Preferences for leisure activities vary widely, with some finding them enjoyable and others deeming them frivolous. While some individuals engage in these pastimes for relaxation and stress relief, others simply find them inherently pleasurable.
A user took the forum and asked What is something that young people love that you don’t understand? Here are the common responses.
PRANKS
“All these prank videos on people in public. The public tiktok dancing. I can’t handle the secondhand embarrassment when someone is dancing in aisle 5.”
CRYING IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
“Filming themselves crying.”
“Yeah, I saw one the other day of a girl holding her dead pet snake, and she’s crying like she just discovered it. She found her dead snake, set up a tripod with her camera/phone, then got the angle right, recorded herself crying with the dead snake, then edited it with captions about her dead snake and put sad music over it.
It’s frustrating when you think about it. She’s looking for sympathy, and in reality, if you’re doing all that, the snake is less important than your likes on social media.”
FILMING STRANGERS
“Random film strangers without consent to make fun of them online all for the internet.”
ONLINE CONTENT
The amount of online content so many people create. It’s work! How do they have time for this?
TIKTOK/YOUTUBE VIDEOS
“I don’t understand certain genres of TikTok/YouTube videos. Who is entertained by those videos where it’s a robot voice reading out comments while a subway surfer is being played on screen? Who is the audience for those videos where some dude with an awful haircut asks people risqué questions either on a college campus or at the beach?”
COOKING AND SATISFYING VIDEOS
“Putting random cooking or “satisfying” videos next to the main video on TikTok. I don’t know if it started as a trick to keep people’s attention, but as someone with diagnosed and lifelong ADD, they’re only distracting and take away from what the main video is.
It drives me up the wall, and no matter how often I press “not interested,” I still get videos like that on my Feed. I hope this trend dies out sometime soon.”
TEENS ACTING SILLY
“As a teacher, I get enormously annoyed that it seems cool to be stupid for many teens. Like being proud of lacking or pretending to lack basic knowledge or primary skills.
Over the last two weeks, I had a 14-year-old pretending not to know who the figure of Christ was, a kid claiming not to know how to use a ruler, and one who claimed never to have used scissors.”
COSMETICS ON VIDEO GAMES
“Cosmetic stuff in video games is kind of cool, but I don’t understand the amount of value people put on it.”
TALKING LOUDLY ON THE PHONE
“Talking loudly with your phone on speaker while in public. Older people do it, too.”
VIDEO CALLING
“Facetiming people instead of calling them. Unless you have to show me something, I prefer not to show my face on the screen.”
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