for many kids vloggers may be the only adults in their lives who talk to them about stuff they actually care about. the kids didn’t create the societal conditions that made that possible, and neither did the vloggers
“vlogging is cringe” or whatever the OP is trying to imply is frankly the kind of shit that makes zoomers call millennials boomers. it’s an outdated and out-of-touch take. video is the best tool we have for both knowledge transfer and vibe transfer at scale. it’s incredible
i’ve spent a lot of time the last few months on youtube and the kind of shit people with millions of subscribers get up to blows my mind. there’s a real craft here and people have gotten very good at it. people who do it as a full-time job and support families
you could look down on them for spending all that effort on talking about video games or whatever. you know who absolutely fucking loves video games? children. minecraft youtubers and the like, for better or worse, are the sesame streets and mr rogerses of today
I don't think most parents realize the extent to which the current generation of kids are going to get their ideas through memes. And there's nothing we can do to stop it.
like honestly, how much of this take is just millenial envy that zoomers are more comfortable seeking attention when that was something we shamed ourselves/each other for???