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This “kid” is 25 years old, studied architecture and works as an artist. The work is amazing on its own, no need for clickbait.

dominicr 8y ago
Kinda right, it sounds like most of the work has been after his "kid" years but if he's been working on it for 9 years then he was 16 when he started.
deytempo 8y ago
I can never figure out why people care more that a kid made something.
- nickelcitymario 8y ago
  Really? "Group of children place toddler on the moon" wouldn't be more surprising than "Thousands of highly trained grown-ass engineers put man on the moon"? We care more because we EXPECT impressive things to be accomplished by adults. We expect kids to be morons, because when we were kids, we were morons.
  - izzydata 8y ago
    What slightly irks me is when some "kid" makes the news about something they did, but in reality it was basically their parents guiding them the entire time. Pretty much how some kid shows up to a science fare and wins despite their parents doing most of the work. Not the case here, but that is usually what I expect when I see a kid making something news worthy.
  - deytempo 8y ago
    I tend to care more about what is being accomplished and could give a rip who is accomplishing it.
- balabaster 8y ago
  Do you have kids? I can't get mine to sit still and focus long enough to learn the basics of playing the piano. The basics. And this is something they pester me to teach them on a weekly basis! Anyone who has a normal kid would understand why people care more that a kid made something - especially something of such amazing detail. My kids are happy, that's really everything that I hope for, but someone who puts this level of focus and effort into their work is not what very many people with kids would consider normal.
  - Retric 8y ago
    That’s the difference between “some kid” and “your kid”. Find a kid that likes playing the piano and it’s no longer an issue. It might be unusual for kids to make something that would still be interesting if an adult had made it. But, their are millions of kids out there.
    - balabaster 8y ago
      Of course, left to their own devices and granted the opportunity, kids will naturally do the thing they most want to do and it never appears to be anything of consequence until you look back on it many years from now. I'm sure my Mum thought I was just wasting time on the computer at 8, but I'm where I am today because of it. But this is equivalent to me having reverse engineered and coded a commercial piece of software that I began in high school... that never happened, and I loved programming.
      - Retric 8y ago
        Not quite, this is not an actual functioning aircraft. On the other hand many kids have written programs that where actually useful. Recorded music people actually paid for etc etc.
nikofeyn 8y ago
it said he started in high school, studied architecture in high school and not college, and has no formal training in this. you seem to be massaging the facts.
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nickelcitymario 8y ago
Fair point, but I think the headline is more effective this way and, unlike most things I'd label as clickbait, the payoff in the article is satisfying enough that I don't feel tricked. The way I think of clickbait is this: You should always write the most effective headline you can, which I'd measure in terms of the click-thru rate. But if the content doesn't pay off, I'll stop trusting you. For example, I'll gladly click any clickbait from Cracked because their articles almost always pay off. If they say they have 23 surprising things, you can bet there will be 23 things that surprise me. By contrast, I'd never click a BuzzFeed link because they spent years proving their headlines never pay off. Update: You know, it's cool if you need to downvote things, but it'd be helpful if you had the courage to comment on why you're downvoting. I don't care about the points (it's just gamification folks), but my obsessive brain is now wondering who I offended and how. Is it for disliking BuzzFeed? For liking Cracked? For suggesting clickbait-style headlines can be justified? For thinking this particular headline was justified? It reminds me of an old job I had where everyone in the company did an annual evaluation of everyone else in the company, anonymously. We just rated people, with no ability to explain why we gave them that rating. It ended up serving no instructive purpose and was just a way of finding out how many people hated you.
syntaxing 8y ago
Totally agree. The title should be more along the line "An Artist Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet which he started as a kid"
gerbilly 8y ago
If he spent nine years building it, he started at sixteen: hence as a kid.

dominicr 8y ago

Kinda right, it sounds like most of the work has been after his "kid" years but if he's been working on it for 9 years then he was 16 when he started.

deytempo 8y ago

I can never figure out why people care more that a kid made something.

nickelcitymario 8y ago
Really? "Group of children place toddler on the moon" wouldn't be more surprising than "Thousands of highly trained grown-ass engineers put man on the moon"? We care more because we EXPECT impressive things to be accomplished by adults. We expect kids to be morons, because when we were kids, we were morons.
- izzydata 8y ago
  What slightly irks me is when some "kid" makes the news about something they did, but in reality it was basically their parents guiding them the entire time. Pretty much how some kid shows up to a science fare and wins despite their parents doing most of the work. Not the case here, but that is usually what I expect when I see a kid making something news worthy.
- deytempo 8y ago
  I tend to care more about what is being accomplished and could give a rip who is accomplishing it.
balabaster 8y ago
Do you have kids? I can't get mine to sit still and focus long enough to learn the basics of playing the piano. The basics. And this is something they pester me to teach them on a weekly basis! Anyone who has a normal kid would understand why people care more that a kid made something - especially something of such amazing detail. My kids are happy, that's really everything that I hope for, but someone who puts this level of focus and effort into their work is not what very many people with kids would consider normal.
- Retric 8y ago
  That’s the difference between “some kid” and “your kid”. Find a kid that likes playing the piano and it’s no longer an issue. It might be unusual for kids to make something that would still be interesting if an adult had made it. But, their are millions of kids out there.
  - balabaster 8y ago
    Of course, left to their own devices and granted the opportunity, kids will naturally do the thing they most want to do and it never appears to be anything of consequence until you look back on it many years from now. I'm sure my Mum thought I was just wasting time on the computer at 8, but I'm where I am today because of it. But this is equivalent to me having reverse engineered and coded a commercial piece of software that I began in high school... that never happened, and I loved programming.
    - Retric 8y ago
      Not quite, this is not an actual functioning aircraft. On the other hand many kids have written programs that where actually useful. Recorded music people actually paid for etc etc.

nikofeyn 8y ago

it said he started in high school, studied architecture in high school and not college, and has no formal training in this. you seem to be massaging the facts.

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nickelcitymario 8y ago

Fair point, but I think the headline is more effective this way and, unlike most things I'd label as clickbait, the payoff in the article is satisfying enough that I don't feel tricked. The way I think of clickbait is this: You should always write the most effective headline you can, which I'd measure in terms of the click-thru rate. But if the content doesn't pay off, I'll stop trusting you. For example, I'll gladly click any clickbait from Cracked because their articles almost always pay off. If they say they have 23 surprising things, you can bet there will be 23 things that surprise me. By contrast, I'd never click a BuzzFeed link because they spent years proving their headlines never pay off. Update: You know, it's cool if you need to downvote things, but it'd be helpful if you had the courage to comment on why you're downvoting. I don't care about the points (it's just gamification folks), but my obsessive brain is now wondering who I offended and how. Is it for disliking BuzzFeed? For liking Cracked? For suggesting clickbait-style headlines can be justified? For thinking this particular headline was justified? It reminds me of an old job I had where everyone in the company did an annual evaluation of everyone else in the company, anonymously. We just rated people, with no ability to explain why we gave them that rating. It ended up serving no instructive purpose and was just a way of finding out how many people hated you.

syntaxing 8y ago

Totally agree. The title should be more along the line "An Artist Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet which he started as a kid"

gerbilly 8y ago

If he spent nine years building it, he started at sixteen: hence as a kid.