My sons are obsessed with YouTube. YouTube has changed how the youth of today watch t.v. Instead of tuning in to watch ALF, they are tuning into YouTube to watch a vlogger play video games or do a stupid stunts. I’ll be downstairs and I’ll hear my 9-year-old in his room let out a big belly laugh because he’s watching a YouTube show called appropriately, Try Not to Laugh.
I am on YouTube for 2 reasons: To either listen to a song that Amazon music doesn’t offer free with Prime or for tutorials. The tutorials I’ve watched and learned from include: how to remove a sink pipe (my son’s tooth fell down there and we both know the tooth fairy wasn’t going to extract it), social media tips, excel how-tos, make up tips and probably another million other reasons I can’t think of.
The Idea
P, the 12-year-old wants to make money before our trip to L.A. in 3 weeks. He negotiated work with his grandparents in exchange for money so I drove him and C, the 9-year-old, half way and let them walk the remaining 18 miles. I kid, no, I met my father-in-law. But before the kid drop-off, and to my disappointment, immediately upon entering the SUV, P grabbed the AUX cord to connect his phone to the radio so all us would be blessed with his uplifting, lovely, music.
“I wanna get you on camera, commenting on my songs.” P said.
“Yeah, that would be pretty funny,” I agreed.
This request stemmed from my comments after everything the rapper said that confused me. Here are just a few examples.
Smoking a cookie
“Smoking a cookie? What’s he talkin’ about? That better not be a girl scout cookie, otherwise that’s a complete waste of cookie.”
Splitin’ M’s
“What’s an M?” I asked. My sons answered “millions” in unison.
“Oh ok, I thought it was like an appetizer or something. Like, you roll up to Applebees and say, I’m starvin’! How about you get the loaded fries, I’ll get the M and we can share!”
Then there was another term that I asked about (I can’t remember it) and both of them gave each other a knowing look.
“You know what? I don’t want to know.”
So, as I sit here typing this up, P is in his room researching how he can splice and dice a video together. If he figures it out, I’ll be posting it on here, as well as YouTube. It’s always nice to shake things ups and offer different formats.
I feel educated…thank you??
Oh I get you totally. My two are always youtube speaking!
That was half the conversation on our way to a socccer game yesterday. Youtube this and Youtube that.
Lil Princess thinks you can learn everything from there!
Just this morning P told me about the second sneaker that was “dropping” from Adidas and how this Youtuber got to review it. He made me watch the last sneaker drop and it was pretty cool. Adidas had sent this YouTuber an oversized milk carton. In it were the new cookies and cream sneakers, a box of cookies, socks and an Adidas glass for his milk.
Good God! What to do with these kids!
Oh my gosh! A family affair of fun. I hope this works out, I want to see it. I also can’t believe I’m going to say this, but, “oh kids today, and the crazy things they say.”
I can’t figure out how to get the damn video on our video. He said he can do it with IMovie but just hasn’t done it yet. That’s code for “I’ll never do it”. Anyway, I’ll figure it out eventually.
Yes, you will. 🙂
Well that was an education for me – thank you! I’m now going to refer to ‘M’ whenever I get the opportunity!
It’s so stupid, isn’t it! Just like how they don’t call rap music, rap music anymore. It’s now called trap music. WTF? Did we really need to add the T?
I believe your adultness is showing in this post. There needs to be a YouTube channel that is a dictionary of sorts for us adults!
That’s a great idea. Teenagers need to write a dictionary then it’s edited and updated every year with incoming kids. It would be called the Webster Dictionary of Teen Slang.
I’ve often said that the only way I’m ever going to increase my reach is if I just start filming myself reading my blog posts shirtless. I still haven’t completely ruled it out
Jeremy, that would be so flippin’ funny! I really think you should consider it. OMG!
YouTube eats my time if I go on. I end up watching hair fails or dr Phil snippets where he verbally bitch slaps people, I could watch that all day long. And I do. It’s a problem
Ok, I’ve only seen Dr. Phil with the “Cash me outside” girl so now you have me curious. I almost don’t want to go down that rabbit hole as I’m afraid I would never come out of it. If I can get the damn video on top of our video, I’ll have it made!
It’s unending. There’s so much dumb in the world
Couldn’t agree more and Dr. Phil showcases it.
Oh dear, this is the age divide, culture thing we thought would never happen. I mean who would have thought that there could be anything more hip and a 70’s / 80’s kid?!?
EXACTLY! Now it’s almost comical when they say something and I have no idea on Earth what they are talking about. Trap music? They literally put a T in front of RAP for the same damn thing. And lit? Anything that is awesome is now “lit”. I guess it’s better than people using the phrase “sick”.
I know what you mean… it’s another language that I cannot grasp.
So true! This will be looked as a new language in 40 years!
Then there will be another new language… Ghaa!