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Are you a Seinfeld character? "I had to break up with her! She's a green bubbler, Jerry: Every message I get, bloop bloop bloop -- green bubbles! Regular texts
by ivraatiems 4y ago
Are you a Seinfeld character?
"I had to break up with her! She's a green bubbler, Jerry: Every message I get, bloop bloop bloop -- green bubbles! Regular texts, Jerry. Not even encrypted. She probably thinks iMessage is a sentence fragment!"
- metadat 4y agoYour take is brilliant, and it's still regrettable people like this actually exist in real life.
- yieldcrv 4y agoThere's a guy on TikTok/Instagram doing Seinfeld in the 2020s Its pretty good, and definitely putting modern twists on it back into the collective conscious
- JasserInicide 4y agoI mean, there's plenty of evidence of women saying exactly this all over social media. Here's a WSJ article over it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-teens-dread-the-green-text-bubble-11641618009 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
- ivraatiems 4y agoTeenage women, you mean. Typically adults outgrow this nonsense.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- yieldcrv 4y agoNarrator: They don't. When I think of Hackernews, I think of US Gen-Xers that don't realize they're out of touch yet, because so many of the comments act this way. That WSJ article's first paragraph and your response suggests they were only able to Poll teenagers. But > “Who’s green?” Has come up many a times. For me in SF, where everyone is so tolerant of everything except the horoscope signs you couldn't chose and your text message color. And many other places in the US. Amongst adults that can't be on their parent's health insurance anymore.
- RichardCNormos 4y ago