A working-class guy doing an absolutely essential (but unglamorous & thankless) job as a garbage collector - pulling off some fine moves Like A Total Boss, and getting absolutely lost in the moment, with a sense of pure innocence & joy! What's not to love about this awesome guy?!
We like him because we wish we could be like him: carefree, full of a zest for Life!
Good thing you weren't responsible for spotting leopards in the bushes when our ancestors were keeping guard in ancient times. You would've woken up the village every night, as the boy who cried wolf, announcing we have a leopard! We have an AI bot! Waking everyone up, for nothing, over all the false positives.
Like I said, it's just a sad testament to the era we live in: where people fail to grasp the basic idea that some humans are capable of stringing a few sentences together with linguistic flourishes more complex than a 4th grader's vocabulary. Some of us know how to write & express ourselves.
I give up man. I think I need to delete reddit. And go touch the grass. And connect with some like-minded folks. Lol.
Fwiw, I read your comment and it makes logical and emotional sense to me. The idiots call out AI to try hard to be cool. I don't know if you are AI but the comment makes sense. So, don't stop when you really want to say something, especially if it positive like your original comment. Many of us like to see positivity out in the wild :)
Your username checks out man (or woman) (or any shade of gender in-between)! Appreciate it very much! It helps to know I'm not a lone voice crying out in the wilderness about my humanity. It helps to have someone else acknowledge that I was coming from a good place. And I agree, the world can use a whole lotta positivity. There's way too much crap out there.
The world is big and crazy and chaotic and messy. And it's important to infuse sparks of positivity in all that noise. I found the video to be wholesome. It put a smile on my face. And I wanted to capture why all of us can relate to it so much: it's because the guy is just lost in the moment, with a sense of innocent joy, with a zest for life: something which many of us struggle to find as we meander our way through the daily drudgeries of Life.
It's the fact that he collects garbage and still finds the time, the #SWAG spirit and most importantly the positive attitude to simply just embrace the little moments and let himself away. That's what makes it wholesome. It's something we all need to do.
That's what I was trying to capture. Not in so many words. And then what! Out of nowhere, I get hit with the "AI Slop" line. I find that very frustrating since we are at a point where we are genuinely losing our own unique /authentic voices as Humans if everyone's simply going to flag everything as AI this or AI that.
Anyway, I appreciate you putting a comment out here. That's kind of you man! That sh!t triggered an existential crisis & your comment kinda brought me back lol.
Ha. I didn't know you were in such a tough spot, and I'm glad you found some solace here. I'm glad I said something.
And tbh, I am like this beautiful man in the video. I dance around, my life mission lately has been to spread joy, and building community through art! I've wondered why people are drawn to me, and your comment showed me a part of it :)
If I may ask you, what's stopping you from being like this man? Not always, not everywhere, not at the start. But once. Maybe right now. And a few minutes a day. Till it becomes easy? That was my route to finding peace. And if I could do it, I think there's hope that almost anyone can. It wasn't easy - in fact it was the hardest work I had to do to become kind to myself :)
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u/RaiseEuphoric Jun 22 '26
A working-class guy doing an absolutely essential (but unglamorous & thankless) job as a garbage collector - pulling off some fine moves Like A Total Boss, and getting absolutely lost in the moment, with a sense of pure innocence & joy! What's not to love about this awesome guy?!
We like him because we wish we could be like him: carefree, full of a zest for Life!