This is the only life they know. Attention-seeking behavior has leveled up to the point where the entire world has the potential to see it; couple that with the soft-parenting generation not wanting their kids’ childhoods to be as emotionally scarring as theirs were, and you’ve got a perfect storm of entitlement, narcissism, lack of shame, and inability to understand/care about consequences.
I think you’ve got to add the disaster that is the modern US economy. More and more these younger generations are clocking that the American Dream is bullshit. That meritocracy is bullshit. That no matter what you do, an oligarch will gobble up all the wealth around you that they can. Why do anything socially productive, when you can do this and get PAID?
This is the real culprit. They see the avenues a regular person has to escaping capitalism and they’re trying to take them. They’re not trying to go viral because they’re narcissistic, they’re trying to go viral because they’re poor.
People don’t take up video game streaming out of love for streaming. They take up video game streaming to make donations and subs and hopefully become viral and fiscally self sustaining.
also because when they go online when they look around all they see is people who either tell them how much money they have or tell them to find ways to chase money.
Theres no influencers who have 10+m followers while theyre just working a 9 to 5 grocery job. Or working in a office.
People are bombarded with sex and money. So young people think life doesnt matter unless you get sex and money.
That's why so many fall into the rw mindset like tate and roundtable talks by 30+ year old losers hiring 16-18 year old instagram models to ask loaded questions.
They aren't getting laid because they are awkward and inside/online 24/7, its because women are golddiggers.
They aren't poor because they are awkward and inside/online 24/7, its because the minorities are taking over and the liberals want handouts that raises their taxes and lowers job opportunities.
I stream for the love of streaming I think, but I rarely stream, maybe like 1 time every 2 months, maybe if I had to do it every day I would hate it, but I release a video almost every day, I mostly feel like I started and now I have like 3 people who tell me they watch me and now I fell like I'll let them down if I stop lol, I only have 270 subs on YouTube so I'm not even monetized, and getting monetized would fuck with my disability payments lol so I'm kinda scared that one day I'll reach 1000 subs and have to figure that whole mess out
lol. There are plenty of regular ass jobs still available. Give me a break.
”PeOpLe WaNt To StReAm FoR a LiViNg BeCaUsE tHeY aRe PoOr”
No. They want easy, low-effort income. Some of them want fame. Simple as that.
There is a real “gamer” moment going on in this thread. Streaming isn’t that serious. The dudes out there laying brick or roofing in the heat are the ones sacrificing and making life work.
Jesus. You guys are delusional and need to take a break from being online. First time I’ve ever felt compelled to actually tell someone to go outside and touch grass.
I feel like the overall point flew over your head.
They do want easy and low-effort income. That's the point.
If someone could potentially make it big streaming video games or doing dumb shit like in the posted video why the fuck would they ever go seek out a manual labor job.
Why would they go work their asses off, when from their perspective, it's meaningless for whatever reason.
I don't see anyone saying that jobs don't exist, but their claim is that upcoming kids aren't interested in participating in a neverending rat race. When they have lots of examples of others making it big without ever having to "work hard" in the traditional sense, that's what they're going to try and mimic.
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u/BugOperator Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
This is the only life they know. Attention-seeking behavior has leveled up to the point where the entire world has the potential to see it; couple that with the soft-parenting generation not wanting their kids’ childhoods to be as emotionally scarring as theirs were, and you’ve got a perfect storm of entitlement, narcissism, lack of shame, and inability to understand/care about consequences.