This is boomer cope once again wishing that the hatred for their generation has more to do with age than cohort. As a millennial, and an older one at that, I know how to look up shit on urban dictionary.
I’m fighting for a future where I have to look shit up on Urban dictionary to know what kids are talking about
If you weren’t googling what everybody else was talking about you were never on the internet
The internet has scaled so much…
to cyber jail, from techno-crutch…
beneath the grass I failed to touch…
bury me without a grudge.
Not me, I have pretty much exactly the same half-understanding of memes now as I did of the ones around 15 years ago. AYBABTU, Chuck Norris, Big Chungus and Skibidi all occupy exactly the same conceptual space in my mind.
yeah I was gonna say, nothing on the internet right now is more inscrutable than the deep tangle of YTMND in-jokes.
Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa!
I’m disappointed Elon Musk hasn’t hired him to do a Chuck Tesla ad
Give him a couple more years, Chuck Testa memes aren’t quite outdated enough for him
As an aside to the topic of this thread, I’m glad Chuck Norris jokes stopped being a thing, which if I remembered correctly was when Norris outed himself as a fundie creationist or something.
He also started playing into the jokes with commercials and guest appearances on talk shows. Nothing kills a good time faster than brands.
Also you’re right. I half remember something that got put up on his website like “You know who’s even tougher than me? This guy named Jesus”
iirc Chuck Norris jokes originated on Something Awful, but as Vin Diesel jokes. Somehow there was some dumbass switcheroo along the way and there we were. I hated it and I’m glad they’re gone, for the same reason you gave.
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My younger sister has a Gen alpha half-sister that’s watching fucking Salad Fingers and slender man creepy pasta. What the fuck is this article talking about?
Love us, kids!
Isn’t half this stuff more gen alpha? Feels like gen z is speed running their time in the light and gen alpha is speed running to be the main influence on the web. Feels like we’re just 1-3 years away from it being more gen alpha then gen z or millennials. But I’m also a mid era millennial so maybe I’m just being a boomer with this take.
Yeah, if chatbot hallucinations don’t kill the internet first, then it will be killed by all of those kids who were given iPads as toddlers. Either way, the internet’s days are numbered.
That lady feels like a cute lesbian to me 🤔
“Gen Y’s alright, Gen Z’s alright, they just seem a little weird” or whatever it was Cheap Trick said
Virgin reading some whiny article on how zoomers will one day be as old and lame as millennials vs chad looking up shit you don’t understand on UD and KYM
The media is creaming itself over this occurring because when people don’t know something, when they feel out of touch with the world, they seek an explanation somewhere.
That somewhere is going to be the only people talking about it, and that’s the establishment media.
And that’s how they suck more and more of them into their sphere as aging occurs. The more they feel they don’t know, the more they rely on the establishment media to ““inform”” them.
It’ll happen to the zoomers in 15-25 years too.
I also have a gut feeling that media desperately wants to have more delineated generational cohorts so advertising can make money again
I just wrote a long response to this, misclicked and lost it rip.
Oh, well I’m interested but I understand if you don’t wanna type it again or summarize
I used to be with IT
I understand them just fine. Sounds like a skill issue
This is a dumb article that doesn’t actually explain what it’s describing. The only difference between the Internet now and before is that there’s more of it. There has always been a separation between people who use it and know the memes and people who don’t, and there have always been infinite subdivisions between the people who are on it but who aren’t on the same sites. Younger people have a higher proportion of their population who are on the Internet, and therefore also have more subgroups coming up with more in jokes, meanwhile the older you are the more likely you might have lost interest in the Internet all together and stopped interacting with it at that level.
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