{"id":2244452,"date":"2024-05-14T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-the-internet-so-horrified-by-this-video\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:11:47","slug":"why-is-the-internet-so-horrified-by-this-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-the-internet-so-horrified-by-this-video\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes This Video Internet Sensation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-is-the-internet-so-horrified-by-this-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2244452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The rise of a TikTok trend showcasing mundane daily routines has sparked polarizing reactions. While some find fascination in these \u2063ordinary snapshots, others\u2062 through \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-coach-quits-after-being-accused-of-making-microaggressive-comments-about-black-cheerleaders-hairstyle\/\" title=\"College Coach Quits After Being Accused Of Making \u2018Microaggressive Comments\u2019 About Black Cheerleader\u2019s Hairstyle\">social media criticize<\/a> and denounce the 9-to-5 lifestyle depicted as oppressive and\u200c monotonous. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-america-is-not-a-country-in-decline-its-our-national-vital-interest-to-fund-ukraine\/\" title=\"Tim Scott: America's strength lies in supporting Ukraine.\">debate highlights contrasting views<\/a> on work-life norms, with strong opinions\u2063 resonating across various online\u200d platforms. The \u200demergence of a TikTok trend featuring mundane daily activities has stirred\u2062 diverse responses. While some \u2064are intrigued by these ordinary\u200d glimpses, others on social media condemn the portrayal of\u200b the 9-to-5 routine as dull and\u200c restrictive. This ongoing \u2063discussion sheds light on \u2063the\u2064 differing perspectives regarding work-life conventions, sparking lively debates\u2063 on digital platforms.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a popular, new genre of TikTok videos making the rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the video of someone documenting an average day in their life. You see them wake up in the morning, make breakfast, drive to work, eat lunch, etc. Nothing extraordinary or even mildly interesting happens. The only thing unusual about the day, as they document it, is that they are documenting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I watch these videos fascinated only by the number of camera angles they use and cuts they have to make. As a content creator myself \u2014 as much as I absolutely despise that title \u2014 I can\u2019t help but marvel at the effort that must go into creating this sort of content. Not to mention the public embarrassment you must endure when other shoppers at the grocery store see you setting up your tripod to capture footage of yourself picking up a bag of green peppers or whatever. It all seems very bizarre. What is being filmed isn\u2019t bizarre, but rather the fact that it\u2019s being filmed at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But maybe the joke\u2019s on me. These videos seem totally pointless from my perspective, and yet they tend to provoke a strong reaction from many people on the internet. Then again, everything provokes a strong reaction on the internet. The internet has never shrugged its shoulders at anything and said, \u201cOh okay. That\u2019s fine. Whatever.\u201d Nothing is fine. Everything is either really terrible or really amazing, and there is no room for anything to exist anywhere else on that continuum. So these \u201cday in the life\u201d videos must either be amazing or terrible, and usually they are judged to be the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That has been the consensus over the past several days as videos from some random guy on TikTok have gone viral. The videos \u2014 I\u2019ve seen three of them circulating \u2014 all show this guy, whose name I don\u2019t know, going about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-irreversible-consequences-of-school-closures\/\" title=\"The Irreversible Consequences of School Closures\">daily routine<\/a>. Again, nothing remarkable happens. There\u2019s nothing strange, interesting, or notable about it. But the videos have elicited a strong and often negative reaction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s look at this one now and then read a few of the comments. Here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imagine living like this until you die. Horrifying. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3S5zIoLTWO\">pic.twitter.com\/3S5zIoLTWO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithWoodsYT\/status\/1782015097138708594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riveting stuff. The guy wakes up, has a smoothie for breakfast, takes the trash out, goes to work at his office job, comes home, takes his dog out, then gets changed into sweat pants and relaxes for the night. A very normal day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A normal dude doing normal things. It\u2019s only a one minute snap shot. There are 17 or 18 waking hours in the average day, so most of it will be left out. The guy also has a wife who we don\u2019t see in the video, and apparently his wife is also pregnant. That fact isn\u2019t featured in the clip, but the one minute snapshot we do see is totally fine and unobjectionable. Granted, again, the fact that we\u2019re given this snapshot \u2014 the fact that he\u2019s filming this in the first place \u2014 is strange. There are criticisms you could levy against this type of content. But there\u2019s nothing offensive about the thing that\u2019s being documented \u2014 the 9-to-5 routine itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1354-here-s-the-proof-that-the-free-palestine-movement-is-just-blm-repackaged-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And yet the peanut gallery on Twitter\/X has responded to this video like it\u2019s an image of pure despair and horror. Someone named Keith Woods, who advertises himself in his bio as one of the \u201ctop 200 most influential Twitter users\u201d left this caption when he reposted that video:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine living like this until you die. Horrifying.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That had nearly 5 thousand likes. Many other comments agreed with the sentiment. Reading a few:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s this guys demeanour or just how empty his life seems, but this is literally the most depressing video I\u2019ve ever seen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is slavery with a nicer kitchen and bed<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hell on earth.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I agree, it is horrifying.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many other comments along these lines, calling the guy a wage slave, declaring that his 9-5 lifestyle is a nightmare beyond all imagining, and generally reacting to a video of a guy going to work as if it\u2019s a snuff film. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I tweeted that I don\u2019t quite see the problem with the way this guy is living, and many people responded with comments informing me that I only have that opinion because I am also a soulless robot. Here\u2019s one comment for reference: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chances are 10 out of 10 Matt is a super basic automaton conservatard irl. Nothing remotely novel or interesting about him.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, I would obviously disagree with the \u201cautomaton\u201d and \u201cconservatard\u201d labels, but the rest I\u2019ll accept. I\u2019m not sure what a \u201csuper basic\u201d life is, but if that\u2019s my life, fine. I go to work. I take care of my family. Perhaps it\u2019s a basic life in that way. I\u2019m okay with that. I\u2019m also not striving to live in a way that random social media accounts would find \u201cnovel and interesting.\u201d In fact if \u201cnovelty\u201d is a guiding principle of your life then it is virtually guaranteed that you\u2019re a dysfunctional loser. Functional adults with responsibilities don\u2019t go around chasing novelty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At any rate, I can guarantee that the people who pretend to recoil in horror at 9-to-5 jobs, and who lambast the rest of us for living uninteresting lives, are not themselves doing anything interesting at all. These people aren\u2019t jungle explorers or engineers working on building a rocket ship to take humans to Mars or anything like that. These are losers who have lives far more monotonous and pointless than the average middle class 9-to-5 worker.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These people sit around on their fat asses staring at screens all day and then declare that office jobs are beneath them. \u201cI need something more fulfilling and worthwhile and fascinating to satisfy my wild and inquisitive nature,\u201d declares the guy who\u2019s been scrolling through TikTok videos for the past seven and a half hours. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a certain irony to it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet it has become very popular to hate on the 9-to-5 routine. You hear it from people on the Left, who say that the normal work day is somehow oppressive to the human spirit. And now we hear it even from some on the Right, who have adopted the same language to describe the lives of normal people who go to work every day to provide for themselves and their families. Both sides \u2014 or at least a vocal (and often younger) element on both sides \u2014 have come to a consensus that your average 9-to-5 job is a nightmare worse than death itself. It is slavery, they say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let me make two points about this. First of all, I don\u2019t have a normal 9-to-5 job myself. I earn a living in a way that is somewhat unusual. Everyone on Earth has a podcast these days, so there\u2019s nothing unique about that. But it is relatively unusual to make enough money to support a family this way. And yet I would never look down on the average 9-to-5 office worker. Most of them are doing jobs far more essential than what I do for a living. In fact, office workers basically run the world. Nothing would work without those guys doing those jobs. But no matter how essential or inessential any of those jobs may seem, I respect anyone who earns an honest living to care for themselves and their families. Calling average middle class workers \u201cautomatons\u201d and \u201cdrones\u201d and \u201cslaves\u201d is about the snobbiest, most elitist position you can take. And it\u2019s even worse because, as we\u2019ve established, many of the people who\u2019ve taken this elitist position are by no means, and by no measure, actually elite in any sense of the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, adult life is one of work and routine. There is no way around the work part unless you\u2019re on welfare or you were born a billionaire. In which case \u2014 in either case \u2014 you have no right to judge anyone who actually works for a living, no matter what kind of job they have. As for the second part, there\u2019s no way around routine even if you\u2019re a billionaire or a welfare queen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone has a routine. Life is dominated by routine. And establishing effective routines \u2014 routines that help you to be productive, and fulfill your responsibilities \u2014 is an essential part of growing up and maturing. Nobody has an exciting daily routine. Even people with interesting jobs don\u2019t have exciting daily routines. Batman doesn\u2019t have an exciting daily routine. The only people who have no routines at all are homeless schizophrenics. For everyone else, the only question about your routine is whether it is productive or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Work and routine. That is what the lion\u2019s share of life consists of. Welcome to human existence. This is what it\u2019s like, this is how it goes. So if you are horrified by a guy with a job and a routine, it is not the job or the routine you loathe. It\u2019s existence itself. You apparently find human existence, by its very nature, to be awful and oppressive. And that\u2019s a problem, because there is only one alternative to existence. If you don\u2019t want to avail yourself of that option \u2014 and I hope you don\u2019t \u2014 then you need to get used to life, and learn to find joy in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trending TikTok genre showcases ordinary daily routines. Viewers follow individuals through mundane activities like waking up, having breakfast, driving to work, and eating lunch. 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