My students love this dude, too, and their biggest worries are about their upcoming bail hearings, their trial status, or about their gang friends on the out who are getting into shit.
It's not just for kids with no realistic worries, it is about kids who have no real solutions within the world, who are repeatedly told that they can't really change the world, and who are trying to find shit that helps them experience some amount of happiness, even if it is vicariously through some YouTube star.
Plus, I think many or most of his fans do understand the reality of how fucked the world is, but because they see not action that they can take to actually change anything, they appreciate pretending that it's fine because of videos like this guy's. It's ultimately another form of escapism for them. Just like sports, theatre, movies, TV, books, etc are for all of us.
I assume some of them are because of the pandemic. I was 14 years old a couple decades ago, and even then there were ask outs and breakups over AIM and ICQ. So it stands to reason that kids are using whatever they have now for communication to...uhh...communicate and have/end relationships.
I graduated highschool in 2014 and breakups would happen over text a lot, but everyone at least tried to do them I'm person unless they really didn't like the other person.
I guess I was really unplugged though and only had a cellphone and gmail. Did get one breakup over g-chat and had a friend who was broken up with over Snapchat when it was still pretty new, but it was still mostly "meet me after school in the library" for the most part.
I forget what else I used, but I don't think I used MSN messenger. But I did use a 3rd party client that allowed me to connect to all messenger services at once...forget what it was called, but I thought it started with a d....
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My students love this dude, too, and their biggest worries are about their upcoming bail hearings, their trial status, or about their gang friends on the out who are getting into shit.
It's not just for kids with no realistic worries, it is about kids who have no real solutions within the world, who are repeatedly told that they can't really change the world, and who are trying to find shit that helps them experience some amount of happiness, even if it is vicariously through some YouTube star.
Plus, I think many or most of his fans do understand the reality of how fucked the world is, but because they see not action that they can take to actually change anything, they appreciate pretending that it's fine because of videos like this guy's. It's ultimately another form of escapism for them. Just like sports, theatre, movies, TV, books, etc are for all of us.
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How long until my bowel movements are monetizable?
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I assume some of them are because of the pandemic. I was 14 years old a couple decades ago, and even then there were ask outs and breakups over AIM and ICQ. So it stands to reason that kids are using whatever they have now for communication to...uhh...communicate and have/end relationships.
I graduated highschool in 2014 and breakups would happen over text a lot, but everyone at least tried to do them I'm person unless they really didn't like the other person.
I guess I was really unplugged though and only had a cellphone and gmail. Did get one breakup over g-chat and had a friend who was broken up with over Snapchat when it was still pretty new, but it was still mostly "meet me after school in the library" for the most part.
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I forget what else I used, but I don't think I used MSN messenger. But I did use a 3rd party client that allowed me to connect to all messenger services at once...forget what it was called, but I thought it started with a d....