dear gen z,

hi i'm gonna address the elephant in the room that is the world um we're done it's over nobody wins we all lost can we stop competing what are we competing for what are we all running towards what are we all trying to win can we just stop i'm calling it the game is over we're done playing okay so can we just stop pretending like there will be a winner because nobody's gonna win i am so tired of feeling like i need to constantly prove myself and i'm tired of watching other people feel like they have to prove their self and like we all have to like be competing to like win for something i don't know what whether that be on social media whether that just be in life whether that be at school what are we competing for what are we doing i think i think what's really been bothering me lately is social media sorry this video is just one big rant i am riled up tonight i am riled up tonight and i need to let this out i just need to let it out and i don't care who hears it but we everyone needs to hear it actually let's let's just talk about social media here for a second social media is i'm so sorry but i'm just gonna put that out there followers content creation fake ass sponsorships and ads i am tired of the why can't we just why why can't we just post things that we want to post because we want to post them not because we feel like we have to post them not because we feel like if we don't post them that it didn't happen not because we feel like if we don't post something then we're not going to get followers and then people aren't going to like us what are and then we're not going to come out on top and we're all in this race why are we all racing what are we racing for what are we all running towards there's like this like i hope i'm not the only one who feels like i'm running in some sort of race and y'all i am tired of running i am not a runner okay my body does not work that way okay i stop let's stop running i'm riled up roiled up like on tick tock why why is the number one goal for generation z to go viral why is that our number one goal why is that ingrained in my head that like going viral is like a way to prove my worth like the i like came to this realization i'm like why do i think that why what what is going on in society literally what the is going on why are we all trying to go viral what for what are what are we trying to go viral for what do we think what sort of benefits is that going to bring to our life depression that's about it because if you go viral and then you don't go viral again girly we've got an issue here because now you're just depressed you know what i mean people are like oh well if i go viral like i like i hope this goes viral like i need to make the next viral video i need to like you know hoping this goes viral uh my tick tock isn't going viral but wha why why do we want it to go viral why are our brains now wired to want to be famous and be viral like what happened we are all trapped in some sort of trance and y'all this is your i'm telling you right now we're all gonna snap out of it together okay i'm not telling you that i'm not trying to sit here telling you that like i've been snapped out of it like girly we are all in this trance like what is going on why does stupid go viral like i'm sorry like some things that go viral i'm like that took talent and creativity but then other things go viral and it's samantha brushing her hair five million light what the we gotta set our creative priorities straight people like we are spending our time making this and watching this and sometimes none of the matters some of it does what have we done overall i think social media is a good thing but i feel like recently aka the last year or so we've just gone from like social media being this fun little thing to like i guess we're all on the race to become an influencer i guess that's just what we all have to do i guess if i have a instagram account i guess i just i have to i have to i we have to do it i'm exhausted i don't know about you i'm exhausted i am so tired of trying to just keep up with society and keep up with social media and i have always stayed true to being who i am and trying my absolute darnest hardest to not care what other people think and you know where would i want to and be who i am but there's also like that's just how society works and how our brain works is we're still trying to just constantly excuse me prove ourselves sorry i have a lot of digestive issues it's not okay i was i've been farting all day anyways continuing i am tired of feeling like i have to like prove myself or i have to like i have to stay with it and stay trendy and do what everyone else is doing and like because i thought i wasn't i thought i was being myself and i was but like there's still this like natural part of me in this like natural instinct that just feels like in order in order to be like worthy in society and be noticed and have any sort of get any sort of attention and i don't mean like you know excessive attention but i just mean like social interaction and have friends that i need to like be like we all got to keep up with each other and keep up with the trends and keep growing followers and posting the right things and saying the right things and posting things that are that are trendy and trying to constantly put our own twist on all these trendy things and trendy y'all i'm tired can we just not anymore can we just all do our own thing and call it a day like at some point like we just gotta draw the line people like we gotta draw the line where does the line uh this doesn't make any sense this doesn't make any sense i swear to god if this makes sense to you email me because we need to be friends because like none of this makes sense okay jasmine we gotta like connect the dots here basically the other day i was crying in the car about my youtube channel what what is the purpose of my youtube channel i was like why is my youtube channel not growing at this exponential rate like i was like all these all these other youtubers that i see they just go viral on tick tock and then they go viral on youtube and they just gain all this following and it's just like it looks like the best thing ever and it's great and then i was like jasmine it's not the best thing ever do you really want that do you do we really do i really want that no and i realized that like that's not my goal my goal isn't to go viral my goal has always been to just make videos and have a good time and just like you know be creative and have like a fun creative outlet and it just happened to be that during quarantine i had a ton of time and so then i just put a little bit more emphasis into that but i keep like beating myself up for like oh i'm not consistent with like the types of videos that i make and my channel doesn't have like a niche i'm not known for like one thing like one week i'm making a dance workout video the next week i'm doing a diy the next week i'm crying in the car like my channel just doesn't make sense and because it doesn't make sense then like i'm not gonna like grow as a youtube channel and i'm like well why do i even want to grow as a youtube channel like i feel like my brain is wired to like think that way like like our generation and society and social media has like wired my brain to just constantly be working towards growing like my presence whether that be in society whether that be on instagram on youtube on social media like just constantly be like growing and like perfecting myself and like i'm i will never like i have to keep trying to be enough and i am enough and i will always be enough and you will always be enough and why do i feel like i have to keep like being enough when i am enough like social media is tricking me and probably tricking you into constantly thinking that you're not enough and that you that you could take that a lot of different ways you're not enough in your looks you're not enough and you're following you're not enough in what you enjoy doing you're not enough in your talents if you're not talented then it's not worth it like you guys like we're just fine we're enough like we are enough we're all just living our lives what like like we don't need to prove anything anymore like we're just we're just people living lives and why is it why is it this competition like i don't get it like everything is a competition even things that we don't realize are competitions are competitions it's like you know who can be the most body positive who can make the best political statement who can make well that kind of makes sense but like i see it in my head i see it in there i see what i'm trying to say and i just i'm seeing it and i can't i can't put it into the right words uh who can make you know the healthiest food food content on the internet y'all we gotta stop we gotta stop with the with like the weight loss content and the eating disorder content like we gotta stop we gotta stop celebrities need to stop promoting like fit teas and all like that that okay oh oh it riles me up it makes my blood over boil you know when you're making pasta and the water explodes all over the stove literally my blood right now literally my red blood cells are doing that right now i so the 50s it's got to stop and then you look at like body positivity excessive body positivity i honestly think isn't a good thing like for some people it can be beneficial but for other people it can still be like harmful because body positivity stuff like if somebody's like you know i love my body for what it is no matter my scars no matter you know my cellulite well that that gives the connotation that that stuff was bad before when it never was bad but now you just made it sound like it was a bad thing but we've turned it we've turned it into a good thing when it's always been a good thing anyways none of this makes sense that i'm saying just bear with me thank you very much we've got to stop with the fitness for weight loss calorie burning do you know how detrimental that is i okay i'm gonna open up for a hot sec i'm gonna spill some tea on the internet okay i might cut this out but honestly if somebody if literally one person can relate to me i do not care if i can help one person by saying this i do not care literally at the beginning of quarantine all this stuff on tick tock and instagram started going viral about like not viral but it just started showing up in my feed about like um about like you know at home workouts and this and that and you stay at home and work out at home and whatever and then that started making me feel like i had to be constantly working on my body and i had to be constantly working on my appearance and working towards what like like all these at-home workout videos were all geared towards making your body a certain way and not the way you felt and so then it wired my brain like i fell down a hole and and and and nutrition the nutrition content if you are not a registered dietitian you do not need to be saying anything about nutrition both in real life and on the internet period we don't need to talk about it because you say one thing you never know if like even if what you think you're saying is positive and would like help people you never know if it could be harmful and then like all this content about like you know being in a calorie deficit and all that do you know how many people probably trigger warning trigger warning big trigger warning huge trigger warning i'm about to talk about eating disorders i'm about to talk about eating disorders if this is gonna trigger you just skip forward trigger warning trigger warning i'm giving you lots of time to click out or do whatever lots of time i'm gonna start talking in five four three two one okay it scares me to think about how many people have developed eating disorders and depression all because of social media like we like mental health issues are not your own fault it's a brain it's a chemical imbalance they're chemical imbalances in your brain it's not your fault however society has done this to ourselves and that's really sad it's really sad to think that we like it's so sad okay um i'm gonna ask my sister before i put this put this in so if i'm about to say what i'm about to say i got my sister's permission but my sister dealt with an eating disorder for a long time and i myself has have had my fair share not to the same extreme as my sister but i've definitely had some forms of disordered eating not not an eating disorder but we all have our own relationship with food and nobody has a normal relationship with food we all have different relationships with food but my sister kind of you know went through the thick of it with an eating disorder and that was it was not only traumatizing for her obviously but it was traumatizing for me to watch and to you know be a part of that and i think of to think that that is happening to so many people all because of social media is so like you guys nobody deserves that nobody deserves to feel that way about themselves like nobody deserves to know like nobody deserves to feel bad about their body or or you know have an eating disorder or feel like they i don't know i see i see a lot of content of people talking about their eating disorders not necessarily in like a like i see a lot of informational content but i also see a lot of like people telling stories about when they had like that's just like we gotta stop because you never know who's gonna spin that the wrong way in their head and then like uh uh it makes me so sad it makes me so sad and like body image issues and just just depression period like like you guys this has got to stop this has got to stop we can't keep doing this we can't keep comparing ourselves we can't keep trying to compete to go viral and be the best and look the best and like this this is not sustainable and i know we know that already i why am i crying why am i crying okay well i know why i'm crying but like okay jasmine pull it together here i just i feel like i've always had a pretty grounded outlook on social media for the most part not entirely because we're all in this trance but i feel like a lot of times like i can bring myself back to reality and kind of have these sort of talks with myself yet i've still heavily been impacted by social media whether i realized it or not but social media has the biggest impact on my depression sometimes on my anxiety on you know in some ways it's made me feel ashamed for my body and things like that and i have to snap myself back to reality and the way that social media makes me feel is not my fault it's social media it's the way it's interacting with my brain and the chemicals in my brain and the addiction and like it's not anyways i think of all the people who can't snap out of it and can't look at it from this other perspective and like i think about what i've dealt with let alone what they're dealing with i i like i just i am so sad that we're all struggling this video makes no sense i don't care i don't care i just i gotta get it out it's like i like posting on social media just because i like the creative aspect of it and like creating i say creating content but i mean like you know i like drawing on my pictures and i like editing videos and making videos like this is a very creative outlet for me and it always has been but i i i see people just posting because it's like oh i i i have to post you know me making my latte in the morning i have to i have to post at least you know seven instagram stories and one reel and this and that like in order to become famous okay well so many people are famous so many people are famous and what famous person is happier because they're famous i i feel like i can assume the answer to that is not very many because when you go viral and you become you know content creator all of you you just the hate and the cancel the cancel culture oh my god i mean i i don't even need to get started with that like we are like you know like we know we know it's like not okay like we just we have to stop holding each other to like such high standards on some things not everything some things you know we can hold each other to a really high standard when it comes to racism and being insensitive and you know things like that but i think with with kind of more my new things it's like we're all learning and we're growing and you don't learn unless you make a mistake people don't pop out of their mom's vagina knowing everything and knowing all the right things to say and knowing being educated on every single topic like no like that takes time and experience and mistakes and learning and growing you don't just you don't just go to school and know everything you go to school to learn and then you know stuff so why do we expect each other to just know things without even going to school or you know having opportunities to like having those learning moments and like that's just how humans work for god's sakes like think of all the mistakes that you've made but they just weren't in front of millions and millions of people and like i'm sure we've all made mistakes in our life and we've all done things that if we had a gajillion bajillion followers we probably would have been canceled for it be honest with yourself you like i'm sure we've all done something whether you were a kid whether it was yesterday i'm sure we've all done something that if today you had a charlie demilio amount of followers you'd be canceled for it but because that's the way humans work you probably grew from it and you're not gonna make that mistake again bada bing bada boom i don't know what i'm talking about i don't know i don't know i don't know i'm just i'm so i feel like i'm constantly constantly in a battle with social media and i'm just i am done i am so done especially with my with my youtube channel i'm tired of like putting my worth in my youtube channel because yes most of my time is spent working on my youtube channel why because i'm depressed as and i need something to focus on and making videos has given me something to focus on also i'm not in school so this gives me something to fill my days with there's a lot of reasons why my youtube channel takes up most of my time sometimes that's a good thing sometimes it's a bad thing because it's a good thing because it's creativity and it's what i love to do but sometimes it's a bad thing because then i put my worth in terms of how many views i get how many people subscribed how many people commented you know people's opinions and this and that and you know i'm not somebody who's you know i've been making videos inconsistently kind of consistently whatever for the last like five years no i haven't blown up no i haven't gained this giant following i have gained you know 3 000 people that's a ton of people um but some so i that's okay that's another thing that's another thing i see so many people make these videos it's like how to go viral on youtube how to gain 500 million gillian bajillion bajillion vagina zillion followers in you know six months whatever and they're like you know and like you know it took me a good year to gain my first hundred thousand followers why do we have that is a bar that is set way too high way too high why is there even a bar why is there even a bar then that makes me feel bad it makes me feel like i've done something wrong and that my success and my creativity and how creative i am is all the my worth is all in the numbers and who is watching and how many views it gets but at the same time it's really frustrating to put like 30 hours into a video that gets like 100 views but that's still a hundred people that's like a black box theater that's like a children's theater production full of people that's wonderful but then to see other people who they just go viral on tick tock for shaking their ass which like good for you shake your ass all day long i'm here for it but then they just keep us following and then it's just like so just like bam but then i'm like why am i putting my worth into that and then i go well my channel needs to be about something it needs to be you know what do people like and and i gotta edit a certain way so people other people like it but if i don't like it then it doesn't matter it's not worth it and so back to the whole crying in the car i don't know how we left that story but i was crying in the car with my mom and i was like jasmine if if there was nobody left on earth what would you make videos about if only you could watch the videos and if if there was just if you were the only person left it would be like i would just make i would make vlogs and i would do i would do crafts and i would sew and i would you know do diy i mean that's originally why i started my youtube channel back in like middle school but i'm like but nobody wants to watch my craft content because everybody just makes his craft content on tick tock and so then i'm like well what why like see even then i'm like well it doesn't matter it doesn't matter how many people watch it doesn't matter as long as i'm doing what i want to do then like call that a day but it's still like it's a group effort here i've been rambling i don't know what i'm talking about i don't know what's going on i'm riled up long story short you guys i know everybody's like be yourself post what you want followers don't matter but like can we take it seriously this time unfollow people go on to your instagram account literally unfollow anybody that just that that makes you feel bad about yourself i'm sorry i don't care if they are your best friend from high school if they make you feel bad about yourself based on what they're posting guess what you can still be bffs with them in real life you know why because they're a real person and you can go see them and be friends with them you just don't have to follow them on social media because if it's detrimental to your health and if it's making your depression worse and if it's giving you body image issues and if it's you know giving you anxiety and you're putting your worth into the your appearance and what you post and you're you're following that is not worth it feeling that way is not worth anyone's time nobody nobody deserves to feel like that and so i need everybody to be honest with themselves because you might be convincing yourself oh well like they're my friend like i don't really care but like if like you got to go deep down inside if what they are posting if you see that and go oh i wish i looked like that unfollow them unfollow them we do not need that energy and guess what guess what if you feel that way about anything anything that i post if anything that i post makes you feel bad about yourself in any any way shape or form any way shape or form unfollow me i don't want anybody feeling that way that is not my intention never will be never was but sometimes that's out of my control because people just feel the way they feel and that's that if i'm doing that unfollow me i do not care i do not care i don't want anybody feeling that way i don't want anybody feeling that way but also i'm posting what i like to post so i'm going to continue to do that for me but if that's not for you and for some reason if if whether it's anything i post on instagram anything i post on youtube whatever it is if i make you feel bad about anything unfollow me and you need to do the same for other people and i will do the same for other people like you guys like we've got to stop before we just crumble we have crumbled i've crumbled i i my depression got really really bad really bad over the last year and for like everyone everyone's depression if they're struggling with depression or they didn't struggle with depression quarantine just messed obviously messed everyone up sometimes when i'm when i fall down like a depression hole social media i for some reason i turn to social media for comfort but all it does is make it worse all it doesn't make it is make it worse and i'm we're all convinced that it's making it better but it's just making it worse we think that it's bringing oh like funny content whatever it's just making it worse it's just making worse for some people it's making their depression work for other worse for other people it's like giving them depression like we think it's this like fun happy thing to like have a good time and like post content but like are we really having a good time is anybody really really having a good time i have a good time making the content but watching the content i've i i've been convinced for a long time that i'm having a good time and i'm not having a good time i think you just blacked out for 30 minutes um long story short you are enough stop running let's all stop running we're done competing even if you didn't realize we were competing i feel like we were and we're done ah we're done there's no grand prize there's no end-all be-all there's no top nobody wins like why do we give such a big about all this about our appearance and social media and presence on the internet and our personality on the internet like even if you don't realize it maybe subconsciously you you i'm done i'm tired and the first the most frustrating part is is that now all of our brains are wired to think this way that i'm gonna be like oh you know i'm done it's over but tomorrow i'll probably be crying i'll be probably crying my bed about feeling like i'm not enough but i am enough i know that i know i'm enough and my talent and my creativity is is is enough and i don't need to comparing myself is only going to make that worse so jasmine what is your plan of action here my plan of action is to make whatever videos i want to make call it a day and if i'm i'm tired of trying to like crack the code of the youtube algorithm and the best thumbnail do you know how many times i've crowned over thumbnails i cry over every single thumbnail every single one i am in tears at 2 a.m on my ipad violently texting my sister because all of a sudden i put my worth into a thumbnail a thumbnail because i'm like what colors are gonna best represent my life and my personality in this video and what font and what are people gonna click on and what do people want all because i like my brain is also wired to feel like i need to like be like i need to like be the best but why can't i just be it like why can't i just be jasmine and like that's that like i don't need to like why do i feel like i need to keep growing and keep improving when i can just be enough i am enough we've established that you are enough i am enough end of end of discussion i don't know this video was if you watch till the end um i don't know why okay that's it um sorry bye

Channel: jazmataz

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Keywords: gen z, gen z tik toks, dear gen z, generation z, mental health, depression, social media mental illness, mental illness, mental health awareness, depression tiktok, mental illness tik tok, how to be an influencer, going viral, how to go viral on youtube, how to go viral on tiktok, instagram followers

Id: f3t7MKk_r4I

Length: 34min 16sec (2056 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 21 2021