Gen Z needs more slacker movies 

You know your video is good when you convince a guy who has heard of the Big Lebowski but never seen it to FINALLY see the film.

this is the youtube I'm still on the platform for

"It starts to erode until we're only showing stories about rich people with awful taste and sterile houses that look like *memories have never been made inside of them"* This is the most perfect description for the 'luxury greige' trend I've ever heard, and something I've struggled to articulate yet always felt on a visceral level. It's rather dystopian in a way

Amazing work man. Probably the best RU-vid video essay I have ever watched. The Slacker and The Artist are one; abiding in a realm outside of the societal Skinner box, where the joy and play of childhood continues well into adulthood. The struggles of survival and reproduction don't define the human expereince; and in indigenous life, were mastered to a degree whereby one would only spend a fraction of their days engaged in meeting their material needs. But we are all born into the societal Skinner box and have to play its games. The goal is NEVER to create an ego out of the way you earn money; or to let societal demands divorce you from the joy and pleasure innate to a healthy functioning human body in a world of endless novelty and excitement. Life is to be enjoyed. The slacker transforms the mundane and monotonous into beauty; like the sages of old.

Thanks for watching! Put at least 30 hours into this one over the last month and I’m incredibly happy with how it came out. Pushed myself on a few new fronts with the editing and writing on this and hope it came through. The dude abides

dang man, you only get 30 views?!?! that's crazy. you're very underrated and I think you deserve more.

A modem slacker movie would just be someone on their phone the whole time

I'm sitting here totally stressed and full of anxiety at work, and this video totally grounded me for a bit. gonna take a minute to breathe and then slowly get back to work. doing something, but not too much. thank you!

Stoked to see another video from you in my feed. That 00's man-child comparison you made is super interesting. Great work as always!

The algorithm working it's magic right now. Glad I ran into you my dude. Great content and love your essays. Keep up the good work and keep slackin!

Surely "Cheech and Chong..." or "Friday" were diverse/minority slacker/stoner films ahead of the game?

You had me with real humans are flawed weirdos. So true:) love this video and channel. Thank you:)

Millenials, we were wide-eyed and in many ways still are, but I'm glad gen z is being more realistic even in a pessimistic way, because they are right in so many ways.

Excellent analysis

The Beach Bum is a fantastic time glad to see some one giving it some flowers

i have a feeling you're going places man

Hey, this video just inspired me to write a slacker film. Thanks.

Honorary shout out to Seth Rogen’s character in Knocked Up. A true spirit of the slacker - man lived off of getting hit by a postal truck 🤣

Looks exhausting

Why the dude abides is not the top comment I don’t understand. But, solidly said.

please do not stop. i love this channel keep going!

I prefer (certain) French New Wave movies to these American "slacker movies." Here is why. Slacker movies like these feature young folks "rebelling" against the status quo, yet are indulging in the consumer lifestyle of that status quo. It is a cynicism against the order but a lazy unoriginal resignation to it (by the characters) at once. (Certain) French new wave movies challenged the order, the "slackers" slacked off from status quo careerism YET engaged in protest against that order. Of course, this genre peaked in the 60s before consumer culture "usurped" the revolution. The nineties grunge and punk (this would be the later commercialized punk) was a "psuedo-60's" phenomenon. Underneath, just mediocre consumerism masked in ripped designer jeans and long greasy hair dangling down plaid shirts manufactured in Chinese sweat shops.

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just yes. thank you, man! 100% agree

The Dude Abides chooms 😎

Would love to hear your thoughts on Zava from Ted Lasso, and all of poker face

Great vid. I’d watch a followup or deeper discussion. I’d like to make a slacker2025.

this is so fire

Great vid

This is why i find the first season if Atlanta special. While it might nit strictly fit into the slacker category - it kind of pulls at some similar strings.

Love this

Couldnt agree more

Nobody’s been able to slack for 15+ years. The high cost economy is very different from the 90s

have you seen the show reservation dogs?

late millennial I have an idea for one hopefully I can pull it off one day.

wow thank you for the video!

Man I love this. Do you have a contact email? I’m working on a Slacker project and would love to pick the brain of a fellow slacker fan

Any modern slackers I’ve been missing out on?

ok ill do it

Good video dude. Make great content, get money!

I understand your point and agree for the most part. But from a historical materialism perspective, slackers are the product of the monetary wealth and cultural poverty that dominated the 90’s rather than the cause. The slackers is inherently non political, and the way the slacker lifestyle questions everything about contemporary culture it is impossible to do without getting political. Further, a certain level of ignorance of the world is one of the pillars of the slacker, something that with current media consumption is unthinkable. How can inaction in the current world be anything but a political statement. The correctly maligned book “the end of history and the last man” by Fukuyama captures much of the zeitgeist, the neo-liberal democracy had won, this was good and now everything was gonna be fine. The only threat was lack of authenticity and integrity, something the slacker has endless amounts of. Honestly, how could you write a slacker movie now without making a very dark and nihilistic comedy? Half the people who was talking about “the man” in the 90’s are now in prison bc of jan 6. There is a reason the slacker is always a white man, it is bc this is truly the only person society has ever permitted to be a slacker. It is someone who takes max amounts of privilege and does nothing with it, and yet sees themselves as the underdog. I think this is in many ways the cultural ripple right wing media has so skillfully turned into the anti-woke crowd. Incels are slackers who are not getting what they feel society owes them. the modern day slacker is a man wearing oakleys ranting at you through facebook live from his truck. No matter what though, excellent video! Very well produced, and very interesting take! I sure do miss caring more about drinking white russians than russians comitting genocide that is for sure.