Just saying because nearly every person I know who has ADHD and/or Autism (including myself) seems to care less about people knowing they're into "childish" things.

Also the idea that this is a new phenomenon because Millenials and older gen Z are "soft" or stunted in some way.

I mean, boomers have model trains and and cars. So did their parents. My grandma used to knit herself plushies. This isn't new. You don't suddenly stop having your old likes because you reach a certain age.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      There is however a sort of adult who very much buries themselves in nostalgia and saccharine consumerism that often come off as being in a state of arrested development. It not just enjoying wholesome things, wholesome things are great, but refusing to engage with media or culture that grapples with more complex experiences is in my opinion depriving. And I’m not just talking about dark cynical crap, like I’m not celebrating anyone for watching Joker or whatever, I think people mistake “dark” for “mature”, mature really just means dealing with more complex emotions good or bad.

      Enough time has passed where there's both Disney nostalgics and a weird sort of asshole-nostalgic variant that was raised on nihilistic "dark" shit that they had mistaken for "mature" and so felt "mature" by default by numbing themselves to as much "haha dead baby" ch!n-tier numbing as possible. A lot of "kids these days are too delicate" rants tend to come from such aging edgelords.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah but on the flip side I think we’re also experiencing a “backlash to the backlash” now where people are retreating into saccharine wholesomeness and dismissing anything with any ambiguous themes as too cynical.

          Yeah, that does kind of happen. I don't think the best response to that is reactive grimderp schlock, however, but with like so many fronts in the consumer culture wars, nuance is lost in the fighting.

          I’ve meet a weird number of people who thought “The Last of Us” show (i haven’t played the game don’t @ me about it) was “too dark”, which was weird to me cuz while the show had dark moments was overall fairly optimistic for a post-apocalypse show.

          I never actually liked the game franchise, but for curiosity's sake I tried the show and it feels like it's going somewhere and has some sense of humanity and even resilience and hope compared to other P R E S T I G E T V products in a similar content slot. Apart from :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: the main thing that typically puts me off from such entertainment is when it has a long winded status quo support message where trying to improve society somewhat is shown to be naive or worse, and I don't think the TLOU show was going for that.

          I think ACTUAL cynical media has poisoned people a bit and now anything with a bit of violence and brutality is viewed as being “dark” even if the overall message is a optimistic one.

          Contrary to what some may think of me I can handle brutality and violence in entertainment if its primary aim isn't just to feed hogs. "Come and See" was a masterpiece, but if it was cinematically framed for "historical accuracy" :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: with more gore for gore's sake and cinematography focused specifically on making the sexual violence moments as titillating as possible (and smirking characters giving memeable lines while doing said atrocities), I might have felt otherwise.