Seeing the comments being like “you sold out” is really funny cause you can tell its from a kid who doesn’t understand that folks need to pay for living expenses. Like? Sorry that people are using their passions to feed themselves?? Is that suddenly a bad thing???
It's so funny, too, because I spend more on making my content than I make off it. I only take sponsorships/revenue so I can keep funding making free content for folks.
As a teenager, I can tell other kids are being influenced to behave like this. The amount of times I've seen my friend whine and complain about literally ANYTHING and not lift a single finger to fix that problem is absolutely insane. If I become one of the complainers, PLEASE bake me into a fine banana bread.
@@its_unbearable Maybe @ChernobylWizard does enjoy cranberry bread, but prefers banana. Liking one thing doesn't make you hate the other thing. It's like how I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate, but if the only option is milk chocolate I'll take it and still enjoy it.
I mean you are a teen. What much can y’all do to make change in the world when you’re still stuck in school half of the day? Teens always complain, and though these teens are being mean about it, there will always be edgy teens. Have empathy for your friends and other teens in this sense, being a teenager is so restrictive and you don’t realize until those years are gone.
I'm pretty certain Gen Alpha still doesn't realize that if they engage with something they hate via commenting, more and more it will appear in their feed. Which i wish was a thing that happened on my TT feed (since i watch OW, MC, DarkViper, and Now recently Marvel Rivals) but i keep getting reuploads of stolen content with brain distractions and show reuploads with a person who is too quiet and points up from time to time.
Gen alpha is genuinely screwed. Being raised on current internet is so bad for them. There’s other reasons why I feel this way but basically Gen Alpha is going to grow up extremely uneducated and that’s going to be super bad going forward. It’s already hard to get jobs. It’s going to be so much worse.
Kids have (generally) never had great critical thinking nor much patience, and the older generations complaining about "kids these days" is a phenomena as old as recorded human history. So on the one side, I feel it's just the same pattern repeating itself. On the other... seeing my nephew mainly watching cheap vertical RUclips Minecraft videos and misc. clickbait for kids does make me worry. Is this the content they'll feel nostalgic about and look fondly back on when they're adults?
Kids will always *start* dumb. But the issue is they are supposed to go through the process of developing by reading challenging things and being forced to write and understand. It's pretty basic. In the same way you can't grow muscle by sitting in a chair unmoving, you can't grow critical thinking by having every bit of info and entertainment spoonfed to you.
As Whitetheknight said, yes children do start dumb. Then they progress, as you do, but it is geniunely and currently a global issue of children starting to speak far too late, being disrespectful and aggressive, etcetera. I might sound like a boomer but children never were like this on a massive scale. Where the majority is like this, while the minority is normal. When there is *too much* of something, it is a clear problem And when twelve year olds refuse to read a paragraph of words then yes, obviously that is bad
The asking obvious questions thing could be a way that some accounts farm for engagement. I don't exactly know why they want engagement on an irrelevant comment on tiktok, but people gotta have some weird motivation...
Kids are generally not very great with critical thinking or impulse control, but being essentially raised by the internet during the time when companies are banking off attention spans has really worsened it. Parents just kind of....plop their kids in front of a screen, hoping it will do their job for them. This happens for a myriad of reasons, some that are sadly understandable like both parents working full time, but the outcome is usually not great. Doesn't excuse the kids actions, only explains it.
Ah, the entitlement of people that never have to deal with the consequences of their actions, because reporting every single threat they send you is like trying to put out an inferno by spitting at it. And it's not just the younger generation; there's plenty of adults out there too that are so used to making demands that they've stopped caring about the people they're demanding from! Oh, to yearn for the days of basic etiquette and decency...
I can’t point to any one example but I could’ve sworn a few of my RUclips videos had people asking obvious questions that the video already had answers to. This really does go back to what teachers use to tell us millennials and before about not relying on a calculator to do math all the time; Tools are great but relying on them too much will bite you in the ass later in life
As someone who did a short amount of work as a teacher's assistant, I can say that this generation of kids are at the lowest of the lows. It's not entirely their fault though, the educational system here in the UK and I presume the US as well is under funded, staff are under paid, and the expectations of students have been lowered to the bare minimum. I also blame the internet profiting companies for slowly making kid friendly online spaces with proper moderation and some educational value a thing of the past. Kids' minds have been rotted by platforms that they have to share with grown ups who don't have their best interests, leading to them learning behaviours they don't have the nuance to understand or put them in danger of predators. It's incredibly grim.
Ppl have also blamed COVID and the fact that teachers aren’t allowed to reprimand kids anymore, or fail them. It’s insane. But I guess that’s what happens when you’ve got bad parents who raised their kids on the internet and that’s it.
Something I noticed is when I got haters on this level, they can't handle an argument without the rationalwiki to through terms around. I had one try to argue that gun ownership isn't magic and you need to put in time to learn proper safety and maintenance, the person just kept calling me a furry, demand I quit, to "shut up" and when I knew the point was never going to sink in I started using basic clean Yo mama jokes. How can someone NOT think of a comeback to "yo mama so ugly Captain Picard saw her naked and he started screaming there was five lights" other than saying, "furry"?
Speaking very broadly, Millennials grew up when technology was very user-unfriendly, you often spent as much time making it work as using it. Gen-Z grew up with refined technology, it just worked and often the working parts were locked away from the user, making it a learning-proof black box. Combine that with mature social media and Gen-Z grew up in the perfect anti-learning environment.
Oh so when one Roblox animator tells her fans to [REDACTED] it's a massive deal and she gets cancelled and deplatformed but when a bunch of random nobody people say that to some other random not so unknown person suddenly it's an okay thing to do? If I got paid for every single time I lost hope in humanity I would be rich as hell
In fairness how can you cancel multiple random nobodies if they have no major online presence or built anything online that can be torn down? These are kids. What do you want exactly? To get them fired? They're kids.
The social lives of those younger kids to literal toddlers have been pushed from real life and even their parents to primarily the internet these 5 years or so. They haven't been taught how to act and react toward people and things in their life either by their parents or the outside world as much to the point where they get so comfortable to say things like these to other real people. It's really frustrating how neglected these kids are "raised" with the mindset of how they don't have to take responsibility to most of the things they do which they understand will go unnoticed.
as a gen z person (although the older end, i turned 18 back in may) it really baffles me how many people who arent even that much younger than me completely lack critical thinking skills. i was practically raised online and im surprised not everyone grasps that block and move on is like the #1 rule of the internet. i hate when my tiktoks go viral after a while because i get so many comments of people who somehow don't understand things that are directly told to them, its extremely frustrating.
As a 15 yesr old that uses Twitter and RUclips and a little of discord I don't see why you would get upset over an ad. If you don't like the Ad then just ignore it. Basically what I would do.
It is rather pathetic that some people are so daft that instead of just finding the very simple and easy and right in front of their face solution, they go about being a prat instead, which only causes them to get hit by more content of the same sort because that’s how algorithms work. And as others have said, the concept of a “sellout” or corporate shill is, in reality, a term that only applies in the case of rich people; if a rich famous person is doing some corporate ad, they have money, but now they’re just also being a sellout for some corporation to use their likeness to sell more product, whereas sponsorships and ad revenue are among the few things keeping afloat those of a humbler sort. Surprise surprise, those of us who do not have life served to us on a golden platter have to work for our money.
welp, that's common, by how fast things are getting, the timespam for viewing things is going down more and more, but this is a thing of Tik Tok and RUclips shorts, after all, it's supposed to be short. but about teen not being able to read and stuff, i guess that's more on the educational system no longer working on them, as things change, the kids also changes, and well, the school's system isn't something that changes a lot to say the least.
That's why you have to avoid tiktok, Twitter, almost every discord server, and maybe Facebook. Having just youtube, Instagram and discord (without creating servers) is the best choice for mental health
@@IndieAlpaca believe me, it can be worse when you have clinical depression, or maybe you feel like that because you're using those (para)social medias too much 🤷
this is the main reason i refuse to touch tiktok. most kids and teens on there are so needlessly rude and toxic to other people for no reason, it's actually so shocking to me how easily they'll switch from acting normally to telling someone to game end themselves and complaining about things instead of like... doing something about it or just ignoring it. and like. complaining is fun sometimes, sure, but not when it's not benefitting anyone and is actively harming other people in the process. telling someone to hurt themselves is NOT how you solve a problem and definitely not how you treat other people. (also the conversation around people on tiktok not solving the problem of seeing an annoying ad themselves reminds me of how some people on the platform seem to miss obvious details..? like i remember a video talking about how people were asking what program an artist was using... when the artist put the name of the program on the screen. i'm someone who believes there is no such thing as a stupid question but... it's right there. it's very peculiar and interesting to me how some people don't seem to seek out answers to things that are easily locatable.)
you know, as much as i hate the repetition of ads appearing in my feed, telling the person within the ad to off themselves is hella fucked. But thankfully you seem to be mentally stable to fight that so I’m glad :) I hate that people really don’t understand or that are too young to understand that saying this shit has A LOT of weight put into it, especially towards people who are genuinely not in a good mindset and are more emotionally vulnerable. so please for the love of fuck, THINK before you SPEAK.
As part of said generation I do in fact believe that the others in my generation cannot think Jokes aside, when i try to talk to *ANYONE* about *ANYTHING*, I always get a “didn’t ask” or a “don’t care” and I’m just like ??? How did this generation get like this?? It makes me feel very frustrated when someone (who is probably *ABOUT MY AGE*, Which is shocking to me,) just replies to serious topics or criticisms with “lol. Lmao.” And just tells people who do anything they don’t like to not live. I’m just like.. oh my god.. how did this *HAPPEN?!?* Anyways, keep it up with the great stuff I must say!
its sad to see my generation be filled with people who REFUSE to do research. whenever i wanted something id ironically do ANYTHING but ask about it directly. Reverse image searching, looking though comments, research on my own, reading sometimes, assets, Ect. I am Determined to do things on my own and if anything sometimes it takes me hours before i find a solution or way around something by trial and error, but im glad that i have the skills because as a result iv gained the mentality to use information i have learned on my own to solve future issues as well. but heres the big thing. i was never a social person at all. at a younger age my attempts at being social ended with me alienated, used or bullied, causing my future self to separate entirely from even considering friendships or people. so maybe thats why im still able to do my own research instead of using one of those disgusting ai models. (On a side note. not socializing doesn't mean i dont have issues. as a result nowdays im not the best at communication and if anything sometimes freeze up when it comes down to even just ordering a burger if i dont get an expected response, that could just be my Autism though. But despite it all. im a very digestive thinker. optimizing information, ideas and searching for answers on my own, even when it comes to news. I dont trust anything. and i dont take everything as the straight truth
I like thay between all the rude comments there is 1 guy being horribly horny about your sona, and somehow I feel that person is the worst out of all of them
the only cause i can think of is entitlement or never being told to google something. people would usually reply with "google it" when i asked dumb questions and i quickly learned from that even if was a little butthurt lol. i started using the internet when i was a little kid too, most people over the age of 6 or 7 should be able to figure that out through trial and error. the only time i ask without doing that is if i wanted some kind of human interaction in the moment (ik thats sad but that's how it was sometimes 😭)
I've generally avoided tiktok except to post some of my animations when I found someone stealing my videos and reposting them there, but outside of that, I don't actually browse tiktok for content. This further cements that I should generally stay away from that site. Keep doing what you're doing though! :)
The only thing I judge negatively is why watching a trailer is enough to convince you to take the sponsor. Haven't seen your tiktok but sponsors are worth so much due to the consequences they have on the viewers. This is why the huge influx of bad sponsors had lead me to skip them regardless of the content for my own sake as a person. I say that you should experience the product yourself and then only accept if the consequences on the users is by your standards neutral or in favor of the customer rather than bad value.
What bothers me the most about this sort of thing is the *complete* lack of empathy, like, I could not in my right mind to tell someone to “off” themselves without feeling any semblance of guilt, even as a joke that is I understand that “this is the internet” and that people have different views and tolerance towards these sorts of stuff and- yadda yadda yadda, I still don’t think that justifies any of it, SPECIALLY considering that on literally any main stream platform (that I know of), such offense is a *bannable* one (even if seemingly almost never punished) This “lack of empathy” I speak of goes to other stuff as well, but as the main topic of this video has been that, I’d rather not yap any further than I already did LOL
I remember when I used to do videos on Pokémon Masters, two people one time asked me the name of the game on the same video. I had the game name in the title and hashtags.
Someone told me to go fuck myself because I was defending someone that got bullied just because on a MINECRAFt art vid had used purple to match to the beta of the song that was playing, bro I got so shocked and humbled I made it my RUclips banner
I think this is a growing pain. Sometimes people say dumb stuff online and technology gives people what they asked it for not what they wanted. Last time I was at this level, I was dealing with floppy disk computer games.
Yeah, I have said some pretty stupid stuff online before. I usually either cringe at it or delete it if I'm able to. I can at least be happy that I've moved on from it
A) On desktop, this isn't an option for me. B) I would but youtube forced me to whitelist all videos without discrimination. C) ... I'm sorry this happened to you, genuinely sorry. No developer worth their weight in gold should suffer that. No critic should either. And people trying to coerce suicide into someone should honestly be seen as a major breech of public safety.
@@IndieAlpaca I just hope you're doing okay and that their comments never get to you. I know what it's like, for people to debase others... I hope for the best, and I hope good luck with the rest.
How could This Happen to You If Someone Is Sponsored You just Scroll past It And Not Tell Someone To Keep yourself safe And Let these People Know That They Are Stupid And They Need to Go Learn And Get A Life
the side effect of all this information being handed to kids on a silver platter is that they aren't being taught how to use it properly google was a great resource during my childhood, but learning *how* to find the info i needed was a more useful skill ironically, when they're old enough to become part of the workforce, all these AI companies they rely on now will probably have all gone belly up yippee
I love TikTok, hell it’s the reason I found you. But it’s caused so many teens of my generation to not only have horrible attention spans (not watching longer than 1 minute videos, but also just not reading) and also becoming completely desensitized and hate simply because 1. They have nothing better to do or 2. They see other people doing it. It’s annoying, it’s kind of sad.
I've never seen this person before I found this video. No idea what made people so angry to the point of demanding violence against them. Honestly, the only thing I thought after starting the video was "oh, I thought the person was female..." Which is comparatively a miniscule concern to me...
It definitely started with the parents, because even if they were people with competent critical thinking skills, they must not have been able to properly teach those skills or use them in parenting. There's so many news stories where parents blame the internet on something they could have prevented. I've also seen my own brother literally give his kids iPads from as far back as i can remember. But it's also not just kids having unrestricted internet access, it's not being taught what to avoid, internet etiquette, etc. I basically had unrestricted internet access, but never really did all that stuff. I guess something entirely algorithm based like Tiktok doesn't help either, but eh
I think this is just how some teens are entitled or toxic due to coddling or other reasons. Because I doubt it's just "attention span issue". It also could just be people who want a reaction so like all things it's best to ignore unless otherwise
tf2 fans have already seen this behavior. Most people have an incredibly short temper, and the subject of death has been toned down far too much. But Implying that "don't recommend" actually works is complete bs. Best bet is to always just pretend to not care, and weather what bothers you. Social media loves to recommend you content, that you hate speccifically for engagement. So just don't fall for it.
I get annoyed at adds but I don’t ever do anything about it. I either skip past it or I watch it but don’t really pay attention. But aside from skipping a bit in the video, I just let things be. I don’t understand how people comment things like that when they can just move on with their lives and pretend it never happened. Also just for the record I am Gen Z, though I won’t say my exact age
I'm positive that a lot of those comments are against some kind of TikTok TOS but the moderation from what I have been told is kinda arse-backwards sl what do I know Also dang congratulations on the sponsorship! That's a pretty big step in making things!
Reminds me of a video on my main channel. It blew up, over 500k views. The comments, despite it being months old, still ask for the song name that is answered multiple times in other comments, can be found in the title, and in the meme format I linked in the description.
**sigh** _…of _*_COURSE_*_ it had to be from TikTok where these kids try to tell someone to pull off a kamikazee over a promo…_ *Why am I not surprised…* -_-
to fight against boomerfication in gen y circles, i'd like to extend a sympathetic gaze to gen alpha. they're likely to be the first generation that is constantly linked to hi speed internet and constant bombardment of information. being a millineal, my coworkers joke how i'm their tech guy before going to our actual tech person, and i'd often send emails and set up printer stuff for my boomer parent. many of us were basically shepherded into having to be knowledgeable about technology, as opposed to the younger generation where websites and apps are rapidly declining. I don't envy this generation that is probably being brainwashed to be constantly online, brought into a world with an uncertain future. where the dying internet landscape has become more polarized, and picking up maladaptive ways of dealing with internet things that upset them.
Ah, two things that have been a problem since the birth of web two point oh: people being idiots online, and people telling someone to off themself. From forums to fan sites to facebook, every site that has a comments section has always had these problems. I think you're seeing more of it from Zoomers on TikTok because, well, that's where the Zoomers are, while if you were on Facebook you'd see more of it from Boomers, because that's where they are, etc. A certain percentage of people have always been idiots, and a lack of media literacy, common sense, critical thinking, and consideration of other people are all long running problems in our society in general. One of the best and worst things about the internet is that it's open to everyone, and while the majority of users may never leave a comment and will just ignore things they don't like, you'll be exposed to the ones who will leave nasty comments or be idiots far more because, well, they're the ones leaving the nasty comments. As for asking what the game is, etc... sometimes we all miss information in obvious places just because we're having one of those days, y'know? Sometimes I find myself reading words entirely wrong because I'm tired, or not seeing a piece of information because my brain has skipped past it. The things is, kids aren't going to get skills if no one teaches them, if those teachers want to encourage critical thinking they need to teach it, and if we want a polite and respectful comment culture we have to encourage that, but there will always be someone who will be stupid, and someone who will be mean.
It's not an inability to solve their own problems, often times it's a lack of intuition from exposure. Kids these days don't know how to change the clock on a VCR, and when I was a kid, I could because someone taught me while adults in the same time didn't know how. Now, that said, kids being hostile and taking it personally since life's handed them shit in their most comfortable and lazy settings. It's a parenting issue, and yes, a lot of you parents out there suck ass at raising your kids.
WOAH okay. i think you went to far. i understand it can be tough to have threats against your life, but you probably shouldn't be telling children to. yknow. do it themselves?? please rethink this situation.
@newtwoup4293 hey there! Sorry if the line wasn't clear. My intention was to say that there are options to get me off their page other than telling me to kms. I was not suggesting that they do that to themselves.
Well this is extremely depressing and gives me no hope for humanity. Now I’m just going to rot in my bed even more. Also please don’t use “funny”euphemisms for suicide… it makes it seem like a cruel joke instead. Just stick with something like “off yourself” for the whole video
Totally get where you're coming from regarding the euphemisms. It's more of a way of me trying to get around censors because using more direct terms can lead to a video being demonetized. I have lost folks close to me to depression so I don't mean to minimize or belittle the experience. This also reminds me that I should add a content warning to the description. Thank you!
RUclips isn't a valid job. You shouldn't be relying on it for money. Ads are ruining what used to be an awesome website. By accepting a sponsorship, ANY sponsorship, you are part of the problem. I condemn you for this, but it doesn't mean I want physical harm to come to you. Telling someone to kill themselves over this is fucked up, but also, it's just words. They can't reach through the screen and force you to do it. Both sides are being stupid here.
Haha, RUclips and TikTok aren't my job. I work a 9-5 and do this as a hobby. Making content is still a lot of work and there's a lot of costs involved as well. Even when I get sponsorships, I lose money in the process. Still appreciate your thoughts on this!
its the fact that you have always advocated for an indie community and all of a sudden youre doing ads on another genshin game, predatory freemium gacha extravaganza, your name is literally indie alpaca..the same company that white washed its indigenous characters with no excuse... its off putting and gives people the wrong image after all the love you've given to your community, i get it, get that bag, get that sponsorship, but no one likes ads, that came with the cost of accepting the sponsor, ive been a long time follower even on tiktok an ive never even seen that ad of you, its the way that tiktok doesnt listen to the users that pisses people off because NEWSFLASH, their moderation team is AI and the not interested button does jack shit, you should see the amount of people who kept showing up in my FYP trying to sell me trump shirts, all i did was ask them if they were flammable and get blocked by them and hope that somehow tiktok would be like "MAYBE THIS GUY ISNT INSTESTED IN SOMETHING HE HATE COMMENTS" theres your golden goose indie... the system is as much at fault at it as the viewers..also no.. i am not advocating or defending their horrible comments good lord no.. your mental health matters and they should never get the satisfaction to say that to someone they dont like..suicide is a serious issue Im not calling you a sell out, im not calling you a hypocrite, im not even calling you a bad person, by all means leverage yourself from all this hate and turn it into exposure.. its just.. the bigger you get the more floodgates open, thats life, were complicated individuals not black and white cookie cutter good or bad
Honestly, absolutely fair! I get where you're coming from and respect how you feel about it. While I like to use my platform to uplift smaller titles, but unfortunately only the larger titles have the budget todo sponsorships. I personally don't think taking a sponsorship for a larger one is on the same level as your example, but I get where you're coming from. Either way I appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
@@IndieAlpacaWe love you Indie, I hope you dont forget you make a difference in our lives, my life personally because i found you at a time when i was going through a lot and your content was like like a warm hug. Keep doing what you do and in whatever form you like ❤️
@@shikabaneconga That means the world to me! My goal when creating content was to help bring smiles to folks and I hope that I can still continue to do that. This kinda makes me realize my most recent content has kind of been a downer. I'll make sure upcoming videos are more of a warm hug!
Seeing the comments being like “you sold out” is really funny cause you can tell its from a kid who doesn’t understand that folks need to pay for living expenses.
Like?
Sorry that people are using their passions to feed themselves?? Is that suddenly a bad thing???
It's so funny, too, because I spend more on making my content than I make off it. I only take sponsorships/revenue so I can keep funding making free content for folks.
As a teenager, I can tell other kids are being influenced to behave like this. The amount of times I've seen my friend whine and complain about literally ANYTHING and not lift a single finger to fix that problem is absolutely insane. If I become one of the complainers, PLEASE bake me into a fine banana bread.
Fine banana bread sounds delicious.
are you opposed to the idea of being baked into a fine cranberry bread instead?
@@its_unbearable Maybe @ChernobylWizard does enjoy cranberry bread, but prefers banana. Liking one thing doesn't make you hate the other thing.
It's like how I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate, but if the only option is milk chocolate I'll take it and still enjoy it.
@@pacomatic9833 I wasn't accusing them of disliking cranberry bread, but looking back at this now it looks like I am accusing them of that. Whoops.
I mean you are a teen. What much can y’all do to make change in the world when you’re still stuck in school half of the day? Teens always complain, and though these teens are being mean about it, there will always be edgy teens. Have empathy for your friends and other teens in this sense, being a teenager is so restrictive and you don’t realize until those years are gone.
I'm pretty certain Gen Alpha still doesn't realize that if they engage with something they hate via commenting, more and more it will appear in their feed.
Which i wish was a thing that happened on my TT feed (since i watch OW, MC, DarkViper, and Now recently Marvel Rivals) but i keep getting reuploads of stolen content with brain distractions and show reuploads with a person who is too quiet and points up from time to time.
Gen alpha is genuinely screwed. Being raised on current internet is so bad for them. There’s other reasons why I feel this way but basically Gen Alpha is going to grow up extremely uneducated and that’s going to be super bad going forward. It’s already hard to get jobs. It’s going to be so much worse.
"im pretty certain gen alpha-" unemployed 21 year old
@@jordanalexander3302The comment is about you, isn't it?
@@jordanalexander3302okay name surname random numbers
@@jordanalexander3302And?
That’s not even a damn insult lmao
Kids have (generally) never had great critical thinking nor much patience, and the older generations complaining about "kids these days" is a phenomena as old as recorded human history.
So on the one side, I feel it's just the same pattern repeating itself. On the other... seeing my nephew mainly watching cheap vertical RUclips Minecraft videos and misc. clickbait for kids does make me worry. Is this the content they'll feel nostalgic about and look fondly back on when they're adults?
Kids will always *start* dumb. But the issue is they are supposed to go through the process of developing by reading challenging things and being forced to write and understand. It's pretty basic. In the same way you can't grow muscle by sitting in a chair unmoving, you can't grow critical thinking by having every bit of info and entertainment spoonfed to you.
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As Whitetheknight said, yes children do start dumb. Then they progress, as you do, but it is geniunely and currently a global issue of children starting to speak far too late, being disrespectful and aggressive, etcetera. I might sound like a boomer but children never were like this on a massive scale. Where the majority is like this, while the minority is normal.
When there is *too much* of something, it is a clear problem
And when twelve year olds refuse to read a paragraph of words then yes, obviously that is bad
Telling someone to end themself cause they promoted something is crazy 😭 (especially when you can just block the ad)
The asking obvious questions thing could be a way that some accounts farm for engagement. I don't exactly know why they want engagement on an irrelevant comment on tiktok, but people gotta have some weird motivation...
Kids are generally not very great with critical thinking or impulse control, but being essentially raised by the internet during the time when companies are banking off attention spans has really worsened it.
Parents just kind of....plop their kids in front of a screen, hoping it will do their job for them. This happens for a myriad of reasons, some that are sadly understandable like both parents working full time, but the outcome is usually not great. Doesn't excuse the kids actions, only explains it.
Ah, the entitlement of people that never have to deal with the consequences of their actions, because reporting every single threat they send you is like trying to put out an inferno by spitting at it. And it's not just the younger generation; there's plenty of adults out there too that are so used to making demands that they've stopped caring about the people they're demanding from! Oh, to yearn for the days of basic etiquette and decency...
I can’t point to any one example but I could’ve sworn a few of my RUclips videos had people asking obvious questions that the video already had answers to.
This really does go back to what teachers use to tell us millennials and before about not relying on a calculator to do math all the time; Tools are great but relying on them too much will bite you in the ass later in life
Right because I keep seeing videos of games where the name of the game is RIGHT. THERE. and there's like 4 comments asking "game name?"
As someone who did a short amount of work as a teacher's assistant, I can say that this generation of kids are at the lowest of the lows. It's not entirely their fault though, the educational system here in the UK and I presume the US as well is under funded, staff are under paid, and the expectations of students have been lowered to the bare minimum. I also blame the internet profiting companies for slowly making kid friendly online spaces with proper moderation and some educational value a thing of the past. Kids' minds have been rotted by platforms that they have to share with grown ups who don't have their best interests, leading to them learning behaviours they don't have the nuance to understand or put them in danger of predators. It's incredibly grim.
Ppl have also blamed COVID and the fact that teachers aren’t allowed to reprimand kids anymore, or fail them. It’s insane. But I guess that’s what happens when you’ve got bad parents who raised their kids on the internet and that’s it.
Something I noticed is when I got haters on this level, they can't handle an argument without the rationalwiki to through terms around.
I had one try to argue that gun ownership isn't magic and you need to put in time to learn proper safety and maintenance, the person just kept calling me a furry, demand I quit, to "shut up" and when I knew the point was never going to sink in I started using basic clean Yo mama jokes.
How can someone NOT think of a comeback to "yo mama so ugly Captain Picard saw her naked and he started screaming there was five lights" other than saying, "furry"?
Speaking very broadly, Millennials grew up when technology was very user-unfriendly, you often spent as much time making it work as using it. Gen-Z grew up with refined technology, it just worked and often the working parts were locked away from the user, making it a learning-proof black box. Combine that with mature social media and Gen-Z grew up in the perfect anti-learning environment.
It sucks that people really lack common sense these days.
What social media platform did this even happen on, anyway?
tiktok
@@whyiwakeup6460That's not it.
@@whyiwakeup6460 Nice try. This is definitely the kind of culture you'd see on Kick.
Very funny
Oh so when one Roblox animator tells her fans to [REDACTED] it's a massive deal and she gets cancelled and deplatformed but when a bunch of random nobody people say that to some other random not so unknown person suddenly it's an okay thing to do?
If I got paid for every single time I lost hope in humanity I would be rich as hell
In fairness how can you cancel multiple random nobodies if they have no major online presence or built anything online that can be torn down?
These are kids. What do you want exactly? To get them fired? They're kids.
The social lives of those younger kids to literal toddlers have been pushed from real life and even their parents to primarily the internet these 5 years or so. They haven't been taught how to act and react toward people and things in their life either by their parents or the outside world as much to the point where they get so comfortable to say things like these to other real people. It's really frustrating how neglected these kids are "raised" with the mindset of how they don't have to take responsibility to most of the things they do which they understand will go unnoticed.
hopefully gen alpha grows out of it, but it is weird to see them like this.
They aren’t teens until next year
7 Year olds not being morons on TikTok is a concept unheard of.
as a gen z person (although the older end, i turned 18 back in may) it really baffles me how many people who arent even that much younger than me completely lack critical thinking skills. i was practically raised online and im surprised not everyone grasps that block and move on is like the #1 rule of the internet. i hate when my tiktoks go viral after a while because i get so many comments of people who somehow don't understand things that are directly told to them, its extremely frustrating.
As a 15 yesr old that uses Twitter and RUclips and a little of discord I don't see why you would get upset over an ad. If you don't like the Ad then just ignore it. Basically what I would do.
The fact that cared enough to even comment on the ad is pretty crazy to me, but thats likely because I don't pay that much attention to ads.
I feel so bad for you :( any content creator that has to be told to end them self in the comments and just goes through it is a trooper.
It is rather pathetic that some people are so daft that instead of just finding the very simple and easy and right in front of their face solution, they go about being a prat instead, which only causes them to get hit by more content of the same sort because that’s how algorithms work.
And as others have said, the concept of a “sellout” or corporate shill is, in reality, a term that only applies in the case of rich people; if a rich famous person is doing some corporate ad, they have money, but now they’re just also being a sellout for some corporation to use their likeness to sell more product, whereas sponsorships and ad revenue are among the few things keeping afloat those of a humbler sort.
Surprise surprise, those of us who do not have life served to us on a golden platter have to work for our money.
welp, that's common, by how fast things are getting, the timespam for viewing things is going down more and more, but this is a thing of Tik Tok and RUclips shorts, after all, it's supposed to be short.
but about teen not being able to read and stuff, i guess that's more on the educational system no longer working on them, as things change, the kids also changes, and well, the school's system isn't something that changes a lot to say the least.
Yep. I worry I made this video too long at a whopping 3 minutes.
That's why you have to avoid tiktok, Twitter, almost every discord server, and maybe Facebook. Having just youtube, Instagram and discord (without creating servers) is the best choice for mental health
My mental health is in the toilet but at least I'm making videos
@@IndieAlpaca believe me, it can be worse when you have clinical depression, or maybe you feel like that because you're using those (para)social medias too much 🤷
tumblr not mentioned, as it should be
@@nessie-from-earthbound1601 Tumblr might not be as popular as it used to be but everyone I know who uses it loves it
it feels great to use longform RUclips specifically and discord with just your friends
this is the main reason i refuse to touch tiktok. most kids and teens on there are so needlessly rude and toxic to other people for no reason, it's actually so shocking to me how easily they'll switch from acting normally to telling someone to game end themselves and complaining about things instead of like... doing something about it or just ignoring it. and like. complaining is fun sometimes, sure, but not when it's not benefitting anyone and is actively harming other people in the process. telling someone to hurt themselves is NOT how you solve a problem and definitely not how you treat other people.
(also the conversation around people on tiktok not solving the problem of seeing an annoying ad themselves reminds me of how some people on the platform seem to miss obvious details..? like i remember a video talking about how people were asking what program an artist was using... when the artist put the name of the program on the screen. i'm someone who believes there is no such thing as a stupid question but... it's right there. it's very peculiar and interesting to me how some people don't seem to seek out answers to things that are easily locatable.)
you know, as much as i hate the repetition of ads appearing in my feed, telling the person within the ad to off themselves is hella fucked. But thankfully you seem to be mentally stable to fight that so I’m glad :)
I hate that people really don’t understand or that are too young to understand that saying this shit has A LOT of weight put into it, especially towards people who are genuinely not in a good mindset and are more emotionally vulnerable. so please for the love of fuck, THINK before you SPEAK.
This is coming from a gen z adult. I'm embarrassed to be related to them as a good chunk of my generation is trying to bring back cyberbullying.
As part of said generation I do in fact believe that the others in my generation cannot think
Jokes aside, when i try to talk to *ANYONE* about *ANYTHING*, I always get a “didn’t ask” or a “don’t care” and I’m just like ??? How did this generation get like this?? It makes me feel very frustrated when someone (who is probably *ABOUT MY AGE*, Which is shocking to me,) just replies to serious topics or criticisms with “lol. Lmao.” And just tells people who do anything they don’t like to not live. I’m just like.. oh my god.. how did this *HAPPEN?!?*
Anyways, keep it up with the great stuff I must say!
Why can't they just block the ad? 😭😭 A preschooler can do that unlike these kids
its sad to see my generation be filled with people who REFUSE to do research. whenever i wanted something id ironically do ANYTHING but ask about it directly.
Reverse image searching, looking though comments, research on my own, reading sometimes, assets, Ect.
I am Determined to do things on my own and if anything sometimes it takes me hours before i find a solution or way around something by trial and error, but im glad that i have the skills because as a result iv gained the mentality to use information i have learned on my own to solve future issues as well. but heres the big thing. i was never a social person at all.
at a younger age my attempts at being social ended with me alienated, used or bullied, causing my future self to separate entirely from even considering friendships or people. so maybe thats why im still able to do my own research instead of using one of those disgusting ai models. (On a side note. not socializing doesn't mean i dont have issues. as a result nowdays im not the best at communication and if anything sometimes freeze up when it comes down to even just ordering a burger if i dont get an expected response, that could just be my Autism though.
But despite it all. im a very digestive thinker. optimizing information, ideas and searching for answers on my own, even when it comes to news. I dont trust anything. and i dont take everything as the straight truth
Teen here, I may or may not have said some rude stuff in the past, but at least I know not to tell people to die.
I like thay between all the rude comments there is 1 guy being horribly horny about your sona, and somehow I feel that person is the worst out of all of them
It's the little self esteem boost I need
@@IndieAlpaca well thats a bit of silver lining I suppose !
@@IndieAlpaca THAT REMINDS ME DO YOU STILL HAVE MERCH? um.. asking for a friend
@@shikabaneconga There's links in the description!
@@IndieAlpaca FOR THE RECORD I DO THINK YOURE PRETTY HOT 😳
the only cause i can think of is entitlement or never being told to google something. people would usually reply with "google it" when i asked dumb questions and i quickly learned from that even if was a little butthurt lol. i started using the internet when i was a little kid too, most people over the age of 6 or 7 should be able to figure that out through trial and error. the only time i ask without doing that is if i wanted some kind of human interaction in the moment (ik thats sad but that's how it was sometimes 😭)
I've generally avoided tiktok except to post some of my animations when I found someone stealing my videos and reposting them there, but outside of that, I don't actually browse tiktok for content. This further cements that I should generally stay away from that site.
Keep doing what you're doing though! :)
No one should be saying stuff like that to anyone for any reason EVER.
The only thing I judge negatively is why watching a trailer is enough to convince you to take the sponsor. Haven't seen your tiktok but sponsors are worth so much due to the consequences they have on the viewers. This is why the huge influx of bad sponsors had lead me to skip them regardless of the content for my own sake as a person. I say that you should experience the product yourself and then only accept if the consequences on the users is by your standards neutral or in favor of the customer rather than bad value.
Tbh its just people really wanting attention by arguing with other people, like its brainless behavior and interacting with it would make it worse.
The more time goes on, the more I understand why bills are popping up essentially removing kids from the internet via ID verification.
I’m experiencing the same problem minus teens
What bothers me the most about this sort of thing is the *complete* lack of empathy, like, I could not in my right mind to tell someone to “off” themselves without feeling any semblance of guilt, even as a joke that is
I understand that “this is the internet” and that people have different views and tolerance towards these sorts of stuff and- yadda yadda yadda, I still don’t think that justifies any of it, SPECIALLY considering that on literally any main stream platform (that I know of), such offense is a *bannable* one (even if seemingly almost never punished)
This “lack of empathy” I speak of goes to other stuff as well, but as the main topic of this video has been that, I’d rather not yap any further than I already did LOL
missing out on the women's underwear market tbh
I think that would have gotten me a Twitch ban
I remember when I used to do videos on Pokémon Masters, two people one time asked me the name of the game on the same video. I had the game name in the title and hashtags.
Reason #347,592 why I don't use tiktok. Or most social medias.
Edit: I said most, not all
how would you be watching this if you dont use social medias
RUclips is social media
Sponsors and ads are fine as long as adblockers and sponsorblockers keep evolving to make me never see one again in my life.
Someone told me to go fuck myself because I was defending someone that got bullied just because on a MINECRAFt art vid had used purple to match to the beta of the song that was playing, bro I got so shocked and humbled I made it my RUclips banner
Some people should really take their own advice, if you get what I mean.
I dealt with trolls telling my videos suck and dislike my videos.
I think this is a growing pain. Sometimes people say dumb stuff online and technology gives people what they asked it for not what they wanted.
Last time I was at this level, I was dealing with floppy disk computer games.
Yeah, I have said some pretty stupid stuff online before. I usually either cringe at it or delete it if I'm able to. I can at least be happy that I've moved on from it
A) On desktop, this isn't an option for me. B) I would but youtube forced me to whitelist all videos without discrimination. C) ... I'm sorry this happened to you, genuinely sorry. No developer worth their weight in gold should suffer that. No critic should either. And people trying to coerce suicide into someone should honestly be seen as a major breech of public safety.
Oop, should have made it more clear that the ads were about TikTok ads and not YT ads. I wish I could do that for those too
@@IndieAlpaca I just hope you're doing okay and that their comments never get to you. I know what it's like, for people to debase others... I hope for the best, and I hope good luck with the rest.
How could This Happen to You If Someone Is Sponsored You just Scroll past It And Not Tell Someone To Keep yourself safe And Let these People Know That They Are Stupid And They Need to Go Learn And Get A Life
the side effect of all this information being handed to kids on a silver platter is that they aren't being taught how to use it properly
google was a great resource during my childhood, but learning *how* to find the info i needed was a more useful skill
ironically, when they're old enough to become part of the workforce, all these AI companies they rely on now will probably have all gone belly up
yippee
I love TikTok, hell it’s the reason I found you. But it’s caused so many teens of my generation to not only have horrible attention spans (not watching longer than 1 minute videos, but also just not reading) and also becoming completely desensitized and hate simply because 1. They have nothing better to do or 2. They see other people doing it. It’s annoying, it’s kind of sad.
Self game over is willywacking😭
I've never seen this person before I found this video. No idea what made people so angry to the point of demanding violence against them.
Honestly, the only thing I thought after starting the video was "oh, I thought the person was female..." Which is comparatively a miniscule concern to me...
I swear the internet is so stupidly draining sometimes, you just got sponcered and ppl started harassing you
It definitely started with the parents, because even if they were people with competent critical thinking skills, they must not have been able to properly teach those skills or use them in parenting. There's so many news stories where parents blame the internet on something they could have prevented. I've also seen my own brother literally give his kids iPads from as far back as i can remember.
But it's also not just kids having unrestricted internet access, it's not being taught what to avoid, internet etiquette, etc. I basically had unrestricted internet access, but never really did all that stuff. I guess something entirely algorithm based like Tiktok doesn't help either, but eh
Jokes on those idiots, commenting on the videos is going to push more of them onto their feed.
I think this is just how some teens are entitled or toxic due to coddling or other reasons. Because I doubt it's just "attention span issue". It also could just be people who want a reaction so like all things it's best to ignore unless otherwise
tf2 fans have already seen this behavior.
Most people have an incredibly short temper, and the subject of death has been toned down far too much.
But Implying that "don't recommend" actually works is complete bs. Best bet is to always just pretend to not care, and weather what bothers you. Social media loves to recommend you content, that you hate speccifically for engagement. So just don't fall for it.
I get annoyed at adds but I don’t ever do anything about it. I either skip past it or I watch it but don’t really pay attention. But aside from skipping a bit in the video, I just let things be. I don’t understand how people comment things like that when they can just move on with their lives and pretend it never happened.
Also just for the record I am Gen Z, though I won’t say my exact age
I don't know why teens are like this
I'm positive that a lot of those comments are against some kind of TikTok TOS but the moderation from what I have been told is kinda arse-backwards sl what do I know
Also dang congratulations on the sponsorship! That's a pretty big step in making things!
And this us why I don't like the kids of this generation
sending death threats just because your feed showed you a sponsored video is crazy 😭
Sorry but the way you said “stop being lazy and do it yourself” really felt like you were challenging them to come and kill you
Yeah something is up with kids today, and it's starting to show... Sorry you gotta deal with all that over just some ad!
Reminds me of a video on my main channel. It blew up, over 500k views. The comments, despite it being months old, still ask for the song name that is answered multiple times in other comments, can be found in the title, and in the meme format I linked in the description.
0:01 i probably just say "Gyattus" and go away like nothing happened
**sigh** _…of _*_COURSE_*_ it had to be from TikTok where these kids try to tell someone to pull off a kamikazee over a promo…_
*Why am I not surprised…* -_-
Sorry you have to deal with all this bs
just put my fries bag bro hahahahahahahahahha
Just don't promote your sponsors on TikTok, simple as that!
Bro ive met an honors math student that couldnt do basic division. you are not out of touch.
to fight against boomerfication in gen y circles, i'd like to extend a sympathetic gaze to gen alpha. they're likely to be the first generation that is constantly linked to hi speed internet and constant bombardment of information. being a millineal, my coworkers joke how i'm their tech guy before going to our actual tech person, and i'd often send emails and set up printer stuff for my boomer parent. many of us were basically shepherded into having to be knowledgeable about technology, as opposed to the younger generation where websites and apps are rapidly declining. I don't envy this generation that is probably being brainwashed to be constantly online, brought into a world with an uncertain future. where the dying internet landscape has become more polarized, and picking up maladaptive ways of dealing with internet things that upset them.
I am sorry you have to put up with that nonsense.
i'd just say "I HATE THESE FUCKING ADS BUT I LIKE YOUR RUclips CHANNEL" if i saw that ad
Brall stars jumpscare
Ah, two things that have been a problem since the birth of web two point oh: people being idiots online, and people telling someone to off themself. From forums to fan sites to facebook, every site that has a comments section has always had these problems. I think you're seeing more of it from Zoomers on TikTok because, well, that's where the Zoomers are, while if you were on Facebook you'd see more of it from Boomers, because that's where they are, etc. A certain percentage of people have always been idiots, and a lack of media literacy, common sense, critical thinking, and consideration of other people are all long running problems in our society in general. One of the best and worst things about the internet is that it's open to everyone, and while the majority of users may never leave a comment and will just ignore things they don't like, you'll be exposed to the ones who will leave nasty comments or be idiots far more because, well, they're the ones leaving the nasty comments.
As for asking what the game is, etc... sometimes we all miss information in obvious places just because we're having one of those days, y'know? Sometimes I find myself reading words entirely wrong because I'm tired, or not seeing a piece of information because my brain has skipped past it. The things is, kids aren't going to get skills if no one teaches them, if those teachers want to encourage critical thinking they need to teach it, and if we want a polite and respectful comment culture we have to encourage that, but there will always be someone who will be stupid, and someone who will be mean.
I really liked the avatar you used on that Humble games video, would be cool If you used it more
@@Gabzew Thanks! I chose to use this one because this was the look I used during the ads but you’ll see more of 3D me, too.
I prefer the 2D Indie.
@@PacDino11 Thanks! 2D Indie is the one I made but I love having options to play around with.
when will we get 4d indie @@IndieAlpaca
when..
Indie, I need your help. What platform is this video on right now? I'm far too lazy to look it up myself.
vimeo
@IndieAlpaca Awesome thanks
Congrats, you fed your trolls
You should take a toas- bath bomb bath to relax and enjoy yourself uwu
Toast flavored bath bomb
It's not an inability to solve their own problems, often times it's a lack of intuition from exposure. Kids these days don't know how to change the clock on a VCR, and when I was a kid, I could because someone taught me while adults in the same time didn't know how.
Now, that said, kids being hostile and taking it personally since life's handed them shit in their most comfortable and lazy settings. It's a parenting issue, and yes, a lot of you parents out there suck ass at raising your kids.
WOAH okay. i think you went to far. i understand it can be tough to have threats against your life, but you probably shouldn't be telling children to. yknow. do it themselves?? please rethink this situation.
@newtwoup4293 hey there! Sorry if the line wasn't clear. My intention was to say that there are options to get me off their page other than telling me to kms. I was not suggesting that they do that to themselves.
MINOS PRIME?????????????????????????????????? 2:09
Well this is extremely depressing and gives me no hope for humanity. Now I’m just going to rot in my bed even more.
Also please don’t use “funny”euphemisms for suicide… it makes it seem like a cruel joke instead. Just stick with something like “off yourself” for the whole video
Totally get where you're coming from regarding the euphemisms. It's more of a way of me trying to get around censors because using more direct terms can lead to a video being demonetized.
I have lost folks close to me to depression so I don't mean to minimize or belittle the experience. This also reminds me that I should add a content warning to the description. Thank you!
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What game is that at 2:23?
@@Baconmutt big brain academy: brain vs brain!
keep it up
Idk who you are, but its unfortunate that you tried to engage in something only to get berated by numbskulls, hope you do well.
RUclips isn't a valid job. You shouldn't be relying on it for money. Ads are ruining what used to be an awesome website. By accepting a sponsorship, ANY sponsorship, you are part of the problem.
I condemn you for this, but it doesn't mean I want physical harm to come to you. Telling someone to kill themselves over this is fucked up, but also, it's just words. They can't reach through the screen and force you to do it. Both sides are being stupid here.
Haha, RUclips and TikTok aren't my job. I work a 9-5 and do this as a hobby.
Making content is still a lot of work and there's a lot of costs involved as well. Even when I get sponsorships, I lose money in the process.
Still appreciate your thoughts on this!
its the fact that you have always advocated for an indie community and all of a sudden youre doing ads on another genshin game, predatory freemium gacha extravaganza, your name is literally indie alpaca..the same company that white washed its indigenous characters with no excuse...
its off putting and gives people the wrong image after all the love you've given to your community, i get it, get that bag, get that sponsorship, but no one likes ads, that came with the cost of accepting the sponsor, ive been a long time follower even on tiktok an ive never even seen that ad of you, its the way that tiktok doesnt listen to the users that pisses people off because NEWSFLASH, their moderation team is AI and the not interested button does jack shit, you should see the amount of people who kept showing up in my FYP trying to sell me trump shirts, all i did was ask them if they were flammable and get blocked by them and hope that somehow tiktok would be like "MAYBE THIS GUY ISNT INSTESTED IN SOMETHING HE HATE COMMENTS" theres your golden goose indie... the system is as much at fault at it as the viewers..also no.. i am not advocating or defending their horrible comments good lord no.. your mental health matters and they should never get the satisfaction to say that to someone they dont like..suicide is a serious issue
Im not calling you a sell out, im not calling you a hypocrite, im not even calling you a bad person, by all means leverage yourself from all this hate and turn it into exposure.. its just.. the bigger you get the more floodgates open, thats life, were complicated individuals not black and white cookie cutter good or bad
Honestly, absolutely fair! I get where you're coming from and respect how you feel about it. While I like to use my platform to uplift smaller titles, but unfortunately only the larger titles have the budget todo sponsorships. I personally don't think taking a sponsorship for a larger one is on the same level as your example, but I get where you're coming from. Either way I appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
@@IndieAlpacaWe love you Indie, I hope you dont forget you make a difference in our lives, my life personally because i found you at a time when i was going through a lot and your content was like like a warm hug. Keep doing what you do and in whatever form you like ❤️
@@shikabaneconga That means the world to me! My goal when creating content was to help bring smiles to folks and I hope that I can still continue to do that.
This kinda makes me realize my most recent content has kind of been a downer. I'll make sure upcoming videos are more of a warm hug!
@@IndieAlpaca You're too sweet, hope you know that ❤️, wish we could be friends, you have such a heart ☺️