No, it's not because of my age. Young people these days are even more in-your-face, "toxic", nasty etc than the teens I knew growing up. I don't think this really changes based on their politics

Basically young people have less chill today than they did 20 years ago

This extends to every form of media. Kids shows like Amphibia and other Disney channel stuff have faster dialogue and animation sequences than stuff from 20 years ago.

Video games: FPS shooters have become faster. Halo was the standard back in 2003, but the Call of Duty overtook it to become way more popular. CoD is way faster paced and you die in 2 shots instead of Halo's 20 or so.

MOBAs: the entire genre is a symptom of this.

Overwatch: combining MOBAs with FPS is also a symptom of this, the amount of stuff you need to pay attention to is insanely high

Everything 20 years ago, and even 10 years ago, was just way slower and normal.

  • bobdolesflaccidunit [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If you posted this in like…25% of all english-speaking discord servers out there, it’d be met with hundreds of racial slurs and threats of violence.

    This wasn’t the case in 2002.

    Well for one discord wasn’t around in 2002. I think you might have a severe case of Too Online. Fortunately there is an easy fix. Log off for a bit.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Well for one discord wasn’t around in 2002. I think you might have a severe case of Too Online.

      Police violence, racist shootings, and Karens calling the cops on you for no reason have increased too, but thanks for the whitesplanation

      • bobdolesflaccidunit [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You know what, you’ve turned me. I’m convinced. The shiny lights and fast paced action of Overwatch really did make children more reactionary or whatever.

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          It's more that the lack of chill, a critical element needed in the stepping back in order to analyze something properly, has made people both more reactionary AND more hooked onto faster-paced video games

          It sounds like you're bent on proving me right!

      • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        No it hasn't.

        All of that has gone on forever, but no one was able to record it with a smartphone and the news wouldn't report it because it was business as usual.