• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I’m a school bus driver and my elementary school kids go on about somebody named “Queso” (sp?) on Youtube and I find myself constantly fighting the urge to see what he’s all about. It can’t possibly be good.

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    19 hours ago

    As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don’t help and I am too scared to search them up.

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    1 day ago

    In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.

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    1 day ago

    I feel that. I have no clue about new celebrities. Or old ones. I just don’t care enough about them to keep with their lives. Only a few I have an actual interest in/like

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        Fuck im 25 and feel 40, this is why I will not shy away from my day of destined death. I can feel that it’ll be before I’m 40 and I frankly want nothing to do with being 40.

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          One day you’ll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own … and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.

          The worst part is you’ll still mentally feel like you’re not much older than your late 20s or 30s.

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          Luckily by the time you get there I’m sure you will feel it will be yourself soon, and will be more a feeling of existential dread than a fear of loss.

          But what makes it sad, death is the harm of deprivation, presupposing lack, loss, or absence of some future goods. At the same time, people deprived of things valuable for them try to acquire them joining some movements or struggling for some privileges.

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            Perhaps I should’ve spelled out why I am so willing to embrace death. I do not care about myself and of the general opinion that I could do more for mankind by throwing myself into violence. I wish to make someone I hate or who opposes my end goals bleed out right alongside me, I ain’t picky. The problem is that even if I end up like my 3X great grandfather and practically don’t age till I’m 70 I would still face some amount of slowdown in my physical or mental faculties, slowdown that may make me less effective.

            The only way I could be convinced otherwise would be if I could purge my biological fathers blood from my veins. Or if I do my damnedest to get myself killed and somehow survive. Not like I’m rushing into it, I swore an oath to my friends that I wouldn’t do anything unless I get a Stamford bridge.

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          Na, being 40 is fine. I’m 45, eat well and get a little exercise. I am healthier than I was in my 20’s, I have more stamina and I think more clearly.

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    Personally, I loved the idea of new media. Cable was shit.

    After experiencing new media… there’s some good stuff in there, guys. I promise. Just gotta wade through mountains of shit.

    There should be some rule like; if you have a preference it can’t exist all by itself unless it’s watered down or mixed in with every other preference.

    Thank all that is good for genres. At least there is some media that can define itself clearly enough and still build enough of a following to self fund.

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      If its good enough, the news of it will get to me eventually and I will see for myself.

      This is how I live now.

      This is what it means to be old.

      I’m 34.

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    I’m 29 so maybe I’m too young for this statement but if you ask me it’s because younger celebrities tend to be the result of nepotism and don’t have any actual talents.

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    My friend with young cousins was telling me that kids are using “sigma” instead of “cool” now?

    “That’s so sigma, bruh.”

    The fuck?

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      When I wrote this I was thinking, “12 is a little young to be online but I guess they could be”. No, turns out someone born in 2007 would be 18 right now. Yikes

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        I was online at 11 or so, but back then we pretty much just had AOL teen chat and rudimentary web sites.

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          I was online when I was 11 also, back in 94. No google. No yahoo. No youtube. Just non-stop unregulated pornography as far as thee eye could see. Then yahoo showed up and had yahoo chat WITH NO BOTS. They even had a Webcam feature on dialup. I was 14 by then and I remember going into a Webcam room with a woman in Australia in her 40s and she made me watch her use a huge black dildo. The original rickroll was goatse, or this website that infinitely loaded popup windows until it crashed your pc.

          Truly a golden age.

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            Ooo yah my young ass found AOHELL TOOLZ and would scroll the chat or send logoff bombs to peeps.

            Golden age indeed.

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              At the time I had no pc in my house, I could only use it at my grandparents house. They got AOL, and like a week after getting it he checked his email and it was a porn spam with a big image of 2 lesbians using a double sided dildo and he called that day and canceled AOL and he switched to a smaller local isp(back when those existed). I still cackle at that, with how ubiquitous emails like that are.

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    1 day ago

    I don’t regret any of this one bit, you look them up and it’s always someone shilling products extremely hard while doing extremely low effort content like reaction videos or streaming Minecraft.

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      This.
      The TV stations around me are desperate to attract the young viewers, so they always have influencers as guests on their shows and what not, and I simply do not get it.

      Today’s guest: Billy Bobberson.
      What’s he famous for? Oh he posts some selfies on Instagram daily and every other post is a sponsored brand promo.
      Why the fuck do people even follow influencers like this???

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        Because most people are stupid. It is easier for stupid people to follow fake celebrities aka influencers, than to read a book or think for themselves.

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        14 hours ago

        I would be ashamed to ever admit that I follow somebody whose explicit job is to influence me. Like, do people refer to themselves as “influencees”?

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        21 hours ago

        I work for an influencer now, I went to a reputable film school and have a masters degree. I used to do documentaries on BLM for god’s sake.

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          So are you a one (wo)man band filming/editing their content? I’m not necessarily opposed to doing this with a (good) youtuber if the content is high-brow/interesting/educational etc but the idea of doing it for a tik tok star sounds positively dreadful. In fact I refused such a proposal before because the “stars” were really not my vibe and also they gave some red flags, but at least they were still “musicians” not JUST ad-peddlers.

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            14 hours ago

            No, I’m part of an entire team. There’s multiple project managers, stylists and other people. We get client briefings and everything, it feels strangely corporate.

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        They aren’t some symbol of the end times or anything, they’re just a symptom of the sort of attention based economy we’ve built up here in America. They exist precisely because you can get paid to shill products while playing Minecraft.

        If we reign in the marketing and advertising industries then influencers will fall alongside them.

        Or, if we regulate “proper” ads and fail to do the same to influencers, whether on purpose or not, then they will become a primary source of advertising. Depending how this is handled could be a good or bad thing.

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          Hi, today’s post is sponsored by draft kings! If you sign up today and put $10 in your account they’ll give you $100!

          Man fuck any influencer who pushes gambling.

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          It’s also one of the few ways to make money available to them that has a chance of making them enough money to live the way their grandparents did. Certainly the easiest to get into.

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      To me, reaction videos are truly astonishing. Like, the number of videos reacting to some thing typically outnumber the thing itself by the hundreds. People prefer watching somebody else watching something so they know how they should feel about it. It’s the modern version of the laugh track.

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    I wish it was like that, reality is there’s like 3 platforms that make you IRL famous. Youtube, Twitch and TIk Tok.