An insightful essay on the social media generation and their existential drama was just published by…the official Twitter account for Steak-Umms?
Apparently a lot of people tweet at Steak-Umm looking for a conversation or validation, which prompted this Tweetstorm yesterday. Here are a few highlights…
“Why are so many young people flocking to brands on social media for love, guidance, and attention? I’ll tell you why. They’re isolated from real communities, working jobs they hate…disenfranchised by past generations.”
Read on…
they’re crushed by student loan debt, disenfranchised by past generations, and are dreading the future of our world every day from mass media addiction and the struggle to not just be happy, but to survive this chaotic time with every problem happening at once under a microscope
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018
they often don’t have parents to talk to because they say stuff like “you don’t know how good you have it,” and they don’t have mentors to talk to because most of them have no concept for growing up in this strange time, which perpetuates the feeling of helplessness/loneliness
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018
young people today have it the best and the worst. there’s so much to process and very few trusted, accessible outlets to process it all through. so they go to memes. they go to obscure or absurdist humor. they go to frozen meat companies on twitter. end rant
Steak-umm bless
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018
no soundcloud to add here. at the end of the day it’s easy to tweet about problems and complain about “the other,” it’s a lot harder to improve the self and work toward solutions
be encouraged and have hope my beeflings, the world needs it
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018
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