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>>37025
>did you ever really ask them how they felt about certain things that offend people now? Do you think they would find 9/11 jokes funny?
I wouldn't have said all that if I didn't think the way people are in real life changed as well. I made jew jokes with my classmates, and though I wouldn't have said this in school we jokingly called each other "niggas". And I remember this being pretty consistent throughout my childhood for how teenagers and young adults were in conversation. It was uncommon and unexpected for another kid or teenager to get upset about something that was said, they pretty much didn't care. Obviously the internet was on a whole nother level, but generally it felt like people were a lot more relaxed about just saying stupid shit. As for being disturbed by a drawing of a highschooler being hot, well, maybe my perspective was warped from being a highschooler, but seniors in highschool and even older kids too were pretty open about the fact that they found so and so from 9th grade pretty hot, and sometimes they even dated. It seemed to me like I walked into a bizarro reality when I saw people posting youtube comments about how it was creepy to draw a 16 year old with big tits. I mean, I feel like I'm going crazy, what I grew up hearing and seeing was that after 13 or so it was fair game as long as no ones parents got mad. Maybe my neighborhood was an exception, it would have to be a pretty big one for the rest of the world to be so different. Apologies for the blogposting, but I'm just trying to put some background to my perspective on the internet.
>>37035
Yeah I'm not a fan of it, if anything a major reason for my post is the existence of "cringe culture". Anything that isn't "ironic" is cringe to people it seems, anything that isn't highly edited and streamlined for palatability on the modern internet is just too much for them to handle. It's a "good thing" that the internet is more selective in their eyes. Cringe this, cringe that, cringe cringe cringe. Everything is cringe. It drives me insane.
That's part of the connection I'm trying to make here, somehow people freaking out over "sexy fictional highschoolers" and calling everything cringe especially if it was old internet humor or behaviors are connected. I'm not sure what the connecting factor is though. I'm also aware that this kind of complaining about the modern internet is overdone at this point, but there's a specific aspect of it that I'm trying to dissect here.
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