Are people actually getting their undies in a bunch over a 3 year age gap? I find that hard to believe.

I also don't use Twitter, Instagram or TikTok because they're terrible.

I also don't quite understand why a 20-year-old dating a 23-year-old is contentious. There's no age gap at all. Who exactly is having a problem with this?

He sounds like a perfectly normal person who just doesn't read the news.

I am 24, autistic, straight edge, and a data analyst. I'm the youngest person in my company, the closest person to me in age is 45. I haven't used a regular social media site since I was 14. My only interaction with modern discourse is my girlfriend's 18 year old sister. When she talks she might as well be speaking another language. My hobbies are unix, classic literature, VHS collecting, and synthesizers. My girlfriend calls me her 80 year old boyfriend.

How is a 3 year gap a problem if she's 20, wtf.

Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner; maybe I'm also too disconnected, but I didn't get half of the supposed contentious items listed in this post.

Reading the comments, I was like, 'oh, that's what they meant by...'. The body count really surprised me, and in a negative way. Body count sounds so... tasteless. But who cares. Since I don't use that expression, I'll probably forget it soon (the good side of having a lousy memory).

And this man is probably the most mentally healthy man this guy knows as well.

Speaking as someone who was overly sheltered... All of this is plausible.

We need more people like Alex

What is "body count" in this context? Does it mean your number of sexual partners? If so, that's very dismissive and reductive.

This is funny but I have a slight feeling that it's made up

What DOES from the river to the sea mean?

Edit: thank you all for helping me/us understand more about this.

He is living the life.

The person who wrote this sounds like a twat. Why judge the guy and put him on blast because he doesn't follow the same social norms as you?

This is one of those people who dont live or care about the internet, honestly this sounds like a very healthy lifestyle.

Lemmy really gives reddit for boomers with these made up rage bait posts like this.

Gets straight to the top and everyone is saying they wish they could be this guy because they don't care about modern issues and want to go "back to the good ol days". Rage bait didn't even get rage, just people creaming over the idea of not thinking about global issues and trans rights.

A real human bean, and a real... hero.

I can't tell whether this particular person is real, but I fully believe that there are thousands such people, if not more, in every developed country. I count myself among them. My social media interaction, other than Lemmy and Reddit, is limited to reading and writing 1000+ words long blog posts. I recently left our company's Christmas party after an hour when I realised I had nothing to talk about with the others - I don't know the current trends in movies, TV or music, and nobody in my work shares my interests. So, I may be perceived as just as weird (or endearing, as the ending suggests), even though I see myself as perfectly normal.

Sometimes, it's better to be ignorant.

Definitely home schooled

This is the top of my feed on lemmy.world... yeah Reddit is totally dying

I used to be like this. I would also accidentally make sexual innuendos, some of which were never explained to me.

hundreds

Either he didn't actually play mw3 a lot or he was terrible at it.

What the world really needs right now, more smart Alex...🤓👍

This guy got that ohio skibidi rizz.

You know it's interesting how in touch I am considering how out of touch I am. I want to be a part of the cultural zeitgeist so I can get jokes, and talk to people, and generally be alive and understand what's going on in the world, but at the same time it's truly exhausting. I dunno, I think as I've understood how much "the culture" is just pioneered by like, some 12 year old somewhere brainlessly chaining nonsense words together, the more I find myself wanting to disengage. See, and then, that's not even real, because "the culture" no longer exists. You get viral memes that are spewed forth on their ability to masquerade as "the culture" without actually being it. I'm sure some stupid kid somewhere talks like they're a terminally online brainrotted weirdo, and that kid should probably stop being on the internet, but to say that this stupid kid is "the culture", is false. This isn't the case.

Everyone just collectively hallucinates some fake thing in their head that they can be mad or find funny or both. There is no "culture" anymore. There's just a bunch of atomized communities who independently do whatever they do, and then somehow everyone has cultural osmosis knowledge of a mr beast video because they know someone who knows someone who watches it and they have to have an opinion on everything. I want the ride to stop, I want to get off! I want the ride to stop now! I would like to go back to rage comics please!