Did it happen to you yet?
>>222346182no because I was never "in"
>>222346182The big difference this time is we're right.
>>222346182It happened when the first Avengers movie came out.
Oh shit. It happened.
On the internet, yes, it kind of has.I don't use a lot of social media, but lots of games that I used to play, with server lists seemingly populated 24/7, are now completely empty, and lots of YouTube channels and Twitch channels I follow have not streamed or uploaded in years, and I'm never at the forefront of memes and trends, anymore, it used to be that I'd be among the first to see these spawn and slowly spread out, now, I'm completely oblivious to them.It's like the entire internet has become Facebook, in a way, in the sense that everyone has already moved on to something else, and yet, the machinations keep on turning to a hollow audience.
I went to the airport and the speaker was playing oldies from the 2010s, I didn't recognize any of it
I'm a zillennial but I don't feel "confused" by zoomer or alpha internet culture because mentally I've internalized that society is always changing, so I don't cling to anything
2011 - upgraded my computer to play skyrim at the best possible settings and was really disappointed, to this day I can't really get into the game despite trying a lotMy top 10 movies end in 2005, im not even that old, im starting to think maybe it's a genuine lack of quality
>>222346182It will never happen to me. I'm not a chud faggot that hates anything new.
>>222346182No, I follow teenage girls on tiktok to keep up with the slang
>>222346182When broccoli headed zoomers got addicted to tiktok I realized it had happened.When they started talking about how Tung Tung Sahur was in Fortnite and I had no idea what they were talking about.
>>222346692You're an outsider at first, then, you familiarize yourself with it, and ride it's peak for a while, and finally, you're an outsider once more.Except the second time around, you're not a young kid anymore, looking up to these mysterious older figures that have this aura of coolness and wisdom surrounding them.It's a bit more like when you stop hanging out with a friend, and now, enough time has passed that you're not even sure they're the same person anymore.You've not done much with your life, and they're doing something else.Would they care to talk to you about the things you used to talk about?Would you have anything new to say if that's the case?Would the two of you enjoy it like you use to?
>>222346977Yeah, same here.Vine happened and I completely missed it, then, TikTok happened and I didn't want any part of it, nonetheless, apparently that's the direction *it* went.
"Pop culture" hasn't moved on, it has ceased to existThere's a simple thought experiment I like: who's the most popular musician in the world, right now?
>>222346182I'm 36 and still hip and with it
>>222347311Taylor Swift I guess
>>222347623That can't be right, Taylor Swift was the most popular musician in the world over a decade ago
>>222347311>>222347623>>222347657Billie Eilish, uncs
I was never cool but I knew what was popular and cool. Now I have no idea what is cool or popular, luckily I'm old now so I don't have to know.
>>222347311Bad bunny or Taylor swift
>>222346182I had my first kid 9 years ago and that’s exactly when it happened. Haven’t found a new album to listen to, haven’t changed my hairstyle or choice in clothing since
>>222347311This. If you took today's popular songs and played them to people of 30 years ago, they wouldn't be surprised or outraged. If you took the songs of 1996 back to 1966, people might be shocked or surprised. If you took the songs of 1966 to 1933, people would be surprised and confusedSports arenas play music from 40 years ago, but sports arenas of 40 years ago did not play much music from 1946
>>222348755My local dive bar plays Nirvana and Soundgarden and Alice in Chains all day, and it's surreal to me because I remember going in there as a kid and they were playing brand new Nirvana and Soundgarden and Alice in Chains then, too
>>222348953I mean the mid nineties when 99% of people didn’t engage with the internet outside of work was the last gasp of monoculture.
>>222348953What do you think happened? Did creativity die out or did audiences get too shitty?
>>222346182I don't know, current internet culture is the same as it was years ago, just a slightly more deranged version of it, I believe culture has already peaked and there's no going forward anymore. The fact that wojak or feels guy is still a thing, same as pepe, means exactly thatAm I into it or "hip"? No but I get it, I just think most of it is retardedI'm a 29 year old zillennial
>>222346182It's happened to me a bunch of times.
I don't like new country. I miss Big n' Rich
>>222348755>It is 1993. The President of the United States is a man that was born in 1946.>It is 2001. The President of the United States is a man that was born in 1946.>It is 2017. The President of the United States is a man that was born in 1946.>It is 2025. The President of the United States is a man that was born in 1946.
>>222347311>most popular game in the early 2010s was Minecraft>kids born in 2020 are still playing minecraftThis should tell you everything about pop culture and the state of the world
>>222349045Unless you were born in 96, you're a zoomer, lil zoomie
>>222349097No, 95 is the cutoff, 96 is zoomer
>>222349087The bestselling games on the PlayStation 5 at this very moment are the Black Ops and Assassin's Creed installments from fifteen years ago
>>222349084Boomers (the actual definition, not the meme one) will be notorious for being the generation that never stepped aside. The only people in history wealthier and more powerful than their parents, and also wealthier and more powerful than their children.
>>222347311Taylor Swift. She's probably the most popular human being on the planet.
I heard Gorillaz on the oldies station last month
>>222349208Bullshit
>>222349155Gen X here. When I started high school, the older students were boomers and the younger teachers were boomers. I was bullied by boomer upperclassmen and beaten by boomer teachers
>>222347311When I was a kid I thought it was stupid how Futurama only showed pop culture that were popular in the 70s-90s. Like entertainment had been frozen along with Fry. Turns out I was the stupid one because entertainment is now frozen in time with no signs of reversing.
>>222349260It truly was rigged from the start.
>>222349029The audience got too big and diverse. And twitter took the 4th wall down.There's no one to blame. We're just exiting what was a beautiful time for art.
>>222346977TRIPLE T MENTIONED!!!!
>>222349305I went to a mall nearby a couple years ago and they were selling 90s nostalgia shit which I found funny because 90s shit was just nostalgia for late 60s/early 70s counterculture hippy shit. Still waiting for the short shorts with low waist lines to come back, haven’t seen JNCOs or Kikwear pants so I guess we aren’t at the late 90s nostalgia yet
>>222349641>spiked hair will come back, but you don't have the hairline to pull it off anymoreroflmao
Like 5 years ago when I asked a kid what games she played on her Wii-U and she corrected me with "Weeyou? This is a Switch, what's a Weeyou?" I felt so out of touch, I didn't realize the Wii-U was obsolete by that point
>>222349425did the other one become a tranny or is that a different character
>>222349899the wii u was obsolete when it came out
>>222349921Lmao same thoughts
>>222346182I've never been cool.I thought i was when i was younger. But i found out as an adult, years later, everyone was laughing at me behind my back, and i was known as "the really nerdy guy".
>>222349921that *is* the tranny one, he's not drawn... generously.
>>222349983Im old I thought it was "the new one"
>>222346182Every answer itt is going to be along the lines of tiktok. That's the common denominator in all of the confusing shit
>>222350604The Wii U and the Virtual Boy are basically the only things Nintendo ever made that had no success, whatsoeverNormalfag history definitely goes straight from the Wii to the Switch
>>222350628Because TikTok isn't even a commodity, it's a mediumIt's like asking someone "What's your favorite movie" and having them answer "DVDs"
>>222349983>>222350639I didnt know it was so bad. I remember some youtuber covering a zombie game on it that's why it was on my mind
>>222350695Was it confirmed that this is a man
>>222346182yea pretty much. I used to think my dad was dramatic about the movies I dragged him into as my parental guidance in the 00's being abominations. some of the highlights being the matrix trilogy, freddy got fingered and borat(he had a jewish gf). ultimately he was right, though. but not for the reasons he foresaw(immorality). it was cape shit.
>>222350786for perspective
It happened to me when I was like 20. I stopped paying attention to vidya in the late 2000's and stopped paying attention to the internet and culture in general around 2010 when normalfags invaded everything.
>>222350837also the first jackass. seeing that with my ultra blue collar dad, especially the scene where ryan dunn shoved a toy car up his ass is a lifelong memory.
>>222350604Switch isn't even "the new one" either. There's a Switch 2.
>>222350956and the Switch 2 outsold the entire run of the Wii U within a month of its release
>>222346182It’s about to probablyt. Old zoomer
>>222349305>When I was a kid I thought it was stupid how Futurama only showed pop culture that were popular in the 70s-90s. Like entertainment had been frozen along with Fry.When I was a kid that always bugged me too. Like people 1000 years from now would give a fuck about Pamela Anderson.
>>222346182Ironically it doesn't actually happen anymore because the generations are bleeding together. There should be multiple post-millennial "generations", but there aren't. We gave it a shot for a bit with labels like "gen z" or "gen alpha" but we don't even pretend to differentiate anymore, a zoomer today is the same as a zoomer from 2016, and a kid in 2036 will be a zoomer as well.
>>222346182Not really because I thought a lot of the stuff "in my day" was either gay or stupid at the time, like spiking your hair and rap music. Not saying I hated *everything* but I never cared about liking popular stuff just to fit in or whatever.
>>222353244People will always care about bimbos
>>2223491231997 is the most accepted cutoff
>>222353368I didnt like popular stuff either but I knew about it until I didn't. I'll never forget how fucking old I felt when I heard a teenager call The Matrix "old" in like 2008. To me it was still "that newish techno action movie" but to that kid it was old news compared to Transformers or Marvel
>>222346182It took a while, but it finally happened 3 and a half years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzD9OxAHtzU
>>222350835Biologically female, just like Rose
>>222349899>>222350604>didn't know what a Switch was>some-fucking-how remembered the Wii UHow in the actual fuck. The Wii U came and went with almost no fanfare from Nintendo's own fans at the time, never mind the rest of the normgroids who don't follow vidya at all.
>>222349921It's his son, his wife trooned him out.
>>222347533 #Same, same. Wiki-wild-wild west, yo!
>>222346182When music became this yea https://youtu.be/9nafWdbgQaE?si=ZKj6zsq7CSaGr8oa
>>222347533Im 45. It hit me at 39. You dont think it will happen. But it will.
It happened to me when I referenced Filthy Frank and the kid I was working with had no idea who that was and I had to tell them that's who Joji was 10 years ago.
I watched the first Simpsons episode the day it aired. Even recorded it on a VHS tape.
>>222346182Season 11
>>222346820Skyrim is the most overrated game of all time. it was never good
>>222356588Vaxxed retard detected
>>222346182yeah, I memed out and got into the feed and seed business
