- Wugmeister ( @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English72•4 days ago
Extreme/insane positions on everything. Not just one or two insane positions, not just political extremism; when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING. No nuance allowed. And it has to be fully sincere, otherwise you are dealing with a Jreg.
There are milder versions of this, but I have rarely met a child that didn’t have a strongly held insane belief formed from their limited experiences. My favorite was a kid who told me that eating pasta supports fascism because it comes from Italy, so loving Italian products means you support Mussolini. Pizza is fine, though, because that’s American.
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 10•4 days ago
Uuuuuugh. I remember being so black and white, there wasn’t any middle ground on anything. It was exhausting.
- Wugmeister ( @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•4 days ago
I’m just glad I decided to go full moral relativism right away back then. It was a good way to speedrun maturity, although I did maintain some kooky beliefs into early adulthood such as
- “if you are not multilingual you can’t be a good person, and the more languages you speak the better of a person you are”
- “The Democratic party is a puppet of the Republican party, and in reality the U.S. is only pretending to be a two-party state”
- “The age of consent should be 25.”
- “Evil people can be good functioning members of society, so we shouldn’t discriminate against people who hold evil beliefs as long as they are nice to others.”
It was exhausting. Opposite reason from you, there was only middle ground, no black and white allowed. But it came from the same mental place. Pride, arrogance, nieveté.
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 days ago
Glad we grew out of it.
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•4 days ago
yeah pretty much this. Dealing with one right now, people are funny.
- Todd Bonzalez ( @todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ) 36•4 days ago
They like people like Lenin and Stalin.
It’s a wakeup call for a lot of young people when they start to recognize the absurdity of anti-communist propaganda, but a lot of kids swing too far the other direction and figure all the bad things they’ve ever heard about history’s worst communist leaders are lies.
It doesn’t mean that Communism is uniquely bad, but these men were violent tyrants who don’t share values with most mainstream western leftists today.
Some never grow up and say dumb shit like that radical gender expression was common in the USSR or something…
- chobeat ( @chobeat@lemmy.ml ) 23•4 days ago
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.
- ssj2marx ( @ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ) 9•4 days ago
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.
- oatscoop ( @oatscoop@midwest.social ) English8•4 days ago
Late teens, maybe early 20s.
How close am I?
- communism ( @communism@lemmy.ml ) 77•5 days ago
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.
- morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) 22•5 days ago
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
- Badabinski ( @Badabinski@kbin.earth ) 17•5 days ago
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.
- ALiteralShovel ( @Tixanou@lemm.ee ) 71•5 days ago
I aint reading allat💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Like if gay is bad and u a sigma (YT shorts raised me)
👇- AlexWIWA ( @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ) English9•5 days ago
Nice yap sesh
- twei ( @twei@discuss.tchncs.de ) 9•4 days ago
Bro is fluent in yappanese 💀💀💀
- AlexWIWA ( @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ) English2•3 days ago
That yappanomics degree clutch 😭🙌🏻💀
- Theme ( @Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 43•5 days ago
I don’t know
Edit: thanks for all the likes! I never got 100 before!!! 💀
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 4•4 days ago
riesling !!
(or smth)
- noli ( @noli@lemmy.zip ) 42•4 days ago
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
- Theme ( @Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•4 days ago
Quit yapping 💀
- modifier ( @modifier@lemmy.ca ) 40•5 days ago
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.
- lesbian_seagull ( @lesbian_seagull@lemm.ee ) 10•5 days ago
Awooo to you, fine canine.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English30•5 days ago
Assuming that getting married means you’ll never masturbate again.
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 12•4 days ago
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.)
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 days ago
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.
- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 2•4 days ago
im an adult and i thought that 💀
- Wugmeister ( @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•4 days ago
That’s just a fundamentalist though
- NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 29•4 days ago
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…?
- Xylight (Photon Dev) ( @Xylight@lemm.ee ) 21•4 days ago
lethal amounts of cringe
idk man frfr ong. thats not skibidi rizzler fanum tax of you to assume im a younger and have L rizz, im no cap a sigma fr. anyway im finna dip and be like an alpha. 💀
what the sigma
- Schadrach ( @Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•4 days ago
And this has convinced me I am officially an old. I’m not sure what language about half of that is in and can’t even guess at what some of it means from context.
- Wugmeister ( @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•4 days ago
In case you want to know, OP is misusing half of these words. That said, I swear to God I’ve heard this sentence come out of a kid’s mouth once
- Boomkop3 ( @Boomkop3@reddthat.com ) 3•4 days ago
gg
kids be growing up with different memes
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 21•4 days ago
Excessive edginess
It’s important to differentiate it from like. Having extreme opinions. There are plenty of adults with extreme opinions and they are a whole other conversation. – But only people under a certain age (not strictly kid, mind, though most people have shaken this off by their mid 20s) have a penchant to arrive at extreme opinions specifically because they are “edgy” and “cool”.
This tends to also come with a particularly needless hostile attitude, where they very quickly and easily start with the verbal abuse.
- Trailblazing Braille Taser ( @0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•4 days ago
Reminds of the dead baby jokes from my day. Like why? Too horrible to be funny.
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 3•4 days ago
That was a thing?
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 5•4 days ago
Brüh
- therealjcdenton ( @therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ) English21•4 days ago
Fr fr bussin no cap the rizzler is mewing
- gwilikers ( @gwilikers@lemmy.ml ) 4•4 days ago
Wazat mean meng?
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English20•4 days ago
Extensive use of emojis and abbreviations is a good indicator.
- padge ( @padge@lemmy.zip ) English19•4 days ago
“im 9 btw”
- geneva_convenience ( @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ) 16•4 days ago
They are on TikTok and not Lemmy