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
Conversation
I feel like this whole thread is implicitly related to our upcoming Envy salon!!!
2
7
the millennials envying the zoomers? rich territory there i think
1
5
we are telling on ourselves but I am living for it
1
4
i will never know what it’s like to natively interact with the internet through video, even if i put in the reps on youtube or tiktok it’ll always be a second language at best. i do envy that i think
2
7
eh, do 100 tiktoks i bet you'd be surprised
1
1
7
I mean, 2nd language sure but you can get to serious fluency
1
5
feels like i haven't conveyed-
you can get comparatively more fluent than everybody except the 1% of people who started native and went hard, the equivalent of Simone Biles and Victor Wooten etc. a millennial who's serious can outclass 95-98% of zoomers
Quote Tweet
Longest speech ever delivered at the UN was by Krishna Menon, on the subject of Kashmir.
POTUS Eisenhower described him as a “menace”.
“My English is better than yours. You merely picked it up, I learned it.” Ooooh I felt that one 
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._K._Kri
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._K._KriShow this thread
2
1
7
not to belabor the point too much i just have a lot of feelings about this
Quote Tweet
if you argue for your limitations you get to keep them
any power user smart enough to know how to wrangle a large audience possesses the cognitive machinery required to learn a new medium
good musicians make good painters and vice versa once/if they get past the initial hump
Show this thread
1
6
just imagine someone who's never used twitter before but they're great at sth totally different, and then they come here and they're kind of clueless about the form, the norms, etc – but it's actually really fresh and endearing, and they know so much about stuff we don't
same
1
10
earnest, enthusiastic outsiders who are respectfully clueless are wonderful guests. (this describes almost all children)
1
2
12
such a wholesome train of thought 🥰
1
7
Show replies
so proud of you 🥲
1
4
Show replies