Thread 516015410

Why are zoomers getting destroyed by the internet but millenials didn't?

>>516015410 (OP)
they were raised by retards that didn't teach them proper internet saftey. I grew up knowing to never tell anyone anything about who I really was, and now i'm watching 10-15 year olds give everything away in a desperate attempt to become the new Ninja or whatever and stream.

We did.

>Why are zoomers getting destroyed by the internet but millenials didn't?
Turns out pervasive social media is worse than watching gore videos at a young age.

>>516015410 (OP)
>millenials didn't
lmao

Zoomers grew up connected to the internet, the youngest millennials were in their mid to late teens when everyone and their grandpa got connected. Seriously, you were considered a loser if you spent the amount of time online that the average person does now.

>>516015410 (OP)
Because we still went outside and hung out together. All zoomers ever do is looking at their phone (internet), playing gay video games (internet), and gooning on Discord (internet).

>>516016228
Correct. I walk around town on a beautiful day and I see teens in their house just sitting on the couch looking at their phones. Back then if you were front of a screen on a nice day you were a loser.

>>516015410 (OP)
>millenials didn't
Guess again, retard. Everyone millennial is an estrogenized troon lover.

>>516015410 (OP)
When you all told me they were generation zyklon I pictured something very different.

>>516015410 (OP)
because zoomers got electronic devices sooner than millennials did. and spend more time on them than millennials spent on video games

zoomers' reading comprehension is stunted because they've read fewer books than any previous modern generation their age stage

low testosterone across the board means less sex, less critical thinking, more depression

>>516015410 (OP)
>but millennials didn't
lel i was a doomscrolling addict before doomscrolling was a term

>>516015410 (OP)
because there are more of them in isolated chatrooms like on discord.

when before an Eric Harris getting groomed is one in a million, now there are so many groups and so little oversight that the pedophiles and sadists can find plenty of momentarily depressed, vulnerable etc. kiddos to groom.

They dettach them from all their friends and family, love bomb them, give them everything the need to emotionally and psychologically need to survive and... booyah!!!

they isolate the faggot by pretending to be busy or some shit or fake a quarrel and he gets kicked out and only 1 or 2 remain and they continue to make him rely on them.

This is textbook Cult Grooming type shit and they are using it to create Death and Destruction for fun.


it is a game to them and sadly the weakest in society are the targets for grooming.

This would be solved by executing everybody under 30 and over 10 years old and then creating a law that nobody under 30 can use the internet.

Because we did sports from young age+socialize,also did drugs and partied to electronic and metal music, fight in the clubs while drunk,fucking girls at parks or inside abandoned buildings and returning home at 7am after heaving breakfast and went to sleep.

>>516015410 (OP)
are you kidding anon? millennials invented atheism+ and spearheaded SJW'ism

>>516015410 (OP)
>>516015577
I think it's just that when the internet was new (unjewed) there was common sense, such as not putting all your info out there, it was understood that it was a tool that could be used for good or for evil and so a reasonable amount of caution was warranted and taught.
However, now kikes have had plenty of time to screw everything over, social media is basically a plague on the mind, we were never meant to be this connected. The ideal internet connection is that of the anonymous chat room, basically 4chan, but in the past 10-15 years they've done away with all of that, now it's pushed that you need you on the internet, social media is everything, because that way the jews can know everything because you literally just put it out there for them to see.
>>516016228
You were a loser before because it was mostly anonymous and therefore they couldn't control it or use it as leverage against you.

>>516015410 (OP)
We had to get off when someone made a phone call they dont

>>516015410 (OP)
we didn't much content

>>516015410 (OP)
Trannies

>>516017377
People went full retard on the internet because of social media like Facebook where you were essentially A-logging yourself. I don't know if you remember but at one point people were posting every lil tidbit of information about their lives, photos of their houses, dates when they were taking a vacation, which then led to criminals robbing their houses when they left.
Millennials grew up before the normie facebook net and spent their time on game forums, gore sites and places like this, where they saw how fucked up and cruel people really could be, that all changed with modern social media and non nerds taking over the internet
Nerds were already bullied out of society and would never broadcast themselves like the constant highschool culture we have today

>>516015410 (OP)
Internet was still niche up until 2012. Plus, more people had common sense

>>516017962
I remember the retardation of facebook, boomers couldn't handle the internet either, I think it's that they were lonely, so they just posted everything to interact with one another.
It's really astounding how Millennials are the only generation not fucked by the internet, we must be the chosen generation or something.

i'll add that 3 years of lockdowns didn't do anyone any favors.

millenials brought 4chan into existence
look at this fuckin place
just look at it

1999 zoomer here. we didnt have a computer in the house until i was like, 7 or 8 years old. before that i had never really interacted with the internet. i had a dumbphone up until i went to middle school

>>516017377
Gen X parenting screwed everything. they wanted to continue living like they did in college so they gave their children an iPad to minimize interactions with them.

>>516018525
I mean millenials getting destroyed by thr internet existed but they were not the norm and laughed at, like the amazing atheist

>>516018887
1977 gen x here. We didn't have a computer in the house until I was like 4 or 5. It was an Atari 800 and it even had a modem even though there wasn't really an internet yet.

>>516016753
this, im a 30 year old khv and spent my entire youth playing vidya, daydreaming, browsing internet

We were taught to not put personal information on the internet

>>516015410 (OP)
I'm a mid-80s millennial and I grew up without the internet. When I was a teen, dial-up was a thing, but the internet was still just an occasional diversion. I don't think it really exploded until the 2010s when having a smartphone became the rule instead of the exception.

Kids that were raised by the internet are too-far gone. Especially when you consider Biden locking them all down during COVID. That's going to fuck up a bunch that were already pretty terminally fucked up.

>>516016600
>I see teens in their house just sitting on the couch looking at their phones
No you don't, because you're outside. Ubless youre peeping through windows. Fucking retard.

>>516017377
>>516017962
Fantastic posts today.

>>516015410 (OP)
We weren't stupid enough to believe the internet was real and we didn't plaster our names and faces all over the internet and turn it into a digital mall. Zoomers think real life happens on the internet.

>>516019534
He's probably looking for tvs to steal.

>>516015410 (OP)
1) Millennials sort of have a buffer zone on the internet, we had outdoor activities and the iPad wasn't really a thing until 2011. Your average millennial is 36.5 years old, that is 22-23 when the iPad came out and for millennials that was the dumbest shit ever "its like a computer" with the stringy haired kid.

2) Discord is a Gen Z thing and again Millennials were like 30 when that got popular also no millennial is dumb enough to get groomed to become a tranny

3) Here is my take overall: I firmly believe that Twitter getting videos is what ruined America. It was already "Internet Sewer" with text. Now you have literal snuff films being broadcast to every tom, dick and harry. That can't be good at all. People are seeing death and tragedy in 4K every day and its fucking up our minds. Suddenly, our mass death events and assassinations are all way up and our country might have a Civil War. Now you can argue this started a lot time ago but I just think people weren't this twisted without Twitter: Liveleak Edition.

30 and mass internet really was only a thing I feel around 14-15. Before then It wasn't unusual for people to not have social medias or spend much time on it.

>>516015410 (OP)
We grew up in the internet and vidya age, we didn't have online gratification and the "possibility" to earn a living with it. New games, new applications and new sites were coming out all the time and forums were fun, interesting and most people were helpful, even the trolls weren't downright malicious.

Zoomers didn't grew up in the internet age, they grew up in the social media age where likes, retweets, viewer counts and upvotes being the most important (backed up by algorithms) and the only way to get them is to either say the most controversial shit or normiest shit ever.

>>516016600
Tbh you were. But at least it was more of an actual choice rather than feeling pressured into being connected all the time, which I can't stand. I've recently had an elementary school classmate reinforce this when she looked visibly upset I didn't have FB or an iPhone. I "get" it but at the same time I felt pity. We're both 35 and differ so much...

Boomer thread

Real answer: Millennials were still forced to socialize and it was deemed unacceptable if you were a shut-in.

I was a neet incel but I still went to my friend's house to play gamecube and shit with them.

>>516019711
Almost everyone thinks that now

>>516018887
It's true 90s zoomers and 00s zoomers are a different breed.

We remember a time before the internet, alot of us didn't even get internet until we where 12 and even then it was 56k modem and our families only tolerated a couple of hours of the landline being occupied by our counter strike gaming until we where forced out of the house.
Now internet is on phone and tablets and kids are out Infront of the screen before they can even spell correctly.

>>516015410 (OP)
>millenials didn't
Both zoomers and millenials did. What about all the school shootings from the late 90s until the zoomer generation? They top were deranged greatly because of the internet.
Its worse now, but not like it wasnt similar before the age of the broccoli

>>516015410 (OP)
We grew up when we were told to be anonymous. We had to get on the internet with a reason and there was only one family computer with internet access, typically in the kitchen or living room. There were no updoots and Facebook started after we graduated from high school and even then it wasn't a updoot farm, it was a fucking family scrapbook site.

>>516020117
>Real answer: Millennials were still forced to socialize and it was deemed unacceptable if you were a shut-in.
This. The idea of someone actually having NO friends was unheard of when I was in high school. There's only one kid I can think of who legitimately had no friends and he was a total loser and absolutely miserable to be around. You had to actually be the worst person around to have no friends 15 years ago but it's crazy how often I see zoomers online talking about how they legitimately have zero friends.

>>516020397
>What about all the school shootings from the late 90s until the zoomer generation?
Largely blown out of proportion until the broccoli, Columbine had a huge death toll but it may have been the only mass shooting that year, the rest being generic black gang shit in the parking lots around the school or targeted killings inside it. The Early Millennials and Late Millennials are so different that they can hardly be considered the same generation, the influence that technology had on the ones graduating HS in the time frame around 9/11 is vastly different to the broccoli later on.

>>516020397
Columbine was notable because it WAS big. Also it still remains the largest school shooting. In fact in the past few decades notable real mass shootings are still rare. And if you take away gang shootings and troubled teens off their meds who were even known by the FBI (and did nothing to stop it), they don't happen.

>>516021151
>Also it still remains the largest school shooting.

Wrong.

>but millenials didn't
dude... picrel is literally me

>>516021343
Wow one example! You really proved me wrong with your example from 18 years ago.

>>516015410 (OP)
For impressionable millennials, going on the internet meant turning on the family PC in the computer room and connecting through slow ass dial up connections to an internet that was totally different from what it is like today. You could find porn and gore and political extremism and all that if you wanted, but it wasn't anything like it is today. Older millennials didn't have access to always connected high speed internet until high school or college. The first real smartphones weren't released until they were in their mid 20s.
Zoomers grew up with always on high speed internet, smartphones, and social media. They have lived virtually their entire lives with their faces glued to a screen consooming all kinds of brainrot. Their Gen X slacker parents didn't bother trying to monitor or limit the kinds of things they were looking at on the internet and left little Zoomies to go sit in the privacy of their own rooms, staring at their phones and tablets 24 hours a day getting completely mindfucked.

We had 9/11

>>516016072
Ding ding ding. Millennials got video games and wild west internet culture. Zoomers got the social media panopticon and algorithm brain rot. Spending 12 hours a day on Super Nintendo and Playstation and X-Box reading RPG text, solving puzzles, and blowing the Covenant away with your bros in Halo > dopamine drooling to YouTube. The current generation coming up with RoBlox is 100,000% going to be worse. They'll have less of an attention span than Zoomers.

>>516016522
Also this. We all still went bowling weekly and played Texas Hold'em when I was in high school, even if we stayed up until 3 AM before school playing Team Fortress.
>>516019372
COVID era childhoods make me so glad I was born in 1989.

>>516021584
>Wow one example!

>>516015410 (OP)
Depending on where you draw the line the oldest Millennial is 30
They were 10 when YouTube launched and most likely a teenager when they first used it
Main zoomers have been raised on this shit since they popped out of their mother

>>516021686
Wow anon a list spanning over 60 years. Your really proved my point wrong.

>>516021759
Point
>Columbine was the biggest and first school shooting ever!

Reality
>It was not the first nor the largest
>FUCK YOU I WAS BARELY OFF

Ok

>>516018674
You mean three months.

>>516016228
yeah i was 18 when the first iphone dropped, before then you didn't talk about anything like that or risk being branded a dork. even talking about simple shit like gaming was verboten if you had any hopes of getting laid

>>516021683
>bowling
Deep south or midwest

>>516021872
Depends on the state and country and whether kids were private/public educated.

>>516015410 (OP)
Zoomers have 4k cartel whacks and 8k gang bangs on tap at gigabit speeds.

>>516021860
>In fact in the past few decades notable real mass shootings are still rare. And if you take away gang shootings and troubled teens off their meds who were even known by the FBI (and did nothing to stop it), they don't happen.
If you're too stupid to realize your nitpicking proves my broader point then no wonder you leftists are losing every fucking argument and resorting to terrorism. You literally only prove my assertion correct by nitpicking with random, once every 10 years events.

>>516021929
being born in 2000, i remember how angry i was that video games became "cool" with the fucking PS4 and XBONE. Then Fortnite happened.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials experienced life before 24/7 internet slop; Zoomers didn't. Millennials got destroyed by late-night TV and the niggerification of music.

Websites were made by regular people not corporations. They weren't constantly updating so you'd check a few sites/message boards and go play video games / go outside.

>>516021951
Surprisingly, rural New England. We lived in the middle of nowhere. We'd also do what we called BK runs and drive 40 minutes at midnight to the nearest fast food.

>>516015410 (OP)
The youngest millennials got destroyed as well. Only use older Millennials who grew up normal or with 90's tier internet are OK

>>516022056
Anon you were wrong. Humility is a good thing just hold the L and move on.

>>516015410 (OP)
>but millenials didn't
we got destroyed by other things and the internet was the only thing that kept some of us sane
but zoomers grew up in post obama-phone gentrified internet so they're totally fucked up, I think their irony poisoning is actually keeping them alive

>>516015410 (OP)
I started using the internet on dial up.. it was a much different place before every nigger and normie was on it

>>516015410 (OP)
Because I had to buy myself my first computer and I was already 16 by then. Putting a child under 14 to 16 on the internet is child abuse.

>>516015410 (OP)
i would adopt a cute zoomer gf but im pretty sure everyone and their mother is getting their panties entangled by getting angry over age gaps

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials were the same but it was their bing bing wahoo console that they used for escapism.

>>516015577
My 7 year old wants to he a game streamer.
It's over. Worse than wanting to be a pro sports ball player.

Another reason is that every interaction wasn't curated by an algorithm.
Now ever piece of content you get served is tailor made to make you angry and reinforce your own beliefs.

>>516015410 (OP)
who wouldve thought that little nerd would change the world
humanity is amazing

>>516022574
Except, you know, we played 4-player split screen games and thus still had real friends.

>>516020397
>What about all the school shootings...
Simple. Ban schools. (Problem solved!)

>>516022574
we had time limits, my parents used to get mad if they saw me playing games too often in one day. my father once flipped over the coffee table because of it. around the age of 15 when zoomers usually start getting radicalized by discord, i completely lost interest in video games and it didn't come back for ten years.

>>516022616
>Worse than wanting to be a pro sports ball player.
absolutely nothing wrong wit that^

even when they dont 'go pro' they will still be physically fit, have a 'skill' and be able to not embarrass themselves not knowing how to throw or catch a ball or swing a bat or something

>>516021683
>Millennials got video games and wild west internet culture. Zoomers got the social media panopticon and algorithm brain rot. Spending
The internet did to zoomers and is doing to generation alpha what public education and television did to boomers.

Millennials are literally the white race's last chance.

89' millennial...didnt have internet in my house until I was 16, didnt have a social media account until I was 17 (myspace)...didnt get a smartphone until I was 22. By the time I became totally swamped by mass internet usage I was already old enough to not take it too seriously.

>>516022857
Time limit rules are the same for zoomies, depending on the parent.

>>516015410 (OP)
Because millennials had a good balance of physical social life and boomer educators who learned from silent generation policies. We were forced to interact and shunned if we disobeyed.

Also, there are plenty of mentally degraded millennials on the internet, but they sorta contained themselves until identity politics took over in the late 2010s.

TLDR: Millennials didn't learn history, slang, politics, skills through strangers on the internet. We learned it through experience.

>>516023095
The problem is we're not even talking about how radically different video games are today. DoTA 1 as a (free) mod against League of Legends isn't even comparable when talking about sheer psychological exploitation and manipulation designed to make you play an extra match (so that you'll buy a skin or maybe get rich as a pro streamer/player). Modern video games are pure algorithmic brain rot as well, designed to extract time from you.

>>516022616
I have 8 years old and she maybe used computer 20 times in her life to play educational games or watch educational videos I chose.
If your kid wants to be some game streamer it means you failed as a parent. It is your fault faggot.

>>516022056
>>516021860
One of the differences you two are missing, at least from the people I knew back then, is that none of us watched the news. Politics and the news was for old people, I didn’t know anyone that cared about that shit. I didn’t know columbine happened until years later. That was the only school shooting I was aware of before sandy hook.

>>516023095
letting me have a cell phone that they paid for was out of the question, they let me take my mom's phone when I went out at night strictly for emergencies. the kids i see today clearly have no such restrictions.

>>516017377
Yes, and we grew up with aliases aka screennames, that were reflective of our hobbies and interests. Even on early instagram days, it was a peer-to-peer interaction, where you only added people you knew IRL. Todays social media climate is like the US border policy: open, inviting, public, and without fear of consequence

>>516023467
He watches these YouTube Minecraft streamers. He barely ever gets to play games.

>>516015410 (OP)
>Why are zoomers getting destroyed by the internet but millenials didn't?
The same reason Muslim nations get destroyed by porn addiction when it's a much more mild problem in the west. I can only make up a term for it: Cultural Immunity.

Millenials grew up tolerating constant massive changes in culture, tech, and daily life. We grew up in a post-9/11 society of fear and war and hatred. It's just something we learned to deal with. Zoomers are traumatized every other fucking day over mean comments on the internet.

>>516023557
I disagree everyone knew about Columbine and VT.

I remember missing the Columbine news in elementary school and a teacher came in to tell us we were safe and shit and when I asked what we were safe from the entire class, the guidance counselor, and my teacher looked at me like I had 2 heads.

>>516023332
The fact that so many of my peers at 36 are like carbon copies of my Gen X DINK cousin and her husband who are 20 years older than me is constantly funny to me, in a very dark way. She got a historectomy and was like the original dog mom. I can remember her dressing up her Samoyeds and rolling around on the ground with them at Christmas as early as the late 90s and it was a constant embarrassment to my aunt and uncle (born in the late 40s). Now that's like standard Millennial shit for liberals.

>>516023717
>traumatized every other fucking day over mean comments on the internet.
Because they lived like cold-war communists constantly surveilled by their peers for wrong think, I don't know how you missed this part. Imagine every day of your middle school and high school life with everyone with fucking video cameras recording every dumb thing you did or worse, as a form of harassment. I called plenty of kids fags in school and with no cameras around, never will have to face a firing squad.

>>516023557
I can vouch for that. I was young but in school during Columbine, and I didn't even know it existed until 2003 when some kid I met on a winter vacation said that was his town (Littleton)

Right now I wouldn't let my kids get on the internet unless they're like 12 and under supervision. My family didn't even have the internet until I was 11. Now it's to dangerous, you have this evil cycle where people who were groomed become groomers themself and also everything became softcore porn. You can't watch an animated show without stumbling on rule34, porn edit on yt or erp. Unironically the best case scenario might be leaving your kids offline and buying shows/movies on bluray.

>millenials didnt
i watched tons of my millenial friends waste their prime years away playing world of warcraft and I watched all the normies spending hours on facebook, gathering thousands of friends they would never talk to and making insipid status updates about their lives. maybe it didnt hurt them as hard as it hit zoomers but it definitely did alot of damage on millenial social paradigms. millenials were the first generation to really start abandoning sports and outdoor activities in favor of myspace and gaia online and all sorts of stupid shit

>>516015577
It was utter common sense to give yourself a simple nickname.

Now normies getting swatted for supporting mean orange man

>>516015410 (OP)
>listen her little sonny. i remember when i had a smartphone that could browse the web and look at bree olsen porn photos. that was the shit little sonny. then after a few years they released newer smartphones and i could watch porn videos. that was a great time. and you grew up talking to faggots all the time in your furry discords. these damn younger generation is just too gullible. times were simpler back then. id watch gina michaels, carmella bing, rachel star. ooooo baby. but you grew up a faggot watching your boyfriends spread their ass on discord.
>fuck you kid.

>>516024636
Prune juice is fucking garbage.

>>516023929
At first I wanted to scoff at the idea that constant social surveillance could be more traumatizing than being told every waking fucking moment people on the other side of the world wanted you dead because you were born America, but I think you're right. Every cellphone is a surveillance and espionage device that'd make the KGB wet their pants, and these kids were under constant threat from their own peers of being socially destroyed. Truly we live in a horror show.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials weren't exposed to the "mature" (degenerate) internet as early as zoomers. Social media was less developed and less manipulative and corrupting too.

>>516015577
We didn’t get internet until age 12 and even then it wasn’t the most intuitive. Brainlets couldnt figure out how to get Winsock TCPIP to work correctly on windows 3.1 so the internet was retard free and awesome. Then it took another few years to get internet in a useable form on mobiles - that’s when the flood gates opened and the internet was lost. Millennials can still remember a time when you disappear from your house on your bicycle for hours and no one could call you, find you, etc without riding around the neighborhood themselves looking for you. Friends would come looking for your and your parents would be like “shiiiet I dunno where that little fucker is, did you try the ravine, bball courts, playground, etc?”

All kids would come home from school, change, then go outside to play until dark then go home. When we were teens we would walk around as a group, go eat, mall, arcade, look at CDs at HMV, etc.

Now there’s literally 18-21 year olds where I work. When they were born there was already iPhone and iPads with touch screens, app stores, and full internet access. They can’t comprehend a time without these devices because they where raised by screens.

>>516015410 (OP)
Early internet (aside from aohell trolling) - open and free.
(((Modern internet))) - almost as fake and gay as Clown World.
If you only posted on placed like twatter, preddit, dicksword etc instead of 4chan, you wouldn't be any better.
Also, how you express ideas reflects on you, which is why all phonefags are mentally stunted retards while those using a real computer you can type on form proper thoughts.
Also pic related.

>>516024796
To a kid social destruction is worse than a nuclear bomb. Instead of an enemy across the world you don't know (and Millennials lived through 9/11 and this type of threat), Zoomers lived through the person sitting in the desk next to you being your enemy which is why they're incapable of giving real opinions about anything without sticking a finger up to see the direction the wind is blowing.

>>516022909
Nothing like blown out knees and a bad shoulder at 25

>>516015410 (OP)
Why are Gen X's posting all their childrens personal information online publicly

>>516023795
I don’t know what to tell you. A lot of people didn’t pay attention. I didn’t hear about vt at all until way later.

>>516023971
Yeah it wasn’t until middle school around the same year when some kids were getting bullied. They called them the columbine kids and I didn’t know what that was.

>>516025134
>Nothing like blown out knees and a bad shoulder at 25
fucking please

as opposed to what, being pic related?
shut-in vidya players inevitably end up the most unhealthy 'chronic illness' and mental-illness cohort any country has

>>516015410 (OP)
I think the biggest difference between millenials and zoomers is that computers back then didn't came with microphones.

>>516025098
What a terrible irony: We fought wars on terror, killing and sacrificing millions, only for us to terrorize ourselves with our own technology. How depressing.

>>516025600
Well fortunately for us this is also why male Zoomers are swinging hard right, which is deliciously ironic for leftists.

>>516020397
Yeah you are right, there was definitely some mental illness causing school shootings. The issue is a lot deeper than people think, its more like "society rot". Bullying was so out of control back then, I grew up then, it was considered normal to just push kids around or talk shit on them constantly. Once the social pecking order gets decided in your school then high chance the kids on the bottom get harrassed and pranked on 24/7. I think people got fed up and it even made an Atheist movement in this country because how can God be real if this is what life is?

Nobody really ever truly got into it, there should be anti-bullying, mental health resources and a culture of peace but nobody cared enough to do that and now this world is the result. Its funny since Gen X probably got it the worst, Millennials at least had SOME helicopter parenting and whatever.

>>516021738
Its 40*

>>516015577
Plus little powerful palm-sized computers with permanent and high speed internet connections just weren't a thing.

I'm adamant that smartphones, social media, and internet access in general should be limited or outright banned for kids below a certain age, just like drugs and other dangerous stuff not appropriate for children.

Gen Z were raised by the libpedo social hegemony, any degenerate shit goes, and it ruined them.

>>516025859
Bullying is fucking human trait you massive colossal faggot. It's how you know which people in the tribe can be trusted when a tiger attacks. It also build camaraderie when you're not a massive faggot, because teasing and hazing is fucking what everyone does, but when you're a crybaby faggot you out yourself as a bitch that can't be trusted. Like holy shit you faggots are amazing.

>>516025859
Also I just thought the most performative people about bullying are the Gen X'ers they will always the be worst piping up and saying "hell, kids need bullying more if they end up being trannies"

You notice that the worst victims of abuse often become abusers because that is how they cope with the feelings of abuse, abusing others or normalizing abuse. Some sexual abused kids, become pedos. Kids who got extreme abuse, become serial killers or support bullying in schools "so they become men" or shit like that.

So if you see performative Gen X, take a bit of pity on them because they probably were considering being school shooters themselves.

>>516020790
Dealing with others made me go full hermit.
>Faggots playing retarded games
>"white" people conning me out of my house while others sneak in and steal like niggers
>Drinking, smoking, hard drugs etc no later than age 13
Nah, just gonna put in this Diablo 2 CD and ignore and avoid all that slop!
And then D2 was also full of scammers, so that helped redpill me on the notion that nearly everyone cannot be fucking trusted.

Smartphones damaged society.
You aren't meant to have your main source of social interaction, entertainment, and "2nd eyes" through a camera lens, on a black rectangle you carry everywhere.

>>516017377
>However, now kikes have had plenty of time to screw everything over, social media is basically a plague on the mind, we were never meant to be this connected.
There's a demand from those kikes for people who don't have social media presence, primarily because when they do kikeish things, they don't want it traced to them through their minions.

Zero social media, zero unvetted contacts, zero leakage. That's how they want to work. I remember when this was the norm rather than the exception.

>>516018525
I remember watching my professors join Facebook en masses when it opened up to non-students and they all immediately began doing retarded n00b stuff, it was pretty eye-opening. btw Facebook was pretty nice when it was only students

>>516026331
Bullying is how you fucking know what social boundaries are, it's your fault for not changing your behavior or toughening up. And lack of bullying is why people like Tyler unashamedly hung out with degenerates.

>>516021738
being able to remember 9/11 is the cutoff for millenials, you had to be at most 5 in 2001

>>516026209
How old are you are you Gen X? Sounds pretty performative. You just think I mean banter?

I mean 24/7 stalking, cyberstalking, punishment, harrassment, going after people on the streets. Lots of people know a person like that and they killed themself, became a really strong person, or murderer or deviant.

I think people who are punk bitches should get corrected don't get me wrong like you aren't nor should you try to impose behavior but that is not what I was talking about. Talking about the culture of abuse that is in most high schools. Not banter.

>>516018860
>just look at it
Once it dies, I will become free.

>>516022062
Video games were already "cool" with the PS3 and Xbox 360 when every dudebro in high school was playing MW2 and other first person shooters online.

>>516026209
>It's how you know which people in the tribe can be trusted when a tiger attacks
It's also how you create your tribe's turncoats when the jew comes knocking, so it's not as fully positive as you appear to believe. Bullied people that are spiteful about it have a long memory, and spite is a powerful motivator.

how fucked is the gen alpha?
imagine being a kid and growing up with chatgpt

>>516026819
Good the people you know that killed themselves are harmful to the tribe, just like you. Take a hint.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennial were allowed to play outside and experienced a bit of the analogue age, zooming were 100% digital.

>>516021951
Bruh, we have bowling alleys in California, what the hell are you going on?

>>516026848
>turncoats
Are you being serious? The point of bullying is you know who the fags are. You're so fucking stupid, you can't be a turncoat if you aren't trusted to hold a gun let alone man the gate you massive retard. That is the fucking point.

>>516026854
>how fucked is the gen alpha?
They will grow up with the decay of society, so some of them may be immune to propaganda because of that. Most will end up as pod living bug eaters though

>>516027027
>you can't be a turncoat if you aren't trusted to hold a gun let alone man the gate
Yet they can wield a blade in the night against the gate guards.

>>516016228
This is half true, because even losers back had fun online. Mallgoths and emo kids flirting with each other on myspace. Zoomers forget/don't know how much a huge deal Myspace was, as well as something like MSN Messenger and ICQ.

We called it "social networking" instad of social media, and again people used to to share like pictures of what they think is cool and fun - instead of ragebait AI generated news articles.

People now just use the internet to get mad at words on a screen.

>>516015410 (OP)
The millennials are the ones mind fucking xoomies

>>516023929
I'm so glad when I went home from school that was just it for the day. I never thought about what anyone else was doing, or what I was "missing out" on. There was just me, my box of toys, sometimes the tv, and the creek.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials still spent time in the real world. People nowadays don't even know that the internet isn't real life.

>>516027162
No they can't because they're not trusted. What's with this revenge of the nerd bullshit. You do realize the only reason why you think this way is society has coddled you weak losers too much and Tyler has shown yes, you people will stab in the night if given a chance. You've only experience having society be soft on weak ass faggots with their "anti-bullying" campaigns allowing fags and degenerates dress like dogs in school. Wait until society fully kicks you out.

This is now a GhostRider thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUho2SlnwaY

>>516026848
You can hate both the jew and their NPCs.
t. Driven by spite
>Muh gate guards
Who the fuck is guarding the gate?
Being not a "loser" by jewish gynocentric s()yciety standards means serving the fucking jews.
There are no guards, only a welcoming party saying jews have always been White culture!

>>516025093
>Also pic related.
on the internet, no one knew you were a dog.
now the dogs just tell everyone.

When we grew up the internet was like the Wild West now it’s just all weird 5 second videos, brainwashing, and gay shit.

>>516021738
Lol I'm a millennial born in '86 and I had access to high speed DSL internet since the start of grade 8. I guess I was lucky. I seem to recall fapping to lesbians4free.com a lot and saving low res images to floppy disks which I hid in my bedroom.

>>516027242
Access to the internet needs to be extremely more gatekept. It's been proven that the vast majority of people aren't ready for the responsibility.
People are simply too stupid not to ruin things for themselves is what I've learned.

>>516015410 (OP)
I use internet through a pc, no social media and have a dumbphone. Smartphones are only meant to consume propaganda.

>>516026854
I had a 17 year old apprentice this season who had an AI app on his phone that scanned his messages to figure out what his texting style was like for the purpose of suggesting entire responses for him. He didn't see an issue with this, until one day he realized that it was having entire conversations with people as him and he was having to scroll back up through his own conversations to catch up on his fucking digital amanuensis's representation of him.

He's a kid who hates his generation's culture in general and left to work on a schooner. If he's an outlier, then in a fucking decade teenage chat communication is going to be illiterates with AIs talking to their peers' AIs then having to use voice to text to find out what they think from the AIs representing them.

>>516015410 (OP)
There wasn't much to destroy for Millenials. They were already mostly cock-sucking mentally ill faggots all on their own

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials weren't as chronically online as zoomers. Many of us didn't have smart phones until we were teens. Before that, we did this archaic form of social interaction called going outside.
Also, back then the internet was different. This was a time before every square inch of every website and app was scientifically engineered to maximize engagement and revenue. Social media was not nearly as public as it was before twitter; people usually only really interacted with people they knew.

>>516018860
And you passed it down to zoomers who watched gore videos on /b/ when they were underaged

>be millennial
>be weeb
>gtr_wangan_racing.mov
>spend 3 days loading
>5 second low res clip of tommy and pam's sex tape
Welcome to the old internet

>>516021683
I always knew Video Games weren't better than other shit for me but I look at my little cousin (20-year age difference, he's 10), and he's just constantly flipping through stupid tiktok or YouTube shorts meme compilations. Zero attention span required. I would complete video games back in the day because they were compelling, now I barely play them and just doom-scroll 4chan. A lot of physical health problems too that I'm working on (also back at college to finish my degree)

I go out of my way to introduce him to strategy games. He's actually quite smart. He'll try to show me a video, and I go, "Do you really wanna watch 5 guys build the world's largest snow fort? You aren't even going to remember this video, don't you wanna try out this video game instead, where you'll play it for hours and remember it?" and he'll understand what I'm talking about. He played Dungeon Keeper 2 for 4 hours straight. That boys alright I tell you Hwhat, it's these gosh dang social medias and shorts that are bad. Even his old-ass gen-x Dad, who always gave me and my brother shit for playing too many video games, is noticing how much worse social media is. At least when I was playing video games I wanted to try making them. What are the chances someone watching a short on some Mr. Beast-level shit will want to do construction, learn more about science, or something and not just emulate what they are doing - ie "I wanna be a youtube star too".

>>516027707
Yeah, you sound very mentally sound talking like that.

>>516027781
Thats when social media was fun. You could actually hit the end of the news feed and it would tell you to touch grass.

>>516027242
Literally the only hope is that AI content becomes so pervasive that people just don't trust anything until it can be verified, and we go back to some kind of neo-pre-digital communication era where, even though you don't have to wait a couple days for news to be disseminated throughout the nation or a week to the world, people still wait that amount of time to parse the story because it could literally be made up to the point it's indistinguishable from reality.

>>516027383
I enjoy the fact you're launched into some kind of self-aggrandized screeching, denying the idea that the marginalized and disenfranchised could ever possibly pose a threat to you. Don't worry, many a city and tribe have fallen because of dumb shits like you. They probably deserved it.

>>516015410 (OP)
we grew up online calling each other faggots and niggers anonymously, not on normiecore lib internet nor in trooncords

millennials brought their culture into the internet not viceversa

>>516015410 (OP)
Millenials built this city.

>>516015410 (OP)
SMARTPHONES

>>516027599
Yes and no, because this is exactly how we ended up with the whole THINK OF LE CHILDREN hysteria we're in right now that apparently needs to happen once or twice every generation. People shouldn't have to submit government IDs to Google's parent company just to watch a skateboarding music video or whatever on Youtube because the AI bot decided you were probably 17 years and 11 months old.

If you're buying a phone or PC or tablet or whatever for your 8 year old, there should be just a single thing to click/press that enables "Kid mode" on their end.

It shouldn't be on the government and Youtube or Twitter or any other website/company to penalize and restrict adults just because they think there might be a 15 year old somewhere who's gonna get traumatized by a video of someone slipping on a banana peel or hearing the words "I am dead serious!"

>>516028159
>we grew up online calling each other faggots and niggers anonymously
No "we" didn't. You're why shit has become the way it has. Your degeneracy, and divide and conquer Jew shit is plain as day.
Fuck you

>>516028476
Way too soft of an approach. It would get back to what it is rapidly, and you know this.

>>516022616
7 year olds used to want to be police officers and astronauts. Now your son is retarded, sad.

>>516028159
this we had the real internet not a propaganda machine built by satanists

>"pro-bullying" faggot crying like a little bitch over his youtube mancrush getting blasted
lol, lmao even

>>516015410 (OP)
god i still remember downloading a naked fan art of peach for 2 fucking hours in a dial up, WHICH COSTS 2$ FOR 8 HOURS OF CONNECTION.

>>516028522
>being this much of a newfag
Embarrassing

>>516027953
Playing pre-voice acted RPGs for dozens of hours a piece as a kid may have been borderline autismo levels of obsession with a task, but it was a TASK that required concentration, improved reading comprehension, and literally introduced me to broader concepts like an interest in multiple kinds of mythology, the baroque and classical musicians that inspired the soundtracks, the philosophers/literary figures the characters were nods to. Playing Secret of Mana was like ecstasis within a beautiful children's picture book. Playing Baldur's Gate or Morrowwind, I wanted to know EVERYTHING about the world I was immersing myself in, reading all books, talking to all the NPCs. My friends' kids button mash through spoken dialogue and just follow the prompts to the next mission, and that's if they even play RPGs. I watch my coworkers kids play RoBlox and it's like it's DESIGNED to make them retards, they're swinging clubs at literal Skibidi toilet conveyor belts to gets points to go unlock memes.

What we got with video games in the 90s and early 2000s compared to Gen Z and especially Gen Alpha is magnitudes apart. It's like we got to read the Silmarillion, Gen Z got to read newspaper comics, and Gen Alpha gets to have graffiti on toilet paper stalls read aloud to them.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials didn’t have it in their pockets at their fingertips 24.7/365

>>516027781
I was a huge loser all throughout elementary school and high school. The thing that separated me from most of my peers is that my parents had money, enough that I was going on trips to the Caribbean with them every spring, while everyone else was stuck in school. I remember single handedly making Adidas brand tear away pants uncool because I showed up one day with a brand new pair on. With the biggest loser in the school wearing them, all the jocks stopped wearing them from that moment forth. The thing is, I didn't really give a rat's ass that everyone thought I was a loser. And I still don't today. Fast forward to today, and a lot of the people that bullied me are now dead, and I'm still alive jerking off to lesbian porn. Life is strange.

>>516015410 (OP)
Social media and the internet at large wasn't nearly as ubiquitous like it is now until around 2012, anyone legitimately growing up after that is in a different world with a different internet. Smartphones really hit their stride during that time and accelerated it like crazy.

>>516028715
I don't see how it would, the only real reason why things are the way they are is exactly because 7 year olds are given phones/tablets with no real child safety features - same with PCs.

If everything was age-restricted on the firmware side, people wouldn't be worried about the Youtube AI bot playing russian roullete with their viewing history, and people in dystopian places like the UK and a lot of the USA wouldn't need jacking off licenses just to look at pornhub.

We also wouldn't be on this whole "a pdf file was unalived after getting caught with ch*ld corn" self-censored coded language. We could all just speak and talk and write like normal adults because all the 10 year olds would be isolated to Youtube Kids - as they should be.

>>516020037
also the fact they grew up in the "good human being award" era where the gayest section of millennials encouraged them to use their real names and behave. I disagree trolls were evil back then too but the goal was lulz. nowadays trolls have reasons and ideology for what they do even if they say they don't.

>>516028476
They have literal psychologists working at companies to squeeze you out of as much money/time/mental sanity, all for the sake of profit. You are not simply raising a kid in a high-trust society anymore. You are tortured for hours on end at shit jobs, getting squeezed by higher costs of living, daily propaganda, and now you have to deal with billion-dollar Fortune 500 companies that know parts about your mind you never even learned about in school, subversively advertising and taking advantage of you AND YOUR KIDS CONSTANTLY. This isn't the occasional catalogue and pester power anymore. There is subversion shoved into your subconscious every fucking hour of the day to wear you down.

This shit needs to be regulated. Used to be a full lolbertarian, but this isn't even fair anymore.

>>516015410 (OP)
Different eras. There is a pretty noticeable decline in the ability to critically think, and it all depends on how old you are when the internet was prevalent.
The kids are NOT alright.

0 assassinations happened before the internet, fact.

>>516016228
Then why did my IT friend always throw giant parties with all the hottest local women there?

You don’t know shit about everywhere stop pretending to know everything homo fag

>>516023557
Every kid watched crime documentaries plus did you forget 9/11?

>>516015410 (OP)
>computer accessories
What accessories? It's just a laptop with some $5 Walmart mouse and headphones. PC gaming used to be so much more bad ass.

>>516029783
Looks like I've been DEBOONKED

>>516029605
They created a problem digital ID is going to fix

>>516029783
because he was rich you tard. what's sad is zoomers are so stupid a lot of them can't even use wealth as a way to attract slutts without being obvious about it and/or going broke
>t. fomer strip club DJ

>>516027481
And get their reputations slandered through accusations of bestiality with a 3DPD.

>>516030186
And violent revolution is the solution for digital ID

>>516029605
>This shit needs to be regulated.
Yeah but it should be regulated by Apple/Samsung/Lenovo/Microsoft etc where like I said when parents buy a phone/computer for their kids they just switch the Child Safety Mode on with one press/click when doing the initial setup.

None of this nonsense of adults having to send photos of their driver's license and DNA test to twitter and pornhub and youtube and facebook and amazon and ebay and each individual thing one has to sign up for during their life.

>>516015410 (OP)
>Implying.
If you want a serious answer there was a small portion of our lives where internet was separate part of lives instead instead being terminally online all the time. So the more healthy minded can still find a way to separate for a little while and touch grass. Almost certainly nobody that found their way here.

>>516015410 (OP)
Internet wasn’t readily available in your pocket when millennials were growing up. Most millennials were adults by the time the smart phone and social media fucked everything up.

>>516015410 (OP)
Wtf are you talking about millenials literally turned into zoy woke wojaks because of tumblr and reddit between 2008-2016 absolute soulless me me me generation who sold out their own families to immigrants for hecking internet points. Who do you think mostly frequents reddit today, newsflash it isnt zoomers, who do you think were the first on 4chan when it was still liberal and woke, millenials. Millenials are the most brainwashed generation in world history and while a good 20% were always based most millenials have always been woke brainwashed hipster faggots who love pretending they were always based even tho they copied it from the zoomers. Also zoomers are like 25 now that pic is generation Alpha you retards

>>516015410 (OP)
>but millenials didn't
google elliot rodger, zoomer

>>516015410 (OP)
The rise of leftwing internet radicals didnt start until 2012 or so. Millenials caught the last bit of the good internet period.

>>516030721
Millenials were literally the soldiers of woke they created and pushed woke willingly, a zoomer could never be as much of a zoy faggot as a hecking vegan nuggets IPA censor reddit cancer millenial

>>516019902
i think seeing documentingreality.com tier videos in your timeline is better than walled garden + algos
a lot of normies have seen blood for the first time, and unlike previous millenia, people don't need a neighbor being gutted to know shit's fucked
now you see people just nodding to each other "yeah this shit can't go on like this"

perhaps high-def hardcore gore with accompanying context is the bridge that gaps accelerationism with the bad taste of "well everybody has to suffer EVEN MORE PERSONALLY", so we can actually get the correction a little earlier than usual

>>516030721
>>516030883
leftist millenials were all unanimously people who started using the internet after the iphone 3. most of them didn't even own a laptop and were console gamers exclusively

>>516025164
They want to become mommy influencers

How come we know so much about this guy and yet next to nothing about Trump's would-be assassin? The difference is staggering.

>>516030666
>destroyed by the internet
he was destroyed by his own metal illness, you can find woman-hating murderers here and there in past generations even before the internet. They weren't an entire culture like they are today.

>>516031490
>millenials are people who started using the internet after the iphone 3
This is such an incredibly retarded statement regardless of politics.

>>516016228
It has grown progressively worse and we are at a breaking point. When I was a kid it was just us mega dorks who were interested in computers. AOL and dial up became widespread and I almost got my family banned from AOL because my dad and I were flaming in the chatrooms (called trolling now). Mom was mad but we thought it was funny. Nobody was going to lose a job or get kicked out of school over any of that. Oh noes, AOL has warned us, whatever shall we do? Now the Internet has become LIFE for people. It is very unhealthy.

>>516031866
I said leftist millennials. normies didn't really visit message boards or forums very much until phonefags became a thing. you weren't there, so you don't know. they were directly created by Facebook groups and smartphones. I never saw normies even discuss politics online that much until 2013 unless they were boomers. Back in the early days reddit was actually cool if you could believe that.

>>516031866
if I didn't make this obvious in my first 2 statements the people in their 30s that are leftists now were normies before social media. In most respects they still are.

>>516015410 (OP)
I'm 38 and I didn't get a computer until I was 18 when I went to college. My family never had one at home so they were only ever things I learned to type on at school or watched Red vs. Blue on when I went to my friend's house. I almost destroyed myself in college over how much porn I watched. I can't imagine being exposed to all the filth of the internet before even hitting puberty. It's no wonder zoomers are absolutely brain-fried.

>>516028159
People like you are the problem. Back then I learned a new slur every week. But you losers on 4chan only call people faggot and maybe troon. So boring. Where did the creativity go?

>>516020874
A 30 yo millenial has more in common with a 20 yo zoomer than another 40 yo millenial.

>>516031610
He was an MMO addict and spent his time on incel and bodybuilding forums

>>516015410 (OP)
Because they’re late adopters. If you were on the internet in the 90s or the 2000s you learned to use the internet with caution and saw it as a way to interact with other people, not as a disembodied source of truth

Internet was only on desktop/laptop computers growing up and I was only allowed to spend ~2 hours a day on it, maybe 4 in the summer, and making use of all of this firmly put me in the antisocial nerd camp. Meanwhile all I was doing was reading forums and playing CS and other games.

Smartphones and social media changed everything because suddenly the cool kids would just browse lowest common denominator algo-targeted garbage at home, in their beds, on the bus, at school, at the park, when hanging out with others, etc.

>>516032596
kek I remember the grind time rap battles. disaster was the best at slurs and made suicide bomber jokes about himself cuz he was Persian. The best were his Asian jokes against A class. They would never allow that now. not even a bit of it

>>516032258
>you weren't there, so you don't know.
I'm almost 40 you epic spongebob-watching "nostalgic for youtube" zlinenial

All the normies were on myspace, myspace was the Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify and Tinder of its day. You couldn't watch TV shows or movies without them bringing up myspace as the cool new popular thing that all the kids (and adults) were on.

Also they still had to do shit like look up driving directions, bus and train schedules, sign up for classes if they were in college around that time, look for jobs, look at their banking statements, etc.

The internet was already mainstream by 1995, 98 if you want to push it.

The only people new to the internet in 2008 were 8 year old zoomers, or their 80 year old grandparents.

>>516015410 (OP)
>Why are zoomers getting destroyed by the internet but millenials didn't?
old millennial reporting in, when I was eight or nine, I was playing games on DOS, booting from a 5.25" floppy. When I was a teenager we had windows 95 to windows xp, and experienced the birth of the internet. The net wasn't full of trannies, just a few faggots in aol chatrooms.

Millennials are naturally paranoid.
I don't mean the schizo type that takes pills and buys plushies.
I mean actual paranoid of not trusting anyone and having come to terms with that. That's why we distrust tv, social media, journalism, corporatism, politics, religion, and basically every other human institution.
It's about expectations. Millenials had the chance to form deep distrust, and 9/11 is probably a significant part of that.

>>516015577
This, but also the fact that when we were kids, the internet was just a second place to do things on.
For young people today, the internet is the primary, and in many ways the ONLY place where anything happens.
It's their real world, whereas for us it's always been shitposting fiction.

>>516032738
>He was an MMO addict and spent his time on incel and bodybuilding forums
And yet most of the people who also took part in those things turned out fine.

This is exactly like blaming video games for real life violence.

Zoomers don't even know about Marc Lepine and polytech, he wasn't online.

>>516016619
this
FUCK millenials
worst cuck trash they created everything wrong with the internet now

>>516033296
I never said otherwise, I'm just refuting the OP's premise that only zoomers got fucked up on the internet

>>516015410 (OP)
>buy laptop
>fuck tranny
>kill charlie

>>516021738
I was born in 1990 and just remember one day in my freshman year of high school finding Wikipedia and YouTube because I had to write a quick paper on Confucius and then wanted to watch Russian car crash videos. Life was good back then.

>>516021683
This reads like boomer nonsense.
>>516022996
>Millennials are literally the white race's last chance.
Sounds like a shit chance. You're here impotently seething while ZoomerGODS are fixing countries.

>>516033061
>The internet was already mainstream by 1995, 98 if you want to push it.
No way
I am even older than you by about a decade and internet wasn't common in people's households until the early 2000s.
In the 90s, it was techie folks and affluent people online.

>>516033061
There's a significant difference before and after smartphones were a thing. Before them the people who were mostly on the internet were those who had endless hours every day to sit at home and be on their computers. Now every person from every place in life and their grandma is on the internet spewing their bullshit.

Zoomers don't know privacy

>>516015410 (OP)
Some young millennials were. I don't think zoomers are that bad other than being trans. You just see the freaks

>>516033356
my point is that people were mentally ill long before the internet.

>>516033061
the astroturfed push for making normies political didn't happen until much later after the mainstream apps came into being. you aren't making any sort of argument here. They may have used it but not the way they started to after trayvon martin for example.
>>516033199
also this. sadly you're still projecting yourself onto the eternal pleb, most of the people we grew up with thought 9/11 truthers were schizos. but yes, a good 30 percent of millienials, (mostly white males) became very conspiratorial and learned to hate group think. they saw that data and then bam in 2015 they started demonizing this exact group in public forums. fancy that.

>>516033199
>I mean actual paranoid of not trusting anyone and having come to terms with that. That's why we distrust tv, social media, journalism, corporatism, politics, religion, and basically every other human institution.
Sounds just like Boomers

>>516015410 (OP)
When the physical world has degenerated into a hostile and degenerate landscape, why are you surprised?

>>516016072
Pervasiveness is it. It's one thing to goof off on a website or play vidya for 4 hours a day, it's another when screentime is the totality of your existence.

I see zoomers and alphas that can't make it through dinner without constant tablet time. Shit is bad

>>516033664
Yeah but back in the day a mentally ill person just does a bunch of whippets and dies homeless, today they get access to all sorts of ideological poison and become self-imagined martyrs or nihilistic folk heroes. Mass shootings, political murders, etc are up substantially the last few decades.

>>516033705
No, boomers love tv and will believe everything on it and most legacy media.
>>516033686
Oh I'm not saying all millennials are like that. But we've certainly had a unique way of growing up where we had the possibility and incentive to look into what's actually happening.

>>516025904
They should just be banned outright. Smartphones and social media are an absolute negative for society.

>>516033686
I remember when “Trayvoning” was a popular viral thing to do, like planking. Every single one of those kids would get kicked out of school today for that. So much has changed, and so rapidly…

>>516033560
We didn't have it at home until 2002, but there was one kid down the road who had it in at least 95 where he was downloading Doom mods. Some other kids in my class in the 90s were talking about messaging each other on ICQ. We were taking "internet 101" classes as well at the fully furbished computer labs, where a black nerd showed me Newgrounds for the first time.

Just because it wasn't fully adopted by 100% of everyone doesn't mean it wasn't mainstream. It was mainstream enough to generate a smash hit Hollywood romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in 98.

When Hollywood capitalizes on a trend, that's because it's already more than mainstream.

>>516033594
Yeah but my point (amongst other things) is that normies were also there. Myspace only existed at The Computer sitting in their parent's living room or something, but they still checked it out at least once a day. Same with messaging friends online.

Zoomers pretend that the internet was this gatekept secret club for linux nerds only until 2015

>>516034121
Nepal tried.

>>516015410 (OP)
Because millennials grew up in the age of going outside and even when we played video games you had to go to your friends house in person to play multiplayer.

>>516034163
I did it at the Bellagio and got chased off but that probably because we were all trashed lol. I bet somebody at the Skittles marketing team was reposting those pics as hard as he could.

>>516015410 (OP)
Because we grew up with the og internet. Before broadband. If you had internet back in the early and mid 90s you were of the minority. Back when it was a treasure, instead of a propaganda tool.

>>516033686
>the astroturfed push for making normies political didn't happen until much later
It actually happened on 9/11

9/11 2001, not in 2015.

People were 100% arguing politics on message boards, Bush good Bush bad. WMDs real, WMDs fake.

The only reason why it's so obvious to see now is because the internet has been reduced to basically 4 or 5 sites where everything is a screencap of a repost of stolen content, cross-posted on every other website.

e.g. people on reddit get mad at 4chan screen caps, people on 4chan get mad at twitter screen caps, people on twitter get mad at reddit screen shots, etc.

>>516034384
That’s funny. A friend of mine went as Trayvon to a Halloween party and gave everybody Skittles. I remember one over-educated female got upset but quickly piped down when nobody cared about her histrionics. But, everybody was trashed there, too. Lul. Ah, memories of a not-so-distant past that seem so far away.

>>516016600
You still are imo. Modern western culture is loser culture that’s why it’s collapsing

>>516034283
>We didn't have it at home until 2002
My parents had cable internet by 2003. Though to be fair I looked it up and residential broadband wasn't widely available until 2007 or so. But consider the flag. Everyone had servicable DSL available to them in this fucking dumpster by 2008.
2015 is the tipping point when every old hag suddenly had a smartphone with boomerbook, though, I seem to notice.
>>516034503
I don't think you comprehend what millennial means. In the early 90s You didn't have shit as you were a child at best.

>>516034791
i remember seeing MAYBE some terry schiavo joke or whatever online. but after 9/11 everyone was making muslim jokes in flash animations and using politicians as characters. was very noticeable. i wasn't happy about it.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials grew with computers, zoomers grew with phone apps designed to exploit psychological flaws to keep them engaged. I am afraid their brains are irreversibly damaged.

>>516016600
You're just going up to their windows and looking in? What the fuck am I reading?

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennials didn't really use the internet until much later, zoomers grew up using the internet. Even when the internet existed, it wasn't that big until social media like myspace.

>>516031567
Trump's assassin is a glowfag op which is required to get someone in a place where real secret service can't see, the guy was digitally scrubbed before even getting on the roof. This guy is a real unhinged tranny love with an online presence.

>>516034791
I was there for some of that that in 08. participated even. those people were not normies. the difference in conversation ability and tendency to completely lose their shit and take everything way too seriously was noticeable in 2015 faceberg. I started as a 2007 newfag and never saw the level of braindead reactionary bullshit that I did in 2015. you keep proving my point. maybe what you don't want to accept is how dangerous normalfags are, or maybe you just don't like to think of yourself as a nerd. I really don't know why anyone would try to compare pre 2015 internet to after and say they were the same.

>>516035390
lol, he's trying to be a peeping Tom but just ends up getting blackpilled and leaving. to be fair if you take public transit you will only see like one in 50 people looking out the window, the rest are glued to phones.

>>516035629
>I started as a 2007 newfag and never saw the level of braindead reactionary bullshit that I did in 2015. you keep proving my point.
You don't remember Obama being hailed the Anti-Christ online?

> I started as a 2007 newfag and never saw the level of braindead reactionary bullshit that I did in 2015.
probably because you didn't see it as braindead or reactionary.

Were you at any of the Scientology protests wearing a guy fawkes mask? Did the far-left hacker known as 4chan explode any vans around you?

Were the 2000s better than the 2010s? Absolutely. But normies being on the internet or people arguing politics wasn't created in 2015.

I'm a younger millennial, basically just two years off from not being a zoomer. I spent a lot of time online, but the way I was using the internet still require usernames and aliases, it required me to lie about my age and my personal information. It also required me to be more savvy to troubleshoot things like downloading games and getting emulators to work. But all the internet was for me was a fun hobby with fun things to do, and most of my friends either weren't online yet or only had dial up, so most interctions with them were IRL. Its crazy to think just how different things could've been for me if I'd been born just five years later.

>>516015410 (OP)
zoomers are too retarded to see it's all psyops

>>516023627
desu that's worst
i'd rather my kid play GOOD games all day than watch YouTube all day because at least you can use it to teach skills like anger management and persistence

kids who just watch YouTube all day gain what skill exactly?

>>516016228
>Zoomers grew up connected to the internet
Pretty funny that this never gave them the same level of technical acumen.

>>516036673
Everything was too user friendly at that point so they never had to learn anything.

>>516036162
I was at chanology but I was mostly interested in getting a script kiddy gf (was successful). nobody considered themselves a leftist and if they did it was considered class warfare and not race/gender obsessed Marxism we have now. I was also at occupy wall street with my dad. That shit was fucking violent, those were real protests. once again though I don't remember anybody but boomers talking political parties and we though they were stupid. to this day I think right wing and left wing is for normies. yes correct. the left vs right thing started because it was cool for normies to be commie retards in 2015, and you got more likes, mostly from women. But It was WAAAAY different than anything I'd seen before and then I started coming here and learn what really happened in the 40s, and thus became a commie hating stormfag for awhile.

>>516015410 (OP)
YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE
EXPLORE
ADVENTURE
GET LOST
FEEL IT SEE IT TOUCH IT LIVE IT

>all I do is listen to other people's pov's online and thats how I build my character myself & my reality

See the difference OP? Im sure if that academic nerd got punched in the face a few times or every fought to defend himself ( in person ) it would be drastically different then "online argument" that don't capture the wholeness of the human experience. You simply missing out on becoming whole and its CRAZY because this is the new generation.

These losers will grow up to be in positions of authority when they themselves are lacking what it means to hold such power

>>516025134
It's a good thing your fatass frame and minor heart arrhythmia saved you knees by 25! Keep it up anon!

>>516036234
this. unironically this. they themselves also can't lie very well because they have never needed to get away with anything. their parents let them run amuck or they have no desire to leave home and school.

>>516015577
Let's face it retard you cannot even compare the internet then and now not even remotely close

At what age do you think i can give my kid a smart phone? 12 maybe? The plan i have is just to give them a dumb phone like I had growing up (Texts and calls only) but i know eventually she might want one.She can use the computer in the living room i suppose with supervision for games/homework, but she is only a baby at the minute. This thread just got me wondering.

>>516015410 (OP)

>Leave the house
>Actually KNOW you could have a conversation with someone at the coffee shop or bar without it being weird.

Fuck these kids.
They deserve to be lonely miserable narcissistic brain rotted fags with no real outside source of companionship to relay ideas or truths off of.

>>516016195
Still shattered by influence just much much less and under different circumstances now you have 1000 platforms instantly most is shilling/baiting for views, corporate garbage and overall a total toxic waste.

Yet screen time was limited internet was incredibly slow and it was mostly porn and communication where you talked with irl you met idk man what im saying anymore I feel sorry the youth today how do you not become a whore sell pussy ass fuck when you see millions of other doing it making bank and dream to be like them on every platform its all the same

>>516036986
>it was cool for normies to be commie retards in 2015
Except it wasn't normies it was girls and trannies who were posting on tumblr.

Normies in 2015 were talking about Carly Ray Jepson and the second wave of Marvel movies

>>516037291
>At what age do you think i can give my kid a smart phone? 12 maybe?
Until phone manufacturers implement a native "Child Mode" on their phones - never. That bitch is getting a smart phone as a college graduation present.

>>516037291
13. laptop first. something that's hard to carry around everywhere. put a rat in there and just see what she gets into. Don't try to police any activity or say she cant go anywhere either because that will make it worse. If shes viewing something you don't like just fry it with a Killswitch command and say it was the site. My brother did that with his kid and he's a still a retard but not nearly as bad as the others. by the time he bought his own smartphone he had seen this place before twitter.

>>516037600
I'm done with you, no.... what internet were you even on?

>>516037496
>now you have 1000 platforms
the internet is like 6, maybe 7 platforms now.

No one under the age of like 40 even knows where people used to watch videos on the internet before youtube, or where people jacked off before pornhub

>>516015410 (OP)
Because there was other shit to do in the 90s and 00s. And things on tv.

I was born in 95 and over half of my high school graduating class and everyone older practically lives on Facebook. No human contact beyond algorithmically driven slop pumped into their face. My family functionally disowned me when I told them that social media was making them retarded and they should get off Facebook. I’d say millennials were destroyed by the internet in the same way gen x’ers and even boomers have been

>>516023627
what an absolute dogshit father. you should be fucking ashamed of yourself. let your goddamn kid play (curated) video games and not watch YouTube you dumbfuck nigger

>>516037291
>She
*hits pipe*

>>516037980
You underestimate (or overestimate?) normies.

Most don't give a single shit about politics. It's always the smallest minority making the most noise.

While everyone who was extremely online was being mad at Gamer Gate at the time, normies were just posting pics of themselves at the beach on Instagram, talking on facebok about how the Ant Man movie was very funny haha omg matt damon pooped potatoes on Mars, etc.

>>516037765
lol i get your sentiment but i assume it will be required or some shit by secondary school. Don't wan't her to be bullied or ostrasized either, but you never know it might be phone free school or completely fine not to have internet access again as a kid by the 2030's.

>>516037841
very good advice and plan, thank you. got a link to a good site i can buy a killswitch? never done it but sounds a great idea so she doesnt get tempted to watch really bad stuff. Will have parental locks but when she's a tween i can see how she might desire a little privacy (not enough to cause an issue though i hope, hence the worry.)

>>516038094
>I was born in 95
Okay zoomer.

People had such a grotesque reaction to the prevalence of iPad babies but have you ever seen a millennial or older scrolling Facebook? They might as well be dribbling milk down their fat faggot chins and laying on their backs clapping their feet together in a bit shitty diaper.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millennial here. My brain was already almost fully formed by the time I got my first dopamine rush from a “like”.

>>516015410 (OP)
Millenials were the bridge between the terminally online and the pre internet era. They experienced both realities and only entered the internet age in their mid-late teens. Zoomers dont know anything beyond degenerate brainrot

>>516015410 (OP)
Anon those are gen a, this ain’t zoomers anymore…

>>516015410 (OP)
The difference between zoomers and millennials is we both saw Internet porn at a young age, but millennials didn't turn into a bunch of prudes about it.

>>516038481
>lol i get your sentiment but i assume it will be required or some shit by secondary school.
Why would it?

Phones are actually banned in schools here.

A laptop or something, sure.

But really it's the same principle where it should be on the shoulders of hardware manufacturers & software developers to have native operating systems designed to only be for children.

Millennials used the internet as a time when it was pseudonymous and you didn't tell anyone personal info.
Zoomers were used by the internet, encouraged to share everything and live in hugboxes.

>>516038375
It can't be helped sadly. another roll for a boy would be nice but still love her very much and want to make her a rare, good woman you could actually be proud of.

>>516015410 (OP)
Basically this, unironically. We were children in the Wild West of the internet. The first porn I saw was a pop up on an innocuous site of a naked woman tied up with pins in and around her asshole. I was 7 or 8

>>516038931
Forgot cringe pic

>>516015410 (OP)
too few people online for anyone to care about them. the more people got online the more bullshit they brought in. the more resources invested in online brainwashing.
wherever cattle go evil follows

>>516015410 (OP)
Elon Musk didn't own Twitter back then.

>>516038899
having a daughter is the most based thing imaginable. *hits pipe*fags are jealous they haven't reproduced

>>516038729
I agree with you and i hope that will be the case when she goes to school as well. Not needed really, just a device to call friends or family is enough. Girls seem right bitches online too so would rather save her that turmoil in life as well.

I think i'll try to arrange marriage her too. Women are terrible at finding decent men i think.

Lol obviously that's a long way away, but this thread just got mee pondering her future and how to protect it as best i can, since everything is going to shit. Happiness and saftey and making sure she is fed is all i worry about these days and i assume i always will from now on. It's a nice type of burden to have though.

>>516015410 (OP)
As an older millennial, the early internet was treated as a source of info but could also be dangerous. You didn’t post every detail of your life, you didn’t post personal info, it was a lot more anonymous. It’s honestly the opposite of today. Everything wants you to tie yourself to a social media account. Another thing is, the internet has had porn for a long time, but it it just seems like it’s more accessible now.

>>516015410 (OP)
Gen X parents + being born with an iphone in hand.

>>516015962
This
>>516015410 (OP)
What are you even talking about you silly nigger?

>>516039280
sure beats being a DINK/wizard and being alone past 40 im guessing. No wonder a bunch commit suicide, nothing to really live for.

If i treat her right and live long enough, i get to die at home with lineage surrounding my bed, not alone in a hospice with a fat Jamaican sheboon beating me. That's the real reward lol

should go to bed, part-time wagie shit in a few hours (Semi retired but need that xmas dosh, you know how it is.)

>>516039531
>I think i'll try to arrange marriage her too.
okay prajeet, now you've lost me

>Women are terrible at finding decent men i think.

between this statement and the AI pics I'm starting to think you don't have a daughter.

>>516015410 (OP)
Anyone who thinks you can trust even the closest of family members is hopelessly naive. No one is ever safe, especially in the company of people. You aren't safe anytime, anywhere. This should be a given, but people are so deluded into believing this world is such a wonderful place filled with bleeding hearts that'll give you the shirt off their back.

>>516015410 (OP)
The golden rule of the internet used to be to never put personal information online. Now, everyone puts all their information online and everything they say can be traced back to them.

>>516039280
Well, I wouldn't want to have a daughter. I'd be worried about her getting porked by immigrants.

>>516035390
Turns out if you're walking down the street, a lot of the time you can see very clearly directly into peoples' homes by simply glancing to the side all the way from the road. Amusingly, a lot of people keep their windows open and lights on and then sit on the couch jacking off in front of the picture window.

>>516040501
That's kind of hot. Do you ever jerk off while watching them jerk off? Or do you go home and lay in bed in the privacy of your own bedroom and jerk off thinking about that sweaty man in front of his TV jerking off?

>>516040501
I find it very hard to believe, unless the person is sitting right against the window. There's glare, there's blinds, there's at least a yard of difference. That poster is a retard or a bot.

>>516022616
Be a better father.

>>516018887
>i had a dumbphone up until i went to middle school
why the fuck would you need a phone before that? I got through all of high school without a phone, only the most pretentious faggots had a phone when I was a kid.

>>516041025
I'll admit it was harder to get laid using the house phone to talk to bitches but I did it. nowadays that wouldn't work

>>516038899
0/10 no tail.

>>516025093
this is what ruined the internet too. It stopped being about ideas and became about personalities. Only retarded normie scum care about who the person posting is rather than their ideas. That's why attention seekers are the lowest form of life to me. From celebrities to influencers to namefags to redditors, all they care about is saying anything to get attention andit drowns out the only real point of communication: sharing ideas.

>>516041662
Sounds like you're just sick of normalfags, not the internet.

>>516041662
It became about trend chasing and about becoming an “influencer.” The percentage of younger people, when asked about what they want to be when they grow up, who say “influencer” is nothing short of horrifying. Influencer? What kind of job title is THAT? They think it means movie star but influencer is another word for propagandist. “Influencers” will shill for a buck for Dollar Shave Club or League of Legends. What else will they do?