The dominance of social media and total financial exploitation ruined the internet and now is damaging society at large. It‘s now a machine that amplifies anxiety, hate, and addiction.
I’d argue that exploitation is so rampant, next gen will avoid it like wildfire.
The current generation of young people is the opposite of rebellious.
i wonder what kinda kid would say the dumb patrick thing, cuz that seems like it would make a good strawman
I managed to dodge a lot of bullets growing up as a ‘gamer girl’. I played EQ instead of WoW and later on instead of CoD lobbies I played MAG. Still have really fond memories of this group of older guys that took me in as their medic. Never anything creepy, they just knew I was happy to play that role and got pretty good at it.
It goes way further back than that: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/controlling-the-virtual-world/history/rape.html
I used to frequent LambdaMOO. Things weren’t all that different back then than they are now.
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 or 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)
Calling out Millennials for Fascism when Gen Z helped elect Trump 2.0 is just fucking rich.
???
Every fucking generation helped elect Trump
The trend was that every younger generation was more progressive than the last. Gen Z polling breaks the trend. Gen Z voted for Trump at a higher rate.
They meant that young men breaking away from the rest of their cohort in a much more significant manner than the last couple generations helped tip things in his favor.
It was a departure from the norm
Pizza bombing
Liveleak
Remember that the front page of reddit had jailbait and coontown posts hitting the top regularly. After that it was fatpeoplehate.
People were just as deranged back in the day it just manifested more aggressively.
In the cod4 days id regularly scream slurs at people and tell them to kill themselves. It was just what you did.
The real scathing insult was just “uninstall”
“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
Technically Patrick is still correct. There are way more younger generations doing more fucked up shit than us. Yeah, we had fucked up shit, but there was fewer of us so the volume of fucked up shit is significantly lower 😤
He didn’t say we didn’t have any just that we had less.
See the 4chan irony to fascism took work, and i think the algorithm.
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
No OP being a bundle of sticks?
