fopsyknow it kind of annoys me when people say "ohh gen alpha is so cooked their little minds are so fried from all the tiktok and brainrot and and the everything else!! we're so done as the human race!!" because its literally what every previous generation has been saying about the younger one. it was tv, then videogames, now, brainrot or something i guess. and it has always been "oh its for SURE this time" and it has always been "oh but this is SO much worse than the previous thing!!". there IS no "for sure this time". we i mean gen z had youtube poop and whatnot. they'll make it. and really its the same with the slang, their brutish 67, our sacred 69, etc
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@chfour yeah it's very very silly. at one point newspapers had opinion pieces lamenting that the growing access to books was ruining the youth, whiling away the time reading fiction instead of whatever it was the prior generations had done to entertain themselves. in that light it's hard not to see these claims as anything but patently ridiculous.
Célistine || TheRealProcyon@gsuberland @chfour this complaining about the youth is as old as history. Same with complaints about how society is collapsing due to changes in practices by the society complainants lived in.
@gsuberland @chfour Roman authors complained about "the youth" a lot. Of course those authors were people who were part of the upper echelons of society, but we have seen similar behavior in people of higher standing in our modern society complaining in newspaper opinion pieces.