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I watch TikTok and read reddit religiously because I'm in my 50s, and I need to make sure I can understand what is relevant to the younger people I work with. A
by blindriver 3y ago
I watch TikTok and read reddit religiously because I'm in my 50s, and I need to make sure I can understand what is relevant to the younger people I work with. Also understanding memes, etc. so that I don't get too old with my thinking.
- jncfhnb 3y agoAs a 20-something guy I can’t imagine this strategy working
- blindriver 3y agoIt actually works great. I'm not going around saying "hello fellow young people, did you see the top post on reddit?" but it's good enough so that I'm not clueless as to what's being said in our chat rooms and I can comment.
- antisthenes 3y agoYour work chat rooms are filled with discussion of reddit posts and tik-tok? I just struggle to see how your strategy makes any sense or what the purpose of it even is.
- Woshiwuja 3y agosounds like their work chat is mainly populated by younger people and he wants to just understand the context of the memes, chill out
- antisthenes 3y agoCap bro, chill your rizz.
- Woshiwuja 3y agook..?
- jncfhnb 3y agoOk but… what are you looking at? Main page Reddit? Because the top stuff on that is usually click bait trash and tabloid level celebrity shit and political garbage and sports. I just don’t see anyone learning anything interesting from that. Main page Reddit is mind rot.
- jazzyjackson 3y agopop quiz: what is rizz? (extra credit for bussy, i'm only a decade out from zoomerdom and i don't know how to break that down)
- Woshiwuja 3y agoIts game, savoir fair, ecc
- oliwarner 3y agoThank you for the reminder of how unimaginative 20 year olds are about their future. That's not a dig at you. You're too busy doing stuff and getting along to actually have any idea what life is about. That has to be a biological necessity or you'd implode
- jncfhnb 3y agoAre you suggesting that I am unable to imagine browsing Reddit at age 50? Seems like you’re too unimaginative to consider a younger perspective imo.
- evv555 3y ago1) Yes why would you assume a a GenX would not know how to navigate algorithmic filter bubbles? 2) The low quality content on the fyp is actually representative of the state of affairs for many youth. Media and data literacy is not a strong point of GenZ. The amount of ridiculous conspiracy theories(both left and right) going viral is a parallel universe of the infamous boomer political chain emails.
- jncfhnb 3y ago1) you can know how to navigate filter bubbles but the moment you do, you’ll be shoehorned into things that interest you. Which is how it works. Which is fine, but it’s a bad tool to discover things you aren’t interested in. 2) this is the kid of comment that makes me feel more confident. Like… shut up. No, you won’t better understand the youth by ingesting garbage and calling them media illiterates just talk to people and ask questions.
- oliwarner 3y agoMore fool you, I'm so imaginative, I imagined the point I'm arguing against. Normally I might apologise and hang my head in shame but age is an interesting thought exercise. So come with me if you will, ignore me if you won't. The point I was trying to make is that you are unable to imagine what browsing Reddit at 50 will mean to you; how important staying contextualised with pop culture will be to you. Your Ego is ephemeral, in constant flux. You can't imagine yourself accurately. When you're young you know things will change but it's impossible to predict how those events —health, jobs, homes, children, deaths, friendships, hobbies, your politics, etc— will change who you are. I'm also saying that's okay. As long as old.reddit.com still works in 30 years, we'll all be okay.
- vGPU 3y agoIt’s not exactly hard to watch a few 30 second videos and pick up some new slang via contextual learning. It’s a skill we all learned in elementary school.
- jncfhnb 3y agoI agree, but I don’t think that is what is meant by “watching TikTok religiously”