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What are some thing you don’t get because you’re too young?
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What did you watch when you were a wee lad 8-10 years ago to form your core comedic sensibilities? I ask because I think the GenX/Millennial userbase here all watched the same stuff. We share a commonality of cultural language, so to speak. We watched our parents movies and reruns of their TV shows as well as what was contemporary.
Getting to the point: what media binds the Zoomers together the way The Simpsons or Seinfeld does for us oldheads? Genuinely curious, I'm interested in your perspective, not trying to dogpile or establish superiority via gotchas. If those things happen, mashallah and c'est la vie.
Ultimately I think this may be due to growing up post-WWW2.0. While there was already a clear decline ongoing, the advent of high-speed on-demand media completely shattered memetic frameworks like TV, radio and cinema in less than a decade. Also I think Dre nails it with the "arrogance of youth, I was much the same" observation.
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Young people never realize that their parents and basically every adult telling them not to fuck their lives up were actually correct. Well they do realize it but when they’re 34.
It’s a pretty messed up cycle.
It’s a pretty messed up cycle.
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I wrote a long vague thing that i just deleted about how the internet has replaced these shows that act as snapshots of a culture and time period like the Simpsons or Seinfeld, but that wouldn’t be fair. To give a genuine answer it may be South Park. Growing up that was the shit. Edgy and banned in schools. Almost always topical to the time. But I think it doesn’t have the same staying power as half of the shit “we” consumed from the internet.
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When you hit 30, you almost immediately start getting hit with karma boomerangs. I remember I was a teenager thinking I would be a millionaire by the time I was 21. But, I was living in the boomer simulation. Boomers were the generation above me who were in charge, so of course I felt superior to old people.... I saw how retarded boomers were on a daily basis. It made me correlate intelligence with age. Like everyone becomes a demented screeching retard after 30.
I constantly remember random little moments, like a conversation from ten years ago when one of my older colleagues mentioned an 80's movie I didn't know. I actually thought I was the shit for putting them down because they saw an old movie I didn't. "Everything from before my time doesn't count because it hasn't gotten my blessing yet."
Then years later by chance, I'll watch those movies and appreciate what they were tryna say. I know this is an age thing because I never do that with any other subject. I'm not a "one upper" in conversation, but when I was a kid for whatever reason I was constantly attacking people for being old.
I was like 27 when really young girls started saying little comments like "you probably don't know [recent pop culture thing that everyone knows]" or asking weird questions like "Do you know what Tiktok is?" I say curmudgeon disconnected comments about their corny media so they lash out. Recently even literally calling me a boomer for making fun of "Ice Spice." I was fawking brooding, maan. They car-crashed me.
Edit: My mindset at the time was "if you're over 30 and you're not a millionaire or affluent, you're a bum who never figured it out." Your expectations are way too high.
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The golden age of South Park is only like 3 years after The Simpsons was killing it.
I am able to talk to young people about SpongeBob more than The Simpsons, they don't wanna hear about Simpsons. And then they start bringing up "Regular Show" and literal childrens shows which just makes my blood start boiling, and I have to bow out of the conversation before I start treating her breasts as a speedbag.
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Sue, start with season 3 and then 8's the last truly great one. The first two seasons are them getting into the groove, but they're not really funny.
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Fuck Spongebob is actually a good one because thats a show I know everyone would hate but i grew up on it, everyone in my gen did too, and we all get it and find it hilarious.
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Tell any zoomer W is for Wumbo and they’ll get it. They’ll loff
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Okay, just one more.
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I wish DMAN and Abe could merge into one and become a mass serial killer of deserved people
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Hee Haw. As a kid it seemed like dumbshit comedy for rural & small town dumbed-down rubes. There was probably some nice tail on display that, as a little kid, I was too young or too gay to notice. Actually a lot of tv from that era (1970s-early 80s) hasn't aged well and has a weird, shitty look/feel.
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Don't let these niggers be faggots, SpongeBob rules
You know what's funnier than 24?
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Before podcasts and dead talk radio shows I would listen to Simpsons DVD commentaries as my friend simulator.
I doubt your homosexuality has changed with age.
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Bob Dylan. He fucking sucks.
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I wish DMAN would stick to his third person gimmick. It must be tiring but stop breaking kayfabe and do the bit.