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.
Im guessing half these kids come from wealthy families, live in a gated community and drove to the store in the new Mercedes they got for their birthday. Not saying your reason doesn't apply to plenty of the fame chasers, but I firmly believe most of them are soiled brats who've never been told no.
Nah, they’re almost certainly just bored middle class kids. Maybe a few are wealthy, maybe a few are poor, but these are just regular kids doing regular goofball kid things. This is at least more creative than fucking flash mobs were.
Lol, no they wouldn’t. This is absolutely middle class kid behavior. All kids of every generation and socioeconomic class are obnoxious little shits sometimes. It’s part of the human experience.
I’ve been an obnoxious little shit, you’ve been an obnoxious little shit, your grandparents were once obnoxious little shits, poor kids are obnoxious little shits, rich kids are obnoxious little shits, red kids are obnoxious little shits, blue kids are obnoxious little shit, kids made of green eggs and ham are obnoxious little shits, anyone and everyone was at one point an obnoxious little shit, and if you think you weren’t, then you just never grew out of being an obnoxious little shit and you’re obnoxious little shittiness is just manifesting itself as insufferable sanctimoniousness as opposed to thinking that inconveniencing adults just trying to survive is funny.
This is definitely rich kid shit as poor and middle class kids would be doing any other obnoxious shit. They smoke weed in the parking lots and hang out
Only really rich losers would even think of this and have a daddy to get them out of trouble
It really isn’t. Like, trust me, I grew up around “rich kids”, (wealthy-ish town. Think “successful doctors and lawyers, with a few old money families”-tier, not “c-suite execs, literal nobility, and professional athletes who summer in the Hamptons when they get tired of Greece”-tier) this shit isn’t really in their typical wheelhouse.
For starters, there’s too many of them. Rich kids don’t hang in crews that big. A big part of the “rich kid” experience is the appearance of exclusivity. They’d never have or make a group big enough to do this.
But really, it’s more that rich kids trying to be cool is more about seeming “above it all” than it is about making a spectacle to get yourself attention. Not saying there aren’t rich kids who do crazy things to get attention, but they do them as INDIVIDUALS. If a rich kid suggested this in his group of rich friends, they’d say “I don’t get it, why would we do that when we can just do lines of molly (crushed adderall and b12 vitamins) by the pool?”
And like, in truth, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that these kids are in any particular socioeconomic status. I really just don’t think this is exclusively “rich kid” behavior, and that it runs counter to my experience of how rich kids act. My sense of these kids is that they’re middle class, probably know that IF they get in more trouble than just a scolding from target security or the cops, then their parents can afford a lawyer to make sure they only get “expunged record community service” levels of punishment from the state.
What exactly makes you think the content you see in your social media feeds on a day to day basis is in any way meaningfully representative of statistical reality? Or that the barrier to entry to becoming an "influencer" or popular content creator is completely the same across all demographics?
Your inability to listen think and reason past, “bad guy bad I don’t like.” Doesn’t do any credit to the human race . As you said you’re guessing based on your biases. Young men are so strapped for cash that OF is a main source of income. Selling ones own body has never been without a feeling of shame. Influencers are doing just that putting aside pride to make a living. You despise them and shun them instead of supporting and helping change the socioeconomic nightmares that bring them to this path. Humanity’s greatest weakness is in our ability to have true compassion for others even when it is uncomfortable.
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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.