I'm posting this here since there's no where else I really post random shit.
If you're a Gen Z'er and you've been using the chinese schlock apps provided to you by the government, I'm sure you've noticed how whiny zoomers seem to be about "things being better when they grew up" but it's always about products, advertising, and not anything that actually relates to why thing are worse now. Why the clothes they sell at fucking Walmart are all plastic. Obviously there's a lot more to it than agencies not wanting to repeat the failures of toys r us. At least with previous generations they actually had some innovations, but the world after 2001 is a shell of it's former self.
I'm not saying things are way better now (see 2008 recession) but it really makes you wonder how retarded and aimless the modern zoomie is. It is concerning.
Nostalgiaslop is no different to the boring incel tantrum about removing incel rights, it wants simpler times where making connections was a matter of seeing someone with a toy or watching tv and not having to secondguess so much of everything else because it's so easy now to not get each other even if in theory you like the same things.
people alienated. no social media besides annonymous image boards(prolly not even intentionally bc its whole focus was "privacy) has replicated the feeling of grouping up together to shout at things. It all feels like single individuals shouting at the void and the void happens to reward you back w peoples likes. You dont see your "moots" and friends unless they post, unless they consume. the algorithm can show you more advertisements sure and its damn good at that, but nothing really personal. It always feels like formal interactions there. of course there are no friends here on imageboards but its mainly just fellow strangers shouting at things together. idk maybe im just lonely. also bc i couldnt fit this into my rant im surprised by how many people say tankies are this despite saying thid anarchists say this despite saying this when its probably just the algorithm showing you ragebait and/or that even amongst radicals theres a spectrum of views. Does nobody fucking get this? I dont see "insert group here" doing this or "insert group here" should do this and then someone who is part of the group says "we actually do this" or "we dont do this" and then the same pattern repeats. Why do people not seem to understand theres so much "fresh meat"(inexperienced) internet users always coming in that the same discourses will repeat when the young'uns become interested in said thing and go start doing discourse again bc theyre passionate/curious/ignorant/educated about said thing. Everyone cries the same doomerism oh the people will never learn!! No! we'll have to keep doing this constant discourse every single day assuming you accept that somehow doing discourse is a good form of education(ha!). Of course its going to repeat! why does nobody understand that the beef will never end!