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
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when you use screens as babysitters don’t be surprised if the people on the other side of the screen become more important to your children than you
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when vloggers are the only adults kids actually see doing their jobs don’t be surprised if they all grow up wanting to be vloggers
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“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 it’s an outdated and out-of-touch take.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
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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
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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
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I'm a full time public teacher and I kid you not, in the past couple of years my best teaching ideas have come from watching twitchers/youtubers/tiktokers than from watching teachers in classrooms, even the best ones.
True for classroom teaching, even more true for online.
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Streamers are literally my professional development now even more so than Udemy videos
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this makes perfect sense to me. they get very rapid feedback and they iterate on it constantly. bless 🙏