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I tend to like the young folk and identify with them way more than people my age, not in a creepy way I hope. Probably because I don't have kids and am terminally online. I'm optimistic about everything. I don't think there's anything about younger people I fundamentally don't understand.
I don't get sending huge amounts of money to streamers, but I also don't have huge piles of money to throw around.
I actually like how younger people are going more minimalist in their fashion taste. Lots of reappropriation of stereotypical work clothes, like Dickies pants, overalls, stuff like that. That's a neat trend I've noticed.
Soapbox moment for Frank;
Folks should ID with younger people and it is a huge problem that society has stigmatized healthy relationships between adults and young people or children. Kids need mentors and positive adult role models. They need support from adults who understand what they've been through and can offer support and perspective. Kids need adults in their lives and it is a problem that having any kind of relationship with a young person outside your immediate family is almost inevitably viewed as predatory or exploitative.
Skinhead (real skins, not boneheads) 3.0 or 4.0. I dig it.
I work with teenagers every day and it definitely helps prevent boomerfication