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Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y’all zoomers were better than that.
Actually not. You can be a massive nerd these days and still go get fucked up and party.
There will always be popular extroverts and unpopular introverts.
A false dichotomy created by pop culture to divide teenagers into cliques.
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This would have been maybe edgy or interesting 20 years ago
Having been a teenager approximately 20 years ago, no this wouldn’t. We partied and went out, and played video games and surfed the net back then too.
Eh. I grew up in a football town. There was definitely a dichotomy between the popular kids and the “nerds” back when the term was only used as an insult. I think people have to remember their local experiences are only indicative of their locale, not the world at large. The same likely applies here. Won’t be true for everyone, so the post is at least wrong in that regard, but the person who made it probably just didn’t consider their experience is the same as everyone else’s either.
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Based on just browsing social media, this would be more accurate if it were stated as a spectrum and the two extremes hate each other. That would explain the posts in the recent past of people complaining about “normies” (unironically) joining Lemmy.
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Yeah, except I’ve observed that theme. So it does happen. I’m confused. If you claim to admit it happens, why then state you don’t believe it happens? I don’t even follow what you’re saying anymore.
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It’s worth paying attention to if it happens to you personally though. Sure it might not be across the country, but most teenagers don’t get to venture outside the town they grow up in, so if it’s like that, it makes up most of their world. So yeah, that it happens is enough for some people as that would constitute their entire teenage life. I don’t understand why this is difficult to grasp. I literally opened and said it’s a spectrum and the people do exist at either end and that obviously implies it’s not everywhere. So half of what you said isn’t even treading new ground or refuting anything.
It’s not major if it doesn’t happen to you. It is major if it does. This is super simple even a child should understand it.
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When I’ve seen complaints about “normies” using Lemmy, it has more to do with people who are enlightened centrists / freeze peach warriors bringing their diseased takes here from reddit
I don’t think it has anything to do with which specific hobbies people enjoy, especially since we can’t even see that through the screen. I don’t know anyone who really cares if you enjoy clubs, gaming, or both.
Fair point
Gamers truly are the most oppressed ✊😪
I was the Internet/Gamer kid raised by television who got drunk at 17 and fell off a roof. Why was I drunk on a roof? Fuckin’ 2001.
Not sure which category I fall under.
Yeah lol. I was an internet troll through and through, and somehow found my way into a pretty diverse group in uni.
I don’t even want to start on the drunk shenanigans we got up to.
I lived in terraced housing and I used to walk across the steep rooftop of my house down to the neighbors. At the time I thought I was being cool, like my hero, Daredevil. Looking back on it now, it was ridiculously dangerous.
I lament the loss of quite a few of my parallel selves.
I really don’t care about party-goers.
How about internet party goers
And how about lan-party goers?
Drunken LAN parties. Ahh, those were the days
Alcohol gives you cancer, gaming does not.
You haven’t played LoL, have you?
I think I tried it out but discovered that I find MOBAs boring as hell.
That’s good. Otherwise, you’d probably have cancer.
Wouldn’t know if I did: I’m American, can’t afford a doctor.
Oh no, I was in the first group (for 3/4 of high school) and I definitely thought that I was a loser.
I’m about to blaze up and jump into this Tarkov wipe with the boys. The fuck is this.
Spoiler alert…
They both suck
Bruh this meme is so stale could clobber someone to death with it
I’m part of the two, am I special? 🙊
no
fuck
I am into sports and making money
