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with the rise of conservatism (both social and political) that i’ve been seeing, i have been loving how people are just getting way more weird with it as an opposition. i haven’t seen so much bdsm/smut/freak content since 2016 on the deep reaches of tumblr and i’m living for it. everywhere i turn there’s leather and gimps and edits of characters to german industrial music and cutouts of 80s kink magazines. what a time to be alive
May 6, 2025
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Been thinking I need to get openly freakier and visually gayer to differentiate myself from these new nazis
May 6, 2025
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😃i am (early?) gen z so i was very much a child during this period
with that said, don’t be fooled by youtube drum and bass playlists or weepy-eyed disney channel retrospectives - much of the mainstream culture of this era was insanely bad. that is obviously still true today, but the difference is that the monoculture was still alive in the 2000s, so your ability to opt-out and find subcultural niches that had cool stuff going on was significantly curtailed compared to today. you basically *had* to be literally anorexic to be conventionally attractive, there was no political “left” to speak of (not that it mattered to me when i was a literal child but still), and as others have mentioned, insane 9/11 hysteria lasted well into the obama era.
with all that said the thought of having to grow up today is honestly terrifying. i am old enough that social media did not become culturally dominant until high school (i had a dumbphone until freshman year), and i do feel blessed to have grown up on a pre-web 2.0 internet. you still were able to buy things and own them. a huge number of the greatest games of all time came out during this period, and every mainstream multiplayer release wasn’t just a casino with a mid fps attached to it. amazon had yet to completely conquer the earth. the government kind of worked. i don’t think i would go back because i’ve been spoiled by the sheer volume of amazing things that i have access to today and i do think we’ve made some solid sociopolitical progress, but there are definitely some things i miss
with that said, don’t be fooled by youtube drum and bass playlists or weepy-eyed disney channel retrospectives - much of the mainstream culture of this era was insanely bad. that is obviously still true today, but the difference is that the monoculture was still alive in the 2000s, so your ability to opt-out and find subcultural niches that had cool stuff going on was significantly curtailed compared to today. you basically *had* to be literally anorexic to be conventionally attractive, there was no political “left” to speak of (not that it mattered to me when i was a literal child but still), and as others have mentioned, insane 9/11 hysteria lasted well into the obama era.
with all that said the thought of having to grow up today is honestly terrifying. i am old enough that social media did not become culturally dominant until high school (i had a dumbphone until freshman year), and i do feel blessed to have grown up on a pre-web 2.0 internet. you still were able to buy things and own them. a huge number of the greatest games of all time came out during this period, and every mainstream multiplayer release wasn’t just a casino with a mid fps attached to it. amazon had yet to completely conquer the earth. the government kind of worked. i don’t think i would go back because i’ve been spoiled by the sheer volume of amazing things that i have access to today and i do think we’ve made some solid sociopolitical progress, but there are definitely some things i miss
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2- ED culture is back in full swing and i don't even need to really explainnnn why it's so bad...we know its bad! but we lowkey don't care. 3- I can't even imagine growing up Indian these days. I know these kids have it way worse than when I was a child- which I didn't even know was possible. Maybe my tiktok algorithm is just trying to fearmonger me but idk...i'm seeing some crazy levels of hatred abuse and bullying... 4- why is everyone so cool with this uptick in freakdrug culture...like its an objective truth that you shouldn't recreationally do GHB (at all) or ketamine and coke every single day. you guys are getting dumb, weird, addicted and therefore irritable and suckish. 5- people are just..getting meaner in the name of coolness and cuntiness...
2- ED culture is back in full swing and i don't even need to really explainnnn why it's so bad...we know its bad! but we lowkey don't care. 3- I can't even imagine growing up Indian these days. I know these kids have it way worse than when I was a child- which I didn't even know was possible. Maybe my tiktok algorithm is just trying to fearmonger me but idk...i'm seeing some crazy levels of hatred abuse and bullying... 4- why is everyone so cool with this uptick in freakdrug culture...like its an objective truth that you shouldn't recreationally do GHB (at all) or ketamine and coke every single day. you guys are getting dumb, weird, addicted and therefore irritable and suckish. 5- people are just..getting meaner in the name of coolness and cuntiness...
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