And it’s making kids more entitled and lazy when I was a kid I was always outside playing getting hurt before Dark now kids are told by parents don’t go to far and stay inside and get fat watching TV Boobtube or playing Fortnight eating and turning into Fat little children.
As someone who works in childcare, it’s very evident that parents are putting screens in front of their kids far too much. We use iPads to log daily things for parents to see what their kids are up to, when the kids see the screen they walk towards it like zombies. It’ll take you aback 😅
@@mr.dirtydan3338 tik tok makes me happy, I always watch tik tok on my ipad… ooooh IPAD! I must watch tik tok on ipad! That is quite literally exactly what goes on in their mind.
Even at infant age, it's important to work with your kid through their development. Ignoring your children at any age can be detrimental to their development
Much moreso than at any other time in fact. Neglect isn't good for anybody, but infants and toddlers are particularly vulnerable to having their lives completely ruined as a result of their parents simply being checked out and not giving a shit about raising them, and that's the approach most parents have had since the eighties.
Very true, the learning progress a child is making is not comparable to teens or adults. If you delay the small progress an infant can make, which is solely stimulus it can get from interacting with the parents and or family, it will delay and hinder further development.
Sadly that’s all the parents now n teachers don’t get paid enough to play a big role like they once did. Eventually the sped class kids will become the teachers n it’ll go downhill quick. I’ve noticed recently homeschooled kids are leaps ahead of kids their same age in school.. shits sad
@friedbacon7611 the more public schools get defunded the more any measurable difference between home and private school will grow. People profit off of this crap too
I honeslty see lack of empathy more in adults than in children. Like for example everyone who has kids, who is either poor, or not smart accademically or even both. Like are those people seriously not seeing how small of a chance their future child will have at succeding in life and not being homeless?
@@Gabi-mg2sf The problem is not lack of empathy, Its the fact that morons today think Empathy means you agree with somebody's choices. I can be empathetic towards a kid who suffers from mental health issues. While at the same time not agreeing with them that Drugs and Hormones are the solution. I can feel empathy towards somebody who has fallen on hard times but expecting people to pick themselves up and give themselves a shake ain't in contrast to that. People today think pandering is empathy. No, Its pandering. Sometimes you can feel for somebody but know that their problem is their choices.
I remember thinking as a teenager at the end of the nineties when internet was starting to catch on:"This is great! It will make us as a whole so much smarter because the amount of free information easily available to everyone!" It's depressing to see how it's turning out like this.
Its not because of the internet. Its because of the older generations that are parents now that shove ipads in their kids hands the moment they can talk
the internet is just a tool. it's how it's used, who's using it. the problem with everyone having a voice is that not everyone has something worth saying.
that was the golden age of the internet. before too many humans jumped on. put too many humans in one place, things turn to shit. this used to be s safe haven for many... until the whole damn world ran the door down and spilled in.
I'd blame it on the parents. As well as the pandemic blocking lots of vital social and general education. We saw it with the younger students coming into highschool when I was there. They didn't learn how to act as well as TikTok and other platforms breaking down attention spans which leeches into classes. I think it will go down and then go back to normal given some time. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't put the effort in now into fixing it.
@@arglebargle5531Parents were already pretty terrible, especially in America, it's just that now you have mass isolation added to it (talking pre-pandemic)
@grawlix-man463 social media was already added to the mix and was visibly causing all of these problems pre-pandemic. Social media is the visible cause-and-effect element, not parenting or the pandemic.
as someone in retail, i see parents shove screens infront of their children because it makes them quiet for a while, but the damage that screen is doing, it's like the parents have no idea
i think that the issue is largely parental based. letting an ipad and the internet raise your child along with neglect is obviously a recipe for disaster
Charlie doesn’t see the flaw in his argument the study showed children born after the pandemic are getting stupider but then he blames tik tok for getting stupider. I think it’s safe to say there’s a negligible amount of 2-3 year olds using tik tok. The pandemic is definitely more heavily correlated because it literally paused the world for 2 years and would make more sense why it’s the first time in history this is happening because the pandemic was unprecedented
Not tiktok but there are shorts on youtube kids. Tiktok does has some influence there so I wouldn’t completely count it out. It’s taught one of my baby cousins to constantly scroll without actually watching anything. The other two usually watch the same videos day in and day out
I love that half way through your argument about stupidity, you say something stupid. "Literally paused the world." How does one Literally pause the world? Use the expression if you want. It makes your point. Once you place Literally in front of it, it becomes nonsensical.
@PoopaChallupa if you look up 'literally' online, this is one of the informal definitions "used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true." That's from the Oxford online dictionary. Being a snob about language is kind of petty.
The absolute state of society when I'm having a nice day at work and I see parents letting their children run out into the street not holding their hands or anything all because the parents themselves are glued to their phones.
Obviously parents are part of the problem. I have a friend who works a very hard manual labor job in 12 hour shifts, he's divorced at 24 so he doesn't get to spend as much time with his son as he could but anytime he does his son nearly always has a tablet in front of him. He's not an "actively shitty parent" as his job provides well for them and I personally dont feel like confront him about the tablet use as to drive a wedge between our friendship in a time when he needs friends. The other part of the problem is that people who want to be and are prepared to be "actively good parents" are on the whole not having children as much as people who just happened to have kids along the way. A lot of people including myself, realize how finically incapable they are of supporting a family including children. Let alone raising a child in a time of such instability.
I have been diagnosed with ADHD, and I've always struggled with exams, even when on medication. Including the various "IQ" tests that I would take sporadically. Im in my late 20s and Ive noticed my peers with kids getting technology for them way too early in life. The constant exposure to screens and digital stimulation has led to a lot of short attention spans. That said, I still dont think humanity is doomed. I see my generation of soon to be parents (maybe) having some awareness of the dangerous effects of having technology in your hands at too early of an age, and maybe scaling back when these kids get electronics. But, we will never be at a point where kids wont have electronics, so we arent going to be rid of social media brain rot completely.
Yup. Not to mention the lack of true and meaningful (in person) social interaction nowadays. And people with ADHD maybe having it worse nowadays with distractions (I for sure do and if NT's are also struggling this badly already, oh boy, that sucks and is a major issue). And I wish people knew ADHD is more of an issue with focusing attention on smth or the right thing than lack of attention. It's an executive function disorder as well as self-regulation disorder (emotions, attention and more). But yeah, it sucks and some stuff was so much easier without technology back then and now, most of us are trapped :( And sorry to hear meds still don't work sufficiently. If you take Strattera, def. ask for Methylphenidate or if that doesn't work well, the opposite, Amphetamiens/Lisdexamfetamine/Dexedrine etc. Vyvanse also got the generics recently (which can work for some). Take care and hope you find a better way to cope and help if it's not sufficient atm
I don’t suffer with ADHD but it sucks seeing people in my generation lack the ability to feel for others, people show their true colors online due to the anonymity, the amount of people who brush it off is insane. My younger sister has been raised by the internet and it hurts me seeing how she can’t function properly without constant jingling keys, and my mother feeds into it to not do anything else. The internet not only shortened our attention spans and has had a massive affect on the youngest generation, but also blocked our ability to have real human connections
Well the Zoomers aren't ever going to be parents because they're always going to think of themselves as being children-or "postminors" as they're saying in their TikTok Newspeak.
@@Chizuru94 I really appreciate the kind words! Im currently on Vyvanse, after switching in between Focalin xr and concerta xr. The drug policy changes actually put a halt to my concerta meds a while back, and my goodness, that was rough. My doc came in clutch and got me a prescription of vyvanse, and man, I feel like a different person on that med. I started passing exams (late college student), and doing better in classes and at home. There is definitely hope and I hope others dont feel hopeless, especially as they come out of the hellhole that is high school
@@joey.99 yes, I'm sure that scrolling tik tok and shorts and playing subway surfers grants you a lot of usable skills you can offer on the job market. What do you think most of them do on their devices? You think they code, make music or graphic design stuff or spend their time day trading? :D
Even when I see kids in waiting rooms/lobbies with tablets, I feel bad for them. My mom and I used to make up games to pass the boredom, and you bet your ass I'll attribute my creativity to things like that lol
I think people should realize that this test only says that pandemic babies were stunted by a the lack of engagement and exposure to things. And possibly do to mothers being under more stress during pregnancy. This test isn’t saying anything about iPad children. Or TikTok children. There are VERY good arguments against having your kids be in front of screens all day. But I don’t think this study is tackling that.
It is difficult for me to believe that women’s cortisol levels during the covid pandemic would be any higher than women during the early to mid 1900s. Our country was at war, child mortality rates were around 90%, Spanish Flu was running rampant. I’m not seeing this study prove that a mother’s elevated cortisol levels have a direct impact on a child’s mental development.
As somebody who has cut himself off from as much human contact as humanly possible and has a shitload of fucking issues, maybe I should stop ignoring all of my friends and talk to my dad.
maybe it would help you, but i've actually had the opposite experience. ditching all of my old "friends" and cutting myself off from my terrible family situation has really improved my quality of life. my only regular social interactions for the past 2 years have been with my extended family during holidays, having brief small talk with neighbors will out on my daily walk, and chatting with retail employees when i go out shopping. i know plenty of people would call my life "sad" because i don't socialize as often as other people, but it hasn't negatively impacted my life in any way and has actually made my life more enjoyable for me. i'm finally free from my shitty "friends" and my terrible parents and siblings who used to treat me like shit for just existing. i don't really feel lonely and i don't miss my old life at all tbh, i like being alone.
I’m like this too, I only have 2 people that I consider friends, and I barely talk to my family. everyone else I ignore because I just want to finish school in peace 😭
So my family and I actually know these people that literally ended up catching the escaped inmate. This family has 100 acres and the father had set up the alarm system while away and forgot to turn it off, they came home and in the morning he walked outside and set it off so the cops came. Because of the fact that the inmate was still at large, the swat showed up as well. They didn’t go to the house to find him, but he was on the fucking property so they caught him 😭😭😭 Imagine having evaded capture for so long only to be caught on a complete accident 😂😂
My child was in the hospital mid pandemic, at a few months old he learned how to read emotions from other ways due to everyone he saw wearing a mask for the first half year or so of his life.
Theres a lot of parents putting down the ipads lately. I work in a small cafe and we have a lot of young couples with children as customers and it looks like people seem to be jumping on the "screen time for only a few hours on the weekend" train again atleast where i am. Funnily enough, their children seem perfectly happy and enjoying life without carrying one around all day too.
A 22yr old friend asked me the other day ‘you see the stars at night and then the suns comes out during the day, is there any stars between us and the sun?’ I was shocked tbh
I had a student question me how did I know for sure that white sharks are solitary predators while this could be just something I saw on instagram…like child documentaries,encyclopedias,researchers exists.How can this generation be so oblivious about basic shit like this is crazy. *edit this “child” was a 19 year old university student btw
Yes-the people at the absolute most crucial developmental inflection point, whose lives will be largely determined based on what milestones they're hitting right now.
That’s actually wild. The two little kids I’ve been around that were born during the pandemic are both surprisingly smart and empathetic so I’d kind of assumed kids were getting smarter.
You found the exceptions. The amount of teachers complaining their students reading and mental capabilities are 2 grades lower of standard is ridiculous.
I think part of the reason people are getting dumber, especially nowadays, kids are glued to their Ipad because the parents have no patience and just give them an I pad to shut them up so they can shove there own face in an iPad
It's not just social media or device connectivity, it's a clusterfuck of different factors that all happened at the perfectly wrong time. Social media might be one detriment, but so is the lack of human interaction and the immense stress that prevents parents from properly raising their children, it's the entire development process being fucked up and not just attention span.
You mentioned something important. While adults using iPads to raise kids is a devastating detriment, you also pointed out how those parents literally can’t raise kids because of how they have to work 3 jobs just to pay the rent of a tiny 4x4 cell essentially. I’m sure people will point out “just don’t have kids” and yeah some of us don’t out of genuinely just not wanting to (like me) but LOTS of factors lead to children being born regardless of someone’s willingness. That, and wanting a child in your life shouldn’t be impossible economically. Some people really want a family, and they should be able to. The root is always deeper.
Stuff like this makes me really glad that I was born in 1996 so my parents had to actually raise me and couldn't just have me watch youtube since you know... that didn't exist. Also the fact that TikTok wasn't a thing as it didn't exist by the time I graduated high school was also great.
i think the whole idea of plop an ipad in my kids lap for 6 hours really does play a humongous role in the issue. you can’t tell me when johnny is watching “spider-man color count poop explosion in fortnite (MUST WATCH)” for 5 hours straight their brain won’t rot
Also the pandemic, many schools shut down for LENGTHY periods of time and many teachers lost control of the students and getting lessons done. The IPAD take and tiktok shit is a very small amount of the problem if theyre being BORN that way. Healthy food has become so expensive, on top of that. Formula shortages were a massive problem during the pandemic
I remember I used to think about dumb shit all the time as a kid, now looking back i realize that was my brain forming and processing itself. I bet if these lil kids are getting dumber its specifically because they don't exist within themselves as much as a human should, they're just taking in random drivel at a;; hours instead of thinking about anything.
My dad and me always had a joke that the movie idiocracy wasn't a movie it's a documentary of the future and of a future coming much sooner than the documentary anticipated
It's shit like this that makes me think that John B. Calhoun's behavioural sink concept is happening and we're circling the drain in terms of intelligence
Does it? It's been a long time since I last watched it but I remember thinking it was pretty clear on the problem being consumerism and an economic system predicated on the absurd capitalist fairy tale of infinite growth.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy No? You reading modern day political buzzword topics from a 2006 movie is hilariously autistic. The movie literally says the fall of humanity was smart people being too busy to have children so only the dumbest people alive continued to breed. Thus making all future generations just as stupid.
I believe this is directly because of Covid. I volunteer as an eMentor for children and reading scores dropped significantly due to the pandemic, we were rushing to catch the kiddos up to their appropriate reading levels. I think it will recover and level out eventually.
that pandemic destroyed my senior year of Highschool, legit didn't even write a paragraph for English the entire year. or do anything for any other core class.
I honestly think that who you are at the moment of conception till birth drastically changes how your child will turn out. You literally can become who you want your baby to be
That could also have to do with the mom getting her life together and being able to set a better example for their child, but I’m sure you’ve got a point too
My kid may be an outlier, but I feel as though he is very smart for his age. He surprises me every day with things he knows and his understanding of different things. He was born smack dab in the middle of the pandemic.
6:55 For frigging sure. So many of my mental health issues would be solved or massively better if I had a community I was really part of/a tribe. When a friend helped me meet most of my needs when he visited me in my country for a week, it did a massive and quick 180 on my mental health and year long depression. Sucks this isn't smth everyone can just provide someone or most wouldn't do that. Needless to say, I'm almost back at square one again, minus knowing there is a way out now that I might not have the key to or I'll be able to experience again any time soon.
An amendment to the 'still face test' is that it should not be compared to masks, but rather parents looking at their phones. There is the original test, but also a new version with the parent using a phone. This test shows that even young babies are negatively affected where parents are looking at screens rather than interacting with them.
People don't realize that kids don't want to go to school for the same reasons, they don't want to go to school because they're either scared of getting hurt and or knows that the teachers don't really care about teaching most of us. If i want to become a carpenter in the future, i shouldn't be taking physical science, or algebra 3
The schools have taken away so many classes and clubs (sex education, home economics, personal development classes) that there should be no reason you have to come home to hours of homework and still be failing.
What i dont get is how a toddlers intelligence is quantifiable. Maybe im mistaken but id imagine that intelligence levels for people that young would be hard if not impossible to determine.
It would be a great reason for the rest of the world to lower the influence they allow America to have. Unfortunately, it's a pervasive cultural problem in the US that isn't ever going to be fixed.
The world is not ending, but more people nowadays than ever can not comprehend hypothetical scenarios, resulting in a lack of empathy. This is what creates Main Charachter Syndrome, which you've probably seen a lot of on TikTok, which is what I blame, along with most other social media, but TikTok primarily. You've probably noticed within the past 5 years that driving has become a lot more dangerous. People cutting people off without blinkers, pulling out infront of people, people tailgating people, etc... People are now prioritizing themselves over the lives of everyone around them, which loops back to their lack of empathy and the lack of the fundamental understanding of hypothetical scenarios; not having the capability of putting themselves in others' shoes. The same people will see a video of a child falling to their death and make jokes about it in the comments. It's because they see these tragedies vicariously through their screens, detaching them from the reality of the situations theyre looking at. They forgrt that it's not a show; that it's reality. It's a selfish, low-IQd, and sadly, incurable mentality. The realization that the majority of people have a conditioned state of sociopathy is honestly terrifying to me, especially when driving.
Charlie dude, participants were from 3 months to 3 years old. They were not fetuses. Parenting plays an enormous role, it's not just what you teach them afterwards, they see you and attempt to understand what is important and what isn't in this planet they sprouted at. 1 to 3 years old is exceptionally important to how their brain is preparing for what is coming, judging by the environment and social stimuli. They mostly see a parent standing still in front of a little light-emitting object. "Ok", says the brain, "apparently this is a behaviour I'll need to adopt in the future", while at the same time their emotional needs are less tended to. TV was a different story. You could get bored and dump it, because no interaction. Today, kids don't even reach the point of boredom, let alone loneliness, to get up and pick up a new skill. They can immediately cover their social and entertainment needs by chatting and interacting. Fun fact : the suggested age that a child can get their own smartphone, according to studies, is 16. Parents throw it in front of their 2 year olds.
yeah, charlie and all the millenials in the comment section claiming that millenials are peak human intelligence are just proving that this isn't the case because they apparently lack basic reading comprehension lol
Me and my younger brother always had the same tastes in video games and shows. Dude spends all day in tik tok and he tried deadspace remake for 5 minutes and returned it because it bored him. So that is more scientifically accurate proof that people are getting dumber
what we need is a study from the age of 5, one kid using social media, looks at phones, the other kid is completely banned from social media, blogs, and the internet up to age 18, and see the IQ results is
Babies in the womb might know what a human face looks like before they are born there’s a study on it, it isn’t a complete outreach to think they might also take small amounts of environmental information aswell before they are born
It’s also the abundance of information. When I was a kid without access to too much internet I was to be hooked to anything new on discovery channel and even asked my mum to subscribe to discovery science cause I was so eager to get my hands on any information about the world and universe but now even still being a huge fan of science I find myself less enthusiastic to learn cause I feel like I can access information at anytime. Information has become less valuable to people
This article is about babies that are basically too young to be using tiktok or any internet stuff. If they do use it when they’re like 0-3 it’s usually no different from how any of our generation used to use TV. The reason for the drop is definitely not tiktok. Nowhere in the article is tiktok mentioned. Also the reason parents being online more is a problem is that it leads to distracted parenting and distracted parenting is bad for child brain development because babies intellectually develop through interactions with their parents. You can’t just like half read an article and then spread a bunch of half truths.
A child, even a baby's brain development is based on the interactions that he has. So, if the parents just give him an iPad and don't help him actually develop (reading baby books, going outside, talking to him, etc.) the baby will suffer.
The reason stress is such a huge factor in this generation is because our entire lives have been almost nothing but HISTORIC EVENT AFTER HISTORIC EVENT and then when we got out of school the price to live was so high that me not even working 2 jobs is enough to pay rent and then be able to eat
@@Chizuru94 the entire MG series is always so prophetic, as well as full of philosophical things to make you really think. Such a shame newer generations of people will be unable to grasp or contemplate the questions and ideas that the series posits.
Chat: "Do you have hope for the future?"
Charlie: "Yes." *shares the most hope-destroying information of the night*
I have hope for my own future. According to Charlie, I am the apex now.
@@yeetboi268 no no no
WE’RE the apex
*Soviet Union Anthem Plays*
@@mrweirdo1548No no, *I* am the Apex
*USA anthem plays*
Social Media for Children is like chain-smoking for mental health.
That's a delightful comparison I'll have to remember it.
“Social Media” specifically for children just gives predators more access to them too
And it’s making kids more entitled and lazy when I was a kid I was always outside playing getting hurt before Dark now kids are told by parents don’t go to far and stay inside and get fat watching TV Boobtube or playing Fortnight eating and turning into Fat little children.
Me watching more CZcams after this while chain smoking 40 packs a day, shooting 8gs of h and snorting 15 lines per minute
Don't forget intellectual health as well
As someone who works in childcare, it’s very evident that parents are putting screens in front of their kids far too much. We use iPads to log daily things for parents to see what their kids are up to, when the kids see the screen they walk towards it like zombies. It’ll take you aback 😅
This would imply that the older generations are becoming dumber, not the other way around 😂🤦
@@evanboone6208what are you talking about?
Why does this happen. I know it does, the stats say do. But what is the actual psychological reasoning?
@@mr.dirtydan3338 tik tok makes me happy, I always watch tik tok on my ipad… ooooh IPAD! I must watch tik tok on ipad! That is quite literally exactly what goes on in their mind.
If you really want to know the psychology behind it just search it up and read about it.
Even at infant age, it's important to work with your kid through their development. Ignoring your children at any age can be detrimental to their development
Much moreso than at any other time in fact. Neglect isn't good for anybody, but infants and toddlers are particularly vulnerable to having their lives completely ruined as a result of their parents simply being checked out and not giving a shit about raising them, and that's the approach most parents have had since the eighties.
Very true, the learning progress a child is making is not comparable to teens or adults. If you delay the small progress an infant can make, which is solely stimulus it can get from interacting with the parents and or family, it will delay and hinder further development.
Yes, they need stimulation. Emotional neglect is literally visible in infants brains.
Sadly that’s all the parents now n teachers don’t get paid enough to play a big role like they once did. Eventually the sped class kids will become the teachers n it’ll go downhill quick. I’ve noticed recently homeschooled kids are leaps ahead of kids their same age in school.. shits sad
@friedbacon7611 the more public schools get defunded the more any measurable difference between home and private school will grow.
People profit off of this crap too
The even scarier thing is lack of empathy. That's the dangerous part
It's the total disconnection from reality that social media creates
I honeslty see lack of empathy more in adults than in children. Like for example everyone who has kids, who is either poor, or not smart accademically or even both. Like are those people seriously not seeing how small of a chance their future child will have at succeding in life and not being homeless?
@@Gabi-mg2sf The problem is not lack of empathy, Its the fact that morons today think Empathy means you agree with somebody's choices. I can be empathetic towards a kid who suffers from mental health issues. While at the same time not agreeing with them that Drugs and Hormones are the solution.
I can feel empathy towards somebody who has fallen on hard times but expecting people to pick themselves up and give themselves a shake ain't in contrast to that. People today think pandering is empathy. No, Its pandering. Sometimes you can feel for somebody but know that their problem is their choices.
the problem is not the lack of empathy. its group mentality and selective empathy
I remember thinking as a teenager at the end of the nineties when internet was starting to catch on:"This is great! It will make us as a whole so much smarter because the amount of free information easily available to everyone!" It's depressing to see how it's turning out like this.
you jinxed it.
(That was just a joke)
Its not because of the internet. Its because of the older generations that are parents now that shove ipads in their kids hands the moment they can talk
As with most things, the internet can be good in moderation. Most people don’t limit themselves with how much time they’re on it though.
the internet is just a tool. it's how it's used, who's using it. the problem with everyone having a voice is that not everyone has something worth saying.
that was the golden age of the internet. before too many humans jumped on. put too many humans in one place, things turn to shit. this used to be s safe haven for many... until the whole damn world ran the door down and spilled in.
I'd blame it on the parents. As well as the pandemic blocking lots of vital social and general education. We saw it with the younger students coming into highschool when I was there. They didn't learn how to act as well as TikTok and other platforms breaking down attention spans which leeches into classes. I think it will go down and then go back to normal given some time. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't put the effort in now into fixing it.
I think social media is a far bigger culprit. Parents didn't suddenly get worse and the problem was easily visible pre-pandemic.
@@arglebargle5531Parents were already pretty terrible, especially in America, it's just that now you have mass isolation added to it (talking pre-pandemic)
Comment too long. Not readin allat.
@@VonDoof Literally proving them right
@grawlix-man463 social media was already added to the mix and was visibly causing all of these problems pre-pandemic.
Social media is the visible cause-and-effect element, not parenting or the pandemic.
as someone in retail, i see parents shove screens infront of their children because it makes them quiet for a while, but the damage that screen is doing, it's like the parents have no idea
i think that the issue is largely parental based. letting an ipad and the internet raise your child along with neglect is obviously a recipe for disaster
Our brains develop the most during our first 3 years of life and iPad isolated is 1000% stunning development, especially social development.
Not to mention the lack of normal/good/beneficial social interaction between people, esp. younger ones.
Charlie doesn’t see the flaw in his argument the study showed children born after the pandemic are getting stupider but then he blames tik tok for getting stupider. I think it’s safe to say there’s a negligible amount of 2-3 year olds using tik tok. The pandemic is definitely more heavily correlated because it literally paused the world for 2 years and would make more sense why it’s the first time in history this is happening because the pandemic was unprecedented
Hell yeah, its weird nobody in chat called him out on that, tiktok isn't really popular among young babies fortunately xD
@@Munisk52 exactly🤣
Not tiktok but there are shorts on youtube kids. Tiktok does has some influence there so I wouldn’t completely count it out. It’s taught one of my baby cousins to constantly scroll without actually watching anything. The other two usually watch the same videos day in and day out
I love that half way through your argument about stupidity, you say something stupid.
"Literally paused the world."
How does one Literally pause the world? Use the expression if you want. It makes your point. Once you place Literally in front of it, it becomes nonsensical.
@PoopaChallupa if you look up 'literally' online, this is one of the informal definitions "used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true." That's from the Oxford online dictionary. Being a snob about language is kind of petty.
The absolute state of society when I'm having a nice day at work and I see parents letting their children run out into the street not holding their hands or anything all because the parents themselves are glued to their phones.
Obviously parents are part of the problem. I have a friend who works a very hard manual labor job in 12 hour shifts, he's divorced at 24 so he doesn't get to spend as much time with his son as he could but anytime he does his son nearly always has a tablet in front of him. He's not an "actively shitty parent" as his job provides well for them and I personally dont feel like confront him about the tablet use as to drive a wedge between our friendship in a time when he needs friends.
The other part of the problem is that people who want to be and are prepared to be "actively good parents" are on the whole not having children as much as people who just happened to have kids along the way. A lot of people including myself, realize how finically incapable they are of supporting a family including children. Let alone raising a child in a time of such instability.
I have been diagnosed with ADHD, and I've always struggled with exams, even when on medication. Including the various "IQ" tests that I would take sporadically. Im in my late 20s and Ive noticed my peers with kids getting technology for them way too early in life. The constant exposure to screens and digital stimulation has led to a lot of short attention spans. That said, I still dont think humanity is doomed. I see my generation of soon to be parents (maybe) having some awareness of the dangerous effects of having technology in your hands at too early of an age, and maybe scaling back when these kids get electronics.
But, we will never be at a point where kids wont have electronics, so we arent going to be rid of social media brain rot completely.
Yup. Not to mention the lack of true and meaningful (in person) social interaction nowadays. And people with ADHD maybe having it worse nowadays with distractions (I for sure do and if NT's are also struggling this badly already, oh boy, that sucks and is a major issue). And I wish people knew ADHD is more of an issue with focusing attention on smth or the right thing than lack of attention. It's an executive function disorder as well as self-regulation disorder (emotions, attention and more). But yeah, it sucks and some stuff was so much easier without technology back then and now, most of us are trapped :( And sorry to hear meds still don't work sufficiently. If you take Strattera, def. ask for Methylphenidate or if that doesn't work well, the opposite, Amphetamiens/Lisdexamfetamine/Dexedrine etc. Vyvanse also got the generics recently (which can work for some). Take care and hope you find a better way to cope and help if it's not sufficient atm
I don’t suffer with ADHD but it sucks seeing people in my generation lack the ability to feel for others, people show their true colors online due to the anonymity, the amount of people who brush it off is insane. My younger sister has been raised by the internet and it hurts me seeing how she can’t function properly without constant jingling keys, and my mother feeds into it to not do anything else. The internet not only shortened our attention spans and has had a massive affect on the youngest generation, but also blocked our ability to have real human connections
Well the Zoomers aren't ever going to be parents because they're always going to think of themselves as being children-or "postminors" as they're saying in their TikTok Newspeak.
I also have adhd and I’m glad I was able to read this whole thing locked in I’m not doomed
@@Chizuru94 I really appreciate the kind words! Im currently on Vyvanse, after switching in between Focalin xr and concerta xr. The drug policy changes actually put a halt to my concerta meds a while back, and my goodness, that was rough. My doc came in clutch and got me a prescription of vyvanse, and man, I feel like a different person on that med. I started passing exams (late college student), and doing better in classes and at home. There is definitely hope and I hope others dont feel hopeless, especially as they come out of the hellhole that is high school
How do you test the IQ of a baby?
Cognitive abilities. Learning Object permanence, how to walk, talk, understanding emotions etc: etc:
It's in the study
Calculus pop quiz
I fear for the kids that were raised by an ipad, their adult lives will be difficult due to that:(
People can use their obsession with technology to learn new things
@@joey.99 yes, I'm sure that scrolling tik tok and shorts and playing subway surfers grants you a lot of usable skills you can offer on the job market.
What do you think most of them do on their devices? You think they code, make music or graphic design stuff or spend their time day trading? :D
@@joey.99
Realistically though, that will not be the majority of people’s experience.
@@fernandotillsIt will though. Compare an adult now from an adult in the 1900s. I bet the adult now is a lot more knowledgeable.
@valer119 adults can, not children
Even when I see kids in waiting rooms/lobbies with tablets, I feel bad for them. My mom and I used to make up games to pass the boredom, and you bet your ass I'll attribute my creativity to things like that lol
I never thought of that but it’s a great point
I think people should realize that this test only says that pandemic babies were stunted by a the lack of engagement and exposure to things. And possibly do to mothers being under more stress during pregnancy. This test isn’t saying anything about iPad children. Or TikTok children. There are VERY good arguments against having your kids be in front of screens all day. But I don’t think this study is tackling that.
See, the problem is, that conclusion requires using a modicum of critical thinking, which both charlie and 99% of his audience lacks.
It is difficult for me to believe that women’s cortisol levels during the covid pandemic would be any higher than women during the early to mid 1900s. Our country was at war, child mortality rates were around 90%, Spanish Flu was running rampant. I’m not seeing this study prove that a mother’s elevated cortisol levels have a direct impact on a child’s mental development.
It's also one of those meta-analysis studies that have to be vague in their conclusions because there simply doesn't exist a viable control group-there are no _non-_ iPad Kids© to be found and serve as a statistical benchmark.
2000s to 2003s kids manage to dodge this shit
"ARE PEOPLE GETTING DUMBER?"
Me: Have you ever heard of a good old 2000s movie called Idiocracy 🤷♂️.
As somebody who has cut himself off from as much human contact as humanly possible and has a shitload of fucking issues, maybe I should stop ignoring all of my friends and talk to my dad.
Please talk to your friends and father. It'll probably help you.
maybe it would help you, but i've actually had the opposite experience. ditching all of my old "friends" and cutting myself off from my terrible family situation has really improved my quality of life. my only regular social interactions for the past 2 years have been with my extended family during holidays, having brief small talk with neighbors will out on my daily walk, and chatting with retail employees when i go out shopping. i know plenty of people would call my life "sad" because i don't socialize as often as other people, but it hasn't negatively impacted my life in any way and has actually made my life more enjoyable for me. i'm finally free from my shitty "friends" and my terrible parents and siblings who used to treat me like shit for just existing. i don't really feel lonely and i don't miss my old life at all tbh, i like being alone.
I’m like this too, I only have 2 people that I consider friends, and I barely talk to my family. everyone else I ignore because I just want to finish school in peace 😭
So my family and I actually know these people that literally ended up catching the escaped inmate. This family has 100 acres and the father had set up the alarm system while away and forgot to turn it off, they came home and in the morning he walked outside and set it off so the cops came. Because of the fact that the inmate was still at large, the swat showed up as well. They didn’t go to the house to find him, but he was on the fucking property so they caught him 😭😭😭 Imagine having evaded capture for so long only to be caught on a complete accident 😂😂
I’ve been telling my mom to stop letting my baby brother on the table so much, he’s become so addicted to it
My child was in the hospital mid pandemic, at a few months old he learned how to read emotions from other ways due to everyone he saw wearing a mask for the first half year or so of his life.
Theres a lot of parents putting down the ipads lately.
I work in a small cafe and we have a lot of young couples with children as customers and it looks like people seem to be jumping on the "screen time for only a few hours on the weekend" train again atleast where i am.
Funnily enough, their children seem perfectly happy and enjoying life without carrying one around all day too.
Attention at that age is so important, thanks for sharing this nice observation.
Charly: "We are the apex" Me, scratching my brain through my nose: "nice"
A 22yr old friend asked me the other day ‘you see the stars at night and then the suns comes out during the day, is there any stars between us and the sun?’ I was shocked tbh
Wot?
I had a student question me how did I know for sure that white sharks are solitary predators while this could be just something I saw on instagram…like child documentaries,encyclopedias,researchers exists.How can this generation be so oblivious about basic shit like this is crazy.
*edit this “child” was a 19 year old university student btw
Wait but aren't we talking about 3 year Olds lol
yeah i don’t see how the iq of toddlers really means much at this point
dumbass kids can't even make sandwiches now.
yeah braindead take on charlie's part
What, do you think he wrote it
Yes-the people at the absolute most crucial developmental inflection point, whose lives will be largely determined based on what milestones they're hitting right now.
Just so yall don't get confuse on what generation. Gen Z is 1997 - 2012, Gen Alpha is 2013-2025
I was born in 1996. I just got away with not being Gen-Z, phew
5:45 it does affect babies. parents interacting with babies, even newborns, has significant effects on the child's development
Yup, every year I feel stupidier
I think in America no social support really drives some people to do unfortunate things.
Here we go, the Idiocracy prophecy is coming to fruition
that movie wasn't satire... I knew that when I watched it a few years ago.
That’s actually wild. The two little kids I’ve been around that were born during the pandemic are both surprisingly smart and empathetic so I’d kind of assumed kids were getting smarter.
seen a few of todays kids reading fluently at 4 years old (ridiculous [in a positive way]) and i for damn sure know my kids aint stupid.
Those kids are diamonds in the rough I'd say. A vast majority are being raised by tiktok, influencers, and youtubers
You found the exceptions. The amount of teachers complaining their students reading and mental capabilities are 2 grades lower of standard is ridiculous.
I think part of the reason people are getting dumber, especially nowadays, kids are glued to their Ipad because the parents have no patience and just give them an I pad to shut them up so they can shove there own face in an iPad
It's not just social media or device connectivity, it's a clusterfuck of different factors that all happened at the perfectly wrong time. Social media might be one detriment, but so is the lack of human interaction and the immense stress that prevents parents from properly raising their children, it's the entire development process being fucked up and not just attention span.
You mentioned something important. While adults using iPads to raise kids is a devastating detriment, you also pointed out how those parents literally can’t raise kids because of how they have to work 3 jobs just to pay the rent of a tiny 4x4 cell essentially. I’m sure people will point out “just don’t have kids” and yeah some of us don’t out of genuinely just not wanting to (like me) but LOTS of factors lead to children being born regardless of someone’s willingness. That, and wanting a child in your life shouldn’t be impossible economically. Some people really want a family, and they should be able to. The root is always deeper.
When I have kids I am definitely not letting them have their own device until they’re older.
My child will not have a phone until they are a teenager.
This could just be the first dip in a steady increase over time. Don't give up and teach your children everything you know and it will keep going up
Stuff like this makes me really glad that I was born in 1996 so my parents had to actually raise me and couldn't just have me watch youtube since you know... that didn't exist. Also the fact that TikTok wasn't a thing as it didn't exist by the time I graduated high school was also great.
i think the whole idea of plop an ipad in my kids lap for 6 hours really does play a humongous role in the issue. you can’t tell me when johnny is watching “spider-man color count poop explosion in fortnite (MUST WATCH)” for 5 hours straight their brain won’t rot
Also the pandemic, many schools shut down for LENGTHY periods of time and many teachers lost control of the students and getting lessons done. The IPAD take and tiktok shit is a very small amount of the problem if theyre being BORN that way. Healthy food has become so expensive, on top of that. Formula shortages were a massive problem during the pandemic
don't they sell lactation supplements?
I remember I used to think about dumb shit all the time as a kid, now looking back i realize that was my brain forming and processing itself. I bet if these lil kids are getting dumber its specifically because they don't exist within themselves as much as a human should, they're just taking in random drivel at a;; hours instead of thinking about anything.
My dad and me always had a joke that the movie idiocracy wasn't a movie it's a documentary of the future and of a future coming much sooner than the documentary anticipated
"Have IQs dropped sharply while I was away?" - Ellen Ripley.
Yes.
School system is a huge attributer and social media is like the nail in the coffin for most on ensuring they stay forever dull.
i dont think you can assume 1 down trend means every decade going forward is gonna go down
Thinking I could be the apex of intelligence for humanity makes me incredibly happy I don't have kids yet.
I work as a technician in a pretty affluent area, I'm constantly repairing the babysitter after some brat got mad at it
It's shit like this that makes me think that John B. Calhoun's behavioural sink concept is happening and we're circling the drain in terms of intelligence
The problem with idiocracy is that it assumes the problem is a eugenics issue and not a societal one
Does it? It's been a long time since I last watched it but I remember thinking it was pretty clear on the problem being consumerism and an economic system predicated on the absurd capitalist fairy tale of infinite growth.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy No? You reading modern day political buzzword topics from a 2006 movie is hilariously autistic. The movie literally says the fall of humanity was smart people being too busy to have children so only the dumbest people alive continued to breed. Thus making all future generations just as stupid.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy the opening spends its time establishing that the stupid people are having more babies than the smart people
I’m 15 born in 08 and genuinely seeing everyone at school on their phones not paying attention is evidence of our stupid generation
people not paying attention in class is nothing new lol
I'm 15, just today a kid was on their phone crossing the road as a car was coming and he didn't even care, he just continued walking
I believe this is directly because of Covid. I volunteer as an eMentor for children and reading scores dropped significantly due to the pandemic, we were rushing to catch the kiddos up to their appropriate reading levels. I think it will recover and level out eventually.
They straight up need to make it illegal to sit a child in front of a screen.
You know what they say "We are our own worst enemy".
The biggest role in making them dumber is the parents of those kids, which are us
I feel like even video games are rotting people from the inside. They get home from school and play. They get home from work and play.
Sad to say in like 10-20 years public schools might go online only to save money which is terrifying
IQ is meaningless
that pandemic destroyed my senior year of Highschool, legit didn't even write a paragraph for English the entire year. or do anything for any other core class.
I honestly think that who you are at the moment of conception till birth drastically changes how your child will turn out. You literally can become who you want your baby to be
That could also have to do with the mom getting her life together and being able to set a better example for their child, but I’m sure you’ve got a point too
Worse thing about it, these are the next workers in line,I've no hope for any of them to have the ability to make a cheese sandwich.
My kid may be an outlier, but I feel as though he is very smart for his age. He surprises me every day with things he knows and his understanding of different things. He was born smack dab in the middle of the pandemic.
*me reading the title with absolutely 0% surprise in my body*
6:55 For frigging sure. So many of my mental health issues would be solved or massively better if I had a community I was really part of/a tribe. When a friend helped me meet most of my needs when he visited me in my country for a week, it did a massive and quick 180 on my mental health and year long depression. Sucks this isn't smth everyone can just provide someone or most wouldn't do that. Needless to say, I'm almost back at square one again, minus knowing there is a way out now that I might not have the key to or I'll be able to experience again any time soon.
An amendment to the 'still face test' is that it should not be compared to masks, but rather parents looking at their phones. There is the original test, but also a new version with the parent using a phone. This test shows that even young babies are negatively affected where parents are looking at screens rather than interacting with them.
When everything is smart, we don’t have to think for ourselves
infected with the stupid sounds like a 70's funk song🤣
People don't realize that kids don't want to go to school for the same reasons, they don't want to go to school because they're either scared of getting hurt and or knows that the teachers don't really care about teaching most of us. If i want to become a carpenter in the future, i shouldn't be taking physical science, or algebra 3
The schools have taken away so many classes and clubs (sex education, home economics, personal development classes) that there should be no reason you have to come home to hours of homework and still be failing.
They need the name the classes more challenging, but only give you the classes that you know will help you in the future, wherever that'll be.
Pandemic babies were just watching coco melon 24/7
Proof is that people had such a smooth brain to not appreciate vinland saga season 2.
Did you know that the guy invented the I.Q. test also came up with the idea of eugenics?
I think it's a perfect storm of several things: bad parenting, the pandemic, and the rise of social media
The study is for 3 months to 3-year-old children and the study repeatedly references the pandemic.
What does this have to do with TikTok?
Yeah he's being really dumb here to support his claim but at least its funny
almost like charlie's not nearly as smart as 99% of his fanbase makes him out to be
tik rots brains. cry about it
What i dont get is how a toddlers intelligence is quantifiable. Maybe im mistaken but id imagine that intelligence levels for people that young would be hard if not impossible to determine.
i’m glad somebody else is pointing this out. He’s been harping on tiktok for so long his argument against it has gotten weaker
1:45 We are the Apex!!!!
IQ tests dont measure how smart you are, they measure how good you are at an IQ test
This would be a great reason for America to lower the cost of therapy.
Mental therapy doesn't help low IQ and poor attention span
lol
lmao even
It would be a great reason for the rest of the world to lower the influence they allow America to have. Unfortunately, it's a pervasive cultural problem in the US that isn't ever going to be fixed.
This is America. Best we can do is double the cost.
The only way that masks would have affected kids, is if the parents wore the masks 24/7. Masks were only for public use, not at home.
I genuinely worry what the long term effect of COVID disturbing education so much is going to be
For such a decline it really must just be not letting the kids develop as kids, letting the iPad do it.
The world is not ending, but more people nowadays than ever can not comprehend hypothetical scenarios, resulting in a lack of empathy. This is what creates Main Charachter Syndrome, which you've probably seen a lot of on TikTok, which is what I blame, along with most other social media, but TikTok primarily. You've probably noticed within the past 5 years that driving has become a lot more dangerous. People cutting people off without blinkers, pulling out infront of people, people tailgating people, etc... People are now prioritizing themselves over the lives of everyone around them, which loops back to their lack of empathy and the lack of the fundamental understanding of hypothetical scenarios; not having the capability of putting themselves in others' shoes. The same people will see a video of a child falling to their death and make jokes about it in the comments. It's because they see these tragedies vicariously through their screens, detaching them from the reality of the situations theyre looking at. They forgrt that it's not a show; that it's reality. It's a selfish, low-IQd, and sadly, incurable mentality. The realization that the majority of people have a conditioned state of sociopathy is honestly terrifying to me, especially when driving.
Yet another reason why I should reconsider getting a bike
Im just waiting for President Camacho! Lol
6:35 and this is why only childs turn out weird. they go thru so much pain growing up it’s sad. and people don’t get it
The Flynn Effect does not show that people were getting more intelligent, even Flynn himself said so.
That 9 months is far more important than that 12yrs...I always believed that....
Wait for the next ten years after all this ai technology it’s gonna be interesting
Charlie dude, participants were from 3 months to 3 years old. They were not fetuses. Parenting plays an enormous role, it's not just what you teach them afterwards, they see you and attempt to understand what is important and what isn't in this planet they sprouted at. 1 to 3 years old is exceptionally important to how their brain is preparing for what is coming, judging by the environment and social stimuli. They mostly see a parent standing still in front of a little light-emitting object. "Ok", says the brain, "apparently this is a behaviour I'll need to adopt in the future", while at the same time their emotional needs are less tended to.
TV was a different story. You could get bored and dump it, because no interaction. Today, kids don't even reach the point of boredom, let alone loneliness, to get up and pick up a new skill. They can immediately cover their social and entertainment needs by chatting and interacting.
Fun fact : the suggested age that a child can get their own smartphone, according to studies, is 16. Parents throw it in front of their 2 year olds.
Gen z is the pinnacle* Gen alpha is the dumbest rn
yeah, charlie and all the millenials in the comment section claiming that millenials are peak human intelligence are just proving that this isn't the case because they apparently lack basic reading comprehension lol
Man that just makes me really feel like I’m just a idiot then
Me and my younger brother always had the same tastes in video games and shows. Dude spends all day in tik tok and he tried deadspace remake for 5 minutes and returned it because it bored him. So that is more scientifically accurate proof that people are getting dumber
What a shitty point
f*ck that dude above me, i love your playful poke at your bro.
what we need is a study from the age of 5, one kid using social media, looks at phones, the other kid is completely banned from social media, blogs, and the internet up to age 18, and see the IQ results is
Babies in the womb might know what a human face looks like before they are born there’s a study on it, it isn’t a complete outreach to think they might also take small amounts of environmental information aswell before they are born
It’s also the abundance of information. When I was a kid without access to too much internet I was to be hooked to anything new on discovery channel and even asked my mum to subscribe to discovery science cause I was so eager to get my hands on any information about the world and universe but now even still being a huge fan of science I find myself less enthusiastic to learn cause I feel like I can access information at anytime. Information has become less valuable to people
This article is about babies that are basically too young to be using tiktok or any internet stuff. If they do use it when they’re like 0-3 it’s usually no different from how any of our generation used to use TV. The reason for the drop is definitely not tiktok. Nowhere in the article is tiktok mentioned.
Also the reason parents being online more is a problem is that it leads to distracted parenting and distracted parenting is bad for child brain development because babies intellectually develop through interactions with their parents.
You can’t just like half read an article and then spread a bunch of half truths.
He just read the article in it's entirety from start to finish. You subhuman autistic. You just watched him do it.
but on what part of a population was the test made ? is it just one school in one state ? multiple states ? the entirety of the US ?
A child, even a baby's brain development is based on the interactions that he has. So, if the parents just give him an iPad and don't help him actually develop (reading baby books, going outside, talking to him, etc.) the baby will suffer.
Give it a decade and Im gonna be actually considered a genius
He forgot how genetics work and that parents parent from day one
The reason stress is such a huge factor in this generation is because our entire lives have been almost nothing but HISTORIC EVENT AFTER HISTORIC EVENT and then when we got out of school the price to live was so high that me not even working 2 jobs is enough to pay rent and then be able to eat
I've said it so many times but this is what the AIs in MGS2 were mentioning to certain a degree. Too much meaningless data out there.
MGS2 was ahead of its time also/anyway, tbh.
@@Chizuru94 the entire MG series is always so prophetic, as well as full of philosophical things to make you really think. Such a shame newer generations of people will be unable to grasp or contemplate the questions and ideas that the series posits.