I knew someday I'd get too old to recognize new celebrities but I did not expect to get too old to recognize what celebrities are famous for. every day I go "is that a new singer" and then a person born in 2007 goes "ew no they're a peeble streamer on doop" as I inch closer to the grave
@VeryBadLlama I feel this so much. It's very weird and a bit scary. I try to see the positive side of everything, but ... it's not always easy.
@EntropySloth @VeryBadLlama I mean, the positive side is you get to be part of today's Lucky 10K ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ ), even as you get older.
Ten Thousand

xkcd

@VeryBadLlama I found out what "Hot Girl Summer" means.

today.

you can't let the little fuckers generation-gap you.

@VeryBadLlama ... And they don't even doop their own peebles, they just provide ironic commentary, blip-memes and atonal mouth noises over yowza!s of notorious peeblers alting their yass.
@nickzoic @VeryBadLlama THIS!!! The doop scene used to have a real vibrant glaz to it, but now it’s just poseur post-tweens chumming out recycled chockle posts like time stopped passing in 2021
@joshmillard @VeryBadLlama hehe yeah nüdoopies be giving big '1 energy.

@joshmillard @nickzoic @VeryBadLlama

Why do I suddenly feel like I'm in "A Clock Work Orange" my little droogies?

@joshmillard @nickzoic @VeryBadLlama doop is on the retrack. Jimfizzy was declared the Fram King by Shika Vue and now it's all Shazzy.
@PTR_K @StevenSavage @nickzoic @VeryBadLlama unbeatable classic webm, every time the frog resurrects I’m crying laughing
@joshmillard @PTR_K @nickzoic @VeryBadLlama I don't like how Bappy1999 named the frog "Goncharov" to try to jump on the old trend. But freebbers gonna freeb in the frogosphere.
Worship The Bean Meme @tootymcnooty

YouTube
@nickzoic @VeryBadLlama …i think i need to go to a hospital?
@VeryBadLlama @kalyish I thought a peeble streamer was a bunny rabbit...
@VeryBadLlama
Here I sit in the last of my sexagenarian years reading your post and not understanding anything at all after the "ew".
@BlueGrits @VeryBadLlama Is your life's enjoyment or enrichment diminished in any way by not understanding anything after "ew"? My guess is "no".
@VeryBadLlama I was happy to introduce Taylor Swift to the rest of the old guys in the barber shop today.
@VeryBadLlama It's even worse when you get too old to recognise old celebrities! Like you're watching this movie with some wizened and ancient fella in it, going "where do I know this balding, bearded, corpulent wreck of a human being from?" and it turns out to be someone who was a globally famous Hollywood heartthrob in 1993 and you just missed the past three decades...

@VeryBadLlama

But there is good news today! The NYPD arrested some dipshit YouTube / Switch douchebag ā€œcelebrityā€ for a giveaway in the middle of Manhattan that attracted thousands upon thousands of the types of total morons that follow these types of people and disrupted normal activity.

Hopefully there’s no bail and he’s thrown into Rikers with a very horny Harvey Weinstein.

@RodneyPetersonTalent @VeryBadLlama very hateful comment. also what is a dipshit switch douchebag?
@VeryBadLlama I've always looked forward to the day when I wouldn't recognize any celebrities. Not quite there yet but making progress.
@VeryBadLlama I'm only a year older than 2007, what is that slang
@VeryBadLlama Too true šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

@VeryBadLlama haha this hurts so bad šŸ˜‚

😭

@VeryBadLlama Embrace the old. Embrace it. Let it wrap you in its arms and pull you safely into the early bird specials, orthopedic shoes, and reruns of Matlock. It's okay. Don't fight it.
@VeryBadLlama I am someone who has always ignored most "celebrities" when I could, failed to recognize nearly everything about pop culture brands, including "celebrities", and has grown into a nearly 50 year old person who simply doesnt recognize celebrity. The whole thing is a fucking sham and it equally cracks me up and disgusts me.
@VeryBadLlama totally my life with teens…and I am old…..

@VeryBadLlama
Quoth @OwensDamien:

I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this:

ā€˜CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’

@VeryBadLlama šŸ˜‚ totally with you on this. Never gets any better!
@VeryBadLlama at least us old timers didn't consider people a celebrity for being a celebrity. Well, there was Angelyne... and for some reason "Kitty Carlisle" was on a lot of shows... well, anyway.
@VeryBadLlama I've been slightly alarmed by the discrepancy between the number of people I'm familiar with dying and the number of new people I'm learning about. For example, in the time since Paul Reubens and SinƩad O'Connor died, I've learned about precisely 0 new people. I mean I basically live under a rock, but there are also roughly 3 billion more people on the planet than when I was born.
@VeryBadLlama there seems to be a direct correlation: the fewer of these "famous" people I recognise, the more medical conditions I can name.
@VeryBadLlama Influencers, I mean what the hell are they!! I really don’t understand how they get traction in people’s lives.
@VeryBadLlama sometimes i can’t tell if it’s the name of a celebrity or an object of some kind. or maybe the name for a new kind of surgery
@VeryBadLlama @kim Same here. I struggle with the fact that pretty much anyone can be a celeb now if they post enough videos or something
@VeryBadLlama Most relatable toot in forever. Just waiting for when I can no longer even tell the difference between a real live celebrity and an AI one.
@VeryBadLlama Yep. I'm now ā€œcelebrity versions of TV shows are indistinguishable from the regular versionā€ years old.
@VeryBadLlama remember when Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk making him the new drip king?
@VeryBadLlama but with it comes not caring & more free time to relax & enjoy the things you love, aging gracefully means not giving a fuck anymore, now that it real freedom...šŸ˜‚

@VeryBadLlama

Such is life! Enjoy it!

@VeryBadLlama maybe i’m too young for mastodon
@7ynth
It's possible, but you're probably OK. It's not mandatory to want everyone to get off your lawn, or even to have a lawn.
@VeryBadLlama I take absolute delight in not knowing who/what a celebrity is/does.
@VeryBadLlama Yep, you gonna get yeeted right out out