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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some online culture thing was so prevalent that it can be abbreviated to "ytp", clarified to mean "YouTube Poop", and then explained what it came from...and I still have no clue what it is or was.

And I was online those years too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me too, me too.

Maybe it was more of a gen z thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's what I thought too. But it says "milennials".

I've looked at YTP videos now, and I would describe it as... You know the annoying videos that are funny "bEcauSE tHei err sOO raANdOme"? The ones with suddenly saturated audio, or annoying visuals, and/or repeats something 10 times in a row?

Turns out that isn't something GenX came up with, and YTP is the "millennial" equivalent / precursor.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That’s what I thought too. But it says “milennials”.

Younger millenials are basically gen z. The true millennials are the ones who are a very specific age, who can remember a time before the internet was widespread

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And the Internet didn’t become widespread until like ‘96-‘98

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Right. So millennials that were born in 1996 have a VERY different experience from millennials who can remember 1996