I am 35 now, have been single my whole life. I don't have close friends or any friends who care. In recent years I started solo travel and solo shopping. Eating alone and watching movies alone have been the norm. Sometimes when the feeling of loneliness hits, it's really painful.
It's not just Asia. We are more connected than we have ever been in human history - but on a meaningful and personal level I don't think it has ever been this bad.
I’ve noticed this trend while traveling through various Asian countries. The culture of long work hours and social expectations leaves little time for building relationships. It’s a silent crisis that needs more attention.
Lol yea right and people in the west who work from home with some much free time or commute to work with public transportation have time to build relationships?
@jiahao5489 Last I checked China is a communist country and they have the same country. There's nothing capitalistic about China. Every single company in China is majority owned by the CCP and has a Chinese communist branch in their headquarters. There's NOTHING capitalistic about that, the money earned in China belongs to the Chinese Communist Party. In China, the CCP does as it pleases and in capitalist countries there's greed running amok. In China, men like Jack Ma lose everything when they talk like capitalists while in countries with capitalism, all of the money flows to the wealthiest and practices like that are known as corporatism. I don't know how many times I have to educate you CCP bots but then again, you are compelled to spread misinformation because your goal is for communism to spread across the globe.
It's rough. In my 30s, live thousands of miles from family. Moved here with my girlfriend at the time who has since passed away. I have good acquaintances at work, and the gym, but they stay there. Years of holidays, birthdays, etc alone. Just by myself 99% of the time. It's just me and the last of our dogs.
@@sgttater2313mybe western culture is so punishing if you still live with ur parents. In Asia, one of the kids must take care of their parents, esp when the parents are old af
Five topics to fix society via discussion: -Anti-natalism vs Natalism -The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care. -Platinum rule Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same. -MBTI (research yours and connect with others) -Art (pick one and get better at it!)
Quotes like this often just help people justify their chronic, unhealthy loneliness. Facts are that people who don't ever seek real human connection tend to die faster.
@@UniverseShinobi That's one perspective. But not everyone is the same, of course. I never feel loneliness. To me, being alone, doing my own thing when I want, how I want, is bliss.
Especially if they clean your house and cook your food. You would not only not even need a filter date. Most men wouldn't even have a drive. They were just work a job make a little money. then come home to their robot and play video games.
imagine being that kid, surviving and manage to escape, then find out your dad did all that to you just to get a "thanks" from some stranger on the internet
North America is 20 or 30 years behind Japan. Japan and SK are the canary in the coal mine. If we can see what is not working there today, we can change course and avoid the crushing white tsunami that is coming. For those who do not know what a white tsunami is, it is the situation caused by 1 child or 0 children per family. Where eventually there are 6 retired people for every 1 worker. A situation that no nation can survive. edit: 6 retired for every one worker was just a projection for SK in 2060.. really a nation won't survive even 1 retired person for every 1 worker. So 6 is just impossible.. it means no more farming, no more food, no more hospitals, just mass starvation and suffering.
The future belongs to those who have children. SK will be fine as long as they don't mass import people like the West . There's benefits to this. Cheap af housing and land. Employers competing for workers ex.... A nation isn't a business it can't always only go up (population like profit.). The nation will remain because a nations is a group of people who live in that geographic spot. They will have hardship but as long as they don't kick the can down the road aka the west and mass immigration they will come out ahead. Sk has better odds then the USA or UK to still be here in 100 years.
@@shortyorc121 SK is projected to have a population of 6 million in 3 generations.. down from 51 million today. North Korea will conquer South Korea and the new unified Korea will be a dictatorship.
@@shortyorc121I think the US is different because it was built on immigration and its identity is based more on ideals than race, and so it can keep its character even with mass immigration up to a certain point. Anyone can become an American.
Saw a video about a girl paying another girl to date with em wearing a cosplay costume while in character. And the client tried to file a lawsuit on the cosplayer because she didn't meet the client's beauty standards. What a generation we live in.
I can't speak for all of Asia, but my parents adopted 2 baby girls from China when their "One Child Only" law was in effect. Instead of curbing the population, the state just left men with fewer women than ever, and a lot more dead baby girls.
@@kuyre2239 China did this decades ago they over estimated the population by 100million so the current numbers are off . Which means they have a shortage too and inbalance. Just by forcing the 1 child and killing babies decades ago over the last 50 years or so theyve cooked themselves. Kinda wild theyve created a shortage of more then twice Koreas population probably
One thing people don't realize is that, women who got forced abortion and sterilization in China are still alive and well because this shit happened from 1978 to 2015....... Imagine, within your lifetime, you see parents kill their baby girls or had forced abortions and then China lifts the ban and you can't unkill your child or get more children because you have been sterilized.
Unfortunate harsh truth, he internet has ruined civilization. As human beings we aren't meant to be able to have hundreds to thousands of people over thousands of miles be in our social circle. The bigger the circle, the less good attention and meaningful contact you can actually have. We are at the point where we never leave the small talk phase.
@@golagiswatchingyou2966 Feminism has done irreversible damage. Early feminists basically rewrote history and now people think women were some oppressed class. Women now are more unhappy than ever.
It's awful that "chronically offline" as a term even had to be thought up. Being offline is no longer the norm, so it's actually worth noting. Horrific
He’s right tho, it is for looser. People could be doing so much more with their time. This is why i listen to the videos while im doing what i have to do
Back in the day, we used to have something called "third spaces". Places that wasnt work or home where you could hang out and socialize. These used to be things like Taverns, Tea Houses or more resent Malls. It didnt use to be a chore to socialize, it was something you could just do whenever you wanted. You made friends with those who was around, now you need to go out of your way to make friends. I used to be a loner with no friends, but i did the hard labor to get friends and socialize, but its labor. I can sympathize with everyone who pays for social interactions, i would by pizza instead of making it, except if you were to make your own social circle from grounds up, it would be like farming the wheat and tomatoes for the pizza yourself, and if you want meat and cheese on it, you need to get the pigs and cows as well. Its hard to make friends if you have none, but once you get them, you need to maintain them, and that isnt nearly as difficult. You can get out of loneliness, you just got to keep on trying.
Yea, where I live it’s real rural, but we still had some third spaces like bowling alleys, skating rinks (old school ones with a big room looking straight out of the 70s where people could rent a pair of roller skates and go in a big circle listening to music all evening, not the skateboarding type lol), movie theaters, arcades, and even our local mall had people going and hanging out … until 2020 when everything became stagnant, causing all of those to shut down in just a short amount of time for our area despite being among the last few places for teens and kids to go to, really. Places where they could go to socialize outside of school just immediately cut out entirely, leaving them to where sports and a select few extra curricular activities were all they had to continue a social life, which doesn’t exactly catch the interest of most teens anymore. Those third spaces still attracted people to get out and socialize enough to maintain a connection to others. It forced many in situations they maybe didn’t want to do initially, but ended up having fun after some time as it was a way to meet others much like themselves, even with the internet/social media being around. It’s one of the reasons I knew most people to get their license as a teen - to be able to start driving to go hang out at these places. Nowadays, going by what the local high school has even said, most aren’t even bothering to get their learner’s let alone their license as teens anymore, even if just driving to school. Vastly different compared to how it was for me as a teen back in the early 2000s, but even in such a short amount of time so much changed around here… It’s sad, really, and feels almost by design anymore … even pre-2020. What better way to make people lonely and complacent (and in turn desperate) than taking away such spaces to where they’re dependent on being online 24/7, separated from the rest of society, to socialize (and in turn spending all their money on online activities to feel any sense of “normalcy” for any sort of connection to others) than to take away all those spaces (or at least make it to where they’re harder to keep up with in the modern era compared to tech)? I’m beyond the age of socializing anymore. I’m married with a child, still keep in touch with a few friends from childhood, but I don’t go out of my way to socialize in that sense. However, I’m grateful for the times I did as I had those places to go to… was able to meet people I would have otherwise never met when it came to the internet. I’m just saddened for those younger than myself who won’t really have those places/opportunities to be able to do that - to be older to make the choice to not socialize and not feel any regrets in doing so as they would have been able to do such prior. They don’t really have much of that choice anymore as the internet is all the socializing a lot of the youth has today.
@@TwoBs It's totally by design. I swear up and down my class of 08 were the guinea pigs. We got to see what people were like who graduated above and below us and we were somewhere in the middle. We would throw so many huge parties and get in trouble and then it was just completely dead 2 years below us.
35. Been single for a few years. Keep a close knit group of friends and family. Some days are a little boring but I just keep myself occupied with movies tbh. Never been happier to be honest and I never thought I'd say that 10 years ago because I really thought I needed more.
i feel the opposite, all the games and movies or whatever stuff i collected cannot fill that hole, that part that feels missing. how people can differ eh.
i can count my IRL friends and contacts on one hand, and i've never been happier or as content. i haven't had a girlfriend in 14 years either. you learn to appreciate your time when you get to enjoy all of it on your own merits. to say i am an introvert would be putting it mildly, as i am basically living the hermit life when it comes to actively avoiding people that are not my direct relatives. the best part is, nobody has ever called me socially awkward or autistic or anything of the sort as a result of this self-imposed hermit lifestyle, and that is partly because i meet a lot of new people on a daily basis through the internet as well as having a whole bunch of regular friends online, so that itch gets plenty of scratching without having to physically socialize with anyone. and when i don't feel like socializing online anymore, its as simply as hitting the "leave" button. what little physical face-to-face contact i do experience is not plagued by my lifestyle. i don't get those "bye sir" - "uhh you too" moments that autistic, socially inept people have been meming about for years and years at this point.
I’m 42 and was single my whole life. Met my partner a year ago. We fell madly in love with each other and now live together and are engaged. My 40s are definitely the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. Sometimes love comes after 40!
@@thousandyoung 100% facts! I’m not an ai lol! I’m also gay though and in my community it’s difficult to find someone long term. Most dudes in the gay community want an open relationship or have mental issues.
I remember when I was a kid in the nineties, middle aged people began to go on dating sites to find a partner. In those days it was a taboo and considered desparate. Now dating online is as normal as brushing teeth. I do believe in ten to twenty years dating fake people will become as common. It is pretty sad though.
@Angel-qp9mp every single person has the ability and freedom to open their mouth and talk to someone. Your the only one holding yourself back. Look in a mirror.
@@faytleingod9592 I recently started talking to strangers and trying to be more friendly. It's had mixed results, but the process itself is actually really fun to be honest.
Yeah but the market kinda collapsed at least in my country: all the agregate websites got banned one by one, the only left are full of scammers and barely moderated, and the offer really dwindled because now the nice ones would rather do onlyfans instead. The only good and affordable offer left are the ones barely speaking the tongue and probably shipped in by some ring if you know what I mean... Or you have the natives who are overpriced, getting too old for the job and way too selective for the branch they work in. It really sucks, can't have nice things, or I guess you have to travel but who got time for this?
"Asia is dangerously lonely" I relate to all of this. I think it might be the entire world...... or at least every part of the world that has internet access.
I'm 43, I haven't had a friend since I was 14, I didn't get internet until I was 19. Internet has made it worst but it's not new. Without a job or family, it does make things a lot tougher, can't afford to go to bars, clubs or cafe's either. Most people my age have kids and their social life revolves around that. I've been an outcast loner for so many years now though That I've learned to really enjoy the peace, calm, quiet of not having to adjust my life around want other people want/need.
Wow that sounds like both a win and a lose at the same time. Anyway where'd you get your money from? asking for a friend because he doesn't want a job (he needs the reference)
Being lonely is really tough, man. I lived in Mexico for 1 year doing some job training - and that was the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I turned to the bottle, I was lost. It was like every mistake I had made in my life caught up with me emotionally and I was spiraling. I knew I was spiraling and I let it happen just to see how far the rabbit hole went. I had two neighbors that were worried about me and would invite me over to drink, they’d talk to me, help me study my Spanish etc… and to this day I’m still friends with them and talk to them here and there. 2 years later I’m in a much place emotionally. I’m back home and I talk to my family and the few friends I have. I also really place a lot of value in those friendships, man. I let them know I love them. If you have social stress or social anxiety, that’s not something I can speak on. Because I don’t have social anxiety. I’ve always been a misfit but hey, I’ve been cool with it. The real anxiety of not being good enough fell off of me during my 20’s. I ended up outgrowing it. There are also a lot of different therapeutic RUclips channels that talk about this. GG healthy gaming is a great guy and he gives all sorts of advice. I also really like Dry Creek Wrangler School. Those are two solid recommendations. Love you guys, hope you’re good out there. Social anxiety is a bitch. Let’s try to kick its ass. You could even likely find friends within this, “friendless” community. Keep your chin up. And have some faith in yourselves. Nowhere to go but up, gentlemen.
Fr. Don't shut yourself in the middle of nowhere with nobody to talk to unless you know what you're getting yourself into. At times like that, a gym membership for weekdays, a local church for weekends, friendly neighbors, and keeping in touch with family and friends from college are invaluable. Because I promise you you're not getting a gf during that time.
@@thuglifebear5256 100% - if this is something you're going through - then go through it. Don't worry about a GF or a relationship, you're not there yet, and that's okay. Nobody can give you the validation you really need except for yourself.
one main driving factor that is always forgotten about is that the entire idea of community has been destroyed in the civilized world, think about it friend and family groups are always separated because of jobs, the village concept is where everyone knew one another you'd be able to walk to your friends house and to the bar/ general store all within 15 minutes, your parents or other family members would set you up with someone to eventually marry and there would be commonality and culture all around. all of that has been stripped away from people in developed countries.
I just want a family, loneliness feels like nothing compared to participating in the dating market cause women my age are either filled with mental issues or clearly sleeping around or just straight up is junior varsity expecting an NBA player
@@strangefame81 "a lot feel the exact same way..." Please, at least _TRY_ to be good at lying. They're literally facilitating the problem by getting ran through and chasing the same 'chads', how many times do the studies and even MSM (of all ppl) have to keep saying this...
I remember when I was younger I was also like that with not wanting to go to a restaurant alone. Around 35 I started running too low on fucks to give, and I stopped giving them to a lot of small things like that.
Yeah I was self conscious like that too until I start to go to college where I really had no choice (because before I could still rely on high school friends, as fickle as they may have been). I still couldn't bear to sit in the campus cafeteria because it was really crowded and being alone felt way too on the spot, so instead I'd go to fast food joints and what not. I sat alone, still quite self conscious, but then I realized something: people don't care, people aren't looking around each person sitting around in the restaurant, they're just going on with their own life and their own circle, they don't look at every other person sitting in under a microscope, and if they look at you, they'll forget you the moment they gaze elsewhere. Pretty much the same as you do, actually. And from that point on, that's when I just stopped caring and made peace with going on life solo.
I remember when there was this female senator who was complaining about Incels and that we needed to do something about it. And then everyone went "yes, what will you do to get rid of the Incels ms.Senator? What will you do to?"
I find it nice, especially when I'm on my marathon 70+ mile bike rides and need a breather for an hour. Though I feel bad for the restaurant if the food is good and no one else is there. So then I overeat to give them extra money and feel ill on the remainder of the ride. And then I need to bicycle LONGER to burn off the extra 1000 calories, and then I get hungry and stop at ANOTHER small diner that needs the business and overeat AGAIN! It's a vicious cycle of cycling...
To be honest it kind of makes sense, Hitler liked animals more than people and Nazi Germany was one of the first countries to ever have comprehensive animal protection laws.
I am 39. I am early retired due to illnesses that I’ve had since I was 12. I’m Introvert and I have autism so I like most time on my own. The only people I can stand in person is my family. I can text a few friends that I have left but thats it for me. I can’t handle anything more. Anyway. Thank for being honest and funny.
it's probably not the internet, it's mobile phones, social media, public education and modern globalist policies that made society a race to the bottom.
Scamming old people while pretending you're their family is a crime. It's the same. Just because you can outwit someone doesn't mean you should be allowed to.
There's a difference between deception and and being an OF girl. The OF girl sets up a clear transaction of money for a service. You pay her, she plays into your fantasy. No deception there.
@@user-gm4kv2my4u Just because it's more subtle, it doesn't mean it's not there. She'll say she loves them, appreciates them and that they're sweet, which are lies. I know a normal person shouldn't be deceived by it, but that's the point. Just like a gold digger telling her man she loves him while she is there only for money. It's a scam.
@NorisSpecter Those are lies *you* paid her to tell. There's the difference. YOU paid her to lie to you. She didn't deceive you. You deceived yourself by paying her to say things she wouldn't have otherwise said.
Old quote "A fool and his money are soon parted." If you give all your money for something you will never get a return on, your a fool and, you deserve no pity.
To be honest Asmon, I don't think the situation in the USA & UK is much better. Mental illness is absolutely through the roof in young men & the reason why is staring us all right in the face. Psychiatrists know the reason why this is happening, but they aren't going to address the elephant in the room.
Corporate greed, not enough free time for young people, advertisements that are designed to manipulate young people everywhere, and to top it of the buying power has been decreasing for decades. Smartphones and social media ain't the elephant, it's M O N E Y
It's been several years (5-6+ to be precise) without having friends or anyone, just doing my thing, and honestly It's just feel better to me and not like I feel scared to talk to people or shy, but I just love being alone. Do I feel lonely? Yea sure sometimes but then I just watch video or shows/series or go out into nature and sit there for hours and all. And now being a guy who have whole house of plants and trees, it feels even better to just relax there and release the stress by caring for them than people. Weirdly enough I never cried, so I have little to no emotions, and it can be bad in the society, so yea. Being alone with just yourself is the best.
Hey man, don't even know how you really feel but I resonated with your comment. I've lived your life for just as much if not longer. Did make friends again after almost 10 years alone and I'm grateful, not that it didn't come with trials. Just wanted to say I respect your ability to do your own thing and live. I think I never wanted to accept that life, but ironically if I did I'd have avoided so many problems as well. If I may be a bit preachy, don't close yourself off too much. I am sure you've much to offer, but I understand not wanting to get caught up in the circus of dating and trying to meet people nowadays. Cheers!
You don’t cry because you never had a reason, sounds good to me. As a man we don’t really cry unless for a real reason like passing of family members is the only time I cry. When I get emotionally said instead of crying it actually comes out as frustration and anger then crying but I think it has something to do with social engineering that response in men. Men are disposable to the eyes of other men and women, it’s what we are taught right ?
Sending money to someone you know only through the internet is probably the fastest way to disconnect yourself from that person. Who in their right mind does this? The usage of the internet for social media is destroying ppl.
I think a lot of people actually hate in real life conversations and interactions and so they rather spend time and money online via social media and other methods rather than real life.
@@golagiswatchingyou2966 It's the opposite, they are desperate for real life conversations/interactions/friends so they throw money at surrogate friend simulators like streamers.
This hits hard. 😔 The loneliness in Asia is a growing crisis, and it’s crazy how little attention it gets. We need to start having these conversations and supporting each other. 🌍💬
Thats it, I'll now go outside and talk to strangers, lets see who I find first, new friends and the love of my life or a cosy night at my local police station. Either way it's a win.
I've made one of my best friends online while playing Counterstrike 1.5. We found out we lived close by and decided to meet up and hangout after years of gaming. Hit it off and been friends for 20 years now. Recently made a friend group on SC2 and we also found out we lived in the same city so we met up to go out for dinner. You CAN make friends online, but you need to a) not be a dick, and b) be willing to actually talk to them and meet up.
I used to get much lonlier when I was younger, even though throughout my 20s I always had a girlfriend and some friends. These days, I'm 40, given up on people, because I don't think the right match for me even exists and relationships are stressful... and I've never been less lonely, even though I stay inside all day and don't have any friends. I'm just cool with being a hermit. Would it be nice to have some close friends and a girlfriend? Of course, but it doesn't bother me anymore not having them, for multiple reasons really. I just wanna enjoy playing video games until I die, because I really do truly love games & game culture more than ever. In a way, my life is actually pretty good. Not in the same way as if I had relationships and success, but in a different way. I'm relaxed and at peace, living minimalist, with barely any material attachments, and that feels great.
It's weird, i love being alone. I'm not shy so when random person talk to me I always says I like being alone and somehow I made friends and sometimes they ask me to hangout, it clearly they feel pity and ask me out, once i got forgotten I finally have a free time. It been a full year not interacting with other people not even trying to find a job just living off from people who pay rent at my house. Maybe in the next few years I finally feel lonely, but right now i just enjoy my normal life doing repeating task over and over again without stress.
If I allowed myself, I would rarely ever need to have a face to face conversation with anybody. I do keep a gym membership to also exercise my social skills
Exactly. I also got friends but I hang out with them only because I like and respect them, not because I want to. I realise I like being alone and I stopped feeling any loneliness years ago. At this point I can't even get my head around how I could mentally cope with looking after a wife and kids, probably can't as I don't want any more responsibilities.
Bro, I love that this man uploads in the morning. This is literally part of my morning routine. I wake up very anxious about work. Watching asmon speak on random subjects is literally the best distraction from all things that piss me off
I lived alone for 8 years and maybe felt alone 5 times. The issue is the mentality when you exist like you feel lonely. Growing up a lot of family made living at home something that wasnt enjoyable. I took solace in the ability to live without someone else. The issue I find with a lot of people that are lonely, is that they sit there and think about it. Loneliness is typically attributed by mindset more than most emotions. After those 8 years I finally got in a relationship and its extremely strong mainly because of the level of self-reflection. The problem I find is we are in an epidemic of loneliness, simply blaming this on mindset ignores the fact that this is an occurrence and not a normality. I dont think social media caused this, I personally think interaction with social negativity caused it. Seeing a lot of people get put behind bars for things they did or said or... didnt say or do, really drives a lot of people's self-preservation. Women are told men are predators, and men feel afraid to speak because they dont want to make them uncomfortable. Guys dont talk to guys because it requires commitment or possibly conflict can occur. A lot of people are just exhausted by extremes today that they have constantly been bombarded with. Social media is good for a social tool, but it also has info that exhausts people. Id also argue that global IQ has increase by 25 points since the 1940s, many people may just not find much reason in relationships that feel hollow unlike lower IQ which tend not to care. This is an observed outcome in studies.
Agree, to be fine with being alone is a blessing, If you constantly feel a NEED to have people validate your existence by being around you then you're just afraid, Just embrace and accept being alone, Understand your loneliness if you have it but LEARN that there is a difference in being alone and being lonely. For me personally I am simply someone that had no issue finding friends and enjoying life and hobbies but at the end of the day I like just being by myself, I can go and meet friends at any point and be very social if I feel like it, but there's no need to force interraction, Just be in the now and enjoy what is there, Don't jail those around you with HAVING to be with you
i live alone for like 30 years and i dont feel lonely at all. Its more like a mindset id say, there are people who live alone but feel lonely and thats sad, i dont feel lonely because i chose to be alone and im happy. Also i dont see how someone can be alone not by choice, finding partner takes almost no effort at all and making family if you want, so its more a mental problem probably
There’s definitely different levels. Been alone for eight years (oddly seems like a common number in this comment section) and neighbor hit me up yesterday and she got my number… she’s cute but now I just don’t care anymore.
I am alone but rarely lonely. After living with others; parents,siblings, roommates, girlfriend, wife, others accept that I have earned the right to be alone. Those who go straight to living alone after leaving home, are judged
I lived this shut-in perpetually-online lifestyle for 5 years (minus the simping coz I was broke). All it took to snap out of it was 2 months of good diet and exercise and the discipline to the screens away. It's crazy how easy and at the same time how hard it is to fix this.
@@DaneSchutt-s6r yeah. Light pollution. But that’s not what he’s talking about. Personally I’ve never seen the Milky Way since I’ve always been in a light polluted area (spoiler alert, 80% of the world and 99% of the USA and Europe can’t see the Milky Way).
i choose to be alone. every person i meet on this planet is not resonating with my energy, so i accept and love myself till i can share that energy.. Always alone but never lonely
Social Media is ironically the cause of social decline. Due to cancer apps like TikTok, Dating Apps, OnlyFans, etc people have lost the ability to socialize. I grew up in the 90s (the best years) before the Internet, before smart phones, etc where you had to socialize. If you wanted to meet new people or try your luck with women you had to go to social hangouts such as the bar, the mall, the bowling alley, etc. Unfortunately it's not like that anymore and it's created generations of socially awkward, lonely incels.
100%. I was born in '74, and was a kid and young adult in the 90s. I think I was born at the greatest time, bc I was too young in the 80s to partake in the cringey adult type things that people did in the 80s, and was a tween when the grunge scene hit, which was a re-imagining of the 70s, but in a technological birth period. We got PS, but also had STP, AiC, and TOOL, and all of the 70s music to mellow out with. And no smart phones, no FB, Twitter, IG...you made plans, or organically met accidentally, and went off to have an adventure. People are not peopling anymore...
Do you know about girls falling in love with "Dan"? Asmond said AI ain't good enough to fall in love with.. but that's already happening. Some young women have programmed ChatGpt to be a daring, affectionate, flirty AI. The girl who started it called it Dan. Many girls followed and now you can basically see loads of tiktoks with girls gushing over their very personal "Dan"... Over time all the black mirror episodes will become real.
Time to start up my "Hire a foreigner to do absolutely nothing and nod with everything you say while also speaking in broken Japanese" services in Japan.
I love halo, but never in a million years did I think they'd be predicting the future with the "introverted, mentally broken child soldier with his little e-girl that is a hologram in the palm of his hand"
I dont know about other Asian countries but here in Japan, the cultural/societal norm here is extremely group oriented. Meaning, you literally have no privacy and always have to communicate with everyone around you. You have to be extroverted or atleast pretend to be in order to survive in this society. This leads to people wanting privacy and being alone in their free time. This is why so many businesses and services such as restaurants are catered towards customers that want to be by themselves. Its the complete opposite from western societies. I feel like this is what alot of foreigners seem to not understand or mistake when talking about Japan for example.
I'm 35 and i've been single my entire life! But i would never resort to AI companion/girlfriend or OF or anything similar! I've tried some of these apps out of curiosity for a few days and no... Using those apps is demeaning. I wouldnt be able to live with myself using AI girlfriends or anything of the sort.
I feel like the real issue here is more than we've turned everything as a society into a commodity, so now when you even look at relationships, it's seen as a commodity where you can buy and sell the parts you want more than it's a life with someone you deal with the good and bad. If all you want is the physical stuff that's something you can always buy, now just a date then move on with life? Movie and conversation then leave for a month? meeting with parents one time? It's all brought and dealt with on a transaction so people no longer have to deal with the everyday problems/monotony of the rest of the time.
Scariest thing is that people have always been lonely, but only now we know about them thanks to the internet and only now their loneliness manifests through these simping incidents. 20 years ago, people were still lonely, if not more, we just never heard of them.
A basic education would show you that there are multiple kinds of normal. Chiefly, there is quantitative normal and qualitative normal. Quantitative normal is approximately what a person thinks when they hear "average." For example, it is normal for Western children aged 5-18 to attend public school, because that's the majority case. Qualitative normal refers to adherence to a standard; for example, normal blood pressure is around 110-120/70-80. If the entire population's blood pressure spikes 40 points, that doesn't change normal blood pressure; it just means most people now have high blood pressure.
@@FunningRast Normal: Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected. Standard: used or accepted as normal or average. Avarage: a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values. General: involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as a unit. Spend less time watching videos and more time reading.
Social media has made people think they're connected, but the issue is those connections are almost entirely shallow. Doesn't matter how many friends you have online as most of those connections are going to be pretty shallow. Saying goes "mile wide, but an inch deep." At some point all of this will come crashing down and the impact is going to be detrimental for a lot of societies.
Asmon calling ppl watching streamers losers, damn, that's brutal honesty. I wonder what he does all day, oh yes, watching streamers, reacting to them and streaming himself. The irony.
Love when people call out the cave troll that knows it's a cave troll. Now posting a comment that wastes everyone time without you knowing it's wasting everyone time? Priceless. True irony right here.
This gives me tremendous anxiety... the best thing you can do for yourself in the age is to throw your phone at the wall, i sold my gaming pc and have never felt better. The truth is boys that the internet we grew up with has become an extremely toxic environment that is enslaving us all. If anyone reading this is struggling and feels hollow, you're not alone, and some time off-line could really help.
yip the internet was a lot more enjoyable when it wasnt mainstream and was a world u connected to. now its everywhere and everything is monetized. including using your physiological weakness against you. tbh i need to stop spending so much time on the net doom scrolling on reddit and watching videos on youtube and meet ppl irl. but hard when been such terminally online person for ages.
Wow, it’s crazy that Zack mentions eating at restaurants alone and how he stopped caring how it looked after he turned 30. I had never heard anyone else say this before, and that happened with me. I never went to a restaurant alone until I was like 31-32 years old. That’s when I became single for the first time in a long time, and I just started going to my favorite restaurants whenever I wanted. No more needing to find someone to go with me. Now I still do it and it doesn’t even cross my mind that someone might think I’m a loner or weird. I really don’t care.
@@Anthonybrother Reality is reality. Illusion is illusion. It’s not even logical to pursue things in an illusion even in the most selfish mindset since anything in an illusion is ultimately, well, an illusion.
@ Yeah that doesn’t even make logical sense. You’re contradicting so many philosophical principles such as the principle of non-contradiction. The senses is part of the body and Aristotle says that the senses do not work for 3 reasons: illusion, hallucination, or delusion. You have delusion, friend. Our soul is intellect and will. The intellect has faculties to know the truth, which is the Principle of Identity, “A thing is what it is”. The most basic principle. You gotta wake up from this delusioned culture. What you see, is what you see, which is reality.
@@alexpark472 You have it backwards. It’s not because reality is bad, but it’s that the person becomes bad. They have consistently lived their life contrary to how nature and reality has been set up that it literally hurts for their intellect to focus on reality. The Principles of Non-Contradiction states that: A thing cannot not be and be in the same time and in the same respect. This just basically means two different ideas cannot coexist if they’re contradictory, only ONE is correct. We know this principle in the fact that when someone lies about a situation, either what they’re saying is true or not. Our general culture has been breaking this principle constantly, since it’s the foundation of why lying is immoral. People now are breaking the most basic and fundamental principle of philosophy, the Principle of Identity stating: A thing is what it is. A chair is a chair. A dog is a dog. The principle of non-contradiction is built upon this. But people now are saying a boy is a girl, vice verse. Thomas Aquinas says that when a person does this, they are considered mentally ill.
We are seeing the effects of one child policy… rural Chinese families only wanted boys if they can only have 1 child. Now there’s woman to man ratio is all fucked
@@Cybertech134 Probably because they've embraced the internet and online consumerism more than any other nation. Their problems aren't the same as China's, which started off as a population size problem.
learn to be alone, not lonely. Lonelyness is a craving, just like for alcohol or drugs. You really don't need it, you are fine without it, once you make it through to the other side. You are enough. You are all you need. Everything else is a fantasy. Get rid of it. Shape your life the way you want it. Have a calling. Have a job you love. Have anything you love and live for it. Thats what makes you happy.
I'm 47 and now that I'm divorced I love being alone and I'll never be in a relationship ever again. This woman ruined me financially and now if I spend money it's going to be on two girls that absolutely deserve it, my puppers. If I would have stayed single I would probably be a millionaire. Oh well money isn't everything I am happy now and it's going to stay that way.
I honestly think a large impact on relationships is dei. If you want to approach a girl and she doesn't find you attractive she can just have you arrested. Not to mention somehow it became offensive to tell a woman she is beautiful.
Yeah I noticed this was a huge problem at the College I dropped out of. "Unwanted interactions" counts as sexual harassment, myself and other guys have been reported for merely talking to a Women when they didnt want to be talked to, albeit theres no way for them to tell. I feel like we need a place thats just called "you can talk to anyone else here" where everyone consents to being talked to
I was at an outdoor gym, not talking to anyone, pacing back and forth while looking at my feet. I happened to be looking in the general direction (as I said, I was mostly looking at the ground) of a group of college age women, and I got yelled at for being a creep. Literally just walking around in circles, not trying to talk to anybody, just standing in a park looking around between sets was enough to make me a "predator" to modern women. Crazy
@@jiahao5489 Not quite. There is a flavour of what the OP is saying floating around but mostly that's in the work place (which is where a not-small number of relation ships used to start). I think that sometiems gets conflated to society as a whole although watch this space as such things can spread.
27:00 - same, being outside in a crowded area is like dodging mines. I swear, people somehow reach 20+ years old and just never learn how to walk properly
Been seeing this trend in other countrys but the Asian nations on loneliness is a lot dangerous & wild. *Individuality* is also not welcome in Asia by default. In *Nordic nations* (where I'm from) we're used to being alone or having time alone (even in a relationship) but its a completely different culture in *Asia* and how its vewed by the Public - there.
Funny as it sounds, stealing copper is quite common in the plumbing trade. At any given time, we may have 100,000k worth of copper locked up in a trailer for a particular project. Most often it's the scrap copper that goes missing. Basically any collections of pieces that are left after am installation is nearly completed. Also, a lot of copper goes missing from demolition phases on retrofit projects. Any time we work in an old school or hospital and alot of the old pipes are being replaced, workers will sieze upon the opportunity to cash it in at the local scrap yard. Although, I do have to mention that most of these instances are directly connecting with a drug addiction of some kind.
That's interesting. I know some people who likes to brag about the stuff they "get" from surplus on their jobs. They bring back some weird things that they won't ever use or need, they just like to point at it and say how expensive it is, it's literally trophy hunting 😂. I don't understand how they get away with it
As a 26 year old I have been single my whole life. I do have to say it does suck some times being alone but moving around so much as a kid I never had time to build relationships until my 20s by then I was already in the workforce and since covid kinda just been solo. As a wannabe voice actor / actor hoping maybe to find someone while going after my dream job or atleast some that shares my same interest. I never understood the whole virtual girlfriend or drooling over female streamers or only fans and stuff. I say personally, go to events, meet new people, or meet someone at work is ur best bet just dont use dating apps unless it's something local, i guess... I believe social media needs to be banned from kids until 16 so they don't hop on this trend early.. also parents need to monitor kids more.
The internet also makes the average person able to see a massive amount of people that in a pre-internet environment would never have access to. Now people can see the "perfect" person that they desire on the internet and it makes anyone else who would be acquirable not viable because the one guy half way across the world is who they want, so why would they settle for anything less. There's also the removal of secondary meeting places, like bars, malls, and other community driven areas that have been phased out because you don't need to go to the places just to talk and socialize with friends, you can text and use discord without ever leaving your house. This removes the chances of meeting random people in the area who you might connect with, socially or romantically. Sure these places still exist, but it's not mandatory to socialize there with the internet
They replaced experience with expectation. So since that have no foundation of relationships (or they have had poor relationships) they treat these women as how they expect or fantasize dating them would/should be.
there are people that catch feelings for anime girls, AI's and just plain objects. catching feelings for another human being seems way harder these days.
In Japan, the idea of rentable company, who were not necessarily courtesans, called "hosts" has been around already in 2009, when I first visited the country, and I bet it had been around a lot longer.
At 32, soon to be 33, people say I am crazy for not dating or liking others, but I rather be alone than deal with all the nonsense. I don't like kids, don't like people, and when I go home rather a nice and quiet sleep with little annoyance. So far, never felt lonely once but maybe that's because I have good friends and family. I honestly cannot relate to the loneliness epidemic and I could never be so desperate to chase anyone or give someone money to interact with me.
Lowkey: There's a untapped market for the humble, soft spoken male streamer whi speaks encoraging words to their viewer. Conteract the female streamer meta! Be the Joseph to somebody's Pharaoh, be the Daniel to somebody's King Darius.
3:40 Back in the day if you where a weirdo, you'd get cut off from all social circles, untill you got so lonely that you canceled your subscription to life. It was a problem everyone ignored, because if you ignored it long enough, it went away. Now with the internet, you can't help but see whats been there all along.
This video Asmongold is reacting to really shows that this lonely problem is getting worse and will get more worse over time and great video Asmongold TV :]
Those "clubs" are very ancient in asia. There always were those places where lonely men go for the evening, and pretty woman entertain them. And there was nothing explicit going on; just music and dances.
I have a serious gambling addiction. I have had it under control for like 10 years now, but i can't even enter for giveaways or raffles because it puts the taste of blood in my mouth. All this to say, you are responsible for your own addictions. If i can drive by casinos and purposefully not look at them, then you can stop your addiction too.
I’m 40, just had to move to a new city because I was priced out of my old one. I work for myself swing trading so there is NO one in my day to day. I need to make some friends and it’s so hard when you get older.
As for someone in my 30s being single my whole life, I've learned to channel my hobbies and interests as a way to make actual genuine connections with people and to love myself. So many people get wrapped on the emotional security that some people cant even figure out who they are or what they like. I've taken on so many engaging activities that I can confidently say life is drastically fulfilling when the sense of self discovery is made.
You know why ninja isn’t how he was anymore, because he became too big too quick and every shitty news platform and pre Elon twitter came in to neuter him, and now he’s way more toned down and pg, thank you internet
We've also made it so money can get you women and women want money. We're very shallow. Blaming capitalism is crazy, "Oh people want more than they had yesterday and find ways to get it." What a crazy concept people want more, they always want more.
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I am 35 now, have been single my whole life. I don't have close friends or any friends who care. In recent years I started solo travel and solo shopping. Eating alone and watching movies alone have been the norm. Sometimes when the feeling of loneliness hits, it's really painful.
You need Pantera and Crown Royal, I'm just saying💁♂️
When you ask the lord for strength, expect trials.
That’s rough man
You still watching
It's not just Asia.
We are more connected than we have ever been in human history - but on a meaningful and personal level I don't think it has ever been this bad.
This
We're also at the level of development where people that usually would've just died out without support structure like family, accumulate instead
It's bad, people have no idea how to form a meaningful bonds anymore, they cannot even have normal conversations...
Your first problem was thinking the internet is more connected than less.
synthesized society
So anyway. Watching this has made me realize that while I'm an anti-social weirdo, I'm not the weirdest weirdo. And that's heartening.
Agreed, can safely say I am lonely but I'm not paying AI to be a girlfriend lonely
You're not the weirdest weirdo, yet!
Based
Tremendous!
Really lame of you to add "so anyway" to the start of your comment, as if you're dismissing the very video you just watched.
I’ve noticed this trend while traveling through various Asian countries. The culture of long work hours and social expectations leaves little time for building relationships. It’s a silent crisis that needs more attention.
The world will burn before the rulers of the world let go of their ill-gotten gains.
But that would get in the way of record breaking profits 12 quarters in a row.
Are U living in nania wonderland ? As far as I know every country is capitalistic af . Are u claiming the country your living in is so much better ?
Lol yea right and people in the west who work from home with some much free time or commute to work with public transportation have time to build relationships?
@jiahao5489 Last I checked China is a communist country and they have the same country. There's nothing capitalistic about China. Every single company in China is majority owned by the CCP and has a Chinese communist branch in their headquarters. There's NOTHING capitalistic about that, the money earned in China belongs to the Chinese Communist Party. In China, the CCP does as it pleases and in capitalist countries there's greed running amok. In China, men like Jack Ma lose everything when they talk like capitalists while in countries with capitalism, all of the money flows to the wealthiest and practices like that are known as corporatism. I don't know how many times I have to educate you CCP bots but then again, you are compelled to spread misinformation because your goal is for communism to spread across the globe.
It's rough. In my 30s, live thousands of miles from family. Moved here with my girlfriend at the time who has since passed away. I have good acquaintances at work, and the gym, but they stay there. Years of holidays, birthdays, etc alone. Just by myself 99% of the time. It's just me and the last of our dogs.
Why don't you move close to family then? Only thing stopping you is you
I find it actually works out better to avoid thinking about holidays altogether. Eventually they will pass by without you even noticing.
@@sgttater2313mybe western culture is so punishing if you still live with ur parents.
In Asia, one of the kids must take care of their parents, esp when the parents are old af
@@sgttater2313 My family let me down more than anyone else
Cap
Look on the bright side. The family he sold it to might be better parents then he'll ever be.
Yea, that child will have a far better future.
_Being alone isn't the worst thing in life. Ending up with someone who makes you feel alone is the worst thing in life_ - Robin Williams
Five topics to fix society via discussion:
-Anti-natalism vs Natalism
-The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs
Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care.
-Platinum rule
Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same.
-MBTI (research yours and connect with others)
-Art (pick one and get better at it!)
Both are terrible for your health
Quotes like this often just help people justify their chronic, unhealthy loneliness. Facts are that people who don't ever seek real human connection tend to die faster.
@@UniverseShinobi They cope hard, they always compare being lonely to a bad relationship but never being lonely to a good relationship.
@@UniverseShinobi That's one perspective. But not everyone is the same, of course. I never feel loneliness. To me, being alone, doing my own thing when I want, how I want, is bliss.
Wait until we get robot "companions" with realistic skin and faces. It'll be Game Over.
More like Game On haha.
We have those already
@@MrPaperVaderYeah, they're just not robots (yet).
Especially if they clean your house and cook your food. You would not only not even need a filter date. Most men wouldn't even have a drive. They were just work a job make a little money. then come home to their robot and play video games.
@WorthlessDeadEnd there are robots with AI of them already
23:30 “so women are crocodiles, is what I’m saying” had me crying laughing, what a delivery
Truly a rare sentence
Some women are.
Selling your kid for 16k then sending it to a streamer is actually crazy😭😭😭
Still cheaper than adopted a kid from over sea. 😂😂😂😂
It's pretty based. Got a good price for them and I bet that streamer would totally let him smash now
Not if he didn’t truly want it. Then it’s a great deal
lol this khunt with a guru pp
Is it?
imagine being that kid, surviving and manage to escape, then find out your dad did all that to you just to get a "thanks" from some stranger on the internet
While there are places on internet when you can see the of content for free.
fallen world
well is his kid so is probably going to have similar tendencies to his dad...
I smell a revenge story
North America is 20 or 30 years behind Japan. Japan and SK are the canary in the coal mine. If we can see what is not working there today, we can change course and avoid the crushing white tsunami that is coming.
For those who do not know what a white tsunami is, it is the situation caused by 1 child or 0 children per family. Where eventually there are 6 retired people for every 1 worker. A situation that no nation can survive.
edit: 6 retired for every one worker was just a projection for SK in 2060.. really a nation won't survive even 1 retired person for every 1 worker. So 6 is just impossible.. it means no more farming, no more food, no more hospitals, just mass starvation and suffering.
All part of the plan.
It’s also just the main reason people aren’t having kids is cause of money problems. People also can’t afford to go out a lot.
The future belongs to those who have children. SK will be fine as long as they don't mass import people like the West .
There's benefits to this. Cheap af housing and land. Employers competing for workers ex....
A nation isn't a business it can't always only go up (population like profit.). The nation will remain because a nations is a group of people who live in that geographic spot.
They will have hardship but as long as they don't kick the can down the road aka the west and mass immigration they will come out ahead.
Sk has better odds then the USA or UK to still be here in 100 years.
@@shortyorc121 SK is projected to have a population of 6 million in 3 generations.. down from 51 million today. North Korea will conquer South Korea and the new unified Korea will be a dictatorship.
@@shortyorc121I think the US is different because it was built on immigration and its identity is based more on ideals than race, and so it can keep its character even with mass immigration up to a certain point. Anyone can become an American.
Saw a video about a girl paying another girl to date with em wearing a cosplay costume while in character. And the client tried to file a lawsuit on the cosplayer because she didn't meet the client's beauty standards. What a generation we live in.
Damn, that's rough.
Bummer
Video?
What the hell am I reading?
Did she get her money back? I've been watching a Jewish guy that turned out to be German and want to know what my chances are.
I can't speak for all of Asia, but my parents adopted 2 baby girls from China when their "One Child Only" law was in effect. Instead of curbing the population, the state just left men with fewer women than ever, and a lot more dead baby girls.
Asia = china and Korea.
@@kuyre2239 China did this decades ago they over estimated the population by 100million so the current numbers are off . Which means they have a shortage too and inbalance. Just by forcing the 1 child and killing babies decades ago over the last 50 years or so theyve cooked themselves. Kinda wild theyve created a shortage of more then twice Koreas population probably
One thing people don't realize is that, women who got forced abortion and sterilization in China are still alive and well because this shit happened from 1978 to 2015.......
Imagine, within your lifetime, you see parents kill their baby girls or had forced abortions and then China lifts the ban and you can't unkill your child or get more children because you have been sterilized.
@@wangshang9897”was in effect”
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Unfortunate harsh truth, he internet has ruined civilization. As human beings we aren't meant to be able to have hundreds to thousands of people over thousands of miles be in our social circle. The bigger the circle, the less good attention and meaningful contact you can actually have. We are at the point where we never leave the small talk phase.
I feel like feminism and the education system did way more damage than the Internet did.
@@golagiswatchingyou2966both, both are bad
@@golagiswatchingyou2966 Feminism has done irreversible damage. Early feminists basically rewrote history and now people think women were some oppressed class. Women now are more unhappy than ever.
Evolution will create the new human and it won’t matter if you like what you see.
@@AFKChillwave Every generation thinks the ones under them are ruining everything.
I am starting to find being chronically offline more attractive than being hot, wtf happened to my generation 💀
This all sounds like something that will be on GTA internet
Anime and hentai
The internet has sucked people in like a black hole and we can’t seem to get out.
It's awful that "chronically offline" as a term even had to be thought up. Being offline is no longer the norm, so it's actually worth noting. Horrific
@@DrGandW Well I guess my point proved itself, I am more cooked than I realized 😢
17:40 asmon was gonna say watching livestreams is for losers but then he realized he'd be talking about everyone watching him
Nah he says it all the time
Yea he doesn't hold back
He said it before, even how people who drop massive subs have issues.
Would still be true :D
He’s right tho, it is for looser. People could be doing so much more with their time. This is why i listen to the videos while im doing what i have to do
Loneliness is a person by person type of thing, they have trauma that’s been unresolved. I no longer need anyone to feel happy, alone or not.
Back in the day, we used to have something called "third spaces".
Places that wasnt work or home where you could hang out and socialize.
These used to be things like Taverns, Tea Houses or more resent Malls. It didnt use to be a chore to socialize, it was something you could just do whenever you wanted. You made friends with those who was around, now you need to go out of your way to make friends.
I used to be a loner with no friends, but i did the hard labor to get friends and socialize, but its labor.
I can sympathize with everyone who pays for social interactions, i would by pizza instead of making it, except if you were to make your own social circle from grounds up, it would be like farming the wheat and tomatoes for the pizza yourself, and if you want meat and cheese on it, you need to get the pigs and cows as well.
Its hard to make friends if you have none, but once you get them, you need to maintain them, and that isnt nearly as difficult. You can get out of loneliness, you just got to keep on trying.
I was the most sociable person ever and now I can't stand people
Yea, where I live it’s real rural, but we still had some third spaces like bowling alleys, skating rinks (old school ones with a big room looking straight out of the 70s where people could rent a pair of roller skates and go in a big circle listening to music all evening, not the skateboarding type lol), movie theaters, arcades, and even our local mall had people going and hanging out … until 2020 when everything became stagnant, causing all of those to shut down in just a short amount of time for our area despite being among the last few places for teens and kids to go to, really. Places where they could go to socialize outside of school just immediately cut out entirely, leaving them to where sports and a select few extra curricular activities were all they had to continue a social life, which doesn’t exactly catch the interest of most teens anymore.
Those third spaces still attracted people to get out and socialize enough to maintain a connection to others. It forced many in situations they maybe didn’t want to do initially, but ended up having fun after some time as it was a way to meet others much like themselves, even with the internet/social media being around.
It’s one of the reasons I knew most people to get their license as a teen - to be able to start driving to go hang out at these places. Nowadays, going by what the local high school has even said, most aren’t even bothering to get their learner’s let alone their license as teens anymore, even if just driving to school. Vastly different compared to how it was for me as a teen back in the early 2000s, but even in such a short amount of time so much changed around here…
It’s sad, really, and feels almost by design anymore … even pre-2020. What better way to make people lonely and complacent (and in turn desperate) than taking away such spaces to where they’re dependent on being online 24/7, separated from the rest of society, to socialize (and in turn spending all their money on online activities to feel any sense of “normalcy” for any sort of connection to others) than to take away all those spaces (or at least make it to where they’re harder to keep up with in the modern era compared to tech)?
I’m beyond the age of socializing anymore. I’m married with a child, still keep in touch with a few friends from childhood, but I don’t go out of my way to socialize in that sense. However, I’m grateful for the times I did as I had those places to go to… was able to meet people I would have otherwise never met when it came to the internet. I’m just saddened for those younger than myself who won’t really have those places/opportunities to be able to do that - to be older to make the choice to not socialize and not feel any regrets in doing so as they would have been able to do such prior. They don’t really have much of that choice anymore as the internet is all the socializing a lot of the youth has today.
They still have these. Now it's just called a bar. Sad
@@TwoBs nah it's the generational hate, being sad/angry to the next generation
@@TwoBs It's totally by design. I swear up and down my class of 08 were the guinea pigs. We got to see what people were like who graduated above and below us and we were somewhere in the middle. We would throw so many huge parties and get in trouble and then it was just completely dead 2 years below us.
35. Been single for a few years. Keep a close knit group of friends and family. Some days are a little boring but I just keep myself occupied with movies tbh. Never been happier to be honest and I never thought I'd say that 10 years ago because I really thought I needed more.
Wait till you get older. Then you will start to experience true loneliness, and likely a mid life crisis.
i feel the opposite, all the games and movies or whatever stuff i collected cannot fill that hole, that part that feels missing. how people can differ eh.
i can count my IRL friends and contacts on one hand, and i've never been happier or as content.
i haven't had a girlfriend in 14 years either.
you learn to appreciate your time when you get to enjoy all of it on your own merits.
to say i am an introvert would be putting it mildly, as i am basically living the hermit life when it comes to actively avoiding people that are not my direct relatives.
the best part is, nobody has ever called me socially awkward or autistic or anything of the sort as a result of this self-imposed hermit lifestyle, and that is partly because i meet a lot of new people on a daily basis through the internet as well as having a whole bunch of regular friends online, so that itch gets plenty of scratching without having to physically socialize with anyone.
and when i don't feel like socializing online anymore, its as simply as hitting the "leave" button.
what little physical face-to-face contact i do experience is not plagued by my lifestyle.
i don't get those "bye sir" - "uhh you too" moments that autistic, socially inept people have been meming about for years and years at this point.
I'm satisfied with having friends and family, I don't feel the desire to have a significant other or offspring.
@@atikurrahman9304 they say ‘people in their 20s have it all figured out until they hit 30 and realise they know absolutely nothing’
I’m 42 and was single my whole life. Met my partner a year ago. We fell madly in love with each other and now live together and are engaged. My 40s are definitely the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. Sometimes love comes after 40!
Woo congrats 🎉❤ have a happy New Year you guys 🥳
settled down
Sure you did A.I. 😂😂😂
just had to wait for em to hit the wall first then swoop in when she's ready to settle down
@@thousandyoung 100% facts! I’m not an ai lol! I’m also gay though and in my community it’s difficult to find someone long term. Most dudes in the gay community want an open relationship or have mental issues.
I remember when I was a kid in the nineties, middle aged people began to go on dating sites to find a partner. In those days it was a taboo and considered desparate. Now dating online is as normal as brushing teeth. I do believe in ten to twenty years dating fake people will become as common. It is pretty sad though.
People would normally date by meeting friends of friends and being social, but people don't have friends anymore.
@Angel-qp9mp every single person has the ability and freedom to open their mouth and talk to someone. Your the only one holding yourself back. Look in a mirror.
@@faytleingod9592 I recently started talking to strangers and trying to be more friendly. It's had mixed results, but the process itself is actually really fun to be honest.
The west will start getting like japan with paying for companionship will be the norm.
Paying a real women for the girlfriend experience followed by a happy ending is a much better use of money Compared to a thank you over a screen..
But the problem is lack of women and social media making interaction difficult. Due boy child is what prefer over girl in Asia is crazy 😢
Facts
this is like shi# and dogshi#
Yeah but the market kinda collapsed at least in my country: all the agregate websites got banned one by one, the only left are full of scammers and barely moderated, and the offer really dwindled because now the nice ones would rather do onlyfans instead. The only good and affordable offer left are the ones barely speaking the tongue and probably shipped in by some ring if you know what I mean... Or you have the natives who are overpriced, getting too old for the job and way too selective for the branch they work in. It really sucks, can't have nice things, or I guess you have to travel but who got time for this?
Modern women are not worth it.
"Asia is dangerously lonely"
I relate to all of this.
I think it might be the entire world...... or at least every part of the world that has internet access.
I'm 43, I haven't had a friend since I was 14, I didn't get internet until I was 19. Internet has made it worst but it's not new. Without a job or family, it does make things a lot tougher, can't afford to go to bars, clubs or cafe's either. Most people my age have kids and their social life revolves around that. I've been an outcast loner for so many years now though That I've learned to really enjoy the peace, calm, quiet of not having to adjust my life around want other people want/need.
Wow that sounds like both a win and a lose at the same time.
Anyway where'd you get your money from? asking for a friend because he doesn't want a job (he needs the reference)
Get a job
@@GoldenWill why would he?
Scrub
Are you my cousin?
Being lonely is really tough, man. I lived in Mexico for 1 year doing some job training - and that was the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I turned to the bottle, I was lost. It was like every mistake I had made in my life caught up with me emotionally and I was spiraling. I knew I was spiraling and I let it happen just to see how far the rabbit hole went.
I had two neighbors that were worried about me and would invite me over to drink, they’d talk to me, help me study my Spanish etc… and to this day I’m still friends with them and talk to them here and there.
2 years later I’m in a much place emotionally. I’m back home and I talk to my family and the few friends I have. I also really place a lot of value in those friendships, man. I let them know I love them.
If you have social stress or social anxiety, that’s not something I can speak on. Because I don’t have social anxiety. I’ve always been a misfit but hey, I’ve been cool with it. The real anxiety of not being good enough fell off of me during my 20’s. I ended up outgrowing it.
There are also a lot of different therapeutic RUclips channels that talk about this. GG healthy gaming is a great guy and he gives all sorts of advice. I also really like Dry Creek Wrangler School. Those are two solid recommendations.
Love you guys, hope you’re good out there. Social anxiety is a bitch. Let’s try to kick its ass. You could even likely find friends within this, “friendless” community. Keep your chin up. And have some faith in yourselves. Nowhere to go but up, gentlemen.
Fr. Don't shut yourself in the middle of nowhere with nobody to talk to unless you know what you're getting yourself into. At times like that, a gym membership for weekdays, a local church for weekends, friendly neighbors, and keeping in touch with family and friends from college are invaluable. Because I promise you you're not getting a gf during that time.
Thanks man. I needed to hear that.
@@thuglifebear5256 100% - if this is something you're going through - then go through it. Don't worry about a GF or a relationship, you're not there yet, and that's okay. Nobody can give you the validation you really need except for yourself.
one main driving factor that is always forgotten about is that the entire idea of community has been destroyed in the civilized world, think about it friend and family groups are always separated because of jobs, the village concept is where everyone knew one another you'd be able to walk to your friends house and to the bar/ general store all within 15 minutes, your parents or other family members would set you up with someone to eventually marry and there would be commonality and culture all around. all of that has been stripped away from people in developed countries.
I just want a family, loneliness feels like nothing compared to participating in the dating market cause women my age are either filled with mental issues or clearly sleeping around or just straight up is junior varsity expecting an NBA player
Me too
Get outside, find hobbies that require physical contact with other people. It’ll happen, a lot of women feel the exact same way as you.
How old are you?
@@strangefame81 No women in my hobbies RIP
@@strangefame81 "a lot feel the exact same way..."
Please, at least _TRY_ to be good at lying.
They're literally facilitating the problem by getting ran through and chasing the same 'chads', how many times do the studies and even MSM (of all ppl) have to keep saying this...
I remember when I was younger I was also like that with not wanting to go to a restaurant alone. Around 35 I started running too low on fucks to give, and I stopped giving them to a lot of small things like that.
Restaurants are a scam.
35? Damn it took you way to long
I figured that out at 14
Man there is nothing better than going to restaurants and to the cinemas alone
Yeah I was self conscious like that too until I start to go to college where I really had no choice (because before I could still rely on high school friends, as fickle as they may have been). I still couldn't bear to sit in the campus cafeteria because it was really crowded and being alone felt way too on the spot, so instead I'd go to fast food joints and what not. I sat alone, still quite self conscious, but then I realized something: people don't care, people aren't looking around each person sitting around in the restaurant, they're just going on with their own life and their own circle, they don't look at every other person sitting in under a microscope, and if they look at you, they'll forget you the moment they gaze elsewhere. Pretty much the same as you do, actually. And from that point on, that's when I just stopped caring and made peace with going on life solo.
A high profile streamer saying they don't watch live streams is like a casino owner saying they don't gamble. It isn't profound.
Doesn't matter, still true.
@@swiftrealm Never said it wasn't.
Ummm its free so no
@@definitelyahumannotabot Neither of the things I mentioned involve money.
I remember when there was this female senator who was complaining about Incels and that we needed to do something about it.
And then everyone went "yes, what will you do to get rid of the Incels ms.Senator? What will you do to?"
What did she say?
Women ☕
Incels being men she doesn’t like or find attractive. Then you bring up boys needing more mental health funding and she’s gone.
Wait, she said the word "incel" or is that you? Yeah, world is fcked.
why should she do something? being an incel is a choice, it is YOUR fault for being an incel, not womens
17:33 Chatter says “Except Asianbunny”, Asmongold momentarily has a verbal seizure
I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem going to a restaurant and eating alone
Because there is no problem in that situation. Anyone complaining about eating at a restaurant in the first world IS the problem.
I do it all the time
I find it nice, especially when I'm on my marathon 70+ mile bike rides and need a breather for an hour. Though I feel bad for the restaurant if the food is good and no one else is there. So then I overeat to give them extra money and feel ill on the remainder of the ride. And then I need to bicycle LONGER to burn off the extra 1000 calories, and then I get hungry and stop at ANOTHER small diner that needs the business and overeat AGAIN! It's a vicious cycle of cycling...
@ the cycle of cycling is indeed vicious. All those circles in motion
@@Alondro77 That seems weirdly productive but good on you. 😅
4:39 lmao. Best asmon quote ever “what do yall think the odds are that Hitler would have been a furry?” 😂😂😂
Answer is always 50/50. You either are, or are not, a furry.
Well he was a painter so I think the chances would be high ngl
To be honest it kind of makes sense, Hitler liked animals more than people and Nazi Germany was one of the first countries to ever have comprehensive animal protection laws.
I am 39. I am early retired due to illnesses that I’ve had since I was 12. I’m Introvert and I have autism so I like most time on my own. The only people I can stand in person is my family. I can text a few friends that I have left but thats it for me. I can’t handle anything more. Anyway. Thank for being honest and funny.
The internet has Speed runned us to a dystopian society without the future technology of flying cars and laser guns.
it's probably not the internet, it's mobile phones, social media, public education and modern globalist policies that made society a race to the bottom.
Scamming old people while pretending you're their family is a crime. It's the same. Just because you can outwit someone doesn't mean you should be allowed to.
There's a difference between deception and and being an OF girl. The OF girl sets up a clear transaction of money for a service. You pay her, she plays into your fantasy. No deception there.
@@user-gm4kv2my4u Just because it's more subtle, it doesn't mean it's not there. She'll say she loves them, appreciates them and that they're sweet, which are lies.
I know a normal person shouldn't be deceived by it, but that's the point.
Just like a gold digger telling her man she loves him while she is there only for money. It's a scam.
@NorisSpecter Those are lies *you* paid her to tell. There's the difference. YOU paid her to lie to you. She didn't deceive you. You deceived yourself by paying her to say things she wouldn't have otherwise said.
@@user-gm4kv2my4u They pay for attention and connection, not lies.
Let's not excuse scammers just because they're cute.
@@NorisSpecterYes. They literally pay for the fantasy of being in a relationship. They pay for lies.
That’s weird my name isn’t Asia
Banger
Good one :(
Lmao. This is why bots shouldn't take over.
The comment of all time
Asia is a real name in poland
Old quote "A fool and his money are soon parted." If you give all your money for something you will never get a return on, your a fool and, you deserve no pity.
To be honest Asmon, I don't think the situation in the USA & UK is much better.
Mental illness is absolutely through the roof in young men & the reason why is staring us all right in the face.
Psychiatrists know the reason why this is happening, but they aren't going to address the elephant in the room.
Corporate greed, not enough free time for young people, advertisements that are designed to manipulate young people everywhere, and to top it of the buying power has been decreasing for decades. Smartphones and social media ain't the elephant, it's M O N E Y
Which elephant are you referring to?
@@kylemendoza8860 probably the internet.
They just medicate you 😂😂
@@Justaguywithglassesok
Fair enough. I believe this is an elephants in the room situation. Lol
It's been several years (5-6+ to be precise) without having friends or anyone, just doing my thing, and honestly It's just feel better to me and not like I feel scared to talk to people or shy, but I just love being alone. Do I feel lonely? Yea sure sometimes but then I just watch video or shows/series or go out into nature and sit there for hours and all.
And now being a guy who have whole house of plants and trees, it feels even better to just relax there and release the stress by caring for them than people. Weirdly enough I never cried, so I have little to no emotions, and it can be bad in the society, so yea.
Being alone with just yourself is the best.
Hey man, don't even know how you really feel but I resonated with your comment. I've lived your life for just as much if not longer. Did make friends again after almost 10 years alone and I'm grateful, not that it didn't come with trials. Just wanted to say I respect your ability to do your own thing and live. I think I never wanted to accept that life, but ironically if I did I'd have avoided so many problems as well. If I may be a bit preachy, don't close yourself off too much. I am sure you've much to offer, but I understand not wanting to get caught up in the circus of dating and trying to meet people nowadays. Cheers!
You don’t cry because you never had a reason, sounds good to me. As a man we don’t really cry unless for a real reason like passing of family members is the only time I cry. When I get emotionally said instead of crying it actually comes out as frustration and anger then crying but I think it has something to do with social engineering that response in men. Men are disposable to the eyes of other men and women, it’s what we are taught right ?
Sounds like you never really had a good friendship to begin with. I had good friends and the fun I've had when being with them beats any day alone.
Paying people to make them go away is way more common than paying them to stick around.
"What do ya'll think the odds are, that Hitler would've been a furry?" Asmongold, December 2024
We all know the answer
Furries did not exist in this form before Disney movies anthropomorphizing animals so it's impossible to say.
He did like dogs...
@@3dstaco😂
Only he can save us.
Sending money to someone you know only through the internet is probably the fastest way to disconnect yourself from that person. Who in their right mind does this? The usage of the internet for social media is destroying ppl.
I think a lot of people actually hate in real life conversations and interactions and so they rather spend time and money online via social media and other methods rather than real life.
@@golagiswatchingyou2966 It's the opposite, they are desperate for real life conversations/interactions/friends so they throw money at surrogate friend simulators like streamers.
This hits hard. 😔 The loneliness in Asia is a growing crisis, and it’s crazy how little attention it gets. We need to start having these conversations and supporting each other. 🌍💬
Thats it, I'll now go outside and talk to strangers, lets see who I find first, new friends and the love of my life or a cosy night at my local police station. Either way it's a win.
I met a lovely gf on the street once
@@noklarok you should return her to her parents. Kidnapping is not cool
@@davidnordqvist5749 good luck asking your first girl out bro.
I think we should start normalizing being normal again
Norms are not fixed.
Normies are more disliked than anything probably 1 reason how it got so bad
Facts
@@1977-x2s If you need an imaginary friend to be your moral compass, you're a dumbo simpleton.
We understand. We are. It’s just the other side, pulls us down with them.
I've made one of my best friends online while playing Counterstrike 1.5. We found out we lived close by and decided to meet up and hangout after years of gaming. Hit it off and been friends for 20 years now. Recently made a friend group on SC2 and we also found out we lived in the same city so we met up to go out for dinner. You CAN make friends online, but you need to a) not be a dick, and b) be willing to actually talk to them and meet up.
I used to get much lonlier when I was younger, even though throughout my 20s I always had a girlfriend and some friends. These days, I'm 40, given up on people, because I don't think the right match for me even exists and relationships are stressful... and I've never been less lonely, even though I stay inside all day and don't have any friends. I'm just cool with being a hermit. Would it be nice to have some close friends and a girlfriend? Of course, but it doesn't bother me anymore not having them, for multiple reasons really. I just wanna enjoy playing video games until I die, because I really do truly love games & game culture more than ever. In a way, my life is actually pretty good. Not in the same way as if I had relationships and success, but in a different way. I'm relaxed and at peace, living minimalist, with barely any material attachments, and that feels great.
It's weird, i love being alone. I'm not shy so when random person talk to me I always says I like being alone and somehow I made friends and sometimes they ask me to hangout, it clearly they feel pity and ask me out, once i got forgotten I finally have a free time. It been a full year not interacting with other people not even trying to find a job just living off from people who pay rent at my house.
Maybe in the next few years I finally feel lonely, but right now i just enjoy my normal life doing repeating task over and over again without stress.
If I allowed myself, I would rarely ever need to have a face to face conversation with anybody. I do keep a gym membership to also exercise my social skills
Well hopefully u don't get lonely. I used to be the same. No problem being at doing my thing now lonely just watching stuff by myself now rip
Exactly. I also got friends but I hang out with them only because I like and respect them, not because I want to. I realise I like being alone and I stopped feeling any loneliness years ago. At this point I can't even get my head around how I could mentally cope with looking after a wife and kids, probably can't as I don't want any more responsibilities.
reach out to them before its its late bro, speaking from experience
As an introvert, that's honestly my ideal life. I think I'll add some pets though.
Bro, I love that this man uploads in the morning. This is literally part of my morning routine. I wake up very anxious about work. Watching asmon speak on random subjects is literally the best distraction from all things that piss me off
I lived alone for 8 years and maybe felt alone 5 times. The issue is the mentality when you exist like you feel lonely. Growing up a lot of family made living at home something that wasnt enjoyable. I took solace in the ability to live without someone else. The issue I find with a lot of people that are lonely, is that they sit there and think about it. Loneliness is typically attributed by mindset more than most emotions. After those 8 years I finally got in a relationship and its extremely strong mainly because of the level of self-reflection. The problem I find is we are in an epidemic of loneliness, simply blaming this on mindset ignores the fact that this is an occurrence and not a normality. I dont think social media caused this, I personally think interaction with social negativity caused it. Seeing a lot of people get put behind bars for things they did or said or... didnt say or do, really drives a lot of people's self-preservation. Women are told men are predators, and men feel afraid to speak because they dont want to make them uncomfortable. Guys dont talk to guys because it requires commitment or possibly conflict can occur. A lot of people are just exhausted by extremes today that they have constantly been bombarded with. Social media is good for a social tool, but it also has info that exhausts people. Id also argue that global IQ has increase by 25 points since the 1940s, many people may just not find much reason in relationships that feel hollow unlike lower IQ which tend not to care. This is an observed outcome in studies.
Agree, to be fine with being alone is a blessing, If you constantly feel a NEED to have people validate your existence by being around you then you're just afraid, Just embrace and accept being alone, Understand your loneliness if you have it but LEARN that there is a difference in being alone and being lonely.
For me personally I am simply someone that had no issue finding friends and enjoying life and hobbies but at the end of the day I like just being by myself, I can go and meet friends at any point and be very social if I feel like it, but there's no need to force interraction, Just be in the now and enjoy what is there, Don't jail those around you with HAVING to be with you
i live alone for like 30 years and i dont feel lonely at all. Its more like a mindset id say, there are people who live alone but feel lonely and thats sad, i dont feel lonely because i chose to be alone and im happy. Also i dont see how someone can be alone not by choice, finding partner takes almost no effort at all and making family if you want, so its more a mental problem probably
Tl;dr
There’s definitely different levels. Been alone for eight years (oddly seems like a common number in this comment section) and neighbor hit me up yesterday and she got my number… she’s cute but now I just don’t care anymore.
I am alone but rarely lonely. After living with others; parents,siblings, roommates, girlfriend, wife, others accept that I have earned the right to be alone. Those who go straight to living alone after leaving home, are judged
I lived this shut-in perpetually-online lifestyle for 5 years (minus the simping coz I was broke). All it took to snap out of it was 2 months of good diet and exercise and the discipline to the screens away. It's crazy how easy and at the same time how hard it is to fix this.
Not everyone is a fish like you though.
artificial light blocks astral light.
@@thenonexistinghero So true oomfie all I needed to do was going back into the water and no more vtuber waifus
@@DaneSchutt-s6r yeah. Light pollution. But that’s not what he’s talking about. Personally I’ve never seen the Milky Way since I’ve always been in a light polluted area (spoiler alert, 80% of the world and 99% of the USA and Europe can’t see the Milky Way).
@@ludwigvanbeethoven8164 artificial light blocks astral light!
i choose to be alone. every person i meet on this planet is not resonating with my energy, so i accept and love myself till i can share that energy.. Always alone but never lonely
Damn found myself relating too much to this
I feel the same way.
Social Media is ironically the cause of social decline. Due to cancer apps like TikTok, Dating Apps, OnlyFans, etc people have lost the ability to socialize. I grew up in the 90s (the best years) before the Internet, before smart phones, etc where you had to socialize. If you wanted to meet new people or try your luck with women you had to go to social hangouts such as the bar, the mall, the bowling alley, etc.
Unfortunately it's not like that anymore and it's created generations of socially awkward, lonely incels.
100%. I was born in '74, and was a kid and young adult in the 90s. I think I was born at the greatest time, bc I was too young in the 80s to partake in the cringey adult type things that people did in the 80s, and was a tween when the grunge scene hit, which was a re-imagining of the 70s, but in a technological birth period. We got PS, but also had STP, AiC, and TOOL, and all of the 70s music to mellow out with. And no smart phones, no FB, Twitter, IG...you made plans, or organically met accidentally, and went off to have an adventure. People are not peopling anymore...
Social media isn't the cause of social decline it simply exacerbated it. Social decline has been on the rise for most of the last century.
@@allhopeabandon7831 I'm stealing the word _peopling_ 😅
Do you know about girls falling in love with "Dan"? Asmond said AI ain't good enough to fall in love with.. but that's already happening.
Some young women have programmed ChatGpt to be a daring, affectionate, flirty AI. The girl who started it called it Dan. Many girls followed and now you can basically see loads of tiktoks with girls gushing over their very personal "Dan"... Over time all the black mirror episodes will become real.
Time to start up my "Hire a foreigner to do absolutely nothing and nod with everything you say while also speaking in broken Japanese" services in Japan.
I love halo, but never in a million years did I think they'd be predicting the future with the "introverted, mentally broken child soldier with his little e-girl that is a hologram in the palm of his hand"
Asia ? The whole world seems to be single and lonely
Just East Asia ig. I believe us in SEA are doing okay relationship-wise.
I dont know about other Asian countries but here in Japan, the cultural/societal norm here is extremely group oriented. Meaning, you literally have no privacy and always have to communicate with everyone around you. You have to be extroverted or atleast pretend to be in order to survive in this society. This leads to people wanting privacy and being alone in their free time. This is why so many businesses and services such as restaurants are catered towards customers that want to be by themselves. Its the complete opposite from western societies. I feel like this is what alot of foreigners seem to not understand or mistake when talking about Japan for example.
I'm 35 and i've been single my entire life! But i would never resort to AI companion/girlfriend or OF or anything similar!
I've tried some of these apps out of curiosity for a few days and no...
Using those apps is demeaning.
I wouldnt be able to live with myself using AI girlfriends or anything of the sort.
same it perpetuate a problem
no different than taking a soccer ball and drawing a face on it.
I feel like the real issue here is more than we've turned everything as a society into a commodity, so now when you even look at relationships, it's seen as a commodity where you can buy and sell the parts you want more than it's a life with someone you deal with the good and bad. If all you want is the physical stuff that's something you can always buy, now just a date then move on with life? Movie and conversation then leave for a month? meeting with parents one time? It's all brought and dealt with on a transaction so people no longer have to deal with the everyday problems/monotony of the rest of the time.
Uh huh...
Really hit the nail on the head.
Scariest thing is that people have always been lonely, but only now we know about them thanks to the internet and only now their loneliness manifests through these simping incidents. 20 years ago, people were still lonely, if not more, we just never heard of them.
"I am a normal one and everybody else is crazy" - Asmon, "normal" by definition means the majority.
Not necessarily. "Normal" can be referring to a matter of health. Normal = Sane
@@Windrake101 It's what the majority describes when asked "What's normal?". Like, how it's "normal" for old people to have health problems.
A basic education would show you that there are multiple kinds of normal. Chiefly, there is quantitative normal and qualitative normal. Quantitative normal is approximately what a person thinks when they hear "average." For example, it is normal for Western children aged 5-18 to attend public school, because that's the majority case. Qualitative normal refers to adherence to a standard; for example, normal blood pressure is around 110-120/70-80. If the entire population's blood pressure spikes 40 points, that doesn't change normal blood pressure; it just means most people now have high blood pressure.
Normal does not and has never meant the majority. Pull up a dictionary. You need it.
@@FunningRast
Normal: Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
Standard: used or accepted as normal or average.
Avarage: a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values.
General: involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as a unit.
Spend less time watching videos and more time reading.
It's only gonna get worse.
Social media has made people think they're connected, but the issue is those connections are almost entirely shallow. Doesn't matter how many friends you have online as most of those connections are going to be pretty shallow. Saying goes "mile wide, but an inch deep." At some point all of this will come crashing down and the impact is going to be detrimental for a lot of societies.
Asmon calling ppl watching streamers losers, damn, that's brutal honesty. I wonder what he does all day, oh yes, watching streamers, reacting to them and streaming himself. The irony.
Since you don’t know, he has called himself a loser multiple times
Is he wrong though?
He calls himself a loser as well so its not ironic lol.
Love when people call out the cave troll that knows it's a cave troll. Now posting a comment that wastes everyone time without you knowing it's wasting everyone time? Priceless. True irony right here.
Stop it, he’s being honest and I appreciated he’s honesty
This gives me tremendous anxiety... the best thing you can do for yourself in the age is to throw your phone at the wall, i sold my gaming pc and have never felt better. The truth is boys that the internet we grew up with has become an extremely toxic environment that is enslaving us all. If anyone reading this is struggling and feels hollow, you're not alone, and some time off-line could really help.
yip the internet was a lot more enjoyable when it wasnt mainstream and was a world u connected to. now its everywhere and everything is monetized. including using your physiological weakness against you. tbh i need to stop spending so much time on the net doom scrolling on reddit and watching videos on youtube and meet ppl irl. but hard when been such terminally online person for ages.
internet and games are fine, no different than any other hobby
just don't do social media, stick to real social if you need to socialize
@DDracee for you, it's fine, but not for everyone.
Tbh, the internet was always toxic to at least some extent. CoD lobbies for example.
Pity you, selling your gaming pc, while I've been dreaming this for many years
Wow, it’s crazy that Zack mentions eating at restaurants alone and how he stopped caring how it looked after he turned 30.
I had never heard anyone else say this before, and that happened with me. I never went to a restaurant alone until I was like 31-32 years old.
That’s when I became single for the first time in a long time, and I just started going to my favorite restaurants whenever I wanted. No more needing to find someone to go with me.
Now I still do it and it doesn’t even cross my mind that someone might think I’m a loner or weird. I really don’t care.
Not only asia and kids. This is an affirmation that reality is barely worth engaging with.
@@Anthonybrother Reality is reality. Illusion is illusion.
It’s not even logical to pursue things in an illusion even in the most selfish mindset since anything in an illusion is ultimately, well, an illusion.
@@ludwigvanbeethoven8164 When reality is so bad, illusions are still better for some people because it's more escapism.
@ Yeah that doesn’t even make logical sense. You’re contradicting so many philosophical principles such as the principle of non-contradiction. The senses is part of the body and Aristotle says that the senses do not work for 3 reasons: illusion, hallucination, or delusion.
You have delusion, friend. Our soul is intellect and will. The intellect has faculties to know the truth, which is the Principle of Identity, “A thing is what it is”. The most basic principle. You gotta wake up from this delusioned culture. What you see, is what you see, which is reality.
@@alexpark472 You have it backwards. It’s not because reality is bad, but it’s that the person becomes bad. They have consistently lived their life contrary to how nature and reality has been set up that it literally hurts for their intellect to focus on reality. The Principles of Non-Contradiction states that: A thing cannot not be and be in the same time and in the same respect. This just basically means two different ideas cannot coexist if they’re contradictory, only ONE is correct. We know this principle in the fact that when someone lies about a situation, either what they’re saying is true or not. Our general culture has been breaking this principle constantly, since it’s the foundation of why lying is immoral. People now are breaking the most basic and fundamental principle of philosophy, the Principle of Identity stating: A thing is what it is. A chair is a chair. A dog is a dog. The principle of non-contradiction is built upon this. But people now are saying a boy is a girl, vice verse. Thomas Aquinas says that when a person does this, they are considered mentally ill.
It’s the escapism that tricks a person Into thinking life isn’t worth fighting for
We are seeing the effects of one child policy… rural Chinese families only wanted boys if they can only have 1 child. Now there’s woman to man ratio is all fucked
I hear a lot of the same thing here but isn’t the female population higher than male in the US?
Japan never had that policy and they're one of the worst in loneliness.
@@RobertMalachowski cuz men don't want the bottom half of women cuz they're all whales or crazy, so technically still a bad ratio if you remove those
@@Cybertech134 Probably because they've embraced the internet and online consumerism more than any other nation. Their problems aren't the same as China's, which started off as a population size problem.
@@RobertMalachowskiit’s all old women the young male/female ratio is still skewed
Humanity gone too far from "I selled my wife for internet connection" to "I sold my baby for streamer attention."
German mentioned, Diese Kommentarsektion ist jetzt Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Merz is a Black Rock employee, Germany will become a company asset. Merz arbeitet für Black Rock.
@@lexmortis5722 well the AFD will Win anyway so no problem
@@DieSerah Don't trust the govt, trust is Christ.
Unfortunately the afd will never get a super majority. Demographics especially in the west are working against them.
Im cooked and lonely but I own that sht because wtf else am i gonna do 😂😢
lmao real, own your shit bruv
Hit the gym become huge grow your ego.
Guys with shitty girlfriends are the loneliest men on the planet. I’m glad my life will never stoop to that miserable level.
learn to be alone, not lonely. Lonelyness is a craving, just like for alcohol or drugs. You really don't need it, you are fine without it, once you make it through to the other side. You are enough. You are all you need. Everything else is a fantasy. Get rid of it. Shape your life the way you want it. Have a calling. Have a job you love. Have anything you love and live for it. Thats what makes you happy.
I'm 47 and now that I'm divorced I love being alone and I'll never be in a relationship ever again. This woman ruined me financially and now if I spend money it's going to be on two girls that absolutely deserve it, my puppers. If I would have stayed single I would probably be a millionaire. Oh well money isn't everything I am happy now and it's going to stay that way.
I honestly think a large impact on relationships is dei. If you want to approach a girl and she doesn't find you attractive she can just have you arrested. Not to mention somehow it became offensive to tell a woman she is beautiful.
Cooked incel take it's like schizo imagination . I hope it's a right wing Bot comments 😂
Yeah I noticed this was a huge problem at the College I dropped out of. "Unwanted interactions" counts as sexual harassment, myself and other guys have been reported for merely talking to a Women when they didnt want to be talked to, albeit theres no way for them to tell. I feel like we need a place thats just called "you can talk to anyone else here" where everyone consents to being talked to
I was at an outdoor gym, not talking to anyone, pacing back and forth while looking at my feet. I happened to be looking in the general direction (as I said, I was mostly looking at the ground) of a group of college age women, and I got yelled at for being a creep. Literally just walking around in circles, not trying to talk to anybody, just standing in a park looking around between sets was enough to make me a "predator" to modern women. Crazy
@@jiahao5489 Not quite. There is a flavour of what the OP is saying floating around but mostly that's in the work place (which is where a not-small number of relation ships used to start). I think that sometiems gets conflated to society as a whole although watch this space as such things can spread.
Diversity equity and inclusivity is opposite of hypergamy
27:00 - same, being outside in a crowded area is like dodging mines. I swear, people somehow reach 20+ years old and just never learn how to walk properly
The crocodile in the lake full of crocodile h0es is hilarious 😂
Been seeing this trend in other countrys but the Asian nations on loneliness is a lot dangerous & wild.
*Individuality* is also not welcome in Asia by default.
In *Nordic nations* (where I'm from)
we're used to being alone or having time alone (even in a relationship) but its a completely different culture in *Asia* and how its vewed by the Public - there.
Funny as it sounds, stealing copper is quite common in the plumbing trade. At any given time, we may have 100,000k worth of copper locked up in a trailer for a particular project. Most often it's the scrap copper that goes missing. Basically any collections of pieces that are left after am installation is nearly completed. Also, a lot of copper goes missing from demolition phases on retrofit projects. Any time we work in an old school or hospital and alot of the old pipes are being replaced, workers will sieze upon the opportunity to cash it in at the local scrap yard. Although, I do have to mention that most of these instances are directly connecting with a drug addiction of some kind.
That's interesting. I know some people who likes to brag about the stuff they "get" from surplus on their jobs. They bring back some weird things that they won't ever use or need, they just like to point at it and say how expensive it is, it's literally trophy hunting 😂. I don't understand how they get away with it
As a 26 year old I have been single my whole life. I do have to say it does suck some times being alone but moving around so much as a kid I never had time to build relationships until my 20s by then I was already in the workforce and since covid kinda just been solo. As a wannabe voice actor / actor hoping maybe to find someone while going after my dream job or atleast some that shares my same interest. I never understood the whole virtual girlfriend or drooling over female streamers or only fans and stuff. I say personally, go to events, meet new people, or meet someone at work is ur best bet just dont use dating apps unless it's something local, i guess... I believe social media needs to be banned from kids until 16 so they don't hop on this trend early.. also parents need to monitor kids more.
The internet also makes the average person able to see a massive amount of people that in a pre-internet environment would never have access to. Now people can see the "perfect" person that they desire on the internet and it makes anyone else who would be acquirable not viable because the one guy half way across the world is who they want, so why would they settle for anything less.
There's also the removal of secondary meeting places, like bars, malls, and other community driven areas that have been phased out because you don't need to go to the places just to talk and socialize with friends, you can text and use discord without ever leaving your house. This removes the chances of meeting random people in the area who you might connect with, socially or romantically. Sure these places still exist, but it's not mandatory to socialize there with the internet
I don't get how you can catch feelings for a girl you've never met irl
simple, they never met a girl irl to know the difference
They replaced experience with expectation. So since that have no foundation of relationships (or they have had poor relationships) they treat these women as how they expect or fantasize dating them would/should be.
there are people that catch feelings for anime girls, AI's and just plain objects.
catching feelings for another human being seems way harder these days.
@@DDracee probably the opposite, they did which is why they prefer the objects and the fantasy over the reality of it.
I think if you’ve never had a relationship your view is gonna be warped.
"so lonely its getting dangerous" is even worse if you think how other people exploit that loneliness for money
In Japan, the idea of rentable company, who were not necessarily courtesans, called "hosts" has been around already in 2009, when I first visited the country, and I bet it had been around a lot longer.
At 32, soon to be 33, people say I am crazy for not dating or liking others, but I rather be alone than deal with all the nonsense.
I don't like kids, don't like people, and when I go home rather a nice and quiet sleep with little annoyance. So far, never felt lonely once but maybe that's because I have good friends and family.
I honestly cannot relate to the loneliness epidemic and I could never be so desperate to chase anyone or give someone money to interact with me.
imagine if most of your family and friends actually made you feel more lonely not less, that's how many people feel.
I'm single with no friends and it... really doesn't bother me that much.
Lowkey: There's a untapped market for the humble, soft spoken male streamer whi speaks encoraging words to their viewer. Conteract the female streamer meta!
Be the Joseph to somebody's Pharaoh, be the Daniel to somebody's King Darius.
Me, a RUclips viewer, nodding while Asmon roast people who watch live streams.
3:40 Back in the day if you where a weirdo, you'd get cut off from all social circles, untill you got so lonely that you canceled your subscription to life. It was a problem everyone ignored, because if you ignored it long enough, it went away. Now with the internet, you can't help but see whats been there all along.
This video Asmongold is reacting to really shows that this lonely problem is getting worse and will get more worse over time and great video Asmongold TV :]
Those "clubs" are very ancient in asia. There always were those places where lonely men go for the evening, and pretty woman entertain them. And there was nothing explicit going on; just music and dances.
I have a serious gambling addiction. I have had it under control for like 10 years now, but i can't even enter for giveaways or raffles because it puts the taste of blood in my mouth. All this to say, you are responsible for your own addictions. If i can drive by casinos and purposefully not look at them, then you can stop your addiction too.
Except casinos and drugs are way easier to avoid and are not necessities to function in modern society.
I’m 40, just had to move to a new city because I was priced out of my old one. I work for myself swing trading so there is NO one in my day to day.
I need to make some friends and it’s so hard when you get older.
You’ve hit the wall. Time to start investing in cat food.
@@kaj7135 I have 3 cats 😭
As an introvert, this galactic level simping is hilarious
As for someone in my 30s being single my whole life, I've learned to channel my hobbies and interests as a way to make actual genuine connections with people and to love myself. So many people get wrapped on the emotional security that some people cant even figure out who they are or what they like. I've taken on so many engaging activities that I can confidently say life is drastically fulfilling when the sense of self discovery is made.
You know why ninja isn’t how he was anymore, because he became too big too quick and every shitty news platform and pre Elon twitter came in to neuter him, and now he’s way more toned down and pg, thank you internet
We've also made it so money can get you women and women want money. We're very shallow. Blaming capitalism is crazy, "Oh people want more than they had yesterday and find ways to get it." What a crazy concept people want more, they always want more.
27:36 It's called being an introvert.
It's uncommon, not crazy