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[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

Because that site is a bunch of underage little siblings clamoring for attention like crabs in a bucket. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 65 points 10 months ago

Unlike here where it's all embittered middle children in their 40s in their mom's basement

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 29 points 10 months ago

lol the dig at middle children got me. I don’t even know what it insinuates but it feels delightfully petty.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Middle children are stereotyped as overlooked. (And desperate for attention but not getting any.)

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

~~Well shit, as the oldest that just makes me want to give them that attention. Is that a stereotype too?~~

I’m the youngest sibling now. Please direct all defense requests to my older sibling.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Older siblings are either righteous defenders of the downtrodden or attention hogs blinded by the limelight.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 8 points 10 months ago

Ah, understood. Unfortunately I dislike attention and am wicked, and therefore must apply for reassignment.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Sounds like youngest kid talk to me

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Excellent, I will notify my bother that I am the younger sibling now.

Update: he accepted the role of eldest and agreed to fight my battles for me.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

¿Por que no los dos?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I thought the stereotype was that we beat the shit out of the younger siblings. Gotta keep those lil shits in line.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 10 months ago

You beat them up, and protect them from smaller predators, as they're your punching bag and no one else's.

It didn't work for me, mine was younger enough that beating up his bullies would send me to prison. All I got to do was call him names, and that's only half the fun.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You beat them up, and protect them from smaller predators, as they're your punching bag and no one else's.

Hey it's like Russian military! They have a very strict beating order

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Which is ridiculous! As an oldest child, I know that my little brother didn't have any needs like my little sister or I did. Every few weeks, there'd be a door slam or a yelled, "WHY DOESN'T ANYONE PAY ATTENTION TO ME!?", which let us know he was still alive and obviously thriving if he had enough energy to make so much noise.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Fuck you I'm the youngest child and I'm in my 30s. And my mom doesn't even have a basement (I live in the attic)

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

For real, I'm the youngest in my late 30s and my parents don't have a basement either(I moved out in 2022)

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hey, I'll have you know I have a room above the garage. I have my dignity!

[-] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

So, which half of the horse costume are you, then?

[-] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

You know when you get called out so hard you have to laugh your ass off? Like, give em the W, they earned it?

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Excuse me buddy, I resemble that remark

[-] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 25 points 10 months ago

I don't know how to break this to you but its not 2016 anymore and Tumblr isn't as popular as it used to. Most of these are grown ass adults which absolutely atrocious reading comprehension.

This is also why Tumblr is tamer about social issues these days, all the pearl clutching teenagers who will cringe at their actions later in life are on Twitter.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Apologies, I meant underdeveloped.

[-] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here’s what OP assumed you knew they meant to say:

TAYLOR SWIFT IS HETEROSEXUAL

just in case it wasn’t fucking clear

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

It’s so obvious too. Hetero: the other or opposite. Sexual: relating to sexuality. She’s the opposite of sexual. Heterosexuals are often aromantic but not always, which may be the origin of their confusion.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'll hunt you for sport and leave your carcass where it lies. Won't even take a trophy. /J

Because apparently people can't pick up on obvious riffs

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I thought I was being clever with the last bit, too. After a year, I still can’t figure out whether Lemmy hates wordplay or doesn’t understand it.

[-] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 months ago

There are likely a number of very different takes involved, which may look the same at the surface level:

  • Gay women crushing on her

  • LGBTrenders latching on to someone popular

  • Pro-LGBT activists who make everything they see about their cause

  • Trolls stirring the pot

  • Foreign powers stoking controversy

  • Social media promoting anything and everything that drives engagement

  • Anti-LGBT activists promoting it as another example of the gay agenda

I'm sure there are more, but the point is that people tend to feel a personal attachment to anything they agree with that becomes popular, using it as an example in their own mind proving that the world agrees with them, without actually knowing anything about what's really going on.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Edit: retracted. Apparently my reading comprehension sucks too.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago
[-] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

Like a virgin

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for your patience. The Voyager app doesn’t have notifications yet.

OK this is embarrassing but I thought OP was talking about a completely different artist and it only just clicked. I don’t know anything about Swift aside from the hook of “shake it off” which I’ve only heard a few times. I’ll retract the original comment.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

why are we bringing up rebecca black in year of our lord two thousand twenty two plus two???

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago
[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

She should do an ironic cover of Gang Fight.

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Meh, sounds like pretty standard pop singing. Lots of people can do that.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's no way I'm clicking that link. The possibility of it being an elaborate Rick Roll type situation to get Friday stuck in my head, and I'm not willing to take that chance.

Edit: God damn, didn't realize Lemmy had so many Rebecca Black fans.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I think people are just kinda broadly excited about a "redemption" story given all the hate she got. It feels good to see her making interesting and enjoyable hyperpop after she was basically eviscerated by the internet for a crap song when she was just a child

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Then you can simply search Youtube for Rebecca black and listen to anything uploaded less than a decade ago

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

Because she's actually a good singer now. She took lessons and worked her ass off to git gud. Check out "Do You?" by her it's my favourite.

[-] lea@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So basically, covid happened and rebecca black returned as a queer icon with a friday hyperpop remix.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

She's still out there doing her thing. She's made more music since and recentlyish been on other TV stuff. I saw her with very short colored hair on a Netflix original food show a couple weeks back. One of those cheap to make ameature food competitions.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

My reading comprehension has tanked during the pandemic.

I feel like I’m not alone, too.

I need to touch grass, honestly.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I feel that way sometimes, but then I read further and discover a lot of the time that the thing I thought I read wrong was simply written poorly or by an AI. It's hard to comprehend something that is incomprehensible, ya know?

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Isn't she dating a professional football player?

[-] skygirl@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

She's not bi as best I'm aware.

But dating a dude isn't a disqualifying factor.

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