And just like that , I found myself thinking: I want the lives of those YouTubers.

See, I'm a millennial raised in the infancy of the internet — the iPhone was still a novelty during high school — and there are times I feel the generational chasm spanning myself, Gen Z, and, more extremely, the children of Gen Alpha. Our digital worlds are just different, and naturally so.

Younger folks want to be influencers more than any other career, polling has shown , which is a job that simply did not exist for a good portion of my life. It's an impulse I didn't fully comprehend, really, until I stumbled upon the channel Bob Does Sports . I get it now. Because, as a man in his 30s, I can safely say without a little bit of shame, I want the life those YouTubers have.

If I could succinctly

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