OHC KIDS TRY AMERICAN PRODUCTS
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[Five kids, ages 10-14, seated at table. Products in front of them, smuggled in for the video. They’ve never seen most of these brands.]
HOST: “This is a Coca-Cola. It was the most popular drink in the world for almost a hundred years.”
GIRL, 12: (sips) “It’s… really sweet? Like, why is it so sweet?”
BOY, 14: “My abuela talks about these. She says everyone drank them before the Transition.”
GIRL, 11: “It doesn’t do anything though? It’s just sugar and water? My Yerba Smart adjusts to—”
HOST: “Right, but this was made before AI drinks.”
BOY, 10: “Before AI? Like… all the same drink for everybody? That’s kind of sad.”
HOST: “This is an iPhone. From Apple.”
BOY, 14: (turns it over) “It doesn’t open.”
GIRL, 12: “What do you mean?”
BOY, 14: “You can’t open it. You can’t fix it, you can’t change parts, you can’t see inside. It’s sealed.”
GIRL, 11: “On PURPOSE?”
BOY, 14: “On purpose. And you can’t put your own software on it either.”
BOY, 10: “So it’s like… a toy? That you can’t play with?”
HOST: “It cost $1,299.”
[ALL FIVE KIDS LAUGH]
GIRL, 12: “My OHC tablet cost ◈ 12, my papa and I built it together, and I’ve upgraded it three times.”
HOST: “These are Nike shoes. They were like… the Uyuni Cooperativa of America.”
BOY, 14: (holds up shoe, examines sole) “The geometry is flat. There’s no biomechanical mapping.”
GIRL, 11: “And it comes in one shape? For everybody’s feet?”
HOST: “Well, there were different sizes—”
GIRL, 11: “Sizes, sure. But everyone with size 7 got the exact same shoe? Even if their arches are different? Even if they pronate?”
BOY, 10: “That would hurt.”
GIRL, 12: “I think it did hurt. I think that’s why they had so many knee injuries.”
HOST: “They also cost $349.”
[SILENCE]
BOY, 14: “Three hundred and — for ONE pair? Of shoes that don’t even fit right?”
GIRL, 12: (quietly) “Were Americans okay?”
[END OF VIDEO]
TOP COMMENT (◈ 24,891 likes): “Were Americans okay?” is the question that will define this century.