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  • Hey guys! So I'm sure by now a lot of you have already seen or at least heard about

  • these- this new trend,

  • this toy called a fidget spinner

  • *music*

  • Yes! So once again, the internet has

  • blessed us with another wonderful trend

  • that everyone can't stop talking about

  • So much so that I can't even ignore this one because

  • it's so heavily requested by you guys in my comments

  • (reading comments out loud)

  • (overlapping voices)

  • "Dear Ryan, your hair still looks GAY"

  • Wait, what?

  • Fidget spinners are one of the biggest trends in the world right now

  • So of course I had to go pick one up

  • to see what all the fuss was about, and...

  • here it is

  • *disappointed honking noise*

  • yeah, *wheeze*

  • this thing, right here

  • That's all it does. It spins, okay?

  • And it has like three

  • cir- oh what it's still going

  • oh that's kinda *hah* fa-

  • That's kinda fast *ahem*

  • Ok yeah

  • like most people my age, if you're in

  • your twenties, you probably took one look at this trend

  • and said, "this is so stupid"

  • "Why would anybody waste their money on this? All it does is spin"

  • And to be completely honest, this video was originally

  • going to be me making fun and bashing these things and people that play with them

  • You know, kinda like what everyone else is doing right now

  • But after seeing all the hate for this little, harmless, somewhat useless toy

  • I just had, like, this epiphany

  • *angelic whale call*

  • It wasn't like this

  • It- I don't know why- what- I'm doing

  • We are a society that just HATES

  • the generation below us

  • We hate everything that they do and all the trends

  • they start because we think think that our generation is the best

  • and the smartest, and upcoming

  • generations are only getting worse and worse

  • And I'm not just singling out our generation

  • this is an ongoing pattern that has been happening forever

  • I mean, think about it

  • when we were growing up, the generation above us

  • complained about us the same way when we were kids

  • * shaky high pitched*

  • Damn you kids and your filthy rap music,

  • Gameboys, and "pokemans"

  • Back in my day, we used to play stick ball outside,

  • and listen to the classics like Queen, and Journey, and-

  • If you're around my age, I'm pretty positive

  • that somebody older than you has said the

  • exact same thing to you before

  • And yes it was annoying because they just didn't understand

  • because they were old

  • they were just being haters

  • Welp, take a look in the mirror

  • that's us now

  • We're the old haters

  • Our generation is literally doing the same thing now

  • *shaky high pitched*

  • Damn you kids and your hoverboards, and vapes,

  • and little "yatties"

  • Back in MY day,

  • we used to ride bicycles, and have beyblades (let it rip!)

  • AND we listened to real music

  • like Eminem, Britney Spears, and the Backstreet Boys

  • Yeah, I don't know why our generation sounds so old

  • We're still in our twenties, but

  • You get the point

  • You see, it's an ongoing cycle of hate

  • and it all stems from our arrogance

  • We think that growing up, we had the best childhood

  • because of how proud we are of ourselves

  • We believe that the younger generation has to have

  • a childhood like ours if they want to be as successful,

  • and knowledgeable, and hard working as we are

  • That's why whenever an older generation see kids

  • doing trends like this, you always see them

  • saying things like, "Oh, our future is doomed"

  • or, "I'm losing faith in humanity"

  • or, something else negative

  • And no, I"m not making a video just to defend these things

  • I agree that these toys are you know, kinda

  • useless and not really worth the money

  • But that's exactly the point , they're toys

  • Just because we're older now, and way too mature

  • to play with these things doesn't

  • mean we gotta hate it

  • I mean, you think this is stupid?

  • Think of the toys WE grew up with

  • We had pogs, okay?

  • We collected and played with little circular

  • pieces of cardboard that would have pictures on them

  • that we would slam on the ground to try and flip over other

  • little circular pieces of cardboard with pictures on them

  • And that was fun!

  • Or what about trading cards?

  • Our generation loved trading cards!

  • Some of us still do!

  • From Pokemon cards, to Yugioh, to Magic the Gathering,

  • like trading cards were huge when we were growing up

  • And they were expensive

  • That's right, we paid a bunch of money for

  • a bunch of pieces of paper with pictures on them

  • It wasn't even cardboard

  • And yes, I understand these were games

  • You could play them, and

  • these- these you can't play games with these

  • they just spin, right?

  • Well, then maybe you can explain chatter rings

  • Remember those?

  • That's right kids, we had chatter rings

  • For a short amount of time, chatter rings were just as

  • popular as these in the world when we were growing up

  • And literally, all it was was a bunch of little rings

  • that you would spin onto a bigger ring

  • and keep spinning the bigger ring so that the little rings

  • keep spinning and make a bunch of noise with them

  • Yeah, that didn't sound stupid back then, huh?

  • Like I remember some adults saying that was stupid

  • back then, and I laughed at them

  • They laughed at me, that's how it went

  • I- they- I didn't laugh at them

  • Still not enough?

  • We also played with yo-yo's,

  • which is a wheel that's attached to a string that you

  • wind up and then unravel really fast so that the wheel spins

  • It's a little younger than my generation,

  • But we also had Beyblades

  • They were little toy tops that you would

  • spin to hit other tops

  • So it's like taking two of these, spinning them,

  • and then hitting each other with them

  • Oh, it broke

  • Look at that, it came off

  • whoops

  • We had gak

  • it was literally just goo that you could touch

  • I-I don't know

  • We had slinkies, a spring-like toy

  • that you would place at the top of the stairs

  • and then watch it go down those stairs

  • This is starting to sound even worse

  • I'm kinda depressed

  • We even had whatever hell this thing is

  • I don't anyone even knew what these things were even suppose to be

  • But a lot of us had them

  • It was like this soft, slippery, sausage looking thing

  • But it had like an inside so that you could like put your finger in it or

  • Just hold it, and like kinda just move it around, and sh-

  • Wait a second...

  • You see what I mean?

  • I'm not saying that these things aren't stupid, ok?

  • because they are

  • But why are we hating on the younger generation

  • when we were just as stupid as they were,

  • maybe even stupider?

  • ok, we had this thing

  • It doesn't make sense, we were hypocrites

  • So, I'm sorry if you though that this video was

  • going to be what most youtubers are doing,

  • which is hating fidget spinners

  • In fact, I am going to do the opposite and show

  • you how awesome and useful these things are, okay?

  • I could name like hundreds of uses off the top

  • of my head like, you could spin them forwards,

  • you could spin them- eh- spin them backwards kinda

  • You can... use it like a ninja star

  • in case there's a burglar in your house

  • *thud*

  • *plop*

  • It could be the propeller of a mini helicopter

  • Maybe even a blender,

  • if you're blending like, really soft, easy to blend things?

  • Or you could use it to draw the perfect circle?

  • The perfect flower?

  • Brush your teeth faster,

  • Get some spinners on your rims,

  • you know, look like a baller?

  • Or like, a ceiling fan for really tiny people?

  • A lazy susan for really lazy people?

  • Test your eyesight

  • One?

  • Four, two, pretty much the same...

  • You could use it as a magnet

  • You could use it as a strobe light

  • You could even use it to explain to your mom

  • what your gauged ears are going to look like

  • See? There are hundreds and hundreds of different use-

  • Ok, yeah there's not a lot you could do with them

  • But come on, it costs like 10 dollars

  • What can you even do with 10 dollars?

  • (list of things you could do with $10)

  • And what would you rather have, a 10 dollar bill?

  • Or one of these?

  • See that? You can't spin a 10 dollar bill

  • ($10 bills crinkling)

  • Oh, ho ho ho hoo yo!

  • Get out of here, boy!

  • Yeah, we also had a game like this growing up kids

  • It was kind of frowned upon

  • Overall, what I'm trying to say is all this hate

  • that we show to other generations, especially

  • the younger generations, are- are so unnecessary

  • and kind of hypocritical

  • We are so quick to judge others, especially

  • younger people because we think we know better

  • And we expect them to grow up the way we grew up

  • But the thing is humanity is constantly evolving

  • and just because things are different

  • whether its music, or toys, or trends

  • It- it doesn't mean that they're wrong

  • We didn't grow up the way our parents grew up

  • Our parents didn't grow up the way their parents grew up

  • And kids today aren't going to grow up the way we did

  • Let's just keep doing us, and let them do them

  • Some of us, will also keep doing them

  • That doesn't sound right

  • So once again, thank you guys so much for watching

  • and for all you younger generational kids watching,

  • When you're our age, and you guys want to start hating

  • on the younger generation below you for starting some stupid trend,

  • just remember, this? Right here?

  • At one point, this was once the most popular

  • and most talked about thing in the world because

  • of you guys playing with them and

  • enjoying this for fun

  • Okay?

  • It's your fault

  • Kinda mine too, I guess

  • *laughs*

  • It's kinda fun

  • TEE-HEEE!

  • *shaky high pitched*

  • Damn you kids, and your no-smoking laws,

  • and flying skateboards, and beep bop bope bibing music

  • Back in my day, we had hoverboards that didn't hover,

  • vapes that gave everyone a new form of cancer,

  • and more than anything, we had real music

  • like...

  • (medley of horrible songs)

  • Well... we had... like.... uh....

  • Boys generally Ai-

  • Okay, well, you guys got us on the music

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