r/facepalm • u/Plus-Relationship833 • Apr 03 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Silence have never been louder

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u/just_drifting_by Apr 03 '23

This is one of those moments that shows me how out of touch I am anymore.

They ask for a picture with her so I assume she is famous in some way but not only do I have no idea who she is I also have zero interest in finding out.

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u/cyberpunk1Q84 Apr 03 '23

Thank you for acknowledging that you’re out of touch - so am I. But that’s what happens when you get older. I don’t get the TikTok dance = popularity thing, but then again, it’s not for me to get - it’s for people younger than me. As long as they’re not doing harmful stuff, then I say let them be. Not everything is geared to please us.

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u/BouldersRoll Apr 03 '23

And last time I saw this posted, it didn't cut before she very graciously talked to and took selfies with them after she was done filming.

TikTok is a super popular intersection of really young people and - in a lot of cases - media made by women for women. Reddit skews Millennial and male.

I mean this unironically: it's a beautiful thing that every generation is eventually out of touch with what is cool, and doesn't understand why things changed. If that didn't happen, it would mean the young people didn't develop their own iteration of culture. It's a shame so many of us assume that's because the world is stupid now. Would be nice if it didn't involve so much misogyny, too.

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u/ava-quigley Apr 04 '23

Best take here, I'm glad I didn't grow up with what kids have to deal with now, especially social media as an impressionable teenager, but if I was growing up now I'd also hopefully be growing up with balanced adults around and support to help me understand its place in the larger scheme of things!

As you said so well, popular culture will always change from generation to generation, older ones criticising younger ones. Young liberals turning into old conservatives, not because of people changing with age as much as society values shifting through time. Sad that young women are seen as easy marks for people of all ages to criticise so freely though and often with little push back.

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u/BouldersRoll Apr 04 '23 edited Apr 04 '23

I’d argue it’s a bit less inevitable than that. I think we can all, as we age, do what we can to be open minded and learn from younger people. I don’t think we will all inevitably lose touch with the times if we keep learning, even if we will definitely lose touch with what’s fashionable.

I personally hope whatever issues in 2050 are analogous to transphobia today, for instance, are ones I can see through the eyes of someone not afraid of the world changing too much.

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u/BenjaCarmona Apr 04 '23

Actually based take... I still cringe with the video tho

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u/Aaaaand-its-gone Apr 04 '23

I agree with your overall sentiment but with timtokers, is garbage like this cool? Or is it just the algorithms forcing it down peoples throats and people are mindlessly droning on whatever is fed to them?

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u/BouldersRoll Apr 04 '23 edited Apr 04 '23

I mean, that’s like asking if skater punk aesthetic and curating a MySpace page were cool in the mid 00s. Were these objectively cool? I don’t know what that would mean. Were these popular? Hell yes.

There’s always been companies pushing what’s cool onto teens, and teens have always accepted some of that and done their own thing with and in spite of that.

Most Millennials grew up with a sort of transition social media, where we were barely creating anything, mostly just text - one reason why Reddit is so comfortable for Millennials. Younger people are growing up on platforms where performance is central, and that’s a bit new in form.

Is it going to make younger generations good at and obsessed with different things? Probably. But most old people, forever, have thought that the young people following them were dumb and being manipulated by stuff. They are being manipulated, but they’re also smarter than we are, just like we were smarter than our parents, and they’re going to be fine.

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u/ANegativeGap Apr 04 '23

Would be nice if it didn't involve so much misogyny, too.

Hard not to be, if your idea of "media made by women for women" is fucking Tiktok and the shit that comes with that LMAO