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SBU | Culture

“I Don’t Care What You Think”

Mary Quinn McNaughton Student Contributor, St. Bonaventure University
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SBU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

I went viral on TikTok last weekend.

In line with popular belief, the stupidest, lowest effort, seven-second clip on my page went viral, and a little over one week after having been posted, it will reach one million views. I made the video on my burner TikTok with zero followers on Friday night after re-downloading the app after months. The video makes literally no sense and I have to reiterate that it is the stupidest video I have ever put on the internet. But, somehow, as I write this, the video sits at almost one hundred fifty thousand likes and nine hundred eighty thousand views.

I honestly thought I was going to be having my Alix Earle moment, but internet fame is incredibly dull, severely overhyped, and fleeting.

What I did get out of my brief experience with virality was, quite honestly, a sense of disgust. I was genuinely shocked to discover how self-obsessed and honestly annoying TikTok users have gotten.

Again, my video is stupid. It is not controversial or thought provoking in the slightest. It is painfully simple.

My post has over five hundred comments. Some of these are users tagging their friends, but most are users criticizing me or offering their incredibly unwelcome opinions.

I am a firm believer in no one caring. No one cares what you think. Your opinion is not that important and certainly not always needed. You are not the most important person in every room you find yourself in, and I promise that you’re not as special as you think you are. Realizing this should be freeing, not shattering. This way of thinking encourages its adopters to let go of what others think and to instead focus on becoming exactly what you want to be.

I say this because the title of this very article is exactly how I responded to the many, many comments offering their opinion. I genuinely do not care what you think.

A lot of commenters seemed really offended by this notion, some even leaving hate comments on other videos on my account, but, again, I don’t care what a random person I will never meet has to say about me or my opinions. It’s not their place or their business.

I encourage every social media user to just stop offering their opinion online. No one cares to hear your suggestions or opinions unless they are explicitly asked for. I don’t care what you think! That’s okay.

Mary Quinn McNaughton

SBU '26

Mary Quinn, known as MQ to most, has been a Her Campus contributor at St. Bonaventure University for three years!
Mary Quinn is currently a third-year honors student studying English with a passion for writing, service and social media marketing. Aside from Her Campus, Mary Quinn writes for PolitiFact NY, a media organization dedicated to publishing the whole truth, as a political reporter. She is the St. Bonaventure University English Department's social media manager and she works with the Student Government Association (SGA) as her class's president. She also serves as co-president of Break the Bubble and is involved with SBU College Democrats, the Latin American Student Organization (LASO), Badminton Club, SBU Orion and the SBU Indigenous Student Confederacy (ISC).
In her time away from academics, Mary Quinn loves spending time with her friends, roommates and girlfriend. She enjoys online shopping, listening to new music and reading. Mary Quinn absolutely adores cats, and though she is highly allergic to them, spends any free time she can at the Cattaraugus County SPCA. Mary Quinn's shining star achievement is that she was awarded "Camp Gossip" two years in a row. She believes that any problem can be solved by a quick scroll on "X," a hot gossip sesh with her roommates, "Mean girls" by Charli XCX, water from the Hickey Dining Hall and Trader Joe's soup dumplings.