• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    Genuinely have no idea what 67 means and if I wait a year until they tire of it then I won’t have to learn.

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    5 hours ago

    Being mad at something kids do is the saddest thing ever. Let them yell their numbers and move on to the next thing.

  • Yggstyle@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Man and I thought imperial was nonsensical before. Octals gonna be really hard to explain in the future.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Party of personal freedom and free speech y’all

    I for one believe people should have the freedom to be annoying.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      Man seriously. Kids are always going to have some inside joke/nonsense they’ll use as a way to separate themselves. 67 I believe is on the nonsense side after watching a language Jones video about it. But let kids be kids. I’m sure we had some dumb shit we did back then. Just there weren’t cameras everywhere live streaming us being idiots.

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        Hell I’m young enough my generation’s stupid shit was posted to the internet. We yoloed and had rage comics about le epic bacon, as we asked what the fox says and sang about Friday and calling us maybe, and now it’s cringe but it’s also good memories of our youth. Hell that doesn’t even touch on the hell that was the homestuck kids (who are now adults, many even have ok taste now). And it all happened right here on the devil’s own internet. It’s still up as Tumblr likes to dredge up from time to time.

        Someday 67 will be that for the kids these days. And more will come. Some may be like rickrolling and become classic, but in a less omnipresent form, while others will be like homestuck and be weirdly influential on future culture when you look at how terrible it is in retrospect. But it’s theirs to do.

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    This just in: adults don’t get kids’ memes. More news at 11.

    I think it’s all fascinating, how adults flip out over kids’ trends every generation, without fail, without ever recalling that they followed silly fads/memes when they were kids, too. Like the “cool S” from the 90s.

    I remember adults coming up with all sorts of absurd ideas, straining to connect it to something meaningful, failing to acknowledge that… it’s just a fun thing to draw. And if it’s fun, that’s all kids need. It didn’t mean we were in a cult, or that it’s a gang symbol, or any other ridiculous narrative. Some teachers got so annoyed or suspicious as to ban it from their classrooms, too.

    I’m not bothered by 6-7. I’m not excited by it like kids are, but I get that it’s fun for them in a way that it isn’t for adults. One of the kids I work with said it the other day. I just laughed and told him, “Congrats on learning your first meme.”

    If it wasn’t 6-7, it would’ve been something else. There’s no point in fighting it - just as other fads and memes have come and gone, this too will fade someday. Possibly to be replaced with something more obnoxious. We’ll have to wait and see.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      Exactly. Do I find it annoying? No, but if I interacted with children much I probably would. Kids are annoying, but stuff like this is culturally valuable because it’s them practicing growing and changing culture. Things that annoy the old people like us are also part of how teenagers get us to leave them alone so they can grow up in peace. From there younger and younger kids copy older kids because that’s how kids work. Then eventually the parents and teachers that understand kids will get in on it poorly when they’re well and truly sick of it.

      Hell, every once in a while the kids get into something good, though it’s usually music or books.

  • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Why don’t you guys get some meaningful fucking work done improving the lives of your constituents instead of hating on memes for kids?

  • scarabic@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    At least he’s living in this century, as opposed to Trump, who is still stuck in the 80s watching cable TV and talking about his “ratings.”

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Why do we care what the vice president thinks? Shouldn’t he be meeting with a ladies book club or attending a donor’s funeral somewhere? Is he just spouting crap and waiting and hoping for someone’s death?

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    Funny. I’m from the seventies and when we were daydreaming back then about the year 2025… we saw people flying around in transparent bubbles, living in full harmony in futuristic scifi buildings… Who could have thought we would be thrown back in time almost perfectly similar to the nazi regime of the Germans and dangerous idiots like that Orange Satan and its dog Fence being “chosen” as the most important people of a country… It’s devolution.

    I vote for recolonisation. This one has failed.