The Dark Reality of iPad Kids

[@TurtleChad1]

Moral of the story: Don't let the internet raise your kid.

[@derekmaullo2865]

What are you saying you stupid kid? You do the same with the internet. You contradicted yourself

[@morganseppy5180]

This is what they always said: videogames, mocies,tv, radio, music, the "wrong" church, the wrong famies, the wrong groups, etc

[@ElectronicChateau]

​@@morganseppy5180 I see this lazy argument all the time and it's absolute dog shit. Difference is, none of the things you listed were riddled with addictive and powerful algorithims.

[@thearch1tect249]

Impossible now. It started with not allowing parents to truly discipline kids. Even teachers are not allowed to discipline kids without fear of being reprimanded. Then we are at the point where virtually every institution in one form another requires you to be online, including homework! Not happening!

[@willrunriot]

@@vincentshapland7250nah, it’s more like saying “don’t let strangers outside raise your kids.” He didn’t even say to not let kids use the internet, just not to let it _raise_ them. Develop some reading comprehension ffs.

[@GorditaSlim]

I started parenting in 2014. My oldest almost being 10 now, it's insane the difference between her upbringing and her siblings. You almost have to helicopter parent, but now they read books for fun, learning to sew, cook, yardwork.. parents, you can do (it). Stay present.

[@SF2036]

Our kid is only six and old school as hell.. He already has the awareness to know the culture today is garbage. He can read, does well in school, can’t stand when his parents spend too much time on our phones, is in activities year round (cub scouts, soccer, baseball, basketball) plays sports with other kids in the neighborhood outside, and thinks music without live instruments is garbage. As parents we did very little to influence this outcome other than put him in sports and do homework with him every night. I believe the pendulum of culture swings, and some of these excesses are going to filter out naturally... Tech is now ubiquitous, but one thing is constant, the youth have a natural inclination to rebel.

[@PinkSugarCarrie]

Agree 💯

[@candles6103]

@@SF2036good on you for being a good parent 👍 your child is already ahead of most people. Keep raising your children with good morals

[@n4ughty_knight]

Those are good first steps but don't think the battle is over. When they become teens, it's going to take a lot of work to protect them from the State's influence.

[@PinkSugarCarrie]

@@n4ughty_knight I agree it will be tougher but we must fight back as hard as we can. Stay true to the ways we were brought up by generations before us. Even some influence of our own that made our childhoods special.

[@ChetManly2047]

I was born in 1988, grew up in the 90s. No internet, no cell phones. I’m actually very greatful for that fact.

[@AverageNerdGamer]

early to mid gen z had the last normal childhoods

[@princessmarlena1359]

I’m six years older than you, also grateful for an internet free childhood.

[@乂]

It's alarming to see how technology addiction is impacting the younger generation. The responsibility falls on the parents to set boundaries and guide their children. Blaming the kids won't solve anything. Let's hope we can find a balance before it's too late.

[@Bukimamkv1]

wtf how did you get to 6 million

[@VenomousVortexProductions]

I wish we could go back and fix all this before it got worse... Our parents warned us about using technology and social media 24/7. They were never wrong

[@Elliot622]

Some parents don’t deserve to be parents

[@LuisSierra42]

How are you in every single video at the same time?

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

It's not merely technology. Parents leave everyone and everything else to raise their children. They put teachers, screens, and governments in charge of their children.

[@skelebro9999]

The worst thing is there are some "parents" who will record their children scrolling mindlessly on their iPad as well as their smartphone and instead of stopping them they'll just record their kid for some internet clout. It is disgusting.

[@Nezuchan07]

Ipad more like freak pad

[@UneducatedEngineer444]

Me and my fiance want to have a kid in the next 5 years. If it's a boy, I'm going to teach him how to build rc planes and fly them, get him in to model railroading, show him how to use a windows pc that's not connected to the internet, and show him how to do programming. I was lucky enough to grow up with those things and I want my child to grow up with the same or similar hobbies.

[@n4ughty_knight]

That's because they want to show off their children so people can validate them.

[@JUlmanen]

@@UneducatedEngineer444 You could teach those things to a girl too, if she's interested.

[@CascaEnjoyedIt]

It ain’t that deep tbh lol

[@auggieeasteregg2150]

Social media should be illegal for children under the age of 13. Parents need to be held accountable. Phones should not be in elementary schools

[@Matthewwithers33]

The worst part is when I see grown adults complain “kids today are on their phones too much” at the same time are glued to theirs as well. Many adults are either part of the problem or not part of the solution

[@sergiowinter5383]

Reject phone, return to book

[@johnnykeys1978]

and have you noticed hypocrites HATE having their hypocrisy pointed out? They get extremely agitated.

[@insidethesquaredcirclewith9797]

Not the issue parents of the past also drank ...smoked ...and had sex...do you think the children should have been permitted to do just because adults did? Besides the issue Internet and screen time should be a reward for kids like video games were a reward for my generation....I didn't get to play video when I was punished or had bad grades...do you think parents are taking away tablets and cell phones when their kids are misbehaving? Me either

[@bootylooklikedissize]

you’re not seriously suggesting that kids be allowed to do everything that adults can, or vice versa. there’s a difference in an adult who’s cognitive and social skills have developed and a child.

[@insidethesquaredcirclewith9797]

@@bootylooklikedissize exactly

[@ElectronicChateau]

When my son was born eight years ago, I decided to keep him away from phones, tablets and the internet, and to try and give him a similar upbringing as I had (gen x) Eight years later and boy did I make the right decision. He's top of his class in school, super bright, kind, balanced and loves the outdoors. By comparision, many other kids in his year are clearly struggling with their mental and physical health, it's really sad to see. Parents, keep your kids away from phones etc. Yes they can be a nightmare but that's just kids, it's never been easy being a parent, and it's not supposed to be.

[@adamrad2220]

Please keep fighting the good fight. Our daughter is 13 and we are largely the same way. You're starting to get to the point where most kids in your child's class will have smartphones. But don't feel like you have to give in, because you don't. You can have a house phone, or your child can use one of your phones. Technology can be awesome, and our daughter knows that we're not against it. But we generally only use it for family entertainment, like watching movie or TV shows together, or playing games together, or things like that. "Personal screens" are the main issue with kids in my opinion. And of course social media.

[@CowDudez]

Who cares, skibidi toilet is better 😂

[@sodabutnofizz1294]

i am gen z and i want to raise my kids this way, but what about peer pressure? It can be really bad at times, i myself faced my peers being like "you dont have a personal phone?" The fomo felt is unreal. If only somehow phones and devices were banned till the age of 12 ATLEAST (not possible lol) it would be a good thing.

[@johnny_sins_himself]

Single mothers are the destruction of society

[@zsu-23-4shilka2]

@@sodabutnofizz1294 I’m also Gen Z (2000’s kid) & I just don’t want children

[@JustAnotherGuy154]

Man as a 13 year old I thought I was ok with screen time but you’ve really given me some perspective and self awareness.

[@bananabread6148]

This describes my cousin's kid. He's a 13 year old ipad kid and it shows. To make things worse, his mom gave him an oculus for christmas a couple years ago, which he plays for hours every day. He and I both love games, so when the family gets together, he and I often pass the time by playing a game in my collection. But his reading and comprehension skills are so shockingly low that not only can he not understand what is going on, but he can't even try to figure it out without being guided through things. The kid can't read, think, or problem solve. He can only consume content Edit: maybe I should explain that it'a not that he *can't* read, it's that he can barely read and is too lazy with too short of an attention span to make the effort.

[@devonwilliams5738]

I can't imagine what the generation after Alpha will be like.

[@themanwiththegoldenweasle9193]

@@devonwilliams5738what’s it gonna be like when gen Z is old in the 2070s/80s

[@viktorianas]

Watch documentary called Idiocracy

[@chrismacbean]

@@viktorianas Stop calling it a documentary, it is a fictional satire film by Mike Judge. How could you have a documentary about stuff in the future? iPad kid spotted!

[@FuriousMaximum]

@@chrismacbean because it is becoming more and more true by the day, you're the ipad kid.

[@tbone9474]

As a millenial parent to a gen alpha kid, I can already tell you I've done my damndest to keep her away from any sort of social media, spend time playing board games and do outside sports. I know I can't stop her all her life but hopefully by then, she'll have actual good wholesome memories to fall back to

[@br4tb4by]

You are an amazing parent 🩷

[@ryuunosuk3]

"It takes a village to raise a child", or so they say. It's unfortunate, but it will arrive the time where your influence is not effective anymore, the closest friends will tell your kid what is "cool" and what is "cringe". Pray that what is "cool" at that time will be Jesus and not the latest Microsoft AI TikTok celebrity, pray even more that what is "cringe" at the time won't be Jesus.

[@tbone9474]

@ryuunosuk3 well we aren't religious and neither are our friends but we prefer having outdoor activities and the occasional video game

[@tbone9474]

@br4tb4by thank you. We try. I can see her friends already being influenced by this tiktok bs but so far my kid hasn't asked to go on it. Until she's 18 she won't have it anyway

[@Tate525]

The Reptilian overlord wants your children's attention at all times, even in sleep.

[@deaddenied92]

Iam so happy I grew up in the 90s 👌 life before the internet

[@AlexIss2Goated]

Internet started in the late 90s, btw early 00s lul.

[@p_eanuts_x]

Born in the last years of gen Z. I couldn't be any happier

[@Est93]

@@AlexIss2Goatedback in my times the internet was only for rich people or the government

[@bentonrp]

I remember so much about the 90's that isn't even found much online. For instance, in the early 90's, many appliances had the number 2000 named at the end of it: The Eureka 2000, Whirlpool 2000, The Magnavox 2000. And other stuff you don't really find about the 90's while researching online. ...A great decade. :)

[@unkownConePerson]

i grew up since 2014 :> yes.

[@AceKite00]

As kids, we watched Disney Channel and Nickeloadeon shows KNOWING it was all fake. The kids of today grow up watching actual people in real-time, which is a big difference.Their views and expectations on reality become extremely distorted as a result.

[@jomarcentermjm]

Sadly companies things cartoon isn't really "profitable" to them and just made either more liveaction of shutdown creation entirely. (ie. Warner bros discovery)

[@SaturdayNightSlamMaster1980]

As a kid from the 80’s we had Saturday morning cartoons… with commercials. Not everything was 24/7 on demand.

[@prod3kero]

I’m 11 and I always had to go to my grandmas place cuz I didn’t go to kindergarten sometimes and my grandma had downloaded the Cartoon Network with all of the good shows before CN became trash

[@loveladii69]

PBS kids rocks

[@SuperSledgePsycho]

This was a key reason why, despite curating KZbin for my eldest kid, I put a complete stop to it in my house. He was forming and copying behaviour he'd see in videos with his friends from school, not because he's a bad kid, he simply saw real people his age or slightly older acting a way online and thought he should act that way too. When I caught on, I didn't lie, I told him why I was banning it completely and his behaviour has been tip top ever since. My kids still play games in moderation, or watch things via Disney or Netflix that separate fiction and reality much better, but KZbin in particular I feel is pretty awful for young kids.

[@oshifish2]

We are already seeing this in full scale with "Sephora Kids". Kids as young as five who are still talking with a baby voice wanting to consume makeup instead of toys. Then age ten they are obsessed with "anit aging". These kids are going to have a full on meltdown when teenage acne hits because they are not pretty perfect consumers anymore in their eyes! Its freaking scary!

[@ally241]

can confirm that my 6 year old cousin wants some “drunk elephant” thing from there??? she also returned her BIRHDAY PRESENTS for an ipad.

[@bluestorm9651]

Don't worry. With the way things are going, acne will be the least of their concerns.

[@Jmar1024]

Most teens I see nowadays, (girls in particular), look to be in their mid 20s. Can't imagine what they'll look like when they actually reach their 20s

[@p_eanuts_x]

That's so true. There goes the preppy kids who detroys Sephora and demands skincare, Stanley bottles and Lululemon bags when they're only KIDS. Most of them grew up with unrestricted Internet access and that's what makes them become like a preppy teen as young as the age of 5. Scary what TikTok does to a kid

[@gregdoesstuff6144]

you spelled "anti" wrong

[@AlfieTheSausage]

Great video dude! It's quite disturbing what kind of childhood we are giving to those children, how they are paying for the incompetency of the parents/system itself

[@xezeraxundlu7426]

I needed Moon to make this video. So many KZbinrs blame this generation for being like this. But the actual people they should blame is the parents. Parents are the people he slaps them with an iPad to make them shut up. They are the ones who does not care what their children watch.

[@CowDudez]

Who cares, skibidi toilet is better 😂

[@bluegold1026]

They want to do anything BUT be a parent. So why did they even become parents in the first place??

[@Silver77cyn]

Yeah, but parents today are doing this because the cost of living is through the roof, and are too exhausted from work to dedicate more time to their kids.

[@markosmond6430]

Stupid excuse🙄....they are just lazy.

[@ammielmarcos4947]

@@markosmond6430 I may only be a child within the generation you call "lazy" but I still have to point of my view of this. You state this, but let me ask you, what is on a childs mind the second it's born? Nothing, It isnt sapient, it's empty and only has instincts to it's name, still trying to develop it's prefrontal cortex and organs, as it should, by 4-5, they usually gain some form of relative sentience, they can think and form thoughts, nothing beyond that, but now think of this, if a human intakes info and uses it to formulate their own ideals and thought processes/actions towards it, and a child has no knowledge at their age, so when given info, they articulate into a brain that's never absorbed anything besides the automated instincts that run it's gears, parents are intended to give that info, lead them up, protect them, show a path they want to prefer. In a metaphor: children are authors with blank papers that will eventually need inspiration for their book of any sort, so if you give them that info, they'll write that into their own life, every thought, every ideal comes purely from the info they've swallowed whole.

[@fireboltaz]

My children are Gen A and I think about these topics on a regular basis. I am very cognizant of how lethal the internet and access to it can be. As my children grow, I intend to guide them to the use of the internet because they will be exposed to it at some point. I want to ensure they are equipped with how to understand its importance and lethality and not be consumed by it. I look at iPhone/iPad as a weapon. If you don't know how to use it, you can get hurt.

[@corentincursoux5852]

That’s actually a good analogy, though I would say it’s a tool but whatever.

[@maeryn4200]

I find these kids scary ebcause they lack basic social rules and that's really the worst of it all. They don't know boundaries and personal space and that's very troubling. I'm of the youngest Millenial age group and I can't count the times a little kid suddenly showed up beside me, clinging to my clothes, trying to climb onto my lap and whatnot. They are strangers to me and I find it extremely uncomfortable and move away as fast as I can. And their parents are same age as me or little older and will jsut stand there, watching like a NPC while their kids gets too grabby with me. Even when I tell them to teach their kids personal space, they will just stand there or say "it's just a kid"...oh wow, yes we have children as young as 12 nowadays killing or even r*ping each other and that's okay now because "they're kids"?! I feel so much second-hand embarassment for people my age, I mean WE were taught better and raised without the constant screen time, so why would they allow their own child to do this? Also when I see young mothers strolling their kids around while looking at the phone, not even looking where they're pushing the child...I just get angry.

[@ebot1944]

Wait im confused, isnt homocide commited by minors an isolated incident?

[@bryants1863]

I'm very glad that my wife and I raise our kids we were raised. Some of the other parents think we're crazy because we make our kids do chores, go outside, get exercise, use manners, limited game/tv time, and home cooked meals. This kind of stuff makes me worried for the future.

[@m4tta]

what you described is how i grew up, i’d say it’s completely normal

[@adil0028]

Sheesh that's just how normal childhood should be

[@sunflowerfoxs]

My friend was raised like that, I wish I was though.

[@sunflowerfoxs]

I should be told to do chores, I should have a yard to go out in, I should have been in sports or activities as a child, I should have been careful with screens as a child, and I shouldn't have to cook my own food if I want something to eat other than a hotdog, but I was raised by millennial teen parents and this is what happens when people are irresponsible.

[@sunflowerfoxs]

I wish I could check atleast one of those checkboxes, and more including having friends, siblings, and neighbors to turn to. But, I am a generationZ and this is how those of us who were raised by millennials turned out.

[@drk90009]

i was born in 2001 and i remember when my dad had brought home a brand new ipad 2 when it first came out and told me strictly not to touch it. back in the day i thought it was because i would drop it on the ground but in hindsight both my parents kept me in a good distance away from technology. got my first phone when i was 10 and it just made calls and send sms. i am infinitely grateful for how they raised me. im living abroad now and miss them dearly so shoutout to them and all the wise parents who didnt let their children rot their brains !

[@johncrow2852]

Why are you living abroad, for work or college?

[@AAKalam]

When tablets became mainstream my parents were limiting me by using like 10% of battery for that day

[@m4tta]

we didn’t have wi-fi in the house when i was a kid, so i only got to play offline games sometimes, i think it’s good to introduce children to technology (in an intellectual way) but not the internet

[@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2]

Same, except I was born in 1999. My first phone was a flip phone at age 10 and while I did have things like a DS, V-smile, the computer, and the Wii, my parents made sure they knew what I was doing. They also made sure I had a limit and I had to prove my trust. Nowadays I see toddlers with their own iPhones and kids with VR headsets.

[@keijinmightnotbetheworst]

man im 17 and that first mention about minnie mouse genuinely disturbed me.

[@C-man553]

You’ll be fine Ko. Moon does outstanding work and you took the time to watch this. Excellent!

[@Jonathan_Collins]

I honestly belive that most gen alpha kids will realise how garbage their entertainment really is when they grow up.

[@Harvest133]

Wishful thinking. Optimism is toxin.

[@ganeshcsaiisc]

Gen-Z too!

[@DB-cx6uc]

Arent you just self projecting? You'd be amazed how long people can stay shitty especially if its all they know, id imagine even if they do realise itll still have a huge impact on their personality

[@GunnerRDS]

Thing is, they won't grow up

[@CapNCreampie]

​@@ganeshcsaiiscno

[@pose6208]

One of the thing dystopian and futuristic films seem to miss is how dysfunctional and childlike people will become. It will be people with no connection to others, even their own families not going out of the house since you can order groceries to your home.

[@JohnSmith-op7ls]

Idiocracy nailed it

[@n4ughty_knight]

It isn't their fault tho. Technology isn't making people isolate themselves. Those in power are destroying society one step at a time. They want to end families so they can control the individual. The sad part is that technology is taking advantage of that. It's nearly impossible to make genuine connections with people anymore. Everyone wants to use you for their own goals.

[@caiuscosades1791]

Not on my watch will my kids turn out like this.

[@Tate525]

​@@caiuscosades1791You think Mark Zuckerberg cares? He has to generate profit every quarter and is answerable to the shareholders. He will tighten the grip on attention economy even further.

[@caiuscosades1791]

@@Tate525 I wish him luck with that

[@DashAU]

I noticed a drastic change in behaviour with my daughter when i banned youtube kids and not allowing the tablet during the day. if she watches something, it has to be cartoons on the tv.

[@isthisnickvalid]

Could you give some examples? Thanks

[@1_therealcreatedjam-ph8pv]

Reruns that ended in 2011

[@Souls_25]

Thats good keep doing that! Good parent right there👊🏻❤️

[@DashAU]

@1_therealcreatedjam-ph8pv plenty of stuff. bluey and peppa pig as well as other stuff she like minions the movies and mario aswell. it doesn't really matter as long as it's not social media crap

[@isthisnickvalid]

@@DashAU h2o in Netflix if they like Mermaids

[@havedalDK]

As a Gen Z substitute teacher, the most worrying thing is the whole "stepping out of your comfort zone" part where they engage in things they don't like doing or people they don't want to be around, instead of trying to tolerate it they just give up and won't engage. I think this is where the narcissism comes into play in the sense they think it's the subject or other persons problem if THEY don't like it, when in reality it's their problem they can't tolerate it.

[@CoryPchajek]

It probably starts with their parents tolerating their kids insisting on eating nothing but easy foods like fries and dino nuggets.

[@andrewrules231]

@@CoryPchajek what's wrong with fries and Dino nuggies?

[@vahlen5281]

​@@andrewrules231 Nothing, as long as you're entire diet doesn't consist of them.

[@andrewrules231]

@@vahlen5281 what am I supposed to eat ?brussel sprouts? I know one guy who eats them all the time and he got cancer twice

[@joshuakaeble7810]

Fuck Yes. You're a smart one, I can already tell. Don't wanna be comfortable? TFB! Get uncomfortable because life is NOT comfortable and prepare to be triggered because when you grow up, you're gonna get VERY VERY triggered and EXTREMELY uncomfortable. These kids gotta learn to toughen up a little bit. If not, they're not gonna make it.

[@xGregglesx]

Lets be real here, the main issue is the fact there's unrestricted access to communication. Videos, animations, sounds, etc are distracting and at times disturbing, but the fact an adult can have easy access to a child is the most concerning part.

[@minoritymind]

​​@greyape59 Government is never the solution to anything. edit: I understand you probably genuinely care and want a solution. But, if there is a solution to be had, it must come from the private sector.

[@derickarel7146]

So: stranger danger? 🙄

[@Shamshiro]

@@minoritymind - Nice try, corpo.

[@meyes1098]

@@minoritymind look at China. They are practically completely free of this "social media addiction" that we have over here in the west. Government CAN be the solution to a lot of things. Especially here in the west where we can actually make it better. It all has to start with complete transparency for every and all government officials, and complete transparency to all the budgets and it's use. Also while pedophillia is bad, it's basically irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. This dumbing down of the population is a potentially civilization ending issue! A few kid fuckers are nothing compared to that...

[@nineonine9082]

Theres also the fact that you don't know anything about the people your interacting with online, the people I sometimes rage at could be 5 years old, but they could also be a neckbeard who does nothing else for a living.

[@pk5727]

Are there cartoons on KZbin that we grew up on? And why can’t there be. There is no more Saturday morning cartoons, why can’t. They just stream those shows.

[@Rembreiker_lychec9257]

If you're intellectually curious and self-aware, it's an amazing time to be a kid; you can soak-up so much knowledge. But if you're lazy and disengaged, you'll become an even more broken human then any generation has produced previously.

[@ganeshcsaiisc]

The thing is 99% people are lazy and dumb!

[@Stefan-lz7vj]

You can be curious and self aware and still fall into the technology traps

[@n4ughty_knight]

Yeah but the knowledge you're soaking up is often useless. Who cares if you actually know math? Or if you read a ton of books? That won't stop you from being mugged; it won't help you find a good job; and it certainly won't be useful when 2030 comes around. The Age of Information is over. Everyone has information. It has no value. Welcome to the Age of Survival! Power begets power!

[@zeevshaff]

This is the truth

[@Tate525]

Trust me even the best kids are no match for AI algorithms.

[@seguramlk]

Unfortunately us adults are becoming to have concentration and focus issues as well

[@youarelife3437]

Can be rectified by developing focus everyday at any time. Doing one thing at a time keep focusing your awareness again and again bringing it at what you are doing at present. Do only one thing at a time. This is the practice to develop concentration by Dandipani. But it also helps to develop patience, willpower, awareness and the ability to do meditation.

[@Elevendyeleven]

I was an Early Start teacher for 16 years, the program for young children with special needs in the US. Every year my caseload was full of kids with speech delays and extreme behaviors. The more accessible handheld devices became, the more kids we got who were spending multiple hours a day on their parents cell phones from 12 months on. They had something called an "attachment disorder," which is what happens when a child lacks an attached caregiver who consistently responds to their needs and has frequent positive interactions with them. On the surface too much screen time might seems like permisssive parenting, but the lack of boundaries and rules is really only secondary to emotional neglect. The two usually go hand in hand. The real problem is that parents are having have too many kids they dont want to spend time with. Its too easy to hand a child a phone to avoid the important job of parenting. You are correct in saying this leads to personality disorders in adulthood, but thats because PDs start as attachment disorders in early childhood. This is because the window for acquiring empathy closes at age 3, after which its too late for kids to develop this essential social skill. The worst cases on my caseload didnt interact with toys or people and didnt know the difference between the two. They had speech, social and cognitive delays. They stood silently with the same blank stare I recognize in some of the worst known psychopaths. This condition is called "Reactive Attachment disorder," which later becomes "Antisocial Personality Disorder." In the most extreme cases the child also exhibits stereotypical behaviors, which makes them eligible for the "autism" diagnosis. The hyper-addictive nature of handheld technology only makes the damage to brain development more severe. Its not just kids who need to put down their cell phones. Parents do as well. Everywhere you go, young people are staring into phones, unable to put them down while working in checkout lines or to talk to friends. This is the number one public health issue facing Western culture and particularly American consumer culture. People arent just getting dumber and unable to interact with each other, they are becoming more selfish and more dangerous. New studies are coming out to try to explain this phenomenom but the attachment disorders have been researched since the 50s, and yet most parents dont know what they are. Every peditrician should be informing parents about the impact of emotional neglect and attachnent disorders. Every handheld device should have "not for children under 3" warning on it at start up. That time goes by fast. There is literally no time to waste when it comes to being there for kids. They will take care of us the same way we took care of them.

[@jordan_cagle]

Sadly the 12% of people without friends is one that I fit in. It’s not because of technology but because I have been forced to give them up because of multiple moves across the us. It’s a mindset that makes it hard to connect with people if you have had to give it up again and again. Please, stay connected with friends even if it is long distance. I haven’t had a close friend since 8th grade and I am now in my second year in college.

[@Blissblizzard]

Hey if you follow channels about things you are really have an abiding interest in you can still have meaningful exchanges.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

She’ll be right mate, mate. Australia

[@Rust·Spencer·Cohle]

That, and it's just society today which has made it unironically harder to meet people than ever before. It also does depends on where you live. For example where I live, the cost of living is insane, up to the point where it's not economically affordable to meet people... I'm 27, lost contact with most of my friends from school and haven't made any friends since then. While, I would desire friends, it has been far too long for me to feel an emotional response to it. It's actually messed up.

[@Rust·Spencer·Cohle]

@@Blissblizzard While I understand from your point of view, going outside for walk activity's could be good way to meet people and it's free. I commend you for creating groups. Where I'm from, there's nothing like that and I just don't have the time to form one myself. I live in a concrete city jungle and in most cases people actively try to avoid each other here. City's are one of the most loneliest places, I'm trying to move out, but I'm just saving up at the moment. But yeah, going forward I will be on the look out for group walks and see if I can meet people that way, thanks!

[@ghostfarts_]

ik wym join clubs or something don’t give up bc you’re still in school surrounded by others that might want friends too

[@OttawaTheOat]

POV: Watching this on an IPAD

[@VerifyyourclockNOW]

Yep...

[@chullupa]

Idad

[@UnusualSandvichTF2]

Same.

[@THEINFINITIVERSESAGA]

IDAB

[@ethandtheangryenglishguy8253]

Same here, but thankfully not one of those kids who watches Brainrot kids content many hours at a time

[@lilyg.4075]

my future kids are growing up how i did, classic Disney and nick. they will play outside, no phones or electronics unsupervised until they are 12-14, even then still will monitor it.

[@EvieArtzz-mz1se]

That’s how my parents parented me, no phones or electronics until I was 14. Still monitored, lol 😂 . But yea, I hope your kids will have a good childhood

[@guts60]

The thing about stupid people is that you can’t convince them to change, you can’t make them better. In their minds, they are fine and they see nothing wrong. It’s a stupidity feedback loop. “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” - Mark Twain

[@NSMITH8516]

It's easier to fool someone then it is to prove that they've been fooled

[@ammielmarcos4947]

"It is easer to fool people than convince them they have been fooled"(Mark Twain).

[@misamisoART]

I have a friend who's younger siblings have this virtual autism. I am an autistic person (professionally diagnosed) and her parents are trying to get the younger children diagnosed with the same condition, but while there are similarities between actual autism and this new version of it, you can tell that it's just bad behaviour and that it's stemmed from technology. They have no idea how to function because they've just been given an ipad and given constant dopamine hits. They're basically crack babies, and it's really sad to see.

[@happypapi1903]

So technically it has more in common with drug/alcohol/sex addiction than autism. I just posted a big rant on that part. I couldn't believe my frigging eyes/ears when I saw it. So many ableist undertones, however unintentional they might be. I hope Moon does better with this because that was not cool. There is a big difference between autism and addiction.

[@nickd2296]

I was diagnosed with real autism in 2003 Born in 2000. The fact that parents are creating a condition the mirrors real autism is very bad. I would not change who I am but I understand that have an entire population on the spectrum is not ideal.

[@pinokosthewife]

Exactly, I remember when smartphones first started to get popular, I'd stare around and see so many people glued to their screens, it was like suddenly... I'm no longer the "strange" one. People can still think I'm "off" or "something's wrong" with me because I speak loudly or move kind of clumsily, but in general, if I'm not bored indoors, I don't feel the need to stare at a screen? I'm actually interested in looking out the window, watching people go by, seeing interesting signs and decorations, taking pictures of flowers and birds, but so many people... have become so strangely withdrawn from life. I'm still mostly solitary and likely to draw on paper or a phone if I'm bored rather than talk to people, but I still engage with the world and enjoy swimming and things when I have the chance to... or even play on swings in parks with my little brother! ... and I grew up with the internet and computers far earlier than most people, but smartphones didn't enter my life until around, what, second or third year of med school? There's a big difference, I think, between us (low-support need/"high-functioning") autistic folks who grew up watching kid's TV shows and could model behaviour and copy scripts and learn how people talk with each other to these kids watching plotless seemingly randomly generated nonsense and disturbing videos on KZbin rather than kid's cartoons/children's anime/family films and shows, educational PC games (Jump Start, Reader Rabbit, Living Books / now called Wanderful and sold as apps), and actual books... it shows.

[@pinokosthewife]

@@happypapi1903Exactly, that part felt fear-mongering and rude, especially when he said they'd be dumber, etc., it was very rude... autistic people vary in intelligence just like allistic/non-autistic folks. Kids being born pre-disposed to addiction and growing up addicted and artificially ending up with sensory issues because of it does not an autism diagnosis make...

[@macs2010]

I’m a gen alpha teen. I feel like my parents did a very good job raising me. I was born in 2010 and at that time while yes, the internet was very prominent, it wasn’t a thing to give a little baby an iPad just to get them to shut up. I only got access to the internet when I was at my grandparents’ house and I generally only watched videos of people opening chocolate eggs (you know the ones with toys in them). Even then I wasn’t really that into the internet until 2018, 2019ish. I would watch gaming videos and stuff like that. However, my parents only let me get on it when I was done with my homework, if I was on a flight, or at a party where there were no kids. I also refuse to get on apps like TikTok, instagram, or Facebook since I think it would make people like me insecure. Even today I barely use the phone outside of my house. My parents take me out of the house and socialize a lot with us. They also don’t give us as much power to make decisions as the parents shown in the video. Even though I love the internet, I do agree that we need breaks from it from time to time. Parents need to take more responsibility for their kid or everyone is going to end up glued to their phone.

[@person_1019]

although gen alpha began in the early 2010s, their age range now is like 0-11, which are kids born in 2013-2024. so i'd say that 2010 is gen z

[@Earl_E_Burd]

It's always the parenting. By the time the results are revealed, people are told to take responsibility for themselves and stop playing the victim. This pattern continues into adult intimate relationships which unearth even more deep programming that we were unaware we even had. That's the part where people say they become their parents - really they become aware of their codebase transmitted from their family and environment. We are a product of our environment, with a little bit of freewill to respond to it.

[@A_n_y_t_i_m_e]

Nicely said 👌

[@jaegerbomb269]

We're screwed.

[@RileyLewis-j2w]

And here he is, Giving us false hope.

[@ethandtheangryenglishguy8253]

The whole Generation alpha is screwed

[@johnny_sins_himself]

Single mothers ruin societies

[@simunator]

I'm fine dawg. They're screwed

[@Pinkmuccus]

yup

[@noahhasdisconnected5214]

This is why, as a Gen Alpha myself, listen to The Beatles, play piano, and actively avoid tiktok. Its literal brain-rot and yet other kids think im weird for being so worried.

[@HatedFuture]

This is why civilization is predicted to collapse by 2040.

[@Thedark.324]

They will have to find work once they reach adulthood. So probably not. Right now they have a lot of free time that's why they always on phone

[@sodabutnofizz1294]

@@Thedark.324 they watch cocomelon and chu chu tv till they are like 8 these days. Also i have seen kids of the age 6-10 these days, most of them cant do basic math but hum those rhymes everyday, not the lyrics, just the rhymes.

[@batman9699]

Like always

[@Royaleisred]

It wont even get to 2040. New projection predict 2030 will be the collapse of society. Humans are literally useless as fuck now.

[@McRuffin]

@@Thedark.324that’s wishful thinking haha. Those same kids are gonna turn to social media as adults. And all that’s gonna do is F**k up their brains even more.

[@philippkemptner4604]

They said pretty much the same about gen x because we were the first raised by tv. Then they said pretty much the same about gen y and gen z because they were the first to live in computer games and online games. And while I wouldn't say 'hey, look at gen x to z, they did turn out fine' I would say 'the generations before us were just as broken as we are, but in different ways'.

[@LA-Will]

Exactly

[@clray123]

This is just conservative scare-mongering crap. It is a distinct attribute of conservatives that they are paranoid about and opposed to everything new, and their favorite pastimes are doomsaying and feeble attempts to forbid other people from living the way they would prefer. This channel's formula is just to regurgitate all sorts of conservative bs to ADHD tiktokkers (in case you have not noticed yet).

[@denislavgeorgiev7968]

I mean you gotta admit, with the progress of the technological 'distraction' - be it TV, games or internet in general - the consequences to the human psyche get more and more noticeable. To your point, in the 1800s people said books were also a bad influence, as it drove people to live in their imaginations or some shet. But what we have right now is the pinnacle of distraction (until the next big tech upgrade), and if parents don't guide their children away from all the non-sense media and content that constantly surrounds them, they will turn into narcissistic sociopaths who'd rather live online than in the real world lol. It's one thing to have a lively imagination or watch movies and TV, and a whole different beast to be constantly online - the possibilities for decadence have increased exponentially.

[@sarahalderman3126]

Well it did begin with genx...

[@yourdreams2440]

Except these gen alpha kids can't read, write, do math, or express themselves. There's a difference between gen x-z watching tv growing up to gen alpha consuming an endless stream of brainless content all day, every day, and everywhere.

[@convertcatapult]

Honestly, Aldous Huxley doesn't get enough credit with his imagining of a futuristic dystopian society and what it would actually look like. So many things today line up almost exactly with his depictions of what happens to a society with lack of religion, rampant promiscuity, a general apathy towards everything, moral decay, and people being more easily misled by a government that they are all too eager to obey and not question.

[@MightyElemental]

7:08 I think parents deciding to be friends with their kids instead of parents to them is a wider issue with society. People in general are too permissive. Men are much weaker than they were in previous generations in many aspects of life. If a child doesn't receive boundaries, they won't be able to develop properly.

[@justincarrillo226]

I think today’s parents are trying to counter act their own ways that they themselves were raised. Parenting in the past was typically more discipline oriented. I’m a millennial and I used to be spanked as a kid when I misbehaved but it never traumatized me. Unfortunately for some, it may have been traumatic or the discipline was abusive. So I think these parents now want to go in the complete opposite direction and be way too passive with their children thinking it will keep them from being traumatized, but they don’t realize that children need to know boundaries and structures and can’t be left to do whatever they want.

[@JohnSmith-op7ls]

Men today have the testosterone that’s like a third of what it was the better part of a century ago. I see so many men with 200-300NgDl which is just insane. Test is a powerful hormone with all sorts of affects on the mind, not just your appearance. It literally turns men into listless, docile, pushovers.

[@coprilettodelnapoli5466]

Feminism

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Exactly.

[@jonathanbassett3656]

I told my brother who is 23 that all of this is happening, and more, he says I'm insane for not accepting reality. We have to stop this crap

[@NoStoryNoWorry]

I am a millennial and got my first job out of university as a language arts teacher for grades 3-12 in the early 2010’s. Not even 15 years, and what I see from investigations and hear from various people with children is horrifying. I notice many G-alpha’s seemingly as perpetual little children lacking many social and cognitive abilities that would be normal and expected to have developed by certain age ranges.

[@prod3kero]

I’m Gen Alpha (2012) and I am pretty intelligent. I hate other Gen A’s who ruin our reputation and make every other Gen A look like iPad worms

[@NoStoryNoWorry]

@@prod3kero That is very admirable and special. Either you will be immune to the lies and deceptions of society and/or be a part of the difference that becomes a greater change. Keep your values and never forsake them.

[@prod3kero]

@@NoStoryNoWorry thanks. I suck at responding to things especially online.

[@NoStoryNoWorry]

@@prod3kero At least for today, you have overcome that struggle 🤟🏻😎

[@axle_31541]

I'm in the 8th grade in the US and it is so horrifying when my classmates don't know where places are and how little they know about the world outside of the US.

[@mellow1163]

This Statement has Never been more True, Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times

[@4ndyr0g3r50n]

And if weak men are filled with apathy they won't do what it takes to make good times again.

[@Atombender]

You don't have strong men in your country though.

[@mellow1163]

@@Atombender What it means is that it's a Cycle that goes from Good time to hard Times, we are in the Hard times part of the cycle now, so that means we have Weak Men running things now.

[@mellow1163]

@@4ndyr0g3r50n but what is saying is that Hard Times will inevitably Breed Hard Men for the Cycle to continue.

[@mellow1163]

@@4ndyr0g3r50n You Think Weak Men made it out of the Depression? No only the Hard Men made it out to bring the good Times we have had before the weak men that are running things now came.

[@NS202-n1q]

Even now we are living in a dumb world

[@dafb3ta]

As demonstrated by the fact that @Moon thinks that 40% is "1 in 4" 0:56

[@MonkeyHeadset]

A sign of hope I found out is that if some of gen z who want to be parents say that they don’t want their kids being glued to a screen at a young age and to develop important skills in life. “Oh wAiT uNTilL yOu haVE kiDs” is a pathetic line coming from these types of parents who just give their child an iPad during early years and when they take the iPad away of course the child will be upset so maybe wait until they are responsible enough and raise your kid properly.

[@ivo5075]

I work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This morning when walking in the centre to work during rush hour, it was busy as always with cars, trams, pedestrians and cyclists, the daily bee hive. I was walking on the sidewalk, and there was a big group of cyclists coming towards me in the bikelane. Among them was a young girl, I guess 13 / 14 years old. In this madness of traffic, she had both her elbows on the steeringwheel, whilst holding her 'rotated for video' phone with both hands, completely engaged with looking at the screen, earbuds in.. This girl saw NOTHING of her surroundings. All I could think was 'how long will it take before she gets into an accident? It's not a question of 'if', but 'when'. And the scary thing was that I realised I wasn't even thinking only of HER accident, but it quickly turned into a metaphore for the accident of our society as a whole.. I had this girl and her behaviour in my head for the next few hours. This will not end well

[@krixpop]

Belgium here: is the same ...

[@n4ughty_knight]

Amsterdam has a ton of problems

[@wahabahmad6563]

I Think Amsterdam is still a lot better than wtf us going on in America @@n4ughty_knight

[@fivesproducts4967]

Same here in germany, people glued to their phones are just walking into traffic without looking properly or even looking

[@northernking4787]

By far my favorite KZbin channel, thanks for all you do brother, I’ve learned more from you than the American public school I graduated from!

[@AdrianAzizSantoso-gq7rw]

6:02 Have you ever heard the instant noodle brand Indomie? Yep, then Anomie is another brand of instant noodle

[@colinjohngilbert3994]

My TV broke a while back and I haadnt cash to get it fixed so I had to play with my son way more and it was a blessing because now me and my son have such a good relationship and he follows me round like my shadow 😂❤ people use TV and tablets as babysitters 😢

[@jolyproductions]

Good for you, it’s never too late for change! Keep it up

[@irmooflorien5399]

This is why I keep my daughter away from ALL this I have to edit- I give my child the ILLUSION of collaboration, she would say we make major decisions mostly together. It reality, I’m explaining why I came to my decision and allow her to look at the logic

[@m4tta]

lol my parents did the same, they would always make the decision but then pretend to give me an option so i’d feel included. for example they pick out two kinds of wallpaper they want and then they ask me “which one do you think we should use?” and i thought i made the decision but really they had already picked those

[@Tast-1934.]

why not let your kid make a real decision, why do you have to give them the illusion of choice?

[@defaultio3354]

⁠@@Tast-1934.kids make notoriously bad decisions. If they could they would eat ice cream for every meal.

[@Tast-1934.]

@@defaultio3354 I mean not all kids are like that, there are a good chunk of smart ones out there

[@cjuszekcziczi3290]

Big problem is even if parents wanted to be firm and present and go more "oldschool" way of parenting their hands are pretty much tied. Any firm action to get unruly kid to listen and respect you can be labeled harassment.

[@kami_overlord]

Times like these, I'm glad I was raised in Nigeria

[@dumkastriker]

When I need a dose of good mood and positivity I always watch Moon videos.

[@virtual_warbirds]

🤣🤣🤣

[@stevenc2149]

yum yum, the blackpills so good

[@SomethingZombie5476]

"Attention spans are rapidly declining" **clicks off the video**

[@walterwhite8649]

«Attention» *clicks off the video*

[@dadzilla8640]

Parents have took this whole parental thing another level. I see more and more kids be on devices every time once in a while. I go out somewhere sometimes. And I just shake my head and be like. They just use of these devices as nanny's

[@erebys21]

As a gen Z guy, I'd say culture's been going downhill in terms of media quality for a long while now. Particularly music. I find the now slightly cringy songs of the 2000s and early 2010s alot more listenable than today's "top hits" (doesn't mean I listen to either one, mind you). This isn't me just hating the genre's either, as a musician and music producer I find alot of pop and especially rap to be extremely lazy production wise (shoutout to the producers and musicians trying to change that). What we need is people to stop eating up worse and worse dogshit and start demanding stuff that's actually decent before the goddamn alarm tones on our phones become masterpieces in comparison to what we hear on the radio

[@Grisu.]

whats your music?

[@erebys21]

@@Grisu. personally am more of a metal/rock/blues kind of guy that has discovered eurobeat and some older EBM music. Sadly I have to say that these genres are either going downhill like most music or are pretty much dead. The music industry needs to get it's act together in general, really

[@Grisu.]

@@erebys21 i was asking what music you make. although i agree, and thats part of the decline of bands, everyone can do everything themselves now. at least they think they can.

[@erebys21]

@@Grisu. oooooooh, my bad lmao I call my music "that dogshit that appears in my DAW after I fiddle with stuff for a few hours". As much as it embarrasses me, the shitty music these days is, in terms of production quality, way better than my music. I only have my lack of skill and a light case of laziness to blame for this. In terms of genre, I just try whatever I feel like I want to make. These days everyone can technically do almost everything by themselves. The problem is they spread their skills out too widely doing so, lowering the quality of what they do. That combined with complacency is what's pulling down the music industry (well, that and the INSANE amount of greed of both the jackasses who see music as only a cashcow to milk bone dry and quite alot of the artists too)

[@Grisu.]

dont insult yourself and what you make, someone will like it, just keep at it@@erebys21

[@kate2create738]

I highly recommend you discuss a recent article about the different lifestyles of the liberal parents and the conservatives parent’s family structure has highlighted how it’s the children raised in liberal household that tend to have a mental breakdown. It’s fascinating, down to the interview with one of the anchors trying to find any plausible excuse to see it’s not correlated to the strong liberal structure, or the lack of structure.

[@wrenchposting9097]

liberal people are more likely to report having been diagnosed with a mental illness, probably hereditary

[@chrismatorium8993]

I was going 80’s on my 6-year old boy when he was acting up. Nothing physical but some few honest words about accountability. Then his mother and uncle came to his rescue and simply invalidated everything I said. We only have ourselves to blame for this.

[@k.d.kelley2830]

Unc should mind his own business fr.

[@earth2emma]

This is a warning as to what your son’s future will look like, because the same thing happened when my dad tried to discipline my older millennial brother. My dad tried to set boundaries on my brother when he was little but my mom would constantly swoop in and invalidate my dad and undermine his authority. She felt that my dad would “traumatize” my brother by gosh forbid saying no. My brother, who is now 34, has never respected my father due to my mom’s meddling. In fact, he holds my dad in contempt and just expects my dad to help him out with everything. My brother only just got his first real grown-up job, which pays very little after going into over 100k in debt over student loans. Half his teeth are rotten. He has GI issues due to his poor eating habits. He’s hopelessly single and he thinks an adult convo means making several references to The Simpsons. Me and my sister learned to not follow his example and that’s why we’re normal. And never has my mom apologized or acknowledged the fact that this is her fault. If you love your son you will give your wife an ultimatum.

[@Wakeuptorealityman]

Wait parents don't beat children when they start becoming retarted. ( Am indian btw).

[@Earl_E_Burd]

Really well done. Thanks for putting this together.

[@tttttttttttttttttt0]

I am Gen Alpha (arguably) and I have 30+ minutes of attention span. I can read a book with 300+ pages and watch a one-hour KZbin video. The reason I don’t socialize is because I have Asperger’s disease and all of my childish classmates talk about Skibidi Toilet and memes which I’m not interested in. In fact, I even thought this video was too short to be excellent but still good video.

[@munchlygd]

literally same lol, im like ahead of everyone else in my grade. I sometimes just read 200-300 page books in 30 mins cause its fun.

[@markelraya10]

@@munchlygdyet you can’t name one thing you learned about the book.

[@munchlygd]

@@markelraya10 fym? Its not that i just skim through the book barely paying attention, im just a fast reader.

[@markelraya10]

@@munchlygd sure bud

[@munchlygd]

@@markelraya10 my guy im like 14 and i have language arts scores of a 16/17 year old, fym “sure bud”?

[@razorback10]

We are moving towards Wall-E.

[@Idontlikehandlesatall]

Oh my god, that is so horrible to think about

[@ssway28]

I always believed that movie was ahead of its time and people will eventually become just like that

[@Gothicprincess8186]

We already are: - Increased obesity - shorter attention spans - reduced mobility - Increased convenience in food and drink - over consumption such as Stanley cups

[@razorback10]

Agreed. @@Gothicprincess8186

[@primus0348]

Were kinda moving more to Cyberpunk 2077 as well, considering Elon has made a working Brain Chip (which i feel uncomfortable with the idea) and AI being Developed At an alarming rate and setting to replace alot of Jobs, (Which Contributes Worse to the whole Brainrot Stuff Gen Alpha will be exposed and Normalized too, taking away any Creativity, Motivity, and Learning Skills for Lazier Slop)

[@bigmikey1344]

As a millennial parent of a four-year-old and a six month old, this is actually terrifying. I barely like the fact that my four year old school uses screens to educate him as opposed to the whiteboards and books I grew up with

[@jolyproductions]

technology can be great! That being said, it is definitely being used for no good at the same time, so the fine line is where parents come in. You sound like you’re doing great, keep it up!

[@nicasia3867]

I have had this thought as well but being that they will be exposed at some point… I do see a benefit in carefully selecting what they do and teaching them how to use technology in a positive way. I’ve seen children whose parents kept them extremely sheltered and they went crazy when they got their first bit of freedom. Going on to be the wildest teens. I don’t know what that will look like for this generation. I think it may be way different but also, worse somehow. The Bible says to “Train a child in the way they should go and when they’re older they will not depart from it.” Our best hope is to teach them how to navigate the world as it is, not the one we wish it was. Be in the world, but not of it. Navigate it, don’t be controlled by it.

[@nickd2296]

The schools should be forced to use pencil and paper. What happens if the apocalypse happens and Gen Alpha can't function because the internet doesn't work.

[@Harrow567]

The children this is so sad this is why people should be more strict with their children. People need to teach their children how to be respectful. teach their children how to make friends and definitely not give them technology straight when they form out of the wound

[@User1924-se]

I agree with you, parents use iPads to make their kids shut up, not discipline, and there are so many other bad effects for the iPad kids generation

[@bigv6724]

I'm born in the early 80's and I only swatted my mom's hand away ONCE and only ONCE. BIG BACK THE WOODEN SPOON! The belt sucked but that might be needed for this alpha and maybe the wooden flat paddle with the holes drilled in it for better wind resistance and to get that whistle like a V2 rocket.

[@redfoxsecurity3334]

What if the kid is into BDSM and brings out his leather gear and invites over his dominatrix gf for added fun? 😹

[@neth77]

They need a few bashings, but the sissy's running the show get upset about it.

[@andrewjackson2843]

"BRING"...and auto-correct is ruining the language...the amount of spelling mistakes these days is astonishing. You can't even read a news article anymore without like 20 spelling mistakes in it..

[@nickd2296]

Damn, lol. Now I understand why millennials are not parenting. I'm Gen Z and my parents never hit me with an object but I did get spanked and slapped.

[@bigv6724]

@nickd2296 Yup, got my arse spanked with the wooden spoon time to time on the butt and one day the spoon broke on my boney ass. That day was a good day lol Mom tried spanking me with her hand and that hurt her hand so I never got spanked again. I understand why spanking and the such gone out of favor for punishment due to some adults getting out of hand causing actually damage breaking skin and bones. I'm 42 and not a serial killer besides being a master cereal killer. Married and couple fur babies and my older who got spanked a little worse than me and hell he's damn near a millionaire now working his ass off from 15-16yo starting as a lube tech changing oil to now some big hot shot specialist mechanic for big machines across the country. I'm super happy for him cause he had it a bit worse than me and had some nasty downfalls over the years. I'm proud of that guy for having such a strong drive and will power.

[@photoguy4212]

I’m generation X. I can relate to a lot of generation alpha as I essentially raised myself. Mom worked a lot and I could choose whatever I wanted to eat and did pretty much anything I wanted without much consequence. I made a lot of friends but as an adult I find that I don’t want to make any new ones and am perfectly fine with that. Most people suck, honestly. Friends are too much work. My attitude towards social issues is very comparable; I don’t really care. Whatever happens will happen. However, for the most part, I turned out ok due to society guiding me. The real world gave me a dose of the real world. It didn’t change to accommodate me. My point being; these kids will probably turn out ok in the end due to society forcing them to comply and conform. The individual is not more powerful than society.

[@shaziyataranum710]

Will they? You said society can change Gen alpha, but here's the problem these days a lot of millenials and gen zs are already pretty stupid so how will they learn?

[@freestylegamingartist8192]

If you had an ipad you would have spent more time on that than making friends in real life, learning communication skills and other important day to day skills. You wouldnt NEED to confront the issue, so you wont until perhaps its much too late. This will result in tons of stunted adults, and very few will make the effort to learn and change their attitudes as adults unless forced to. They need rehabilitation now: less screen time, no socials, reading and play time with other children. Not spending majority of free time playing fortnite / roblox and doom scrolling tiktok being bombarded with ads. Check out what happened to sephora: tons of lil kids in an adult makeup stores making a mess and buying lulu lemon and skincare products when they already have perfect skin!

[@foethaloveofcarla]

It's really not as bad as you think it is. I'm a late Gen Alpha and I have hobbies; so do my friends. There's people in my class that really make me regain hope in Gen Alpha. Up until Quarantine (when I was 10) I would always play outside with my neighbors and cousins, I would read for hours on end and I had never touched my phone. Then, with online school and being locked inside an apartment I discovered Tik Tok. Since then I had barely gone outside, read or played with other kids

[@Masterboss2]

wwdym late gen a that means u are genz if you say quarantine and you were 10

[@xijinping880]

@@Masterboss2 2010-now is gen alpha they are prob 13 rn so 2010

[@stever089]

I got to give you some props you have been putting out a hell of a lot of good content quickly Mr Moon

[@HenryIsBoredd]

Moon love ur content

[@GenXAbovetruth]

I am part of generation X and my son is part of generation Alpha! This was an eye-opening video! Thank you!

[@SirRichardHardenThicke]

I have a 7 year old and a 7 month old, both girls. No KZbin for them unless I'm with them. My oldest is obsessed with Sonic and Minecraft, the baby only chills out when I play Bluey or Daniel Tiger. When I was 7 I was playing Doom and Resident Evil... I feel like I'm doing better than my parents. Not all hope is lost.

[@planetdisco4821]

I was born in 1969 and spent a lot of my life in the Aussie outback. My housemate is gen z & and single mother who has joint custody of her 6 year old boy. You might as well have based this entire video on them. I have tried, like I have seriously, seriously tried to no avail to make them both snap out of their malaise. I cook a healthy meal, the kid demands and gets frozen pizza, McDonald’s, KFC. and he completely loses it when I make him put the iPad down to eat dinner. He’s probably autistic and I am beginning to suspect has learning difficulties. Over the holidays he was spending 12, I repeat, 12 hours a day on an iPad while his mum sits next to him watching Tim tok. It drives me frikn nuts!

[@HyperDriveHub-420]

If it doesn’t work, take a different approach. Give a reason

[@planetdisco4821]

@@HyperDriveHub-420 I did. I booted her out. She hadn’t paid the rent in 3 months either. Now, apparently i am something called a “Financial Abuser” she sent me the link from the psych website she found it on via text message after locking herself in her room once I very politely asked her to leave…

[@HyperDriveHub-420]

Hope your doing well, while bad as its seems, its not ur problem, unfortunately u cant fix others, but only lead and try to infliunce, hope that you have better luck next time dealing with a situation like this@@planetdisco4821

[@Idontlikehandlesatall]

That's so sad, hope both the mom and her son become better. I remember when there was a big tree in my yard full of caterpillars and i used to chase my brother with the caterpillars and we used to play tag with them.

[@Wakeuptorealityman]

​@@IdontlikehandlesatallI may sound weird but me and my cousins and my brother used to hunt every frog we found in the forest and then imprison them and put them in the kitchen for show. We stopped doing it cuz a snake nearly bit my brother.

[@tardarsauce1842]

I'm 20 now, and back when 2016, when I was 12. I still remember how my parents where of being strict whenever I was using my own tablet (to watch Minecraft lets plays or FNAF back in the day), like giving me curfew hours, not using it whenever I have homeworks, etc. And of course that made me a annoyed and frustrated to see my parents take away it. And now, in 2024, I'm grateful for them that they didn't made me addicted to gadgets 24 hours straight

[@CuttinInIdaho]

Kids tv (as a millenial) filled my head with world views that were simply not how real life works. It sensationalized things that are not normal and the outcomes were programming. My 5 year old loves things like minecraft and other games where he is in charge of his life. He does not resonate with finding a character that he thinks he should be, and then emulating it, because of a make believe story that is not like reality. He isn't scared of very much, loves siren head and huggy wuggy...and is extremely confident. He lives on his terms as much as he can while he is being taught boundaries and how to behave socially. I have no idea what he will be like as an adult, but I think the future is bright for them.

[@davidleon7918]

You can transmit your childhood stuff to him. Like your childhood shows, movies etc.

[@CuttinInIdaho]

@@davidleon7918 yeah that's true, and my goal is to have him think for himself so he doesn't waste years unwinding incorrect ideas and hypocrisy like I did from my boomer parents

[@warriora7245]

The bit about permissive parenting is very intriguing to me because my step brother suffers from this combined with many other things. His mom who sorta raised him let him be troubled 24/7 while being overly harsh on things that didn’t matter. A very traumatic thing to go thru fir sure

[@spooktoonz]

Dang. I just turned 16 yesterday, and now I’m just grateful that I had actual childhood experiences (playing board games, having play dates and sleepover, building forts, going to parks and birthday parties, etc.) and wasn’t just mindlessly on an Ipad the whole time. I remember I had a Kendall IPad (or something like that, I don’t really remember) when I was 3, but it didn’t have any sort of social media on it, just a few old mobile games like angry birds and fruit ninja. I didn’t get internet access until a few years later, and even then, I didn’t use it all the time and I still loved doing things in reality.

[@Mediocre00Rebel]

I was just outside today, its cloudy and wet but super warm for January. I rode around on my BMX bike, no technology with me. Felt like i was living in a different era.

[@Idontlikehandlesatall]

Exactly, the outside is so beautiful most of the time (not when its raining hard or its super foggy) and most kids are just letting it go.

[@lucymay446]

I think a counter problem would be how the parents (not all some generally cant be arsed to raise their children) that they struggle with a work life balence, to get their kid to be quiet and leave them alone while they work. The struggle of the grind in the modern world.

[@jolyproductions]

While true, I had games and toys growing up (gen z for context) which honestly probably costed less than it would to be to get a new phone or ipad. I do agree that it’s a struggle right now for sure, and while blaming parents might feel harsh, they are the adults in this case and therefore should be held responsible. There’s a lot of things we need to fix, not trying to sound like a jerk or put you down! cheers

[@lucymay446]

@jolyproductions no I totally get yoy I think I just find it hard to lay complete blame as I'm not a parent myself so idk if I'd ever reach the point where I would be weak enough to just distract my child for a hour or two while I work. Obviously I don't wanna aim for that, though.

[@KLOUD909]

I have a child who was born during the covid lock downs in 2020. I constantly worry about his future. 😢

[@beewee4987]

Not allowing your child to use Social Media until they are an adult 18+ will be one of the greatest gifts you can give them...Don't fall into that Bullsh*t trap of being pressured into giving you kid a cellphone too early because you "Don't want them to be left out while all their friends have them"....Better to wait until they are a teen as least.

[@Ddawg2000]

Gen Alpha is the culmination of the Tech evolution chain, With the tech addiction between Gen Z and endemically in Gen A…. I shudder to think where we go from here.

[@Ddawg2000]

Wait until VR and AUGMENTED REALITY fully takes hold in 5-10 years

[@TugasPT]

A whole hearted thank you, for you Moon. Your channel, your team and yourself provide more accurate and factual information than the History TV Channel. Thank you, it's amusing to watch your content.

[@pancakesean6888]

I think one thing that has led to the rise of ipad kids is the fact that inflation is out of control and wages are not keeping up. When both parents are working well over the traditional 40 hour week just to get by they don't have as much time to devote to raising children, thus they just shove an ipad into their kids hand and call it a day. It's a dangerous cycle where income equality rises and the intelligence of young kids decreases.

[@jolyproductions]

While I definitely agree with you on inflation and can see how that can create some parenting problems, I still had some toys when I was a kid (Gen Z for context). Things around us may be going poorly, but there still has to be accountability for the adults. I know the only phone my kids are getting is a flip phone for contact purposes only. Maybe a family computer but after finally getting control over my social media addictions, I would never want my kids to suffer the way I have, especially over the past few years since Covid. Cheers!

[@ironknightgaming5706]

Bingo.

[@mfbias4048]

Parents are glued to social media themselves to not bother parenting. I dont buy your reason as an excuse. Everyone is distracted by social media and the internet, not just the kids

[@yourdreams2440]

This is certainly a part of the problem, combined with permissive parenting and other social factors creates the situation we are in now. Some of these problems can be addressed directly, like telling parents to be parents. Fixing the economy is a lot harder, and it's not something we as a culture can change. We need to focus on fixing the cultural problems like permissive parenting.

[@Selrisitai]

Pretty sure Generation X is the overalls and sprinkler kids. Millennials are the beginning of the end, and Generation Alpha are the new owners of the brave new world.

[@alienjournalism]

This channel is so important that I’m considering paying $99 just to have a direct line to beg Mr. Moon to do a video about vocal fry

[@glencurtis6052]

I work in an office with a lot of 18-22 year olds and they have no idea how to talk to each other

[@jolyproductions]

That might just be your office, because as I watch my peers the only thing that I’ve noticed is I have someone else I can relate too and understand (to a certain extent ofc) and it seems to be reciprocated. There’s definitely some troubling parts about my generation (20 yrs old for context) but I do also believe it’s always been said about the youngest generation growing up. I know that sometimes I can have trouble connecting to some older people (40+) just because we haven’t had the same type of media intake our lives. By the way I’m not saying this to be a jerk, but rather some insights from someone in that age range. Cheers!

[@TheFriedmaster]

Amazing Channel!

[@TaylorSwipe]

Parents now : give 'em Ipad and you'll get a paradise without any sound of kids that your parents have to deal when you're young

[@Cy20716]

I have left treatment. I have worm for 1 year or 1.5 year 🤭🤭🤭my family not protect me from dangerous. I have horrible trauma

[@AsmoG13]

There will ALWAYS be one power much stronger than LCD screens and social media... the power of the Ice Cream! Also, children have absolutely NO say in developmental decisions, the parents are responsible, only the parents do, till they are 18.

[@andrewplatt7076]

I grew up playing lots of video games, but one thing that has gone extinct: moderation.

[@lexloose2112]

born in 64 and I've sadly watched the world go slowly insane, so very sad

[@enlightenment6716]

That cover photo is so accurate. We have a family friend who’s kid was obsessed with that blue face thing with the teeth and had a doll he’d carry around. He’s in the 5-8 year old range (don’t want to be exact) and now he’s obsessed with five nights at Freddy’s and wears their clothes and brings a costume around with him. All of our kids are scared of him/it and it’s honestly really creepy to watch him with it.

[@Everyonesbuddy829]

The cover photo of KZbin is called a thumbnail.

[@enlightenment6716]

@@Everyonesbuddy829 True

[@Gliese380]

Most of them can flawlessly recite the extended lore of their fav superhero or celeb, though. Just don't ask them anything else.

[@kio_kio.]

6:59 Well I don't agree My parents treated me like an adult when I was a child and they've always asked me about my opinion on something, asked me what I want, what I like and dislike and I grown up with zero childhood trauma, I never felt disadvantaged and I have no problems with decisions

[@Kyojinsei]

Thank you Moon, for challanging the status quo, and pushing the topics we should duscuss more often. the media autisum is somthing i didn't know about and is very troubling, seems kids, shouldnt have phones, or needs to be heavily restricted

[@THEINFINITIVERSESAGA]

The one time Disney definitely should have sued someone to bankruptcy 1:17

[@michaelKsla]

Should’ve gave them the sml treatment

[@eastcoastmusicmachine7989]

My parents did a thoroughly garbage job of raising their kids - my TV and land-line phone time was strictly limited and there was no internet during my childhood. News flash: don’t blame the internet or devices for an individual’s parenting choices. Parents can refuse to parent their kids regardless of the availability of technology

[@mushybite]

Parents don't wanna take care of their kids I swear