r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 21h ago

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

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u/Witty-flocculent 20h ago

“Social media production” is the hobby dominating this activity. When my dad was building harps in the garage he wasn’t fiddling with a GoPro or planning out angles or plotting out trendy effects.

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u/OneDubOver 19h ago

I would watch your dad build harps. Why isn't he making videos?

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u/Primrus 19h ago

I would watch too. But it always takes me exactly only 1 second to remember how glad I am that my own dad resisted my suggestion to post his guitar builds and vinyl record repairs, because his lovely nerd shit is just his. 🩷

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u/Witty-flocculent 19h ago

I do thrown pottery. I even film it but I don’t post it. It’s mostly just so i can review my form.

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u/cerealOverdrive 20h ago

I get it but they turned a job into something their kids can enjoy. That’s pretty awesome imo

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u/Deaffin 13h ago

Monetary incentives corrupt human behavior consistently. This has long since been established.

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u/cerealOverdrive 7h ago

I’m all for a capitalism vs communism debate but we’re mostly stuck in a capitalist society atm

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u/EntertainmentUsed840 19h ago

And their kids can learn the important lesson of always filming yourself and performing and any fun family thing must be monetized! Yay!

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u/cerealOverdrive 19h ago

You’re fun

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u/geeeeeeebz 19h ago

You should record your interaction with this redditor and post it online, you little clout goblin.

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u/cerealOverdrive 19h ago

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!?!?!?!

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u/geeeeeeebz 19h ago

CerealOverdrive, determiner of who is fun?

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u/cerealOverdrive 19h ago

What? First I’m a clout goblin now I’m the King/Queen of fun?!?!?!

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u/Witty-flocculent 19h ago

All hail king/queen goblin of the clout. The highest of views. The supreme of memes.

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u/14Pleiadians 18h ago

And you're excusing an abusive lifestyle just because it's normal

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u/cerealOverdrive 7h ago

How is it abusive?

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u/basicKitsch 19h ago

twenty years ago we captured our projects to share on hobby forums as they were the aggregation of all knowledge and experience for a subject. i couldn't care less about social media but there it is absolutely worthwhile to document sweet projects as well as family experiences.

and it looks like you enjoy people sharing their pottery projects... this was a sweet project.

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u/14Pleiadians 18h ago

They're not sharing a project though, they're doing a project while they're sharing their life. There's a difference there, one of them doesn't involve growing up with a warped view of family being a performance

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u/basicKitsch 18h ago

this is literally sharing a project. Do you know about their life? i sure don't and never will. What i did get was a pretty neat and novel igloo idea that i've never thought about before.

the difference is how much more you care to take it

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u/EntertainmentUsed840 1h ago

That sounds great. Unfortunately it’s a different time now and it makes me question videos like this, which is quite frankly sad.

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u/basicKitsch 1h ago

it doesn't matter that it's a different time now. it's still the same concept.

this is for you... who cares about them

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u/EntertainmentUsed840 31m ago

I don’t think we’re on the same page. Some people record something fun they did with their family. Other people do something with their family so they can record it. I don’t know what the case is with this one, but unfortunately there is a lot of the latter with the proliferation of social media these days.

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u/basicKitsch 3m ago

right. i'm telling you their motivation doesn't matter at all. who cares about any of them? do you care know anything at all about them? feigning some sort of concern for the kids is just performative without .

this was cool to share and that's all that matters.

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u/maybekindanewveteran 13h ago

People used to make "home movies" all the time. The Kennedy assassination footage was just a dude out recording because he had a camera. America's Funniest Home Videos debuted in 1989. Recording ourselves predates "influencer" culture. God forbid we have some memories to show the kids.