WeirdGoesPro

What on earth is that gif from?

They are also 12–almost a teenager. They are moving into a phase where your opinion matters less and their friends start mattering more.

What you are seeing as a slow indoctrination by YouTube may be more of a social game to keep up with the same media their friends consume. Each regurgitated opinion probably lands a lot better in a group of their peers.

This is the future we’ve been growing into. Kids are just living in it.

I watch a few streamers too, and I highly recommend that you follow the ones your kids enjoy until the consequences start setting in. IRS trouble, broken marriages, terminated business deals…stream bros don’t usually live happy lives. Let your kid see the beginning in full, and then make sure they stay tuned for the end.

Boogie used to be the Mr. Rogers of YouTube. Now he’s a cancer faking lolcow who tattooed “liar” on his face, then was caught lying about that too. That is a story arc a kid can learn from. There are wolves in sheep’s clothing, and now we have the benefit of watching them get exposed live.

Exactly.

I keep him in a box, if that’s what you’re asking.

Quality, organization, community, experience, reliability, and excellence, basically. Private is a luxury experience, public is for the masses.

Honestly, I’m struggling right now. Spent my 20’s waiting for something to happen that never did. Decided to change my life in my 30’s, and while I am a lot happier and more honest with myself in a lot of ways, I have also alienated people who were close to me by adopting new interests that they don’t share.

I try to meet new people, but it’s hard. The ones out socializing tend to be much younger or older than me, and the ones my age are having kids and stuff.

It has been really hard to find a balance between building the life I want to live, and not having changes isolate me to the point of loneliness.

If my wife goes, I may just have to cut everyone off and start fresh, but that terrifies me.

So, with all that, I guess I’m proud that I’m still trying and haven’t just given up completely and moved back in with mom like some of my contemporaries have.

I work in healthcare. My best patient is the guy who punched the rudest doctor in the face. If that rude doctor were in this thread, I bet he’d pick that guy.

My parents and their friends are still continuing to believe them, business as usual. Boomer’s gonna boom.

On DB0, we get both sides. It makes for a pretty interesting experience. I haven’t felt a need to actually block anybody.

I’ve always wanted a human skull. I collect oddities, and it is a holy grail item for me. I have told my wife that I want my hand and skull handled by a master articulator that I know, so that I might live on as an occult tool.

My skull would be an ethically sourced skull whenever somebody buys me. Freaks like me are out there. And we give bomb head.

I’m feeling this way about a lot of people in my life right now. In my opinion, it is a combination of a splintering pop culture (we aren’t all following the same things), splintering foundations of identity (even facts seem to be subjective these days), and simply being overwhelmed.

Most media is selling doom these days, and the source of that doom is completely contradictory based on who is selling it. If you want to talk about something serious, you inevitably wind up parroting your sources, or eliciting others to parrot theirs. The more you dig, the worse things get, until the argument feels personal.

Under those conditions, subjects like sports seem like a safe option that is unlikely to expose a raw nerve.

I only listen to FLAC. Anything else is a loss.