You lost me at the kids. All fine and dandy if somebody wants to do van life but if you have kids you should just stay the fuck away from that lifestyle
It says specifically home in the video. I don't know who they are and i'm not going to bother looking it up so you might be right. They are portraying it as van life tho
You don't call something a home unless you live in it. I'm not saying what you are wrong and that they are actually living in it. I'm saying that they are portraying themselves as living in it.
In Canada we sometimes call RVs camper homes. Idk about wherever you’re from. Please don’t write an essay in response about the dishonesty of society or whatever I’m just giving context.
Because the whole fucking point is that the internet is absolutely drowning in people pretending to be something they are not, or at least presenting some polished, selective version of their life that barely resembles the actual thing.
Fake wealth. Fake relationships. Fake productivity. Fake “simple living.” Fake entrepreneurship. Fake homesteading. Fake van life. Fake fucking everything.
People build an image around whatever they think other people will envy.
Look how free we are. Look how adventurous we are. Look how little we need. Look how we escaped the boring normal life everyone else is stuck in.
Then they cut out all the inconvenient shit and package the rest into a neat little video. You do not see the arguments, the boredom, the lack of privacy, the logistics, the money problems, the things breaking, the stress or any of the other mundane bullshit that actually comes with living that way.
You see the fucking aesthetic.
And that is one of the most annoying parts of internet culture. Everybody is selling an identity.
It does not even have to be completely fake. You can show real things and still create a completely bullshit impression through what you choose to show, what you leave out and how you frame it.
And people absolutely fall for this shit.
They buy things because influencers have them. They move somewhere because TikTok made it look amazing. They quit jobs because somebody sold them the digital-nomad fantasy. They start businesses because somebody posted a revenue screenshot and conveniently forgot to mention everything else.
So this whole “why would that bother you?” argument is fucking stupid. The entire influencer economy exists because people are influenced by what other people portray online. That is literally the fucking point.
And I do not even care whether these particular people are faking anything.
Maybe they really live in the van. Maybe they only use it sometimes. Maybe they have a house somewhere. Maybe “home” was just wording for the video.
I genuinely do not give a fuck.
What bothered me from the beginning was the children.
Adults want to live in a van? Great. Live in a shoebox. Live on a boat. Sleep in a hammock. Shit in a bucket in the woods. You're an adult. Make whatever fucking lifestyle choice you want.
Children do not get that choice.
And when you put children into that lifestyle and then package it online as this cool, unconventional, enviable alternative to ordinary family life, somebody is absolutely going to watch it and think, “Hey, we could totally fucking do that too.”
Because people are stupid.
Some of them will think about it properly. Some of them will think about it for thirty fucking seconds after watching a video and decide it looks amazing.
That is why the presentation matters to me.
And the fact that I even have to explain something this fucking obvious to you is ridiculous. You're just fucking stupid, and at this point I feel stupid for wasting this much time explaining basic reading comprehension and basic internet culture to you.
Oh my fucking God. How about you actually do five seconds of research before commenting? The Instagram account is literally in the fucking video.
First, these people are from Canada, so your whole “this is Europe” lecture is already irrelevant. Second, there is an entire fucking internet subculture called van life, where people do exactly this: they live in vans, sometimes full-time and sometimes for long periods. It is basically chic homelessness with better lighting and an Instagram account. Think tiny homes, except even fucking smaller and with wheels.
And yes, I am European. I am fully aware that Europeans take caravans and motorhomes on summer holidays. Thank fuck you showed up to explain the concept of camping to me. I would never have figured that one out on my own.
The fact that some normal families use these things for a month-long holiday does not magically mean nobody fucking lives in them. Those are two completely different things.
based. I used to work remotely and had some idea that my dream was to become a digital nomad, I wanted to go to some third world country and exploit poor people for cheap labor. Somehow that was my dream
Eventually I realized how miserable remote work actually was. It's miserable to sit outside and try to work, you just end up not doing work which stresses you out. I also stagnated in my career, because I wasn't sitting down to focus on actually improving. It's also lonely, especially being a digital nomad. White privilege only gets you so far, eventually it wears you out to be in a country where you don't speak the language. And even if you sit at home to work remotely it's still miserable because you're simply not focused or "locked in" as kids say these days
I also realized just how wrong it is to exploit people in third world countries. After traveling to these countries I started seeing them as humans, whereas before they were more viewed as objects
Internet really fucks with your brain and warps reality. It somehow makes you believe that sitting on a beach sipping on some drink is peak
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u/Zuka101 14h ago
You lost me at the kids. All fine and dandy if somebody wants to do van life but if you have kids you should just stay the fuck away from that lifestyle