OK this is my list. But first, I need to say that this isn't a condemnation of those into such thing. They just don't vibe with me.

  1. Cannot get into ASMR. I've tried. Often its women 20 years younger than me, rubbing their fingernails on hairbrushes. The intentional sounds they make with their lips and fingers are things that would make me want to change seats on a bus.
  2. Instagram. I was maybe the last person to get a smart phone. It was probably 2016. I'm just fully lazy to take photos of stuff. This is a real issue when I'm single and I need to start putting photos on dating sites, as all pics of me in my phone are me squeezing carrots in my nostrils and similarly goofy things.
  3. My students' taste in anime. I try to be all cool and show off my cool taste in anime, maybe drop a Azumanga Daioh clip. It's all ancient history for 17 year olds.
  4. Photo and videos done in portrait mode. I guess I don't watch videos on the go. See #2

Things that the kids these days do better:

  • Usually better opinions on current events than people my age
  • I wish that cosplay existed when I was a teen. The default when I was younger was drugs.

If anyone insults the kids, I will visit you at your home and do an adventure-time

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    It started with Vine which was 6 second videos. That got shut down and briefly taken over by Music.ly, which was bought by ByteDance and relaunched as TikTok after which every major social media site tried to emulate following Trunp’s proposed ban

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        Vine was great if you could find the good stuff, a lot of the time is was just terrible though. You are forgetting about the Don't Judge challenge and all the terrible music that emerged from that period (Silento, anyone?) and all the sexist and racist content that popped up all the time. I didn't get into Vine until a few years after it was dead. The good vines like this one were hard to find.