Yes, Everyone on the Internet Is a Loser.

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  • @GeorgijTovarsen
    @GeorgijTovarsen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1936

    Be the reason why Luke cringes while reading the comment section [Picture of Patrick Bateman]

    • @batemanboi9672
      @batemanboi9672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Hi

    • @Meleeman011
      @Meleeman011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      don't worry i am i promise

    • @robrick9361
      @robrick9361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      "Look at that subtle comment, the tasteful elegance of it.......oh my god, it even has a Luke Smith Heart"

    • @danutmh
      @danutmh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The funny part is, it's not even an original comment, you "stole" that from the internet. :))

    • @Aziz.500
      @Aziz.500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@danutmh stealing from open source lol

  • @Thatsit36
    @Thatsit36 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2540

    This is a great message Luke.
    I'll be sure to spread the word by Postal system.

    • @Sharp931
      @Sharp931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I'll go postal.

    • @user-el4su7tl6f
      @user-el4su7tl6f 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      This comment was approved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    • @fyradur
      @fyradur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      "Word"

    • @speakertwentytwo
      @speakertwentytwo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Obviously you don't know enough people IRL!

    • @bearman_1826
      @bearman_1826 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Does the "Postal" system involve pissing on people and using stray cats as silencers?

  • @patatesaraskumpr3228
    @patatesaraskumpr3228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +593

    Thanks, now i will be sharing this in my based and red pilled discord chat

    • @jcon2060
      @jcon2060 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      Thanks I'll be sharing this with my fellow chad hustlers at Andrew Tate's HUSTLER UNIVERSITY.

    • @rimondas6729
      @rimondas6729 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Thanks, now I will be sharing this in my based Marxist-leninist matrix server

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sorry i don't use the interwebs much what is that red pill based on exactly is it the latest drug.

    • @jcon2060
      @jcon2060 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@belstar1128 is this satire? Well the red pill is an ideology that takes its inspiration from the matrix when Morpheus offers two options - the red or the blue pill. The red pill refers to the supposed "truth" that people are not aware of.
      TRP mostly targets men and reinforces misogynist views and teaches them that the world is against men.

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jcon2060 Can i get the matrix on video cassette already or is it still in theatres

  • @360-no-scopejohnson6
    @360-no-scopejohnson6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +755

    Luke is literally a deep fake AI using a Kazikstani word processing algorithm. Notice how every frame he looks more or less like the default Runescape character... A popular game in Kazakstan.

    • @BestKCL
      @BestKCL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Khazakhstan ugreszheit numbar 1 do nombomburakev.

    • @BestKCL
      @BestKCL 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/users/shortsWXEahzh_tZk?feature=share

    • @tfwthatfeel9929
      @tfwthatfeel9929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *Kekistani

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@gastari429 That's not a conspiracy theory, but rather a philosophical or theological belief on fate and predestination.

    • @monsieurlemon
      @monsieurlemon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nursultan Tulyakbay, pains in my assaholes

  • @haunter8201
    @haunter8201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    the best thing I ever did was to stop reading reddit and 4chan. it's like hanging out at a mental asylum. that will negatively effect anyone.

    • @jeremytesticleman1607
      @jeremytesticleman1607 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Had a similar thing to u. I often realized whenever I browsed through comments in youtube posts relating to socializing that literally everyone would say they were introverted, have ADHD, have social anxiety. Maybe I was just like them but for me it was the wake call, I did not want to be like these people.

    • @williamrgrant
      @williamrgrant 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes. This!

    • @t.8936
      @t.8936 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      During covid I wandered into reddit. I developed severe depression as a direct result. I thought thats what the world had turned into!! 😭

    • @jacktrevino1108
      @jacktrevino1108 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @t.8936 There are def whole millenial friends groups that were/are 'like that'. The fact they exist sickens me. You can meet plenty of seemingly well adjusted people in the real world that are actual freaks, idk what this vid is trying to prove.

    • @Shivaisaperson
      @Shivaisaperson หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Reddit is toxic af, the politics, memes,circle jerks are all shame driven it drains people mentally but it's very very addictive because of the pseudo conversations.

  • @thereddrob
    @thereddrob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +743

    This guy looks like he's about to solve a mystery orchestrated by a cartoon blue dog

    • @texasrox2010
      @texasrox2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      allofmywut.jpeg

    • @hanteroes
      @hanteroes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      What cartoon? Not an amerifat so I don't get the reference

    • @yaknoe4659
      @yaknoe4659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@hanteroes Blue’s Clues lmao

    • @bruh-db8by
      @bruh-db8by 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      "not an amerifat 🤓🤓🤓" no one asked but ok 🤨

    • @hanteroes
      @hanteroes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@bruh-db8by no one asked but ok 🤓

  • @rodney_d
    @rodney_d 2 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    When the Internet was still a niche thing, people would have lives and sometimes browse the Web for more information on their interests. And some would broadcast (through websites) those real-life interests. Nowadays, it seems that there's no real life, and that the Internet has become self-referential, without the need for real life at all.

    • @intfamous4001
      @intfamous4001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Quality observation

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I remember "relatable" memes were once not even a concept.People wouldn't have got them back in the day.Why would you bring in all that commonplace stuff about real life when you could just experience it for yourself?

    • @deadliestvice5356
      @deadliestvice5356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I noticed that recursiveness too, where people are constantly comparing mundane events to something they've seen in a video game.
      It's as though people forgot that the entire media and entertainment landscape was shaped by real life... which sounds completely obvious of course, but people just don't remember anymore.

    • @chococat3972
      @chococat3972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Idk abt yall but I still see a LARGE part of the internet being closer to the first type you described… its just that the second type is much louder

    • @ProdbyZyruh
      @ProdbyZyruh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That feeling of no need for life at all may be for some people but when Web 3.0 finally makes way virtual reality will replace many people’s actual reality

  • @jesuschristislord6790
    @jesuschristislord6790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3077

    You mean to tell me that people who spend 14 hours a day on the computer watching anime, playing video games and posting memes in discord aren't going to be amazing? Woah

    • @gadflyofhumanity_6847
      @gadflyofhumanity_6847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I still earn over six figures CODING while DOING at the rest of all of what you described. And I ENJOY MY own damn self-actualized LIFE . All I can say is:
      Cope and seethe you christcuck normie.

    • @DaEpic
      @DaEpic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      he mean who spend all the time you're talking about in Twitter or tubehub or even insta for nothing
      but if you use the internet for learn.. that's the point i guess

    • @bellphorusnknight
      @bellphorusnknight 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anime was a mistake

    • @DiamondZombie
      @DiamondZombie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      Coding doesn't really require a high usage of internet to be honest other than reading documentations. I think he was talking about people who are active on social media day and night no stop.

    • @trashcanman6649
      @trashcanman6649 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@DiamondZombie Don't forget Stackoverflow.

  • @rajinfootonchuriquen
    @rajinfootonchuriquen ปีที่แล้ว +91

    I remembered joining to Reddit thinking "I want to chat to all thoose interesting people". What a wrong idea I had.

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember thinking "Oh this reddit place has a large community of fellow game developers? Oh how nice! Maybe I can help some people out too."
      Oh how wrong I was. 99% arent actually what they claim, and the 1% who were actual professionals were the dumbest most incompetent ones you will ever meet. I did get to help a few newbies, but was quickly alienated for wrongthink bc I just happened to reject the copypasta meme advice nodevs would give newbies. I also noticed all the "forum regulars" were deeply sociopathic mentally disturbed lunatics.
      Finally, I decided after I was banned for wrongthink to look up what the moderators looked like IRL. They literally look like the incel school shooter meme or the california polyamoury mentally deranged wokester.
      No where on the internet is any different. Discord is even worse in many ways, and places like StackExchange are literally fueled by a handful of the biggest most incompetent losers in the world.
      I had a peer who posted on StackExchange EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A YEAR. Insane amounts of time invested for a normal human being. He ended the year quiting forever bc he was irrelevant. The power users and moderators posted 100x more than him, gained 100x more points, and then would use their points to shut down anything other people did so they'd gain more fake points being the only allowed answers.
      I'd find questions, think "Wow that question is amazing. I cant wait to see the answers." And all the good answers would be removed later after I'd read them and all you'd see is the poor, often wrong answer by the mod/poweruser, or if the moderators / power users didnt have an answer theyd just close the question down bc I guess it humiliated them to dare make them feel ignorant.
      I then did the math. The power users and moderators on StackExchange have to post all day, every day, for a decade. Even on Christmas and Christmas Eve. Then when I had some downtime on that Christmas I'd check and boom - there they were. Posting all day on Christmas.
      One specific moderator I came back to check, bc he was the king of the losers. 5 years later I checked on him remembering it all for some reason, and he had erased his entire existence online. I did some digging and you want to know why he disappeared and never came back ever again after like 20 years of being a power user on like 5 different sites? He got married and had a kid. HE GOT A LIFE. Hahahahahhaha.
      Reddit is even worse though. If you ever find a great question and go to see the answers, all you see are hundreds of deleted comments removed by moderators. People arent even allowed to talk there. There will never be answers unless you undelete the page.

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      And of course TH-cam deletes my comment bc I dared agree with you and share a story about how big of losers these ppl truly are.

    • @TTKDMS
      @TTKDMS หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nowayjosedaniel That's Alphabet's secret plot. Censor you into getting off their platform and having an actual life with people in it worth sharing your opinions with.

  • @theLeomega
    @theLeomega 2 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    For a while I was obsessing over online interactions, I didn't have much going on my life, I was working from home and not interacting with real people and my priorities were all wrong, looking back now it was so much wasted emotional energy.

    • @Mr.Coffee576
      @Mr.Coffee576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Especially arguing about politics in the comment section. Quarantine was really such a weird time.

    • @felixw8004
      @felixw8004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Wonderingax it is a waste of time, because it takes up time you could have invested in actually learning useful things

    • @redvelvet5374
      @redvelvet5374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ditto.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      being highly online can be ok if you actually accomplish anything concrete with your based and redpilled internet friends. my friends irl were all flaky and didn't really align with how I wanted to live and I found people online who are close enough for me to meet up with and do shit besides bitch about what so and so said on twatter. times are lean so we're basically just a mutual aid network rn but one guy is distributing non gmo heirloom seeds and teaching the rest of us how to grow food, I help people with tech support stuff, and everybody else has some way to to help strengthen the group. you absolutely can abstain from the internet like Luke but it can be a good tool if you use it right.

    • @logprb5048
      @logprb5048 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i feel like i wrote this

  • @Mr.Coffee576
    @Mr.Coffee576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +565

    Ever since quarantine happened, I got into this whole twitch politics thing. Two years later, Im still watching streamers and interacting with the chat who have unhealthy parasocial relationships, talking about how their fav content creator destroyed someone in an internet debate. And when I turn off the laptop, I can't help but cringe at myself. Because in real life, nobody tries to be edgy, smart or based just to get some attention.

    • @bigman489
      @bigman489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      >Twitch politics.
      😐 (I hate using emojis but you did it)

    • @b_delta9725
      @b_delta9725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Believe that you can get rid of that toxicity. Ppl like HasanAbi and his chat are literally toxic waste.

    • @rawhide_kobayashi
      @rawhide_kobayashi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      what are you talking about
      people try to do that in real life all the time
      they're losers!

    • @chamber_hiro256
      @chamber_hiro256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True, I interact more online than I do in real life

    • @allan2665
      @allan2665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@b_delta9725 can't wait for the candyman to get his pretzel coated mitts on that BOY.

  • @WolfrostWasTaken
    @WolfrostWasTaken 2 ปีที่แล้ว +615

    My parents: "Always on that damn internet, go outside!"
    Me: aaaah what a bunch of boomers
    Luke Smith: "Always on that damn internet, go outside!"
    Me: BASED

    • @maximilianmusterhans4659
      @maximilianmusterhans4659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/040/991/fuckyoumomanddad.jpg

    • @godnyx117
      @godnyx117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      I don't want to offend you but this is the "cringe" he's talking about. Unironically now, get out and TOUCH SOME GRASS!!!

    • @recu1
      @recu1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      man

    • @WolfrostWasTaken
      @WolfrostWasTaken 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@godnyx117 He's talking about*

    • @godnyx117
      @godnyx117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@WolfrostWasTaken Yeah, thought to not edit it but it seems it would be better if I fix it.

  • @ziprock
    @ziprock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    positive message. internet addiction is real and unhealthy

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is right and wrong.
      Right in that the internet is 99% bots, mentally ill loser adults, and bored teenagers.
      Wrong that there is no value to be found. It's there. It's just hard to find in the noise. And you have to filter out the mental illness and ignore the losers.

  • @lillasagna5487
    @lillasagna5487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +921

    Actually I was a loser before using the internet.

    • @hamzab1821
      @hamzab1821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Sike !

    • @bitcode_
      @bitcode_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      same, now I'm a loser that uses the internet

    • @krislukat
      @krislukat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hence why you turned into an internet dweller

    • @captainalan
      @captainalan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ACCKSKSKSKSSHUALLY.

    • @markster1904
      @markster1904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Double loser 🤣

  • @Lysquid
    @Lysquid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Why do I enjoy listening to this guy destroying with such precision what I am

    • @daniel590
      @daniel590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Cause you know what you’re doing is bad for you.

    • @iridescentsea3730
      @iridescentsea3730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth! Right?

    • @tvdinner2790
      @tvdinner2790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Hope you're actually doing something to better yourself. It's good to be aware of your problems, it's beyond horrible to be aware and not do anything.

    • @leloupdessteppes3228
      @leloupdessteppes3228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Truth hurts. But Truth heals the soul.

    • @oofydoom
      @oofydoom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@iridescentsea3730 Painfully based. Couldn't have said it better myself.

  • @delicious_seabass
    @delicious_seabass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I've killed all my social media and apart from discord for dev help groups and chat apps to talk to IRL friends, I dont use anything else. One thing i still need to eliminate is TH-cam and other media video platforms. It's all just trash and a waste of time.... I also need to stop commenting on this crap like everyone cares what i think.

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I've resorted to commenting whatever sort of crazy bullshit I like because I'm tired of all the sameness in every comment section.

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea tv is much better than youtube because it has no misinformation.

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@belstar1128 TV is demonic.

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@heinoustentacles5719 I agree but At least its not video games or zippers.

    • @perpetualcollapse
      @perpetualcollapse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just made new social media accounts with my IRL info to trick future employers. Don’t actually use them though as if nobody actually cares about my my life, why should I care about theirs?

  • @volusian95
    @volusian95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Imagine using the internet

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      yeah I prefer cyberspace

    • @cherubin7th
      @cherubin7th 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Shangex for real

    • @shaurz
      @shaurz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@stigcc or the information superhighway

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea i am never using that stuff i just work out and b0ne çhiçks all day.

    • @jebediahkerman8245
      @jebediahkerman8245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Imagine replying to a comment on the Internet.

  • @EnergizingBane
    @EnergizingBane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    There have always been degen behavior long before the internet. It’s also bold to assume someone is well adjusted because they aren’t on the internet often and vise versa.

    • @adamclark-joseph2581
      @adamclark-joseph2581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Case in point #1: people who aren't on the internet because they've been banned everywhere, including 4chan. Case in point #2: people who *are* on the internet because, after getting banned everywhere, they were jonesing so badly for the web that they started their own crappy social media site.

    • @triedtofail
      @triedtofail 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hey, why do you have to be so mean as to bring Luke down to Earth when he is busy romanticizing and projecting

    • @crusaderACR
      @crusaderACR ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is not what he said at all. Reading that shit made me cringe lol.
      I think it'd be funnier if I don't correct you.

    • @0xAA55
      @0xAA55 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh look a reetard who missed the point

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can tell Luke is terminal online like everyone else because he hasnt actually met people IRL.
      Because if he did, he wouldnt be saying any of this. People you meet IRL are even more insane and live even more irrational degenerate loser lives than people on the net. And that's saying something bc 99% of the net are severely deranged mentally ill degenerate losers to the extreme.

  • @bloodontheblade7988
    @bloodontheblade7988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I learned this the hard way when I attempted "basket weaving".

    • @killertigergaming6762
      @killertigergaming6762 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ok now im actually curious

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lol I've actually heard that basket weaving forums are hellholes.

    • @piface3016
      @piface3016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@killertigergaming6762 It's discord servers or internet forums made for right-wing people to meet in real life and organize politically, basically an initiative to "Meet like-minded people" irl. But when you actually do it, you see they're all extremely bitter people, hate women and hate everything, like legit bitter incels who just want to be handed an easy life, just not the kind of people you want to associate with.

    • @uncreativename9936
      @uncreativename9936 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@piface3016 Oh shit was it really that bad? I thought his fanbase would be more adjusted and higher IQ. I joined when he launched it, but pretty much forgot about it and never met anyone or even visit the server.

    • @piface3016
      @piface3016 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@uncreativename9936 Who's "he"? As far as I know it's a distributed thing with no central point

  • @ДмитрийБатов-ц6щ
    @ДмитрийБатов-ц6щ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    There are just too many factors at play. I don't think mentally unstable people didn't exist pre-Internet. One cool thing that was pre-internet time is that you wouldn't hear about social outcasts, nerds, shut-ins and borderline psychopaths. You'd just have to look for them or bump into them on the street, a place they don't visit too often. You would write them off as a margin of error. Internet just made them heard and heck, in rare cases gave opportunity to do something more than they'd ever be able to do otherwise. That is again, a very small percentage of people, I guess, you included. Yet, if you stuck your head out of Proud Land of America's sand for more than 10 minutes, you'd find there are countries with lesser spread of the internet per-capita. Not all of them "Chad infrequent-internet users" are actually based or red pilled ether. So, by an analogy, you may say everyone is a loser since, whoever by your definition fits the category of "based" is within a margin of error as well. Because the majority of people, like it or not, are socially maladjusted in one way or another. If anything, you yourself are pretty much stroking your ego

    • @massiveidiot77
      @massiveidiot77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      summed it up perfectly

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You just dont really know most people you meet.
      You think theyre normal and the crazy unhinged ones are inside or on the net. Not true.
      Get to know more people IRL. Their lives are freaking insane. Their decisions are irrational and they live on pure mental illness.

  • @TK-en2hq
    @TK-en2hq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I yeeted my discord because of this. I now spend almost all of my waking time either at work or at the gym. Probably not a huge step up but at least not having a life is productive this way.

    • @acrez3260
      @acrez3260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What do you do on days off? Like people just say “leave the internet” but when I have nothing to do on some days I just feel this void inside of me, and eventually end up using it again

    • @oscarlove4394
      @oscarlove4394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      ​@@acrez3260 find stuff, hobbies away from the internet. accept a little more boredom than you'd normally have while living on the internet.
      keep yourself busy, not a Christian but "idle hands do the devils work" is a pretty good saying. go to the gym, number 1 tip for going consistently is either get a buddy or join some form of gym class, spinning, yoga, martial arts whatever. Have people there who expect you to come. Even if you don't feel 100% just go, "bad is better than nothing". That applies to a lot of good habits actually.
      Try stuff with technology, set up a linux home server, run Minecraft servers, personal wikis, ftp-servers, even if you don't use it just have fun setting it up and figuring it out. get a super cheap second hand PC for this, or just shove an old laptop in a corner somewhere, your first project would be to see if you can remotely connect to it so you don't have to actually interact with the machine itself to configure your server.
      get into drawing, reading, writing, home improvement project, make your own clothes. there's millions of perfectly good wholesome things to occupy your time. There's even stuff out there that's a massive time-sink. Model painting for example can easily take up to 40+ hours for some projects.
      organise stuff with friends IRL, for me that's D&D and occasionally going out to play pool and drink. Not to say you cant communicate with them over social media at all, but the brunt of your (meaningful) interaction should be in person.
      when you do go on the internet, limit yourself to non-social media and stuff that doesn't have too strong of a spiral. no discord or facebook, but hang around forums for whatever your interested in, electronics, tech, creative writing, art whatever. Forums are usually much better than feeds IMO. In terms of addiction and timewasting at least.
      anyway, that was my dump. hope that helps.

    • @TK-en2hq
      @TK-en2hq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@acrez3260 I'm honestly at the point where any days off I have are spent cleaning up my living space and doing meal prep for the week.

    • @JLo2k288
      @JLo2k288 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oscarlove4394 W

    • @oscarlove4394
      @oscarlove4394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Gogglesofkrome idle time is great for creativity, but when you're trying to break a habit or addiction idle time is when you're most likely to relapse. Keep yourself busy until new habits have replaced the old.

  • @hagoryopi2101
    @hagoryopi2101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    Everyone is a loser in some way or another. Even if they're not on the internet. Accepting that is how you adjust to life.

    • @perpetualcollapse
      @perpetualcollapse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Amen to that brother

    • @memoria111
      @memoria111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amen to that brother

    • @lecrovidae6987
      @lecrovidae6987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Or, you could try to improve yourself the best you can instead of living in complacency. Your laziness hurts yourself AND those that depend or may eventually depend on you.

    • @mbk5430
      @mbk5430 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@lecrovidae6987 You can improve just a finite number of things in life, and accepting that some of them can't be changed is not laziness.

    • @lecrovidae6987
      @lecrovidae6987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@mbk5430 Yes, but then that mindset quickly gives way to "Well everyone is a loser in /some/ way, so it doesn't really matter if I slack on this or that. It doesn't really matter if I give in to cooming today, eat sugar," etc. Basically over time you can actually get pretty good at a lot of things if you care enough, and accepting that you can't do better instead of thinking about what you /can/ do despite any potential limitations you might have is kind of cringe.

  • @jyudat4433
    @jyudat4433 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i had a buddy/roomate i lived with for a year who was literally *always* on discord most waking hours of the day. i noticed this a lot in him tbh, and i resonate a lot with what you said in this video.
    he would always talk about all the "rich entrepreneurs" he connected with online and i was just like "why tf are these 'successful' people spending so much time voice chatting with randos if they're so successful?"
    i'm not saying im perfect either, because i struggle with internet addiction too, but holy cow, does discord/internet attract so much degeneracy, fake internet personalities and general losers.

  • @gianni_schicchi
    @gianni_schicchi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is facts.
    I’m an emulator developer. I make a living writing apps that emulate vintage video game consoles. Of course, we have a discord for my project. It’s gotten quite popular. Fact, I’m never on it. No matter how lonely I may be IRL, I can’t stand the online world.
    Most people would assume that a software developer, not even that, the nerdiest of nerdiest software, video game emulation software developers would be completely into the whole online thing. Most are. I cringe when I have to interact with them. So many furries and T’s and other things I can’t say on YT comments.
    I love what I do. It’s a huge technical challenge. I never play the games, though.
    I’m proud of my app, I’m also proud I can squat 225 below parallel. The internet sucks now. RIP 90s IRC.

  • @weltschmerz333
    @weltschmerz333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    the normal people who work 9-5 dead end jobs and then die and never use the internet are winners, got it

    • @_____._..--_
      @_____._..--_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Everyone is a loser in the end of the day

    • @weltschmerz333
      @weltschmerz333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@_____._..--_ true

    • @the81kid
      @the81kid 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "the normal people who work 9-5 dead end jobs and then die and never use the internet are winners, got it"
      It's hip to be square.

    • @Mr_Mistah
      @Mr_Mistah 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@weltschmerz333 You're being facetious and I don't know why because of course they're winners.
      Internet addicted nobodies have achieved nothing significant

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@Mr_Mistah Those people achieve less than internet losers.
      You cam tell youre an internet loser, and Luke too, bc you've never touched grass. If you had you'd know people IRL are even worse than the internet. They are insane, live crazy lives, theyre losers and lonely, their entire lives revolve around their mental illnesses, and they believe in things as dim as astrology or chemtrails.

  • @KainiaKaria
    @KainiaKaria 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    "Social media is pretty much a bunch of people who don’t do anything with their lives viciously criticizing people who do cool stuff, then play the victim when it’s pointed out that their opinion means nothing. - Liana Kerzner"

  • @BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts
    @BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Lately I've been detaching myself from online arguments. I have really bad anxiety, so I already obsess over small, meaningless things. These days I just block people or delete my comments if I'm tired of seeing them in my notifications. I wanted to go on discord since everyone else seemed to be there. I immediately got the vibe of how argumentative and miserable everyone was. Safe to say, I don't interact with the app much anymore.

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      People on discord are more unhinged than anywhere, and everywhere else is the worst hellscape imaginable.
      But log off and you will soon realize that the people IRL are the same ones who are on the internet. They just dont need a device to be mentally ill

  • @andreasklindt7144
    @andreasklindt7144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The internet was good when there were still search engines that actually searched for the words and terms you were looking for.

    • @Schlohmotion
      @Schlohmotion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Some germans have re-developed such an engine. Metager.
      Ther "ger" does not stand for germany. Its the ancient germanic word for "spear". Some tribes didn't believe in a round or fIat earth, but a spear shaped earth.
      The meta in the name is there because the engine also checks out mainstream search engine hits... but only to recrawl the websites by itself.

    • @BlackestEyes709
      @BlackestEyes709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly, i searched Russian laithe accident video uncensored on google and bing, top results was youtube just videos of ppl talking about it, news sites, i had to search a few pages before i found a gore site. It shouldve been the top search

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Schlohmotion how is it compared to ddg

  • @Swaggely
    @Swaggely 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    very true, like a while ago when i tried to find a decent discord server I quickly realized that literally everyone was weird and cringe in the same way

  • @マキ-i1n
    @マキ-i1n 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Luke Smith explains to us for 8 minutes straight how we cant find him on the internet

    • @urugulu1656
      @urugulu1656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      and puts that on the internet

  • @MusKubium
    @MusKubium 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why does that forest have Asperger's? All the trees are in a grid.

    • @GazMatic
      @GazMatic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be harvested

  • @patriotic1526
    @patriotic1526 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Just because I woke up today thinking "if Luke doesn't post a video today I'm cutting myself" does not give you the right to call me emotionally unstable.

    • @Primatenate88
      @Primatenate88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As a matter of fact, I self harm because I find myself TOO emotionally stable

    • @andreassjursenbook2698
      @andreassjursenbook2698 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But what’s this shit you said about you like to cut your wrists too?
      I say that shit just clownin’, dawg, come on, how fucked up is you?
      You got some issues, Stan, I think you need some counselin.

  • @techur2763
    @techur2763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I remember a saying my father told me when we first got broadband internet.
    "The internet is a tool, use it correctly and it won't turn you into a tool."

    • @elmeromogollon
      @elmeromogollon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      My dad said: "I once saw a black dog with red eyes, I yelled at him and it ran away"

    • @t.8936
      @t.8936 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow. Such wisdom for a time when they didn't have experience.

  • @bluegreen8650
    @bluegreen8650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    internetbros.... i.... i can't go on....

  • @dangercat9188
    @dangercat9188 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You got that right. And not just the internet. Social media is the worst part. Everything else is up to us on how we use it. I gave up social media back in 2015 and I feel much better now. The only social media I'm ok with is TH-cam and Pinterest tbh. And even on those platforms you'll find some losers too lol.

    • @Twtgod
      @Twtgod ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Man I hate TH-cam.

  • @relt_
    @relt_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    ive always felt that i dont have anything to talk about with people irl. we dont share any common topics so conversations usually boil down to things we are both doing at the moment, which doesnt last long.

    • @korndawgboys4jesus130
      @korndawgboys4jesus130 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well, yea, however that’s fairly easy to overcome. Conversations can be about anything.
      Depending on your area people may be generally more rude or vice Versa.
      I’m in the south and about 80% of people you can just walk up to and have a small conversation with.

    • @relt_
      @relt_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@korndawgboys4jesus130 im in poland and you dont just walk up to anybody and start talking

    • @relt_
      @relt_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@-whackd very rude of you.
      I can talk to people different than me. Starting the conversation is the hard part.

    • @johnarbuckle6583
      @johnarbuckle6583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@korndawgboys4jesus130 That must be the famed Southern hospitality lol

    • @david3710
      @david3710 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@relt_ w polsce jak w lesie

  • @Nisixya
    @Nisixya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm literally crying and shaking right now.

  • @SinlowMusic
    @SinlowMusic ปีที่แล้ว +7

    He's not even wrong. People who have things going for them generally don't have the time to troll/insult/etc.

  • @omer8141leo
    @omer8141leo ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You're right. As someone who uses Discord etc, I found a sense of belonging in a server that I couldn't find in real life. The problem is you get sucked into that -- and you lose the importance of real life relationships. You start to care less about people in real life since talking to people online is just easier. Using the internet as an emotional crutch is something alot of people do when they don't realise it. I try to get out of it, I think i have to a certain extent, i've been using social media alot less so thats good

  • @highpotencyiron4529
    @highpotencyiron4529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Having a true and honest discussion with random people on the internet is basically over. Other than dming a "friend" on social media everyone you see has some type of brainworm that prevents talking like a normal person about something you find interesting. Everything now is either a 20 layered ironic shitpost or a dumb soapbox routine. Even sites and other corners of the internet that let you say what you want have become so fucked by poe's law you don't know if the guy with an anime profile picture is a fed, schizo, or a genuine fail troll. Everything else just falls victim to becoming too sanitized.

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am not even a controversial person, but the internet has become so mass censored and sanitized that I am banned within 5 minutes of joining any discord or community.
      Usually it's through automation banning me for using some wrongword or wrongspeech like saying "lol i agree that's so dumb" but often it will be because I used wrongspeech offending some rainbow haired weirdo going on a power trip or I performed wrongthink when holding an opinion separate from the accepted hivemind.
      And like I said, I am not controversial. I am often banned for things like "Nah, green is a better color than blue IMO." or "I actually dont really like X. I do like Y though so I can partly agree."
      I am also banned faster when being super nice. If I am super mean and aggressive, and just attack everyone super aggressively anytime they speak, I last 100x longer. The irony is crazy.
      I am a sane, kind, open minded individual with no actual controversial beliefs. But that isnt even allowed anymore. You have to believe whatever mainstream meme belief the hivemind supports or youre basically a nazi (even when the topic isn't political). Yea, ive been called a nazi before bc I said I prefer Godot to Unity in gamedev, even when I said in the same sentence that ive used the latter for 15 years and love it. That isnt enough. I am a nazi for daring to point put even one flaw with something I stated I support or love. People are unhinged.

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I remember one time I joined a discord channel and was banned within 1 minute of joining.
      I joined, read the first chat, said "lol I agree that's so stupid." And immediately the moderator stepped in, went off about how using the word "stupid" is offensive to the intellectually disabled. I apologized and reiterated that I was just agreeing with them, and i didnt even get a reply to that. I was immediately banned.
      I've also joined communities I had never knew existed, and within one sentence had moderators go off in walls of text accusing me of being some new account sockpuppet of some guy they just banned 5 seconds ago. Then banned with no way to appeal. I have no idea. I guess I joined at the wrong time. IP banned and everything.
      People are just insane these days. You cant be normal. In fact you cant even post. If I ever try to even make a post on Reddit, it will auto delete all posts and comments bc my account isnt old enough with enough karma. But how can I get that if I am not allowed to ever post. The irony.
      Then when you finally decide to just lurk and click on a post, it's 90% deleted comments and no real answers. Just a bunch of ppl attacking each other but you can only read the moderator's replies.
      The internet is unusable.

    • @highpotencyiron4529
      @highpotencyiron4529 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nowayjosedaniel I forgot I ever made this comment but I appreciate your response. It's been over a year later and this is still the case, not just in my comment but in yours as well. The only thing I can add to it is that everyone is so jaded that some people are only capable of speaking in the most spiteful, petty drivel posts that read like copypastas. (hell even this post almost reads like one now that I'm proofreading it)
      I can't tell you how many times I've seen spaces that "talk" about varying non serious topics like entertainment get overrun with people who just want every potential piece of media or hobby to burn to the ground because some other person on a separate website said something that they didn't like. The worst part is that if you try to tell them to be the change they want to see they just refuse to be productive to their passion. No, it's more easy to bellyache on a forum than it is to bring together a stable team of artists, coders, musicians, or what else have you to make a bootstraps project that they have full control over.
      The internet isn't just unusable, it's full of lazy hacks. Nothing but mindless Facebook/Twitter cattle and 4chan/KF contrarians, the latter wanting everything to magically go back to how it all was in the early 2000s without actually having to put in the effort to revive the culture of the working internet.

  • @shesh2265
    @shesh2265 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    What i most agree with is that internet "communities" are disgusting. its not a community. its genuinely dystopian to describe as such. so many people nowadays become asocial or lack tremendous social skills because they let it all happen online. then they call themselves "introverts" when really they just havent learned to enjoy socializing. not saying theres no such thing as an introvert but probably most are this way.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You think so?
      I feel this honestly might be true.
      I think Im this asocial just because of my insecurities personally.
      I need to do alot of work to fix it up. But I think you have a really good point.

  • @kamoshi
    @kamoshi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This video rings true, it's way easier to find cool people in real life rather than on the internet, because all the fun stuff happens in real life. Internet is really only good as a way to keep in touch with real life friends and as a staging ground for doing stuff offline

  • @ArmwrestlingJoe
    @ArmwrestlingJoe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think I agree with you mostly but you can’t ignore the power internet has to give someone a sense of community who doesn’t have that sense of community In “real life”. And “real life” and the internet are now overlapped and basically integrating and becoming the same thing like it or not.

    • @rajinfootonchuriquen
      @rajinfootonchuriquen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats kinda a loser mentallity

    • @Mr_Mistah
      @Mr_Mistah 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People I meet in real life are completely different than the internet

  • @empiar5481
    @empiar5481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    The funniest part is half this comment section has to resort to “Yeah? W-well you too, Luke!”
    No shit. He’s on the internet. He said EVERYONE. Him being a loser too doesn’t make you less of a loser. He at least has video proof of him touching grass, though.

    • @chudchadanstud
      @chudchadanstud 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      No. What Luke doesn't realise is that everyone is a loser...and that everyone is also a winner. This black and white thinking is frankly stupid. The only person letting you down is you.

    • @lenfirewood4089
      @lenfirewood4089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If I ready anymore of this crap I will be touching cloth! 😂

    • @GOTTA_RUN
      @GOTTA_RUN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You getting this pissed off over what people on the internet is saying was literally one of the main points he was trying to make about people like you be no lives lmao

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I found this weird glowing rectangle thing in the woods that i am using to write a telegram to you electronically am i on the interwebs now i hope not that would be so lame.

  • @dyzosim
    @dyzosim 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Wow Luke, I could really feel the dissapointment in this one. Gonna have a rough day today guys. Wish me luck

    • @mushroomcrepes
      @mushroomcrepes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      sending_virtual_hug.gif

    • @yukkuriwa
      @yukkuriwa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mushroomcrepes taiko no tatsujin sucks playing the bong instrument is better

    • @fvjisinferno207
      @fvjisinferno207 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lets E makeout

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yukkuriwa DK jungle swing drums mog all instruments

    • @yarpenzigrin1893
      @yarpenzigrin1893 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, a loli avatar. You're hopeless.

  • @asthmaticpathic
    @asthmaticpathic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I’ve noticed a lot of people realizing it’s fairly easy to larp as a well adjusted person on the internet, especially if you are an unstable person

    • @MatheusDal10
      @MatheusDal10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Press them just a little and see them start to crack

    • @PeruvianPotato
      @PeruvianPotato 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Trust me, I've seen several of these people.on Discord alone.

  • @BenMordecai
    @BenMordecai 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You can find based and redpilled people on the internet but there is no stable place for it, partially because of the personality filter you described and partially because the fact that anything based out in public eventually gets banned. Good social internet groups are manually curated, have a level of buy in and commitment to the individual people involved. When you're committed to the same 15-20 people and you build those relationships over years, visit in person when circumstances allow, you have shared views and interests, etc. that can actually work. Having reliable people you can chat with can be lifechanging. Not as an emotional cope, but in things like, making a workout plan, discussing church, figuring out your career moves, help troubleshooting the places in life you are stuck. It's not the forum to discuss a video game you like or to take pictures of the marvel dvd you just bought. It is to transition from someone you are casually aware of on the internet to an actual friend where part of your connection is through the internet. Like you said, the good people dip in and out of the internet.

    • @seyadeodin
      @seyadeodin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you just described a freemason lodge

    • @BenMordecai
      @BenMordecai 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seyadeodin except that being a freemason will cause you to go to hell

    • @j0hn00arthur
      @j0hn00arthur 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seyadeodin without the satanic stuff

  • @quirinoguy8665
    @quirinoguy8665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You know what, you are absolutely correct, I am pretty much a loser all things considered but I'm trying to get out of it, hard, feels like I'm a drug addict on withdrawal.

  • @stephenscorzo
    @stephenscorzo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Ironically, saying this on a TH-cam chat, this is actually the best advice anyone has ever given. Being kicked off of Facebook my life feels more real and it's always been my intuition that what you just said was true.

    • @BestKCL
      @BestKCL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of the best times of my life was when my phone was smashed a few years ago and I didn't have it for 4 months during the summer... huge personal growth. All for it to he washed away when I was pressured into getting a new phone and the self-control eroded almost immediately.

    • @deadliestvice5356
      @deadliestvice5356 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is not a chat.

    • @UniverseShinobi
      @UniverseShinobi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kicked off? lol What'd you do?

    • @SnapThority
      @SnapThority 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deadliestvice5356 ok nerd 🤓🤓

    • @libremercadoencrisiseconom2118
      @libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SnapThority this is a forum, and if I'm nerd then you are nothing but garbage

  • @gonootropics2.065
    @gonootropics2.065 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I don't know, honestly most of the people you're going to meet in the quote "real world" suck too. The fact that they're real doesn't imbue them with any special powers. If you're into topics that are off the beaten path, you're not going to easily find people with similar interests in the real world. There are certain things the internet should not replace, but as far as communities go I think they provide a good alternative to people - especially the weird ones who have traditionally been cast away by society. Online communities while toxic at times, provide significant value to people and a social connection that for whatever reason, they can't get in the real world. They've done studies, online community and even relationships fire up the same neurons so if it's giving a person a sense of meaning/connection I don't know what's wrong with that

    • @hahasamian8010
      @hahasamian8010 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't you know?? No matter how much you tell the truth on the internet, you'll never be real because I don't want you to be real because the internet isn't real! Time to go harass people on the internet because they're not real so it's okay

    • @degayify
      @degayify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Because despite your neurons firing up, once you close your computer it's all gone. Its like saying coke makes you happy therefore its good

    • @hahasamian8010
      @hahasamian8010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@degayify yeah it's not like you're interacting with actual human beings that would be ridiculous

    • @GCAGATGAGTTAGCAAGA
      @GCAGATGAGTTAGCAAGA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hahasamian8010 jokes on you, neural networks getting better at text generation as we speak right now. We already have a nostalgia for 00's internet, so we'll be remembering 10's as a "oh, remember when you can in talk to real people on twitter? Oh, great times!".

    • @hahasamian8010
      @hahasamian8010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@GCAGATGAGTTAGCAAGA So you're going to assume everyone is a bot now
      Good for you I guess?

  • @Home_Rich
    @Home_Rich 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Worst part is, these internet communities always attract mentally unwell types, and they are only there to vent out their autistic edge.
    It is a painful acknowledgement: to find great and noble types, is to look for them either in deepest pits of internet, or in most rural and distant patches of land (massive coin toss, as there are either "I like my patch of grass and wood, nothing more" and "We got a small community, but not powerful enough to influence nearby cities".

    • @hahasamian8010
      @hahasamian8010 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes we know, you guys hate autism and that's why you call everyone on the internet a fake person

    • @drm.himself
      @drm.himself 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Agreed, I have had to deal with so many mentally unwell people, my brain has made an algorithm to avoid them by detecting them through the way they speak.

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@drm.himselfOh cool. Me too. That's why I had to block you immediately.

    • @drm.himself
      @drm.himself 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nowayjosedaniel You can't block on TH-cam. You're brain-dead.

  • @theoreticalphysics3644
    @theoreticalphysics3644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I mostly agree. That said, I can absolutely empathize with people who become dependent on the internet.
    Problem is real life often genuinely sucks and at least in the US is engineered to make most human interaction either excessively difficult or intolerable to the point that the internet actually manages to seem like a better place. That in itself is a recipe for a sort of societal psychosis.
    Especially if you move across states like I did recently to start a new career, it is incredibly difficult, borderline impossible to make friends irl nowadays without using an app or website. I have legitimately found more opportunities for socializing in and meeting people occasionally exploring discord servers (even, cringe alert ladies and gentlemen but I'm coming clean here, a furry server) than the many, many attempts I've made at exploring the area I live in. Lotta not-so-sane people tbh, but eh it's what you get.
    Not to say I don't maintain self-discipline using the internet, nor have I given up on the real world. I'm still tryna explore new places and things to do all the time and spend the majority of my time outside work doing so, but holy hell does living in an interstate hellscape of a country that almost reminds you at times of a GTA server make things difficult.

  • @rucks5417
    @rucks5417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Appreciate the wakeup call it may seem obvious but I think it's important to talk about unhealthy internet use.

  • @captainalan
    @captainalan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Computers are "impression engines", generating sights and sounds that we command them to. When we become attached to these machines (and the glowie boys that animate them), we begin to wither away. A useful analogy I heard about the Internet (from Jonathan Pageau, I think) is that the Internet is like an extension of the nervous system (just like how hand tools may be extensions of the hands). From this kind of instrumentalist viewpoint, getting obsessed with the Internet is like a technologically enabled naval inspection, akin to being obsessed with tools like saws (but not actually doing any work) or dare I say... editors like vim or emacs.

    • @GCFTuto
      @GCFTuto 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I liked the joke, but that's opening a deep hole on my heart (that was a joke, right? Right??? PLEASE TELL ME IF THAT WASN'T REAL OR NOT, I'M BEGGING YOU!!
      (Screaming until death)

    • @Moreoverover
      @Moreoverover 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vim is pretty good for small computers possibly without a GUI like the RPi, but I fully understand what you mean.

    • @moisessoto5061
      @moisessoto5061 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Based

  • @perpetualcollapse
    @perpetualcollapse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    When you said that at 5:29 I audibly groaned. At the university I attend, everyone looks like generic gen-z Tik-Tok viewing, boba drinking, pronoun having, nail painted, hair dyeing, therapist talking, zodiac asking, iPhone owning, body piercing, tattoo having brats. It’s bizarre when I see them desperately beg people to follow them on Instagram and add them on Snapchat. Like, what does that accomplish? It’s just an arbitrary number that somehow makes people feel good about themselves. I follow nobody on my social media accounts because don’t give a crap about anyone and what they want to put out online. I only have them to look “normal” to employers. If I want to make new friends than I get out and talk with people. The internet should be a tool that compliments the real world, it shouldn’t be a replacement. I hate my generation so much but I’ll probably be hating gen alpha more knowing every generation is always worse than the last.

    • @Bigjuicydumbdumb
      @Bigjuicydumbdumb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alphoids might be the heroic generation that rope a dope the special people. Or at least let's have kids and try.

    • @socvirnylestela5878
      @socvirnylestela5878 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +1 because I can relate too. I was given a new perspective when I stopped using social media for a while

    • @MaoTao
      @MaoTao 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah c'mon, what do you got against boba?

    • @N4zara
      @N4zara 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      lmao cope. Maybe you should go out, drink some boba, get your nails painted, and your hair done. Probably too much grass touching involved in that for you, lol.

    • @cremebrulee2484
      @cremebrulee2484 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Some people need therapists

  • @thebonkera1221
    @thebonkera1221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    idk bout you man but where I'm coming from , "real life" is ten times worse than a discord server
    that's only any true if you live in a good place

  • @BellXllebMusic
    @BellXllebMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I kinda agree with your point but there's some nuance to it. This kinda proves your point too but when I was bullied in school for example, I didn't really have a lot of options except look for companionship online. Or when I was having a psychosis and didn't dare to spend any time with "real" people because of paranoia. Sometimes people just have situations where it's better than nothing. But yes it's much better to have irl social contacts and use the internet to contact them and spend irl time with them

    • @BeanerMoney
      @BeanerMoney 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that companionship for the internet becomes a crutch after a while, learned that the hard way

  • @NPCLivesMatter
    @NPCLivesMatter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    People on the internet suck. People irl suck too. Work in customer service, you'll never want to talk to anyone again.

  • @user-ro1cc8tz6d
    @user-ro1cc8tz6d 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I mean kinda right considering my irl experiences. Internet addicts didn't made greatest friend but I also think that I might not up to having a more outgoing person
    I had this basketball friend and we were playing together but late night basketball kept me awake constantly and school starting at 8 didn't helped
    I just understood that life is kindof like this for me. I try to force myself to be more active and outgoing but at the end it doesn't even matter

  • @Kisaragi_desu
    @Kisaragi_desu ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Soooo true! (I'm online 8 hours a day)

  • @grey_apache
    @grey_apache 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I’ll tell all my friends about your video through the mail

  • @bluegreen8650
    @bluegreen8650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    i... i thought i was based.....
    bros.... what will i do now....

    • @Th3BigBoy
      @Th3BigBoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It's a humbling experience to be defeated by some wild looking man who has been lost in the woods for eons.
      I don't have the answers you're looking for. Yet I can relate to your pain.

    • @Sutaraiku
      @Sutaraiku 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's okay, friend. It's not like he was saying that everyone on the internet is a loser.

    • @bluegreen8650
      @bluegreen8650 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Th3BigBoycmon my bro i was being ironic. but i liek where ur heart is at

    • @Th3BigBoy
      @Th3BigBoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bluegreen8650 We were both being ironic. Give me some credit man I was in on the joke.

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry i don't use this interwebs thing you are based on what exactly?

  • @djdjukic
    @djdjukic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There's good and almost indispensable stuff on the Internet, but it's not on sites with infinite scrolling. Twitter, IG, Discord servers, general topic forums incl. Reddit, you can drop all these from your life for immediate benefit and no cost. I do watch TH-cam sort of like boomers watch TV, which is still a habit that needs to be kept to a reasonable minimum. For the technical minded, which I suppose is most of us here, wherever you see a certain kind of people congregating around a topic, forum, project, you should know to just bail immediately. If it ruined their mental health to that point, it won't do you any good either.

    • @cantbreathe2022
      @cantbreathe2022 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean by "certain kind"?

  • @paultidwell8799
    @paultidwell8799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I sell Toys on Amazon because fuck the "Real world" literally found a way to monetize my hobbies and now I have an excuse to be always online and watch anime and play vidyas games because now its part of business because If I didnt I wouldn't know what toys to stock.

    • @j0hn00arthur
      @j0hn00arthur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bro do you mind telling me how you began doing that? Did you begin buying toys cheaper on ebay and selling them for more money or something like that? Im learning 3D, I want to make toys one day but I find your business strategy very interesting

  • @yash1152
    @yash1152 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    > _"when i look at video comments section on yt, I cringe so much"_
    thanks godddd u recognised this. yeah, so many ppl here are just crying like "luke embarrased about shell optimisation, me still cant write a script"
    i am like ohkay, grow up then; what soooo funny in it. but its pointless wasting time on getting this point to them. Glad u addressed this.

  • @horiciOwO
    @horiciOwO 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We either have very different lives or very different definitions of mental maturity I know just as many IRL immature people as on the internet and vice versa.

  • @maximilianmusterhans4659
    @maximilianmusterhans4659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    The fact is however, that it's extremely difficult to find interesting people in "real life". Talk to the average person you meet at a restaurant or so and you know what I am talking about. If you have an intellectual life of some sort, the only realistic options to cultivate it are solitude or the internet.

    • @gadflyofhumanity_6847
      @gadflyofhumanity_6847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      THIS!!!! What Luke Smith FAILS to realize is that most normies have absolutely no substance that makes them unique. Most people are like a hivemind, where highschool never ended for them.

    • @killertigergaming6762
      @killertigergaming6762 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I don't really agree with that the people in real life can be interesting the only issue i find is that i can't find many people who have similar hobbies to me like writing code or something or even just using linux which decreases what we can talk about but most people are pretty okay

    • @mlcs
      @mlcs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's why you shouldn't be a nerd/be interested in one thing

    • @immortallix
      @immortallix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@mlcs I'm not gunna feel bad about not being able to relate to people who thought morbius was good

    • @Eichro
      @Eichro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think it's any easier to find such people on the internet either. There's an abundance of "normies with memes" here. Maybe you just need to find the right circle.

  • @blackjew6827
    @blackjew6827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The way I act online is 180 from how I act IRL. online I like to fuck with people, IRL I'm just normal.

  • @casval498
    @casval498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is a good video and you bring up a lot of good points. I personally disagree with some of the things you said but that's coming from someone who spends a lot of their time on the internet. I agree that there are a lot of morons who get upset at everything and are entirely dependent on the communities they are a part of, but I don't really think that's a result of too much time on the internet. Some people are just morons and the amount of morons you can see is greatly amplified on the internet, which can easily create the impression that the internet is a main cause of stupidity. Personally, I think the internet is a great place for people to share their hobbies with other people. Especially people with very niche hobbies (anime, gaming, furry, etc.). Most people on the internet are reasonable people who just move on with their day when they see something they dislike, but because being reasonable is normal, expected behavior, you never really notice it compared to the immature losers who immediately grab your attention. Again, nice video. Just wanted to share my thoughts.

    • @moosesues8887
      @moosesues8887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool pfp where it from

    • @casval498
      @casval498 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@moosesues8887 Thanks it's from a game called Yume Nikki.

  • @5HT2A292
    @5HT2A292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you, Luke! This video is the perfect emotional crutch!

  • @evanbaxter7356
    @evanbaxter7356 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Luke is the real deal for putting out a message like this, when so many people who get an audience just shill some BS that involves joining something\being online more etc etc

  • @Guervens
    @Guervens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    After seeing everyone being a cesspool and a maniac on a global digital net, I can basically confirm

    • @Guervens
      @Guervens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We literally forgot that real life exist

  • @snipzmattio5887
    @snipzmattio5887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You are so based. You are right. I will touch more grass. Uninstalling network manager

  • @fiddleriddlediddlediddle
    @fiddleriddlediddlediddle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I came back to this video to sort the comments by new, and nearly all of them are proving his point one way or another. I won't be surprised if this includes me.
    I'm cringing alongside him.

  • @LowLevelLemmy
    @LowLevelLemmy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I met a guy that used the internet before, horrible experience.

  • @ThePiones
    @ThePiones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of your most lucid rants. Props

    • @perpetualsystems
      @perpetualsystems 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The schizophrenia still hasn't taken him over fully it seems. We can hope one day he may stop hallucinating about this "free open source software" thing and get back to the real world.

    • @ThePiones
      @ThePiones 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@perpetualsystems Unlikely, youtube celeb schizophrenia (soon to be on on the DSM5) hardly gets better without complete unplug. I've seen it happen countless times already. The only known cure is to become a wagie.

  • @mrkhyronm
    @mrkhyronm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    OMg Luke is projecting again...🙃

  • @desktorp
    @desktorp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was just telling a friend that if electricity went away and wasn't coming back, I would only miss a few aspects of the computer and not for long. Less than 24 hours later, my 10+ year old hard drive went in to pre-failure mode and I hypocritically fired off an order for a new one. The thought of losing muh filez apparently terrifies me.

    • @desktorp
      @desktorp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      update: turned out to be a bad sata cable

  • @Mr.Finkel
    @Mr.Finkel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is a brilliant video. no one watching will think this message applies to them. insult all your subscribers without insulting any of them.

  • @godnyx117
    @godnyx117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Luke! I started watching you from Linux "tutorials" but I enjoy this type of content as well.
    Most of use need this video. Even a little bit....

  • @unkn0wn_416
    @unkn0wn_416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's kind of crazy that even people who I thought they were normal and "well-adjusted" are so caught up in today's internet junk culture (random youtubers gossips, social media dramas, dumb memes/videos, tiktok, etc.).

  • @CryoKeen
    @CryoKeen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I deleted my Discord servers and I am generally happier. Soooo much drama happens in those things. I am still in a few discords but hosting one is so stressful. I live on a small island so it's harder for me to socialize in real life so I'm still very greatful for the internet for socializing.

    • @gabeznl3591
      @gabeznl3591 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't even use Discord anymore. Talking to real friends and the own family is the best way of living. People on Discord feels like a robot with the same code, just cloned to say the same shit everyday. Glad I changed my thinking after years...

    • @chibisayori20
      @chibisayori20 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gabeznl3591 at some point they might aswell be replaced with AI and you won't even notice it

  • @vlnow
    @vlnow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Forget just the internet.
    Everyone is a loser.
    Everyone.
    No exceptions.
    Which means no one is a loser really.

    • @gone565-f2w
      @gone565-f2w 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We are all losers and winners at the same time.

  • @yelir64
    @yelir64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for bringing us back to reality.
    The trees behind you seem interesting and strange at the same time by the way. All perfectly and congruently placed, creating a pattern as a tunnel would

  • @hamburgerboy
    @hamburgerboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can't relate because I only seek out people with opinions I find unbased for the purpose of insulting them to find a vent for antisocial behavior that has caused legal problems in the real world

  • @bantyplanty
    @bantyplanty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good video. I have actually found myself trying to use the internet less and less the past days. Must be synchronicity or something, lol.

  • @markoseries
    @markoseries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think the internet is a good tool. It gives me easy access to information and people that can help me out in the real world and lets me keep in touch with people I would otherwise not talk to anymore due to distance and our changing lives. I mostly use social media to organize real world events these days.

  • @speakertwentytwo
    @speakertwentytwo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This online persona agrees with everything you just said.
    *The only place I don't see stupidity online is where people use it as an extension of their real life.* That doesn't mean you have to use your real name, but it means 80% of the time you're online for a reason. The real world exists to enjoy. The internet should exist to help us share ideas, answer each other's questions, maybe organize an event, etc.

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is plenty of stupidity IRL. You've just never had to hire anyone to find out. Being offline isn't going to make the people more likable and less imbecilic. I like the internet, because it's easier to filter people out and harder to get back-stabbed by Machiavellian types.

  • @MartinShkreliBased
    @MartinShkreliBased ปีที่แล้ว +5

    its so funny reading all the comments seeing people offended because its true

  • @robertomuniz5721
    @robertomuniz5721 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i would suggest online comunities that do meetups irl, thats the best way to get out of being 100% on your computer, that can suck sometimes cos maybe the reason you are on the screen all day is because you dont have time to hang out with people (studying sucks) but itsa first step

  • @Psx806
    @Psx806 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just don’t know. Every discord I’ve been on has had someone with traits I despise. Perverts and deranged moronic 40year old edgelords and other crap has just drained on me. I’m kinda saying this with a anime girl avatar but I mean really I hate the internet or maybe I just hate people idk.

    • @Psx806
      @Psx806 ปีที่แล้ว

      @watarigani1 I’ve had the temptation to deactivate my discord account it’s not that useful imo. All these lame people running around make the experience unpleasant. Tech support people don’t seem to be that good either. I should probably use stack overflow or w3school more than discord for tech support tbh seems to be more knowledgeable overall there.

  • @KJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ
    @KJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have terrible social skills and i can barely socialize so i focus on talking to people on the internet.

    • @BeanerMoney
      @BeanerMoney 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That doesn't translate to real social experience at all

    • @_____._..--_
      @_____._..--_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just be confident bro

    • @Robert_Daniel
      @Robert_Daniel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try to get used to saying Hi or Hello to at least one person in real life every day

  • @nuh.al-oklahomi
    @nuh.al-oklahomi ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The internet is kind of like alcohol and tobacco…the more you use it the more you’ll regret it.

  • @gagawin99
    @gagawin99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    To find those people you need to do something at least valuable to make them even notice you, because they are not that easy to get like furry discord server rp admin for ex.

    • @kanutaro3426
      @kanutaro3426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@QDesjardin04 it’s an euphemism for groomer

    • @usernamehandle
      @usernamehandle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wait, what?

  • @towardsthelight220
    @towardsthelight220 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Much of the internet is fake and it's very dramatic, angry and loud.

    • @email5023
      @email5023 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WHAT?!? WHADDYA MEAN ANGRY AND LOUD!?! AAAAAAAARGGGGHHH...!!!!!!!

  • @noeldev
    @noeldev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My bro opened facebook last week, i don't talk to him anymore
    Jokes aside i see what you mean, and i somewhat agree, but there are diffrences between someone talking 24/7 on a forum, and someone hoping on every now and than to hang out for a while, certian places attract certian peapole, if you avoid some places you can find like minded peapole, but i wouldn't say you gonna be talking with them daily for years if you do, unless you live nearby, that's my expirance atleast

  • @DonaldFranciszekTusk
    @DonaldFranciszekTusk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sometimes THE SAME people who looks stupid in the internet looks intelligent in real life.

  • @bluegreen8650
    @bluegreen8650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    basedbros.... all the castles in my sky have crumbled away....
    b-... bros.... i-...

  • @yummyyum4626
    @yummyyum4626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    On the internet you talk to people you would otherwise probably avoid entirely.
    Also its easier to lie online.

  • @zattak
    @zattak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Says "Internet is fake" while hanging out in a fake forest

    • @zwanzikahatzel9296
      @zwanzikahatzel9296 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if you mean man-made, houses are fake, roads are fake, clothes are fake, wheat fields are fake, unless u live as a member of an uncontacted tribe your whole life and surroundings are fake

    • @chiefexchange6685
      @chiefexchange6685 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The forest looks real to me, internet loser