>kid in a movie written by adults: "I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature"
>kid I made up in my own mind: "hurr durr I'm illiterate"
Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the "kids in the 2020s" is the problem
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Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?
How about get the fuck off my lawn.
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
This generational hatred will never end.
Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.
Erm... You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I'm on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.
Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the 'generation' would be 13 years old.
I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.
Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That's exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.
Only minorly on that front. I'm right on the youngest end of the millenials, and I was 15 when it first surfaced. It took only a couple years for Cartoon Network to pick it up, so it definitely captured an audience, though it may have been a mix of zoomers and the latest millennials. But it certainly doesn't detract from my point, and it can definitely be substituted for stuff like Homestar Runner or Salad Fingers.
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Based Ohio. That's what happened.
Isn't the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant's whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?
yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
Anon wants people off his lawn.
Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
This. It doesn't help that that perception is universal, and mfs will call Child Protective Services if you let your kids go to the park on their own.
You're right, but both can be true at the same time - if your acceptable level of risk is zero then playing outside is too dangerous
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Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.
Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it's nothing but "standard" surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.
That's entirely accurate from what little I have personally seen.
Yeah, when I bit the bullet and watched it to see what the fuzz is about I was very surprised how competent it is.
the hell? skibidi toilet ain't rizz?
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watching
Etc, etc.
Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
That is true though.
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That is kids in the late 2000's/early 2010's, not the 1990's
Yeah, I'm sitting here like "memes? Motherfucker most people didn't have internet in '94". The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.
No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn't even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.
I am not saying social media hasn't had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn't the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.
Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?
Yeah, that one made me want to scratch my eyes out, after a while.
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Plato in 300: kids today!!!!!!!!!! 😡
"back in my day we read books, not like those young whippersnappers nowadays"
I can’t read that word without thinking about Phoenix Wright anymore.
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.
Pretty sure that both kids' characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time
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You grew old, thats what happened.
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