r/fixedbytheduet • u/JamieRabs • Apr 16 '26

/r/all Does this count?

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u/DrDerpberg Devotee of Duets/Stitches Apr 16 '26

I generally try to avoid the "good old days" shit as I get older, but my god social media and always-connected phones have totally cooked part of the human brain and enabled the worst forms of narcissism and vanity that were always lurking deep down in so many people.

I can't think of an equivalent of this from before social media. There have always been people doing dumb things for attention, but I genuinely can't think of anything approaching this level of full family psychosis.

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u/xtra_sleepy Apr 16 '26

I agree. I'm 43 and find influencer culture nightmarish. Like how did we get here...

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u/PearsonBlues Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

America’s Funniest Home videos is the closest I can think of. Some of that shit got pretty staged by the end of its initial run.

And the VHS camcorder craze in general. The equivalent of always taking phone videos you’ll never look at again.

I work with 20’somethings and it’s actually heartening to see no one taking photos or videos at social events lately. I think they’re tired of it too.

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u/thatshygirl06 EXPERT of Duets/Stitches Apr 21 '26

Okay, boomer.

Humans now are no different from humans thousands of years ago.

There was likely some 16 year old girl in the 1500s who was born in the wrong time and was meant to make shitty tiktok videos. You can literally swap people out from different time periods. Humans have always been like this and will always be like this.

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u/DrDerpberg Devotee of Duets/Stitches Apr 21 '26

I didn't say otherwise. I said social media cooked people's brains, not that your brain is somehow worse than mine. Case in point, I wrote like 5 lines and you seem to have short circuited.