I watched it and it honestly is pretty cool, kinda catchy and funny and reminiscent of some steam orange box edit from 15 years ago

The youtube comments are full of ~20 year olds complaining about it though (probably mostly ironically but still)

  • crapping on the Latest Thing Kids Are Doing is one of the early phases of transitioning into an out of touch adult.

    every new group thinks they’re gonna be young and connected to youth culture forever. when they run into the first thing from younger people they don’t get, they feel compelled to explain why “it sucks actually” rather than letting go of their youth status.

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      crapping on the Latest Thing Kids Are Doing is one of the early phases of transitioning into an out of touch adult.

      Does this mean zoomers are becoming out-of-touch-geezers at the seasoned age of ~21 years old?
      I remember being 21, back in the early 2010s, I was never even thinking about what younger kids were doing, nobody was.

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        No surely not. I was there when the rizz lords first spoke, I understand the origins of the gyaat, and I’ve seen the skibidis upon their toilet. This fanum tax eludes me however

        I’m still gip with the kids

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      personally i don’t feel like i’ve ever been in touch with ‘youth culture’. even when i was very young i always felt like i never understood what other kids were talking about, and this feeling of alienation from ‘the zeitgeist’ has persisted into my 30s. like, when i was a kid i liked ninjas and mecha. now that i’m 30 i like ninjas and mecha and communism. but i never liked the name brand IP stuff, Gundam is mid mostly (i especially disliked gundam wing, which was the hot shit when i was a pre-teen), and like 7/10 at its best (gundam IBO, haven’t yet seen witch from mercury but i hear good things). transformers is and always was poorly concieved garbage. power rangers were silly but normal IP-less anonymized ninjas were cool. naruto and DBZ were too impractical, even when i was like 6 i didn’t like their tacky orange outfits. i liked pokemon (or more accurately i thought pikachu specifically was cute) for like one year and got bored of it while the rest of the world went wild about it. and i never liked any music anyone else had ever heard of. i think assuming that these criticisms are always and necessarily just out of touch adults complaining about what they don’t understand is too simplistic, because ‘out-of-touch-edness’ is not confined to the old and the very concept might be kinda ableist towards the neurodivergent depending on the definition and related assumptions.