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

  • Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Ooh. I never got it until 2021 ish. I still really don't. But I did start trying to watch hasan around 2021. Around that time felix would go on stream and I would tune in (he even was guest on stream today) . Apart from hasan who does news I never got into people streaming games. Maybe if they edit and put on youtube I'll watch. I watch streams from jerma or vinesauce on youtube once in a while.

    I think the main reason I don't broadly dislike gaming streams is that they play games I don't like. Like valorant, I think that's a very tiring game. Contrary to that I love classic doom and love watching people play doom and review custom maps. Hell even people playing disco elysium.

    Also the thing about streams isn't just the person but the chat too. Most tune to chat in the live chat.

    The only time I watched a full stream live was when I travelled and had to be not asleep. It was when twitch banned hasan for saying cracker and that was the stream after the ban.

    Recently since last year I would still watch periodically hasan cause he would articulate about Palestine well. Especially around the al ahli hospital bombing. I felt like I was going mad with the amount of news and people saying Israel won't do such a thing.