Wasn't gonna watch this video, but I didn't wanna miss out.

I feel like our depressions are now synced.

“So, basically you’re able to stop cool things from happening by being there?” I felt that 😩

The fear of missing out starts in highschool because everytime you were off for a day or out for a while youve missed 3 fights, half the faculty having a mental breakdown and a fire in the science lab

"Let's say you've been invited to a friend's birthday"- What are you talking about?

So sick of this guy always bragging about having 3 friends.

This just sounds like pessimism with extra steps

Not gonna lie, finding out a boring regular party was actually a LAN party sounds amazing.

Who else gets afraid of missing out but also doesn’t want to actually do anything

You can tell he thinks he is so funny with that intro. And he's correct.

I remember going into exams with my lowest expectation being death. By using this, I was usually content that I ended up with some sort of grade.

“reality is often disappointing”

Just leave social media. Trust me you won't miss anything.

"Do it or dont do it. You wilm regret both." - Lao Tzu

Nothing is more depressing then playing games on your PC alone and then checking your friend snap story and seeing that they’re all together hanging out

"its highly unlikely that two of your three friends have the same birthday." My two best friends are 8 minutes older and 5 minutes younger than me.

Idk man 1 gig up and down sounds pretty good to me

His obsession with natalie dormer is both hilarious and well placed.

The thing with FOMO is it literally hits you directly in your anxiety centre and hits it very hard. This is most worst when you're an anxious and insecure person. My own experience I learned from was that I was very insecure about my friendships and was always doubting if people really liked me. My brain would find any little reason to think people don't like me (Not being invited to go get food or drinks, not being invited to play a game with your friends or them going into a different voice chat) and use all those small reasons to slam on my anxiety centre and until I basically had a panic attack if my friends were all going to meet up without me. This took A LONG time to deal with and the most important part was just being more confident in your friendships and yourself as a person that you're worth of having those friends. When I understood that I not only was less anxious and had less FOMO. I had the strength and confidence leave toxic friendships I had with people.

Life has been so uneventful the last 5 years that I honestly cant remember how it feels to miss out. Guess I just dont care anymore idk

you can hear him smiling when he does the little plug in for himself lmao

Expect nothing and you'll never get disappointed.

What I learned from this is that everything sounds cooler than it is, and in your imagination everything you miss out is so amazing but if you don't miss something out you realize how blatant it is.

I think it's normal to have no friends now

Moral of the story Just go and ruin everything, if you can’t have fun, they can’t have fun either

The man that makes glorified PowerPoint presentations renders his vids in 1080p 60fps. I lowkey love that.

It could also be the same with nostalgia. I've heard a lot of my friends saying they wish they could back the 'good old times ''when they were 16, but was 16 actually a great time or is it just romantisized? Like, being a teenager is still very stressful with expectations, homework, and not being taken seriously. At least when your are an adult you don't have to ask for permission to do things and you can buy yourself your own things and don't have a curfew. There's good and bad thing everywhere, I guess its just perspective that determines your FOMO or regrets.

"So, in other words, you're able to stop cool things from happening by being there?" That friend is savage.

>The party is actually a bunch of students playing Counter-Strike drunk That sounds dope tho

Friend:"Hey! What's your super power" Me:"I make things uncool by just being there."

Hello. So, I wore your "Is she into you?" T-shirt on my first date (finally), and found it very helpful as a reference guide throughout the experience. Although it was kind of awkward having to take my VR goggles off every time I needed to see where we were at in the experience. Results were inconclusive, but will keep you posted when the next update gets released.

3:28 that is so deep... “the timeline will still be the same anyway”, so true on so many levels

"Computer science and engineering party" Woah there buster you actually expected *girls* at that party?

This man just explained Stoicism for the average stick figure.

I tell people that my extreme pessimism about literally everything that could ever happen is just a smart strategy of always expecting the worst, so that the worst thing that can happen to me is that I will be right. In reality I probably just need a psychologist.

I go by the rule that 90% of my worries won’t happen.

Bold of you to assume i have 3 friends

The only 3 friends thing had me shook. I was like that was funny and then I realized, I only actually have 3 friends

"When a freshman in computer science says powerful connections, what he really means is 1 gig up and 1 gig down." 1:52 I'm dead lol

I love this. Essentially, you shouldn’t feel bad about your benign past decisions despite what your head tells you, and you should be trying to find new exciting experiences, while understanding that it’s not always going to be mind blowing.

This video has such a good sponsor.

"You're able to stop cool things by being there" LMAO what an insight

I remember when my dad went out to a meeting and then grabbed groceries, then he met Will Smith after he was pushing through a crowd thinking that it was just very busy and many people were out doing their thing when it turned out to be paparazzi and a bunch of by standers who noticed he was there. He even got a picture with him and I was really upset that I didn't get to see him but then again that's probably the closest I could say to meeting an actual celebrity

The ability to stop cool things from happening by being there sounds like a great superpower to not have.

Well I never get invited so therefor I have no fear of missing out because I have no idea wth i'm missing...

i knew i had to watch this video or else id spend the rest of my life worrying about what i missed by not watching it

“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.” -Napoleon Hill

A personal experience of mine, I never really had any friends since 13, and became a complete hermit since that age. A few years ago i made a wonderful group of online gaming friends. And having those wonderful moments with them made me feel alive in a way i completely forgot was even real, and they werent even IRL friends. So this made me question how much better IRL friends must be and gives me FOMO of all that ive been missing out on thanks to mental illnesses

Imagine being afraid of missing out. This post was made by introvert gang.

"'You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take'- Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scot

Thank you, you've helped since I've been going through what is probably a really petty crisis about not being able to go to this museum (which is already supremely far away) that has a limited time event ending in mid January. I definitely over hyped myself for something ultimately unrealistic. This is a genuine thank you, I already feel better.

I have a similar theory (and experience). My dance group and I went to Slovakia (we are from the Czech Republic) to a dance party. Once our friend and a member of the group wanted to go, but he couldn't (he had another event). And so we went without him. The party in Slovakia was quite OK, but it was not the best party I have ever experienced. After a while, we all met again, even with a friend who couldn't go. When he asked us: "How was the party in Slovakia?", everyone started that it was a terrible pity that he could not go and it was the party of the year. I looked at them a little surprised and confused, because this party without this friend wasn't nearly as good as the parties before. Everybody was drunk and nobody was dancing... so... nothing special. This made me think that every party you weren't at would be thrown at you as "the best ever", and the participants would tell you that "it's a terrible pity you couldn't come, you lost the best party in all of humanity!", when that's not really true. To be precise, after this event with that friend who cant come, I began to notice that all the members of my dance group say that about all the parties. So you practically never miss anything.

Damn !! At 4:45 that Thanos turning into dust is from my photoshop tutorial. I have seen that pic couple of times before over the internet and now here. Everytime i see it, it makes so happy !! it's a different kind of success, it's the meme success !!! i love it.

"It's unlikely that 2 of your 3 friends have their birthday on the same day" ✓ I'm in this post and I do not like it.

I am low energy introvert and have a constant battle between fear of missing out and fear of burning out. Ever since I've graduated and started working full time I meet with friends once a month and it feels absolutely amazing. That way I don't feel tired of communication and every meeting feels like something new and refreshing

I so needed this - brilliant!

Look at Mr. Humble brag here having friends.

opening joke alone warrants the like.

This is a paradox in literally every decision we make. Do I take it easy and have fun because bad things are about to happen or do I work hard to prepare in case bad things happen? Do I train mind and body only to have my life end moments later? Do I work on improving myself and my environment in order to avoid "missing out" on feeling fulfilled with my time even if it means burning myself out? Every moment we choose something we are missing out on something else. Like yin and yang.

The reality is that you only remember the times that something happened and you had the ability to go.

Perfect timing. I wasn't able to go with my friends today.... Cause they didn't invite me

Who else doesn’t have to worry about this because they have no friends 😎

One of the sole reasons I don’t ever go on Instagram is because you can always see what people are doing at their BEST moments.

Back when I was younger and still had a life, I always missed all the good stuff. I literally had the ability to stop cool things from happening just by being there. It's a gift.

"2 of your 3 friends" Haha good one. Three friends. more like 1 that I pretty much only talk to over whatsapp.

Here’s my version to avoid the fear of missing out, I hope it can help some of you: 1- set your resources. We all have 24hours in a day, a budget, and obligations. 2- set your priorities. What is really important for you (this has to be personal and not influenced by others)? Your family/friends might be most important, your career, etc. Basically, what do YOU really want. 3- set your needs. We all have to sleep (for me it’s 8 hours per day, like if your plan involves me sleeping less, I’m out. Yet it might be 4 hours for some people). 4- Cross reverence the information from step 1, 2, 3 and establish what you can realistically accomplish. For example, this party looks cool, but I don’t like going to clubs and I don’t appreciate this crowd of people. So I prefer using my money to go to the movies. 5- allow yourself time and budget for exceptional experiences. Like, I never tried a threesome with German exchange students, but maybe tonight is a good night to try. 6- be content with your decisions, be happy for the present, and hope the future will not suck. On that, I wish you all a happy life.

That’s actually true. Your videos are so so entertaining. Thanks a lot!

It’s not so much the Fear of Missing out, and more of not getting invited to do anything and those “friends” not reaching out to do anything and eventually I’m stuck in a cycle of wake, work, eat, watch shit content, talk to no one, sleep, repeat until the friendship fades into nothingness.

I had girlfriends, partied, and had hookups during my 20’s but its never enough. You always think you have missed out regardless. Atleast I do.

Was this a puberty reveal video? Cus your voice is sounding thicc

Dude that was hilarious and hella informative like THANK YOU SO MUCH

Every single thing you'll ever do, right down to your manner of death, is either cool or not depending on if you want it to be. The attitude you decide to have about your experiences matters enormously more than the actual experience does.

Bold of you to assume that I'd be invited to anything..

5:47 this is so true because when i stay home for a week, my friends say "I" missed out and they tell me who came, what they saw, do, etc but when i'm there none of that stuff happens

"Keep your expectations low boy, and you will never be disappointed." -Kratos

The way this is narrated is so MY HUMOR TYPE 😂😂😂 I know it’s a serious video and I hopped on because I deal with SEVERE OCD fomo (like still stressed over that opportunity I missed in 1st grade) almost 20 years later but the humor just makes the video so much better 😂 and you don’t even seem to be trying to be funny you just naturally are 😂😂😂 this is lovely !

4:56 Wow, paint animations. You've really outdone yourself in this video.

"This video has been made possible by....." *_M E_*

3:07 this was the most specific relatable thing I heard in my entire life

You’ve talked about so many topics that I have problems with and helped me fix them

You're giving us an example based on the assumption that we have friends

*you are literally the man that caused me to start animating!* I’ll he hitting 10ksubs tomorrow in 7 months and I wanted to like you know. THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤️❤️

5:05 I really like that he didn't hit the marker but went around

We’ve already missed out on so much because of covid that honestly we’ve got nothing to lose

@4:59 OMG he's using animation! Casually explained is getting hi tech! The future is now.

“One gig up one gig down” absolutely golden

Why is this surprisingly and strangely helpful?!?!

That ending really stuck a nerve. It´s not only missing out, is thinking that nothing will happen if you go and everything will happen if you don´t.

When you are scared of your friends beating the ender dragon without you.

Fear of missing out is actually a real thing and you can call it FOMO for short. No FOMO

This is honestly an amazing way to explain it.

I always feel like I am missing out, but then I compare what I can be doing to the best case scenario and discover my current advantages outway any opportunities I might have missed.

But for real tho, relating to what he was talking about at the end, things that might sound exciting when I weren’t there, often would’ve been boring or unenjoyable if u were there

“game of thrones, my favorite character would probably die”... mood

Subscribed at 2:58. It was classic pause-moment gold, I felt rewarded for pausing.

It's been a while since I really laughed about a video. Damn, this feels good.

I have a Degree in CS with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. 3:12 really hit me hard as its all true.

Can't miss out when there's nothing to miss I'm lonely send help

The reality of going out rarely meets it's expectations.

"Lower your expectations." Mastered that.