A little slice of the cake

[matrixmann]

Who still wants to get on TV? It's nothing special anymore, it has become devoid of essence of content or message, if it ever had one, fame doesn't grant you prosperity, and your time as a personality being worth to be looked at is very fast moving.
If your desire was just to be seen once or to wave your friends, it's not worth the effort anymore as it's the institution no more that everyone looks up to and craves to know what's going on with it.

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[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was just thinking about You Tube. If someone's whole goal in life was to have a You Tube channel, I'm sure they could do it. Also, I go from high school to high school and teenagers are incredibly predictable in what they like and don't like. It would be very easy, if it wasn't just obnoxious, to figure out what things you could put on a You Tube channel that would draw viewers. You wouldn't make money, but you'd have a tv channel.

To take that and try to go further, I guess you'd then have to figure out how to sell something from that platform. It would probably have to be like a scam or a pyramid scheme. You'd tell people to use Pay Pal to purchase something and you'd send something that isn't nothing, but is cheap and disappointing.

I'm just following through with this as a thought experiment, not advocating that someone do it.

There are teenagers that I've seen, that look like they are becoming mentally ill, that seem to have been focusing their personalities on getting as many followers, as in Twitter followers, as they can. I remember one junior high girl I had last year that was sort of trying to make the classroom into an audience for her jokes and I said that she wasn't funny and she looked destroyed.

That being said, it is still very uncommon for a teenager to be very loud and attention seeking in the classrooms I go to. If anything, it seems like constant access to the internet and social media has made teenagers a lot more passive and they really crave authority figures to tell them what to do or to praise them.

I remember ten years ago when I'd substitute high schools some teenager boys would call me a faggot and there'd be a lot of anger.

I was going to make more generalizations, but to be honest I work very hard, spend a lot of time, making sure I end up only at schools where I've been successful at in the past.

I went to one that I wasn't successful at this past week and the teenagers were talking really loudly and ignoring me. So, it wasn't like they were aggressive.

I would say that generally social media seems to sedate teenagers and make them regress and be more and more childish.

One problem though is that if eventually they have really expensive tastes but an inability to make money, they'll snap and be violent. But, that is how they'd be violent. It is nothing like it was ten years ago when every high school classroom had male students that would call me faggot and seem very angry all the time.

[matrixmann]

Admittedly, it's very self-centered. Like a lot of them try for the big Kardashian show, but even not one example of this kin is actually really exciting.

I don't know if it's just the burden of the age or something else that adds to it - teens like to think they're very individual and no-one else is like them. They do play and they need to play an exceptional role in life.
But in fact they don't - and telling them how much they bore you and how much you say "yeah, heard that a thousand times before", how much you recognize what trends, brands and mass preferences they call "their own ones", it's gonna end you in a spiteful storm. It's like you hit someone with a bat on his head - something completely unthinkable.

These days teens and young adults do a lot of this trending for fame and making it into mass media. Maybe two decades earlier, even adults could still be thrilled and won for this. This has vastly vanished, and those ones which are still there are those which didn't make it earlier or which constantly struggle of remaining being discussed.