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[-] axont@hexbear.net 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm more confused about the confusion surrounding Skibidi Toilet than the thing itself. How is it confusing? Millennials already saw this kind of thing. This video is from October 2007 for example. Also all those weird animations on Newgrounds, people like Tom Green, the entire "random" fad from 20 years ago. Now I'm feeling all wistful and nostalgic for Salad Fingers. Those were good times honestly, felt like internet creativity was more organic back when there wasn't any money to be made

It's just some surreal animations with Half-Life 2 assets, right? I've been seeing stuff exactly like it for over half my life now. If anything I think it's cool that there's still life surrounding Half-Life 2 and Source engine stuff. lot of good times with those communities

also from my understanding a lot of popular slang that's considered gibberish (gyatt, rizz, cap, simp, etc) is just repurposed NYC/Chicago/Atlanta black slang that's been around for decades

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

Skibidi toilet is a weird thing to me, because it just feels like something that would've been popular 15 years ago.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Yeah the weirdest thing about it is that the youths haven’t moved on to something different

[-] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also the internet throws a lot of our traditional understandings of culture out the window. A 20 year old and a 40 year old might not have had as much reason to hang out before (although things like sports and hobbies did pull age groups together some) but now they're all playing against each other in the new Call of Duty, sharing memes about Among Us, laughing about how they're too old for the Skibidi Toilet and arguing on Twitter.com

There's lots of injokes and references and slang that I don't understand not because of my age, but because I don't watch Streamer X or play Y game or have Z streaming service. And yet plenty of people younger, my age, and older will get those references because they do. Meanwhile the opposite is true, I've played some online games from my childhood with kids who weren't even alive when the game came out! It was kinda shocking really.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

My hypothesis is that there's only school-work-retirement as actual generational/cultural boundaries. People in school have different memes because they all see each other every single day for hours at a time, people who work for a living have different memes because they struggle to find time to see each other in person, and retired people have different memes because they're bored.

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

injokes and references and slang that I don't understand not because of my age, but because I don't watch Streamer X or play Y game or have Z streaming service

Very accurate. I work in a very young office where most of the employees are in their early to mid 20s. We're generally all nerds to some degree, so we play a lot of the same games and see a lot of the same movies, but my biggest knowledge gap is around whatever is trending on TikTok and whatever happening is going on with some streamer or youtuber. But on the other hand, I watch some things targeted for their demo that they haven't seen.

Like most memes though, it's related to what content you've consumed. I haven't played Baldur's Gate 3 yet, but most people at my work have. They joke about it and I'm just the dude standing in the corner at the party thinking "They don't know I optimized my science lab loop in Factorio."

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

A 20 year old and a 40 year old might not have had as much reason to hang out before

Eh, I feel like this ain't quite the case if you've worked in the service industry. You got a lot of 30 year old shift managers shooting the shit with 20 year old cashiers while closing shop up. Seriously me and the 19 year old punk I work with have been doing our own Cum Town bits while mopping the floors for months no.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, this is all just similar to the memes we millennials experienced during the 2000s and the early days of YouTube. There's nothing alien about it. The fact that stuff like Source Filmmaker and Garry's Mod is still alive and well is pretty cool.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

Yeah I was like “I have no idea what skibidi toilet is Gen alpha weird as fuck” for a while then I actually saw one and I was like “Oh it’s just source filmmaker bullshit like when I was in middle school”

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

The most confusing part about Skibidi Toilet is that it's using stock HL2 era assets. I thought that had been thoroughly mined for content 15+ years ago.

[-] Zymi@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Source filmmaker is still free and accessible so we'll probably see those assets used for a long time

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

Yeah exactly, it reminds me of old youtube poops.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago
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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 75 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Speak for yourself, nerds. I invented strange memes.

Also why is some boomer website for business ghouls telling anyone what rizz is lmao.

Skibidi my balls

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago

for shizzle we have the rizzle

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

"Don't cum."

  • Kamala Harris, definitely
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also why is some boomer website for business ghouls telling anyone what rizz is lmao.

As millenials age they feel they know less about the world where previously they felt they understood it.

This draws them to seeking answers to why.

Establishment ghoul media gives them answers to why.

Aging millenials become captured by their influence as the only source explaining the things they feel confused about now.

Same thing happened to gen x, and boomers, and it'll happen to zoomers eventually too. Each gen, captured as they age out, it's how the media grabs more and more of them as people age.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Humph, not me. I intend to stay a giant adult baby, thank you very much

[-] Anne_Teefa@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago
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[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

why is some boomer website for business ghouls

the original opinion piece was in NYT, i just thought business insider's re-hash made for a more funny link

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/opinion/internet-aging-gen-z.html

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 57 points 11 months ago

This is boomer cope once again wishing that the hatred for their generation has more to do with age than cohort. As a millennial, and an older one at that, I know how to look up shit on urban dictionary.

[-] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

I'm fighting for a future where I have to look shit up on Urban dictionary to know what kids are talking about

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

If you weren't googling what everybody else was talking about you were never on the internet

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 42 points 11 months ago

Not me, I have pretty much exactly the same half-understanding of memes now as I did of the ones around 15 years ago. AYBABTU, Chuck Norris, Big Chungus and Skibidi all occupy exactly the same conceptual space in my mind.

[-] ArsenLupin@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa!

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

yeah I was gonna say, nothing on the internet right now is more inscrutable than the deep tangle of YTMND in-jokes.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The media is creaming itself over this occurring because when people don't know something, when they feel out of touch with the world, they seek an explanation somewhere.

That somewhere is going to be the only people talking about it, and that's the establishment media.

And that's how they suck more and more of them into their sphere as aging occurs. The more they feel they don't know, the more they rely on the establishment media to ""inform"" them.

It'll happen to the zoomers in 15-25 years too.

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago

I understand them just fine. Sounds like a skill issue

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

They didn't even get it right, it's "sticking out your gyat for the rizzler".

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

I’ve had the hololive version burned into my brain for over a month now, how can you get this wrong, it won’t let you forget it unless you just never watch it and then write an article showing your ass.

Sticking out your gyatt for Nerizzler

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[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

No, the internet has just become a place I no longer have the time or patience to explore or fully comprehend. Its a big pile of poop. I blame the corporations.

[-] voight@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

that was me until RSS was like 🌅👋👼🌅

i'm not old though i just like torrenting and hate most of the western internet

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[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No matter what generation you find yourself in, the inescapable grasp of time will have you paying the fanum tax eventually 😔

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago
[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

23 year old me: "no way I'm gonna stay hip and cool forever, forever, forever..."

34 year old me looking at TikTok memes and feeling confused: "forever, forever, forever..."

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

"Sticking out your tongue for the rizzler"

FAKE NEWS

It's Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler, or sticking out your tongue for the picture. Boomers can't even do fake zoomer-solidarity correctly to dunk on millenials

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

Virgin reading some whiny article on how zoomers will one day be as old and lame as millennials vs chad looking up shit you don't understand on UD and KYM

[-] Ideology@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago
[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

Harry Potter references, Instagram filters, monogamy,

bruh what lol

the framework — how people interact and businesses operate on it — remains largely unchanged

DESTROY NEOLIBERALISM lenin-shining

[-] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

Generational cohorts aren't real generational cohorts aren't real people are born every day people age every day ahhhhhhhhhh

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

right like how the fuck am I in the same generation as people who are over 10 years older than me but in a different generation from people who are 5 years younger

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

"Gen Y's alright, Gen Z's alright, they just seem a little weird" or whatever it was Cheap Trick said

[-] Tripbin@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Isn't half this stuff more gen alpha? Feels like gen z is speed running their time in the light and gen alpha is speed running to be the main influence on the web. Feels like we're just 1-3 years away from it being more gen alpha then gen z or millennials. But I'm also a mid era millennial so maybe I'm just being a boomer with this take.

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[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

I used to be with IT

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

The internet has scaled so much...

to cyber jail, from techno-crutch...

beneath the grass I failed to touch...

bury me without a grudge.

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[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Boomer/gen x ass cringe headline

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Love us, kids!

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

That lady feels like a cute lesbian to me 🤔

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