If you could choose between love or a PlayStation 5, which option would you pick? The former (hopefully) sets you up for life while the latter is only in vogue for roughly seven more years. It could be a tough decision for some, so TikTok user PANDA BOI posed the question to the general public. In a video that has now gone viral in the space of just 24 hours, it's quite clear people are opting for the PS5.
The 22-second clip shows the TikTok star setting up in a busy public place and placing a PS5, PS5 Digital Edition, PS5 DualSense controller, and a PS4 system at his feet. He holds a whiteboard up asking: "Love or PlayStation?" Everyone takes the PlayStation. Someone even takes a PS5 console and an extra PS5 DualSense pad!
It's unclear how much of this is staged (probably all of it, knowing TikTok), but it's still a hugely successful video that has immediately gone viral. While TikTok pegs the video at 846,000 views at the time of writing, the YouTube version has an absurd 24 million views. And it was only posted yesterday. To the tune of Lonely by Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco, PANDA BOI will be banking nicely off this one.
The video appears to be part of a series the TikTok user is doing in the lead up to Christmas, gifting random strangers sought-after presents like iPhones, Vans trainers, and cameras. Again, this is all likely set up for views. Still, the question remains: Love or PlayStation?
[source tiktok.com]
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Why limit yourself. Take everything 😁
Playstation, then PlayStation, followed by PlayStation, then maybe I would choose playstation.💕
I'd choose to blast TikTok into the Sun
I'd rather take the console than some TikToker ANY day.
Everything on the internet is true. This was not staged and those boxes definitely had the goods in them.
PS5 has less problems to deal with so...
@RevGaming fewer problems. I'm only correcting you because I really hate your avatar choice. Unpleasant.
@Integrity Thanks. English is not my mother's tongue.
Um. An avatar from a stranger shouldn't bother you.
@RevGaming it's very rude, uneccessary and frankly immature. It doesn't bother me in the sense that I'm offended but when I see it over and over on a loop I find it irritating.
@Integrity Who are you, the Avatar & Grammar police? #LeaveRevGamingAlone! 😭
@fR_eeBritney 😆
you have lovely hair.
100% staged. The PS4 box wasn’t even real, cause no way she picked it up one handed.
Waste of an article, make the Vita feature it deserves instead
Obviously staged. The fact that people couldn't figure that out within two seconds explains why we're still fighting and losing the battle against Covid. Too many people don't have the ability to see through a lie.
Can’t believe I read this 🙄
Unfortunately the genuinely decent stuff on TikTok is overwhelming drowned out by the absolute melons like this. So basically like every social media.
@Integrity Oscars suck man, I bet your name is Oscar. The Oscar community are some sensitive tubbietubs.
I choose playstation. Because that's something I've actually obtained.
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@Amusei Oscars suck man? You shouldn't be allowed near fish. Perv.
Whichever I can't buy.
Apparently still over a year later ps5 is more rare than love so...its not a hard choice..
@Integrity I hope you're describing the avatar and not me, because judging someone from an avatar...
Maybe you should check how rude, immature and unnecessary that is.
Complete lack of self-awareness, my guy.
I'll change it, just for you.
edit: There. Now it's censored. lmao
@RevGaming all about the avatar, not describing you, don't know you. At no point did I speak about you and all my references were about the avatar so not sure why I need to be more self-aware. 👍
Thank you for your consideration.
This is so aggressively dumb, in addition to being phony, that even the fundamental premise of it is backwards. "You can have a free PS5, but only if you don't kiss(?) this weird sad-sack dude" is hardly a choice at all.
Try "giving away PS5's for love" instead of 'or' love as a Tiktok premise, and then you might - might - end up with something worth watching.
@Integrity Man. The reply you just did was fine. Don't know why you had to edit it.
and because you're being more rude than the avatar itself.
and you're welcome.
@RevGaming how have I been rude? I've only been straight with you and I didn't accuse you of anything, I just told you what I thought of your avatar in a frank manner. Is that rude?
I edited it because I realised you were saying I was rude about you personally and I wasn't self-aware enough.
@Integrity Alright.
I passed on watching the linked TikTok video to avoid the second hand embarrassment, but that might have still been better than reading the comments of the dude perturbed by some avatar.
@Integrity Was this whole thing really necessary? I don't think so. We have the report function for if you really don't agree with something.
@LiamCroft not wanting to go on about this but seeing as you asked, fair enough, I didn't think of that because I honestly thought PS was OK with having someone flip the middle finger on a loop. Not sure what your T&Cs are on avatars or how adult-orientated the site is in general. That's why I mentioned how unpleasant I thought it was rather than report it.
I shall use the report function in future. I apologise for being off-topic.
Playstation. Every time. Less hassle. More stable thanks to the updates. Doesn't play mind games. Or cheat on you whilst you're on the brink of finding out you're pregnant... Better looking. No ex mother in law who just won't go away. Helps me zone out to another world that's just better than this one.. Even with the alien invasions, and planet destroying monsters.
PS5 is more affordable
Would be interesting to see a not staged version, not during a continuing global pandemic, where you have to show some love to earn a Playstation.
I mean really if this weren't staged who is going to take some "love" from a random man in the street who may or may not have Covid. Reminds me of the end of the comic con where all the people would stand with 'free hugs' signs as people walk past avoiding eye contact. I'll never know why they didn't just hug each other.
I'd pick the PS4 over a 5 as well. This is staged AF, like the rest of tiktok.
@nicc83 that’s all well and good but let’s not pretend games haven’t stood us up on numerous dates either. Some serial offenders; obviously getting off on it my digital ed PS5 itself however has a ball and chain and can keep it in my dungeon where I call up it’s services without it ever seeing the light of day.
I'm not one to usually care and or pay attention to social media platforms. I mean why hate someone for enjoying something, but something about TikTok just makes my blood boil uncontrollably
But I love playstation, so both 😃
@RevGaming The feeling of love doesn't. It's just the fake version sold to us by Hollywood and exasperated by all the world's traumas and inequalities that does.
The acting is always so bad that it makes me cringe.
@Integrity just wanted to say that I love your posts.
@naruball thank you for such kindness. I try to be honest and fair in my dealings.
Please, please, please.
No more 'news' about TikTok videos, please.
Love can be bought any time for enough money. Playstations can only be bought for split second moments if you had a tip-off prior to the sale. Playstation now. The Playstation can be scalped to pay for love if you have buyers remorse.
TikTok is cringe I hate it.
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