I’m out of touch?!
No. It’s the children who are wrong.
If you are an American president children are always right.
And out of time as well.
But I’m outta my head when you’re not around.
Lol I’m autistic, I’ve never been in touch. I rarely understand what’s going on but I fake it really well!
I concur, but that masking brings so many other issues and stress.
I was never under the impression that I was in touch.
Same… I am on the very mild end of the autism spectrum, and had to consciously learn how to socially interact with kids my age like I was Jane Goodall studying some damn apes or something.
When I was out of time.
that kinda makes me outa my head.
when you’re not around
But did you know I was out of my head?
I’m a Millennial and I could kinda follow Gen Z humor for the most part, but then Gen alpha came along with Skibidi Toilet. That broke me, I’m… I’m done.
Is it really that much worse than the annoying orange and other random YT videos?
Not all of us liked Annoying Orange, but Annoying Orange didn’t get a Hollywood movie either.
No, but it did get a two season TV show.
The children are wrong.
This just cements how chronically online I must be, because as a millennial, I am familiar with E, Ugandan knuckles, and skibidi (watched the whole series)
Yeah gen Alpha stuff is mostly off the rails. I still keep up with the slang and general touchstones though.
The day my boss, who asked for my help, said “That’s not what GPT said” and promptly ignored my input, wasted 2 days of a customer’s time and $700 of their money (refuses to walk back his time doing what GPT said), then finally allowed me to fix the actual problem using my meat popsicle intelligence’s output, which took 14 minutes.
We’re doomed. He votes.
To answer this without a Hall & Oates reference, a younger Gen Z friend of mine was talking to me about looksmaxxing and aurafarming and I just had 0 fucking idea what he was on about.
I then realized I’m out of touch and out of time.
I’m pretty sure the latest episode of South Park explained these concepts. I’m old and miserable, so I feel asleep halfway through.
Looksmaxxing is manosphere shit and aurafarming is just rebranded swagger.
I think when I moved from not liking things younger people enjoyed to simply having no idea what they enjoy at all.
I’ve never been particularly with it on trends and such. When I was younger I knew the trends and rejected them in the spirit of youthful rebellion, aspects of my personality were defined by what and who I wasn’t.
Then I got a little older and rejected the things people slightly younger than me enjoyed. This came naturally, because I was no longer the target audience for these things it was easy to write them off as if I were.
Now I don’t even know enough to reject them. My knowledge of what younger people like seems to be about five years out of date. When something new comes along that seems irritating to me it seems to pass so quickly I don’t really have time to register it, and when I find something new I enjoy there’s apparently whole fandoms about it where (presumably… hopefully…) very young people fight about it, and they’re fighting about things I genuinely don’t have time to decipher. It’s like it all moves too fast for my vision to really gain focus, by the time I’m able to tell what I’m looking at everyone else seems to have already moved on.
I really tried to be the funny uncle for some time, but everything is already out for at least 2 years when I talk to my nephews. I recently found a funny video of people with toilet heads
No, it’s the children who are wrong.
Brother I have never once been “with it”, as the kids say, and the rock I live under gets comfier every year so I probably won’t try to change that.
Probably always been a bit out of touch. Never really enjoyed pop culture. The first time was probably around 10 when everyone started getting into social media and I was like why the fuck would you ever put your real name and face on the internet.
Every time my friends talk about whatever the new popular TV show is.
Me: “Um, I ate some edibles and watched a Law & Order marathon”.
No, it’s the children who are wrong.
It wasn’t the first time I’ve noticed, but a huge one for me was Weird Al’s album “Mandatory fun”. I had no idea who a majority of the artists he was parodying.
