“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.
Not always involving Rome. Not always the past. Not always even human when you wake up.
But for a brief moment I can try to imagine how good that must feel to not have any of this be a concern of mine, because I’m so far removed from it, it cannot affect me.
Like waking up as a sentient mycelium colony on a distant planet. Who gives a shit about housing prices or what youtube channel is allegedly being treated unfairly when your sole purpose is to slowly expand across the surface of an alien world and you can instead contemplate the quality of nutrients.
“So then li’l blorko was like I’ll totally glomp that and he was ratioed by woffle’s stans when they…”
I have to know: are these words made-up or is the influence of vapid youtube whores ruinin–uh, I mean “evolving English the way linguists think is cool and proper”?
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.
Right. Sometimes you just have to develop an interest into things you normally don’t care about to have something in common with the people you love.
And sometimes you just should care that your easily influenced teenaged kids are totally invested into content that glorifies and populises severe eating disorders.
Even if you don’t give a fuck about some avocado guy, these are the topics you should listen and talk about with your kids, to help them develop a healthy opinion and viewpoint of things like that. That’s actually a parents job.
This is why I have a favorite team in League of Legends, a game I have never played.
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!"
Additionally you could add that he convinced people that he was addicted to food and was borderline delusional
idk, it all kind of instantly made him like… more transparent?
i used to think he had a problem and people on the Internet were going to kill him. i now realize i was falling for his character and it’s all been part of the show. i work in tv, i should know better…
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.
What is your opinion on right-wing streamers like Tim Pool accepting millions from Russia to push Russian propaganda? I think drama like that is good to know about because it highlights the fact that the Maga movement is largely a Russian psy-op.
That’s not really “YouTube drama” though. That’s international news regarding Russian disinformation campaigns.
Slightly different subject than “Ticklepig beef with Bone Destroyer” or whatever.
Is the tickle pig beef with bone destroyer thing something that your roommate actually told you about, or are you just making up a hypothetical example? I don’t know if I love or hate the fact that I can’t tell.
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.
