I worry about the connection between generations. With youtube and tiktok, kids aren’t really getting a lot of experience with the older generations’ media. I feel like cross-generation references are a big way of forming connections. But then again, I’m a millennial, and we love our reference humor.
I mean thinking about it, Millennials had connections to Gen-Xers who made references and connections to Boomers who made references and connections to original Hollywood stuff from the 30s-50s in a pretty much unbroken line. Is that being broken with things like unscripted internet slop made by amateurs and AI instead of media lovers and people deeply steeped in written and screen classics and connections to that world which they deliberately weave with craftsmanship into their content? I worry what the AI slop in particular means though I feel like it was already a bit of a trend. That or we get stuck forever in the 90s/2000s in terms of shared references because what references there are become things like “biggest Simpsons moment clips compilations” and people just repeat the same stuff that was a thing back then before the end of a kind of shared media atmosphere with the rise of streaming and cable that was more than a couple channels of stuff.
just want to offer you a ray of hope from my kid’s friend circle: they are not isolated, they are super in touch with what is happening in the world, and they are very concerned.
this is just some queer kids from southern Ohio, make of that what you will, but hopefully it gives you some peace to know that even the youth here give all the fucks ❤️
I worry about the connection between generations. With youtube and tiktok, kids aren’t really getting a lot of experience with the older generations’ media. I feel like cross-generation references are a big way of forming connections. But then again, I’m a millennial, and we love our reference humor.
Simpsons references alone are how I still make half my friendships today. I don’t know how to communicate if not through shared media
Real “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” hours
Yeah it does feel kind of weird.
I mean thinking about it, Millennials had connections to Gen-Xers who made references and connections to Boomers who made references and connections to original Hollywood stuff from the 30s-50s in a pretty much unbroken line. Is that being broken with things like unscripted internet slop made by amateurs and AI instead of media lovers and people deeply steeped in written and screen classics and connections to that world which they deliberately weave with craftsmanship into their content? I worry what the AI slop in particular means though I feel like it was already a bit of a trend. That or we get stuck forever in the 90s/2000s in terms of shared references because what references there are become things like “biggest Simpsons moment clips compilations” and people just repeat the same stuff that was a thing back then before the end of a kind of shared media atmosphere with the rise of streaming and cable that was more than a couple channels of stuff.
It’s weird because as a kid I loved it when my gen X or boomer elders shared their interests with me.
Young people however now seem to be in a bubble. I’m sad thinking they might be even more isolated then ever.
just want to offer you a ray of hope from my kid’s friend circle: they are not isolated, they are super in touch with what is happening in the world, and they are very concerned.
this is just some queer kids from southern Ohio, make of that what you will, but hopefully it gives you some peace to know that even the youth here give all the fucks ❤️
I hope these kids can get the future they deserve.
ME TOO
they are really great kids who care deeply about the world, and I will protect them with my life