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We thought GenZ was going to save us, but that was bullshit.
I work with a few in a DEEP BLUE state in a field in which the majority of my co-workers have been liberal and they're Trumpers. Morons who grew up on social media and had their minds warped by it. Fell for the alpha male bullshit too.
They aren't going to save us. They're pretty dumb.
Yeah. I've got a high school teacher in my life, they told me recently that many of their Seniors can't do what Freshmen could just ten years ago, and they have a shocking amount of Seniors who can't even read at a second grade level (they teach general ed, not special ed). I mean, not five or twelve of them, but like 30 or 40 percent. They say the kids struggle super hard these days (again, relative to Freshmen a decade ago) to analyze text and form original thoughts, and it's almost like they've all been trained to just be told what to think. In a way, I guess that's true, thanks to the Algorithm. I think we're seeing the fruit of that; the algorithm has told these boys what to think, and now they get to find out for themselves what the consequences of that is.
Surprise the iPad kid generation that were brought up on 4chsn derived troll culture are not bastions of virtue.
Like I have a zoomer nephew, and he's genuinely a good kid at heart, and his mum raised him well, but he also showed me things like videos of people harassing kids in video games until they meltdown like it was the funniest shit in the world, and also thinks Trump is super funny.
Being a shitty person is just good "content".
Seeing this with my own kids. We strictly manage their YouTube time, and that's fucking hard because there's million stupid ways to sneak on to YouTube. I wish there was a way to set them up with an allowlist feed instead of having to go and block every single bullshit video and channel, but then they couldn't feed my kids to the algorithm to make it shit out money, I guess.
gen z is literally the wrong generation to use 4chan lmao
Sitting around and waiting for someone else to save you is defeatist. There's no magic fix to this. You have to get up and do it yourself.
I'll do what I can but I can't stop the zoomers from listening to Rogan any more than I could stop the boomers from listening to Limbaugh.
All we need is people to do their best.
its not social media that causes this, it's the political brainwashing and propaganda, idk why people are so blindly ignorant to this fact. Does social media propagate and disperse it? Yes, is it entirely the reason behind it? No.