Are gen xers always mad? Honestly, they seem to be the chilliest generation that’s reached adulthood.
That might be why I’m unaware. I don’t have TikTok. Do YouTube shorts, but I guess I’ve just sort of missed em
Here’s a short with a dude laughing at a few:
Mostly just centres around a few Gen Xers ranting about how they “grew up feral” and “had battles for respect and turf”. Not that bad really. But when I see it, I can’t help but think of this meme:
should have just stuck with the vinyls.
You’d have to be mental to replace vinyl with tapes of all things. Going digital, no media, or subscription can kind of make sense for accessibility and other reasons.
Sit Ubu, sit.
I’m still on mp3s. I have gigs of music on my Plex server and just use that. Fuck subscriptions.
Nobody’s forcing anybody to use subscriptions… still got my MP3 collection from 20 years ago
Your collection is older than I am and I’ve been building up my MP3 playlist. Why pay or watch ads when you can simply have the files themselves?
And the portable MP3 players are most likely still gonna work nowadays. Most of the them had AAA batteries so no need to worry about flat batteries, iPods have a lot of replacement parts as well as upgrades, ex. SD card conversion kits
I thought we were just adaptable and “whatever”.
I still have CDs and records. It’s all burned to digital format, but still. I can’t imagine that anyone misses cassettes.
There’s some nostalgia. Also, cassettes can sound very good. If you have a good cassette, a good recorder and a good audio source, that is.
Eh. The more you listen though, the worse it gets. Tapes are an inherently temporary medium. If that’s your jam, it’s cool. But I don’t want my music degrading over time.
I mean, I wouldn’t use them as primary mean of keeping a music collection. But they’re great if you happen to have an old sound deck or car that doesn’t take CD. You make yourself a handful of mixtapes and you’re ready to go. Much nicer than some bluetooth-cassette adapter.
I don’t think anyone actually misses them. The only people I’ve seen that are actually into them now are way to young to be nostalgic for them.
Cassettes seem to interest people pushing back against the trend of instant gratification singles. They like being forced to listen to an entire album. Sometimes it’s just the object itself as merch. and has no relation to listening to the music. Many people buying records and tapes have no means to play either. It’s also all ancient retro tech to them and a tape is just a portable record that won’t skip. Similar to the resurgence in popularity of film formats in photography. There is even an artist out there that released their new single on a wax cylinder format that is damn near impossible for anyone but the curator of an audio format museum to play properly. If you’re nostalgic for the trappings of a time that you never experienced, is that nostalgia or some other thing?
Cassettes wear out. I did that with a couple back in the day. Whereas a record or CD is a solid master copy.
Unless it’s that trendy decor thing people Hoover up albums for, not to listen to, but to hang on their walls. Maybe they’re trying cassettes now to try to be unusual en masse.
I don’t wish we’d go back to using cassettes as a primary music medium, but I think it would be fun to revisit that era of tech and play with them for a little while. Like I think if my 10 year old niece discovered a box of cassette tapes and asked “what are these” I think we could have an hour or two of fun playing with my old boom box.
