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 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
So, start relaying the premise to a show you watch and tell them about episodes. Preferably a law enforcement drama, like NCIS or SVU.
“Let me tell you about Homestuck…”
Instant Lobotomy
Did you see Lawrence Welk last night?
I like this one
“God I hate it when other people try to make conversation with me 🙄”
We talk about lots of other things.
Even after a year he cannot remember I don’t watch YT or TikTok a lot. It is difficult to immediately pull up the video due to work rules.
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.
I hope someone starts creating content under the name Ticklepig Beef Bone Destroyer.
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.
I am a different person, and its completely made up because I know nothing about YouTube “creators”.
Im the person in question and im personally rooting for Ticklepig
Fuck you, Bone Destroyer didn’t deserved to be tickled like that in their collab. Ticklepig said he wouldn’t tickle despite him tickling everyone who goes on their channel. Bone Destroyer just had particularly ticklish bones so he pissed his pants. Who amongus hasn’t?
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…
So anyways, turns out Mr. Beast is a psychopath and rigs most if not all of his competitions. His right-hand Ava Tyson has been grooming/exposing minors to NSFW material for years and Chandler went full religious nut job.
Getting on the national news doesn’t make following the drama worth anyone’s time if they have no interest.
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.
This is the Exact reason I have a fortnight and Roblox account
This is why I have a favorite team in League of Legends, a game I have never played.
Good, watching LoL is much better than participating the the cesspool that is the community.
I got pretty damn good at Fortnite. When they inevitably moved on to the next trend, I was kinda bummed
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.
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!"
Ooo I know this! That avocado guy. My kids told me about it AND I LISTENED.
DAD AWARD HERE I GOOOOOO
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…
Has Boxxy taught you nothing?
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 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.
what’s with these boomer ass comments
Go smoke a skibidi, kid.
ok boomer
ive just been tempted to tell my parents all about the alr and nikocado drama
I wish I could go back to not knowing what a mukbang is.
Imma 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.
I teach my kids about the cults of personality that exist in the world, and they’re not allowed to watch any videos with a face in the corner.
Oh god, my whole family has become gossipers. I don’t know what and why it happened, but we used to make fun of people in our neighborhood who would sit behind their windows all day, trying to find something to gossip about. Now they have become those people.
I wish I had kids who wanted to spend a long time talking with me.
Is the part missing kids or interest?
Secret
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Explain like I’m dad? Fat guy lost weight and pretended to be fat for years anyways lols?
Who cares? Sooner or later all of them turn out to be awful people anyways. Just ignore it as best as you can.
Which celebrities have split up? A new royal baby! I hate it all so much.I want to know if the fat guy hoodwinked everyone because thats funny.
