David Kipping

They aspire for that.

But it has some great elements.

It's creative.

It's an outlet.

With that kind of attention, I just think... My kids' channel is only me, I think, that watches this, unfortunately.

And I think, yeah, but you're totally right.

I mean, the feedback loop is potentially really damaging.

And I'm so glad that I grew up in an era without cell phones.

Yeah, me too.

I can't imagine how I would have got through life if I had Twitter at my fingertips or Facebook or whatever it was growing up because that just adds a whole new stress.

And you hear these stories of kids at school where the boys saying to their girlfriends, well, you need to send me photos of you.

And then they get these photos and they send it around the school as a joke.

And there's all this kind of weird fucked up bullying going on.

and we didn't have to deal with any of that shit growing up.

Like, it's so much simpler.

I mean, my son was saying to me, oh, I'm friends with this other kid at camp because he's got 100 subscribers, and that's become a thing, right?

Like, how many subscribers or followers you have sort of forms, like, a popularity rank in even real-world settings, and...

It's messed up.

There's so much pressure on the kids in a way we never experienced.

And the more cognitive burden you have like that, the less you can focus on the things you're truly passionate about and discovering what you want to do in your life.