'POV: You're Trying To Talk To People In 2025': Comedy video sparks debate over Gen Z's poor conversational skills

Some say that conversation is a lost art. We're too used to staring into the portals of our phones to look up and see what's happening all around us. We've lost the moments of casual interaction, at the grocery store, on the sidewalk, at the club. So say the pessimists. But are they correct? Is it really that hard to talk to someone you don't know that well? Has society fundamentally changed and left some of us behind? Perhaps. 

Sometimes comedy can illuminate the real problems in our society better than anything else can. We see something eye-catching, we relate to it, and it makes us think about the state of the world. This happens all the time. More than think pieces or watching the news, seeing something that makes us laugh has a way of sparking our intelligence and curiosity more than anything else in the world. That's what happened with this video, which was made by a creator on TikTok who was probably just setting out to make some people laugh. But what she did instead was spark conversation. 

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