Kids These Days!
By Kade
@akruser13 (475)
Los Angeles, California
January 29, 2022 3:15pm CST
Yes, I'm forty and I'm on TikTok. Not as a creator, I just like watching all the videos. They're fun.
I saw a young creator the other day letting people know what her income was. Between TikTok, her business basically buying thrift store goods and re-selling them, and side hustling in blogging or marketing or whatnot, she was on video going, "Yeah, it's hard being a freelancer. Some months I don't make very much. On a bad month I make $4-$5k which isn't that much because I have rent and car payments and stuff."
Excuse you???? $4-$5k on a BAD MONTH???
Hun, I have never made that much even at my highest paying job in all my twenty plus years of working. And if she doesn't live in LA like I do where rent prices are insanely high, then what the heck is she spending her money on where she blows $4-$5k every month? And if that's a bad month what do her good months look like?
I just don't understand how these young influencers are so out of touch with the rest of the world and have no clue how well off they actually are. I was managing a store. Manager. With all the heavy responsibilities involved. And I wasn't even making $3k a month. My rent and utilities is $1k. And I was thinking I was doing alright on that.
4-5k on a bad month and complaining about it. Go live in the real world, kid, and then come back and tell me how hard your life is.
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@Deepizzaguy (122162)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
29 Jan 22
You are right that some young persons who have never lived in the real world should stop complaining that making 4K-5K a month is hard on them. Life is fun when we all find something that challenges us and helps us give back to our communities.
@Deepizzaguy (122162)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
30 Jan 22
@akruser13 My concern about kids who use Tik Tok to make money is what happens when her source of income is no longer around?
@akruser13 (475)
• Los Angeles, California
31 Jan 22
@Deepizzaguy Right?! How many of those Vine kids went under when that did?
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@akruser13 (475)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Jan 22
I mean good for her for figuring out how to make money doing fun things, but yeah. Acting like that wage is low and hard on her, open your eyes girl! Live in the rest of world's shoes for a little bit and then complain about how hard you have it.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
29 Jan 22
That’s a lot more then my husband makes a nurse weekly. Make each week $251.15 that’s before they add his over time in because he works 10 hour work days so he only has to go in 4 days week.
@akruser13 (475)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Jan 22
Yeah. That. She makes TikToks and has to go shopping for a living. She's clearly never worked an actual labor job in her entire life.
I don't mind that she was willing to share her income, but the attitude that she wasn't making very much, trying to act like she's got it so hard, that's what bugs me. So many people have so much less while working so much harder.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
30 Jan 22
@akruser13 that would be what I call entitlement. My kids have said mommy I want to be a YouTuber and I explained to them how it works and that it’s not a real job. Even thought many people make it work it doesn’t happen over night. It’s much better for them to try a real job like mommy and daddy have done over the years. You can learn a lot work just working retail or food services. When they talk about there interesting I name off a few things like maybe you should go to college or a special school for that when your older. It’s fine to make videos or show or talk about things your interested in but always have something to fall back on.
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