White guys saying the N word and being gangsta. There is nothing ever cool about a white guy pretending to be ghetto. Yes I’ll include Eminem and I don’t care if he’s been given the pass.
American truck culture. It feels like parody or satire, except it’s real.
I agree on the n word part, but do you expect white guys raised in/by disadvantaged black communities to pretend to be a person they’re not just because of the color of their skin?
A good cringe-inducing thing is gatekeepers. Of music genre, fanbases, video games, any niche really. Saying there is a set criteria for being a fan of something, or being a ‘practitioner’ of a skill or activity. They act like something is a club or a cult and give it a generalization.
I wear my dad’s classic rock icon band tees: name three songs, they demand. I could probably give you a line from one. No I don’t listen to them on a regular basis. I have listened to at least three songs but not enough to recite their names. If someone donated or gifts you their old shirts from concerts–you wear them out of respect.
Oh you claim to be a fan of the fediverse?
Name Every Instance. (or else you arent part of our Lemming club)
/s
Musicals. 😬
Tik Tok brainrot
Like there are so many cool science videos or even gameplay content on youtube, so many movies and TV to watch on sites like netflix or any of the various media platforms, why are kids watching stupid dances and stupid “viral challenges”
tbh my grandma considered movies and TV brainrot and my parents don’t understand why people watch someone playing a video game on Youtube rather than playing. I think there are legitimate criticisms of Tik Tok and other social media, but this just reads as that simpsons quote:
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
I don’t understand why people watch others play video games, but I also don’t understand why people watch people playing sports.
Sometimes you wannna experience a game but are too tired (or in my case, too depressed) to play it.
As for sports, idk. I don’t understand that at all, its been the same sport for such a long time, I’d be bored af, even if I ever had a desire to watch sports. I never understand those people.
Yeah I don’t think i can call it brain rot but I will also say i don’t get it and that’s okay. But I will say there is something about it that reaks of addiction. The way you don’t pick the content the content picks you. Like with YouTube proper or Netflix you pick the content then it starts playing.
Where with TikTok and Reels and Shorts, it’s just scrolling the media is just blaring at you. Your mind has to do the extra work to filter out the messages. It’s like cat video , kids dancing, buy this garbage , puppy video. That’s the only part that bothers me.
But as for the dances and challenges that style of content is the online equivalent of friends standing around in a circle showing off. Add a touch of narcissism that’s encouraged by the platforms and it starts to make sense to me. But what makes it gross is in that group of friends someone is secretly paid by InsertBrand to make that brand look cool.
Parasocial relationships are the real problem. With a TV show or movie it’s there to entertain there is an understanding they don’t know me. They are not my friends.
Whats sad to me is you have lots of kids and young adults that are basically in the same relationship dynamic as a CamGirl and her viewers minus the sex.
The kids are in a headspace of if I just buy what they like they will like me. If I give them money they will acknowledge me.
I fear because they are in that cycle they won’t be pushed to make friends. As making friends is hard and takes some work to maintain them. When you can get the dopamine hit you need for your loneliness and further isolate yourself with your tik tok friends.
