They don't understand that time didn't start in 2014. There's this weird mentality on the internet that assumes the current insanity is the way it's always been. Faggitors are particularly bad about this but it's not limited to them. It's inconceivable to them that drag queens ever did anything other than groom kids into current year's degenerate ideology. As you said it used to be a very weird and niche form of entertainment.
I sort of understand why saner times are so foreign to them. We're talking about people in their late teens or early 20s. They would have been around 10 give or take a few years when this shit kicked off, so they would have been a good half decade away from political awareness. I'm about the same age as you, and there was a discussion here not too long ago about Waco. Some of the older posters here were grown adults at the time and watched it happen so to speak. I pointed out that for guys our age it's pretty much historical.
But you're right, there is a major difference and the internet is the major cause. We were the last generation to have a childhood where the internet wasn't everywhere. Outside the dialup internet we had for a few years I didn't have access to home internet until I was 11 or 12. Before that (and even a number of years after that) parents were the main source of cultural information. Other kids too, but the other kids had their parents as their main source. So that was the connection. The proportion of cultural information kids got from their parents dropped dramatically when being online 24/7 became the norm. Memories are so short on the internet. It's easy to forget some trend or meme from last year, let alone stuff from decades ago. That's not the Faggitors' fault. What is their fault is their know it all attitudes and willful ignorance of the past.
The internet has so fundamentally changed too. It has changed from being a wild west of varied, diverse sites made by both individuals and corporations to a carefully curated and psychologically-engineered garden, accessible mainly through apps.
The internet feels less free overall. The world wide web made the internet accessible in a way that allowed the average person to explore a new world. But then start phones and app culture clamped that down, making everything a focus on what's trending or what the algorithm wants you to see.
Go read David Stewart and Brian Neimeier's books on the subject. Anyone who wasn't at least tweenaged at the turn of the century has a vastly different outlook from even Gen X.
To your point of those old TV shows, yes, I did watch those as well. Addams Family, Wonder Woman, Lost in Space, Adam West's Batman and more. I get the funniest looks when I bust out in the "Happy Days" theme song or hear an 8 count and the "Schlemeil, Shlimazel, Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!" comes out of my mouth.
Kids literally have no clue because they're being made into rootless idiots.
It's really paradoxical, because in some ways pop-culture has stagnated since the 80s and 90s. Practically every movie is set in a universe and with characters created decades prior.
Kid Rock was always a "trashy, freakshow" persona, and like goes with like, so this is nothing of note. As you said, it is as though they believe the present and past where they existed to be the only times that matter. Nothing before, and certainly nothing after.
They don't understand that time didn't start in 2014. There's this weird mentality on the internet that assumes the current insanity is the way it's always been. Faggitors are particularly bad about this but it's not limited to them. It's inconceivable to them that drag queens ever did anything other than groom kids into current year's degenerate ideology. As you said it used to be a very weird and niche form of entertainment.
I sort of understand why saner times are so foreign to them. We're talking about people in their late teens or early 20s. They would have been around 10 give or take a few years when this shit kicked off, so they would have been a good half decade away from political awareness. I'm about the same age as you, and there was a discussion here not too long ago about Waco. Some of the older posters here were grown adults at the time and watched it happen so to speak. I pointed out that for guys our age it's pretty much historical.
But you're right, there is a major difference and the internet is the major cause. We were the last generation to have a childhood where the internet wasn't everywhere. Outside the dialup internet we had for a few years I didn't have access to home internet until I was 11 or 12. Before that (and even a number of years after that) parents were the main source of cultural information. Other kids too, but the other kids had their parents as their main source. So that was the connection. The proportion of cultural information kids got from their parents dropped dramatically when being online 24/7 became the norm. Memories are so short on the internet. It's easy to forget some trend or meme from last year, let alone stuff from decades ago. That's not the Faggitors' fault. What is their fault is their know it all attitudes and willful ignorance of the past.
We're the last generation to experience the internet in a way that let you not be exposed to it at all times.
The internet has so fundamentally changed too. It has changed from being a wild west of varied, diverse sites made by both individuals and corporations to a carefully curated and psychologically-engineered garden, accessible mainly through apps.
The internet feels less free overall. The world wide web made the internet accessible in a way that allowed the average person to explore a new world. But then start phones and app culture clamped that down, making everything a focus on what's trending or what the algorithm wants you to see.
Go read David Stewart and Brian Neimeier's books on the subject. Anyone who wasn't at least tweenaged at the turn of the century has a vastly different outlook from even Gen X.
"History is boring! Also, never forget that slaves built this country."
To your point of those old TV shows, yes, I did watch those as well. Addams Family, Wonder Woman, Lost in Space, Adam West's Batman and more. I get the funniest looks when I bust out in the "Happy Days" theme song or hear an 8 count and the "Schlemeil, Shlimazel, Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!" comes out of my mouth.
Kids literally have no clue because they're being made into rootless idiots.
I still watch those shows. Some are on my DVR right now.
That's a good point. I wonder if that is truly the case, though, because Redditors aren't the best population sample.
It's really paradoxical, because in some ways pop-culture has stagnated since the 80s and 90s. Practically every movie is set in a universe and with characters created decades prior.
Kid Rock was always a "trashy, freakshow" persona, and like goes with like, so this is nothing of note. As you said, it is as though they believe the present and past where they existed to be the only times that matter. Nothing before, and certainly nothing after.