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The tldr of the whole article: > Am I just getting older? Yes. This is basically the centuries old "stuff that I did when I was younger was funny, but now th
by iforgotpassword 5y ago
The tldr of the whole article:
> Am I just getting older?
Yes.
This is basically the centuries old "stuff that I did when I was younger was funny, but now the next generation is just stupid."
As you say, replace humor by music, kids/teens TV shows or any usual suspect. The remaining 99.99% of the article are just carefully picked but basically arbitrary differences between memes now and back then that are turned into arguments for why the old way was the right way. In 20 years someone will write the exact same rant about memes then and today.
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- toyg 5y agoWe "web people" thought age would never matter, because anybody could be a cow on the internet. Turns out that even cows eventually feel old. Also, with every passing year there are fewer and fewer differences between "internet people" and "regular people", because more and more "normies" spend more and more time online. That means social groups have been restructured along lines that mirror IRL ones - including age thresholds.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoYeah, this reminded me learning of the concept of "Eternal September"... but a decade+ after it happened, and as one of Eternal September's generation. And indeed also that exponential growth where the previous comminities are quickly rendered irrelevant happens slower and slower, since at some point you start to ran out of non-connected people and only the generational shift remains.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoI feel like there was something so novel and cool about "digital culture" and being on the Internet that it lured me into assuming some kind of exceptionalism. Like, "ha, this is all somehow too different from anything that came before to ever enter the dustbin of history". Surprisingly, that was wrong. There are people who enjoyed WoW and doge that are now dead, and the ones still alive are getting older. It's so weird how stuff that happens despite everything.
- asimpletune 5y agoI think though its kind of the opposite, because their point was that now memes aren’t just made by young people. Their point memes are made by everyone (ie old people too) and they’re just not funny, no?
- xboxnolifes 5y agoIf nobody found them funny, OP would have likely never came across them in the first place. The least funny memes are the ones you only see in a workplace slack.