So it seems more and more common for people in this modern world to opt out of having children. Many are choosing to pursue their careers or passions instead of devoting the vast majority of their lives to guiding the transformation of a tiny person who doesn’t know anything into a grown up asshole who thinks they know everything. Or, in Japan some people are marrying virtual people. I don’t want to be to presumptuous here but, unless there’s been some really big advancements that I haven’t read about in the past 5 minutes, those relationships are probably not going to make a child. Well, they’re not going to make a biological child. They might make a virtual one. But is that really the same as having a child with a human woman? We’re getting to some Blade Runner/Ghost in the Shell territory about the value of artificial life here guys, which is some pretty heavy shit for what was supposed to be a funny article.
Where was I? People not having kids because they’re too obsessed with their own lives. Well, it seems that there has been a steady rise in the number of children born to social media conscious parents. Everyone’s favorite literary genius/crazy person Brett Easton Ellis said the following in his opinion piece for Vanity Fair:
If there doesn’t seem to be an economic way of elevating yourself then the currency of popularity is just the norm now and so this is why you want to have thousands and thousands of people liking you on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumbler—and you try desperately to be liked. The only way to elevate yourself in society is through your brand, your profile, your social media presence.
These savvy parents are tapping the veritable gold mine of having children for likes, upvotes, retweets and clicks more effectively than ever before. Just ask that family that releases those videos where they’re all singing and stuff, the “Eh Bee Family” over on Youtube. You think that if Sarah and I just started singing Disney songs half decently we’d have over 700,000 Youtube subscribers? No. We wouldn’t. What’s the difference? They’ve got kids. And they’re capitalizing on it. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
