@dew_the_dew@nicecrew.digital this is because there's nothing kid or teen online anymore, you don't go to neopets you go on twitter and get troons and tankie faggots screaming at your for being white
i'm not sure if there ever was anything 'kid or teen' on the internet. 'no one knows you're a dog'
i consider when i was like 13 and had the aol CDs and would ofc log into the teen chat rooms and it was filled with a/s/l and in retrospect i don't think a lot of those chatters were actually teenagers.
@nikiboo@mona which is weird because genXers are probably the most atheistic of any generation. Maybe rebellious phase but it could also be a response to how fucking upside down the world has become in the last few years and they want an easily identifiable community for shelter.
@RustyCrab@mona i did have a atheiest phase from in my early to mid teens but ive switched back to being religious which is the common thread from what ive heard which is odd because gen z my generation seems to be having experiences people wouldnt have until there mid 20s in there early to mid teens
@RustyCrab@mona most zoomers arent being raised by boomers anymore from what i can see a lot of zoomers atleast in comparison to the last few generations are becoming more religious
@mona@dew_the_dew that stuff was slightly before my time but I remember stuff like new grounds and flash game websites being a huge deal. Actual independent creators just making stupid fun shit everywhere. Stuff like itch exists today but I don't ever hear about people using it for games. Now everybody just doomscrolls on twitter.
@RustyCrab@mona@dew_the_dew we used to mock DeviantArt now all the creatives and autists complain about bullshit.
Ai art is the fate we deserve when your favorite artists can't do shit other than rip people off, get into drama, never have long term projects, and seethe.
@mona@RustyCrab@nikiboo someone I know who trooned out had a viewpoint of telling me to kill myself to get out of bad irl situations and hoping I'd end up in a better one. A few months to a year later he went to a mental hospital after whining about being clocked again.
@mona@RustyCrab@nikiboo also the LGBT community is literally the same group of people who made the internet shit years ago (jannying, being oversensitive, etc) but with pronouns and state/big pharma support.
@PhenomX6@mona@nikiboo big pharma will do anything and everything to keep the troon stuff going. The only troon I know goes to the doctor on an almost weekly basis. That fucking hospital has to have made half their revenue off him.
@KateMossFan666@mona@Dicer@nikiboo sense of humor is the most obvious tell, but there's other things like life perspective, how to approach social and job situations (most pronounced among boomers), how well they digest irony and understand sarcasm. It may be a product of America's economy going from first class to third world in such a short time.
@mona@Dicer@nikiboo yeah it's literally shocking how easy it is to tell how old somebody is just from now they type. Of course there's going to be exceptions on fedi because we're weirdos but in general American generations are stupidly diverged in culture.
@nikiboo@RustyCrab@mona I want you, and every American, to know that you always sound like bumbling morons whenever you talk about generations of people from a guy who wrote a book in the 50s who made shit up, like the rest of the field of sociology and psychology.