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 it’s an outdated and out-of-touch take.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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in conclusion, school should be abolished and replaced with a series of apprenticeships. thank you for coming to my TED talk
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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.
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"there's nothing we can do"
Decline it is, I suppose. The absolute refusal to consider different modes of life.
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Romeo is taking this mandate very seriously
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Sounds like we need to make better memes.
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unclear to me how one could live through the past 2-5 years and come away thinking only children get meme'd into and out of ideas
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when kids get cordycepted they post cringe for a couple years then move on, meanwhile ten years from now people of paul's generation will still be talking about covfefe and "anti maskers"
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