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I wonder what went wrong in parenthood when kids have idols like this guy.
by marban 4y ago
I wonder what went wrong in parenthood when kids have idols like this guy.
- Gelob 4y agoNothing went wrong. You never watched something on tv when you were younger that your parents thought was filth and stupid?
- paulgb 4y agoI did, but I fortunately didn't have $500k to “invest” in a game at the time.
- coldtea 4y agoYes. And that was a problem with parenthood back then too.
- marban 4y agoNo, I'm not aware of anyone getting scammed by He-Man.
- iso1631 4y agoYou benefited from strong regulations which covered television programming, and even stronger regulations about those aimed at kids. If NBC had broadcast scams in He-Man or Scooby Doo rather than the weekly moral messages they'd have been off air faster than you could blink. Regulation barely exists any more, except mainly to defend copyright owners.
- chowells 4y agoHe-Man was the scam. The entire show was created specifically to sell toys to children. Before Reagan's deregulation crusade in the early 80s, that was illegal.
- godzillabrennus 4y agoIf true that’s yet another reason to celebrate Raegan. Better for kids to buy toys of men in leotards than the Johnny 5 all in one super weapon.
- feet 4y agoWhat is the Johnny 5 all in one super weapon?
- justin_oaks 4y agoI think the parent commenter meant the Johnny Seven O.M.A (One Man Army) toy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA
- pixl97 4y agoJonny Seven One Man Army. Legal Eagle did a video over dangerous toys recently and had this in it. https://youtu.be/UtT34FNuBf0 https://youtu.be/UtT34FNuBf0 At the 3:15 mark.
- Quarrelsome 4y agoI mean its not a scam if you get a toy after you pay for it. The issue with this scam is none of these people got what they paid for.
- trimbo 4y agoWhat was illegal? Disney was selling character stuff for decades prior. Star Wars toys were licensed by Lucas before that movie came out[1]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenner_Star_Wars_action_figures#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenner_Star_Wars_action_figure...
- eli 4y agoYou clearly never ordered the products advertised in the back of the comics.
- aswanson 4y agoI wanted that hovercraft kit so bad.
- checkyoursudo 4y agoMore than x-ray vision? Real x-ray vision[0]? [0] Or so I was led to believe.
- aswanson 4y agoLol, forgot that one!
- doc_gunthrop 4y agoBut kids were being scammed by those 1-900 "call Santa" television commercials.
- godzillabrennus 4y agoJackass / CKY videos come to mind for my generation. Even Bum Fights. Shame what’s happened to Bam Margera.
- AntoniusBlock 4y agoBam Margera looks like he could star on Bum Fights as a bum. They could call it Bam Fights.
- pipeline_peak 4y ago> Shame what’s happened to Bam Margera Considering how much he’s refused support, this was predicted for years. It’s all on him.
- brookst 4y agoI’m always curious why people think that blame has something to do with compassion. They’re entirely orthogonal. If you only have compassion for the blameless, you may not be doing it right.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoWhy should anyone feel sorry for him? He’s 40 yrs old and lost, he had the time and resources. I don’t feel sorry for someone who throws away that many chances.
- brookst 4y agoFair enough. People who do feel compassion for those who caused their own suffering usually do so out of an awareness that they are fallible as well.
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- RGamma 4y agoSM is chock full of people like this. It is maddening.
- Waterluvian 4y agoProbably the same kinds of things that drive adults to be defrauded by religion-based grifts, especially through their television sets. These TV personalities are just a different flavour of that. You send them money to feel part of something and they line their pockets all the same.
- oifjsidjf 4y agoThis. Same mechanism, different medium.
- arcturus17 4y agoI'm an atheist, but I think that there's infinitely more value in Christian beliefs than whatever Logan Paul is preaching.
- Waterluvian 4y agoIndeed. I never meant to blanket all of religion, and amended my word use a few minutes ago. I mean the personalities who go on TV and ask for your money in the name of a god.
- doc_gunthrop 4y agoYou mean televangelists. Kenneth Copeland and Joel Osteen are two well-known ones.
- Waterluvian 4y agoThat’s the word! Thanks.
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- justinator 4y ago"Christian Beliefs" and, "The Actual Practices of Christians" are too very different things. There are have been many atrocities done over hundreds of years in the name of Christ. This guy just has a pretty (and punchable) face he's using to grift his idiot fans.
- rqtwteye 4y agoI think it's because the concept of having a stable career that allows people to have a good life, family, house and retirement seems more and more out of reach for a lot of people. So get-rich-quick schemes appear the only way out. And after the 2008 bailouts it became pretty clear that there are different rules for different people and it's ok to lie to people if you are just brazen enough.
- CSMastermind 4y agoThis feels a bit revisionist to me. There's a long and storied history of conmen, charlatans, and scam artists going back to at least thousands of years and probably to the dawn of human culture. I haven't seen any evidence yet that would lead me to believe the rate of scams are rising or that there's been a significant change in human behavior regarding this recently.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoIt's not the rate, it's the reach.
- akudha 4y agoAre people more racist, sexist, dumb etc today, compared to 50-100 years ago? I’d guess no, but it feels that way because of the global and instant nature of the internet. YouTube is filled with videos of people doing dumb things. Similarly, a conman can reach hundreds of millions of people today vs a few thousand at best, 100 years ago. It is also cheaper. Everything is amplified and today - especially bad behavior.
- _fat_santa 4y ago> And after the 2008 bailouts it became pretty clear that there are different rules for different people I think part of the problem lies here. We have this notion that there are those rich and powerful few, and there is the rest of us plebeians. Everyone wants to be the person that cracks the code and joins the ranks of the elite. All of a sudden that scammy crypto project looks like your ticket in and "all the haters just don't know". One of the best things I've learned looking at this crap for the past few years is there really are no shortcuts, and any shortcut that's getting sold to you is snake oil.
- gloryjulio 4y agoThere was a youtube video they uploaded about the logan brothers and the father take turns to kiss a girl blindfolded. So the parenthood is exactly as how it's intended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoF6Tajj4UM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoF6Tajj4UM
- Quarrelsome 4y agoeverything went right. He's from the generation of rich kids that happened upon the internet when it was possible to impress even younger children and gain audience by flaunting elements of one's wealth. Post YouTube there was a huge gold rush of rich kids looking to be at the front of queue using their parents money to buy impressive production or stage outrageous stunts. Tragically these rich kids apparently missed out on the character development arc where they fail and better themselves as people before they succeed. That's why today many of them are grifters and scammers.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoI think that's a bit harsh. Logan Paul is a good looking, tall, charming dude. He's highly prolific on youtube, and is also a boxer and a pro-wrestler on the side. This is just what celebrity looks like in the 20s. I may find him distasteful too, but I am not the least bit surprised a lot of kids think he's cool and don't think it's some failure in parenting.
- BobbyJo 4y agoPerception. People see a different world today. One where douchebags are rich, and people who work 9-5pm, and raise a family, are NPCs. Everyone trying to get rich off an image has to sell that story in order to make money. If the world thought having a stable job and a loving family was the epitome of cool, none of these cash-grabbing losers would have an audience, everyone would be busy doing something useful.
- JasserInicide 4y agoThere was no parenting at all
- maxbond 4y agoWhatever generation you identify as, I'm positive it had plenty of people subscribing to celebrities and poor role models. This certainly isn't a problem if "people have forgotten how to parent".