Sorry this one is really long. Feel free to delete it if it breaks the rules.
There's a ton of stupid drama videos and they keep showing up on my feed, like
- "Everything on YouTube is bad and slop and dystopian now!"
Dude, just personalize your own feed ;__; I did, and I don't see slop (well, except the drama channels). Do people forget that the "Do not recommend channel" button exists?
- "Media literacy is dead now!"
It's annoying when people misunderstand obvious things, but that's always happened, even before social media. You just see it more. Most people have media literacy. But someone disagreeing with you doesn't mean they don't have media literacy. Those videos also made me feel bad for having a hard time understanding abstract, philosophical, and academic texts until I found out I was neurodivergent. They can cause real harm.
They take like a few videos of kids misbehaving or having learning difficulties and think it applies to all kids in generation. They even blame the parents who are just trying to do the best they can (you never know what their parents are going through). Most kids can read and write just fine, do good in school, and have a balance with technology and playing with toys/outside. And some kids are neurodivergent, have learning difficulties and/or just have natural delays like speech delays, that's nothing new.
- "Everyone is too sensitive/offended these days!"
And it's just someone criticizing or calling out the harm in something. Or even just a preference. Like I saw this video that was like "Japan is under attack!" or whatever complaining about this "offended" person, and it was just a super post someone saying they don't watch anime. And this dude made like 30 videos (10-20 minutes long each) on random tweets of people disliking this anime character, or calling people White Westerners for disagreeing with him (he's a White Westerner).
- "Overconsumption is everywhere"
These videos are pure slop. At least half the time it's not even overconsumption, they're just mad that someone bought a product for themselves that they don't like. There's a difference between buying a product because you genuinely want/need it, you use it when you need to, and you throw it out when it can't be used anymore, and buying a product for a superficial reason, barely using it/using more than you need, and throwing it out when you get bored with it even if it can still be used. Like, people complain about Stanley overconsumption but buy tons of fictional character plushies they never even play with. At least the former actually use their water bottles. Why is it suddenly "collecting" and above criticism when it's a product that they personally like? I feel like it's just pretentiousness and "not like the other girls" type behavior. They also throw around the world "hoarder" a lot. Hoarding is a real mental illness where they refuse to/get panic attacks from throw anything out (even trash) to the point where their house is unlivable and it affects their health. It's also common with (and sometimes caused by) PTSD, anxiety and depression. And they don't even call out the billionaire men who hoard their wealth and even support some capitalist systems, they just want an excuse to judge women for being "too basic" and having shopping addictions. They never learn why women are so pressured to keep buying things and instead blame women for capitalism. How progressive of them...



