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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If your "job" is to convince brainless zoomers to eat tide pods or convince them to try DIY plastic surgery with hammers, maybe burning out isn't a bad thing. Maybe we're just seeing nature healing itself.

[–] dosaki@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Bonesmashing?! Just when I thought people couldn't get any stupider.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You get this a joke?

Children were never eating tide pods either.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Children were never eating tide pods either

Yes they were. Because some people really are that dumb.

The same year, nearly 220 teens were reportedly exposed, and about 25 percent of those cases were intentional, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

So far in 2018, there have been 37 reported cases among teenagers — half of them intentional, according to the data.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/01/13/teens-are-daring-each-other-to-eat-tide-pods-we-dont-need-to-tell-you-thats-a-bad-idea/

And that's just reported numbers for teenagers. I can almost guarantee you the number of idiots that ate one and didn't know how to call poison control is much higher.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?

You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 0 points 35 minutes ago (2 children)

How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod? So you tell the guy when you're checking in at the ER "Homie and I were just playing catch with a tide pod and I was yelling at cousin Mabel to get off the dang roof and it just dropped into my mouth and I swallowed. It was a one in a million shot doc. One in a million."

More likely they did it intentionally and didn't want to admit to it to avoid embarrassment. That or one of their dumb buddies thought it'd be funny based on some Tiktok they saw so they dropped one into someone's bowl of Doritos.

Either way all I was doing was correcting a false statement you made about children never eating tide pods. Because they surely did.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

Ngl my partner put a dishwasher position on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 0 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

Title of your link:

Liquid Laundry Detergent Pods Pose Lethal Risk for Adults With Dementia

For all those teenagers with dementia XD

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Did you know that cognitively delayed teenagers exist?

Check real quick - I think “gullible” is written on your ceiling. Watch out, I hear human traffickers are putting fentanyl laced roses on car doors.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

My lord the amount of “I have a REAL job” in here is too damn high. I work 8 hours a night, 40+ hours a week, in an automotive plant. My job can be very stressful, and physically demanding. So what?

I don’t sit here and whine about people that stare at their screens (IT, developers, etc) all day. Are they really doing any work? After all, they are not performing physical labor.

How is it that different for people who create content? I’d argue that they do more work, as they have to set up, film, edit and market their work.

See how silly this sounds? A job is a job. Unless you own your own business, you are making money for someone else.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

At least in some cases, it might just be wholesome advice. The fact that you have "a job" and a whole different persona from that and they're two separate things that sometimes intertwine probably brings you closer to us in administrative tasks (in the end, IT is by definition always something administrative rather than actually productive) than me as in an IT guy with an influencer. Because ultimately, your actual identity is your job, and by conclusion, your whole life is performative, which sounds REALLY exhausting

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 50 minutes ago

I’m not sure I understand where you are going with that. Performative? Exhausting? The hell are you trying to say?

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It's easy to try on that pair of shoes. Those ignorants should go ahead and try building a community, try creating a video with some genuine effort regarding its content and - especially - edit it in an appealing way.

Heck, I was doing some Blender rendering for fun as a hobby and am occasionally recording some demo videos of a project I am working at for my supervisor. Sometimes it takes about two hours to edit a fucking 10 minute video. This is just a huge amount of work. No wonder any creator, who has reached a sufficient level of income, hires editors.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago

I also think a big part of content creator burnout is the 'everything is content' mindset. If you work in a factory or an office usually you can go home and not be at work any more. When hanging out with your friends or being with your family also becomes content and therefore part of your job, the mental toll clearly becomes unbearable.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I heard someone talking about a content creator they watch, and how that creator basically can't take a vacation without losing tons of followers and potentially a major chunk of their income.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of creators will have a number of videos created ahead of time, so they can go on holiday and still have a steady release schedule.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Doesn't help if you're a streamer, though. I guess that was a part I left out, whoops -_-

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 minute ago

Don't they just take working vacations?

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, that's a whole different world.

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

Yep, this exactly. They can never clock out at the end of the day. It isn’t 8 hours of work and you’re done. You’re having to constantly try to innovate. Make tons of content, spend so much time editing, constant filming, constant planning. And if you deviate in your schedule, or upload some content that isn’t interesting, the algorithm punishes you and you may even get people that unsubscribe.

Must be hell when you can’t afford to take a vacation from that content creator life. Can never really “switch off”. Plus the fact that less than 1% actually make it big, and it’s mostly based on luck plus years and years of determination.

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