• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    >kid in a movie written by adults: “I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature”

    >kid I made up in my own mind: “hurr durr I’m illiterate”

    Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the “kids in the 2020s” is the problem

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    18 hours ago

    Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Bevis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?

    How about get the fuck off my lawn.

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    19 hours ago

    Isn’t the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant’s whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?

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      18 hours ago

      yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….

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    20 hours ago

    Look man, if Grants book didn’t have awesome dino illustrations, I’m calling this kids bluff. Even I had a dino book at that age (bit older than this…kid…man? This movies old) I still only looked at the pictures

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    This generational hatred will never end.

    Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.

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      16 hours ago

      Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn are Gen Z things. As a Millennial I was well into my teens by the time that stuff came out. My generation’s memes predate YouTube.

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        I’m glad that the entire millennial generation is just you. Again, I’m a late millennial and I was barely older than 10 when YouTube came out and I was watching both that and Google Video before they were acquired. That stuff doesn’t have to be just one generation only.

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      Pretty sure annoying orange was a gen Z thing, as I, a gen Z kid was addicted to annoying orange at 7 or so. I hated Fred though his voice was so damn annoying. I like his current channel though, felt crazy when I saw him as an adult and not screaming. Now he’s doing shitty vacation trips 😀👍

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      20 hours ago

      Gen X here and my boomer friends in US educational circles normally pointed out the Socrates quote but they stopped doing that a few years ago. Social media has devastated the ability of young Americans to think critically according to most.

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        19 hours ago

        I have to imagine it’s because Socrates also believed that writing and reading information harmed our thinking. He thought that memory was the most important, and expected oral recollections of all his teachings.

        …which definitely sounds like more criticism of youth 😂

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      20 hours ago

      Erm… You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I’m on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.

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        15 hours ago

        Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That’s exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.

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        19 hours ago

        Only minorly on that front. I’m right on the youngest end of the millenials, and I was 15 when it first surfaced. It took only a couple years for Cartoon Network to pick it up, so it definitely captured an audience, though it may have been a mix of zoomers and the latest millennials. But it certainly doesn’t detract from my point, and it can definitely be substituted for stuff like Homestar Runner or Salad Fingers.

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        20 hours ago

        Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the ‘generation’ would be 13 years old.

        I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.

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      21 hours ago

      It makes a generation feel special if they are convinced that they are enduring something extraordinary. Every single generation has had plenty to complain about but the loudest will be the current generation of course.

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      21 hours ago

      Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.

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    1 day ago

    Fuck it, I’ll take all the “riz”, “no cap”, “frfr” bullshit over ANY of the other slang of the last thirty years or so. At least it makes sense.