I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
No, it’s that social media has reduced a lot of older people to the same mindset.
I’m in my 40s and even IRL I’ve noticed a huge shift in people my own age, acting more and more like teenagers and having these absolutist arrogant stances on ‘issues’ of the day. It comes from the social media that convinces them they are a very smart morally perfect genius and anyone who disagrees with them is a stupid horrible bad person.
I’m old enough to remember going to college in the 2000s and having all sorts of discussions about things that didn’t reduce everyone to being evil, and most people being on board with that. Yeah, there were crazy yahoos at my school… but the yahoos won the internet. because being a crazy gets you the most views/clout, being a moderate reasonable person gets you ignored.