how do I stop my 9th grade brother from turning into NPC?

Neet194012940

Neet194012940

GUK 8-8008
Jan 20, 2024
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I'm not saying i'm an enlightened genius or anything but he literally spends all his free time watching youtube shorts - he doesn't even watch youtube videos, tv shows, movies. He doesn't know how to google information except to cheat in school, on his ipad when i open the browser it usually shows the last activity was months ago. He has no interests, no friends (they kind of tolerate him at school but it doesn't go beyond having somewhere to sit and say tiktok slogans at lunch), no opinions, nothing. - basically a shell of a human being. Obviously this kind of thing develops with age but I remember when I was in 9th grade I was into things? everyone was - it was just the default that at the very least you would like a tv series or movie or something.

He doesn't even act like a young person, the way he moves is very sluggish, he speaks slowly, and just has 0 energy or vigor for life. If anything like an 80 year old, but ive seen retirement home patients Academically he does fine enough, high average - but he has an insane ego complex about being able to multiply better after daily tutoring compared to the school's crack babies.

every week or so I engage him in conversation and try to get him to do anything. You should watch a movie or play a video game instead of spending 12 hours on the couch watching tiktoks and eating chips - you know those things are why you're fat and the reason why you're comatose on the couch? - it's not aggressive and he always agrees with me, but then I offer to help him and he just doesn't have any desire to change. Yeah, if I was healthy and i would have more energy and a better life but skibbity! i get that this has to come from within but i would kill to have someone tell me everything I know nowadays at his age. It's not normal at all.

I kind of suspect that he's just agreeing because i'm saying things with confidence because it seems like he literally doesn't think - like his brain is empty. at least enough to where i am more aware of his cognitive processes than he is. he can't keep 2 things in his head at once. If i say x, he responds with y. Then I say z. He responds with something I answered with x in the first place, and this goes on forever. Pretty much what you'd expect from being an I-pad kid who doesn't ever have (real) conversations, watch long form content, read, etc.

is there anything I can do about this?
 
97baHater

97baHater

I think, therefore I am
Apr 18, 2024
1,924
Slap him and tell him what you just told us
slap GIF
 
noobs

noobs

NEET
Jun 11, 2024
196
i dont think he likes to talk to people and isnt close to you

i bet most outsiders would think im an npc because i dont share any opinons or hobbies i do because they are so esoteric and extreme
 
クーロ

クーロ

عثمان دان فوديو الثاني
Jan 23, 2024
5,143
I have a similar situation but the only way I can convince him to do anything is by taking it away. Sometimes I hide his electronics in the morning and won't let him have it back until his homework is done or he does something more worthwhile like drawing. It works at first but he goes back to "normal" right after. Maybe your parents would handle it better if he's closer with them than with you
 
Neet194012940

Neet194012940

GUK 8-8008
Jan 20, 2024
860
Slap him and tell him what you just told us
slap GIF
for the past like 3 years i've been telling him all this every other week for 2 hours straight and give actionable steps/offer help afterwards but he doesn't care outside of the context of the conversation
i dont think he likes to talk to people and isnt close to you

i bet most outsiders would think im an npc because i dont share any opinons or hobbies i do
he is normally social and tries to socialize, he just can't because of being low energy, fat and wrong socioeconomic backround for his school and I am the second closest person in his life after our mother
 
97baHater

97baHater

I think, therefore I am
Apr 18, 2024
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for the past like 3 years i've been telling him all this every other week for 2 hours straight and give actionable steps/offer help afterwards but he doesn't care outside of the context of the conversation

he is normally social and tries to socialize, he just can't because of being low energy, fat and wrong socioeconomic backround for his school and I am the second closest person in his life after our mother
I see, have you tried giving him hormones? Blast testosterone, DHT, Adderal maybe he will change
 
Neet194012940

Neet194012940

GUK 8-8008
Jan 20, 2024
860
this makes me wonder what people in my family think i do

i dont talk to a single family member about anything i do

no one in my family has any clue what i do or who i talk to
if he was talking to nazis on discord i would have no problem whatsoever
Holy fucking shit, where do you even live? I didn't know western zoomer was this retarded, if they are gonna be next generation then this world is doomed.
northeastern US, middle class suburb area
 
Amadeus

Amadeus

Majestic
Apr 20, 2024
1,042
Lolol it goes full circle. Boomers complain about millennials and zoomers on vidya and internet, Zoomers complain about younger gens on Tiktok and Ipads.

Realistically after 2020 the addiction economy went haywire. It hardly matters, infact it almost feels engineered with how kids are trained to be perfect unquestioning consumers in a world where AI will eclipse every other human purpose.
 
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