Today I saw my nine year-old cousin, and asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. She replied, ‘a YouTuber’. I was shocked and appalled. Back in my day, children dreamed of becoming doctors, astronauts or Serious Literary Authors. Without that early childhood ambition, I almost certainly wouldn’t be the SLA I am today. How tragic that today’s children aspire to sit alone in their bedrooms recording ‘vlogs’ for strangers on the internet. Whereas my childhood heroes were Tolstoy and Joyce, theirs are the likes of MrFeast and Logan Roy. Where is the passion? Where is the culture? Where is the humanity? I weep for the youth of today.

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Just looked up how much money the top YouTubers make per video. Have ordered a camera, microphone and ring light, and secured the username SeriousLiteraryYouTubeVlog(SLYTV).