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Will the Doomers be Remembered?
    #26501811 - 02/24/20 04:02 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

So if you're not familiar, the doomer generation is used to describe (mostly) millenials. They're the heroin-addicted generation that watched 9/11 play out from their classrooms and graduated high school into the great recession. They're pessimistic and don't trust authority. They were born into an era before the internet and live into the internet era. Many of us on this site, (if not the majority) are doomers.

Now, directly before us are the boomers (which mostly encompasses Gen X) who are optimistic and possess a can-do attitude. Directly after us are the zoomers who are very success-oriented and highly innovative. I can't help but think we will be some left behind relic generation that will, at most, be known as a drug-riddled generation that elected Trump and set up the great international catastrophes to come.

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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Darwin23]
    #26502000 - 02/24/20 05:49 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I am from the Age of Aquarius.  :awesomenod:



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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: starfire_xes]
    #26502345 - 02/24/20 09:31 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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Darwin23 said:
Thoughts?





i try not to divide myself that way. had no clue what a millenial was until maybe two years ago. always thought they were referring to anybody born after 1999. still not exactly sure which one of these media generations me or my siblings or parents or cousins get catalogued into. i go off my own family tree instead
makes us easier to manipulate when the people's feel alienated need to belong with group and certain people get lots of power money pretty clever little spells


Edited by MadMuncher (01/12/22 10:15 AM)


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Darwin23]
    #26513917 - 03/03/20 03:43 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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So if you're not familiar, the doomer generation is used to describe (mostly) millenials. They're the heroin-addicted generation that watched 9/11 play out from their classrooms and graduated high school into the great recession. They're pessimistic and don't trust authority. They were born into an era before the internet and live into the internet era. Many of us on this site, (if not the majority) are doomers.

Now, directly before us are the boomers (which mostly encompasses Gen X) who are optimistic and possess a can-do attitude. Directly after us are the zoomers who are very success-oriented and highly innovative. I can't help but think we will be some left behind relic generation that will, at most, be known as a drug-riddled generation that elected Trump and set up the great international catastrophes to come.

Thoughts?






No. boomers are the baby boomers.


Boomers, then GenX, then millenials (where most doomers and bloomers belong to) then GenZ (zoomers).

The memes are between Boomers and Zoomers. GenX and Millenials are let outside  because of economic and societal insignificance.


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: living_failure] * 1
    #26513988 - 03/03/20 05:28 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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The memes are between Boomers and Zoomers. GenX and Millenials are let outside  because of economic and societal insignificance.




The memes started with targetting millenials,






then moved on to targetting zoomers with things like "the new tide pod challenge"

would argue GenX to be the advent of the Doomer mentality
lots of expression of lost hope and "no future!"


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Tantrika] * 1
    #26514025 - 03/03/20 06:15 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

History can FUCK OFF.
I don’t want to be remembered as part of any group anyway. Every group has a few dick-breathers that are brought up as representative of a generation, even though they’re the minority.

Like OPs statement that doomers are druggies (Not saying OP came up with this nonsense)? And LOL did you say GenZ are active and success-oriented? They’re the laziest generation ever, yet a few get big on YouTube so now all GenZers are driven?

My gen Z nephew sits around all day watching videos of OTHER people play video games that HE already owns. My brother says he told him to invite some friends over because he’s turning into a zombie...well, they came and joined into the videa-game watching.


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: feldman114] * 1
    #26514044 - 03/03/20 06:40 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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My gen Z nephew sits around all day watching videos of OTHER people play video games that HE already owns. My brother says he told him to invite some friends over because he’s turning into a zombie...well, they came and joined into the videa-game watching.




Personally do this a lot,
then go back to playing my game again
with new knowledge/skills to master to improve my gameplay
Youtube has become the surrogate community for the "social" aspect of gaming
where people discuss strategy and in-game secrets

but yeah, for every couple hundred million of us lazy at-home gamers
there are people who somehow developed it into a skillset they could harness to win tournaments
and garner sponsorship deals that let them game professionally while the rest of us face the sad realization that we have to work jobs that require us to take time away from focusing on our game of choice

my temporary obsession with Overwatch improved my gaming in all other shooters
it was just a bummer it did not happen at a young enough time in my life to develop it while my reaction time was good
but watching videos about the game between matches was what taught me to turn my mouse sensitivity wayyyyyy down
then make large sweeping motions with my arm muscles and small precise motions with my wrist muscles
and to develop the two as independent muscle memory, in order to be able to combine them in any given way during gameplay

still trivial knowledge,
just interesting that a hobby that is very much either solo or online-centric for social play
(tho there was a short-lived era where we socialized via couch co-op)
would develop an system of "meeting" to discuss the hobby online
rather than gathering at a local arcade, or the like

but yeah, if your hobby is gaming
there are actually diminishing avenues to actually play socially in a group setting gathered in the basement or the like
and, for whatever reason, the younger generation does not seem to go in for LAN parties
where they all move their hardware to a shared facility and play the same game in the same room together
it's more of a case of only getting to play together when each individually alone at home -- a real inversion of the principles of social play for us older generations


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Tantrika]
    #26514447 - 03/03/20 11:11 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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living_failure said:
The memes are between Boomers and Zoomers. GenX and Millenials are let outside  because of economic and societal insignificance.




The memes started with targetting millenials,
(...)




I think we have a different definition of what a meme is.

The millenial bullshit boomers write is just the usual circle jerk. I don't consider it a meme.

(I still remember when you called me a boomer and i hate you for that).


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: living_failure]
    #26514453 - 03/03/20 11:16 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I'm pretty sure that boomers rarely use the internet


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Enlil]
    #26514459 - 03/03/20 11:24 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I voted:derdance:


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: living_failure]
    #26558425 - 03/26/20 06:00 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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living_failure said:
Quote:

Tantrika said:
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living_failure said:
The memes are between Boomers and Zoomers. GenX and Millenials are let outside  because of economic and societal insignificance.




The memes started with targetting millenials,
(...)




I think we have a different definition of what a meme is.

The millenial bullshit boomers write is just the usual circle jerk. I don't consider it a meme.

(I still remember when you called me a boomer and i hate you for that).




Quote:

Meme, unit of cultural information spread by imitation. The term meme (from the Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene.



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Within a culture, memes can take a variety of forms, such as an idea, a skill, a behaviour, a phrase, or a particular fashion. The replication and transmission of a meme occurs when one person copies a unit of cultural information comprising a meme from another person. The process of transmission is carried out primarily by means of verbal, visual, or electronic communication, ranging from books and conversation to television, e-mail, or the Internet. Those memes that are most successful in being copied and transmitted become the most prevalent within a culture.



https://www.britannica.com/topic/meme

so the "meme" in question is the expression that millenials are fundamentally bad or selfish individuals that screw up tradition through bad judgement or action
and it is replicated and perpetuated through the evolution that novel occurrences developed after the spread of the meme are examples of the meme

boomers write a circle jerk rather than produce comical images
but it's still done to the end of expanding the associations with the singular idea

it is arguable that millenials actually started the anti-millenial memetics tho
as the First World Problems meme was a big hit for a while
where we self-reflected on privileges that we take for granted

but the principles of memetics imply that the smallest unit of an idea be taken from it -- and that got more broadly represented as the "millenials are spoiled" sentiments
millenials have been labeled the snowflake generation and the ones who got participation ribbons and trophies for some time
so it made it real easy for boomers to condense, understand, and transmit the idea that millenials are spoiled, rather than people living in the first world are spoiled
and being spoiled leads into the destruction of things

of course all of this is just me ressurecting this thread due to some of the Corona mix




















think that 'millenials are spoiled'
and the simple defined term 'millenial' as a specific range of birth years
are in a sort of evolutionary memetic competition tho
with the the end point being the eventual composition of what millenial will mean in the collective imagination

history will remember the Doomers in some capacity
but kind of think the text book chapter will start with Kurt Cobain blowing his brains out
and explore the generational expression primarily through the window of high-profile suicides more generally


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Tantrika]
    #26558557 - 03/26/20 08:00 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

What am I and my generation getting blamed for this time? Electing Trump and getting high on opiates? The two main activities of individuals over the age of 55?

Here's how I'm going to remember the boomers: put of touch, entitled as shit, and completely unable to take responsibility for their actions. They're the "buck stops somewhere else" generation.


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Re: Will the Doomers be Remembered? [Re: Kryptos] * 1
    #26558951 - 03/26/20 11:06 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah, i think you are right Tantrika.

Take into account, my online social life is from here and 4chn. In 4chn the meme is boomers and zoomers. Sometimes i forget there is live outside my circles.


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