How Cheap Toys Made Millennial Parents Miserable | Business Insider Explains | Insider News

[@FatPasta]

Yeah, toys are the reason, not inflation, not the wage gap, not home prices or healthcare or the need to be 100% present at work after hours. It's toys guys, she nailed it

[@CarlosRojas-hr6ms]

Don’t blame the clickbait title on the lady talking about why kids have a ton of toys

[@FatPasta]

@@CarlosRojas-hr6ms I'm not blaming anyone, I'm talking about a situation. You're quick to point the finger though

[@applehax4966]

I know right, this report is clueless. Oh no! Too many toys!!!! At a lower price! Oh... Nnnnooooo... We would love to actually OWN living rooms to fill with toys.

[@rentaspoon219]

2 problems with this, regular Barbie £7.99, movie Barbie £40. Have a guess which one my daughter wants. Plus I'm depressed because I struggled to save money and now I have to spend it all on ground rent to my landlord. This is such a random and wrong report.

[@NGCS-ej4lz]

These Marxist/Zionists internet "info-educational" programs made by their "NGO" front groups is nothing but gas lighting propaganda, funded by public taxes by the billions a year.

[@Eminetics]

No. The reason is because they are broke, wages have not kept up with costs and as such people who are having kids cannot actually afford the kids leading to financial crisis.

[@samgonzalez7302]

Did you watch the video? Its about toy prices staying constant even with inflation, in other words toys becoming cheaper and cheaper over time.

[@thewewguy8t88]

this is partly why i never really wanted to have kids honestly i saw this coming almost 20 years ago.

[@watermelonlover745]

Bidenflation

[@watermelonlover745]

​@@samgonzalez7302that doesn't negate his point

[@bikedawg]

Most toys are complete GARBAGE that just fills landfill. The best toys are wooden things you can build with. The very best gifts are books which stimulate the imagination and just about the only way to combat ignorance and stupidity. The worst gifts are smartphones--once on social media, your kid is doomed.

[@lainypumpkin]

everyone is doomed in the end

[@augustinf]

So why on earth would legos not stimulate imagination for example? You sound like such an old fart that I can almost smell you from here.

[@hawktalon7890]

You can build with LEGO too, so not just wood.

[@bikedawg]

@@hawktalon7890 - true---legos are great, even though its made of plastic, at least people to throw it away.

[@lainypumpkin]

@@RoachDoggJr2 pass. I don't like skittles

[@parrotcracker6629]

The basic ones are less than $10. It's called the Fashionista line. Tbh, they are POORLY made compared to my 90s to early 2000s Barbies. The plastic body is flimsy, they have no weight. What's worse is the color reveal Barbies. They are more expensive and their bodies are the worst.

[@haaabero]

no one cares about enviroment but thinking about quality of toys. Plastic toys today are garbage!

[@thevirtuouscollector]

Thank you for wasting 3 minutes of my time on first world problems. "Oh no, I have too much toys, my life is ruined!"

[@jetskiiify]

I don't think the point of the video was about someone complaining about how many toys they have. I saw it more of like "fun fact" toys haven't been affected by inflation. More so with the added line of how other type of children services have risen through the years, it explained how because people have to work, can't buy daycare or nanny services, they just throw toys at children because they are cheap. It's still 3 minutes of your life wasted by a random KZbin video, but that can happen with any video.

[@oliviastar3812]

considering all the mania over environmental damage - parents should be concerned about all the plastic waste and mountains they're contributing to the earth.

[@catfunt3404]

This was such nonsense

[@jamesbolen4872]

The “no gifts” invitation is less likely to be “we don’t want the toys” as it may be we understand that for a single mom, and there are a lot more of them now days, they really can’t afford a decent gift. Also to buy anything age appropriate of decent quality is a bank breaker for almost anyone.

[@watermelonlover745]

Once they become tweens, they want the expensive stuff like video games

[@dqena]

People shouldn’t have kids if they’re not financially or mentally capable enough to secure their future for 18 years.

[@ab_0724]

Really? I was at our local store to buy a gift for my niece and all of the barbies were USD 15 and up

[@magnanimus9692]

The only plastic toys that are actually good are Legos as you can make an infinite number of toy variations with the same volume of product.

[@Daniel6254]

Only If your kid is interested in it

[@johncameron4194]

Playmobil

[@jewelsmarie3863]

I have an idea for you if you have too many toys, you can donate them you can give them to a daycare. You can’t even give them to the hospital.

[@dantenapoles5951]

I kept thinking "if all she is worried about are toys, I guess she is doing real good", toys really? Who hired her and why was this produced? Toys?! The world is bracing for impact and toys?

[@kylehamm7287]

I wish hot wheels would stop increasing in price. They aren’t 75 cents anymore or even 99 cents

[@jerusalemspeaks]

Sorry for the loss of these brave men.

[@CloudTears]

Parents can also just not buy so many toys. Not necessary to have a house filled with them, unless you are spoiling the child.

[@augustinf]

Ok; as a parent that was really really into my toys as a kid: they don’t make them as they used to. Take a hot wheel: the bottom is not metal anymore and they have no moving parts. Barbies: they are cheap plastic, the legs don’t bend. Si on and so on.. it’s a race to make everything cheaper and crapier ; the kids don’t care. Like take a transformer from 39 years ago; they were super evolved. Today they are cheap plastic and have very lazy mechanisms. Legos are lazy, much easier than they used to with over simplified manuals. There are no quality toys anymore. Obviously they are cheaper than they used to…

[@sov19871987]

Kids want a phone these days, not plastic toys

[@Burnlit1337]

The issue is not with the high amount of toy but how they are a cheap source of entertainment that parents can give to their children right now when they are tired from life. Similar to how busy parents give tablets to their kids so they can go to sleep or whatever. The result of this is that the parent feels miserable cleaning up the aftermath of their kid(s) during their not so deserving break.

[@Phlegethon]

Maybe stop buying garbage from Temu

[@Epiphany_nz]

I always thought toys should at least be educational, If not as collector's items.

[@ProAlchemist]

Toys used to be marketed to kids on TV, especially Saturday mornings. Now toys are marketed to boomer grandparents on TV. Gotta keep those prices the same as when they bought the same toys in the 80s

[@barriolimbas]

Toys? Little kids and older collectors. Most play with video games. That is even more and more commercialized and with subscriptions and no physical copies, overly profit oriented.

[@krisdiperna3929]

I'm very impressed at how well your Barbies look! No new hair styles with scissors on hair that will never grow back. Your point in the main is well taken!

[@MrDeanWeen]

Shitty title that was not what the video was about.

[@knuclear200x]

The only toy I know that's gon up are action figures. A Deluxe class Transformer used to be $5, a Marvel Legends used to be $7, and a Good Smile Figma launched at $20. Fast Forward, now they're $20, $25 and $100 respectively

[@jkn2k]

Waste of time

[@armoredpumpkin8840]

Just watched this 2948930 times, can’t believe all millennials are doomed 😢

[@brianmckee8256]

How about digital games. These are in a folder. The folder is on the screan.

[@watermelonlover745]

I went to the store and was amazed at how cheap the Barbies were. Pretty nice

[@0ldFashioned85]

We have 3 kids. We're drowning in toys! But by very little. So many people give them away and we just end up having so many.

[@chrishammer4749]

Star Wars action figures are so expensive now they're not kids toys.

[@Promethium666]

oys use to be stupidly expensive, now they are dirt cheap and poorly made. same goes for televisions, they use to be thousands for a 42" crt, now they are £300 for a flatscreen 2mm bezel 55" smart tv with 240hz refresh rate with a OLED or IPS panel. and cheap toys havent made millenial parents miserable.

[@krispykruzer]

Toys for every age group too

[@uncleericrocks]

Drowning in media

[@nlpnt]

Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars have been $1 apiece forever.

[@Hobo_productions]

I watch a lot of useless videos, but this one definitely tops it.

[@oliviastar3812]

Do modern-day parents have no self control or discipline ?? apparently not so much - and they want buddies not children they love and parent with discipline - that seems to be a dirty word for them.

[@jrobbin24]

Toys can’t compete with phones it’s actually very simple

[@lcarthel]

We only get used toys from goodwill. Yay me

[@johncameron4194]

Toys now are crappy

[@freekzbaldal7761]

First. Interesting video! Never thought this has such an influence on parenting.

[@abfab2517]

many children bedrooms look like horror movies setting.

[@johncameron4194]

Have kids when your older

[@ve2166]

Ugh we have so many toys

[@AloisMahdal]

Here's what makes us miserable now: clickbait titles.

[@shandhaula]

Plastic pull over is also vintage 80s... 😁

[@robbbbery]

Insider News, your clickbait probably drew lots of views, buy I think you can see in the comments that it sacrificed quite a bit of credibility and goodwill. The actual content of the video was great, I would have liked to enjoy learning about toy deflation without being distracted by how out of touch the title makes you seem.

[@felibubbletea]

Who needs toy rn? Toddlers use ipad 😂

[@johncameron4194]

It used to be quality

[@nardo218]

montesorri wood toys. no noisemakers from china

[@BasqiatTV]

What a terrible headline and a terrible video

[@spingebulb]

Another worthless cope by people trying to mask reality with these silly stories. Toys aren't the reason millennials are miserable. We are at a point where you either become a productive worker bee or you are deemed worthless by society. Both parents have to work to support a child, or even to simply afford a place to live. Some people live in their cars now. Some people don't live anywhere. But the problem's clearly toys, it stresses parents out having so many in the home! At first I thought this video topic was just a segue into the inflation problem, but you only mention this once and immediately go back to toys. Who the hell are you trying to fool?

[@johncameron4194]

Playmobil

[@FirstLastOne]

This is a story that goes nowhere fast and gets very little accomplished but makes a bunch of accusations to justify why they can't do something and they feel that's the reason why. Oh wait, this is a story for millennials by millennials. Never mind. 😑

[@NoName24-s6i]

Without ALLAH, their Rabb most High, the creations are verily miserable. Their faces and hearts are covered in darkness, wickedness, selfishness, lust, tight fistedness, manipulations, gas lighting, hypocrisy, disobedience, and denials. Verily, those who have NO LIGHT have no light at all... The Disbelievers cling to drugs and alcohol, living out their own delusions and cherry picking lifestyles. Walaikum a Salam

[@christopherlove6402]

I dont get how this video is relevant to anyone, other than being a smokescreen?

[@watermelonlover745]

Anything the media does is motivated by very stupid liberals

[@RavagHer]

the saddest day i can remember was when toys r us closed for good.