I don’t think there is a “dead giveaway”. Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can’t tell if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There’s a lot of different people in the world.
Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online “that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway”, “r/teenagers is mainly grown me”, it really bothers me because no, you’re just overconfident in estimating people’s ages from text
I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I’m sure I didn’t fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.
Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.
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Uuuuuugh. I remember being so black and white, there wasn’t any middle ground on anything. It was exhausting.
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Glad we grew out of it.
yeah pretty much this. Dealing with one right now, people are funny.
I aint reading allat💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Like if gay is bad and u a sigma (YT shorts raised me)
👇Nice yap sesh
Bro is fluent in yappanese 💀💀💀
That yappanomics degree clutch 😭🙌🏻💀
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I don’t know
Edit: thanks for all the likes! I never got 100 before!!! 💀
riesling !!
(or smth)
Specifically in games: constantly repeating the flavor of the month insults. Typically some influencer comes up with a funny insult then for the rest of the month some kids use that one singular insult for every situation
Quit yapping 💀
I don’t know about you all, but I have been posting as an adult human male for a numbers of years now despite being a 4 year old Alaskan Malamute. No one seems to notice or care.
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Larping as a tankie is definitely a thing of immature, terminally online kids, but I wouldn’t throw Lenin in the bunch. While Stalin is mostly condemned as a reactionary psychopath by pretty much everybody except a few leftist basement-dwellers, Lenin is still read and taught throughout the world. Nothing edgy in reading Lenin.
Edgy kids on the internet worship other psychopaths like Pol Pot or Hoxha.
tHeSe MeN wErE vIoLeNt TyRaNtS
The kulaks and the monarchists and the nazi collaboraters deserved it. Communists have been vindicated by history every single time.
Late teens, maybe early 20s.
How close am I?
Assuming that getting married means you’ll never masturbate again.
Well. I was married to someone that thought it was disgusting, hated that I masturbated, and did her level best to shame me out of it. She also hated sex. (Well, with me; she suddenly liked sex once we were separated and she was dating.) And many fundamentalist religions do teach that no one should ever masturbate, and that women should always be sexually available to their husbands, no matter what. (Oh, and women don’t have sexual needs or desires of their own, they just exist to fulfill male needs.)
That sounds rough, sorry to hear that. Being with someone that doesn’t treat you well for too long is damaging. Sounds like you found one of the millions that was absolutely not the right one for you though and I hope you can let it just be that when you’re ready. I could stand to take my advice to be fair lol.
im an adult and i thought that 💀
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I can’t say there is one. Every time i think to myself something like “goddamn, this person is immature” I remind myself that there’s a high number of immature adults in the world including myself, so…?
I’m 62. I’m accused of being a kid all the time.
62 sounds like the kind of random age a kid would say they are. Found 'em!
Damn it.
And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling adults. I gonna go eat my Kraft mac & cheese.
Fuckin hell I’m 52 and haven’t had cereal since 1984. I get called a kid by 30/40 year olds that still eat sugar for breakfast 😂
Oatmeal, made with water and a little salt.
Melatonin putting humans to sleep since forever. Colorized.
Damn straight.
A lack of understanding interpersonal interactions.
And it’s more of a feeling than it is any single behavior. You just… know it when you see it. They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform, and that getting along with others happens solely on their terms. They kind of act like everyone but them is an NPC - not realizing to everyone but them, they’re the NPC.
Might add lack of general understanding but it’s pretty much what you said, like physics, math, nature and society.
They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform
A adult would usually understand enough to at least recognize there is always consequences to a lack of knowledge.
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Hard disagree. Judging by the memes that get posted around here, not a single user of any Lemmy instance was born after 1980
My general metric:
Hahaha = gen x
Lol = older millenial
Lmao = younger millenial
💀 = Gen z
I’m Gen Z and use all of them
For me its moreso about what the older gens won’t use than what the younger ones will
rofl
hahal💀lma💀
This is accurate lol
Their usernames are the random ones proposed by the platform, such as Lazy_Platform_34.
or a randomly generated string of 5-6 letters, such as lseif
I use diceware and random number generators to create my user names.
The neat thing about anonymous discussion on the Internet is that it doesn’t matter. What you have to say is all that matters.
I don’t know anything about anyone and that’s great.
At the same time that’s one of the bad parts of anonymous discussion. You never know if someone’s an expert or a random person guessing (on ELI5), engaging in good faith or purposely trolling, etc.
