Has it happened to you, /co/?
When I was sixteen, yes.
>>80735367
Oh it happened a long time ago, I don't understand half the stuff people my age say anymore
>pic unrelated btw
>>80735367
I was never 'hip' or 'with it.'
So no.
>>80735367
I'm over 40. it's definitely happened.
>>80735367
not yet. I figure I got about five more years in me
>>80735367
20 years ago
>>80735601
Same. It's interesting seeing so many people go through existential crises as they realize that they're now the same out of touch old people they used to deride so intensely.
You reap what you sow, I guess.
It happened a long time ago.
>>80735367
Fifteen fucking years ago, man.
I was never hip. So for good or I'll I've avoided this by default I suppose.
Once people started using Bae. When I hear it I get angry and confused.
>>80736507
I had a problem with babe/baby as a term of affection from the get go so bae was just more of the same
>>80735367
It's just starting to happen now but not to worried about it since it's called growing up and moving on with life
>>80735601
Neither was I, in the broad sense. But among the niche of nerds I belonged to I was "hip" or "with it" if that's the terminology we are to use to describe it.
But point being was. I can't even navigate twitter. The youngins have moved past me and most things I was well versed in isn't relevant anymore.
Be it programming practices, anime and games, or comicbooks.
Now I am more like that old guy that watches young people converse, while understanding most of what they are saying but rarely everything. As opposed to actively partaking and leading conversations.
>>80736581
sounds like you're me
it's sad isnt it? we never got to be cool. computers never got to be cool. society skipped right over us because we think too much
![960[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lWWouBg.jpg "960[1].jpg")
>>80735367people change
one wordSadgasm
>>80736507
Was that before or after 'fleek'?
What's so funny about this damn daniel meme?
>>80735367
HAS WHAT HAPPENED
I was never "with it" to begin with. I like to hope that sometime down the road the things I like will finally be considered cool and then my day will come.
I'm going to be 80 years old, the obscure music that I've only seemed to have liked is FINALLY going to be popular, then the youth will recognize my awesome taste and I'll be drowning in 20year old pussy.
>>80735367
Damn right it did.
Early 2011 comes to mind a whole lot.
Honestly I'm kinda baffled by how absolute the process seems to be and how far I've fallen behind due to simple lack of interest. What is/are vines? What is Instagram? How did the whole thing with gaming videos with fat fucks screaming gain so much traction?
>>80735601
This desu
>>80738267
literally the first time I've seen this word
and hopefully the last
No. It's the children who are wrong.
Like, unironically.
I just refer to them as the minecraft generation.
>>80739672
It never really had lasting appeal so it's kinda gone away already. By the end of this year it'll be outright dead.
>>80735561
>unrelated
Is it, though?
>>80735367
For me, it's all the apps. I've been forced into doing the Uber thing a couple times bythe girl I'm dating, but I otherwise take the train every day. Instagram? Snapchat? Don't touch em.
Beyond that I don't even know what I don't know anymore.
>>80735367
Yes. 2010 to be specific
>>80735367
Yes, I can't get into the faggotry of TFA and Star Wars fans are cucks for liking it.
>>80735367
Yes.
My 'it' was when I realized that kids these days are really into analingus. I always knew it was a thing, but there seems to have been a surge in popularity over the past couple of years. It's one of the things that I refuse to do.
>>80736507
>Bae
Slightly worse than "boo"
It's happened to me so many times, OP.
Ever wanna feel old as dirt? Talk to children. Try to relate.
>>80740432
I blame Shadman
>>80735561
Anon, pls no
I just had a full plate of DINGAMAGOO
I remember when troll face was posted unironically.
>>80740469
It's not even posted ironically anymore
>>80740444
My cat's name is "Boo."
I didn't name him, but seeing as I got him in a trade, I couldn't change it.
>>80740491
Is it even posted at all these days?
>>80740505
Meh, add another boo and he's Yogi's little pal.
...I remember when people used meh.
>>80740462
If only he had the influence to somehow give all women giant asses.
I remember when meme stuff wasn't mainstream. My jaw dropped when I heard "for the win" in a radio ad.
>>80735367
I'm not with it and never have been so I don't know... I am, however, closer to being with it than I ever have been though.
>>80740517
Meh, so do I.
Of course it has. I'm in my 30's and I've always been into old-timey shit. I was that kid in the 6th grade questioning other kids my age for liking Power Rangers and wrestling.
It kinda happened when I heard a 7 year old boy say he collects those girly Shopkins figures. Just as useless as the troll and pog craze in the 90s if not moreso.
I can understand the appeal of things children find good more than I can what /co/ finds good about modern things.
I think it's crazy the last three big shows /co/ has been into (not going to start shit but I assume it's pretty clear) are all super undeserving of their literally fanatic devotion.
Their generals threads parade them around as masterworks of interpersonal character development, LORE, and breaking the mold of other cartoons.
Then I watch them and at best they're sort of okay and at worst they're obnoxious legitimate hipster garbage.
It's not even the "stop liking what I don't like" aspect it's the fact I legitimately don't understand the level of devotion to the point where I truly am "out".
I think all of Cartoon Network's shows are cheap-looking unfunny shit that make Hanna-Barbera look like Richard Williams by comparison and I cringe whenever I see someone over the age of 19 talking about any of them. You bet it happened to me.
>>80738243
But they did an episode about homer being out of touch with the 90s with Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins.
Speaking of which these last two or three years feel like a fever dream. Shit is getting more absurd with each passing day, like we're living in some weird parody of the real world.
Not being with "it" is a minor concern compared to that.
>>80740432
That's how you know you're an old man. When you believe bullshit like that. I bet you also think kids have "rainbow parties".
This is literally "kids smoke reefer and worship Satan during orgies"-tier alarmist bullshit.
>started to see words thrown that I don't know what it means around the boards I browse
Pretty much and there's no point jumping down the rabbithole just because I missed the latest meme
>>80735367
Yeah. And then I came back on some things.
>>80735601
Fuck this canned response.
>>80741369
> When you believe bullshit like that.
That there's been (maybe) a surge in analingus interest among young folks?
>This is literally...
Guilty conscience, huh?
>>80735367
Yeah. I can sort of comprehend twitter, but don't see why the hell do all the people who are not journalists or creatives communicating with their audiences us it. I haven't touched kik, instagram, snapchat, vine etc. I'm slightly alarmed by periscope or the insta-streaming thing, I feel that preteens aren't mature and thick-skinned enough to handle a situation where you're begging for acceptance from an audience you can't see with your own face, voice and body. I can sort of fake understanding emojis.
However, I was never really with it, so I don't really care. It's just that I've drifted even further from getting what's going on.
>>80741369
>"eat the booty like groceries" is a lyric in a popular song
Ass play is acceptable now.
>>80741730
>if you don't eat ass
>...
>
>
>
>then die
>>80735367
Yeah, I'm twenty-six and I don't know when it happened. Every once in a while I'll check facebook and just get confused and annoyed. It's weird having this much of a disconnect with people I used to see every day back in school.
>>80740432
Analingus is fine, but kids are pretty dumb and probably don't know about cleaning down there.I've never done it, but a guy did it to me once and it felt amazing.
>>80735367
Yeah. Talking to teenage cousins really drives it home and I'm in my late 20s. Time to become uncool.
I've never been with it. I lived with a over-religious grandmother who sheltered me from having fun and a social life. I was the social outcast of my elementary school years causeI was the only black person in the entire school, I had friends for awhile in high school, but I lost them all because of this autistic weeaboo cunt who wouldn't leave me alone just cause I showed an interest in Pokemon. I didn't even bother going to college cause I knew I was just gonna be considered an outcast and shit, so I never really cared about being with it and shit. My grandmother never liked me having friends, fun, going outside, and all that good stuff, so I never really did know what was cool. Hell, I didn't even bother waking up for Saturday morning cartoons. I never got to experience Toonami cause we never had cable TV. Instead, I had to watch religious cartoons and shit and go to church every Sunday,
Nowadays, I have friends on both the internet and in real life, I got a job, my grandmother is dead, I have internet, I get to watch stuff I missed out on as a kid, I can go outside all I want, and I get to experience things old and new. Do I really care about not being with it? No, not really.
>>80735367
>Am perfectly ok with Let's Plays.
>Think Twitch stream are for faggots
>Don't understand why someone would use Instagra,, Snapchat, or Vine
>>80736507
>this
>Why is it out of all generations, the 90's kids grew up to be the most boring, most nostalgic generation I've ever seen?
>Is AT actually meh or is it because I don't get this new style of cartoons?
I feel I'm either right on most things, or I've lost it a long time ago
>>80735367
I'm 32 years old and refuse to describe things as "on fleek" or refer to people as "bae". So yes, thank God it has.
>>80740542
I wish he had the influence to turn me from a fat man into a big booty bitch :(
>>80735367
It happened like 4-5 years ago
>>80740635
>>80742745
People surprisingly don't say fleek anymore.
>>80742619
>>Why is it out of all generations, the 90's kids grew up to be the most boring, most nostalgic generation I've ever seen?
I can hear the footsteps of triggered 90s kids and born in the wrong generation kids.
>mfw normalfags stole all our memes and made them gay and unfunny
>inb4 they weren't funny to begin with
Maybe not, but it was our shit.
It happened to me five years ago when I realized I just didn't care about whatever new internet thing was coming out anymore.
>>80742879
Dumb dogposter.
>>80738243
Why are there two Carls?
>>80742920
Wow great contribution
>>80742954
Memes were never that funny, so fuck who cares. Grow up.
>talking to 12 year old cousin
>he loves dubstep and minecraft and wants to be an internet famous video game streamer like fucking pewdiepie or whatever
WHAT THE FUCK IS EVEN HAPPENING???? When I was 12 I was looking up hentai on google, not fucking trying to get famous on the internet
>>80743012
Sounds like your cousin is way more on the ball than you, you lazy slacker pervert.
>>80743012
Ricegum is that you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuY9po_ZByw
>>80743034
>not being a degenerate hentai loving 4channer with a million obscure fetishies
Nigga that boy will never be as baller as me
>>80743068
Dude, stop posting pictures of me.
>>80743039
>knowing who this fucking geek is
>>80743145
He showed up on thissubredditI regular that pokes fun of nostalgia blinded and "born in the wrong generation" people. Apparently, he only does vlogs cause he got caught viewbotting on Twitch.
But I don't know who to give the real kill credibility to: the kids in those videos he's roasting or him for stalking these children just to roast them.
Everything is so autistic now, I'm more with it then I've ever been.
Mobile phones ruined fucking everything and by people trying to make the internet an extension of real life via social media. Autism acceptance is also where it went to shit.
>>80743716
but you're on 4chan.
>>80742162
Facebook is the one thing that turns me into a cynical crotchety old person but it's usually towards people who are above 25 rather than teens and their fickle trends- some of the shit people share is just too much for me. Why the fuck would you ever tell everybody who knows you so many things that nobody asked for? It's helped me realize I need to be more social and get a bigger circle to even out all the dumb shit I see from high school friends and family.
Other than that I get bae/on fleek/yaaas, kpop, actively keep up with fashion trends and am now more open to pop and hip hop music in general instead of keeping inside the "indie/alternative" bubble that I'm comfortable in. I'm gonna be 24 soon, definitely feel older but am becoming more in tune with what's with it out of necessity because I am NOT gonna be that out of touch, washed up, sad adult venting on facebook until I at least hit middle age it was bad enough being a loser teenager. Already wasted my early 20s wallowing in my self pity and am determined to make the rest of my 20s better than the first half.
pic related is how I feel towards my peers who bitch on fb of all places- get a fucking blog that's what they're for
/shitty rant, really needed to get that out
>>80743716
>Mobile phones ruined fucking everything
>these fucking magic handheld PC's that mean you always have a map with GPS, know where all the nearby restaurants are and which have good ratings, that let you bring the best literature and music we have wherever you go
luddites pls go and stay go
>>80735367
I'm 32 and it's definitely happened. Became ragingly apparent when I started med school this year--my classmates are all in their 20s, but we might as well be a full generation apart.
>middle aged black Iraq vet coworker constantly bitches about millenials "...except you, man, you're alright."
>>80735367
I was never with it to begin with.
>>80743942
Smartphones introduced more normies than ever to the internet.
>>80743211
>>80741369
Are you saying that you don't believe more people are eating the booty?
I have my dvds with my favorite shows, trades and essentials with great comics, recently I finally started reading the badger, so I'll collect it as well, I have my fave cds. What more do I need? What I have is enough to last a lifetime.
Also, I don't worry, because I'm not real. I'm just a tiny voice in the back of your head.
>>80735367
I was never 'with it' and they're still making good music today
the '00s made me wonder, though, pic related
>>80744372
>middle aged
>Iraq vet
you mean 'gulf war vet'.
It was also in Iraq but that's the way we make a distinction.
I basically never pay attention to mainstream radio.
>>80736507
This and 'boo'. Both sound retarded to me.
>>80742619
>Why is it out of all generations, the 90's kids grew up to be the most boring, most nostalgic generation I've ever seen?
I think it had to do with the 90s being the best time of their lives, no real problems, financial problems, shit like that.
>>80748803
>grow up in the nineties
>your dad had a nice car
>your dad had a good job
>your dad had a house
>your dad bought you nice things
>become an adult around the age your dad had you
>you have a shitty car
>you live in an apartment with roommates
>you have a shit job that you hate
>you have no kids because you couldn't afford them, and if you could you wouldn't be able to buy them nice things
HMM I WONDER.
>>80743716
Maybe because I'm a NEET who most of his time in his room but I will never understand this one. To answer your question OP, I think "it" happened in middle school.
>>80748880
heh. so much true
Somewhat, yes. I'm gradually finding it harder and harder to identify with the general zeitgeist across 4chan, and probably extending to "internet culture" as a whole. It's a vague sense of displacement that I can't quite articulate. I'm sure it has to do with getting older, communities changing as old regulars are replaced with new ones, people getting bitter or excited about things I never had to deal with or have long since made peace with, etc.
I was an early 90's early adapter so pretty much every thing that the average person does with the Internet these days pisses me off. You pay $50 to go to a ball game to spend the entire time on your $700 device that you only ever use to play flash games and browse the internet with your $1000 a year data plan that you only use to keep up-to-date on tweets and youtube videos.
Computers: doing less with more since 1989.
>>80743522
Sadly, I became self aware and stopped being a giant autist right around the time everyone became autists.
I think I'm just doomed to be a pariah.
>>80736507
That and senpai. I just get annoyed when hearing them.
>>80739672
I thought it meant the exact opposite of what it meant.
>>80748880
Dunno about where you live, but from what I see, they don't MAKE nice cars anymore. 20th century car looked better and were more resistant. Architecture also got worse, so there go the nice houses.
Not denying the financial part, but there are other factors, just saying.
>>80742619
>Is AT actually meh or is it because I don't get this new style of cartoons?
To be fair, it's actually pretty meh. Too much "DEEPEST LORE" and "lol internet fandoms" injokes, guess it's the kind of "you had to be there to get it" shows.
Sort of. I'm in that liminal state where I'm excited for some things, I can understand why people like other things, but there's a lot out there that completely baffles me. I like Steven Universe, I can understand the Undertale fandom to an extent, but League of Legends and other ASSFAGGOTS? Completely over my head. Video games are the worst for this, I think. I grew up with TechTV and X Play and Attack of the Show. I have pretty much zero interest in Twitch. The Souls and Assassin's Creed games seem like entirely too much of a time investment; if I want a sprawling world, I'll pick up an FF game or something, not more often than once a year. I go onto /v/ nowadays, and between the game selection and transparent redpilling and just general asshattery, I don't recognize the place. And I still have screen grabs of the E3 threads I spent so much time on.
It's weird to think that FFXV is coming out in such a different environment from what the one it was announced in was. It occurs to me that there are people half my age who are excited for it for completely different reasons than I am.
>>80742870
The 90s were an echo 50s. We'd just won everything and the world was safe and everyone was focused on KID POWER. Unless you weren't a middle class white-ish American, in which case it was KID POWER for a completely different reason (powering dat shoe factory).
>>80752151
As a car guy, you're objectively wrong. The nineties had some of the ugliest cars in history, just barely losing to the 80s in terms of being aesthetic abortions.
Proof, here's a 90s mustang
>>80742976
>memes were never funny
But you just used a meme >>80742920
>>80752639
Looks better than the modern Mustang.
>inb4 muh murrcan muscle
>>80752639
I don't see the problem, but I can tell it's got more colors than like, 90% of the 21st century cars together, I get tired of seeing grey cars.
>>80752155
I can relate to most of this post so hard, with the exception of Souls games. They're one of the only modern games I can get behind the hype of.
Outside of that? It seems like a completely different board from the one I grew fond of. /co/ has changed a lot too, but I can at least catch glimpses of why I started coming around here regularly. I think it makes sense that the general vibe of /v/ would go through such the quickest changes too, since I suspect it attracts a younger crowd.
I think another big thing is that there doesn't seem to be nearly as much OC these days. All I ever see are layers of meta-memeing with Pepes and tfw guy. Maybe some cheesecake (which is usually just reposts from someone's Tumblr). Has that all just become super-condensed in artfag generals?
>>80752391
God, I really wish I had the context for an objective perspective of the 90s. But maybe looking for an "objective" view of an entire decade is a farce to begin with.
>>80742879
I think the worst thing about memes rapidly spreading across the internet is that most people seem too bitter and paranoid to get sincerely creative/excited about inside internet community jokes. The only "safe" way to meme is to be as masturbatory and ironic as possible with it, like /s4s/ (which, too be fair, is still kind of amusing).
Either way, it's sad to see people not enjoying a thing anymore because they don't like the way other people are enjoying it. I get that a lot of memes are meant to be ways of celebrating familiarity with a specific community, but nobody really has "ownership" of them.
I think it happened a while ago. I grew up, got the job, got the girl, and the house, had the kid. I'm so out of touch with what's hip these days I couldn't even list to you the things that I don't understand.
>>80755260
>I have a better life than you but I'm complaining about being SUBURBAN
fuck you dawg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVddGSTjEd0
I think it happened after a lot of the old cartoon network shows died off and got replaced. Spongebob is different now, can't put my finger on it, maybe it is nostalgia goggles. I can't say definitively when it happened, but I was probably like 13 or 14, and it's kind of what spurred me into using the internet more, with my newfound DSL. It's the combination of shit I like going away with awful stuff replacing it, and having google to see whatever I want.Really reminds me of Interview with the Vampire where most vampires eventually kill themselves because the world changes and everything they love slowly rots and fades away. I believe everyone here see's it in a mild fashion as shows and music come into and go out of style.
Nope. As long as I don't fall into the pit of bitterness and unwarranted feeling of supremacy or the pit of apathy and complacency like everyone else I'm good.
Probably.
But I don't know, because I don't care.
>>80735367
Yes, when I suddenly wanted to punch anyone younger than me in the mouth. I noticed a long time ago.
>>80735367
Not really. I enjoyed a lot of things that people on 4chan complain about all the time. Steven Universe and Life is Strange being a few examples. Doesn't change that some of my favorite games are Deus Ex or Quake 3 or that I can't still enjoy Justice League, Gargoyles, Daria, or Aeon Flux.
I like newer artists like Joey Bada$$, Earl Sweatshirt, and Fetty Wap but I still like guys like Black Thought, Ghostface Killah, and Big L.
The only things I don't like but tolerate are people using words like bae or fleek and watching let's plays.
>>80757534It's funny because "Interview With A Vampire" was the source of everything that made vampires not so cool anymore.
>>80758029How so? The book was kind of bad in my opinion since Louis was a fucking insufferable whiner. Lestat was more entertaining. I like the vampire protagonists, more interesting than Dracula where they spend most of their time out of sight. I thought it was Twilight and the rest of those awful books that ruined it, though that's what I think, perhaps not what's true.
>>80756491
We're on a website that launched an organized social movement/protest/shit-slinging contest because people weren't giving their video games reviews they agreed with. People don't often come to 4chan to complain about matters of substance.
And I don't get the impression that >>80755260 is super bitter about where they are in life. Just remarking that they're not in touch with pop culture as much these days.
>>80758003
>Let's play
Ok you should just fucking kill your self at this point for TOLERATING that
well i lost part of my memory so i guess it did
maybe i can get back at it
>>80758601
I don't enjoy them and have never watched one for more than a few minutes but if other people like them, I'm not gonna tell them they shouldn't enjoy it.
>>80735561
>>80740468
Outstanding.
>>80735367
It happened two me two years ago when I realized that this "transgender" thing was only going to get worse.
>>80758601
Do they really upset you that much, or are you just seeing how far you can push a hyperbole?
>>80752639
That color is fucking bomb.
As soon as I saw all this identity politics bullshit and shit like genderqueer and MtF lesbians and whatever else there is now I instantly became old. I don't understand any of it and I very much don't want to.
>>80758029Interview, Queen of the Damned and Memnoch were actually really bad. Louis a bitch and whines about largely imaginary problems since he can't find meaning in his life. Queen of the damned has the worst storytelling I've ever seen. Memnoch I just didn't care about the subject matter.
Tale of the Body Thief was alright, even though it was less vampire than the other books. Lestat wanted to be human again only to realize that he doesn't like it that much. Favorite so far was Armand's book.
>>80760851
Identity politics needs to go into the trash. I'm tired of these retard soapbox tumblrtards with nothing better to do bitch and moan about how oppressed they are when they live in the richest countries in the fucking world, living better than at least 60% of all people and 99% of all people who've ever lived, with the best medicine, abundant food and the most peaceful period of human history.
Their oppression and "problems" are entirely imaginary, and the fact that they still manage to blame other people is the most single disgusting thing I've ever seen. Victim complex on a whole new level.
>>80736507
>tfw "beau" doesn't bother me but "bae" does
>>80752155
I think it happened when I was playing WoW. I ended up quitting the game the same day I realized that it wasn't a game anymore, it was me coming home and working a second job for no money.
That realization made me realize how much I hate the MMO genre, since I could spend my time getting ahead in real life instead of not having fun trying to do the same thing in WoW. I think MMOs just became too real for me to continue after that point.
Now I only play games to have fun, even though my definition of fun is feeding a superiority complex and sucking the fun out of it for other people.
>>80760851
except that isn't a case of 'getting it', it's a case of opposing bullshit which leaves nothing but bitching and whining in its wake
>>80762557
I'm sure they mean boo not beau.
Also, first time I've seen a Beano reaction image
>>80762766
well I know that, and it's not like beau is even used any more aside from maybe upper middle class southern US people... It's just that they sound the same and one of them somehow comes off not sounding retarded.
>>80740432
>>80741730
>>80742238
>>80736507
On the same damn page.
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/news/a29423/where-did-bae-come-from/
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/news/a42972/doctors-should-you-have-anal-sex
>>80762828
>>80762766
Isn't beau pronounced the same as in beauty? I mean, that's what it means. With a Y sound.
Boo only has an oo sound.
>>80762907
'eau' in French is pronounced as an 'o'
>>80762907
No, I'm pretty sure it's pronounced like B-Oh, since like >>80763010 says, it's French origin since the places were originally French colonies and infested with Creole, probably to this day.
>>80762557
Beau is short for beautiful. Bae is short for baby. Different connotation.
>>80762446
>Social inequalities can't exist in modern wealthy countries because people are starving in Africa.
Everything is relative. I agree that it's good to have some perspective before getting upset over something. Not crying over spilled milk, etc. But challenging people to reasonably raise their for standards of living and social norms isn't a bad thing, even if they're already exponentially better than other parts of the world.
