YouTube has had a larger effect imo.
Kids from marginalized and affluent communities alike are now being raised on Mr. Beast. Mr Beast speak may become the universal dialect of the future.
Like and subscribe replaces goodbye. Who am I to judge. Mr Beast is articulate after all.
If you grow up in the hood like myself code switching ends up being a much needed skill.
In the future Mr Beast speak becomes a first language. Maybe dialects are outdated artifacts of the old times.
Like and subscribe.
How is this any different from television? Rich kids didn't get different cartoons growing up.
Different stations carry different shows often from town to town.
Mr Beast is a multinational phenomenon which can be viewed by anyone on earth , practically for free.
Kids from Compton to Brompton are learning the exact same dialect. Plus a lot of them are going to want to be content creators themselves and with a used IPhone they can get started.
Of course you’d copy the best.
The internet allows us to create and share culture faster than ever before.
Honestly this is fantastic, it’s possible to gain exposure to say Korean and even hop on video chat with native speakers even if you’re living in Albania.
I’m a bit old, 30 something, and I struggle with languages. But if I was younger I’d try to be fluent in a minimum of 3
Struggling with languages is often a function of not putting enough hours into learning them, and less a function of age. Of course finding time can get more difficult after you leave school.
They didn't get different ones, but they may have watched different ones, especially if rich parents/tutor/babysitter controls the TV vs a latchkey child vs a child of a single mother. Not sure I would make any strict claims though, but food for thought.
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Not really. Mr. Beast (whatever that is) may be big in your bubble. In my bubble that's a literally who, I doubt even 1 child out of 100 knows what that is.
Cross-cultural (acultural?) memes like sixtyseven have much wider appeal.
Mr. Beast is really big. You should actually ask those kids; you may be surprised.
> (whatever that is) may be big in your bubble
Come on. It's fine not to know about something, but Mr Beast has the YouTube channel with the biggest number of subscribers, and has the third most followed TikTok account [1]. It is a worldwide phenomenon. 515 million subscribers, it's far from "your bubble".
Not my cup of tea (and also virtually absent from my bubble), but you should probably have a quick look to know what people are talking about / experiencing in this world.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Beast#:~:text=With%20more%2...
I'm in Germany, in the let's say "people with higher education; good white-collar jobs with enough money for most of my friends to buy or build a house and save money for the future" bubble.
Yes, we have heard of MrBeast, most of us would likely recognize his face.
But that's about it. Nobody watches this stuff, most people in this bubble, including me, are shaking their heads at this kind of content. It's seen as low-quality stuff you actively avoid and as something you'd try to keep your kids away from.
So obviously the next logical step is to think that it is a very negative development if THAT is the kind of content that is spreading all over the world, shaping and influencing a new generation.