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.
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.