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10 Reasons Why Being A Teenager Is AWESOME

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Turns out the acne and the algebra tests aren’t the whole story — TheThings counted down ten reasons being a teenager is actually the best deal going.

Every teenager has heard the same pitch from adults: enjoy it now, because it only gets harder. TheThings, the pop-culture digital outlet that built its audience on rapid-fire countdown videos, decided to test that theory head-on with “10 Reasons Why Being A Teenager Is AWESOME.” Instead of dwelling on braces, breakouts, and calculus finals, the video flips the script and tallies up the specific perks that come with being somewhere between 13 and 19.

• The countdown directly rebuts the usual teenage gripes — acne, puberty, braces, and academic stress like calculus tests — by laying out ten concrete upsides instead.
• Highlighted perks include long summer vacations, staying debt-free, gaining real independence without adult-level responsibility, and exploring personal identity.
• The video also points to the surplus of unstructured time and energy teens have for building intense, lasting friendships — something the list frames as harder to come by later in life.

The Case Against the Complaints

TheThings opens by acknowledging the obvious: adolescence isn’t a spa vacation. Puberty reshapes your body on a schedule you don’t control, braces are uncomfortable and often mandatory, and calculus tests carry a kind of dread that doesn’t fully go away until the diploma’s in hand. The video doesn’t pretend those things are fun. It just argues they’re a small tax on a much better overall deal, and spends the rest of its runtime making the case with specifics rather than platitudes.

Summers Off and Zero Debt

Two of the countdown’s sturdiest entries are the most tangible: extended summer vacations and a complete absence of financial obligation. No mortgage payments, no rent, no car loan, no credit card statement — just months of unscheduled time that adults spend their whole careers trying to buy back in the form of PTO. The video treats the debt-free stretch as a finite window that closes fast once bills start arriving, which is exactly why it lands near the top of the list.

No mortgage, no boss, no calculus test waiting for you at the DMV.

Independence Without the Full Bill

The video’s take on freedom is specific in a way a lot of “being young is great” content isn’t: teenagers get a taste of independence — later curfews, driver’s licenses, first jobs, more say over their own schedules — without carrying the full weight of adult responsibility yet. That in-between status, according to the countdown, is a genuine sweet spot rather than a consolation prize, and it’s paired with the energy and unstructured time to actually use that freedom on the friendships that end up mattering most.

Figuring Out Who You Are

Self-discovery gets its own slot in the countdown, and it’s treated as a feature rather than a source of anxiety. TheThings frames the teenage years as the one period where trying on different interests, friend groups, and identities is expected rather than judged — a low-stakes trial run for figuring out what you actually want, before adulthood starts charging real consequences for every decision. It’s the kind of upbeat, list-driven breakdown that has made countdown-format videos a reliable staple for channels like Top 10 Celebrity Comebacks: Stars Silencing Disrespectful Interviewers, where a simple numbered structure carries a lot of specific, quotable detail.

TheThings never dresses any of this up as deep science — it’s a ten-item list built to make teenagers feel better about a decade that gets trashed constantly in pop culture. Between the debt-free summers and the identity-exploration segment, the video’s real argument is pretty simple: enjoy the version of freedom you’ve got now, because the next one comes with a lot more paperwork.