sinewav wrote:It's amazing how you guys don't catch on very fast (or at all).
Here's the problem: It wasn't obvious. It wasn't crude, in-your-face, or low-brow. It didn't beat one over the head. It wasn't designed to humiliate, mock, insult, harass, antagonise, provoke, degrade, or belittle someone or something. It wasn't mean-spirited. Furthermore, it wasn't an internet "meme." It wasn't explained on Urban Dictionary (what a bullshit name that is), or Encyclopedia Dramatica, or youtube. Nor was it connected to or supported by some (anti)social networking website. And none of it was in the caveman-like grunts and acronyms language of the above.
Thus, it was rendered incapable of being grasped by these kids whose brains are thoroughly mired in the above. It's all they know, and their only manner of relating, the filter through which all concepts are understood. It's like an internet autism (I think I just coined that). Or like some isolated, insulated culture that has difficulty relating to any normal outsiders.
We've seen at least three examples of this just in the last few days, relating to harmless, corny/cheesy jokes I made—the couple on "
shuffling," the one about
cut-off server names, and now this one.
But it's not just in areas of humour. This happens on a regular basis concerning all sorts of subjects.
No, this isn't why "old people" shouldn't use the internet. Rather, it's precisely the reason why kids like this need to get off the internet and free themselves of this pathological enslavement they've developed.
