The Dichotomy Is Crazy / Sam Wilmot "Tough Guy" Video

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The Dichotomy Is Crazy or the Sam Wilmot Tough Guy Video refers to a viral video of TikToker and musician Sam Wilmot claiming that his style makes him look like a tough guy, but he still "cries in the shower to Phoebe Bridgers," concluding that "the dichotomy is crazy." The video was posted to TikTok in January 2024 and went viral on X, formerly Twitter, that March, where it became the subject of mockery as a cringe video, inspiring the dialogue from the video to become a copypasta on X.

Origin

On January 19th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @yesimsamwilmot, aka Sam Wilmot, posted a video where he talks about how he finds it "really funny" that he dresses with a sort of "tough" vibe but cries to Phoebe Bridgers in the shower and is a fan of Searows and Boygenius, implying he's actually soft, garnering over 194,000 views in two months (shown below). In the video, he's dressed in all black with a T-shirt advertising his friend's tattoo brand, the logo written in a heavy metal font, baggy pants, Converse shoes and a cuffed beanie.

I think it's really funny that I dress like this and give off like, tough, like a tough sort of thing going on and then I cry to Phoebe Bridgers in the shower and I listen to Searows and Boygenius and… the dichotomy is crazy, but uh… I don't even listen to hardcore music that much. Look at this shirt, it's my friend's tattoo brand. Anyway, I'm going to go. Later.

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On March 11th, 2024, X^[2] user @powcampsurvivor posted the video with a critical caption, writing, "I thought everyone was exaggerating but these guys really do exist," garnering over 12,000 likes and 1,900 reposts in under a day (shown below).

The upload inspired further memes and criticism of the video. For example, that day, X^[3] user @listenupnerds posted a response that gained over 4,400 likes in under a day (shown below, left). X^[4] user @nomoneyjared reposted it, writing, "If you dress like this dont think you're tough but I do assume you are emotionally abusive to women," garnering over 12,000 likes in under a day (shown below, right).

On the same day, X^[5] user @ilovefamiIyguy posted, "You ever see someone and just know their Tinder age range is set at 18-21," garnering over 9,800 likes in under a day (shown below). The dialogue from the video also spread on the site as a copypasta, attached to various images of people and characters with a "tough guy" style (see Various Examples).

Various Examples

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