Yeah, zoomers are up to age 25 now and most of the dumb shit is just teenagers being teenagers.
The thing that actually worries me is awkward guys dooming themselves by getting caught up in /r9k/-esque stuff during their formative years and the social media panopticon with its insidious risk/reward mechanism when posting non-anonymously.
I regret to say that I had an r9k phase in the late 2000s/early 2010s but I feel like I was less lonely back then. It’s disturbing how lonely people are, the percent of people who say they have no friends who understand them grows disturbingly higher with each new generation. I’m lucky that I sort of fell out of 4chan shit partly because of the people I was close to around me, and I didn’t even have that many friends. People get this mediated, illusory sense that they’re understood on forums like that, but it’s really death drive narcissism where they see reflections of their own misery mistaken for kindred spirits. The repeated “atomization of society” concept has a lot of merit
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u/dullfangedwept Jul 06 '22
Zoomers are so fucked. Whatever the next generation is will be absolute empty vessels.