As a dad, I got Gen Z folks telling me about YouTube drama and seriously I really don't GAF about some mukbang guy

"So then li'l blorko was like I'll totally glomp that and he was ratioed by woffle's stans when they.."

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

As a dad I care about the subjects my kids care about, so I'm able to take a genuine part in their (almost completely online) lives.

I mean, most people just suck ass at realizing what part of a story could possibly be interesting to outside parties.

"A mukbang YouTuber (That's someone who inhales disturbing volumes of food as entertainment) weighed over 350 pounds and just revealed that more than a year of their videos were pre-recorded as they lost 250 pounds!"

There. Simple. Easily worthy of a ”That's wild!"

This is me when my roommate talks about random politics youtube drama. It takes forever to explain that to me and then in the end its about some irrelevant person being an asshole. There is no value in knowing about this.

New viewers, new cycles of endless, pointless, drama. Soap operas, YouTube dramas… football, soccer (real football), most American sports., video games, doomscrolling your favorite meta site.

Seriously, we all have our vices. The message here is that your kid wants to TALK to you. Connect with them. This drama is less important to them, just learn the player’s names.

I wish I had kids who wanted to spend a long time talking with me.

Imma be* seriously disappointed if my kids wanna gossip about anyone. I'll take it as a failure on my part. They wanna explain the finer points of their latest Splatoon build, or argue about which hokage was the best, that's fine. But gossiping is a horrible habit and I will not abide it.

Back in my day this was just sports team drama and I didn’t care about it then either. Life is better when you don’t care about the drama of total strangers you will never know in person.

I typically ignore most of it in blissful ignorance, but had a recent exposure to someone called FrogBait. On the one hand I get it, especially when she’s ranting about trad wives or people destroying antique houses to make them look like new builds instead of just buying new builds. I was more fascinated by the confusion of seeing the juxtaposition of my childhood 80s (hair of almost everyone) and my college 90s overlaid on such a young person. But that’s cool.

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The objectionable part was a mild sense of a quality that I suspect isn’t FrogBait but the entire YouTube personality vibe as a whole that is oddly reminiscent of the brain impact of 1am infomercial loops of the 80s and 90s. Or QVC just on all the time.

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As unobjectionable as I found the individual and their product, at base, that type of content possesses a mind numbing, consumption vibe, not unlike a long TV ad. It ends in a frustrated standing up and rushing off to something, anything, productive, to shake off the brain fog. I don’t get why people are so attached to it.

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I suspect I sound old saying any of it.

Explain like I'm dad? Fat guy lost weight and pretended to be fat for years anyways for lols?

I work with someone about my son's age. My coworker is constantly asking if I saw some video on TikTok or YouTube. The answer is always so he tells me about the video. IDGAF

I have the opposite problem with my elderly mother where she talks about people by their first name for ages and I only realise it’s Line Of Duty and not her friends from tennis when they start shooting each other in the back.

ive just been tempted to tell my parents all about the alr and nikocado drama

Not a parent, though personally, I sometimes like watching online drama because of how unhinged and nonsensical it can get. However, the real fun stuff is when twitch streamers have collabs and know each others running gags or strange quirks. They're almost always unscripted and can result in the weirdest conversations and situations I've ever heard. The kind of conversations that end up being hilarious and I want to share them with someone but then I realize they need 2hrs of context to understand why it's so funny. Like chips for dinner, Rev stabbed a guy, or Jerma being a fucking psycho.

Unless the YouTuber is famous or infamous enough to end up on the national news then I don't see the point of following the fueds and drama...

I was raised with the teaching that gossiping is bad and you shouldn’t do it. That’s what all the hens in church did.

I'm gen z, and I honestly couldn't care less about nikocado avocado either

I didn't care about him either. But he's there. Floating in the background of my YouTube algorithm. Didn't care to watch his content and I still don't.

But I respect the mindfuck he pulled on all of us.

what's with these boomer ass comments