Anyone else noticing Millennials suddenly making sports their entire personality?Obviously Gen X and Boomers loved watching US sports and created the culture. But recently I'm seeing a huge amount of my millennial friends suddenly become hyper-fans of sports they previously never followed. Mostly NHL, NBA, MLB, and even onions shit like WNBA and Soccer. It's all for shit they didn't even grow up watching, they're all just suddenly massive fans of (insert NHL/NBA/MLB team here) within the last 2-3 years. All of them browse the team Reddits and getting all their opinions from those faggots. A ton of team bandwagoning and bouncing around too. Before they derided sports as normalfag "hurr handegg xD" shit, or were ambivalent. Now it feels forced.Seems very forced. Probably a substitute for religion/lack of meaning in their life.
>>154957757That's tough. You should ask your local rabbi to tell you what you should think about it.
I wouldn't know, I don't talk to millennials.
I'm extremely tired of this new american gimmick of classifying people by generations
millennials are probably 35-40 or something now. you seriously think they browse here?
>>154957939There is no way /sp/ posters are younger than 30, there is just no way. Zoomer and gen alpha hate sports
>>154957939haha there's no way, r-right? haha
>>154957757I have noticed that a bit, but only with Americans I got to know tbqh. I think it's a bit of a need to consume things. For a feeling of belonging
>>154958289well I'm 27 and I'm here. How do you explain that?
>>154957939I thought the majority of this website was millenials? I been chatting with Zoomers this entire time? Wtf
35 here, anyone younger than me is a fag
lots of zoomers here came from xit's probably more a zoomer site nowlots of millennials seem to use reddit though
The push for marketable storylines combined with the tiktok/YTshorts-fication of sports successfully brainwashed the "sportsball" crowd
>>154957939There's no way I'm talking to any 35-40 year olds on here. Don't they have a job, a wife and children to balance?
>>154957869I am extremely tired about being reminded I am getting old. It pisses me off.
>>154958432>Tfw 34
>>154958390The oldest zoomer is 29
>>154957757>Probably a substitute for religion/lack of meaning in their lifeI'm a millennial and virtually every "atheist" I knew in my 20s is going to church now. Also boomers and xers are even more obsessed with sports
>>154958619This website is filled with single men past their 30s with no family.
>>154958703really? that's depressing.
>>154958727Thanks for the reminder.
>>154958390I'm 29, born 1997 so technically Gen Z.Zoomers are 14-29 currently, 1997-2012.Millennials are 30-45, 1981-1996.4chan has always skewed young. We're also a 2000s website with a bunch of millennials who grew up with it and haven't left.90% of the time on here you're talking to someone aged 14-45. Probably some Gen X and literal 12 year olds, the rare actual boomer too probably.
>>154958619>>154958727Nigger what website do you think you're on?
>>154958619>4chan>job>wife>children
>>154958311Us burgerclaps have always been very sports focused, even going all the way back to the 1800s and old school baseball. Then NFL got huge in the 50-60s, alongside NBA and NHL. Highschool and college football are huge culturally too, especially within local communities/regionally.Euros generally don't give a shit about anything besides Soccer. So we just have way more major sports over here that command widespread cultural attention.
>>154957939there are a few who can't move ongenerally though, it seems most people just naturally grow out of it - focus on their job, relationship, hobbies etc. I'm 31 myself and plan to leave before 2027
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>>154958835>I'm 31 myself and plan to leave before 2027Why make it a big deal? If you already don't enjoy browsing here, just stop. If you enjoy it, why stop? Unless you've got an internet addiction or something queer.Despite retards and shitposting (which has died down significantly compared to 2010), 4chan is still the best place to have discussions about hobbyist shit. The rest of the internet is dogshit in comparison, and has even more retards. At least you can call out the retards here. Compare /v/'s tastes in games or /lit/'s tastes in books to Reddit midwits. The IQ and cultural differences are obvious.Anonymity and freedom of speech results in the best discussion.
>>154957757The average person knows deep down that they're worthless and insignificant and they try to cope with this by attaching themselves to something that *does* seem important. This used to be their religion or their country / city but since we live in a godless globohomo cesspit politics has replaced religion and sports has replaced actual regional conflict.People are doing the same shit they've always done, just in a dumber and more meaningless kind of way.
>>154958818No, and you know it's not important to thisEveryone wants to expand to the US because you guys love to consume like mindless drones? All the American F1 bandwagoners, handcrafted through this DTS Netflix shit. Tons of Premier League plastics as well, and the first thing they do to show their "support" is buy 1000 shirts. Dream cattleIt begins with you guys loving commercials so much they become the main talking point of your biggest sports eventAlso, we've got plenty of basketball, ice hockey, and handball fans. Enough to regularly fill our halls and make people watch on TV. When there's a big handball game, that's 60% market share on TV. It's just that football is a great unifying factor for basically everyone, it stands above the rest in that sense
>>154958619Shouldn't you be playing roblox and watching tiktoks? This is a boomer website.
>>154957939heh doubt it. t-that would be pathetic
>>154958835Why plan to leave? Just be here or not. I get not having time and focusing on other things, but if things are so shit, then why not go right away?I have to agree with >>154958928. This place isn't perfect, but at least it's not as superficial and passive-aggressively "positive" as 99% of the rest of the internet. Even if I have to wade through 99 bullshit threads/posts before getting one actually good discussion and valid take, it's still more than you get in other places. And nothing stops me from moderating my own time here. I don't have to spend all my day here, so I don't. That doesn't mean I have to leave at all costs. And if it meant that, I wouldn't come up with some sort of transition schedule
>>15495894>you guys love to consume like mindless drones? All the American F1 bandwagoners, handcrafted through this DTS Netflix shit. Tons of Premier League plastics as well, and the first thing they do to show their "support" is buy 1000 shirts. Dream cattleThere's some truth in this. I follow NFL and MLB because my Father and Grandfather watched it, it's a family thing and I grew up with watching with them. That's the case for most Americans They're also simply entertaining games to watch at the highest level. My bandwagon friends, who've only started watching sports in the past year, have become merch and jersey obsessed. I don't get it besides consoomerist mindset.>It begins with you guys loving commercials so much they become the main talking point of your biggest sports eventThis is goycattle behavior.
>>154958943I fucking hate modern F1 fans. So forced and trendy. Probably the peak example of the trend OP is describing, spiritually bored people looking for a new hobby and identity.
>>154958942>sports has replaced actual regional conflict.Based. /sp/ caused world peace.
>>154959006I didn't say this to mock you guys, although I recognize it might look that way. It's just that I have made that experience a few times myself with Americans. Surely not with the entirety of the American people, but with guys from the US in a sports context. And it got me thinkingAs an example: I spent half a year in London for my bachelor. I spent a lot of time with guys from all over the world there, but mostly with Englishmen (of course) and Americans. All cool guys, seriously. So cool I told them to visit my hometown. Eventually, a few of them came. We went to my local club's games, and every single of these American guys immediately wanted to buy club merch. They were so keen on it I had to ask wtf was going on. Their reply basically boiled down to that they felt obliged to buy stuff because of the experience and because they felt attached to all of this since we were friends. That stuff was supposed to serve as proof of our bond and their quasi-fanhood. They had nothing to do with football before that, mind you. It was this new thing for them, and they had to get into it that wayAnd personally, I think this dynamic is somewhat visible beyond that personal experience of mine. But I never had that experience with anyone else but Americans. Also, I want to emphasize that my local club isn't particularly trendy, I think the pull in that situation would have been larger if this had been flex materialI appreciated the idea of showing support, but it was weird to see it directed towards commercial revenue. I don't want to be mean, but I think many Americans really are perfect customers who define themselves along these linesThese guys are still all cool btw, I miss them
>>154957939>>154958619whats this stupid take, moving on to what? I've a wife and a child on the way and I keep coming back to this dumpster, 10+y here and counting YOU ARE HERE FOREVER, what part of that you guys didn't understand?
>>154959147It's the only place on the internet where people post what they really think because there isn't some system attached to it for engagement, money or username reputation. It's why I continue to come here.
>>154959059*dies from a bomb in her ass*
>>154959122> Their reply basically boiled down to that they felt obliged to buy stuff because of the experience and because they felt attached to all of this since we were friends. That stuff was supposed to serve as proof of our bond and their quasi-fanhood.Pretty based and bro-pilled. I've taken foreign friends to see MLB games. Most usually grab a hat or save the ticket stub since it's their first time seeing an American baseball game and they want a souvenir. Your dudes becoming huge fans of Germany soccer after is a bit weird. Not something I would do for a team not in my region (let alone sport). It's cool if they discovered a new genuine interest, even if the motivations were consoomerist.We are the goycattle.
>>154957757>suddenly making sports their entire personality?you've not met any sports guys while growing up?
>>154959282All the sports bros I knew growing up also grew up watching/playing NFL/NBA/etc. This is guys in their 20-40s suddenly becoming huge fans & consumers after previously not GAF.
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