This look is solely directed at the parents.

Good god this hits home

Months ago I was visited by a relative who brought their eight year old. She's single and her boy is ever so slightly mentally not there. He's smart enough but just not there with everything. Plus the mother is not capable of looking after him. So many wrong things and I hate to judge anything about it .... both mother and son are having and will continue to have a hard life.

As we talked, the son spent the entire time with their device looking at YouTube videos.

At one point I wanted to try to make friends and asked him what he was watching .... he mumbled and ignored me. I looked over at his video and it was just a completely nonsensical animation of characters running around like in a video game ... I couldn't understand what was happening or why, the cartoon animals were just mumbling nonsense, laughing, running and flashing lights and constant cuts to new scene after new scene. I looked at the kid and he was two steps away from just drooling.

I couldn't believe it and it scared me. This device was melting any amount of brain power the kid had.

It made me think about myself and what the hell I was doing with my time.

It made me think that the world is all doing the same thing to one degree or another. Some are better, since are terribly worse.

It made me think that humanity is doomed.

You watch skibidi toilet on a corporate-controlled spyware machine known as the "iPad"

I read the anarchist cookbook on my RISC-V PineTab

We are not the same.

App suggestions make it so hard to keep kids away from slop. I started out only letting my toddler watch PBS Kids programs and a few other educational programs, but then your kids start seeing suggestions for all sorts of shlock, and they want to see the show with the superhero kitties is (it's called Super Kitties and it is garbage). God help you if you try to watch something on YouTube; every suggested video is either low-quality home movies of people playing with toys (which is like crack to toddlers or weird shit like this that absolutely shouldn't be on YouTube Kids but often is anyway.

Learn to shitpost kid.

People when kids screech at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'

People when kids run around at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'

People when kids use an ipad at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'

There's no winning here. Children just aren't allowed to exist.

We are the exception because we most definitely weren't like that at all as a kid. /s

And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).

It's easy to judge from like 30 minutes in public, until you have an autistic kid and no support network.

Don't judge the kid, judge the parents. Parents who should not be parents prefer to make their kids less of a burden to them by handing them over to the overstimulation square

Me when a friend of mine who's an engineer who sometimes works for the CERN unironically watches Mr. Beast and listens to Papa-a-pate (?, this nonsense k-pop song, it was popular some months ago...).

Like, yeah, you have the hardware, why fill your brain with malware! ;-;

Well chosen character, sorry if that's you.