Calling out Millennials for Fascism when Gen Z helped elect Trump 2.0 is just fucking rich.
“invented online bullying” yeah sure technically correct but people have bullied each other literally forever so to act like that’s a millennial thing is really dumb
I think it is so funny that people seem to forget that Gen X set the stage for internet culture when most millennials were teens and preteens.
Absolutely love that millennials are once again taking all the blame for actions that the whiny generation also partook in and indeed cultivated with glee before behavioral regulations online became a thing. When that happened, millennials were also being blamed for being too soft.
Yeah. Fuck you! /s
Being born august 79 i am bordercase of both horrible generations
Every generation is horrible because every generation is made up of people, and people are the worst
You got it from both sides, you poor thing haha.
To be fair styles project and rotten.com were there well before millennials.
Na, but Millenials used it in their (pre-)teens seeing some fucked-up shit (and strangely most of us are still fine)
I miss the era of SA/4chan/YTMND being the meme factories of the internet.
It was chaotic, yes, but goddamn were there fewer problems
Do people actually say the first panel?
Kids probably got annoyed hearing how they do fucked up shit online and are trying to fire back
Lawl absolutely not, good question
All successful by 2010.
We die all the fucked up things in the early internet. Things that are now forgotten. Theres not much that kids these can do on the internet that we didn’t. The main difference now is the nazi pipeline. We didn’t have that.
We saw Nazis as bad and shunned them.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha created Incels.
idk, incels are very much millennial’s problem too.
trilby hat version was a major early brand.
i wonder what kinda kid would say the dumb patrick thing, cuz that seems like it would make a good strawman
Liveleak
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Yikes, what a terrible day to know how to read
Don’t forget r/picsofdeadkids and r/beautifulcorpses
R/rape was a place for rape porn for the longest time. Posting to Reddit for advice coping with sexual assault is 100% a bad idea, as you will mostly get DM’s and chat requests from people who want to get off to your trauma. I believe the moderators of those “support” communities also get off on it too.
There are still currently beastiality subreddits and r/guro. The beastiality subreddits post simulated images/hentai, but the discussions include advice on how to participate.
People tried to defend r/jailbait by saying it was girls close to 18. (Uh akshually it’s ephebophilia 🤡) It was not. It was mostly 13-14 year olds or younger. Actual pornographic images weren’t posted there, but it was clear that the admin team and others were running trading rings.
Didn’t Reddit even ban Gawker links for a while for doxxing Micheal Brutsch? Redditors always fell over themselves to defend all of this shit as “free speech.” R/ShitRedditSays was considered worse than any of these subreddits.
No LiveLeak? SomethingAwful? PORK CHOP SANDWICHES?
LUE? stileproject? Fads? This image macro is entirely unaware
Hey kid, I’m a computer, stop all the downloadin’!
Honestly. Many things were so much better before.
If you didn’t like it on the internet, you could just not use it. Nowadays everyone with a pulse is forced to be on the internet, even if they shouldn’t.
People used to understand that things existing digitally, meant that they would spread on the internet. Including and especially incriminating stuff. Trolling people who where clueless used to be fun too. The iOS7 update campaign where people were stupid enough to microwave their phones to charge them was incredibly funny.
There wasn’t karmawhoring or attention seeking, in fact you would be chastised for acting like you wanted attention.
I’m so glad I didn’t participate in any of these trends when I was that age. So many regrets avoided.
Yes, by simply not having friends.
Don’t say that part out loud!
It is my greatest strength. You cannot match my power!
Generational categories aren’t real. They’re arbitrary lines made up for listicals and inflammatory content. There is every type of person in every generation, and most trends are more due to the natural progression of age than generation drift.
Comparing generations is only useful when evaluating the context in which they live(d).
It covers shared experiences decently well. Like obviously there is overlap but in the U.S. as a whole most millennials were kids who have a memory of a pre 9/11 world. Most zoomers grew up with WiFi being common in their houses. Most Gen Xers have memories of being a child near the end of the Cold War and were in the work force before Internet was common. Most boomers either served in the Vietnam war or have a memory of someone close to them going off to fight in an unpopular war.
A lot of those experiences have lasting effects in how those generations behave. It doesn’t mean everyone is the same but instead that you can follow trends that are more true for each generation
Then there is also the advantage of tracking a groups shared experiences like for example many millennials were relatively unaffected by the dotcom bubble but for the 2008 recession they were hit much harder
Right. So, my last sentence then.
The terms are used to convey a group that would buy shit. They are not anthropology terms. They are marketing terminology used to sell you shit. I’m sure today’s students like to use them in their anthropology papers though
the anthropology term is Age Cohort.
This guy ethnographys.
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