Woman Accidentally Peels Screen off Samsung TV Thinking It’s Protective Film — It’s Not
By Mustafa GatollariJan. 25 2024, Published 2:14 p.m. ET
A TikToker named Kuma documented how she is making a mistake that different Samsung TV owners are with their TV units: peeling off what they believe is a protective film on their units, but as an alternative causing harm to their displays since the "protective film" is in fact an integral a part of the TV set that makes it conceivable for viewers to peer the content material on their screens.
In a viral TikTok that is accumulated over 6.7 million perspectives, Kuma showed what it looks as if when you make this error, and delineated how she went about contacting Samsung in regards to the issue and how she used to be able to get it fixed.
"All right guys watch me rip off the screen to my brand new Samsung TV. Now I delayed posting this video because for obvious reasons, um, kinda didn't want it to go viral, uhh, because I had to talk to Samsung and say Samsung, what the hell is going on?"
I believe like I will be able to talk about this now since its been a while. WHY used to be there not a sticky label on the front that stated this is not a protective plastic. Do not remove 😭 #movingtospain #usatospain
♬ original sound - 🇺🇸KUMA|Life & Lashes in 🇪🇸 Source: TikTok | @kumalashstudioIn her clip she displays the level of the wear and tear that used to be caused to her TV set: it sounds as if that the front cover of the screen, which might simply be a plastic film intended to offer protection to the screen from any nicks, scrapes, or different damage it might probably maintain in transportation/set up, is actually a part of the screen itself.
She demonstrates the level of the wear and tear by showing that the screen does not display any information save for white gentle. On the other aspect of the dark film, she peeled off? A standard old TV, which still presentations screen knowledge even with the film curling and dangling from the set.
She explains the placement she finds herself in: "So basically you know when you guys get a new TV and there's like that little protective plastic on it that you usually take off? Well, we thought this was the protective plastic because it really looked like that so we started peeling it off," she says, while the clip transitions to painful footage of a person ripping off a part of the TV that's clearly not meant to be got rid of.
"And we did not realize that yeah that was the actual screen that we were peeling off. And at that point that's my husband pulling off the whole rest of the screen because well we were already halfway there and at that point the TV was already ruined," she says, appearing how the TV screen knowledge can be seen but simplest through the just lately peeled film that's waved in front of the set.
"Apparently I'm not the only person that has done this because I Googled it and there's like whole threads of other people pulling off the screen [thinking] it was the protective plastic. This was one of the downfalls of me moving to Spain if you guys haven't been following my channel and looking at all of the hurdles this was just another one."
"Buying a brand new TV super excited get it in first day and rip off the screen that was just how my year my first year in Spain really was summarized up as...so here is the box, um, the model and everything and then here's the TV without the screen on it looks super nice and clear and shiny but, yeah, so that's the story I ripped my screen on the first day of my brand new TV."
So what happened with Kuma's TV conundrum? Did the electronics producer inform her that she was once out of success because she technically damaged the product herself and that it wasn't a producer's defect? Did she get despatched a brand new film to attach to her screen or was told to take it to a restore store to get it fastened up?
No, it appears, the Korean-based tech massive concept that the one solution to make things right with Kuma could be to swap out the entire TV set: "But Samsung is cool and they replaced it," she says within the clip.
The TikToker added in a caption for the video: "I feel like I can talk about this now since its been a while. WHY was there not a sticker on the front that said this is not a protective plastic. Do not remove," she warned.
Different commenters had various evaluations on Kuma's peel-off plastic screen. Some said that TV sets don't come with plastic covers in the first position and that she was making a big mistake attempting to peel off the screen from the get-go: "TVs don’t come with the protective plastic screen! Are people ok???"
Someone else stated that she could still use the broken screen if we wanted to, just as a special type of observe entirely, i.e. as a personal viewing software she could arrange with a pair of secret agent glasses: "That’s not the entire screen. It’s just the polarizing film on top. Stick it on a pair of glasses and you have a private tv, no one else can see"
Another particular person had the same idea, writing: "You can make glasses out of that film and then the tv will look just fine to whoever wears them"
And then there have been folks who couldn't imagine that the film was once so easily peeled from the get-go: "Why would they make a screen where you can find a peelable corner in the first place"
This used to be a sentiment echoed by others who wrote: "It never should have come off so easily though right ???" whilst somebody else said: "why is it so easy to rip off anyways"
Someone else concept that this was once a serious error in the way Samsung designed the set as well: "design flaw. the screen should be underneath the frame so the edges aren't exposed, making them peelable."
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