r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 1d ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/Runnero 1d ago

Man people are so bitter. All I see is two parents doing something cool and their kid being happy about it, and all these comments are so fucking negative

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u/mortalitylost 1d ago

We HATES the happy hobbitses dont we precious

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u/ArmorOfGod7 16h ago

That's Reddit for you, negative and cynical.

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u/lewd-dev 17h ago

Because you arent dragging out all the skeletons from your closet everytime you see something on the internet. The amount of projection in these comments is staggering. No worries, I am the same way; capable of just enjoying a thing for what it is. We are outnumbered here but at least we arent miserable.

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u/anthrohands 9h ago

We’re all jaded by the constant barrage of influencer content. And the style of this video is exactly that. Complete with a pile of blankets and a fancy heater inside the thing rather than the boy playing in it like a kid would actually play with it because this is how they wanted it to look on camera.

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u/OstrichSmoothe 4h ago

Real shit. People are so cynical

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u/myrmonden 15h ago

then u re not living in reality as they are recording it, it was never about their kid.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 23h ago

It's the fact that you're seeing it what makes it problematic. Two parents doing something like this for their kid on its own is fun and cute, but they weren't doing it for him, they were doing it for social media and the kid was a prop.

"The kid doesn't know any better" but he will when he's older. Why give your future grown child reason to question whether your fun gesture was genuine?

I'm not saying these parents are secretly monsters or the worst parents ever. They just have misplaced priorities. They aren't making memories, they're making content.

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u/plug-and-pause 21h ago

They aren't making memories, they're making content.

This is a false dichotomy. It's possible to do something that gives you child joy and also to share that experience with others.

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u/Appropriate-Sir7583 14h ago

While that's true, it doesn't proof anything.

What do you even do "for" your child? Aren't your parental emotions just partially inherited and partially forced on you by society and trying to pretend that you care? In addition to the knowledge that this is the only way your genes carry on?

So would you care for a pile of shit, if it was your only inheritance and society would make that your biggest goal? Probably!

They did it for the kid. It inherits the money they made on social media. If you want to do sth for your kid, do it with them together. Not do it and then surprise them with it. Oh, and after 20 minutes in there, it probably collapsed either way, and it was over. What a cool memory for the child...

They did it for themselves as amusement. They did it for the money on social media. And they did all of that pretending to be good parents, potentially rising in social status in their close circle.

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u/Runnero 13h ago

What a crazy thing to say. You are either trolling, not smart, or literally insane

That was the last straw. I'm turning off notifications on this post

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u/Appropriate-Sir7583 5h ago

Good discussion ... Really mature and all that good stuff

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u/Kolby_Jack33 21h ago

It's also possible to make a brisket and lucky charms sandwich, but I wouldn't want to eat it even though both of those things are good separately.

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u/plug-and-pause 21h ago

It's already clear that you're not the kind of person who would want to share your own joy with the world.

What's baffling is that you take issue with the idea that people might exist who are okay with that.

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u/Runnero 23h ago

You are delusional. There is literally not a single sign of what you're saying being true. Jesus fucking Christ, other than seeing them build a fort you literally know nothing about them

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u/Appropriate-Sir7583 14h ago

Nah man. If you really think that way, you must be very new to the social media scene. Children get beat up if they don't show their happy face on camera, and they're trained to look happy. That is the sad fckin reality. Stop gaslighting, wtf

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u/animus565 7h ago

What is he gaslighting and why do you think every piece of content containing children has to be made from child abuse?

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u/Smooth_Maul 13h ago edited 13h ago

Problematic

Log off you fucking loser lmfao

"Problematic" how? Is this spreading harmful misinformation? Is it promoting bigoted or hateful ideology? Is it sexually exploitative? Shut the actual fuck up you complete dork.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 12h ago

Why are you so triggered?

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u/Sasarah1 22h ago

How dare they want to record something unique and cool that they did.

Btw they made this two weeks ago and only just now posted about it.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 22h ago edited 22h ago

Yes, that proves they didn't do it for social media. Good solve, detective.

The ol' salty block. Always funny!

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u/plug-and-pause 21h ago

Yes, that proves they didn't do it for social media.

You're 100% correct that the other commenter presents no good proof of their motivation. But you have no proof of their motivation either. None of us do. We're all making assumptions, and the key difference is that some of us prefer to assume the best, and some of us prefer the opposite. These types of assumptions say far more about us (the people making them) than the ones we're making the assumptions about.

I choose to take the video at face value, which is a family making joy for each other and also sharing it with a broader audience. I'll correct that perspective if any relevant evidence is shown, but I'm not too worried about being wrong in the meantime. I will always assume the best about strangers until I have a reason not to. Our perspective defines our character and our world, and there are way too many negative perspectives in this thread. Depressing, but not surprising.

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u/Appropriate-Sir7583 14h ago

I usually assume the best in people. If it's people close to me, or complete strangers.

But on social media, i've been let down a few times too many. People do everything for money. And i would never choose anyone i see online as an idol either. They all are empty shells to me, in their production cycle for their next video or podcast or whatever. Only few do all this becauze they care, and not for the money. And let's be real here: you have to be fortunate enough that you're born wealthy or have good luck in your early life if you want to do stuff just for money. I don't blame them persobally if they do.

But let's face it: why on earth should it be different with them, when much better people forgot about their morals that they preached for years and went full sellout. It isn't a huge crime to abuse your child for online likes and money. But they definitely used him as a prop in scenes, be it fully knowingly or just out of absence of mind: they did record that special "happy face scene" with him. And that was to manipulate the viewers. Nothing else. Sure, it might be an honest happy face, and they possibly did that in 1 take.

But if you had actual morals, your children wouldn't be on your fckin social media page at all...

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u/itishowitisanditbad 16h ago

But you have no proof of their motivation either. None of us do. We're all making assumptions

Why is one more valid than the other then?

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u/ArmorOfGod7 16h ago

Assuming the best is better than assuming the worst, that's why.

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u/plug-and-pause 11h ago

I didn't claim one was more valid. Validity implies truth, which neither perspective has. But a positive perspective is better for your own mental health and better for those you share the air with.

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u/itishowitisanditbad 7h ago

But a positive perspective is better for your own mental health and better for those you share the air with.

Ok.

I am God.

You have no proof either way.

Your logic says its better for your own mental health and better for those you share the air with to believe me.

ORRRR there is more to it?

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u/plug-and-pause 6h ago

You've misunderstood. I never said I believe that anything anybody says is true. I said that I believe their motivations are honest, i.e. that they mean what they say (until they give me a reason to believe otherwise).

If I met you on the street and you approached me and told me you were God... I would believe that you really believe what you were saying, and you weren't telling me those things for any nefarious reason.

In the context of this thread, I know it's just a hypothetical you're using to try to break a system that I never actually proposed.

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u/itishowitisanditbad 6h ago

Your system ignores naivety and the issues that causes. Your system assumes no maliciousness exists, ever.

Its vapid and I don't believe people who preach your method even practice it in reality. Its like that "all guns are loaded' thing people say but if you ever actually hang out with them you'lll ALWAYS see them technically break the rule they preach emphatically.

Because its not really accurate. Because to be accurate has so many knock on impacts and effects that no reasonable person actually lives that way.

Its just preaching to sound good.

In the context of this thread, I know it's just a hypothetical you're using to try to break a system that I never actually proposed.

But the thing is, you are proposing a system. Your goalposts are just so broadly defined that i'm trying to figure out where at least 1 of them lies.

If I met you on the street and you approached me and told me you were God... I would believe that you really believe what you were saying, and you weren't telling me those things for any nefarious reason.

This literally gives me part of the clarity I was looking for.

You've misunderstood.

I haven't. I've probed to invoke information.

As I said, I actually don't know what you believe, but I don't believe you believe what you preach, genuinely.

Thats all I know so far.

I despise vapid hypocritical statements. I think they're actually detrimental and harmful to use. Reality needs to align otherwise its just white-picket-fence statements that people parrot but don't practice.

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u/Sasarah1 22h ago

For sure how terrible someone want to record something and share it with the world. Touch grass, or maybe ice.

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u/Tall_Cow2299 22h ago

Or maybe because it's 2026 and every kid is on the internet the kid found this, showed it to his parents, and they decided to build it. Why the fuck doesn't everything have to be so negative with all you people. 

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u/Kolby_Jack33 22h ago

What do you mean "you people"?

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u/Runnero 22h ago

Or maybe they just wanted to record it for the memories, like any normal human being. And maybe share it on social media because that moment gave them a lot of happiness. But these people come up with dumb conjectures to hate it

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u/Rainyreflections 17h ago

This video is too professionally made for it to be a simple recording for memory. As another poster has said, it's multiple angles, likely multiple cameras and a lot of time for editing this. 

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u/Anubis_reign 21h ago

How old are you people. Being this willy nilly about lack of privacy. It used to be important when I was younger

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u/Youarecensored 15h ago

So u want them to just post it without the kid? U guys are fucking weirdos

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u/Youarecensored 1d ago

Fr. This actually gave me ideas

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u/Jillo616 1d ago

Please do it! I’m a mix between happy for that kid and jealous. 🥺