Comment on Anon disrespects their elders
assembly@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’m so confused. Can someone explain this one to me? It just looks like someone is playing a phone game or DS or something. Don’t people play phone games still or is that the joke?
Redacted@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public playing a handheld game console.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Interesting, so being into ad-infested, freemium mobile games is okay, but being into real games that you can play straight through without interruptions is cringe?
I’m suddenly glad to be an adult.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
At least according to the three children im around on a regular basis, phone games are also in the category of “cringe things that are boomer-coded”
k0e3@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
That’s super interesting. I would have assumed most kids nowadays were completely addicted shitty mobile games and playing on the go would be the norm.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Are they just opposed to the concept of games itself? Wow, what a way to have a childhood.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
Kids these days have it bad for games.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The fact that they think like that is cringe in and of itself.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Strong agree, cringe culture is cringe
pyre@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
lol what. instead of what, looking at a dipshit taking pictures of strangers the entire commute?
modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
i am the youth, nobody thinks this and in fact playing with a game console versus a phone is in fact even a fashion or cultural statement that people think is cool
Redacted@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Well i know two teenagers that disagree with you
modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
i can assure you that my impression of the youth is more encompassing than yours
toynbee@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Why?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Partly because extreme self consciousness has become normal in the era where abnormalities can get you recorded and posted on the internet for mockery.
Like I get it, I have an anxiety disorder and cptsd and was bullied as a kid all of which combine to a form of extreme self consciousness. But my fear of playing my steam deck in a laundromat or on the bus is what’s left of what was at a much less healthy stage of life a fear of going to the grocery store or browsing in a shop for more than exactly what I went in for (ok I still struggle with that one).
It’s mental illness that certain corners of the internet, 4chan especially, have not only normalized, but gone so far as to encourage in each other and likely induce. Also given that it’s 4chan it probably originates with self consciousness from failure to understand social rules and expectations and the policing of themselves extending to policing of others
Redacted@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Getting a solid answer on that from teenagers is basically not possible. They live life based on “vibes”, and the vibes are cringe
toynbee@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Huh. There aren’t many teenagers in my life but the two who matter to me (my nephews) have always been pro-video-game.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
FTFY
For a lot of young people, the cultural norm is that any kind of sincerity is cringe.
I was talking about this with a friend recently, but is there any culture for 13 year olds anymore? What music do they listen to? Because when I was a teenager, a mere decade ago, there was still a distinct youth subculture that I just don’t think exists anymore.
None of this is to shake my fist at a cloud and say things were better back in my day. But I do think that Covid, the proliferation of algorithmic social media, and the death of third places, have all contributed to a generation of kids who think going outside and having a nice time is insufferably cringe, when they should be going to an all ages punk show, wearing stupid clothes, and having experiences
Redacted@lemmy.zip 45 minutes ago
Yes they think sincerity is cringe in most circumstances, but i wouldnt agree with any of your other points
RBWells@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I have taken my kids to some pretty small concerts, that they asked for rides to, that garage band scene is still around it’s just not our scene anymore, right? The main difference I found is that my kids wanted to share the music with me, wanted me to go see it with them and my God I would never have done that with my mom.
So thankful they grew up and do wear stupid clothes (and sometimes awesome costumes for conventions). In our family there’s a cl at gender split - the boys & men including the trans one are less about going out, the girls & women are all more into going out to shows & events.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ironically, the real cringe is giving a fuck what anyone dictating what is cringe thinks. Especially kids to today that didn’t have shit like lawn darts and unsupervised outdoor activity to filter out some of the dumbest ones and teach life lessons.