About

Parents Who Say, "If You're Feeling Well Enough to Play Video Games" is a copypasta used to refute the commonly used statement by parents to their children. The full text reads:

Parents who say, "If you're feeling well enough to play video games, you're feeling well enough to go to school!" don't seem to realize they are equating an extremely low impact leisure activity with a high stress and difficult involuntary obligation.

Origin

On January 5th, 2019, Redditor ^[2] MildShadyPassenger posted the quote in the /r/showerthoughts subreddit. The post received more than 72,000 points (78% upvoted) and 2,100 comments in less than two years.

Spread

That day, Twitter ^[1] user @TheWeirdWorld tweeted the quote. The post received more than 7,800 likes and 1,300 retweets in less than two years (shown below).

10 days later, Tumblr ^[3] user showerthoughts-lol shared the quote. The post received more than 58,000 notes as of February 2020 (shown below, left).

On February 19th, 2020, Redditor^[4] PredatorHU used the copypasta in a Kim Jong-un Watching Television meme. The post received more than 6,100 points (96% upvoted) and 50 comments in less than one week (shown below, right).

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