I can’t wait for people to gatekeep the gatekeepers!

The "Only 90s kids remember the 90s" brings forth a confounding conundrum. Do the 80s kids remember the 90s? In this essay, I will

If my dad asks me what a carburetor is I can just fire back with, "What's a GPU?"

11:34 honestly as a Thai I’m glad seeing westerners eat at our restaurants instead of cooking it incorrectly and posting videos for uncle Roger to start being depressed

I'm really open about having narcolepsy and I STILL have parents gatekeeping tiredness with me.

I'm a gatekeeper myself, I sometimes stand in front of the gate and make sure people I don't want inside my house don't get inside my house

"tofu is strictly for vegans and vegetarians " *east and southeast asians have left the chat*

Why cant parents look after and care for you when you're no longer a kid? I read somewhere that a mother in her 90s and her daughter in her 70s both lived together in an old care home and the mother was still giving her daughter sweets. Some parents will always be parents. Heck some hens will still drop food to their fully grown children. Its cute and adorable

28:56 I had a hazelnut coffee from Dunkin donuts one day at work and my boss said "real men don't drink flavored coffee." Same boss saw my bifold wallet and said "real men have trifold wallets." After the second one I looked at him and said "real men do whatever the fuck they want even when some old guy says otherwise."

If you aren't a giant floating hand, you can't call yourself an EmKay narrator.

I once got gatekeeped from being trans. My gender dysphoria means I hate being told to just accept my body, hate "feminine" compliments, can't stand being compared to women ect. Apparently, me being pissed off that people won't stop doing that shit makes me invid as a trans because "they're just trying to help and real trans people accept help not snarl and snap"

18:34 As a software developer who recently "gave birth" to a whole new product after months and months of labor to build it up, i can see where the PhD writer is coming from.

Reminds me of the time my mom asked me how I was doing and I replied "tired" and she scoffed at me and told me "you think you're tired?? Try being a single mother. You're young, you can't be tired." I straight up laughed at her and said "are you gatekeeping being tired??????"

There once was a woman who had 100 children. She named each of them after numbers in the order they were born. There was a fire and all of them died except Ninety. Ninety went off to have kids of her own. They were very kind and loving. One day they found an injured dog. They took it home and nursed it back to health. They hid the dog and never told their mother afraid she would kick the dog out. In fact, they never told anyone. To keep from arousing any suspicions they named the dog "This" so the name could be used in conversation. One day This ran away. They never saw This again. No one else knew about This. No one even knew a dog named This existed. Only Ninety's kids remember This.

My history teacher told us that in ancient times it was considered especially manly to have a male lover, because it was very manly to top another man and therefore only weak men would stick to women partners. I have taken this to heart.

as a woman i can say that i feel way sexier in a dress rather than in pants. no matter how tight or whatever.

"they have good noodles" I LOVE THE BLUNTNESS OMFG

feel you so hard on the "bi person in straight relationship." I did a lot of activism work for LGBTQ+ in my university and had people tell me as a "straight person"I should give up the mic to someone lgbtq+... and I have been out of the closet since I was 12 or so.

I find it funny when they say "let's confuse the 2000s kids" like we didn't do that stuff too. Everything mentioned that I wouldn't understand as a 2000s kid I understood😂

6:01 Ironically, when jeans were originally invented, they were mostly for women, and men usually wore more skirts

15:27 Robin: “You’re not a cooler person, because your winters are on average a couple of degrees colder” Well technically…

Just wanting to say for the first one: Getting a tip at all is something to be happy for. I just recently got a parttime job at a restaurant and at my second day of work someone gave me a $2.50 tip and I was so goddamn happy that I could buy something nice from it. And here are people complaining about getting "only" a $10 tip for doing shit all work, if you don't like it, give it back.

8:30 hell yes! I, being from Finland with English as my third language (Swedish first, Finnish second), got told "you should speak better English" when I had a non-pinpointable Fenno-Swedish accent but grammatically spoke perfect English. The "complaint" came from a guy in The South who had such a thick dialect that I had problems understanding him even compared to the standard US English I'm very used to and do my best to imitate.

16:28 what a legend

In a single episode I learned that Robin is both bi and ND nice to get representation

For the writing one, the key thing: You cannot be limited to just your race and sexuality. I write the story of a guy with a Russian mother and an Inuit Father. My IRL parents are American. What I can do though is TALK to people who do have those experiences, to learn of the cultures, see how they may interact, etc. You don’t have to write yourself to be a legitimate writer, and it really pisses me off when people say otherwise. My protagonist and I would disagree on a lot of things. In my Aspergers I talk to women to see if another character who is also a woman, has a similar socialization (expressed via thoughts, behaviours etc) If you want to make a character that is not you, great! It is suggested to learn so that you properly represent people. This way you don’t make stupid mistakes, like merging the Inca and the Aztecs because that is all you think old Mesoamerican cultures were like, and not as diverse and fascinating as they actually are. TL;DR write what you know, is beautiful because you can LEARN. You do NOT need to write what you ARE.

17:39 i don't know if my school was just poor, but we had the EXACT same things. Those tiny scooters hurt my knees so much but I loved it more Edit: I would like to clarify that I went to my elementary school in the late *2010s*

Speaking as both a parent and a PhD... The PhD was far harder... There's a reason very few people have a PhD but any old person can be a parent

6:06 fun fact, simply by looking at anatonomy and the structure of genitalia, it's actually women who should be wearing pants and men are the one who should be wearing skirts instead

The Chinese restaurant one was kind of funny.made me giggle since most of the Chinese restaurants around my area are actually owned and run by Hispanic families. XD

16:39 dinosaurs are just cool everybody should be allowed to like them bro

15:00 I am Canadian and I would never say that it's colder where I am from to a man suffering from hypothermia

I not only ate at a Chinese restaurant, I *performed* at one for my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. We weren't intruding, we were *invited*, because guess what? Chinese people can have friends and family who aren't Chinese!

I don't think I ever saw a drawing of 'the S' in 3D back when I was a kid, so I think another generation can take credit for the 3D effect. A simple and effective touch that I respect! Edit: clarified wording to reflect the S drawing, not the 3DS console. Lol

The fact that Robin instinctively said “It’s time for you to go get some b*tch*s,” really makes it perfect

(21:31) "A society which separates its warriors from its scholars, will have its fighting done by cowards and its thinking done by fools."

I like subtitles because sometimes i feel that if somebody makes a joke, and you laugh, you might not notice another even funnier joke that comes right after the first one, but subtitles make it easier to. It also works when you are watching something where a lot of other noisy people are. Or, heck, if you just like to be able to know what characters are saying when they talk quietly.

we have masculine men and feminine men, we have masculine women and feminine women. and it's gunna be okay. people need to relax and realize that their are many different kinds of people on this planet, and that's okay. thank you and i hope everyone has a good day today.

“Lets confuse the 2000’s kids” Like our 5 year old hands werent constantly getting crushed by those scooter things you could sit on, still my favorite part of PE

10:20 So I'm Latino. I used to be relatively dark skinned. Idk what happened but every fucking ounce of melanin left my body. My black, Kinky hair uncurled and is straight/brown now. My brown eyes turned blue. My skin is so goddamn pale that I don't tan, I burn, INSTANTLY. I have no idea what happened. I just faded over 4-5 years. My brother too. There's no way it's vitiligo. Idk. But when I used to show my face I would get so heavily harrassed because I specifically said I was Latino and everyone was accusing me left and right of lying, that latinos are brown not white ect. I've never felt more goddamn rage. But the worst part? My hair REFUSES to curl. I tried so many ways and it won't. I used to be so proud and happy with my looks because I looked just like mi abuelo and it made me feel big and strong and brave just like he was! And after being harrassed it made my insecurity about whatever happened to me so much worse and now I won't even put my HANDS in public photos and I actively darken my skin tone when I post my face (which again, I keep to friends). I at least want my hair back...

Thank you for standing up for us Subtitle users.

Karen: Why don’t you want any kids? They are life’s biggest blessing and it’s cruel that you don’t want to give that to them! Also Karen: MY 7 CHILDREN ARE ALL HELLSPAWN AND I WISH THEY WERE NEVER BORN!! 😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

The last one hit home with me. I go out to the bar or drink at home on my days off. I usually purchase the "women drinks" because they taste better and are easier to get down. You'd be surprised the amount of people that make comments about me not being a man or that I'm gay or a woman. Like dude it gives me a buzz and it taste good, what more can you ask for when consuming liquor?

i found this channel recently and i haven't been able to stop watching and literally this morning i was wondering if this dude was neurodivergent because this is a really specific click with the humor i like, and now he just said he's on the spectrum! I feel so seen. Great content!!

A teen girl at a pizza shop gave me a dirty look because I wouldn't tip on a $10 pizza when all she did was hand me the card machine. I'd tip for a pizza delivery, but not that. "Guilt tipping" is getting out of hand. I empathize with service workers, especially considering the sitatution and the last few years, but geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. I don't have a lot of money (poor) and so it just seems like there's so much extortion of extra costs where there used to be none. I can't afford to pay an extra 2-5$ for every cost on top of tax. Tipping isn't a thing in places like Europe. Restaurants need to pay their workers more and stop shifting the burden to customers.

28:15 my roommate is a lesbian and her lover was very abusive and controlling of her. She got rejected from many support groups because her abuser was another woman.

16:33 And that is why I got my little sister a beer she wanted.

18:43 the neat part is, most automatic sports cars(or just automatic cars in general) have a manual mode, be that paddle shifters or something on the stick

7:45 ~ the saddest part is that that woman clearly tried to have kids but obviously can’t. Seven miscarriages must have been very hard on her. I’m sure it wasn’t easy for her to come to grips with that. She’s now happy with her partner and cat and that’s all that matters! Don’t flipping tell her what does and doesn’t make a family! 😡

The starbucks barista waiting for you to give 40% tip for your microwaved croissant:

For the subtitles one, I agree with Robin. I wanna focus on the show and not have to glance down after every sentence. Also, for the one about only speaking English, I don't make fun of people who aren't fluent in it, but I do try to make an effort to help them speak the language better, and I'm careful to do it in a way that isn't condescending or patronizing or anything. They're trying to learn a language I'm fluent in, it's the least I can do.

With tv shows going from too quiet to hear the voices to the loud booming music, subtitles are the true hero in these situations.

Robin defending subtitles made me feel a lot better as someone who's hard of hearing. I've had a lot of people give me crap over asking to turn on the subtitles when it's incredibly hard for me to follow the plot without them.

21:49 | I'm coming up on four (4) years of sobriety from alcohol. Anytime somebody tells me they struggled and made it a week or month, I congratulate them and tell them to keep going. That shit was hard, and every day you don't give in to your cravings/urges is a win.

As someone on the spectrum that cant not stand messy foods(or anything that causes ick on hands and face). Its really comforting and reliving to know others deal with the same things.

4:45 POV: the random white girl from my class gets triggered when I tell my friends how my family celebrated Lunar New Year. I am adopted and my asian mother has raised us to celebrate.

I don't care what anyone says, if you're happy with just your partner and a cat, that's a family as far as I'm concerned And to the jackass saying not to celebrate quitting an addiction before 2 years, I spent the last 4 fighting alcoholism and you bet your ass I celebrated the first month I didn't cave. To anyone else in that fight, you got this!

fun story about people getting offended by pants one of my friends told me this story about her mom. so I'm guesstimating it happened in 1970-80 she (my friend's mom) came from a very rural area, very traditionalist. But she went to study in a big city in the north for university and picked up some more relaxed habits. especially about dressing. she started wearing pants because everyone else was doing it and she found them comfortable. not a problem untill she went back to her parent's house for summer vacation. she didn't want to get back into a gown because comfort so she just went with pants. her parents didn't really love it as much as she did but they knew better than judge her from her clothes' choice. her father told her that if anyone ever disrespected her she should tell him and that ended the conversation. well, as it happened there was no need for it because no one told her anything (apart from the disapproving looks) they just went directly to her father with their complaints (they were sure he could make her stop or something) the conversation went something like this: "Why are you letting your daughter dress like that? it's immodest and immoral. She should be wearing a gown!" "why? so that it's easier for you to lift it?" and no one ever said anything again.

27:10 actually, the fact that I have been suffering from insomnia my entire life is a substantial part of the reason why I don't want kids

6:57 for those who don't know: A carburetor is an enginepart that was responsible for creating and maintaining the air-fuel mixture needed to run the engine. It got replaced by direct fuel injection into the piston chamber in the 90s, but it's still used in small motors, like those in lawnmowers or motorbikes. Also: 12:37 I also drive a manual, but boy do I love the crisp gear changes from certain DCT transmissions

As someone with some addiction issues i really dislike the people who gatekeep friggin sobriety. The fact that you have been sober longer than me does not take away anything from my own sense of achievement.

23:57 Robin just awoke his inner New York.

enough of this gatekeeping. youve been clean from self harm for a few days? im so proud of you. genuinely, youre doing amazing havent had alcohol in a week? youre sooooo tough, and im so happy for you went on a walk this week? im so freaking impressed, youre amazing had a shower or did some skin care? thats so great, keep up the amazing work finally finished that homework/assignment? i bet youll get a perfect grade went out with some friends or family? i bet it mustve felt amazing even the small things are worth being proud of, trust me, ive been through everything, and it is tough, but it will get better, okay? im proud of you

I DONT COMMENT ON KZfaq VIDEOS BUT I GOT UNREASONABLY HAPPY WHEN I HEARD "BUT BEING ON THE SPECTRUM" BECAUSE I AM TOO AND I FEEL THE SAME WAY

The correct response to “I’m sad” isn’t “NO YOU AREN’T! I AM” Its “me too”

21:49 THIS HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE some millennial got pissy with me bc i was three weeks clean from SH whereas they were six months, they told me i've "never really fought addiction" and said they hope i relapse 💀

21:55 personally I am impressed and proud of any one who can be a week clean

1:51 funnily enough: only few American beers are legally considered beer in Germany.

for the one that was like “every muscle in a bodybuilder symbolises every poem he didnt memorize: “any nation that separates its warriors from its poets will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools”

As someone with autism, If someone tells me they've slept a short amount of hours and I respond with saying I've slept less it's mostly cause that's how I show understanding and not to minimise the other persons experiance (same thing is true in generall and not only sleep)

I've heard more about the concept of masculinity in this video than in my entire life. I consider myself very lucky.

As a big fan of Robin and a native Spanish speaker who knows English as a second language, it is extremely funny to me when Robin doesn't know a word that I do (like "fiefdoms" for instance). I'm not saying that as a disservice--those are rare words and I love him so much

Okay but as a Chinese person I can say that Chinese restaurants are commonly used as meeting up places but we are perfectly fine with people who are not Chinese coming in an ordering food and eating out of Chinese place and in my experience it kind of makes me happy to see that people are enjoying the food of my culture 11:00

I know it's already been featured on this channel before, but I really like that one reply to the guy talking about how every muscle a bodybuilder has represents something he didn't learn, that says "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." Also, it's very easy and common to watch or listen to things while you work out, so he could very well be learning something at the same time he's making those muscles.

12:40 In my country it is normal to drive a manual, as they usually use a bit less fuel.

11:20 me when approximatly 60% of the human population is asian and every single damn thing u own has the "made in china" mark:

I can't believe it Robin finally did it. He straight-up said out loud that he is bi!

Well. ..for the pants thing, I'd think that person will have an aneurysm when they find out mini skirts or any type of short skirts were for men.

8:50 An exception to this is if they insult you. Especially if they use the wrong ‘your’ if they say something like “your stupid”.

my dad drives a manual, but he doesnt say nothing abt it, he just "likes the way it feels to drive something so natural." I seriously love that man.

If you look at the timestamps, that guy at 10:00 went from "what's your Nintendo ID" to "this is why girls..." in 20 minutes of spam posting.

In Spain you're not even expected to tip because waiter can sustain themselves. Although it's not like in Japan where it would be seen as awkward.

The phrases ‘real men don’t do this’ or ‘real men do this’ are all just gatekeeping

If ever one of my friends start asking why don't I have twitter or reddit anymore, I will just send them some of your videos. Hell isn't that fun

Someone once told me "YOU DON'T LIKE CARS? YOU'RE NOT A REAL MAN!" And it took every ounce of self control I had to not tell them "Thank you, I'm actually trans and that makes me feel better about myself!" because I'm not in a safe place to come out yet.

7:07 Just because you know a fact that children know doesn't mean you're childish. HOW CAN YOU BE A PARENT WITHOUT KNOWING THAT STUFF?

26:38 not only 2000-2003 kids but even up to 2014 kids like my brother. schools are very unoriginal

6:14 My grandma still buys my dad a cake, my dad is 45. Ppl who say "WeLl aFtEr __ YeArs Old Ur PaReNtS cAnT gEt U a CaKe" are just mad cuz their parents don't love them

8:42 i clapped and said it along with him and it brung me so much joy and serotonin

24:33, to be fair, that's a cool spice cabinet. Wouldn't call it medicine, but for spices, hell yeah brother!

I’m an ‘I got less sleep than you’ one upper and can confirm it’s because the temporary feeling of gratification makes us feel slightly better about our shitty mental health

A fun thing to do when people quiz you on band t-shirts is say you didn't know it was a band, you just thought the design was cute

16:10 fiefdom is a medieval word for a piece of land someone owns

I love the moment when the gatekeepers say " It's gatekeeping time!" And they gatekeep on everyone.

Being Bisexual who often leans towards male partners I felt like guilty for saying I'm in the LBGTQ. There is that worry about how people would be if I dated a woman seriously. I don't want to be a mother and some people respond with 'people have kids in wars and it works out' and I'm like....thats not good. Gatekeeping is insanity. It is important to call out people faking disorders or self diagnosis but yay.

I'm sick and tired of my mom gatekeeping pretty much anything. Most of all productivity. It's always, you're lazy, you can't be stressed, you can't be depressed, you can't be tired. First it was: "you're in college and I have to work, you live in luxury" Then it became: "You work in shifts and get to go home, I work with sick people 24/7" And now I'm almost never home because of work: "You're a manager, you don't do real work. Can't you just take a day off and come home?!" I'm sick of this bullshit attitude where boomers shoot down other generations without even thinking about it, just to make themselves feel better, but then instantly regret it once they run out of negative things to say. WHAT ARE YOU, 12?!

25:54 Kind of unrelated but the boneless chicken thing reminded me of something. My dad was eating boneless chicken with a fork. He bit the fork by accident a piece of his tooth came off. He fished it out of his mouth, showed us the piece and said “Yeah, that’s my tooth.” We were like “Oh.” We then continued eating supper like nothing happened.

I noticed most of the restaurants being safe spaces for other Chinese people a lot. It's honestly really cool to see so many people of an entirely different ethnicity all in one place just, chatting and eating food. Not being harassed by others like you would see in schools or on the streets, just living their own lives and enjoying it. My family is hispanic mostly, so sometimes when we eat at a Chinese restaurants we kind of just go "hah that's funny. we the only non-asians here" and sit down and eat. We didn't bother anyone, we didn't try to, we were just there for the food. And hey, we're supporting a local business and not McDonald's for once. I joke about the chopsticks being annoying to use but it's because I lack the proper skill and practice to use them. I'm bad at sculpting too you expect me to throw shade at Alice Adams? Chinese food tastes amazing and I don't understand why someone would get so worked up about eating food people like. If I told everyone to stop consuming tamales because it's cultural appropriation my family would disown me on the spot. The idea that you cannot eat certain dishes because they were created by people who you weren't descended from is stupid and ironically enough is pretty racist on it's own. I'm not speaking on behalf of chinese people, I'm speaking from experience as a POC myself and applying that logic to this situation. Eat whatever you want, I don't care.

0:34 imagine someone makes an pokestop at an literal deserted island

Those do. I think that doctor thing is just usually before the first responders arrived like boy scouts. If you get your first stage first aid badge in boy scouts you like learn how to do first aid for before the first responders arrived to help and keep the person living and no longer going to the realm of the shadows, so I think it's more of that than anything