I Hate Reading 

Everyone: “likes reading books” School: “read this one, it’s great” Everyone: “well now I am not doing it”

I love how teachers see us reading our own books and tell us to stop, and then they take them away. Then they put new books in front of us that we could learn just as much literature and spelling and vocabulary from as our old books. They force us to memorize these books that we don’t know half the meanings of half the words.

Reading is like art. Everyone has a different pace and can’t be forced.

Me reading: **already in Chapter 100** My brain: **trying to understand Chapter 4**

If only schools would realize that people don’t like doing things when they’re forced to. I love writing, but if I have to write an essay, it’s going to be shit lmao

I’m gonna be honest, I love reading, but I am very VERY picky about what I read. I also agree with the sentiment that if you are forced to read something, it isn’t as fun as it would be to read it voluntarily. 😊

Honestly I deeply agree with you. I don't hate reading, but beeing forced to read a book that was written sometime in the 18 century is really boring and just sucks happiness and motivation out of my body. I don't understand why it's so important for some schools to learn about them

Jaiden: "School kinda ruined books for me" School ruins everything it touches by making it into a requirement smh

James: makes a book Jaiden: post video “Why I don’t like reading” Sad James noises Edit: Thank you Jaiden for making these animation videos. You have inspired me to start making my own stop motion videos too on this channel.

from my personal experience, reading is fun when it's of your own free will. i think the reason a lot of youth today don't like reading is because of schools. schools either assign books and you're forced to read them and then most likely write an essay on them, or they say to pick your own book but even still then you're being forced to read. if we encourage people to read out of their own free will, i think then more youth will get into reading. but of course this is based on my personal opinions / experiences.

my school made us keep a record of how much we read (page numbers, which book, short synopsis of what happened) and i LOATHED IT. it made every time i read something feel like a chore to the point i just stopped doing it because even when i wanted to read freely, id still have to make it into work because of the damn record

It’s the same thing with chores you say “I’m gonna clean my room!” But then your parents walk in and say “clean your room” and then you don’t wanna do it anymore

Child: Likes reading School: Oh you like reading? How about you read this book for an English assignment. Child: Well now I don't like it

I would just like to say, I feel the pain of hating reading because of school. I just very recently started reading again, mostly to develop an attention span again, but I stopped reading in high school and most of college because school took all the joy out of books. I've only very recently started it again, and it's been fun. But the second someone forces me to read I will abandon all hope of literature again for the sake of spite.

I actually felt really similar about this. I love reading fiction novels, but the more people force me to try to read them, the less I want to and I eventually end up not reading at all. I think it’s wonderful that people are trying to encourage reading (I wouldn’t mind if they did a bit more of that now) but if they continue forcing kids to read books they don’t enjoy, they’ll stop it altogether. It’s one of the reasons I hate reading nonfiction books, my teachers always forced me to read them growing up.

Moral of the story? Forced reading sucks, free reading’s cool.

Okay I was introduced to The Scarlet Letter via a manga adaptation and the story unironically slaps It was born to be a graphic novel and I love adaptations that can make classic stories more accessible (and understandable!) to a younger generation

Reading is nothing but staring at a dead tree and hallucinating

Jaiden: “Why I don’t like reading” Society: “SO WHAT’S THE POINT OF BEING INTROVERTED”

Books: are released New York Times: Ur a bestseller, ur a bestseller, Everyone’s a Bestseller

Relatable! As an adult, looking back, I may have had a case of ADHD, so whenever I was forced to read I'd get bored and my mind would just start wondering off... I've never actually finished a novel book... I did go through a phase with poetry book, that was nice... but I don't believe I've ever finished any other books

Same here. The forced reading in school made me hate reading for a long time. I only got over it when a friend of mine convinced me to finally read the Harry Potter books. However I also hated how quiet it is while reading, so my friend suggested that I just listen to music while I read, which actually helped me a lot and made me fall in love with reading.

This entire video is just the meme *“Well now I’m not doing it.”*

Adults: Makes reading a chore or a punishment Adults: "Why don't our kids love reading?"

School making me read actually fulled my love for reading even more! I honestly think I was the only one in my class that didn't complain when we had a reading assignment.

*me currently working in a library* ..the first scene actually sounds wonderful. I think I‘ll make myself some camomile tea and finally water the plants in the house. Thanks for inspiring and reminding me! Btw I‘ve always loved cats :D

“Reading is boring.” *laughs in scripts*

Everyone:Likes reading book School: "Read this one, it's great" Everyone: *Well now im not doing it*

It's like this for anything I do, I like doing things on my own terms and I feel more fulfilled doing it that way, forcing it on me just makes me not want to do it at all

This resonates so strongly with me, I once liked reading, but having to do English and literature at school has just ruined my relationship with reading, I can't shake my feelings of reading being dry, boring and having to think of the deeper meaning (instead of just enjoying the book). I'm now doing A levels so don't have to do English or write essays on it ever again (I hate writing, especially essays) and I'm so happy to finally see the back of it, having to memorize quotes and contextual points from 15 different poems was the bane of my life. And now I hate how much i resist reading

Jaiden: enjoys reading a book Someone: forces Jaiden to read the same book Jaiden: *Well, now i am not doing it*

*When you hate reading books but love watching 2 strangers fight in the comments*

Yeah I have “PTSD” from reading “To Kill A Mockingbird” because I had to take so many notes but I was barely interested. I still hate being forced to read books, Jaiden.

“I was able to crush a 300 pager in 2 days!” kid prodigies: *well well, who do we have here*

Jaiden: I like pictures Literally Everyone: *huh who would’ve guessed*

I think if youre listening to music while working or drawing it has to be music you can truly enjoy. music that makes you happy. it doesnt have to interfere with work if its not calm or ambience or something. just listen and vibe while doing what you love.

I remember having this really boring poem on my English exam in 6th Grade, and we had to figure out the symbolism to it. I had no idea what it meant and I just made something up that vaguely made sense. Still got a good grade lol

Me: almost at finishing the book Also me: Don't know the characters names

I like how reading is seen as a 'healthy habit.' Here I am staying up until 4am sobbing and mourning the loss of my favourite characters and having no social life because the real world sucks.

“Fnaf has the longest lore EVER!” Warriors:

0:56 OMG I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH. If I had to read that in school I would literally party I love that series so much!

Let this be a lesson: When you turn a chore into a game, a child can be persuaded to do it. When you turn a game into a chore, you can turn the child against it literally for the rest of their life.

Jaiden : Everyone hates school Corona : *Say no more...*

I absolutely agree Reading is fun until you need to do it, same thing with a few other things (example) My mom bought a trampoline one summer, and baby grand piano that autumn. I would go and play the piano randomly, and just play a few songs by ear, which turned out pretty decent, and my parents heard this. They also got to see how much fun me and my sisters had on that trampoline. So, instead of leaving me to enjoy it, they made the rule that I need to spend at least an _hour_ every day playing piano, and they would make me and my sisters go on the trampoline every once in a while, even if we were busy. You can't expect a kid who randomly plays a few notes for like, 8 minutes to now be able to sit down for an hour and play a masterpiece

I used to like reading when I was in high school, until my senior year when it became boring. I started focusing on what career I should take instead of being able to read the whole time Then about many years later I rediscovered it until I had a bad dream last night. Then I decided that I had enough and quit. I like reading manga and comics though.

Books are like frogs. They're cute. But as soon as your professor tells you that you will need to cut it open, dissect its internal organs so that you may further analyze the complexity of its intestinal lining, it ruins frogs for you. Now, whenever you see one, instead of imagining the cute little amphibians that they are, you instead think about the undigested sludge that fell out of that one frog's intestines that one time.

In a Nutshell: You lose interest, if someone forces you to do something

The only punishment that works on me is when my mom locks up my books I love reading that much

I absolutely agree with you, forced reading sucks, thats why i read ahead literally through most of the book before everyone else and analyze it after ive actually read it because i think for forced reading with “taking notes” “finding plotpoints” etcetera doesn’t count as reading.

“Everyone thinks school should die” 2020: surprise school is dead for the rest of the year

Shakespeare: *breathes* English teachers: Students, A N A L Y S I S

I would easily recommend Braves of the Six Flowers, it's a 6 volume light novel series that I was instantly hooked on when I gave it a shot 😂 I barely have anything in the beginning scenario except for the cosy blanket and the kitty to lay in my lap lol 😊

I love reading but recently I’ve had a struggle focusing on what I’m reading and get distracted easily

Jaiden: I've never been a huge fan of music. Also Jaiden: *makes a song

Jaiden: Doesn’t like music Also Jaiden: is a frickin boss at the piano

It makes me so mad when teachers and parents make reading into a punishment while "intending to form a reading habit in the young minds" My Mum used to punish me by threatening to take my books AWAY, I loved reading so much, yet I still didn't like reading the ones in class most of the time because oh boy were some of them not age appropriate. The pressure of essays and quizzes really took the fun away sometimes :( Still, I hope you do other stuff and find the same level of enjoyment as some of us do while reading :) ❤ Great video!

"I would move the Bookmark a reasonable amount Forward to make it look like I read and just stare at it for 30 minutes" honestly I have did that a lot as a child and in High School🤣

All the animals were communist, but some were more communist than others.

“Everyone thinks school should die” Corona virus: “say no more”

I freaking love knowing the symbolism and meaning behind books. Everybody thinks I’m a freak because I actually enjoy English class.

I was not a big fan reading little kid when I was growing. I kind of go into reading about how I like to read. To start off, what is your favorite non-fiction and start there, u might find good book to read

Jaiden: "Schools should die" Corona virus: *_Allow me to introduce myself..._*

“Everybody thinks the school should die” Me: Looks at every school in the world right now

Used to love reading. Then around 6th grade, i was forced to have a reading log that was worth quite a bit of my grade, and for the life of me, i could never remember to log my books. I nearly failed the class, and was told that i had "so much wasted potential." It really hurt my feelings for some reason. Suddenly, i felt like reading really bothered me. Nothing centered around reading was fun. To this day, reading seems more like a chore than anything.

Since elementary school, I've always loved reading books and novels. I could spend the entire day just reading book after book, and would read and re-read my favorite stories. But when I started high school, I was forced to read the inch-thick, brick-heavy, ridiculously expensive textbooks with no time to read my own books. As time went on, it made me begin resent reading as a whole, and i read less and less, until I barely touched anything book-related when I didn't have to. Even worse, my kindle broke down, and that was where I stored almost all of my favorite books, and it really put me off reading for quite a while. (I wasn't keen to get a new one because I didn't want to distract myself from my studies). But today, I have just finished my IGCSEs and I hope to pick my old hobby back up, now that it no longer feels like a chore.

“Reading is calming” Me: That’s true Also me: *Cries so hard because my favorite character just died in a book*

Jaiden: “Why I don’t like reading” Me: *Turns on subtitles when there’s no need* “Interesting”

It’s funny to me, I’ve always loved books and whenever my parents wanted me to have fun and already found someone to watch my brothers, they would just let me run around a bookstore for a couple hours. I loved every second of it.

Juliet = Lesbian??? SINGLE HANDEDLY the best thing I’ve seen all week. Lesbian Juliet cures my depression.

Me: Enjoys reading Schools: *read it* me: Hates reading

Reading isn’t necessarily bad, it’s the fact that school ruins it. You have to memorize, and read terrible books.

I feel like there is 1 mistake that people make while reading a book that is exclusive to those who are really into books or at least one particular book series: They finish it to quickly. While finishing a 500 page book in a day may sound impressive, you barely let any of part of any chapter sink in before moving onto the next one. Its like going to an art museum but sprinting through every single room until you've seen all the art. You don't take any time to admire it.

i’m definitely not watching this at 6am bc i woke up randomly oh yeah also i’m trying not to wake up my brothers by laughing 😂

Jaiden: says she doesn’t like books Her nerd fans: *Gone. Reduced to atoms.*

"Am I supposed to read up to chapter 7 or through it?" That hit different.

0:56 oh, you went through that hell of a book series?

For me, my apathy toward reading didn't hit me hard until High School. The reason why my apathy hit me there and not in Middle School like most people is because in Middle School they still had some book series that I enjoyed from Elementary School. Those books are Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate. During Middle School, I was introduced to comic strip compilations like Calvin and Hobbes and Mutts and I was also introduced to the Dog Man books by the creator of Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey. So while I was raised to old-time books during my Middle School years and my time spent reading did take a bit of a backseat during that time, At least in Middle School the magic of reading still lived on for me, even if it did take a bit of a backseat. High School, on the other hand, was when the magic was just GONE for me. The books that I liked reading in Middle School were gone, the books recommended by the school librarian were just melodramas or plain dramas, books felt a bit too layered for my liking, and I was spending way too much time either watching RU-vid or doing something else. While I did read some good books during my High School years, most prominently the Bone books by Jeff Smith and "Me, Earl, and The Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews, and "El Deafo" by Cece Bell, The Magic of reading for me died during my High School years.

Me: stays home all day Government: tells me to stay home and don’t go out me: well now I don’t wanna do it

Jaiden: Reading is calming. Me: Remembering all the times I screamed at a book because the main character was doing something stupid and dangerous. They never listen! (looking at you "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phenix" chapter 32)

So I am definitely with you in that I hate reading, but for entirely different reasons. For me one of the big things is that I hate having stuff left up to interpretation, if the author describes a room I want to have the exact same image in my mind that the author had, else it's a failure to communicate in a sense, furthermore it would be far easier and more convenient to just have a picture at that point. I also found reading to become increasingly frustrating throughout college trying to decipher mathematics and physics textbooks that often times skipped steps for convenience to the author or would reference diagrams that are a hundred pages back or forward, stuff that in all likeliness would not be a problem in a competent lecture or a RU-vid video (unfortunately lectures were very much not competent and finding RU-vid videos on some of the topics was rather difficult so textbooks were mandatory). Long story short I feel like there are far easier to digest and more effective forms of communication nowadays, the only real advantages that I see for reading/writing is that it is less work for the author than preparing a lecture or a video. All that being said, I do find that I enjoy audiobooks, I do like listening to stories despite my gripes about the effectiveness of the communication, but I also do really like listening to music so we definitely differ on that one. Staring at pages of text for hours on end just doesn't do it for me, doesn't matter how interesting the subject is, in that format all I'll do is fall asleep or have my mind wander to something else.

you should read magnus chase. I know you said you wouldn't but the humor is constant and exactly your style. Its also a series so if you like then you can keep going

Jaiden: I’m not rlly a music person Also Jaiden: “plays piano like a gOd

Jaiden: Everyone thinks school should die! Coronavrius: I gotchu homie

when i was younger, in elementary school, we had reading logs. i HATED doing those. my parents would force me to read when i really didn’t want to. they didn’t want me to grow up hating reading, so eventually they just stopped forcing me and started faking filling out my reading logs so that my grade wouldn’t suffer and i could still go outside for the extra recess that we would get when we got the required amount of minutes. anyway, because they stopped forcing me, i’ve grown up to love reading, writing and english as a subject overall so i think they did good😭👍

Did anyone else read the text at the back at 1:09? Well, I'm surprised you actually wrote stuff, Jaiden! I could never have the patience to write all of that 😭

Public schools: Destroyer of hobbies

“Why i don’t like reading” “B-because you have dyslexia?”

I have began to get back into reading. I rather had the experience of wanting to read harder books but my teachers at school wanted me to read at the level that the other kids were at, which then stumped my reading growth since I wanted to read harder things. I was actually asking questions when reading the harder books, getting curiosity in the world the characters were a part of or when the book was taking place, but with the books my school was teaching us, I was the one answering the questions fast. My love for reading began to dim, so I am currently trying to bring back my fire for reading since I want a career in writing books. In short, if you have the smarts for the big books, go for em! But don't use them for school assignments because then the teacher will punish you for it.

I kind of like reading sometimes, but honestly I like it the most from games with lots of story and dialogue. I hate how schools always make us read things with super secret motives and deep symbolism of stuff I just don’t get or care about, instead of letting us read something fictional and fun and teaching us about what makes an actual good and enjoyable story

me in 5th grade: reads the whole harry potter series in 4 days teacher: you're going to be so smart and succesful! me now: lazy and dumb

English teacher: As you can clearly see, the fact that the character rides on a horse means that he is going to McDonalds, but since this book is 3 years and 45 days after "To Kill a Mocking Bird" was released to Britain, This clearly means that it is meant to signify he is as peaceful as the dispute between the Coke-cola company and Disney for the right for the bunnies to be classified as fish which is clearly the basis for the declaration of independence!!!!! Writer: uhh.... he rides on a horse to go fast...

Honestly Jaiden I feel you. Reading was and is my hobby, but when I was in school I had to read so many books I hit burn out. One day I picked one up again because I was at B&N and remembered why I loved it. Though honestly if you were to read a book try going postal, It's hands down the most light hearted and funniest book I've ever read.

A good, mid-skill book i'd recommend (for any of you) is Nimbus by Jane Eldridge. It's about a black cat who gains magic dream powers after battling a demon that keeps stealing her human's life force....and then his aunt THROWS HER IN THE DUMP WITHOUT TELLING HIM because she thought the cat stole his breath while he was sleeping (that's a stupid myth about cats), and her quest throughout the series is to get away from this old witch-lady who's waiting for her cat to come back from the dead and her group of unhinged replacements she's been keeping hostage and get back to her human to prevent the demon from killing him. It has 31 chapters and I read it within 6 hours.

While reading Literally nobody: Me: "Yes, finally I have time to finish reading my book!" Also me: *reading half a page, wandering off into my daydreams and unconsciously flipping the pages and somewhat reading the book till the end of daydreaming.* Me: "oH no NOt aGaIN..." *Tries to figure out what the plot was, fails and goes back to where I started reading*

being forced to read vs. wanting to read has the same energy of when you are cleaning and then your parents walk in and shout "yeah you'd better be cleaning"

I was homeschooled, so let's just say I spent a LOT of time at the library. It's where I could both read AND play video games while my mom got to have a break 😂❤

"FREE YOUR MIND" - MORPHEUS

Great summary of Animal Farm. “All the animals were communists.”

Me: *reads wattpad for 2 hours straight* School: read this for 30 minutes Me; *thats a lot of time*

That wall of text was hysterical and I wish I could have read the whole thing but it ended before I could. Furry being referred to as “the f word” is so funny😂