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Before the algorithm took over, natural cruelty ruled supreme.

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    Remember that the front page of reddit had jailbait and coontown posts hitting the top regularly. After that it was fatpeoplehate.

    People were just as deranged back in the day it just manifested more aggressively.

    In the cod4 days id regularly scream slurs at people and tell them to kill themselves. It was just what you did.

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    • fizz@lemmy.nzF [email protected]

      Remember that the front page of reddit had jailbait and coontown posts hitting the top regularly. After that it was fatpeoplehate.

      People were just as deranged back in the day it just manifested more aggressively.

      In the cod4 days id regularly scream slurs at people and tell them to kill themselves. It was just what you did.

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      • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netR [email protected]

        Generational categories aren’t real. They’re arbitrary lines made up for listicals and inflammatory content. There is every type of person in every generation, and most trends are more due to the natural progression of age than generation drift.

        Comparing generations is only useful when evaluating the context in which they live(d).

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        It covers shared experiences decently well. Like obviously there is overlap but in the U.S. as a whole most millennials were kids who have a memory of a pre 9/11 world. Most zoomers grew up with WiFi being common in their houses. Most Gen Xers have memories of being a child near the end of the Cold War and were in the work force before Internet was common. Most boomers either served in the Vietnam war or have a memory of someone close to them going off to fight in an unpopular war.

        A lot of those experiences have lasting effects in how those generations behave. It doesn’t mean everyone is the same but instead that you can follow trends that are more true for each generation

        Then there is also the advantage of tracking a groups shared experiences like for example many millennials were relatively unaffected by the dotcom bubble but for the 2008 recession they were hit much harder

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        • fizz@lemmy.nzF [email protected]

          Remember that the front page of reddit had jailbait and coontown posts hitting the top regularly. After that it was fatpeoplehate.

          People were just as deranged back in the day it just manifested more aggressively.

          In the cod4 days id regularly scream slurs at people and tell them to kill themselves. It was just what you did.

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          1000001722

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          • fizz@lemmy.nzF [email protected]

            Remember that the front page of reddit had jailbait and coontown posts hitting the top regularly. After that it was fatpeoplehate.

            People were just as deranged back in the day it just manifested more aggressively.

            In the cod4 days id regularly scream slurs at people and tell them to kill themselves. It was just what you did.

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            The real scathing insult was just "uninstall"

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            • humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.worksH [email protected]

              The terms are used to convey a group that would buy shit. They are not anthropology terms. They are marketing terminology used to sell you shit. I'm sure today's students like to use them in their anthropology papers though

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              the anthropology term is Age Cohort.

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                idk, incels are very much millennial's problem too.

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                trilby hat version was a major early brand.

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                  Being started by a millennial means nothing to the discussion.

                  Don't blame me; I'm not the one who brought it up.

                  Were millennials the users who popularized it?

                  Yes.

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                  Source on the last part, please.

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                    Liveleak

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                    • deceptichum@quokk.auD [email protected]

                      Do people actually say the first panel?

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                      Lawl absolutely not, good question

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                        No LiveLeak? SomethingAwful? PORK CHOP SANDWICHES?

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                        LUE? stileproject? Fads? This image macro is entirely unaware

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                          I don't think millennials are responsible for 4chan. That shit was a cesspool while most of them were in elementary school.

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                          Also pretty sure the 4chan to Nazi speedrun was a state run psyop. 4chan is by far the easiest social media to manipulate. You don't have to pretend to have a user history.

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                            Pizza bombing

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                              Calling out Millennials for Fascism when Gen Z helped elect Trump 2.0 is just fucking rich.

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                                To be fair styles project and rotten.com were there well before millennials.

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                                  Calling out Millennials for Fascism when Gen Z helped elect Trump 2.0 is just fucking rich.

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                                  ???

                                  Every fucking generation helped elect Trump

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                                    To be fair styles project and rotten.com were there well before millennials.

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                                    Na, but Millenials used it in their (pre-)teens seeing some fucked-up shit (and strangely most of us are still fine)

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                                    • deceptichum@quokk.auD [email protected]

                                      Do people actually say the first panel?

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                                      Kids probably got annoyed hearing how they do fucked up shit online and are trying to fire back

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                                        I think it is so funny that people seem to forget that Gen X set the stage for internet culture when most millennials were teens and preteens.

                                        Absolutely love that millennials are once again taking all the blame for actions that the whiny generation also partook in and indeed cultivated with glee before behavioral regulations online became a thing. When that happened, millennials were also being blamed for being too soft.

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                                          It goes way further back than that: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/controlling-the-virtual-world/history/rape.html

                                          I used to frequent LambdaMOO. Things weren't all that different back then than they are now.

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