Is that how it is?

Yes, thread over.

>>149521972 (OP)
Falling literacy and numeracy rates don't lie.

I turned 18 in 2012, and I could believe people were still watching youtube poop. That stuff was already like 5 or 6 years old by that point.

>>149521972 (OP)
no, things are actually getting measurably worse.
kids can't even read anymore, its a massive, growing issue.

2012 era is objectively the high watermark. You know it in your hearts to be true.

>>149521972 (OP)
somewhat

>>149521972 (OP)
Yes, it is.
Skibidi Toilet literally exists because of SFM animations.
Dank memes are no different from YTP in terms of lolrandom humor.
Friday Night Funkin's case is especially funny. That game was born as a Newgrounds project and takes a lot of inspiration on the site's spirit, but it attracts children and that's an issue somehow (is if they didn't grew up watching inappropriate shit in said site at the time lol).
Old farts will do all kinds of mental gymnastic to justify themselves
>B-b-but my generation IS better!!!
When in reality today's brainrot is just a repacked version of the same shit from years ago.

>>149522136
It's global too, not even just centralized. Kids in China are reliant on AI. Most kids will just sit in class staring at the problem unable to do anything but droll on their paper.

>>149521972 (OP)
>>149522136
>>149523190
>brainrot is real and a generational issue because of failing education systems and ludicrously bad parenting
Skibidi toilet has fucking nothing on real life. IRL literally became THE OCEAN OF PISS that /b/ wishes it was.

>>149522778
I was only 7 years old then, and everyone says 2012 was the best time of the internet, but no one says why.

What was it like?

>>149521972 (OP)
MLG wasn't 2012, you fucking retard.

>>149521972 (OP)
The correct terms would we
>2012: This is Stupid
>2017: This is Cancer
>2021: This is Cringe
>2024: This is Brainrot

>>149521972 (OP)
I miss the MLG era

>>149523184
could not have said it better myself

Youtube poops were by no fucking means mainstream and even the people watching them were nerd faggots and not the norm.
also they were made by hand by a few guys that shat otu a new video a week ine xtreme cases, more every other month usually.
Now theres fucking 6 year olds who have stared at a tablet for 3 years getting bombarded by indian warehouses full of "professional" fuckos using AI to abuse the algorythm and dopamin-spirals to make a profit by shitting out spidermanelsefartjokerfart videos

>>149521972 (OP)
as a 2012 illuminati kid, dont talk shit about obamium. Sussus Amogus also gets a pass, it's great to piss off gartic phone twitch streamers with no effort whatsoever

>>149521972 (OP)
Yes, every generation gets more and more brainrotted.

>>149523393
>and everyone says 2012 was the best time of the internet
It absolutely wasn't. It was just the period were it was the most populated, before shit really started to get bad, so a bunch of late internet adapters have nostalgia for it, because they don't know any better.

>>149521972 (OP)
this says a lot about our society

>>149523516
>2012: This is Gay
fixed

>>149521972 (OP)
Notice how it keeps getting shorter.