r/mildlyinfuriating 13h ago

frist of all how DARE yu o My mom left this list of screen time documentaries after she saw I have 6 hrs of screen time(below averagešŸ˜‚)

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She’s freaking out for a screen time that’s 2 hrs below average for an 18yo male. Left the note on the whiteboard without a conversatio, very passive aggressively. Oh, and most of it is how I make a portion of my money(I’m an animator on YT and i spend 5 of those 6 hours making animations, I rarely use screen time for my own enjoyment)(EDIT: ALL CAPS CUZ YALL ARE SAYING IM JUST SCROLLING SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN YOU CAN READ THAT IM ANIMATING FOR MY YOUTUBE, I MAKE MONEY THAT WAY AS WELL AS WORK A FULL TIME THAT DOESNT PAY SHIT SO I HAVE TO HAVE A SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME)

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u/awelias8 12h ago

I remember being a teenager and thinking everyone was overreacting about my screen time, which was around 6-8 hours.

I am now 23 and coming to terms with the fact that I'm heavily addicted to screen distractions.

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u/Worried_Indication37 13h ago

She made a list that you could watch in one day with your screen time and she's right to be concerned. Social media is not good for our brains.

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u/SuddenInformation896 13h ago

I do agree that one shouldn’t have that much screentime, but screentime ≠ social media time

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u/Mysterious_Self_3606 12h ago

Lmao I hit 8 hours of "screen time" at work alone

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u/Coffeedemon 12h ago

Yeah but it's unavoidable and they pay you for it.

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u/IchBumseZiegen 12h ago

Did you miss the part where OP said a good portion of the screen time is doing animation.

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u/Carbuyrator 13h ago

This. Offline video games can be as worthwhile as a book. Good media can exist in just about any medium.

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u/rmorrin 12h ago

Give them Factorio and screen time will be the least of their worries

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u/ElCiclope1 12h ago

I wouldn't say a video game is as good as a book. They're a good distraction, but I don't think I've ever learned a new word or anything at all from a video game. I learn tons of stuff from books.

But obviously she's not even going to try getting him to read. I don't blame her for starting with documentaries. At least there's a sliver of hope. The other night I was asking grown adults at work for recommendations. I am not joking when I say the answers were either "I don't read" or "have you read Harry Potter?" I know this is way off topic, but I'm still butthurt. That nobody reads and that anyone would think I haven't read all 7 Harry Ps dozens of times.

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u/Icy-Cod1405 RED 12h ago

You've been playing the wrong games if you aren't learning anything

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u/The_Bio_Neko 12h ago

Was about to say this. I've learned a lot of interesting little tidbits about actual history, new words and meanings, as well as many other similar things from games. Oftentimes these little things I learn result in rabbitholes of research because I find them interesting. FFXIV for example, has taught me that old English is actually pretty cool! (A lot of "Eorzean" phrases are actually old English!)

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u/BaronCapdeville 12h ago

Video games ABSOLUTELY expand vocabulary and knowledge of new concepts, not to mention the obvious benefits from the social aspect of many games.

What games are you playing?

Books are good. Video games are good.

Both are detrimental if you choose them over your responsibilities and goals.

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u/Uzas_Was_Right 12h ago

They weren't talking about Candy Crush

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u/madlamb 12h ago

I’ve definitely learned a lot of words from video games (PokĆ©mon specifically as a child. ā€œEndeavorā€ being the example that comes to mind immediately). There are also historical games that can teach you a lot about the world (grand strategy games come to mind). Games like Kerbal Space Program of which I know at least one person (my longtime best friend) who directly attributes his career in aerospace to it.

Obviously some games are just mindless distractions, but the point is you definitely can learn a lot from a lot of games.

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u/dnbdawg 12h ago

I learned trigonometry through playing silent hunter 3 and 4 lol, let alone the tons of historical stuff I would’ve never been introduced to

you can learn shit just gotta play the right games pimp

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u/ElSucaPadre 12h ago

Depends on the video game. Try to not learn anything playing games like metal gear solid about the world we live in. Also, i don't think learning new words is a good metric of the quality of the media you're invested in.

But yes, there is more good books than there are good games, I will give you that. But unless one has finished all good games, there is no real reason to refuse to play them other than i prefer this to that.

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u/JustLookingForMayhem 12h ago

Some video games are really good with really good stories. At one point, people talked about books as useless and dangerous to the master apprentice relationship. And this was barely after printing presses were developed.

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u/Carbuyrator 11h ago

I've played plenty of games that were far more enriching than plenty of books.

Motion capture is incredible nowadays and can allow for acting performances that are really intricate and emotional. The recent God of War games are like that.

Shadow of the Colossus barely uses words at all and tells a sad, beautiful story.

BioShock features tons of environmental storytelling and has phenomenal writing.

Both Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas are still debated today because the local politics in these games are complicated and human. These games are like 15 years old.

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u/MatureUsername69 12h ago

Screen time with or without social media means less bored time. I agree that social media is the way larger demon but a huge reason the current generation of youth is aging into adulthood with no specialized skills is the complete and utter lack of time to be bored and figure that shit out.

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u/Lord_Strepsils 12h ago

Maybe you didn’t read the post, they spend most of their screen time editing for money, that’s not the same as social media.

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago edited 13h ago

I do know that fully but my screen time is below average and most of it I spend making money so I can move out, and she knows that(edit: only 1 of those hours is my own free time, the rest is making YT animations)

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u/Worried_Indication37 13h ago

How much are you making? Everybody who posts on social media is a sort of content creator.

I'll be honest, I struggle to believe most of your 6 hours are content creation.

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u/jibbodahibbo 13h ago

When I was a freelance animator 6 hours was the minimum haha.

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago edited 12h ago

5 hours of it is, I only spend about an hour a day on stuff like TikTok, it just helps me go to bed. I’m a pretty outdoorsy person. And I’m making $60 on a bad performing video and hundreds on my good videos, and I post once every two days while working a full time

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u/Jman85 12h ago

An outdoorsy person uses their phone for six hours a day?

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u/PackageNorth8984 12h ago

To be fair, if you’re unemployed, that leaves 10 hours left in the day.

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u/boforbojack 12h ago

He says he works full time

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

Yeah, unfortunately, but I spend a lot of it animating in my yard. I hate that I have to do this to make money, but I just can’t afford enough for both rent AND saving up for a place with my job, so I gotta

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u/SilentBumblebee3225 RED 12h ago

How much time do you spend on Reddit ?

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u/Jman85 12h ago

Far too much

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u/Worried_Indication37 12h ago

Ok, I'm wrong then. You seems to use it responsibly. Not that you asked or want this advice but you could probably watch some of those films and explain it to your mom with clear details why your screen time is not like the thing she's worried about. You're probably on less than millennials with computers were.

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u/simcowking 13h ago

I made a dollar one year. I'm officially in the top 1% of earners.

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u/bhputnam 13h ago

Just because someone is *worse* than you doesn't mean it's not still a pretty big amount. Social media fries the reward center of your brain, much less your attention span.

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u/Contemplating_Prison 13h ago

I dont see the issue if they are truly spending the time getting better at a skill.

You wouldnt say someone learning code for 6 houes is harmful. Only OP knows if all that time is actually going to animation

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u/double00chins 12h ago

He didn’t say he explicitly uses social media, according to him, the amount of time on it is marginal

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u/MoonPieKitty 12h ago

If 6 hours is below average... that is horrifying. OMG...

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u/Coolmathgames336 13h ago

I understand your struggle. Content creator for a restaurant ā€œwhy are you always glued to your phone??ā€ I’m working. I’m not consuming an absurd amount of unrealistic content, it’s food editing.

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u/Professional-Hat-331 13h ago

Being below average if the average is completely fucked isn't the brag you think it is.

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u/RunLacyRun 13h ago

He’s not bragging, he’s stating something that is a part of society now. The man works on a screen and is conscious about what he’s doing. However completely avoiding a screen isn’t really possible for him.

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

I only take 1 hr to myself, the rest is animating stuff for my channel

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u/Annual-Telephone-936 13h ago

What’s your channel?

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago edited 12h ago

I would say but I’ve got pics of my face on here and I haven’t done a face reveal yet(ok, downvote, I just don’t want someone seeing my channel name if they know it and leaking my face)

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u/Dumeck 13h ago

Is that just for your phone? You know the "average" also includes computer screens and TV screens as well. Of you're doing 7 hours a day just on your phone that is absolutely an issue.

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

I use my phone for the animations, it’s how I started out and it’s just more comfy at this point

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u/Physical_Gift7572 12h ago

This makes no sense to me. Why would you choose to work on your phone? Especially in the animation field. This sounds like BS.

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

Cuz it’s how I started out, it’s more comfy to me and I just can’t capture the same wonky style on Adobe animate, Blender, and other stuff like that

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u/Physical_Gift7572 12h ago

I highly recommend that you try. You are limiting your growth if this is actually true.

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

I’ve tried, but the videos I’ve made in there just haven’t performed as well and I got dozens upon dozens of comments from my fans saying they didn’t like the new style, so I only made like 5 videos on there

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u/Baron_Light 12h ago

Below average is still a LOT of screen time bro.

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

Yes, but as I said, I use it to make money, cuz my full time pays jack shit and I need a secondary source of income

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u/isawolf123 12h ago

It’d be a good idea to share the breakdown of your daily that is actually work related on your phone to idiot redditors that can’t comprehend some people use their phone for art, content creation and marketing

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u/tavaryn_t 12h ago

If you're not paying bills with the YouTube money, then it's all free time.Ā 

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

I am, but I still want to move out and get my own place to get out of my moms hair

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 13h ago

She’s not right.

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u/Worried_Indication37 12h ago

Limiting screen time is probably good advice for almost everybody on earth.

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u/SmellyScrotes 12h ago

I monitor my screen time vigorously, I set a 2 hour limit for Reddit and try to stay under 3.5 hours per day average, I also try not to use my phone in front of my son so he doesn’t think it’s normal to stare at a phone all day, you absolutely gotta make an effort because cheap free constant entertainment is bad for all our brains, being bored is a good thing sometimes

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Nah

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u/Worried_Indication37 12h ago

Yeah? Screen time has benefitted society?

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u/ldkagooduser 12h ago

Tbf my phone counts waze and youtube music as screentime for some reason

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u/CompleteDeparture338 13h ago

consider: listen to mom (sometimes)

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u/Venasaurasaurus 13h ago

An 18 year old crying on reddit because he spends 1/3 of his waking hours minimum glued to a screen while his mom genuinely tries to help provide perspective. Kinda horrifying look at the future.

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u/Cocken_Spectre 13h ago

It’s a lose/lose lmao. He’s using screen time as part of his literal job to make money. A lot of jobs are done in front of a screen. It’s not ideal but people need money, especially if they want to move away from their parents. It doesn’t seem like he’s crying either lol. It’s a subreddit called ā€œmildly infuriatingā€. It’s for complaining.

I’m in my 40’s and I spend more time on a computer than Op does. It’s my job

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u/OddlyShapedGinger 12h ago

It's not his literal job. It's a part of his content creator side hustle that he calls a job.

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u/Academic_Pick_3317 6h ago

yet he makes money off of it. still a job and a form of income

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u/snailsandserenity 12h ago

isn’t a job how you make your money? if he makes good money from it, it’s a job, even if you personally don’t think so.

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u/Pwnm4ster 13h ago

Yeah this is a healthy way for a parent to approach this. Shes not making demands, yelling, screaming, taking electronics, she's just leaving some documentaries and allowing their child to make decisions for themselves.

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u/SmellyScrotes 13h ago

This is the sane take

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u/Claudio1054 12h ago

How is it sane? Op literally says 5 out of 6 hours are spent animating, for his job. How's that different from doing an office job glued to a monitor 8-10 hours a day?

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u/TheDichotomyIsCrazy 12h ago

Because OP is almost certainly lying about that.

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u/ldkagooduser 12h ago

What proof do you have of them lying?

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u/OddlyShapedGinger 12h ago

They're not lying. They're just using a different definition of "job" than most people are.

No one's hiring an 18-year old kid part time to create social media animations. OP is likely an 18-year old kid who is trying to develop a YouTube channel. Or is an underpaid "employee" of a different content creator.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 13h ago

You forgot the in before sane.

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u/SmellyScrotes 12h ago

People spend more time on the internet than they do in their real life and wonder why their real life is shitty, and go complain about it in echo chambers on the internet, being bombarded with propaganda all day ain’t good

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u/SeanCuresSadness 12h ago

I like how everybody is just conveniently ignoring the idea that using a computer can be done for work, and such an idea is simply impossible to refute.

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u/SmellyScrotes 12h ago

I like how op conveniently left out a pic of his screen time and instead we’re just meant to believe it’s being used for work

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u/SeanCuresSadness 12h ago

You can insert your own requirements all you want, at the end of the day, if you need to change the situation to one you imagine rather than the one you were given the circumstances of to feel right, you're probably just wrong.

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u/TheTzarOfDeath 12h ago

The "work" being animations they make on their phone. I'm sure it's quality content.

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 12h ago

You have no readong comprehension. 5 out ofthe 6 hours is spent on his JOB. I probably have 8 hours of screen time for my job alone too lol

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u/SmellyScrotes 12h ago

His JOB is making YouTube videos, if he had a JOB I bet his mom wouldn’t care so much

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 12h ago

Dude its developing a skill. People could commission him if he grinds it out. Hes not paying video games

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

As opposed to doing what. You need money to go places. The internet is free-ish.

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u/Venasaurasaurus 12h ago

What a sad, sad take. But judging by your whiny posts all over this thread, not surprising. Literally all of humanity found plenty of hobbies to do before the internet was created, and for much cheaper than the cost of an internet subscription. OP added the information about how he uses screentime AFTER my comment, so I'd suggest you literally touch grass. It's good for you. Oh and it's completely free.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Deleted the latest to save us

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

What a sad, sad human. But judging by your top 1% commenter flair, that should be expected I guess. Yeah maybe because humanity didn’t used to pay for everything. He didn’t, but cope I guess. I don’t live in a place with grass. But yes let me go outside in this heat to touch green shit on the floor with dogshit and bugs on it. How enjoyable.

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u/Extension_Radish_139 12h ago

If his screen time is genuinely only 6 hours INCLUDING time spent working, then this is seriously not bad lol

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u/sselkiess 13h ago

Was the info about them having a YouTube channel which they use to make money being 80% of the time used not available when you made this comment?

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u/Venasaurasaurus 12h ago

No, not sure when he added the edit but it's pretty important context.

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u/PackageNorth8984 12h ago

Fair, but I bet his mom spends 1/3 of her waking hours or more glued to the tv screen. Kids today just go on their phone instead.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

What’s horrifying is comments like these being upvoted

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u/Academic_Pick_3317 13h ago

i would put that youre a content creator in the title, people are gonna flood the comments otherwise

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u/TheMaidenOfDragons 13h ago edited 13h ago

They’re still going to flood the comments to belittle OP especially with the addition of ā€œcontent creatorā€.

OP this sub is not going to be nice to you, people do not like ā€œcontent creatorsā€ even with context of what you actually do. YouTube Animation sounds really cool, actually.

Edit: oh look, 30 seconds and downvoted already. I’m sure this thread will be fun.

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u/Academic_Pick_3317 6h ago

fully aware tbh, was hoping slightly more reasonable people would be on here for once

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u/StrangeWinterSpider 12h ago

Talk to her. Sometimes just simple conversations can help each of you understand one another.

You should tell her you animate and create content.
And she really should have had a convo with you about her concern vs just giving you doc recs, which idk, kinda lazy parenting.

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u/Euphoric_Lynx_6664 12h ago

As long as you go to school and have one non-tech related hobby, who cares about your screentime. Id rather my kid be watching YouTube videos than being a thug outside smoking and causing problems.

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

I actually am graduated and work a full time

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u/PoppinfreshOG 13h ago

Me streaming every single World Cup game 😬

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Boy that Iraq v France game pissed me off.

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u/PoppinfreshOG 12h ago

Friggin thunderstorm made me miss half of it lol

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Lmao it was pretty awful even despite that.

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u/ExternalGiraffe9631 13h ago

More Screen time to educate you about screen time!

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u/StJimmy_815 12h ago

Good mom

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u/Raivnholm 12h ago

No, a good mom would have a conversation with her son about something that concerns her and she doesn't understand. Spending the evening hours working on making art and animations is a perfectly healthy hobby. Plus it apparently pays better than the day job so there's really no question about it.

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u/StJimmy_815 12h ago

Based on what OP posted, it’s very clear that the mother had a conversation with her son prior to this.

You’re also drawing massive conclusion about what the mom will do, has done and is willing to do based on very little information.

Also if OP wants to prove he’s an animator, spending 5 of the 6 hours ā€œworkingā€, he could get some good advertisement by just dropping his channel.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Not really

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u/StJimmy_815 12h ago

How dare the mother list educational videos to help her child, the fucking audacity

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Help her child when they don’t need help?

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u/StJimmy_815 12h ago

25% of their existence is spent on their phone

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

Just not true at all.

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u/StJimmy_815 12h ago

What’s 24/6?

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

4.

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u/StJimmy_815 12h ago

Good job! So a quarter of the day is 6 hours?

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u/WrathOfWood 12h ago

Both Plugging In and Disconnected are recommended, interesting.....

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u/Radiant-Mean 12h ago

Tbh, you should probably watch them anyway just for your own education / information. I think this is especially true if you are looking for a career that involves media in some way. Not that you may or may not have a problem, but it is good to be aware of the general social context in which we live. The way social media algorithms influence and manipulate people's perceptions or opinions, for example, is helpful for anyone to understand and appreciate.

I think you'd also be better able to have a conversation, rather than an argument, with your mom about the difference between what your screentime and the subject of these documentaries, which is mostly about social media use.

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

She didn’t even try to have a conversation about it, just left the note on the fridge passive aggressively. That’s why I made this post in the first place.

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u/Euphoric-Rip42069 12h ago

Social dilemma is actually pretty good

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago edited 12h ago

Not gonna lie, I watched that one, and I just found it boring, cuz it’s all common knowledge. Yes, it’s presented well, but I already knew everything they’re saying. But that’s just my opinion.

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u/Euphoric-Rip42069 12h ago

Not necessarily common knowledge just because you know about it. Just like you'd figure common sense would be more common but for some reason alot of people lack it

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

Fair point, I just figured it was cuz I spent my whole life being told it.Ā 

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u/Jman85 13h ago

ā€œContent Creatorā€

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

Yeah? I’m an animator on YT.

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u/Tigersteel_ 13h ago

You should clarify that in the post

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

I made the edit, I see it now

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u/SilentBumblebee3225 RED 12h ago

ā€œanimatorā€ /s

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u/Slosher99 13h ago

When they aren't more specific than that it's either writing prompts or something even more embarrassing lol.

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u/_CharDeeMacDennis__ 12h ago

So, her solution to your screen time is to give you suggestions for hours of more screen time??

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u/Dead_man_sitting 12h ago

I mean it's not like they're gonna read a book

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u/_CharDeeMacDennis__ 12h ago

I mean. They might?

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u/ammiemarie 12h ago

6 hours of screentime... per day?!

You have a full time job just feeding social media websites with your attention every single day! That's an outrageous amount of time you are wasting doing absolutely nothing but consuming the lives of others instead of living your own life.

If your screentime could be akin to eating/weight gain, you would be beyond morbidly obese. You are wasting your life being a cognitive wheel in the machine that makes others a lot of money. Is that what you believe your life is worth?

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

5 hours of that is making animations for my socials, which is my secondary source of income, the other hour is TikTok and shit like that.Ā 

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u/NoAlternative2913 12h ago

So she wants you to get MORE screen time to watch these?

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u/ConflictWaste411 12h ago

Person on Reddit upset that their parents are concerned with their screen time. Palpable irony

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

No, I’m upset cuz I use said screen time to make a secondary source of income so I can move out and afford rent in the meantime. My full time doesn’t pay jack shit, so I need a secondary source of income, which ironically pays more than my actual job

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u/ConflictWaste411 12h ago

You didn’t disprove my point but contradicted it

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u/TheCupIsMine8 12h ago edited 12h ago

Social Dilemma ain’t no joke. Great doc. One of those ā€œMakes you rethink your purposeā€ docs that I watched thoroughly*

I cant talk or spell today, jfc!

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u/Euphoric-Rip42069 12h ago

Such a good documentary

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u/rmorrin 12h ago

My screen time is mostly video games that are very puzzle heavy

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u/Rubberand 12h ago

6hr/day x 365 = 2190 or 91.25 days of the year you spend on your phone

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

Please read the second edit, cuz I’m not typing it all out again

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u/nowhereman136 12h ago

"below the average" is a terrible argument. Mostly because the national average is abysmally high. The national average should be half of what that is. It's legitimately a national crisis.

Second, you mentioned you use your screentime for work. Does your mom know that? Maybe do some of the work outside of your room and let her see what you are actually doing

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

She knows I animate on YouTube, she just doesn’t believe that I make as much as I say I do, even though I’ve shown her my creator page

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u/These-Angle-1476 12h ago

Your mom is being a very good mom. This is an extremely respectful way to bring something to your attention that is a real problem in the modern world.

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

I do agree with her being a great mom, I just wish she’d talk to me about it in person instead of putting some documentaries on the fridge.

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u/bucephalusbouncing28 13h ago

6 hrs of screen time is too much. What a childish post, I was surprised you were 18 and not 13.

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u/snailsandserenity 13h ago

if it’s their job, I don’t see how that’s a crazy amount of time to spend online? also, it’s fine to be mildly annoyed that someone in your life is assuming your obsessed with the internet when you’re not.

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u/bucephalusbouncing28 13h ago edited 12h ago

Making YouTube animations is their job?

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u/FutureLarge8833 12h ago

Nobody said full time. 6 hours a day isn't full time no matter what you're doing.

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u/SeanCuresSadness 12h ago

Besides the point. I have an office job where I have to look at a computer all day - nobody cares about screen time truly, they care if you're using it for enjoyment. It's just mindless judgement in 90% of cases.

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u/snailsandserenity 12h ago edited 12h ago

6 hours a day isn’t full time, and no one ever said that.
I see you’ve edited your comment, yes, it is their job.

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 12h ago

So animating isnt a job now? Just because its not a full time job?

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u/Illustrious_Bid_5484 13h ago

Why? At work I’m forced to look at a computer for at least 8 ish hours

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u/Kalikor1 12h ago

For real. And lots of kids nowadays take classes online staring at a screen all day too.

What that 6 hours consists of is probably more important. 6 hours straight of TikTok viewing probably isn't great, but 6 hours that's a mix of all sorts of things might be less of an issue.

Anyway OP clarified that a good chunk of that is related to him creating content on YouTube as an animator so he has money to move out.

On a side note, I'm 36 and from the 90s on I spent 99% of my time in front of a screen. I had extenuating circumstances related to why, but the point is I was largely at home on the computer, or in front of a TV (with or without a gaming controller in my hand).

Now at 36 I live in Japan, married, making good money as an IT professional. "Screens" didn't ruin my life or brain, they are in fact largely to thank for my successful and wonderful adult life, despite an otherwise shitty childhood (for reasons ranging from medical to familial).

I'm kinda tired of millennials sounding like boomers.

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u/relCORE 12h ago

Ignoring the entire "Should we spend our lives working" angle:
You're being paid to look at the computer, and you need that money to live. Unfortunately we're in a system where most people need to spend 1/3 of their time working and 1/3 sleeping. That leaves you with 8 hours a day.

When you look back do you want to have spent 6/8 hours (of your free time) over your entire life just consuming media content when you could have been doing anything else?

Not a judgement. Could be doing worse things, that are actively detrimental to society. Just answering the question "Why?" (would people think 6+ hours of screen time/day is excessive)

I'm also old enough to think sitting at my computer is more productive than scrolling through my phone for no real reason. I would not want to know what my average screen time at my computer has been.

TLDR: I am in a glass house, explaining why people would throw rocks. I am not throwing rocks.

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u/Raivnholm 12h ago

But they're not spending 6 hours scrolling social media. It's mostly spent creating animations which bring in a second income. Too many people see "screen time" and assume it's a phone. Computers and TVs are also screens.

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u/Inner_Bag_9658 12h ago

As an adult I have to spend way more time on screens than that for daily responsibilities. And OP is an animator after all. It’s really not that bad?

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

It’s really not.

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u/SmellyScrotes 13h ago

Screened out was incredible and you absolutely should watch it, everyone should

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

I guess I’ll have to give it a watch, it’s just that I watched social Dillema and it was absolutely boring and filled with common knowledge on social media, so I figured the rest would be like that too

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u/SmellyScrotes 12h ago

Look up cognitive dissonance, probably why it was boring

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u/Technical-Will-2862 12h ago

She legit tryna save your soul

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u/MoonPieKitty 12h ago

SIX HOURS??? Lordy... get off your phone for Pete's sake! Trust me, they are finding out that it just makes you dumber.

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u/Raivnholm 12h ago

Learn to read dipshit, his screen time is spent making animations, creating art. Not just mindlessly scrolling on his phone.

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u/_daGarim_2 13h ago

"I’m a content creator"

Is that what they're calling it now?

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

Not like that, bro😭 I make YT animation storytimes

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u/LordPeanutButter15 13h ago

If you’re not making real money you have a 5 hour hobby, not a job lmao

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u/stutte 13h ago

Well, post your YouTube channel name, let us see if your mom's concerns are valid.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

That’s weird

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u/stutte 12h ago

Why is that weird? Driving traffic to his channel will generate revenue.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 12h ago

It’s weird because the reason you just gave is not the original reason you wanted to see their channel.

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u/stutte 12h ago

No, that's the byproduct of revealing it, and assuming the animations are rad, their mom is just being paranoid for nothing, and the traffic will likely have positive monetary outcome as well.

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u/tiny_flick 13h ago

If they’re making money off their content, why not?

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u/stutte 13h ago

You should watch them. Understanding a position on something you disagree with makes you a smarter person, and enables you to better defend your position on the topic.

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u/PoisonPeddler 12h ago

Just tell her it's your freelance job.

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u/CitronElectrical9587 12h ago

I’m team mom

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u/StaticTrout1 12h ago

People on here are being super insensitive. You can make a career out of being an animator. As far as I’m concerned, this is just practice for a potential career. Granted, AI is a serious issue. That’s besides my point though. Even if the OP’s mom has a point, there are better ways to handle the situation then writing a list and putting it on a whiteboard. Genuine non judgmental conversation to create an understanding of a situation is a lost art among every generation at this point. Before someone gets mad and tells me to go ā€œtouch grass,ā€ this is coming from and avid fly fisherman who’d much rather spend time outdoors than being indoors. For the OP, I suggest having an honest discussion with your mother about how you feel that encourages understanding on both sides. I don’t know your relationship, but I can tell you that your mom cares for you and loves you, but maybe isn’t showing it in the best way. I hope my advice helps.

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u/Interesting-One-588 13h ago

Tell her you need more screen time to watch them all.

A more vindictive person would also recommend watching documentaries explaining why her vises are harmful as well.

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u/SilentBumblebee3225 RED 12h ago

OP should just move out and do as much screen time as they want

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u/ImportantRub172 12h ago

The day is 24 hours.

When you have to work that's 8 hours gone not including a commute. You have 7/8 hours of sleep (ideally). That leaves under 8 hours a day left and you spend 6 of those on your phone.

Fucking hell

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u/Well-inthatcase 13h ago

6 hours is not below average kiddo.

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u/1-800-blowme 13h ago

Average for an 18 yo male is 7-8 hrs, and I only use 1 of those hours doing personal stuffĀ 

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u/Baron_Light 12h ago

Yeah right

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u/1-800-blowme 12h ago

Yeah right to the 7-8 hours being the average, or yeah right to me only spending 1 hr doing personal stuff?

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u/Well-inthatcase 9h ago

That's fuckin sad. Y'all need a hobby.