The general reaction to this post being "Who's Matpat?" is super interesting to me. And the comments saying that Tom Scott and Matpat aren't old are also interesting since they follow the trend in Lemmy of the average age being a lot older than any other social network. I'm Gen Z and primarily consume content via a very Zoomer-heavy platform, YouTube, and the only other social network I have is Lemmy, which I'd say is very millennial-dominated. Which is why I stayed on Lemmy when I first got on here in June, since I liked the difference in opinion on the same topics on Lemmy and YouTube. Nothing related to the post, just something I've noticed for a while but never shared.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 30 points 10 months ago

I feel like people not knowing this Matpat person may also just be a case of the channel being called "The Game Theorists".

I have seen videos of that channel suggested, but never clicked on any, because it looked like typical content mill stuff to me. If you don't watch any videos, you'll only ever read "The Game Theorists"...

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

as a fellow zoomer I can verify that Lemmy is unique in that you and me as zoomers seem to be a minority here

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This place is a lot like what the older Internet from the 80s and 90s was like, just a bunch of disjointed seperate individually run forums and communities run by passionate individuals in a world of digital anarchy where you can find something new every day. One minute you're downloading guitar tabs handwritten by some random metal fan, to reading about some guy named Steve's tribute website to his pet dog the next.

I think that's what draws us in and keeps us here for the older folks.

[–] SimplyATable@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Same here, it's a lot more chill of a place at least

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

YouTube is zoomer heavy. I know that's true, but I like to believe that I, a millennial, am still welcome there.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I remember YouTube being millennial dominated. I wonder if it's just a phase before realizing you're throwing comments into the void and by being a central social site that still allows anonymity, it just invokes trolls - like xitter.

Wait till you find out YouTube isn't that old and came about because some horny dudes couldn't find the video of Janet Jackson's boob. I mean, 18 is ancient for the internet and other tech, but I'd say it goes beyond just being a website with its social prevalence.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

I've got accounts older than my niece and she'll be 16 in a month.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I just consider "old internet" to be before I was even born

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

The „old internet“ imho is before the few social media sites swallowed all the small forums we had

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

To be fair, I didn't know his handle was MatPat, because I only knew about him as "the Game Theory guy I stopped watching almost ten years ago". If you told me Game Theory was quitting the internet , I would know who you meant.