Basically every generation has their semi-unique way of being fucked up in some angle, some I’d say worse than others, but either way the kids were never alright and the adults that they became were also just as not alright. However I feel like the creation of the internet and the ocean of horrible shit you can find here, it feels like it should do more shit to this generation than the previous. You have porn sites, which, yeah, porn and media like it has always existed but porn is at your fingertip, that HAS to do something, you have sites where you can just watch people die and get murdered at the tip of your fingers, you have sites where you can coagulate with a bunch of other randoms and echo chamber around all of your hateful and antisocial ideas until it pushes you over the edge and you shoot up a school, or some other shit of the like. All of this shit at the snap of a finger FEELS like it’s going to deal a big number on the kids and adults these days, but how much, what will it look like? How badly will this spiral when it comes to the next generation? There’s so much shit it feels nebulous, or maybe someone already figured it out, who knows, I sure don’t.
moratorium on idealist nonsense half-baked vibes-based generational-warfare posting please
Site rule? Can we reach consensus on this?
im fine with it just getting shit on but since OP hasn’t even bothered to respond this is indistinguishable from low effort trolling
https://hexbear.net/post/9313983 I made a thread if you want to add your thoughts. Disagreement welcome!
‘Generations’ do not exist. They are meaningless ways to think about the world. Drugs, porn and gore were at the fingertips of anyone using the internet 20 years ago just as much as they are now. Some of the original sites which had executions and cartel videos actually thankfully no longer exist.
FWIW people said the same intergenerational brianrot about TV and Radio. It was as meaningless for those too.
FWIW people said the same intergenerational brianrot about TV and Radio. It was as meaningless for those too.
People have been doing the same thing for as long as recorded history, Socrates decried moving from tablets and chisels to papyrus and link, claiming it would destroy human memory and create the illusion of wisdom without real knowledge.
Same with hand-copied books to the printing press, to the novel, to telegrams, to radio, to TV and so on
brianrot
I’m sure some of the Brians are okay
Some of the nicest people I know are named Brian (or even Bryan)
Porn is bad because [christian talking point] and [alt-right study] and [misunderstood neurochemistry] and of course [feature of capitalism]
Thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids’ sex ed] random hexbear user!
You can fill in the blanks yourself
I mean I would argue while there’s no fundamental issue, a majority of porn that exists has the major moral problem of being almost exclusively produced coercively (either directly or by wage slavery).
This is true, and falls under [feature of capitalism].
Though I will note there’s a lot of people - albeit still a definite minority - who primarily engage with pornography through forms that, even in the case of wage slavery, aren’t particularly more harmful than any job as an artist or writer who has to make stuff other people want to meet ends meet.
Even beyond that, there’s really no good evidence for the consumption of porn being inherently harmful, regardless of the morality of the work’s production.
25 years ago, when I was a kid on the internet, we used to try to trick people into looking at a picture of a man’s distended anus
I got suspended because i sent goatse to random students on the brand new school email system where you could see every single student in the districts email address in a dropdown menu.
I don’t think it was good to do, in hindsight. I actually feel pretty bad about it now that I’ve brought it up…
max scuff penalty
“Porn will cause people to BE SCUFFED” one of my favourites. I adore this weird regressive bullshit.
But rotten.com is older than some users here, none of what you describe is new. There are already adults over 30 who grew up with it like this. On this very site, even.
And look what kind of Liberal slop trough we congregate at now! We’re not ok!
A unipolar western-led global order for so many years will do that to anybody.
I’m so medded up rotten and stick figure death theatre that sometimes I use gallows humour when life is grim 😱
Everyone is a mixed bag of good and bad things. None of yous are dying of polio and not that many are being conscripted to go die in a trench somewhere. Everyone will be approximately fine, the world will keep turning, the struggle for our future will continue.
Seconding the request for a moratorium on idealist nonsense half-baked vibes-based generational-warfare posting.
I made a thread: https://hexbear.net/post/9313983
rotten dot com was truly gross blech
You have porn sites, which, yeah, porn and media like it has always existed but porn is at your fingertip, that HAS to do something
A scary thought for me is wondering how much the amount of time each day spent talking face to face with other people has dropped for these past couple of generations compared to all of previous human history.
As scuffed as all the other ones
You’re right in the sense that the internet let’s you broadcast a lot of information really fast. This is a really big inconvenience for genocidal scumbags who the world hates.
Naturally instead of stopping the murders we’re returning to moral panic about porno and people seeing bad stuff. The fact that we’ve got mercenaries and idf veteran chilling out in our societies doesn’t seem to cause any significant moral panic, for some reason.
Worry about yourself bub, way I see it people who aren’t from my generation (Gen Z) are also fucked up, millennials to me at least in the West were also prone to being marks and falling for dumb shit all the time
Same as always
Sure, here’s a funny reply — Not as bad as boomers, not as good as me. Okay, that sounds good. Alexa, send post
but porn is at your fingertip, that HAS to do something
yes it makes it so you see so much low effort slop that it turns you off the whole concept.
Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of living in a genocidal empire.
Maybe the kids will grow up and magically save the day.
Pure idealism. Its the same old shit. Nothing has changed.
kids these days are uniquely fucked up
Honestly, its about the same as ever. Just the other side of the idealist coin. There’s no fundamental generational attribute here, we’re just living in a toxic environment designed to uphold the power of white supremacist pedophiles. Same as we have been for 250 years.
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