u/dexter_dj

I swear this country treats engineering like the default spawn point for every “smart” kid.

Score good in 10th?, IIT krle

Take PCM? Ab to JEE hi Krna h

And just like that, another teenager gets thrown into the same NPC factory pipeline that lakhs before him already got crushed in.

What genuinely pisses me off is how nobody lets students become actual PEOPLE before turning them into rank-producing robots.

A kid barely starts understanding himself and suddenly his entire existence becomes modules, PYQs, test series, ranks, percentile, AIR edits with emotional music

Like bhai when exactly are students supposed to discover

what they actually enjoy,

what they’re naturally good at,

whether they even LIKE engineering,

or who they are outside academics?

Most JEE aspirants aren’t chasing passion.

They’re chasing survival.

Fear of being called average.

Fear of disappointing parents.

Fear of “log kya kahenge”.

Fear of ending up broke.

Fear of being left behind while others cracks IIT.

That’s not ambition.

That’s straight-up anxiety packaged as motivation.

And the coaching industry milks the hell out of it.

These mfs literally market suffering like it’s some heroic anime training arc.

“Sleep less.”

“Grind harder.”

“Sacrifice everything.”

“2 saal ki tapasya.”

Meanwhile actual teenagers are sitting in tiny rooms destroying their mental health thinking one exam decides whether they deserve respect or not.

And the worst part?

This shit is SO normalized that nobody even questions it anymore.

A 16-year-old having panic attacks because of mock scores?

Normal.

Students feeling guilty for taking ONE day off?

Normal.

People isolating themselves for 2-3 years straight?

Normal.

Kids attaching their entire self-worth to percentile?

Apparently normal too.

Bhai this is not normal.

This is collective psychological damage.

And before somebody comments “hard work to karna padega”

obviously bhai.

Nobody is anti-hardwork.

But there’s a difference between

working hard for something you genuinely want

and

being emotionally blackmailed into one socially approved life path before your frontal lobe even develops.

India doesn’t have a talent shortage.

It has an exploration shortage.

So many students could’ve become insane designers, filmmakers, writers, founders, researchers, musicians, athletes, product builders, creators but the system never gave them space to even TRY.

Everything becomes

safe option

safe degree

safe job

safe life

And then 10 years later people wonder why half the country is burned out and directionless.

The saddest part is watching students slowly lose personality during prep.

Funny people become silent.

Creative people stop creating.

Confident people become insecure.

Curious people become formula machines.

You literally watch human beings turn into productivity statistics.

And statistically speaking?

Most people grinding for JEE won’t get IIT anyway.

But nobody emotionally prepares students for that reality because society has already hardcoded this bullshit equation into everyone’s brain

IIT = successful human

Not IIT = wasted potential

So when students don’t crack it, they don’t just feel disappointed.

They feel like THEY failed as people.

Imagine carrying that pressure at 17 years old man.

Actually insane.

And even the ones who “win” sometimes end up realizing:

“wait… I never even wanted this.”

Now they’re stuck speedrunning DSA, CGPA, internships, placements, MBA prep, constantly chasing the next checkpoint because nobody taught them how to think beyond the rat race.

Honestly this system doesn’t just prepare students for exams.

It trains them to seek validation forever.

Been listening to DHH properly since around the lockdown era and honestly, one of the worst things about the scene right now isn’t even the music anymore it’s the fanbase.

This sub and the larger DHH community have slowly turned into a giant superiority complex competition where everyone wants to prove they’re the “real” hip-hop listener while calling everyone else a wannabe.

The irony is insane.

People here will spend half their day making fun of “Instagram reel audience” or “new gen listeners” while behaving like elitists themselves. If someone likes melodic rap, commercial tracks, or even just artists outside the sacred Reddit-approved list, suddenly they have “trash taste”.

Bro, music is not an exam. You don’t get marks for listening to underground rap.

And the gatekeeping is unbearable. Every artist has to pass some imaginary “real hip-hop” test created by anonymous Reddit users who probably discovered boom bap three years ago and now act like veterans of Bronx culture.

People here love shouting “DHH is growing!” but the second new audiences actually come in, they get bullied for not knowing obscure diss tracks from 2021.

Then there’s the fake intellectualism.

Half the discussions are people overanalyzing bars like they’re decoding ancient scriptures. Every rapper is either “lyrical miracle goat” or “mid”. No middle ground. No nuance. No understanding that music can simply be FUN.

The funniest part is how this community pretends to hate toxicity while surviving entirely on fan wars

fans vs everyone

vs debates for the 900th time

Underground vs commercial

Delhi scene vs Mumbai scene

"Real hip-hop” vs “industry plant”

At some point people stopped enjoying music and started treating DHH like a personality trait.

And before someone comments “you won’t understand hip-hop culture”, that’s exactly the problem. Some of y’all genuinely think listening to rap makes you culturally superior to people listening to pop, Bollywood, Punjabi, K-pop, EDM, or literally anything else.

your Spotify playlist does not define your intelligence level.

DHH has incredible artists, insane storytelling, raw energy, and one of the most exciting scenes in India right now. But the fanbase desperately needs humility. Not every conversation has to become a competition about who listens to the most underground artist with 12 monthly listeners.

Sometimes people just want good music.