As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don't help and I am too scared to search them up.
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I watch NBA basketball and back in the day (1990s) there was exactly one player that was referred to by his initials: Michael Jordan. Nowadays fans use initials (with their jersey number occasionally tacked on as if that's the cleverest thing to do in the world) for almost every player and it's almost impossible to know who they're talking about. For some players this is legitimate (e.g. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a mouthful so SGA is a good replacement) but for most it is not.
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In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.
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"CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT."
Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King, or is he just getting rizzed up by Livvy?
I love that yours is entirely real but it feels just as fake as the entirely fake one you are replying too 🤣
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These posts feel like Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty.
Personally, I loved the idea of new media. Cable was shit.
After experiencing new media...... there's some good stuff in there, guys. I promise. Just gotta wade through mountains of shit.
There should be some rule like; if you have a preference it can't exist all by itself unless it's watered down or mixed in with every other preference.
Thank all that is good for genres. At least there is some media that can define itself clearly enough and still build enough of a following to self fund.
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Just remember folks, those 2007 people are able to vote now.
I just aged 40 years
Fuck im 25 and feel 40, this is why I will not shy away from my day of destined death. I can feel that it'll be before I'm 40 and I frankly want nothing to do with being 40.
One day you'll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own ... and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.
The worst part is you'll still mentally feel like you're not much older than your late 20s or 30s.
I dunno, I'm in my mid-50s and I feel like I'm about 100. The world today is just so different from that of my childhood in the '70s.
I'm 38 and I feel 40, and you know...none of it has been worth anything.
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Na, being 40 is fine. I'm 45, eat well and get a little exercise. I am healthier than I was in my 20's, I have more stamina and I think more clearly.
Also 25, and looking forward to my inevitable death too!
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I was talking to my primary-school age kids about their teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.
"He's old," they said, "he must be at least fifty".
I said "nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon".
They had me with "no he's like really old. He reads a newspaper"
Yeah, the other day I was consulting with another therapist, and I was telling her how in EMDR therapy I often say “don’t give me the whole article, just the headline” when I want to explain to the client to avoid talking too much during EMDR. she works with teens, and she went “yeah, that will not fly with my clients.”
We came up with “don’t give me the long-form video, just give me the TikTok” as we both felt we were inching closer to the grave, lol.
"Give me the clip, not the VOD." How do you do, fellow kids?
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About a decade ago my employer had an intern present their findings from analyzing some survey data. One of the findings was this:
"People who answer surveys are really old. Like really old. Like thirty."
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I'm 29 so maybe I'm too young for this statement but if you ask me it's because younger celebrities tend to be the result of nepotism and don't have any actual talents.
I don't regret any of this one bit, you look them up and it's always someone shilling products extremely hard while doing extremely low effort content like reaction videos or streaming Minecraft.
This.
The TV stations around me are desperate to attract the young viewers, so they always have influencers as guests on their shows and what not, and I simply do not get it.
Today's guest: Billy Bobberson.
What's he famous for? Oh he posts some selfies on Instagram daily and every other post is a sponsored brand promo.
Why the fuck do people even follow influencers like this???
Because most people are stupid. It is easier for stupid people to follow fake celebrities aka influencers, than to read a book or think for themselves.
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The fact that 'influencer' is a legitimate job title is proof that humanity is doomed.
I work for an influencer now, I went to a reputable film school and have a masters degree. I used to do documentaries on BLM for god's sake.
So are you a one (wo)man band filming/editing their content? I'm not necessarily opposed to doing this with a (good) youtuber if the content is high-brow/interesting/educational etc but the idea of doing it for a tik tok star sounds positively dreadful. In fact I refused such a proposal before because the "stars" were really not my vibe and also they gave some red flags, but at least they were still "musicians" not JUST ad-peddlers.
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They aren't some symbol of the end times or anything, they're just a symptom of the sort of attention based economy we've built up here in America. They exist precisely because you can get paid to shill products while playing Minecraft.
If we reign in the marketing and advertising industries then influencers will fall alongside them.
Or, if we regulate "proper" ads and fail to do the same to influencers, whether on purpose or not, then they will become a primary source of advertising. Depending how this is handled could be a good or bad thing.
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Man fuck any influencer who pushes gambling.
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I feel seen.
My friend with young cousins was telling me that kids are using "sigma" instead of "cool" now?
"That's so sigma, bruh."
The fuck?
'The fuck" is now "what the sigma" at least that's what I gathered from lurking on shitposting communities
Edit: and I'm deeply afraid of using it around people who don't know what that means. And also around people who do know what it means.
50% of what Gen X thinks is zoomer slang is actually jokes at zoomer slang's expense
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Start speaking in Greek to them. Asspro means white.
I'm something of an asspro myself
I feel that. I have no clue about new celebrities. Or old ones. I just don’t care enough about them to keep with their lives. Only a few I have an actual interest in/like