Meh. People watch stuff on public transportation, airplanes, or wherever without headphones. It’s maddening. I don’t care what the content is. They’re just being assholes.
The flipping thru media? Shit, look at the age of some of the people creating the “content” (I use that word loosely, the vapid and shallow garbage that consumes the majority of bandwidth is devoid of anything worthy of being called content). There’s a huge span of ages, from millennials to tweens generating the noise. Everyone shouting as loud as they can for views. Heck, even if you’re a conservative ass boomer there’s content for you, how does anyone think all these bullshit Q and pizza parlor pedo shit gets spread around.
Anyway, point being…it’s not the generation being an asshole watching the stuff loudly in public space, there’s plenty of assholes doing it. Just the kind of media they’re blasting is different by age.
I got on the bus today, and there was this grumpy old guy complaining loudly to the lady in front of him about pronouns.
She was clearly trying to ignore him by pretending to read a book.
He looked up at me and scowled, but he stopped talking.
So I sat down next to him and opened TikTok.
He couldn't help but be nosy and was staring at my phone, so I picked the most obnoxious videos.
Each time he would show interest, I would flip to the next one.
I'm sure it was annoying, but at least he shut the fuck up for the rest of the ride.
A mixture of American society being dumbed down by social media and defunded school districts, neglectful Gen X parents that shoved a device in their hands at 5yo and walked away, and a feeling of detachment from a reality that is becoming more and more bleak as time progresses.
All right everyone it's time for an old person check!
If you identify with this meme you might be old!
it's important for you to recognize every generation was cringe because life is cringe.
It's a little part of growing up, try to be kind to those around you even if they're younger.
As a zoomer I still find that stuff strange. Although to all the people saying social media is bad, lemmy is also social media and can be just as bad for you. Go outside, touch grass or something. Better than shitting on some kid who was neglected by his parents and given a phone as a replacement.
I swear, the next time I’m in the situation where someone is blaring their music in public I’m going to go out of my way to jam out with them and appreciate it.
new rule for millennials and gen x - if you can complete the phrase "RonCo Showtime Rotisserie - Just set it, and ________" then you don't get to make fun of tiktok
It really looks like that's what they do. My brother (13 yo) stays on the same posts for a long time, let's them loop for 6 times and then scrolls... And yeah, they tend to okay that stuff really loud for some reason