This baby neither needs nor wants help playing a mobile game
Playing a game on one’s phone, be it Candy Crush or Angry Birds, has become a classic method for disengaging from society even when surrounded by other people, those irksome pests. It’s visual shorthand for “Please leave me alone. I am doing something of vital importance, and you simply cannot be a part of that.” This is an unspoken social contract so basic yet so vital that even the smallest of children understand it, as proven by a video shared by the Facebook account Kyoot Kids. In this impossibly adorable, 20-second-long video, a very young child is seen intently concentrating on an unidentified phone game while sitting on her father’s lap. Her dad, like all dads throughout recorded history, is unable to let his daughter play her game in peace. He wants to get involved, interfere, and point out the moves she should be making. But she’s having none of it. With admirable concentration, she waves her father away every single time, all without losing focus on the real task at hand. Come hell or high water, she’s not taking her eyes off that screen.