• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
    2·
    20 分钟前

    I often need to remind myself that Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are not recent movies.

    It’s the same as being a kid in the 80s, which I was, and thinking The Seven Year Itch was a recent movie. Now, I had seen that movie on TV, because my parents liked it, and I thought it was funny, but never did I think of it as “recent”.

    Still, you can’t tell me that Harry Potter movies didn’t happen in the last ten years.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 小时前

    I’m a school bus driver and my elementary school kids go on about somebody named “Queso” (sp?) on Youtube and I find myself constantly fighting the urge to see what he’s all about. It can’t possibly be good.

  • 257m@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    7 小时前

    As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don’t help and I am too scared to search them up.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 小时前

      I watch NBA basketball and back in the day (1990s) there was exactly one player that was referred to by his initials: Michael Jordan. Nowadays fans use initials (with their jersey number occasionally tacked on as if that’s the cleverest thing to do in the world) for almost every player and it’s almost impossible to know who they’re talking about. For some players this is legitimate (e.g. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a mouthful so SGA is a good replacement) but for most it is not.

      • Lucky13@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 分钟前

        In baseball now, they like to make nicknames by taking the first initial and the first syllable of the last name. Like J-Hey. It’s annoying and unoriginal. Baseball used to have the best nicknames too.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    34·
    12 小时前

    In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 小时前

      The fun thing is that none of this stuff is going to survive long-term at all. Databases are backed up onto forms of media that have a very short lifespan. Only material that is endlessly copied forward (like DNA) will still be around, and nobody is going to pay for that kind of archiving, at least not for the generally trivial bullshit that comprises social media. FWIW this fact make me happy.

      • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        53 分钟前

        What forms of media are you taking about that have short life spans?

        I think that as storage density goes up and price goes down, what used to be cumbersome and expensive amounts of data become easily manageable. So the only reasons we loose data will be business or political. Which will also decrease as there’s now money in buying failing platforms.

        But yeah, I’m also happy none of the social media I created when I was young still exists, and the platforms are buried by the sands of time. Having everything you do on the internet stay around forever feels like a nightmare.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 分钟前

          What forms of media are you taking about that have short life spans?

          Things like tape drives and optical storage etc. Even if they have lifespans measured in decades (and these things typically don’t) that still means they have short life spans in terms of being recoverable in the future. A hundred years from now these things won’t be restorable.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
    281·
    14 小时前

    Personally, I loved the idea of new media. Cable was shit.

    After experiencing new media… there’s some good stuff in there, guys. I promise. Just gotta wade through mountains of shit.

    There should be some rule like; if you have a preference it can’t exist all by itself unless it’s watered down or mixed in with every other preference.

    Thank all that is good for genres. At least there is some media that can define itself clearly enough and still build enough of a following to self fund.

    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 小时前

      If its good enough, the news of it will get to me eventually and I will see for myself.

      This is how I live now.

      This is what it means to be old.

      I’m 34.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        12 小时前

        Fuck im 25 and feel 40, this is why I will not shy away from my day of destined death. I can feel that it’ll be before I’m 40 and I frankly want nothing to do with being 40.

        • oatscoop@midwest.social
          9·
          10 小时前

          One day you’ll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own … and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.

          The worst part is you’ll still mentally feel like you’re not much older than your late 20s or 30s.

          • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 小时前

            I dunno, I’m in my mid-50s and I feel like I’m about 100. The world today is just so different from that of my childhood in the '70s.

        • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
          7·
          12 小时前

          Na, being 40 is fine. I’m 45, eat well and get a little exercise. I am healthier than I was in my 20’s, I have more stamina and I think more clearly.

        • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          12 小时前

          Luckily by the time you get there I’m sure you will feel it will be yourself soon, and will be more a feeling of existential dread than a fear of loss.

          But what makes it sad, death is the harm of deprivation, presupposing lack, loss, or absence of some future goods. At the same time, people deprived of things valuable for them try to acquire them joining some movements or struggling for some privileges.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            12 小时前

            Perhaps I should’ve spelled out why I am so willing to embrace death. I do not care about myself and of the general opinion that I could do more for mankind by throwing myself into violence. I wish to make someone I hate or who opposes my end goals bleed out right alongside me, I ain’t picky. The problem is that even if I end up like my 3X great grandfather and practically don’t age till I’m 70 I would still face some amount of slowdown in my physical or mental faculties, slowdown that may make me less effective.

            The only way I could be convinced otherwise would be if I could purge my biological fathers blood from my veins. Or if I do my damnedest to get myself killed and somehow survive. Not like I’m rushing into it, I swore an oath to my friends that I wouldn’t do anything unless I get a Stamford bridge.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    341·
    18 小时前

    I’m 29 so maybe I’m too young for this statement but if you ask me it’s because younger celebrities tend to be the result of nepotism and don’t have any actual talents.

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
    133·
    22 小时前

    I was talking to my primary-school age kids about their teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.

    “He’s old,” they said, “he must be at least fifty”.

    I said “nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon”.

    They had me with “no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
      801·
      22 小时前

      Yeah, the other day I was consulting with another therapist, and I was telling her how in EMDR therapy I often say “don’t give me the whole article, just the headline” when I want to explain to the client to avoid talking too much during EMDR. she works with teens, and she went “yeah, that will not fly with my clients.”

      We came up with “don’t give me the long-form video, just give me the TikTok” as we both felt we were inching closer to the grave, lol.

      • Amanduh@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 小时前

        I just say “I don’t need your whole life story” but that is kinda rude and wouldn’t work well with clients lol

      • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
        27·
        21 小时前

        Damn…

        I’m Gen Z and I feel like I’d still understand the article analogy, but when I think about my gen-alpha cousins maybe they would need the TikTok analogy…

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        191·
        21 小时前

        We came up with “don’t give me the long-form video, just give me the TikTok” as we both felt we were inching closer to the grave, lol.

        “Give me the Reader’s Digest condensed version.”

        “How does what a reader eats have anything to do with this? and why would we need a condensed version of that diet description?”

        oh god, I’m old.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
          51·
          20 小时前

          Hey kids! Anything interesting in the latest TV Guide?

          Oh really? I’ll have to set up my DVR to tape it, I’ll be at a doctor appointment when the first episode airs…

          • TwanHE@lemmy.world
            4·
            12 小时前

            Bro im not that old and i remember this, all the good English shows used to air new episodes at night.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
              4·
              11 小时前

              Brother, if you remember that, you are old by young people standards.

              I remember being … around 10 and poking fun at my not even 40 yet dad for using a dot matrix printer and fax machine… in the late 90s or early 00’s.

              That’s not too far from the same age gap as the TV Guide / DVR thing.

              A 10 year old now would probably make fun of a person having a digital document scanner at home. What’s the point? Just take a picture of the document with your 8384 megapixel smartphone.

              On that note: Polaroids, film cameras, low grade digital cameras or camcorders as fairly common household items, fucking landline home phones.

              Most kids born in the last 10 or 15 years would laugh at these, or the idea of them, just like I laughed at a dot matrix printer and home fax machine in the late 90s, or grandma still having a rotary phone instead of a cordless home phone.

              Jesus, I don’t think I’ve actually even thought about the last time I made a home phone call on a phone with a cord… in about a decade.

              • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
                1·
                1 小时前

                As an aside, the Target store near me carries Polaroid film and vinyl records. With everything virtual and touchscreen these days, some kids value the kinesthetic experience.

                Heck, I’ve been cell phone-only since 2003, but I’ve been thinking about setting up a landline phone from my childhood with a VoIP adapter just because it has such a satisfying heft in the hand, and tactile buttons.

              • TwanHE@lemmy.world
                4·
                11 小时前

                I’m only 22 yet I still made a call on a rotary phone last week and used a CRT to watch some TV. My grandma’s guest room tech has not been replaced since my mom moved out lol.

    • bus_factor@lemmy.world
      13·
      17 小时前

      About a decade ago my employer had an intern present their findings from analyzing some survey data. One of the findings was this:

      “People who answer surveys are really old. Like really old. Like thirty.”

    • rishado@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 小时前

      Are you under the impression that newspapers are still in fashion? Feel like they’re kind of right on that one.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      17·
      21 小时前

      Primary school age children are horrible at guessing age. One time when I was 16 a group of 6 year olds estimated I was 40. And I don’t look old, a few weeks ago, I got carded buying beer, which is 16+. I’m 27.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    18 小时前

    My friend with young cousins was telling me that kids are using “sigma” instead of “cool” now?

    “That’s so sigma, bruh.”

    The fuck?

    • killingspark@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      14 小时前

      'The fuck" is now “what the sigma” at least that’s what I gathered from lurking on shitposting communities

      Edit: and I’m deeply afraid of using it around people who don’t know what that means. And also around people who do know what it means.

  • DaChrissy@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    13 小时前

    I feel that. I have no clue about new celebrities. Or old ones. I just don’t care enough about them to keep with their lives. Only a few I have an actual interest in/like