Does anyone else (specifically people who didn’t grow up in the country they live in) feel like they are “lagging behind” on pop culture?
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I’m that old now.
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I know how you feel, I completely missed gossip=tea. Don't even know where that came from, all of a sudden people are whispering about "spilling the tea" and I just had to nod politely.
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Trash, the word you're looking for is trash.
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I don't know. All I can say is it's definitely related to the Internet causing slang to change faster than ever before. That, and the whole "censor yourself because large companies are family friendly pussies" culture that perverts the Internet. So it's probably a combination of things like that.
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Our whole global pop culture has been fragmented now. Up until about 20 years ago, everyone the world over almost universally followed the same or similar pop culture because we all watched the same TV, the same movies, the same radio, the same music and knew the same biggest pop stars, movie stars and famous people. It was all mostly the same content from cable TV, satellite TV, broadcast radio, magazines and newspapers. We all read, watched and listened to the same stuff most of the time.
Now it's completely fragmented. Everyone everywhere live in their own world, watch their own on demand TV .... some like new stuff, some like old, some like regional, some like international, some like it all, some like only one niche corner. Not everyone follows the same patterns, shows, personalities or music.
I'm middle aged myself and I have no clue what anyone is doing or referencing most of the time and I no longer care. I like what I like and if I don't understand or don't get something, I move on until I find someone that can understand things that I understand.
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Are we the same person ?
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It depends on the location and community (e.g. lemmy/reddit).
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Same here. I have no clue what the latest things to watch, read, or listen to are. And I don't think I miss out on anything. I also get almost none of the references.
