Yes, Everyone on the Internet Is a Loser.
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- There is no "cool" place for "based" people to hang out on the internet. There are reetards, shills and feds and various degenerates. No well-adjusted human uses the internet constantly---this is just a fact of life and the sooner you return to reality, the better condition you will be in.
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Hi
don't worry i am i promise
"Look at that subtle comment, the tasteful elegance of it.......oh my god, it even has a Luke Smith Heart"
The funny part is, it's not even an original comment, you "stole" that from the internet. :))
@@danutmh stealing from open source lol
This is a great message Luke.
I'll be sure to spread the word by Postal system.
I'll go postal.
This comment was approved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"Word"
Obviously you don't know enough people IRL!
Does the "Postal" system involve pissing on people and using stray cats as silencers?
You mean to tell me that people who spend 14 hours a day on the computer watching anime, playing video games and posting memes in discord aren't going to be amazing? Woah
I still earn over six figures CODING while DOING at the rest of all of what you described. And I ENJOY MY own damn self-actualized LIFE . All I can say is:
Cope and seethe you christcuck normie.
he mean who spend all the time you're talking about in Twitter or tubehub or even insta for nothing
but if you use the internet for learn.. that's the point i guess
Anime was a mistake
Coding doesn't really require a high usage of internet to be honest other than reading documentations. I think he was talking about people who are active on social media day and night no stop.
@@DiamondZombie Don't forget Stackoverflow.
Thanks, now i will be sharing this in my based and red pilled discord chat
Thanks I'll be sharing this with my fellow chad hustlers at Andrew Tate's HUSTLER UNIVERSITY.
Thanks, now I will be sharing this in my based Marxist-leninist matrix server
Sorry i don't use the interwebs much what is that red pill based on exactly is it the latest drug.
@@belstar1128 is this satire? Well the red pill is an ideology that takes its inspiration from the matrix when Morpheus offers two options - the red or the blue pill. The red pill refers to the supposed "truth" that people are not aware of.
TRP mostly targets men and reinforces misogynist views and teaches them that the world is against men.
@@jcon2060 Can i get the matrix on video cassette already or is it still in theatres
the best thing I ever did was to stop reading reddit and 4chan. it's like hanging out at a mental asylum. that will negatively effect anyone.
Had a similar thing to u. I often realized whenever I browsed through comments in youtube posts relating to socializing that literally everyone would say they were introverted, have ADHD, have social anxiety. Maybe I was just like them but for me it was the wake call, I did not want to be like these people.
Yes. This!
During covid I wandered into reddit. I developed severe depression as a direct result. I thought thats what the world had turned into!! 😭
@t.8936 There are def whole millenial friends groups that were/are 'like that'. The fact they exist sickens me. You can meet plenty of seemingly well adjusted people in the real world that are actual freaks, idk what this vid is trying to prove.
Reddit is toxic af, the politics, memes,circle jerks are all shame driven it drains people mentally but it's very very addictive because of the pseudo conversations.
Luke is literally a deep fake AI using a Kazikstani word processing algorithm. Notice how every frame he looks more or less like the default Runescape character... A popular game in Kazakstan.
Khazakhstan ugreszheit numbar 1 do nombomburakev.
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*Kekistani
@@gastari429 That's not a conspiracy theory, but rather a philosophical or theological belief on fate and predestination.
Nursultan Tulyakbay, pains in my assaholes
This guy looks like he's about to solve a mystery orchestrated by a cartoon blue dog
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What cartoon? Not an amerifat so I don't get the reference
@@hanteroes Blue’s Clues lmao
"not an amerifat 🤓🤓🤓" no one asked but ok 🤨
@@bruh-db8by no one asked but ok 🤓
When the Internet was still a niche thing, people would have lives and sometimes browse the Web for more information on their interests. And some would broadcast (through websites) those real-life interests. Nowadays, it seems that there's no real life, and that the Internet has become self-referential, without the need for real life at all.
Quality observation
I remember "relatable" memes were once not even a concept.People wouldn't have got them back in the day.Why would you bring in all that commonplace stuff about real life when you could just experience it for yourself?
I noticed that recursiveness too, where people are constantly comparing mundane events to something they've seen in a video game.
It's as though people forgot that the entire media and entertainment landscape was shaped by real life... which sounds completely obvious of course, but people just don't remember anymore.
Idk abt yall but I still see a LARGE part of the internet being closer to the first type you described… its just that the second type is much louder
That feeling of no need for life at all may be for some people but when Web 3.0 finally makes way virtual reality will replace many people’s actual reality
I remembered joining to Reddit thinking "I want to chat to all thoose interesting people". What a wrong idea I had.
I remember thinking "Oh this reddit place has a large community of fellow game developers? Oh how nice! Maybe I can help some people out too."
Oh how wrong I was. 99% arent actually what they claim, and the 1% who were actual professionals were the dumbest most incompetent ones you will ever meet. I did get to help a few newbies, but was quickly alienated for wrongthink bc I just happened to reject the copypasta meme advice nodevs would give newbies. I also noticed all the "forum regulars" were deeply sociopathic mentally disturbed lunatics.
Finally, I decided after I was banned for wrongthink to look up what the moderators looked like IRL. They literally look like the incel school shooter meme or the california polyamoury mentally deranged wokester.
No where on the internet is any different. Discord is even worse in many ways, and places like StackExchange are literally fueled by a handful of the biggest most incompetent losers in the world.
I had a peer who posted on StackExchange EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A YEAR. Insane amounts of time invested for a normal human being. He ended the year quiting forever bc he was irrelevant. The power users and moderators posted 100x more than him, gained 100x more points, and then would use their points to shut down anything other people did so they'd gain more fake points being the only allowed answers.
I'd find questions, think "Wow that question is amazing. I cant wait to see the answers." And all the good answers would be removed later after I'd read them and all you'd see is the poor, often wrong answer by the mod/poweruser, or if the moderators / power users didnt have an answer theyd just close the question down bc I guess it humiliated them to dare make them feel ignorant.
I then did the math. The power users and moderators on StackExchange have to post all day, every day, for a decade. Even on Christmas and Christmas Eve. Then when I had some downtime on that Christmas I'd check and boom - there they were. Posting all day on Christmas.
One specific moderator I came back to check, bc he was the king of the losers. 5 years later I checked on him remembering it all for some reason, and he had erased his entire existence online. I did some digging and you want to know why he disappeared and never came back ever again after like 20 years of being a power user on like 5 different sites? He got married and had a kid. HE GOT A LIFE. Hahahahahhaha.
Reddit is even worse though. If you ever find a great question and go to see the answers, all you see are hundreds of deleted comments removed by moderators. People arent even allowed to talk there. There will never be answers unless you undelete the page.
And of course RUclips deletes my comment bc I dared agree with you and share a story about how big of losers these ppl truly are.
@@nowayjosedaniel That's Alphabet's secret plot. Censor you into getting off their platform and having an actual life with people in it worth sharing your opinions with.
Ever since quarantine happened, I got into this whole twitch politics thing. Two years later, Im still watching streamers and interacting with the chat who have unhealthy parasocial relationships, talking about how their fav content creator destroyed someone in an internet debate. And when I turn off the laptop, I can't help but cringe at myself. Because in real life, nobody tries to be edgy, smart or based just to get some attention.
>Twitch politics.
😐 (I hate using emojis but you did it)
Believe that you can get rid of that toxicity. Ppl like HasanAbi and his chat are literally toxic waste.
what are you talking about
people try to do that in real life all the time
they're losers!
True, I interact more online than I do in real life
@@b_delta9725 can't wait for the candyman to get his pretzel coated mitts on that BOY.
For a while I was obsessing over online interactions, I didn't have much going on my life, I was working from home and not interacting with real people and my priorities were all wrong, looking back now it was so much wasted emotional energy.
Especially arguing about politics in the comment section. Quarantine was really such a weird time.
@@Wonderingax it is a waste of time, because it takes up time you could have invested in actually learning useful things
Ditto.
being highly online can be ok if you actually accomplish anything concrete with your based and redpilled internet friends. my friends irl were all flaky and didn't really align with how I wanted to live and I found people online who are close enough for me to meet up with and do shit besides bitch about what so and so said on twatter. times are lean so we're basically just a mutual aid network rn but one guy is distributing non gmo heirloom seeds and teaching the rest of us how to grow food, I help people with tech support stuff, and everybody else has some way to to help strengthen the group. you absolutely can abstain from the internet like Luke but it can be a good tool if you use it right.
i feel like i wrote this
Actually I was a loser before using the internet.
Sike !
same, now I'm a loser that uses the internet
Hence why you turned into an internet dweller
ACCKSKSKSKSSHUALLY.
Double loser 🤣
My parents: "Always on that damn internet, go outside!"
Me: aaaah what a bunch of boomers
Luke Smith: "Always on that damn internet, go outside!"
Me: BASED
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I don't want to offend you but this is the "cringe" he's talking about. Unironically now, get out and TOUCH SOME GRASS!!!
man
@@godnyx117 He's talking about*
@@WolfrostWasTaken Yeah, thought to not edit it but it seems it would be better if I fix it.
positive message. internet addiction is real and unhealthy
This is right and wrong.
Right in that the internet is 99% bots, mentally ill loser adults, and bored teenagers.
Wrong that there is no value to be found. It's there. It's just hard to find in the noise. And you have to filter out the mental illness and ignore the losers.
Imagine using the internet
yeah I prefer cyberspace
@Shangex for real
@@stigcc or the information superhighway
Yea i am never using that stuff i just work out and b0ne çhiçks all day.
Imagine replying to a comment on the Internet.
Why do I enjoy listening to this guy destroying with such precision what I am
Cause you know what you’re doing is bad for you.
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth! Right?
Hope you're actually doing something to better yourself. It's good to be aware of your problems, it's beyond horrible to be aware and not do anything.
Truth hurts. But Truth heals the soul.
@@iridescentsea3730 Painfully based. Couldn't have said it better myself.
the normal people who work 9-5 dead end jobs and then die and never use the internet are winners, got it
Everyone is a loser in the end of the day
@@_____._..--_ true
"the normal people who work 9-5 dead end jobs and then die and never use the internet are winners, got it"
It's hip to be square.
@@weltschmerz333 You're being facetious and I don't know why because of course they're winners.
Internet addicted nobodies have achieved nothing significant
@Mr_Mistah Those people achieve less than internet losers.
You cam tell youre an internet loser, and Luke too, bc you've never touched grass. If you had you'd know people IRL are even worse than the internet. They are insane, live crazy lives, theyre losers and lonely, their entire lives revolve around their mental illnesses, and they believe in things as dim as astrology or chemtrails.
"Social media is pretty much a bunch of people who don’t do anything with their lives viciously criticizing people who do cool stuff, then play the victim when it’s pointed out that their opinion means nothing. - Liana Kerzner"
There have always been degen behavior long before the internet. It’s also bold to assume someone is well adjusted because they aren’t on the internet often and vise versa.
Case in point #1: people who aren't on the internet because they've been banned everywhere, including 4chan. Case in point #2: people who *are* on the internet because, after getting banned everywhere, they were jonesing so badly for the web that they started their own crappy social media site.
Hey, why do you have to be so mean as to bring Luke down to Earth when he is busy romanticizing and projecting
That is not what he said at all. Reading that shit made me cringe lol.
I think it'd be funnier if I don't correct you.
oh look a reetard who missed the point
You can tell Luke is terminal online like everyone else because he hasnt actually met people IRL.
Because if he did, he wouldnt be saying any of this. People you meet IRL are even more insane and live even more irrational degenerate loser lives than people on the net. And that's saying something bc 99% of the net are severely deranged mentally ill degenerate losers to the extreme.
I learned this the hard way when I attempted "basket weaving".
Ok now im actually curious
Lol I've actually heard that basket weaving forums are hellholes.
@@killertigergaming6762 It's discord servers or internet forums made for right-wing people to meet in real life and organize politically, basically an initiative to "Meet like-minded people" irl. But when you actually do it, you see they're all extremely bitter people, hate women and hate everything, like legit bitter incels who just want to be handed an easy life, just not the kind of people you want to associate with.
@@piface3016 Oh shit was it really that bad? I thought his fanbase would be more adjusted and higher IQ. I joined when he launched it, but pretty much forgot about it and never met anyone or even visit the server.
@@uncreativename9936 Who's "he"? As far as I know it's a distributed thing with no central point
The internet was good when there were still search engines that actually searched for the words and terms you were looking for.
Some germans have re-developed such an engine. Metager.
Ther "ger" does not stand for germany. Its the ancient germanic word for "spear". Some tribes didn't believe in a round or fIat earth, but a spear shaped earth.
The meta in the name is there because the engine also checks out mainstream search engine hits... but only to recrawl the websites by itself.
Exactly, i searched Russian laithe accident video uncensored on google and bing, top results was youtube just videos of ppl talking about it, news sites, i had to search a few pages before i found a gore site. It shouldve been the top search
@@Schlohmotion how is it compared to ddg
I've killed all my social media and apart from discord for dev help groups and chat apps to talk to IRL friends, I dont use anything else. One thing i still need to eliminate is RUclips and other media video platforms. It's all just trash and a waste of time.... I also need to stop commenting on this crap like everyone cares what i think.
I've resorted to commenting whatever sort of crazy bullshit I like because I'm tired of all the sameness in every comment section.
Yea tv is much better than youtube because it has no misinformation.
@@belstar1128 TV is demonic.
@@heinoustentacles5719 I agree but At least its not video games or zippers.
I just made new social media accounts with my IRL info to trick future employers. Don’t actually use them though as if nobody actually cares about my my life, why should I care about theirs?
Just because I woke up today thinking "if Luke doesn't post a video today I'm cutting myself" does not give you the right to call me emotionally unstable.
As a matter of fact, I self harm because I find myself TOO emotionally stable
But what’s this shit you said about you like to cut your wrists too?
I say that shit just clownin’, dawg, come on, how fucked up is you?
You got some issues, Stan, I think you need some counselin.
I remember a saying my father told me when we first got broadband internet.
"The internet is a tool, use it correctly and it won't turn you into a tool."
My dad said: "I once saw a black dog with red eyes, I yelled at him and it ran away"
Wow. Such wisdom for a time when they didn't have experience.
Luke Smith explains to us for 8 minutes straight how we cant find him on the internet
and puts that on the internet
The funniest part is half this comment section has to resort to “Yeah? W-well you too, Luke!”
No shit. He’s on the internet. He said EVERYONE. Him being a loser too doesn’t make you less of a loser. He at least has video proof of him touching grass, though.
No. What Luke doesn't realise is that everyone is a loser...and that everyone is also a winner. This black and white thinking is frankly stupid. The only person letting you down is you.
If I ready anymore of this crap I will be touching cloth! 😂
You getting this pissed off over what people on the internet is saying was literally one of the main points he was trying to make about people like you be no lives lmao
I found this weird glowing rectangle thing in the woods that i am using to write a telegram to you electronically am i on the interwebs now i hope not that would be so lame.
Why does that forest have Asperger's? All the trees are in a grid.
To be harvested
The fact is however, that it's extremely difficult to find interesting people in "real life". Talk to the average person you meet at a restaurant or so and you know what I am talking about. If you have an intellectual life of some sort, the only realistic options to cultivate it are solitude or the internet.
THIS!!!! What Luke Smith FAILS to realize is that most normies have absolutely no substance that makes them unique. Most people are like a hivemind, where highschool never ended for them.
I don't really agree with that the people in real life can be interesting the only issue i find is that i can't find many people who have similar hobbies to me like writing code or something or even just using linux which decreases what we can talk about but most people are pretty okay
That's why you shouldn't be a nerd/be interested in one thing
@@mlcs I'm not gunna feel bad about not being able to relate to people who thought morbius was good
I don't think it's any easier to find such people on the internet either. There's an abundance of "normies with memes" here. Maybe you just need to find the right circle.
There are just too many factors at play. I don't think mentally unstable people didn't exist pre-Internet. One cool thing that was pre-internet time is that you wouldn't hear about social outcasts, nerds, shut-ins and borderline psychopaths. You'd just have to look for them or bump into them on the street, a place they don't visit too often. You would write them off as a margin of error. Internet just made them heard and heck, in rare cases gave opportunity to do something more than they'd ever be able to do otherwise. That is again, a very small percentage of people, I guess, you included. Yet, if you stuck your head out of Proud Land of America's sand for more than 10 minutes, you'd find there are countries with lesser spread of the internet per-capita. Not all of them "Chad infrequent-internet users" are actually based or red pilled ether. So, by an analogy, you may say everyone is a loser since, whoever by your definition fits the category of "based" is within a margin of error as well. Because the majority of people, like it or not, are socially maladjusted in one way or another. If anything, you yourself are pretty much stroking your ego
summed it up perfectly
You just dont really know most people you meet.
You think theyre normal and the crazy unhinged ones are inside or on the net. Not true.
Get to know more people IRL. Their lives are freaking insane. Their decisions are irrational and they live on pure mental illness.
He's not even wrong. People who have things going for them generally don't have the time to troll/insult/etc.
i had a buddy/roomate i lived with for a year who was literally *always* on discord most waking hours of the day. i noticed this a lot in him tbh, and i resonate a lot with what you said in this video.
he would always talk about all the "rich entrepreneurs" he connected with online and i was just like "why tf are these 'successful' people spending so much time voice chatting with randos if they're so successful?"
i'm not saying im perfect either, because i struggle with internet addiction too, but holy cow, does discord/internet attract so much degeneracy, fake internet personalities and general losers.
I’ve noticed a lot of people realizing it’s fairly easy to larp as a well adjusted person on the internet, especially if you are an unstable person
Press them just a little and see them start to crack
Trust me, I've seen several of these people.on Discord alone.
Everyone is a loser in some way or another. Even if they're not on the internet. Accepting that is how you adjust to life.
Amen to that brother
Amen to that brother
Or, you could try to improve yourself the best you can instead of living in complacency. Your laziness hurts yourself AND those that depend or may eventually depend on you.
@@lecrovidae6987 You can improve just a finite number of things in life, and accepting that some of them can't be changed is not laziness.
@@szpajsier Yes, but then that mindset quickly gives way to "Well everyone is a loser in /some/ way, so it doesn't really matter if I slack on this or that. It doesn't really matter if I give in to cooming today, eat sugar," etc. Basically over time you can actually get pretty good at a lot of things if you care enough, and accepting that you can't do better instead of thinking about what you /can/ do despite any potential limitations you might have is kind of cringe.
Says "Internet is fake" while hanging out in a fake forest
The forest looks real to me, internet loser
ive always felt that i dont have anything to talk about with people irl. we dont share any common topics so conversations usually boil down to things we are both doing at the moment, which doesnt last long.
Well, yea, however that’s fairly easy to overcome. Conversations can be about anything.
Depending on your area people may be generally more rude or vice Versa.
I’m in the south and about 80% of people you can just walk up to and have a small conversation with.
@@korndawgboys4jesus130 im in poland and you dont just walk up to anybody and start talking
@@-whackd very rude of you.
I can talk to people different than me. Starting the conversation is the hard part.
@@korndawgboys4jesus130 That must be the famed Southern hospitality lol
@@relt_ w polsce jak w lesie
Lately I've been detaching myself from online arguments. I have really bad anxiety, so I already obsess over small, meaningless things. These days I just block people or delete my comments if I'm tired of seeing them in my notifications. I wanted to go on discord since everyone else seemed to be there. I immediately got the vibe of how argumentative and miserable everyone was. Safe to say, I don't interact with the app much anymore.
People on discord are more unhinged than anywhere, and everywhere else is the worst hellscape imaginable.
But log off and you will soon realize that the people IRL are the same ones who are on the internet. They just dont need a device to be mentally ill
I yeeted my discord because of this. I now spend almost all of my waking time either at work or at the gym. Probably not a huge step up but at least not having a life is productive this way.
What do you do on days off? Like people just say “leave the internet” but when I have nothing to do on some days I just feel this void inside of me, and eventually end up using it again
@@acrez3260 find stuff, hobbies away from the internet. accept a little more boredom than you'd normally have while living on the internet.
keep yourself busy, not a Christian but "idle hands do the devils work" is a pretty good saying. go to the gym, number 1 tip for going consistently is either get a buddy or join some form of gym class, spinning, yoga, martial arts whatever. Have people there who expect you to come. Even if you don't feel 100% just go, "bad is better than nothing". That applies to a lot of good habits actually.
Try stuff with technology, set up a linux home server, run Minecraft servers, personal wikis, ftp-servers, even if you don't use it just have fun setting it up and figuring it out. get a super cheap second hand PC for this, or just shove an old laptop in a corner somewhere, your first project would be to see if you can remotely connect to it so you don't have to actually interact with the machine itself to configure your server.
get into drawing, reading, writing, home improvement project, make your own clothes. there's millions of perfectly good wholesome things to occupy your time. There's even stuff out there that's a massive time-sink. Model painting for example can easily take up to 40+ hours for some projects.
organise stuff with friends IRL, for me that's D&D and occasionally going out to play pool and drink. Not to say you cant communicate with them over social media at all, but the brunt of your (meaningful) interaction should be in person.
when you do go on the internet, limit yourself to non-social media and stuff that doesn't have too strong of a spiral. no discord or facebook, but hang around forums for whatever your interested in, electronics, tech, creative writing, art whatever. Forums are usually much better than feeds IMO. In terms of addiction and timewasting at least.
anyway, that was my dump. hope that helps.
@@acrez3260 I'm honestly at the point where any days off I have are spent cleaning up my living space and doing meal prep for the week.
@@oscarlove4394 W
@@Gogglesofkrome idle time is great for creativity, but when you're trying to break a habit or addiction idle time is when you're most likely to relapse. Keep yourself busy until new habits have replaced the old.
Worst part is, these internet communities always attract mentally unwell types, and they are only there to vent out their autistic edge.
It is a painful acknowledgement: to find great and noble types, is to look for them either in deepest pits of internet, or in most rural and distant patches of land (massive coin toss, as there are either "I like my patch of grass and wood, nothing more" and "We got a small community, but not powerful enough to influence nearby cities".
Yes we know, you guys hate autism and that's why you call everyone on the internet a fake person
Agreed, I have had to deal with so many mentally unwell people, my brain has made an algorithm to avoid them by detecting them through the way they speak.
@@drm.himselfOh cool. Me too. That's why I had to block you immediately.
@@nowayjosedaniel You can't block on RUclips. You're brain-dead.
Wow Luke, I could really feel the dissapointment in this one. Gonna have a rough day today guys. Wish me luck
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@@mushroomcrepes taiko no tatsujin sucks playing the bong instrument is better
Lets E makeout
@@𪛗 DK jungle swing drums mog all instruments
Yeah, a loli avatar. You're hopeless.
This is facts.
I’m an emulator developer. I make a living writing apps that emulate vintage video game consoles. Of course, we have a discord for my project. It’s gotten quite popular. Fact, I’m never on it. No matter how lonely I may be IRL, I can’t stand the online world.
Most people would assume that a software developer, not even that, the nerdiest of nerdiest software, video game emulation software developers would be completely into the whole online thing. Most are. I cringe when I have to interact with them. So many furries and T’s and other things I can’t say on YT comments.
I love what I do. It’s a huge technical challenge. I never play the games, though.
I’m proud of my app, I’m also proud I can squat 225 below parallel. The internet sucks now. RIP 90s IRC.
very true, like a while ago when i tried to find a decent discord server I quickly realized that literally everyone was weird and cringe in the same way
People on the internet suck. People irl suck too. Work in customer service, you'll never want to talk to anyone again.
I don't know, honestly most of the people you're going to meet in the quote "real world" suck too. The fact that they're real doesn't imbue them with any special powers. If you're into topics that are off the beaten path, you're not going to easily find people with similar interests in the real world. There are certain things the internet should not replace, but as far as communities go I think they provide a good alternative to people - especially the weird ones who have traditionally been cast away by society. Online communities while toxic at times, provide significant value to people and a social connection that for whatever reason, they can't get in the real world. They've done studies, online community and even relationships fire up the same neurons so if it's giving a person a sense of meaning/connection I don't know what's wrong with that
Don't you know?? No matter how much you tell the truth on the internet, you'll never be real because I don't want you to be real because the internet isn't real! Time to go harass people on the internet because they're not real so it's okay
Because despite your neurons firing up, once you close your computer it's all gone. Its like saying coke makes you happy therefore its good
@@degayify yeah it's not like you're interacting with actual human beings that would be ridiculous
@@hahasamian8010 jokes on you, neural networks getting better at text generation as we speak right now. We already have a nostalgia for 00's internet, so we'll be remembering 10's as a "oh, remember when you can in talk to real people on twitter? Oh, great times!".
@@GCAGATGAGTTAGCAAGA So you're going to assume everyone is a bot now
Good for you I guess?
internetbros.... i.... i can't go on....
Ironically, saying this on a RUclips chat, this is actually the best advice anyone has ever given. Being kicked off of Facebook my life feels more real and it's always been my intuition that what you just said was true.
One of the best times of my life was when my phone was smashed a few years ago and I didn't have it for 4 months during the summer... huge personal growth. All for it to he washed away when I was pressured into getting a new phone and the self-control eroded almost immediately.
This is not a chat.
Kicked off? lol What'd you do?
@@deadliestvice5356 ok nerd 🤓🤓
@@SnapThority this is a forum, and if I'm nerd then you are nothing but garbage
I'm literally crying and shaking right now.
What i most agree with is that internet "communities" are disgusting. its not a community. its genuinely dystopian to describe as such. so many people nowadays become asocial or lack tremendous social skills because they let it all happen online. then they call themselves "introverts" when really they just havent learned to enjoy socializing. not saying theres no such thing as an introvert but probably most are this way.
You think so?
I feel this honestly might be true.
I think Im this asocial just because of my insecurities personally.
I need to do alot of work to fix it up. But I think you have a really good point.
Having a true and honest discussion with random people on the internet is basically over. Other than dming a "friend" on social media everyone you see has some type of brainworm that prevents talking like a normal person about something you find interesting. Everything now is either a 20 layered ironic shitpost or a dumb soapbox routine. Even sites and other corners of the internet that let you say what you want have become so fucked by poe's law you don't know if the guy with an anime profile picture is a fed, schizo, or a genuine fail troll. Everything else just falls victim to becoming too sanitized.
I am not even a controversial person, but the internet has become so mass censored and sanitized that I am banned within 5 minutes of joining any discord or community.
Usually it's through automation banning me for using some wrongword or wrongspeech like saying "lol i agree that's so dumb" but often it will be because I used wrongspeech offending some rainbow haired weirdo going on a power trip or I performed wrongthink when holding an opinion separate from the accepted hivemind.
And like I said, I am not controversial. I am often banned for things like "Nah, green is a better color than blue IMO." or "I actually dont really like X. I do like Y though so I can partly agree."
I am also banned faster when being super nice. If I am super mean and aggressive, and just attack everyone super aggressively anytime they speak, I last 100x longer. The irony is crazy.
I am a sane, kind, open minded individual with no actual controversial beliefs. But that isnt even allowed anymore. You have to believe whatever mainstream meme belief the hivemind supports or youre basically a nazi (even when the topic isn't political). Yea, ive been called a nazi before bc I said I prefer Godot to Unity in gamedev, even when I said in the same sentence that ive used the latter for 15 years and love it. That isnt enough. I am a nazi for daring to point put even one flaw with something I stated I support or love. People are unhinged.
I remember one time I joined a discord channel and was banned within 1 minute of joining.
I joined, read the first chat, said "lol I agree that's so stupid." And immediately the moderator stepped in, went off about how using the word "stupid" is offensive to the intellectually disabled. I apologized and reiterated that I was just agreeing with them, and i didnt even get a reply to that. I was immediately banned.
I've also joined communities I had never knew existed, and within one sentence had moderators go off in walls of text accusing me of being some new account sockpuppet of some guy they just banned 5 seconds ago. Then banned with no way to appeal. I have no idea. I guess I joined at the wrong time. IP banned and everything.
People are just insane these days. You cant be normal. In fact you cant even post. If I ever try to even make a post on Reddit, it will auto delete all posts and comments bc my account isnt old enough with enough karma. But how can I get that if I am not allowed to ever post. The irony.
Then when you finally decide to just lurk and click on a post, it's 90% deleted comments and no real answers. Just a bunch of ppl attacking each other but you can only read the moderator's replies.
The internet is unusable.
@@nowayjosedaniel I forgot I ever made this comment but I appreciate your response. It's been over a year later and this is still the case, not just in my comment but in yours as well. The only thing I can add to it is that everyone is so jaded that some people are only capable of speaking in the most spiteful, petty drivel posts that read like copypastas. (hell even this post almost reads like one now that I'm proofreading it)
I can't tell you how many times I've seen spaces that "talk" about varying non serious topics like entertainment get overrun with people who just want every potential piece of media or hobby to burn to the ground because some other person on a separate website said something that they didn't like. The worst part is that if you try to tell them to be the change they want to see they just refuse to be productive to their passion. No, it's more easy to bellyache on a forum than it is to bring together a stable team of artists, coders, musicians, or what else have you to make a bootstraps project that they have full control over.
The internet isn't just unusable, it's full of lazy hacks. Nothing but mindless Facebook/Twitter cattle and 4chan/KF contrarians, the latter wanting everything to magically go back to how it all was in the early 2000s without actually having to put in the effort to revive the culture of the working internet.
You're right. As someone who uses Discord etc, I found a sense of belonging in a server that I couldn't find in real life. The problem is you get sucked into that -- and you lose the importance of real life relationships. You start to care less about people in real life since talking to people online is just easier. Using the internet as an emotional crutch is something alot of people do when they don't realise it. I try to get out of it, I think i have to a certain extent, i've been using social media alot less so thats good
i... i thought i was based.....
bros.... what will i do now....
It's a humbling experience to be defeated by some wild looking man who has been lost in the woods for eons.
I don't have the answers you're looking for. Yet I can relate to your pain.
It's okay, friend. It's not like he was saying that everyone on the internet is a loser.
@@Th3BigBoycmon my bro i was being ironic. but i liek where ur heart is at
@@bluegreen8650 We were both being ironic. Give me some credit man I was in on the joke.
Sorry i don't use this interwebs thing you are based on what exactly?
idk bout you man but where I'm coming from , "real life" is ten times worse than a discord server
that's only any true if you live in a good place
I was just telling a friend that if electricity went away and wasn't coming back, I would only miss a few aspects of the computer and not for long. Less than 24 hours later, my 10+ year old hard drive went in to pre-failure mode and I hypocritically fired off an order for a new one. The thought of losing muh filez apparently terrifies me.
update: turned out to be a bad sata cable
When you said that at 5:29 I audibly groaned. At the university I attend, everyone looks like generic gen-z Tik-Tok viewing, boba drinking, pronoun having, nail painted, hair dyeing, therapist talking, zodiac asking, iPhone owning, body piercing, tattoo having brats. It’s bizarre when I see them desperately beg people to follow them on Instagram and add them on Snapchat. Like, what does that accomplish? It’s just an arbitrary number that somehow makes people feel good about themselves. I follow nobody on my social media accounts because don’t give a crap about anyone and what they want to put out online. I only have them to look “normal” to employers. If I want to make new friends than I get out and talk with people. The internet should be a tool that compliments the real world, it shouldn’t be a replacement. I hate my generation so much but I’ll probably be hating gen alpha more knowing every generation is always worse than the last.
Alphoids might be the heroic generation that rope a dope the special people. Or at least let's have kids and try.
+1 because I can relate too. I was given a new perspective when I stopped using social media for a while
Ah c'mon, what do you got against boba?
lmao cope. Maybe you should go out, drink some boba, get your nails painted, and your hair done. Probably too much grass touching involved in that for you, lol.
Some people need therapists
After seeing everyone being a cesspool and a maniac on a global digital net, I can basically confirm
We literally forgot that real life exist
This is the truth, the more time I spend on the internet the more like a loser I feel.
The way I act online is 180 from how I act IRL. online I like to fuck with people, IRL I'm just normal.
black jew
miningtime
I phuçk people irl.
I’ll tell all my friends about your video through the mail
I have terrible social skills and i can barely socialize so i focus on talking to people on the internet.
That doesn't translate to real social experience at all
Just be confident bro
Try to get used to saying Hi or Hello to at least one person in real life every day
Came to this realization today, everybody online is a loser. Searched out and found your video. Just deleted my reddit account, other social media was already deleted.
I got myself banned from instagram and reddit for being racist and homophobic. Felt good, that i finally got something that was life changing. Nowadays i see my batchmates glued to their screen wasting hours on these crappy applications scrolling day and night, mehh
You got that right. And not just the internet. Social media is the worst part. Everything else is up to us on how we use it. I gave up social media back in 2015 and I feel much better now. The only social media I'm ok with is RUclips and Pinterest tbh. And even on those platforms you'll find some losers too lol.
Man I hate RUclips.
> _"when i look at video comments section on yt, I cringe so much"_
thanks godddd u recognised this. yeah, so many ppl here are just crying like "luke embarrased about shell optimisation, me still cant write a script"
i am like ohkay, grow up then; what soooo funny in it. but its pointless wasting time on getting this point to them. Glad u addressed this.
This video rings true, it's way easier to find cool people in real life rather than on the internet, because all the fun stuff happens in real life. Internet is really only good as a way to keep in touch with real life friends and as a staging ground for doing stuff offline
It's kind of crazy that even people who I thought they were normal and "well-adjusted" are so caught up in today's internet junk culture (random youtubers gossips, social media dramas, dumb memes/videos, tiktok, etc.).
Sometimes THE SAME people who looks stupid in the internet looks intelligent in real life.
Forget just the internet.
Everyone is a loser.
Everyone.
No exceptions.
Which means no one is a loser really.
We are all losers and winners at the same time.
The internet is kind of like alcohol and tobacco…the more you use it the more you’ll regret it.
The thumbnail is how I picture 90% of people on the Internet
Funny how Luke participates so much in internet meme "culture" when he apparently finds all that stuff cringe.
“Cringe”
It depends on who he's trolling
I don't use the internet what is a cringe and a meme
he makes money hating on it
It's amusing but some people take it way too seriously, which is cringe.
Exactly my feeling lately, internet is a mental asylum.
I think I agree with you mostly but you can’t ignore the power internet has to give someone a sense of community who doesn’t have that sense of community In “real life”. And “real life” and the internet are now overlapped and basically integrating and becoming the same thing like it or not.
Thats kinda a loser mentallity
People I meet in real life are completely different than the internet
My life drastically improved when I
1) Graduated college (There's lots of internet people at college, I was one)
2) Got a big boy job
3) Got married
4) Had a child
#3 and ESPECIALLY #4 made me grow the heck up and start putting time where it matters. You don't have time to be an internet person when you have a child. My wife and especially my daughter help keep me in real life. I have an addictive personality and was addicted to the internet and video games (League of Legends especially)
I have basically lost touch with all my past internet friends. I liked them, they're nice enough. One was my roommate and tbh we weren't even real to each other. Real life is so much better. Go meet someone, get married, and have kid(s). Your life will drastically improve despite being harder and having tons more responsibilities. Responsibility is WORTH IT.
Preach
I feel like the “cringy” internet people are the some same people who are “well-adjusted” in real life (not all of them, of course)
The general view in Psychology is that online behaviour reflects offline behaviour minus the inhibitions that in-person interactions bring onto a person.
In other words, the internet is real life and arseholes online would be (and are) arseholes offline when they can get away with it.
No, the most cringy feminist trans activists and reddit mods are the worst goblins you've ever seen in real life.
@@yarpenzigrin1893 you're right, but beyond that group
@@yarpenzigrin1893 "feminist trans activists" yeah they're losers for standing up for human rights
@@SoulReaperIsHere The existence of keyboard warriors proves that to be wrong.
How people are on the internet and how they are in real life is radically different
I mean, I spend a lot of time on the internet, but a lot of it is spent using time wisely. Reading nerd stuff (hardware specs/benchmarks, reading forums to troubleshoot code I write, etc), learning how to do something new or learn more about something I already know, streaming an audio book, that kind of stuff.
The people who think that places like Discord and Twitter and even YT comment sections are anything like reality have really lost the plot.
You can find based and redpilled people on the internet but there is no stable place for it, partially because of the personality filter you described and partially because the fact that anything based out in public eventually gets banned. Good social internet groups are manually curated, have a level of buy in and commitment to the individual people involved. When you're committed to the same 15-20 people and you build those relationships over years, visit in person when circumstances allow, you have shared views and interests, etc. that can actually work. Having reliable people you can chat with can be lifechanging. Not as an emotional cope, but in things like, making a workout plan, discussing church, figuring out your career moves, help troubleshooting the places in life you are stuck. It's not the forum to discuss a video game you like or to take pictures of the marvel dvd you just bought. It is to transition from someone you are casually aware of on the internet to an actual friend where part of your connection is through the internet. Like you said, the good people dip in and out of the internet.
you just described a freemason lodge
@@seyadeodin except that being a freemason will cause you to go to hell
@@seyadeodin without the satanic stuff
3:53 "If you're nothing without the suit, you don't deserve to have it"
- Some billionaire superhero not named Batman
I came back to this video to sort the comments by new, and nearly all of them are proving his point one way or another. I won't be surprised if this includes me.
I'm cringing alongside him.
You're one of them as well
Computers are "impression engines", generating sights and sounds that we command them to. When we become attached to these machines (and the glowie boys that animate them), we begin to wither away. A useful analogy I heard about the Internet (from Jonathan Pageau, I think) is that the Internet is like an extension of the nervous system (just like how hand tools may be extensions of the hands). From this kind of instrumentalist viewpoint, getting obsessed with the Internet is like a technologically enabled naval inspection, akin to being obsessed with tools like saws (but not actually doing any work) or dare I say... editors like vim or emacs.
I liked the joke, but that's opening a deep hole on my heart (that was a joke, right? Right??? PLEASE TELL ME IF THAT WASN'T REAL OR NOT, I'M BEGGING YOU!!
(Screaming until death)
Vim is pretty good for small computers possibly without a GUI like the RPi, but I fully understand what you mean.
Based
I sell Toys on Amazon because fuck the "Real world" literally found a way to monetize my hobbies and now I have an excuse to be always online and watch anime and play vidyas games because now its part of business because If I didnt I wouldn't know what toys to stock.
Bro do you mind telling me how you began doing that? Did you begin buying toys cheaper on ebay and selling them for more money or something like that? Im learning 3D, I want to make toys one day but I find your business strategy very interesting
Soooo true! (I'm online 8 hours a day)
Much of the internet is fake and it's very dramatic, angry and loud.
WHAT?!? WHADDYA MEAN ANGRY AND LOUD!?! AAAAAAAARGGGGHHH...!!!!!!!
Most people in real life are worthless and just wasting one's precious time. So i definitely prefer internet over real life most of the time.
Baurdrillard says that the hyperreal (the internet/mass technology) is more real than real. Personally, I find most of the discussions in "real life" boring and vapid. The discussions online are more convincing and authentic to me, depending on what you are discussing and where it is being discussed, of course. You get to escape the zeitgeist of reality for a moment and engage in honest discourse for once.
dude, ur the definition of a human that is afraid of everything
@@mmcblk05studio You said it better than I could've.
@@mmcblk05studio What am I afraid of? I am disgusted, which is quite the opposite of what you characterize as fear. "Real" people bore me. There are no "real" people. Sorry to burst your bubble, man.
@@hoodie_cat A better way to say what he said was to spell "ur" as "you are."
If you are following and using someone like Baudrillard as a reference point on validating your lifestyle, you might want to re-think everything. Check out 'Uncritical Theory' by Christopher Norris.
its so funny reading all the comments seeing people offended because its true
To be on the internet doesnt mean we are losers. What makes a losers is not being spiritually focused or taking advantage of opportunity. Internet provides opportunity.
I met a guy that used the internet before, horrible experience.
You know what, you are absolutely correct, I am pretty much a loser all things considered but I'm trying to get out of it, hard, feels like I'm a drug addict on withdrawal.
I know one pretty "cool" guy personally. Even though he's very young and is familiar with modern technology, he still prefers to avoid the internet at all costs. The effect is real.
Some also call this the "studious person effect", because all seemingly successful and studious people do this as well.
Sentient RuneScape default character talks about the woes of its origin
Sorry i don't use internet what is a run escape?
@@belstar1128 You clearly haven't been on the internet long time enough.
Aside from that, I immediately noticed you were being sarcastic when I looked at your RUclips channel. you have been on the internet long time enough. you are now a selected winner, congratulations!
@@𪛗 I am using my nephews apple to write letters to you but why is it called apple if i can't eat it and how do these letters reach you.
@@belstar1128 Sick discovery: the english language is a fake language. WE ALL HAVE BEEN FOOLED!
You had to be on the Internet to post this video/read this comment though.
That's a lot of projection Luke.
You have to project the voice for it to be heard
I kinda agree with your point but there's some nuance to it. This kinda proves your point too but when I was bullied in school for example, I didn't really have a lot of options except look for companionship online. Or when I was having a psychosis and didn't dare to spend any time with "real" people because of paranoia. Sometimes people just have situations where it's better than nothing. But yes it's much better to have irl social contacts and use the internet to contact them and spend irl time with them
that companionship for the internet becomes a crutch after a while, learned that the hard way
The internet is the only place where I can interact with people without drowning under social anxiety. It is where I can vent my weirdness so I can appear "normal" irl. It is where I can talk about things I'm upset about and have people _care._ It is not that hard to avoid the negative places. I know I am dysfunctional in society, but I would be even more dysfunctional otherwise. So, sorry, but I will not be giving this up.
And you're just fueling the problem that way. If you didn't have the internet you would've been forced to go out and interact with people. Over time, you'd get used to it. It might take years, but you'd be just a bit dysfunctional instead of fully. With the internet you don't get that instant feedback of the reaction of the person you're conversing it and you instead you make it up as your mind wants it to be. You need thousands of these "feedbacks" a day in real life for years for your brain to start understanding how to not be weird, how to be funnier, how to be less obnoxious, etc. It's how you build and level up your personality and character basically. With the internet, that feedback is nonexistant, and your brain makes up feedback that's comfortable and not awkward.
@@barney2159 1. If I didn't have the internet I'd be dead right now. I have many severe mental health issues and it is the only place where I've been met with actual support. Not even therapy helps as much.
2. Note that I can mask pretty well. People generally don't notice or they think I'm just a little bit weird. Which, by the way, has been a constant throughout my life until I found the internet when I was 18. But I _can_ do it at this point, it's just extremely draining
3. Chatting does have a way of providing feedback, of conveying emotion over text, of doing tones and such. These are things you have to learn how to pick up on just as much. You're probably just as oblivious to them as you think I am to yours.
4. Those "building personality" things... well, I did those on the internet as well, over the course of the past two years. And it helped me irl too. As in, people have noticed. Finally I managed to book some progress in talking to people, unlike all those years before.
I am broken, I know. But the internet is not the problem, it is a solution, the only one I've found. And I have _definitely_ tried.
@@fghsgh this is something that Luke absolutely misses. He thinks that deep inside everybody is just like him, living among nice people and beautiful forests, they are mentally ready for interactions in their irl environment, it's just not everybody just got the right idea. It's simply an ignorant take.
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@@fghsgh so you're weak, sucks to be you i guess
Appreciate the wakeup call it may seem obvious but I think it's important to talk about unhealthy internet use.
Actually, I'm such a winner women are scared to talk to me
Based
nothing ever compares to real life. Spending time with women, getting drunk with the bois, family conversations, people socializing at work, flying jets, driving cars, NoTHING on the internet can even come close to these experiences
This online persona agrees with everything you just said.
*The only place I don't see stupidity online is where people use it as an extension of their real life.* That doesn't mean you have to use your real name, but it means 80% of the time you're online for a reason. The real world exists to enjoy. The internet should exist to help us share ideas, answer each other's questions, maybe organize an event, etc.
There is plenty of stupidity IRL. You've just never had to hire anyone to find out. Being offline isn't going to make the people more likable and less imbecilic. I like the internet, because it's easier to filter people out and harder to get back-stabbed by Machiavellian types.
this is a brilliant video. no one watching will think this message applies to them. insult all your subscribers without insulting any of them.
I spend about 16 hours a day on the internet
I'd say work on reducing that. Cutting out Facebook or Twitter if you have either.
Only 16? Brother, I am sleep deprived.
Yes, but this doesn't answer the real question: *why should you care what other people think of you?* No, really. In a world full of jealousy, cruelty, and abuse, why should you assign that much value to what strangers expect of you?
With the exception of your family, most people really don't care about you or what you do. So, if you're moderately or wildly successful, and you just so happen to be an internet degenerate that spends hours of your life in front of a screen, then really, *why should you care?*
I'll tell you this now: if you enjoy your time online, you enjoyed your time. Full stop. The human condition was not intended to be as complex as people like to think. You live, you breed, then you die, and that's all that nature wants of you. What you do between point A and B is *your* choice. To your own, and only your own ability and judgement. In essence, *you should be living for yourself.* In my case, between my studies, coursework, and career work, I enjoy talking to people online. No, it's not the best use of my time, but I'm not a one-note person.
I have different needs than you, and of those needs are career satisfaction, to sate my curiosity, and thirdly, to feed my attachment to other people. I mean, who else knows me better than myself? And that's just one example. I'm someone who's never been able to keep physical relationship for circumstances beyond my control, and I just so happened to live in a generation when you can have those relationships on the internet. Honestly, I don't see the need for a physical connection. You can understand someone and care about them without seeing them in the flesh 24/7
I speak for a lot of people when I say that, sometimes, it's a hell of a lot easier to videocall a loved one or speak to them online than to fund an entire trip and go hang out with them. Yes I would love to go to dinner with them everyday, *but we are in the real world, right?* And I would not work myself to death until I'm 40 to achieve that level of financial freedom. My body won't last forever.
It's more disgusting to try and hijack someone's life, then project what you need for fulfillment onto others, then call them disgusting when they don't have the same needs you do. That is more crazy to me.
Here's my 7 minute essay to your 7 minute video. Enjoy.
thank you Jacob P.
That last paragraph is something _many_ people need to learn, and I mean a LOT of fucking people. It’s insane how little that nugget of info is known when it’s almost essential when talking to others in any fashion.
This has the same vibe as humans bitching about the fact that humanity is a plague of the world.