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Back in my day shakes first there were places where someone could do things that would normally be mildly embarrassing because they were in a supportive communi
by jedimastert 1y ago
Back in my day shakes first there were places where someone could do things that would normally be mildly embarrassing because they were in a supportive community. In this example, it could be playing pretend and possibly saying goofy things or falling over and tripping or getting your butt handed to you by someone half your age or something.
When I was young, it would have been playing open mics as a teenager. I wasn't amazing but it's really important to play publicly in order to grow as a musician, and that means kinda sucking in public. I would not have become a musician if I didn't have that supportive community.
In this day and age, if I were to do that, someone would probably live stream it or film it on their phone and put it on YouTube, then It would get found by the kind of awful kids that like to make other people feel awful for no reason, then they would have found my like Facebook or social media or something, I'd catch shit at school, and I never would have touched an instrument again.
So yeah, save your highlight reels for someone else, thanks.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoIt may be an exaggeration but it feels like half the problem with the internet has been this sort of “dunk culture” that’s proliferated in the past 10-15 years. How heinous is it that anybody can gain significant notoriety by just providing a steady supply of innocent people to lambast?
- scuff3d 1y agoIt's definitely not an exaggeration. YouTubers talk about this all the time. The videos that do the best are the ones that are negative.
- CobrastanJorji 1y agoOne day somebody is going to run for President who had an extensively online youth and it's going to be wild.
- renewiltord 1y agoWell J D Vance has all those awkward pics of him as a young fellow and it hasn't hurt him. He made VP coming from nowhere.
- al_borland 1y agoThey still get used to try and discredit him all the time. Same with the videos of AOC dancing.
- renewiltord 1y agoYeah but both of those are clearly ineffective since both those people won their respective elections.
- sentientslug 1y agoI get your point but even if elected it can sway public perception of character
- johnnyanmac 1y agoI don't know if that's the best example when the presidential candidate running has literal criminal records against him. We are clearly not in times where "binders full of women" is an election ending quote.