Wat. Kids in the 2020s would be reciting facts from watching hours of Wild Kratts.
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Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
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I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
You grew old, thats what happened.
Fuck it, I'll take all the "riz", "no cap", "frfr" bullshit over ANY of the other slang of the last thirty years or so. At least it makes sense.
Bet
That's one fly comment my man
That’s on fleek
You mean you aren't into wazaaaaaap, piglatin, roflmao, the R word, cool beans, home skillet, etc?
It is funny how the wheel of slang makes the prior generation uncomfortable for some reason. Time waits for no one.
Fo shizzle
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You getting old is what happened.
Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.
Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it's nothing but "standard" surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.
All kids suck. Boo
Everyone under 25 should be killed. I hear you.
But thats just an arbitrary date
Everyone over 25 should also be killed so its fair. Only people that have been born exactly 25 years ago may be safe
You put unlimited slop devices in front of everyone 2 years and older instead of books.
"back in my day we read books, not like those young whippersnappers nowadays"
I can’t read that word without thinking about Phoenix Wright anymore.
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This is 100% accurate. Those gigglemug youth before the 2020s were too pigeon-livered to be dimber-damber.
Yeah, nah. At least where I live, the 90s kid would be saying (in Portuguese) "Ô tio! Teu cu que vou pagar mico lendo aquela bagaça!". Or roughly "Hey boomer fr fr I'm not reading that skibidi, it's cringe shit".
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
Pretty sure that both kids' characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time
Like most kids in movies.
Otherwise, no one would watch movies with kids.
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It's called the interwebs I think
Kids in the 2010s: We are standing up to demand an end to the pollution so that we can have a future
Meanwhile, their Grandmas in the 2010s: Kids these days are too woke, they never play outside. I hate that Greasy Thunberg or whatever she calls herself, so preachy. No-one walks anywhere any more it's so sad. This Facebook user I love posts AI pictures of kittens and says immigrants are eating our pets and universities are run by Muslim terrorists. I saw some kids outside the other day and was terrified so we're getting the city to close the park and get rid of the bus shelters. All music sounds the same these days like it's made in a factory, not like the real music we had - kids these days don't even know what Motown is.
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Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watching
Etc, etc.
Not the '90s
Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
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That is kids in the late 2000's/early 2010's, not the 1990's
"All your base are belong to us" is from the like '92
Memes weren’t a thing in 92. Or their rough equivalent certainly weren’t called memes.
Before 2003ish, they were called “fads”! At least on YTMND, and SA.
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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
From Know Your Meme:
"All Your Base Are Belong to Us" is a popular engrish catchphrase that grew popular across the internet as early as in 1998. An awkward translation of "all of your bases are now under our control", the quote originally appeared in the opening dialogue of Zero Wing, a 16-bit shoot'em up game released in 1989. Marked by poor grammar, the "All Your Base" phrase and the dialogue scene went viral on popular discussion forums in 2000, spawning thousands of image macros and flash animations featuring the slogan both on the web and in real life.
The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1992 port of the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing, released on the SEGA Mega Drive.
So, the saying DOES come from 1992, but the internet meme formation did not happen until 1998.
I was wrong of when that meme started, but I do remember the meme when I was playing ROBLOX in 2008. Also, memes use to last a lot longer then they do now as well. But thank you for correctly correcting me 👍
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Did not reach widespread knowledge until 2001
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It’s hard to find any fault in you for that. I’m so sorry you had to go through that situation, but I’m glad you’re still here with us. You are stronger than most.
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The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That's what happened.
c/badlinguistics
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They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.
They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don't.