Not a very good way of describing it, but you get the point. Sometimes I see something and I just have to try to reason with them and I know itโs pointless but still. Poor saps who are literally children - 13, 14, 15 - and their minds are addled mush. I donโt mean they are ones getting baited by lovefor subs, but the ones that seem deranged. The ones that are (usually) tankies that hide under the anarcho-communists aesthetic because they donโt know what either are. Who are obsessed with gay and trans and femboys too the point where itโs legitimately disturbing. The ones who spend all day, every day, looking for shit to seethe about on reddit. Especially depressing are the ones who out as itโs clear they all are acting out for attention (letโs be honest, none of them have social connections but the s also have no family connections).
Like holy frick it becomes painful to see. Havenโt even made it to highschool yet for half of them and their fricked. Their lives are fricked. I know I could call them all worthless subhumans and they basically are, but itโs not their fault. Everyone failed them. Their parents, their teachers, and the way social media sites function it was bound to happen.
I have no idea if Iโve ever convinced someone to at least reflect, but I still got to try, you know? The way their going theyโll have 2 options, suicide before 20 or a lifetime of misery and nobody deserves that. If some moron is 25 and then they start fricking up their life thatโs one thing, but someone whoโs not out of puberty left never even got a fair shot.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I legit feel a bit bad for them.
The internet has already fried their brains before it finished through the changes puberty brings.
I've sperged about this a few times before, so I'll try to keep it short and concise for a change, but I truly think this shit is "raising" a new "lost generation" whose fricked up psyche means they will never be able to lead a normal adult life. I guess the question is what percentage of zoomers actually is like this, and how many of those will grow out of it. But I fear it might be a substantial amount, maybe enough to destabilise the status quo at a time where other regions of the world are already challenging the west's grip on the world. Though to be fair im talking about overly-online children in general, not just those that become trains. But the 5 year olds that get parked in front of the IPad for the day, and grow up completely stunted mentally and socially. I'd disregard it as internet shit if I didnt hear about those in real life so often. I really just hope they grow out of it, or that I die before they frick everything up and im too old to go off-grid...
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
My college experience says at minimum about 3%. They went into useless degrees (go figure). But NY so ehh.
That doesnโt take into account the ones that stay home, or how itโs getting worse each year though.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Yeah thats the thing. The people that enter college right now were already teenagers when youtube really took off, the first smartphones are only about a decade old. Even the oldest kids that really took the full force of this shit to their childhood are still in high school. So we dont really know how bad it is yet.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Iโm 22. That means I was born in 1999. My first phone was a flip phone in case I got hurt. That was in fifth grade. My first smartphone was an iphone 4 I got at 13. The first time I saw hardcore porn I was 11 and it fricked up my sexuality.
Now kids are getting modern smartphones in the second grade. And toddlers are being given tablets by bad parents to keep them occupied (elsa gate). So you have kids, who were raised by ipads, getting access to the whole internet at 6 and 7. You know most parents arenโt putting controls on their devices. Considering how sexualized social media and society in general is, you have kids (literally admitting to this on r/teenagers) seeing porn at 9. Having instagram addictions at 10. Adults canโt handle that, how can kids? They canโt, so you get 12 year olds posting on reddit about their femboy fetish and how they keep spouting off memes irl.
Shit is so bad
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I was already a lil' glowie when I bought my first smartphone, I think my first phone at all I got with 13 or 14 (4096 colors, b-word ) I think the first time I saw a real porno with fricking was after I already had s*x. The closest in my childhood were late-night French artsy films. And to be fair, those have much better tits than all of pornhub combined .
Unironically, I can kinda imagine how all the hardcore fetish porn shit, or just the sheer amount of porn online, can mess up people in their early adulthood when they're virgins and/or dont interact with women much.
Having this available as literal children, that not only lack a frame of reference, but whose body chemistry and hormones are already fricked up from puberty and that dont even really know what their feelings and arousal mean, I dont even want to imagine.
Play me away, lonpostbot!
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Your fetishes are mainly a result of prepubescent and pubescent experiences (source: just trust me). And porn works like an addiction, where you need more and more hardcore content to get off. Ergo furries, scat, mommy and daddy fetish, ect, all skyrocketing. It also results in asexuality as only porn works.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Asexuals are all either lying for attention or have just coomed themselves stupid and need a T break. I unironically want to go poke r/asexuals now and make fun of them for being coomed out children
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Some of them are genuine schizophrenics. Some are high-functioning, but still
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I donโt know any asexual schizophrenics.
Source: am a verysexual (๐๐) schizophrenic
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
The raising kids on iPads really bothers me. I know parents have it rough, but canโt you play eye spy or go to the fricking park?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Some parents do it because they don't want to interact with their child. I see so many kids at restaurants playing with their tablets instead of actually talking with their family, its disgusting.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Man I wasn't even allowed to read at the dinner table
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Well no actually, going to parks and playing with other kids was banned for a year for the greater good
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Right? There's no reason someone under 12 needs unsupervised access to the internet
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
It's pretty fricked. I've pretty much prepared myself to lose my career for ~15 years to educate my kids properly because the notion of sending them to public schools is so fricked up nowadays. Obviously that has its own problems, but public school in my time was just tough. You got beat up if you were dumb enough or if you pissed off a big enough guy, but there weren't insane machine-learning optimized attention sponges designed to ruin you and suck you into a neverending heck of consumption.
https://classicreload.com/win3x-skifree.html
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Just send them to Catholic school
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Why do you love boy r*pe?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Heโs libertarian
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
lol @ the seethe responses. Unironically, yes. If the kid has half a brain, the religious propaganda won't stick.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
tard
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Send them to richer public schools. Those tend to be pretty solid.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Childrencels OUT
oh my god there are people born after 9/11 who could use this site. im old
oh lookee at the rich kid
Sure blame the porno
So call them a cute twink irl and if they get uppity smack em in the lips. They'll understand the world goes past the internet
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Imagine being born before 9/11 lol. 9/11 is basically a marvel movie
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
9/11 is literally one of my earliest memories
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
I honestly believe in 20 years or so we'll have an armada of studies on how damaging the internet and tech is to childhood development. Looking back on all the mistakes and misguided practices we had in the past, who are we to assume we aren't making any more?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Oh absolutely- look at tv. It took years, but it turned out that letting the tv raise your kid was a bad idea. Didnโt stop anyone though.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=tv+effects+on+young+children&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
was it? Has anyone proven that in studies? Donโt think so. Itโs obvious, but to whom is it obvious? Not enough
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
You are an r-slur science doesnโt work like that r-slur r-slur
There are already plenty of studies that say that but they are stupid. Ditto in twenty years. Nothing will happen. Or it will get worse. Studies havenโt shown gaybad yet, social science doesnโt work, and can just be ignored when it disagrees with you
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I don't even think social science would be required. We'd just look at people who didn't spend their childhood terminally online and realize they were a lot less likely to end up hanging from the rafters or in jail or something like that.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
One problem is most people use the net
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
I'm a few years older than you and the first porn I ever saw was a woman blowing a horse when I was 9.
It fricked me up in the exact ways you'd expect.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
hey fellow 99er!
What do girls our age like btw? cant seem to catch tail here. Help a neighbor out.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
This just reminded me of my HS teacher who tried to push me to getting a degree in philosophy. I asked "Won't that put me under a mountain of debt with no way out?". She tried to wiggle out of answering the question
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Lol, I had the opposite experience.
So my first major I picked was psychology, and in my senior HS english class we had to do a research report on what sort of careers our major would lead us to, and part of the report involved interviewing someone in the field.
So, I ended up finding out we had a school psychologist (who knew?), and interviewed her. She was 23 years old, and unironically the hottest girl I had ever met up that point. Had a graduate degree in psychology so I assumed she was also smart as frick.
She told me she honestly hated it, and especially as a guy I should go get an actual mens job, either a trade or STEM. She said she was already planning on going back to school but needed money and being an HS psychologist was the best she could get, and she literally did nothing all day. She said that interview was probably the best opportunity she could have to make a difference in someones life the entire semester. I only knew her for 15 minutes but she was the first person I think that ever spoke to me truthfully.
So I sperged out and got an engineering degree and I've been a cynical butthole ever since. Shit really stuck with me for some reason.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
No, don't reply like this, please do another wall of unhinged rant please.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Tell me you are a bigot without telling me you are a bigot.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
What college if you donโt mind? Iโm a college student in NY too, I agree with the 3% ish
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You say shit like this every time I doom-post. Just go ahead and admit you're a hentai-addicted zoomer. And then stop making fun of me
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I hope animated tattoos become a thing so i can get this marsey on my arm
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
100%
Look at her, she's so happy, just jamming and enjoying life
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
LED implants.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Stop bullying me
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Work with teens and i can tell you it isn't that common. The racial divide is pretty frightning though and the amount of straight up far right zoomers (both muslim and western) is pretty daunting. Not talking about reddit "you said the n-word " far right here either.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Eh there arenโt that many true far right zoomers. a lot of russia/poland stans though. Edgy white kids who think hitler is cool donโt count bc edgy.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Idk I feel like we're fricked and the internet certainly fricked me up as a zoomer, but I don't think I would've not gotten my psyche fricked up even if it hadn't.
I was darned anyways since I got bullied and had like no friends cause I was a sperglet as a child. Which was actually part of the reason I became so online, and I think thats the case for a lot of zoomers.
Which begs the chicken-or-egg question of, which came first, the mental illness or the constant internet use?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Tell me you are a bigot without telling me you are a bigot.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Of course I'm a bigot!
Though I dont see why that comment of all the shit I post is the one to "reveal" that. Also, I resent the claim that I would try to hide my bigotry, it is a vital part of my identity sweaty, claiming not to see that is literally erasing my lived experience.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
you seem a bit heated? problem bigot?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context