WEBVTT 00:00:04.379 --> 00:00:14.539 (slow, yet intense piano music) 00:00:14.769 --> 00:00:16.549 Oh my god! (screams) 00:00:18.139 --> 00:00:19.949 Jesus f--- Christ 00:00:21.708 --> 00:00:23.698 (Sound of water bottle opening) 00:00:23.841 --> 00:00:25.284 (Sound of water hitting face) 00:00:25.594 --> 00:00:27.173 (heavy breathing) 00:00:32.853 --> 00:00:34.483 Here we go (clears throat) 00:00:35.210 --> 00:00:37.580 Hi. I'm Dan and welcome back-- 00:00:37.746 --> 00:00:39.526 Yeah, that shirt's going to be a problem. 00:00:39.583 --> 00:00:40.348 Why? 00:00:40.538 --> 00:00:42.690 Oh, cause the-- f--- 00:00:42.793 --> 00:00:44.733 Is it that bad? You can't see the- 00:00:45.475 --> 00:00:47.085 Piss. Ok, um.. 00:00:47.685 --> 00:00:49.145 This is the first time I've worn this shirt. 00:00:49.376 --> 00:00:50.656 I was gonna do something cute here. 00:00:50.656 --> 00:00:53.326 It's kind of like, you know, emo shirt. 00:00:53.779 --> 00:00:55.369 But, then there's something about the lace 00:00:55.405 --> 00:00:57.035 that's just like a little bit gay. 00:00:57.035 --> 00:00:59.301 But it's not like so gay that it's gonna turn off a lot of straight people 00:00:59.301 --> 00:01:00.761 that accidentally click on the video 00:01:00.776 --> 00:01:01.746 'cause the title looks interesting. 00:01:01.746 --> 00:01:03.109 I'm just taking it off, right? 00:01:03.196 --> 00:01:06.756 Fine. Lightning fast. Keep running. 00:01:07.154 --> 00:01:10.869 (sound of microphone noise as he changes) 00:01:12.699 --> 00:01:14.869 Does that work? (sigh) (clears throat) 00:01:15.028 --> 00:01:18.026 Hi, I'm Dan and I'm contributing to the extinction of the human race, 00:01:18.026 --> 00:01:20.000 because I don't want kids. 00:01:20.980 --> 00:01:27.060 (upbeat music) 00:01:27.754 --> 00:01:29.844 Saying such a heinous thing in the past 00:01:29.882 --> 00:01:33.922 would have you branded as an outcast in society where you're either surely a 00:01:33.922 --> 00:01:37.585 weirdo that's probably gonna be arrested for being a serial killer 00:01:37.585 --> 00:01:41.762 or a witch and it is time to repeatedly dunk you in a river for some reason. 00:01:41.953 --> 00:01:43.373 Well, times have changed. 00:01:43.373 --> 00:01:45.157 I'm actually just a little depressed 00:01:45.157 --> 00:01:45.918 with the state 00:01:45.918 --> 00:01:48.770 of the world, and I'm not sure if I wanna keep adding to it. 00:01:48.819 --> 00:01:50.107 ("Yay!" sound effect) 00:01:50.145 --> 00:01:53.341 Even now, saying such a dramatic thing, I don't know if I want kids. 00:01:53.341 --> 00:01:57.383 gets you hit with a (surprised gasp.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But, you will love them (sad music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they will love you, and who will 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 look after you when you need help to poop? (fart noise) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All valid. But, it's what we're built to do, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's literally what the penis is for. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Trust me, I am doing everything with it but what God wants. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 For real. I am at that stage in life where 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I guess, I'm an adult. (awkward laugh.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All of my school friends have just 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 started plopping out kids, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which let's be clear, were all lockdown babies. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were all accidents. Yeah. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Uh, relationships only went two ways in lockdown. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Either they realized usually they spent so little time together 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 other than bonking that they don't 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 actually know each other. They have nothing in common, and now they're 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 trapped in the house with their sentient sex toy that they actually hate. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And split up. (Noise of glass breaking) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or they are welcoming beautiful baby Danarius or little Nas X or 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as you go for f---ing jpeg, whatever 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Grimes sent into the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Aww, they're cute. Definitely planned. (Sarcasm.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I found myself looking around like, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 oh, God, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people aren't actually expecting me to do this, intentionally. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Are they? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There is no more f----ed up phrase in this world than "settle down." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh, in the 50's, you're expected to just 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 marry someone from high school immediately 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and shit out octuplets and just skip straight to day drinking (monkey noise) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and being resentful. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Bam! That is life right there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and now you are just procrastinating until 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you get put in a home. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What is the rush, huh? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't need octuplets to day drink. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I just need to look at twitter for five minutes and lose my will to live. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why is it "settling?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why must we settle? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Can't we keep rustling? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Nervously twitching or irritatingly 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 tapping our legs through life? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And why is it down? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Jesus, if it was called "settling up" it might be aspirational. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Going to Heaven is settling up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Settling down just sounds like euthanasia. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's like the backup option when we realize that life is ultimately boring 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and unfulfilling. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like, shit, I ran out of TV to watch. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh, I know. Let's create a whole f----ing life that didn't ask to be here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh, your marriage needs saving? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A child will fix it. (Baby crying noise.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yeah, that's right. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How's that fifty percent divorce rate 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 working out for you? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Right. Ok, first up, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I like having a selfish life. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There, I said it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've already wasted too much time in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my life so far studying things that I thought I should. Aspiring for careers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that I thought I should, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and not doing things with my penis because they aren't God approved, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I am still making up for lost time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I struggle to get a basic amount of Mario Kart into my schedule 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to maintain my fragile mental health. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, no, I do not want to maintain a whole ass life. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I still very much feel like I am working out who I am, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what the hell life is about and how I 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 even feel about this place that the idea of something else becoming my priority 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 does not seem appealing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When I speak to friends that just had babies, I hit them with the uh, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 oh, is it nice, yeah? Do you love them? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Bet you feel like they love you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How much sleep are you getting? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Intense music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're just crating their crusty necks 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 towards me as a fountain of blood erupts from their eyeballs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yep, a child would take my time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Drain my resources, stop me from being 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 spontaneous. Which you know is just one of those things that I like having 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the option to do, even if in reality I 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 only leave the house for work and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm more likely to just be sat in my underwear eating yogurt and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 watching videos of dumbass Golden retrievers running into incredibly clean 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 glass doors. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "It's the final brain cell!" (to tune of "final countdown") 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I could be spontaneous, alright. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's knowing that I have the power and possibility that keeps me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from feeling free. I've got 20 houseplants 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and those needly f---ers stress me out enough as it is. (Chicken noise.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I only have to water them once a week. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I have to feed something multiple 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 times a day and clean it and entertain it, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 oh, man, I mean (laugh.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Don't get me wrong, having plants and pets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is good for your mental health. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Getting houseplants to support your 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 mental health is the gay version of having a baby to try and save a marriage." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It is good to have small tasks or a routine, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 feel invested in something's growth and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 feel rewarded by the joy that it gives you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but you don't have to entertain a cactus! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I was trapped in a lift with a cactus 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or a Golden retriever, no problem. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If a child looks at you and says "I'm bored." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Holy f---, that terrifies me. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I just moved into a new place that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 finally looks tasteful, and now what? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have to childproof it? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm already ditsy bitch with giraffe legs 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 constantly walking into the corners of furniture. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My genetic child stands no chance. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Also, children's toys are inherently 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 colorful, and that clashes immensely with 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my depressed lesbian lumberjack core aesthetic here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We'll just end the video there to be honest. That's all that matters. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The responsibility is incomprehensible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My whole schick is built entirely around 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how I was clearly set up for failure in life and I am still just trying to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 settle it out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I do not want to f--- that up (puppy noise) for baby Danarius. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How many books about child psychology 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are like, hey, umm, yeah, the first time you ever touch your child 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if your hands are too cold--trauma. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just like that, it's a bisexual. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There you go. First time you scold them, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 oh, you gotta say the exact right thing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or when they're twenty they'll realize 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they have a horrible sexual kink. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Even stupid sh--, my dad used to always pronounce wafer as wah-fer because of the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 wah-fer thin mints in Monty Python. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Monsieur, a wah-fer thin mint. (Blah.)" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I grew up my whole life thinking it was actually called wah-fer! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I love blaming all of my flaws on nature and nurture, and I will not 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 let anyone do that to me. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Imagine if I pass on generational trauma, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and in twenty-five years, my annoying 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 generation B2 child is streaming in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the metaverse as the avatar of a stomach 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 inflated pikachu talking about how me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 eating yogurt in my underwear every night is the traumating reason why they are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the figurehead of a transhumanist revolution downloading themselves 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 into 10G enabled internet smart toilets. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No! I will not! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's also the environmental argument that the most efficient thing we can do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to save the world is to simply all f---ing die. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just die and let the squirrels rip off 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my nuts and try to survive their nuclear 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 winter we left behind. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A hole of the life of resource consumption that may beget further life, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 add infinite items. I feel stressed about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 remembering to recycle the lids of those yogurts. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not gonna make another me. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Dear God, the world doesn't need that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's if there's a world left, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because I will be honest, we're at a 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 crossroads in society right now where we're either gonna live in um 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one of those cool Star Trek post-scarcity 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 green utopias of love and peace where we 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 sort this shit out or a full climate apocalypse unironic YA dystopia 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 without the sexual tension and cool outfits. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Forgive me for waiting to see what happens first with brexit or the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 U.S. Supreme Court or China, Russia, social media just melting off brains 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 before I jizz in a petri dish because I'm bored. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Also, I'm gay. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yeah, probably should have mentioned that way sooner if you didn't pick it up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from the lacy shirt. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now if I accidentally got someone pregnant 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Emergency alarm sound) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that would be pretty interesting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Awkward laugh) for science. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yeah, I mean I could adopt, have a cool science baby, or just enter a strange 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 platonic lesbian mutual relationship family commune type deal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, no. I do not really feel the need to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "settle down" and create a life. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But, on some level, I still feel bad about it 'cause I guess we've all been 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 conditioned by our culture to imagine our 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 future and homes full of little laughter 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and of course, hey, the laughter would be nice. I'm sure unconditional love 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 does make you happy even if I'm scared of the responsibility of shaping someone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe that fear means that I would do a good job. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Could I actually make a happy person? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now for some reason people always say, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Dan, I think you'd be a great dad. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which makes me think, you know, with all this meaning "um, really?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Awkward laugh) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Are you sure that you've consumed all of my content?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Look forward to the video with Louise coming very soon. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I need a pep up, I'll have just a bit of Louise's placenta, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then it will be just "uh" (snaps) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Louise: "eat my organs." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Dan: "Is that cannibalism? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Louise: "Is it?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Dan: "is it?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Louise: "A little bit." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Dan: On some level I do think that I'd be the best f---ing dad in the world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because you know what I'd do? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I would just actually love my child and let them be whoever they want to. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I would just be there for them to make sure they feel comfortable telling me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 anything, and I'd be their friend. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it'd be fun to see a curious mind try to work out how the world works 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and seeing someone take it in with a pair of fresh eyes might give me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a totally different perspective on life. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm so against this idea that we are meant 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to do something, and yet, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 our mental health, biological inherited 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 evolutionary pyschological makeup is what it is. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, give me a bonk and send me to jail 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for I know I am horny for a reason. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Of course, if my child turned around one day and said, "Daddy, Daniel, I want 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to be an influencer." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Mercy killing straight away, let's go for 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 another one round where we f---ed up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The most paranoid thing here is the people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 choosing not to have kids are probably the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people that should be raising the next generation. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If we think that younger generations might fix all of this terrible shit, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's because the people had kids that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 had kids that had kids that had kids. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What if in a hundred years, all that's 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 left after the generations raised by 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people doing things for the wrong reason and they happily vote for their own 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 annihilation? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, choosing to create life so that on some level, they can literally save 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the world is a bit intense sounding, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but that is where we're at. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let's be honest, that also sounds really 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 f---ing cool. (laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yeah, you can give them a little edgy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 YA dystopia baby growth. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But, hey, we'll see. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How long do people even live for now? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I mean we keep measuring our expectations for life based on 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 our grandparents' life expectancy, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but they were smoking since they were two and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 married at twenty, and just holding on for 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 dear life until now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Are we gonna be like, a hundred and ten with half-cyborg bodies? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're just little drone sperms and drone eggs and we get to piss around being 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 selfish and gay for sixty years, and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 maybe then it's perfectly okay to create life to shake things up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause maybe we'll actually know what we're 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 doing or just want to pump out some soldiers for the culture 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 war. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Tell me how you feel, huh? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Am I denying myself love and joy? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or should I somehow me more afraid than 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I already am? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who knows? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If this video gets 100,000 likes I will 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 film myself giving birth. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, subscribe (bell noise) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and smash that f---ing like. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yep, thanks for watching Dystopia Daily 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with Daddy Daniel. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (chime noise.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Okay (sniff). 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Sound of microphone as he takes off flannel.)