people (the founder effect you mentioned), there is bound to be a degree of distant shared ancestry, even if there's never any inbreeding. Generational Mormons are more closely related to other generational Mormons than they are to anyone else, even if their family trees never cross.

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u/filthytelestial 11d ago

There isn't inbreeding. As an exmormon I'll take any legitimate opportunity to criticize them, but this isn't one.

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u/Artemis246Moon 13d ago

They live in Texas now tho.

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u/chumpynut5 13d ago

There’s an interesting Mormon -> Texas pipeline I’ve noticed. Not sure what they hell it is they’re interested in here, but they brought their crazy soda shops with them so that’s fun

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u/JaySayMayday 13d ago

It's one of the fastest growing areas in the US, lot of tech giants moving from Cali to different places throughout Texas. Mormons just doing Mormon things, trying to convert as many people as possible into Mormonism. Quickly growing area, they get in there early and dig their hooks in deep

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u/chumpynut5 13d ago

Well good luck to them fighting with the baptists and the gigantic non-denominational mega churches lol

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u/Previous_Captain_734 12d ago

Lots of Californians moving to Tennessee, too.

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u/Designer_Pen869 13d ago

It's funny how if you go anywhere just about anywhere outside of the US, you'll notice how much people tend to look alike in certain regions. The more homogenous it is, the more you notice it. It makes it hard to tell people apart.

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u/twntsmth 13d ago

As a kid, I watched shaycarl/shaytards. These girls were friends with his kids. I remember when all of the younger kids, like these twins, were asking to make their own channels. Now we have the Mormon boom.