- This is so true. "I can't feed my baby,
but they got this big breast behind me."
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- (FBE) Today, we're doing an episode of The 10s
that's surrounding a trend that some people find
a little sad. - Aw, a sad trend?
- (FBE) We curated ten of these popular illustrations
from various articles and videos that people often post
titled "Sad reality of today's modern world."
- All right. Should be interesting.
- Well, I feel like this is just a bunch of truth
right now being spilled out in this episode.
- (FBE) So, here is your first image.
- I-- Yeah.
I love it. It's great.
It's so incredibly accurate.
- Hey, Pikachu. Everyone falling off the cliff,
'cause Detective Pikachu tells you to.
- Do you know how many people I almost hit
a couple times just walking and their phone
is just like this looking down
and I'm like, "Damn, look." Home girl's still looking
in her damn phone while she in midair going down.
- (FBE) So, this is from UK based artist Steve Cutts.
What do you think this is saying about
our addictions to screens and what is your
overall opinion on this? - What is sad is I already see
that people are going to therapy to reduce
the amount of time they're on their phones.
- It is sad reality because technology's
really taking over. I mean, we're letting it
and it sucks, 'cause Pokemon Go was a really fun game.
- I feel like when people are exposed to something more,
then it will change the way they behave.
Just seeing a picture is just--
it's moving people in the right direction.
- I know that people say that we're addicted to our screens,
but it's not to this exaggeration.
- There's another side to this, too. This was the one of the only
aspects where I would talk to complete strangers.
This got people to go outside and actually
talk to each other.
- (FBE) Okay, here's your next image.
- "Life, life, end." Chasing that money,
continue chasing the money, and then no need for the money,
'cause you're at the end.
- You chasing all that money, but what you gonna do
with all that money at the end?
You gotta live your life to the fullest.
- (FBE) This image is called True Life.
- Okay. - (FBE) What do you think
about this one? - That's really sad.
All of these are super sad. They're gonna make me
rethink the purpose of life.
- I think the saddest part is that sometimes you
don't have the privilege to do nothing else but this.
Obviously, you have to support yourself,
so the only way you can really do that
is by getting as much money as you can.
- What's sad is that people just focus on chasing money
and forget to just live their life.
- Your parents will tell you a quote or something like,
"Follow your dreams" and stuff like that
and this is just like, "Oh, get a good job.
Chase the money." And then you're at
the end of your life and you have lots of money
and then you're done. That's kinda [bleep] dark.
- (FBE) Here's another. - Ooh.
She need to eat.
- Okay. It's a painting of a skeleton.
She's taking a mirror selfie of herself in her bra.
- (FBE) This image is called Vanity
by artist Marco Melgrati. What are your thoughts on it?
- The fact that everyone wants to be really skinny.
Skeleton, I love it, but it's sad.
- It's a great job interpreting Instagram basically right now
and I gotta look perfect. I gotta lose weight.
Look, she's got a big old booty.
- Our state of mind is constantly competing
with everyone else. You wanna have the most likes.
- This isn't really sad. If you look hot, yeah,
I'm gonna post about it and I don't typically see
a lot of really skinny girls either. Sure, there's thin girls
that are on Instagram, but either way,
I don't think there's anything wrong with this.
If you look hot, post photos. If you don't look hot, post photos.
- (FBE) Here's your next image. - Ego, I like this one.
This is sad though, but it's true.
- Facebook likes contributing to our ego.
Everything's about likes. Oh my God.
- I remember I took down a Facebook post,
'cause it didn't get enough likes
and this was seventh grade. Now I don't care.
- I mean, it appears to be a dog bowl.
We're just groveling over likes, so it's kind of
in a doggish fashion, the way we eat it up.
- (FBE) What's your opinion here? - This just encapsulates
millennial culture and the culture that we live in
right now. Everything's all about
getting likes. The number of likes you get
equals how much value something has.
- Of course. This is sad.
This is what everyone lives for, the likes.
- These illustrations feel like old people
picking fun at the younger generation
and how much they like social media.
Sure, you can have your opinion,
but this just feels so dramatic.
- (FBE) Here's your next sad reality.
- Oh, we got some Whovillians where all
their trees got chopped down. They're drawing some new ones.
- They don't have a tree to trace,
just a little stump.
- They're gonna draw a tree because we don't have one.
All the trees are gone and we don't have no shade.
- Trees are being cut down and then birds are--
they don't have homes. There's so many implications
to this photo.
- (FBE) Thoughts on this one?
- I definitely don't think that a lot of people tend
to think of the younger generation, so if you consider more
of the world you wanna leave behind for your kids,
I think that's what's more motivating
to actually do something towards the environment.
- They miss the trees and the squirrels
and then there's the city behind them that was created
with said trees, but now they have
a roof over their head. You can't live in a tree,
not that comfortably.
- (FBE) All right, speaking of children,
check out this other striking image.
- Oh my God. "Nursing?
This is a shopping mall." Of course.
This irritates my soul.
- Ha, this is so true. I can't feed my baby,
but you got this big breast behind me chilling.
- (FBE) This one is from artist David Horsey.
Do you agree or disagree here? - Um, I don't--
dude, I'm really torn. The public breastfeeding thing
to me, I'm not the biggest fan, okay?
If I gave birth and I had this beautiful baby
and I needed to feed it out in public,
I would not mind covering myself up a little bit.
I don't think it's that necessary, but at the same time,
it's not really necessary to have an ad like that
and to do that. That's more damaging
than the lady feeding the baby.
- Sexy panties, but don't you dare feed your baby
in front of us, you son of a bitch.
Just 'cause girl boobs have milk and that
guy boobs don't, we don't sexualize guy boobs.
What the-- and why do they
become sexualized?
- This double standard of "you can only have boobs out
if they're for a sexual purpose or if they're
gonna sell something, but God no,
you can't have boobs out if they're gonna serve
a life purpose."
- Men sexualize me on social media,
but also they talk down on me for my decisions
and it's like I can't ever win being a woman.
This one kind of hits me really hard.
'Cause women are just so beautiful, smart, amazing--
we give life, we can breastfeed and give children life.
This makes so much sense. I can't believe women
aren't allowed to breastfeed, but there's just boobs everywhere.
- (FBE) Here is another. - "Chipper."
Shredding the Earth to make the money.
I'm surprised it doesn't have a yellow toupee on or something.
- That's what we about. That's life is about,
it's about money.
- Destroy the world for money and the money doesn't matter
'cause the world's gone.
- I really wish there were more people and things
in place to stop this from happening.
I feel like the world is still in a place where
they wanna support billion dollar companies.
- (FBE) How do you feel about this work?
- Yeah, I definitely like it. It does make you think.
- I actually like it. It's pretty cool.
I like the imagery.
- Out of every piece of art, I like this style,
where it's almost cartoony but still has some bite to it.
- I do really like the style of the big eyes though.
It feels almost like a distorted old Disney kind of thing.
- (FBE) Here's another. - Oh, yeah.
I see a privileged baby chewing on an Apple laptop
while there's a child eating random crap.
- What is he just eating bread crumbs or what?
And this baby obviously grows up with a laptop,
which is like all baby's already have it.
- That one is sad because it's showing
starving and what some kids have and what kids don't.
- (FBE) This one is from artist Luis Quiles.
Does this resonate with you? - Yeah, I find it super sad
because instead of buying your child an iPad,
which they didn't need, you can help someone in need.
- The child who has to learn how to survive
is way smarter than the child that was given everything to them.
- Well, it's a very sad reality just because people,
depending on where you're born depends on your social status.
I'm so grateful for my parents to just live in a certain place,
so I had the life that I can live now,
where as if I just lived a thousand miles south,
I wouldn't have this life.
- What's sad about this image is more the fact that
it's a privileged lifestyle versus the not privileged lifestyle,
'cause this just kinda shows the difference between
the privileged society that we live in
where we have access to all kinds of different
technology and money and things like that
and then of course there's the other world
where they struggle to even find food.
- "Sad reality of the world." Oh, the people are feeding
our government. They're getting fat.
- Keep feeding the whiny baby that is the government.
- Government's just all about the money, being greedy,
and then he's showing humanity feeding him
and that's what it is.
- The government is basically controlling us,
taking every single penny and clearly the little soup
that we have.
- (FBE) What's your opinion on this piece?
- I don't feel like this is super, super accurate,
'cause I don't really believe that the people are
spoonfeeding the government. I feel like more and more
the government is just taking.
- I see a lot of people who tend to vote not in their best interest
and that's kind of what the feeding thing feels to me.
It's like, you're keeping these people in power
that are gonna just screw you over.
- (FBE) And this is your last.
- Ew, that looks nasty, but it's true.
Fast food, that's all he-- look at his butt.
He got that Coke IV.
- This is the image that a lot of foreigners have
of the US, especially the stereotype of McDonald's
and fast food.
- He's his own chair. I feel like this is something
about obesity. Oh my God,
look at the pictures in the back.
- (FBE) What are your overall thoughts here?
- It's just crazy to me. People who eat junk food,
I don't think it's horrible, but it's definitely a balance
needed in your life.
- This is pretty much life for a lot of people.
Sadly, I can relate to a good portion of that.
- This is so true because I [bleep] love Krispy Kreme.
I'd be like Popeyes and the habit for me
and me connected to Squirt.
- (FBE) So, after seeing all of these images
from this trend that are so called sad realities,
what does it leave you thinking about it overall?
- We suck. There's a couple that
I know I could improve in. For instance, the cell phone
or just in general, so you don't think of things
like that until it's put in a picture
and you really sitting like, "Damn."
- I feel like it was the baby with the iPad and the toddler
with food. I feel like that one
just always resonates with me. I do a lot of volunteer work
and stuff like that and whenever I see
images like that, it's like, "Oh my God.
I should be doing a lot more than I actually do."
- It's definitely something to think about
when you're looking at these illustrations
and think about the decisions that you're making,
but I also just like the message that they're spreading
where it's, "Hey, maybe think about this.
You don't necessarily have to agree with it,
or agree with the point that I'm making,
but just think about it."
- It's not like someone telling you how to change your life,
it's just a reflection of the times and people
can take whatever they want from it, so I think
that's what's beautiful about this episode
because you guys are showing me literally just art
that makes me think, makes me feel,
and makes me wanna be a better person.
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