these- this new trend,

this toy called a fidget spinner

*music*

Yes! So once again, the internet has

blessed us with another wonderful trend

that everyone can't stop talking about

So much so that I can't even ignore this one because

it's so heavily requested by you guys in my comments

(reading comments out loud)

(overlapping voices)

"Dear Ryan, your hair still looks GAY"

Wait, what?

Fidget spinners are one of the biggest trends in the world right now

So of course I had to go pick one up

to see what all the fuss was about, and...

here it is

*disappointed honking noise*

yeah, *wheeze*

this thing, right here

That's all it does. It spins, okay?

And it has like three

cir- oh what it's still going

oh that's kinda *hah* fa-

That's kinda fast *ahem*

Ok yeah

like most people my age, if you're in

your twenties, you probably took one look at this trend

and said, "this is so stupid"

"Why would anybody waste their money on this? All it does is spin"

And to be completely honest, this video was originally

going to be me making fun and bashing these things and people that play with them

You know, kinda like what everyone else is doing right now

But after seeing all the hate for this little, harmless, somewhat useless toy

I just had, like, this epiphany

*angelic whale call*

It wasn't like this

It- I don't know why- what- I'm doing

We are a society that just HATES

the generation below us

We hate everything that they do and all the trends

they start because we think think that our generation is the best

and the smartest, and upcoming

generations are only getting worse and worse

And I'm not just singling out our generation

this is an ongoing pattern that has been happening forever

I mean, think about it

when we were growing up, the generation above us

complained about us the same way when we were kids

* shaky high pitched*

Damn you kids and your filthy rap music,

Gameboys, and "pokemans"

Back in my day, we used to play stick ball outside,

and listen to the classics like Queen, and Journey, and-

If you're around my age, I'm pretty positive

that somebody older than you has said the

exact same thing to you before

And yes it was annoying because they just didn't understand

because they were old

they were just being haters

Welp, take a look in the mirror

that's us now

We're the old haters

Our generation is literally doing the same thing now

*shaky high pitched*

Damn you kids and your hoverboards, and vapes,

and little "yatties"

Back in MY day,

we used to ride bicycles, and have beyblades (let it rip!)

AND we listened to real music

like Eminem, Britney Spears, and the Backstreet Boys

Yeah, I don't know why our generation sounds so old

We're still in our twenties, but

You get the point

You see, it's an ongoing cycle of hate

and it all stems from our arrogance

We think that growing up, we had the best childhood

because of how proud we are of ourselves

We believe that the younger generation has to have

a childhood like ours if they want to be as successful,

and knowledgeable, and hard working as we are

That's why whenever an older generation see kids

doing trends like this, you always see them

saying things like, "Oh, our future is doomed"

or, "I'm losing faith in humanity"

or, something else negative

And no, I"m not making a video just to defend these things

I agree that these toys are you know, kinda

useless and not really worth the money

But that's exactly the point , they're toys

Just because we're older now, and way too mature

to play with these things doesn't

mean we gotta hate it

I mean, you think this is stupid?

Think of the toys WE grew up with

We had pogs, okay?

We collected and played with little circular

pieces of cardboard that would have pictures on them

that we would slam on the ground to try and flip over other

little circular pieces of cardboard with pictures on them

And that was fun!

Or what about trading cards?

Our generation loved trading cards!

Some of us still do!

From Pokemon cards, to Yugioh, to Magic the Gathering,

like trading cards were huge when we were growing up

And they were expensive

That's right, we paid a bunch of money for

a bunch of pieces of paper with pictures on them

It wasn't even cardboard

And yes, I understand these were games

You could play them, and

these- these you can't play games with these

they just spin, right?

Well, then maybe you can explain chatter rings

Remember those?

That's right kids, we had chatter rings

For a short amount of time, chatter rings were just as

popular as these in the world when we were growing up

And literally, all it was was a bunch of little rings

that you would spin onto a bigger ring

and keep spinning the bigger ring so that the little rings

keep spinning and make a bunch of noise with them

Yeah, that didn't sound stupid back then, huh?

Like I remember some adults saying that was stupid

back then, and I laughed at them

They laughed at me, that's how it went

I- they- I didn't laugh at them

Still not enough?

We also played with yo-yo's,

which is a wheel that's attached to a string that you

wind up and then unravel really fast so that the wheel spins

It's a little younger than my generation,

But we also had Beyblades

They were little toy tops that you would

spin to hit other tops

So it's like taking two of these, spinning them,

and then hitting each other with them

Oh, it broke

Look at that, it came off

whoops

We had gak

it was literally just goo that you could touch

I-I don't know

We had slinkies, a spring-like toy

that you would place at the top of the stairs

and then watch it go down those stairs

This is starting to sound even worse

I'm kinda depressed

We even had whatever hell this thing is

I don't anyone even knew what these things were even suppose to be

But a lot of us had them

It was like this soft, slippery, sausage looking thing

But it had like an inside so that you could like put your finger in it or

Just hold it, and like kinda just move it around, and sh-

Wait a second...

You see what I mean?

I'm not saying that these things aren't stupid, ok?

because they are

But why are we hating on the younger generation

when we were just as stupid as they were,

maybe even stupider?

ok, we had this thing

It doesn't make sense, we were hypocrites

So, I'm sorry if you though that this video was

going to be what most youtubers are doing,

which is hating fidget spinners

In fact, I am going to do the opposite and show

you how awesome and useful these things are, okay?

I could name like hundreds of uses off the top

of my head like, you could spin them forwards,

you could spin them- eh- spin them backwards kinda

You can... use it like a ninja star

in case there's a burglar in your house

*thud*

*plop*

It could be the propeller of a mini helicopter