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a lot of us have turned into total weenies that like puppers and cry a lot?

I'll have you know I was always a total weenie that liked puppers! The edgelord shit came from my himbo ass being confronted with the increasing horrors of the United States and the powerlessness to blunt the tide.

I am so sorry Zoomers, we failed you hard

No. Zoomers now know what not to do. We tried the reasonable and peaceful approaches, just like we were asked. Now there is nothing but disillusionment and the ice-cold thousand yard stare of the next generation as the panicked political elite understand what they broke. The next generation gets to skip the pretense and get straight to the point.

EDIT: Live action recreation of when I discovered US History

Millennials be like “today i will dye my hair blue before starting my first class of Social Justice 101 at Woke University because I am 18 and just graduated high school in 2021”

Never really was an edge lord but, I just feel being able to be emotionally expressive as a man is best for my peace of mind. I feel comfortable and I can only imagine the sort of internal suffering previous generations had, being deprived of their full range of emotions due to restrictions placed upon them by gender roles. The thing that annoys me is that large swaths of society have yet to be accepting of this.

Life is hard and we want some comforts

Personally, my comforts have blended with my hardness and turned me into a barely contained ball of violent neuroses

Which is why I box

While I've grown out of my edge and become much more emotionally in-touch, I have to admit that I really dislike the millennial obsession with childish things. A lot of times, it really feels like it borders on arrested development and escapism. I'm not free of this vice, myself, by the way.

When I speak about childishness, I'm not referring to particular forms of media such as cartoons and videogames which can both provide adults with something worthwhile depending on the story being told. I'm referring more to Disney/ Nintendo/ Marvel adults.

There are, of course, other things I love about my generation.

Hmm. Idk if the cutesy ever died, more that it was being hidden under the edge. Like, happy tree friends was predicated on the idea that people liked cute shit to begin with, same with the grossness of invader zim or idk, most of the stuff on Newgrounds, I'm sure there's other touchstones. Edge is a reaction to and rejection of wholesomeness, with an unhealthy dose of self hatred and irony.

Now that the edgelord stuff is seen as cringe, the cute can breathe again. I don't know when the switch happens, like, some millenials i know are still in their edge phase. It's probably something dialectical but I'm not smsrt enough to theorise

Edit: talking specifically about millennials too, I'm deliberately not addressing south park because I'm not confident to tackle it as its own subject, but it's probably the most representative 'edgey' media entry point for that generation

One day a switch flipped in my brain and I suddenly stopped liking filthy frank and switched to much lighter humour. Why? Because of woke.

I think two major global economic meltdowns before many of us even reached middle age probably have something to do with a desire to return to pleasant and simple times.

Seriously it wasn't long ago where the hight of our humour was homophobia and jokes about SA. We were the fucking edgelord generation.

I was in middle school like 10 years ago. Same type of humor. It kinda died down as I got into late high school though

How did we go from being kids that would beat each other up for even looking at the colour pink, to the heckin' wholesome cat video generation?

Your brittle bones makes it harder to pick on each other probably. Also, maybe the decaying society we live causes us to develop an infantile disorder as a coping mechanism. Maybe that’s a bit too pretentiously deep. But I mean, back then when society faced similar hardships, people just kinda walked up to the house of the person upsetting them and shoot them. That or have a thriving family/community so you don’t suffer alone. If neither violence nor community is allowed/encouraged/available, then you just have to rely on the heckin pupperino to make you a little more comfortable

I am so sorry Zoomers, we failed you hard

Zoomer reactionaries just watch twitch streams all day and watch engagement bait podcasts where some brocoli head pretends to be superior to some model pornstar

Your posting is extremely high-powered this evening

Also it's because so.many millenials realised they are queer and neurodiverse.

I guess when things shifted from boomers and X'ers making and defining comedy content to Millenials making comedy content?

I vaguely remember my little pony and adventure time being labelled a "new sincerity" movement that was a response or reaction to the edgelord shit of the oughts and nineties. So maybe that was still x'ers in control. I guess people got sick of, or marketers decided people should be sick of, the sneering contempt for everything and everyone that kind of defined Clintonism through the mid late oughts. Plus people being sick of "hipster irony" though i don't remember how much that was really a thing.

There was also a lane of people doing MY SPOON IS TOO BIG D: shit so I think the edgy ones are still out there somewhere

It's pretty standard edgy middle schooler stuff. Most people grow out of it and become liberals. Some people stay that way, but in my experience it's mostly limited to people who spend way too much time on right-wing websites.

A lot of us maybe realized we were wrong.

I remember looking at rotten dot com crime scene photos because I was aware that my life was pretty comfortable even if my family wasn't all that wealthy and it felt like I needed to do something to "see the world" or something. Being politically and historically apathetic and a latchkey kid with no outside pressure to learn anything in those areas, the decision to "make myself uncomfortable" was the best guess I had for trying to figure out adulthood.

And it wasn't a good guess.

we should invent a new form of adulthood that transcends both of the "im an adult because i own a home and have kids and now do dad jokes" / "im an adult because i can still play videogames and consume childrens media without caring what people think" stuff.

I'm surprised any of us got of out that mentality, the deck was stacked against it with how horrible pop culture was in the early 2000s with nu-metal, WWE, South Park, the general post-9/11 bloodthirst including stuff like racist Flash animations on Newgrounds and Stickdeath, etc.

I'm equally unsurprised by how many didn't grow out of it and turned into ”you could make this today because everyone's so easily offended” boomer types.

Because of the end of history we were the first generation in a while that got to choose our destiny. We first tried to emulate those that came before us. Then history started back up. We also gained the ability to talk to other people in unprecedented ways. Then we had the ability to choose our destiny taken from us. We got to experience empathy in new ways while having culturally unique levels of suffering to observe with it. So yeah, we just want comfort and safety and friends.

I feel like trends just be trends, we will probably like something else entirely in 20 years.

I blame the 9/11 MK Ultra event tbh

I think at least some of it can be attributed to a growing prominence of feminist thought and the realization that men are, as Bell Hooks puts it, made to emotionally mutilate ourselves from a young age. With adulthood came the realization of just how much it was harming us and a greater freedom to authentically express ourselves.