The zoomers were never on Twitter. Too busy with their Snappychats and Tikkytalks.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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so you're like the inverse of that "hello fellow kids" meme?
“Sup my n00bs I’m young but 1337”
Now you and me battle for the supremacy of our respective generations on the fields of Usenet, to honour our ancestors.
This is the way
I remember LiveJournal. Get off my lawn.
Dear live journal
Current mood: Apathetic.
Oof. Blast from the past. Also, upon remembering the lyrics, that song did not age well.
It's a time piece, you know? Like American History X, only hilarious instead of genuinely moving.
I'll have you know Tom was my first friend on MySpace, young whippersnapper!
Grandpa is just X'ing racist things again!
I don't want to know anything about Grandpa's racist excrement
Exrement racing? That's gross.
Isn't Xing another company?
"I remember when they were still called Tweets"
I love that this is basically a "back in my day" but disguised as a problem that zoomers will have. Old man shouts at cloud but instead one day zoomers will yell at water in the sky!
Yes. That's exactly what's happening. I recently heard someone my age lamenting the fact that kids these days don't know what the save icon is because they don't know what floppy disks are. I thought "Who gives a fuck?" Then later on a TV show I saw people using the verb "Tweet" and I thought "Well that's going the way of the dodo" and here we are.
Fair enough. I'm Gen-X and I started complaining about "kids today" when I was about 15. I've always been an old man.
They're gonna think Gen X refers to the generation of The Site Formerly Known As Twitter.
"The x formerly known as y" is a reference that won't be understood by much of the youngest generation.
If it even exists in the future.
What's 'tweeting'?
It's like Xing but with less racism.
It’s the sound a higher frequency range audio speaker makes
I even 'favorite'-d a tweet instead of like back then...
And nothing of value was lost. In fact, I'd almost prefer that anything you say on the internet not be a permanent fixture upon the internet. Leave it up for a year, or like 10 for politicians or historical figures - but nothing that can fit in a short-post like twitter is worth saving for long.
and deny internet archeologists of the future this goldmine? I don't think so!
Not to mention linguists. I read a book (Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, great read) that cited many studies that used Twitter as their primary source. Basically, the linguists used Tweets as a way to understand how people talk causally on the internet; what is more causal than a Tweet?
Let's just hope people will forget that shithole before they can get nostalgic!
If you Tweet on Twitter I vote messages on X be called X-crements.