Kids and Computers | TheaterFire

Have young seen tiktok and reels. It’s the same joke rehashed by a bunch of people trying to be famous. Starts on tiktok. Rehosted to reels. Then Facebook. And then some might make it here.

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Jawnumet@reddit

just right click it'll fix everything I promise

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rohan_rat@reddit

That paint bucket would really fuck my shit up. An absolute masterclass in calling me on my shit and utter inability to connect my lines perfectly.

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Podwitchers@reddit

lol same. It’s my go to program for cut and paste and trying to get images ready for an email or something.

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Glitter_Sparkle@reddit

I dread the day a zoomer sees me at work using MS Paint to combine images.

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AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit

I use ms paint to convert the bitmap to jpeg. I dunno how to do that otherwise.

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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

https://imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

magick image.bmp image.jpg

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AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit

Thanks, but my office laptop doesnt allow uploads to site. Whatchu gonna do?! MS PAINT!

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Glitter_Sparkle@reddit

This is my problem too. We can’t even use Canva AI.

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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

Idk you said it.

my office laptop doesn’t allow uploads to site

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decadent-dragon@reddit

You converting a lot of bitmaps these days?

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AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit

Had to do one recently after ages. Couldnt upload the bitmap. Took me by surprise that it was saved as bitmap.

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WartimeMandalorian@reddit

It's still my go to for resizing images. It's still on my work computer, I know how to use it, why learn something else?

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sunshineparadox_@reddit

Forget the images.

My kid’s peers don’t know how to use a search engine or type well, either. They’re all on mobile devices which would make sense for thumping, but I’m horrified by the search.

At school, the apps are already opened entirely, so parents who work a fuckton aren’t able to supplement that knowledge with more. It might’ve been enough with some of the base shit at school and access alone.

I was actually pretty stunned. (She’s 9.) Of course thru don’t have it all down pat. But I definitely remember being able to do more at that age with limited access. Entire school system was poor, and so were we. They do a lot of leg work to help. (I switched her schools, and they do a lot there, too. Lower income area, but the teachers give a shit.)

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KiwiEV@reddit

MS Paint may be basic, but if all you need is to crop/delete something out of a screenshot it's much faster than using Photoshop or GIMP.

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BR0METHIUS@reddit

Just use snipping tool, why make it harder.

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bananaHammockMonkey@reddit

yepp, then draw a fig fat arrow to the problem, paste into an email and send! there you go motherfuckers!

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BR0METHIUS@reddit

lol right. Make it painfully obvious for the painfully obtuse.

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E-2theRescue@reddit

I use the Pixlr website, lol. Just a dumbed-down Photoshop for browser. You can only save 3 free images a day... until you open up a new private window.

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hates_stupid_people@reddit

Why?

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letouriste1@reddit

probably something much better around

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theoriginalmofocus@reddit

Probably and at the same time if it was an app on my phone id be opening it to make shit to post on Reddit still.

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letouriste1@reddit

about that...

There's several paint app available

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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

I use excel to drag them around then screen clip it

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CaptainoftheVessel@reddit

I was a humanities major so I use Word to do the same thing

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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

Doesn’t word not let you freely overlap and drag themxatound ?

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CaptainoftheVessel@reddit

If you get clever with margins and spacing you can sometimes accomplish your goal, depending on what you’re trying to do.

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

This is the way. Copy and paste.

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La_Pusicato@reddit

Singing 🎶Space Invaders "Space invaders"

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FinancialLunch5749@reddit

But that's the reaction at the end, for a poorly drawn line.🤪🤪😉

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SwiftTayTay@reddit

it's actually starting to go backwards. younger/later millenials are good with computers, younger/later zoomers are starting to not know what a computer is again

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paloma_delmar@reddit

I mastered MS paint

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TheNumberoftheWord@reddit

Yeah, but they don't know how to torrent. A WinRAR file is a mystery for the ages as well.

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Select_Truck3257@reddit

mostly i saw second type kids lol

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someoneone211@reddit

Holy shit ripped off sketches too? Really????

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Hellament@reddit

I assume you’re referring to the fact that this exact reel/tiktok has been made by others. Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.

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aaerobrake@reddit

Wtf is tik tok is it people making the same few jokes but now its ~them~ doing it so its special? I remember seeing a million posts of people doing the “when you dont smoke” blows bubbles

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burf@reddit

Reddit does the same thing with recycled/running jokes. People just don’t put the effort into recording a video to do it

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aaerobrake@reddit

Yeah but text plagiarism is different because its literally copy and paste, but i do agree tumblr especially has that issue no one is funny

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

You know what is different? Text plagiarism.

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-Badger3-@reddit

Remember when being a poser was a bad thing?

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aaerobrake@reddit

We called it ripping people off!!

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Important_Trouble_11@reddit

It's memes but with videos of yourself instead of jpegs, gifs, and text quotes

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Hellament@reddit

I think it’s just lazy people trying to surf the algorithm of what works to get views/reshares. Without knowing much about how “content authors” monetize this sort of dumb bullshit, I assume it has something to do with trying to make money.

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FR0ZENBERG@reddit

I’ve seen like six different of these on Reddit, taken from TikTok, in like the last month.

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a reaction video to this out there somewhere.

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mostdope28@reddit

And the “reaction” is just someone nodding with a finger pointing to this video

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Spider_Dude@reddit

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Roklam@reddit

Laughing now, but all up in Arms if I come across one "in the Wild".

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

It's bound to happen. If I decide that I want to find the "original" of something, it usually takes hours. And the views of the original are usually a fraction of some of the remakes.

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Downtown_Injury_3415@reddit

this one was posted a month ago…

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Mister-Psychology@reddit

He made it way funnier. It's supposed to be creative art vs. creative art.

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

And the sucky part is that this was the actual first time seeing this, so now I'll start seeing all the variations this week.

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theoriginalmofocus@reddit

Ive seen 2 other different ones today alone and thats the first time ive ever seen this thing. The fortnite thing is no joke though. The kids that build that crap so fast while also running, jumping, shooting....i could barely do those timed orchestrated jumps on tombraider that resulted in you ragdolling yourself to death.

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oregiel@reddit

Yea it amazes me. What is the person thinking as they painstakingly go through all this effort to choreograph act and film a totally plagiarized joke. Like what a hack. Get a life.

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CheaterInsight@reddit

Welcome to the modern internet!

There's a funny video of a women repeating "Its hot on the bottom" as her friend repeatedly goes to grab the pot by the bottom. Very simple video to search for, "Its hot on the bottom". Except, it's ALL people lip syncing the audio. Okay, "Its hot on the bottom original". Nope, YouTube gives about 6 videos before it starts recommending literally anything else. There's even some parent-child combo that seems to have gotten popular by stealing the audio. Originality is dead, we've even moved away from thousands of people copying an idea/trend with poorly executed acting, to people just ripping the audio and poorly copying the original video.

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Glass_Recover_3006@reddit

It’s an account dedicated exclusively to mining ‘member berries, I think I’m a little more surprised this bothers people than the fact he copied a meme.

Like that’s what these accounts do. Pretty normal no?

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Correct_Suspect4821@reddit

It’s hard to understand for people who only use Reddit, as sad as that sounds

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ihatecatboys@reddit

Every 80's/90's nostalgia content creator rips off each other to the point I've just had to quit following them all.

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breadcodes@reddit

There's only so much general nostalgia content you can make really. I'd be shocked if there was any original content on the era anymore. The hobby spaces and niches are where it's at.

I'm a M/Zillennial, and I ran out of 90-00s nostalgia content quickly and way too early in my life. I started making my own Game Boy, GB Color, GB Advance, and N64 demos/games, and there's a ton of unique content and ideas in that hobby space.

I loosely follow the homebrew 80-90s PC scene for Commodore, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, NES (well, the Japanese "Famicom," since that had PC accessories that were never released for the NES), etc and there's a lot of fresh content if you're into that sort of thing. It's never too late to learn BASIC and - even though it's not "useful" anymore - it is still a fun nostalgia hobby. I have some magazines from the late 80s, early 90s with BASIC programs, and it's still a good time.

Dungeons and Dragons is back in full swing and it's an awesome time. While the 2014 5th Edition and 2024 5.5e aren't everyone's favorite, it's extremely accessible and easy to get into. It's the bud light of taple top games. Everyone who plays it will have a good time, even if there's debates on if it's the best possible experience.

I've seen people in the sewing hobby design era-accurate outfits. People in music create era-accurate synth music. Etc, etc.

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Adept-Software4708@reddit

Twice ripped off. The 3rd version ive seen. People need to touch grass.

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iamapizza@reddit

Welcome to Tiktok

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The-Dudemeister@reddit

Have young seen tiktok and reels. It’s the same joke rehashed by a bunch of people trying to be famous. Starts on tiktok. Rehosted to reels. Then Facebook. And then some might make it here.

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Dr-McLuvin@reddit

I used to play a game called kid pix I think? It was awesome

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DeezNutzzzGotEm@reddit

Cute

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jarobat@reddit

When I was a kid my friend and I would draw black and white pictures on the OG macintosh, but we didn't know about the undo or save features so we started over whenever we really messed up

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Rags2Rickius@reddit

Lmao

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zerosmith86@reddit

Well i downvoted this stolen ass shit. But it doesn't do much vs. All the updoots

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YarItsDrivinMeNuts@reddit

Stop copying off each other and create something new ffs.

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MyCleverNewName@reddit

This hasn't been true for 10 years.

I've been an IT professional for 20+ years and from what I've seen, there was only a sweetspot of about 10-15 years where people in general knew computers.

Everyone I work with in their 20s now generally can only operate their iphone and chatgpt.

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

I'm wondering if I'm another 10ish years you'll start seeing better knowledged 20 year olds. My 13 year old in her school district, has been assigned a laptop since 4th grade. Basically when COVID hit, almost all school work in this district has been through laptops. Windows OS, not Mac.

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FapOpotamusRex@reddit

I work IT in a school and you are spot on. Most kids these days, even graduating seniors don't know the basics of using a PC or Mac. They don't know what saving locally is vs the cloud. They don't understand even really what an OS is and that there are different systems. They don't understand file systems, or even how to find a file they just saved, or change the location of a save.

My opinion is that we simplified utilizing a device so much when the move to mobile platforms took over, that most people lost or never learned computing on a desktop or laptop (that isn't chromeos).

I have teachers from 28 to 68 and they all call their Windows laptops "Chromebooks", and when I ask them if they are actually referring to a Chromebook they draw a blank.

The thing that cracks me up is that they all want Macbooks, which in no way can we afford. Also, fuck Apple in an enterprise environment, fuck them to hell and back. But I think the desire is there bc Apple treats their users like morons. They hem in what they can do so hard that they are basically on training wheels, and that is what people want. I hate it.

The little things that for the most part older millenials learned while we grew up alongside computers, I honestly think most other generations just don't know. In a way, computers becoming so reliable has doomed users to not know how they work at all.

OK, rant over, but I'm right there with you bud. It's kind of crazy.

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CONCAVE_NIPPLES@reddit

I've worked in a mixed OS environment and the idea that Mac "just works" has not been true for many years now. It accounted for maybe 15% of our workstations/laptops and probably generated close to 50% of IT related issues. And most were Mac specific and not user error.

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RakeshKakati@reddit

I still have nightmares of my MS Paint disasters! Those were some serious pixel struggles! 😂

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ScruttyMctutty@reddit

This joke was barely funny the first time I saw it…

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RakeshKakati@reddit

Ah, the nostalgia of battling with the paint bucket tool. It's like the childhood version of a horror movie! 🎨

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SGSpec@reddit

Kids being people in their 20s? Because now the youth is surprisingly incompetent with computers since a lot of them were raised with tablet/phones. Even in a lot of schools they replaced computers with tablets

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Dry-Use3@reddit

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sleepyj910@reddit

I actually disagree, gen alpha mainly on touchscreen now

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trefoil589@reddit

Yeah. My daughter will be getting a phone in a few years and when she does the tablet goes away and she gets a laptop instead and learns how to use it.

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CaterpillarBroad6083@reddit

I know right, I thought we are the tech support of both boomers and zoomers.

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PoopyButt28000@reddit

Yeah, this might be the case for some people on this sub if they're a bit older, but I was under the impression that most Millenials were more like the person at the start, and a lot of kids nowadays are actually pretty shit at using and navigating PCs. I'm in my early 30s and I remember my computer classes in the 3rd grade, where instead of doing the little typing minigame everyone else was doing I was sitting with my teacher typing out emails for her. Computers were simple enough that you could get into using and understanding them when you were younger, but everything wasn't as simplified as it is now.

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PistolGrace@reddit

I was using turbo Pascal and C++ in high school. But my dad was IT. So i was building PCs in elementary school.

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ApocalypseCheerBear@reddit

Lolol. My 10 year old beat portal 2 on her gaming laptop last night.

The preschoolers use touchscreen.

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Swagtagonist@reddit

Yeah kids can’t even turn on a real computer

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J_robintheh00d@reddit

I enjoyed that 😊

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WheelLeast1873@reddit

Me to my kids: "just open a terminal and CD to your home dir"

kids:

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Ok-Instance-2940@reddit

Bro I saw something original like this yesterday and it’s already been ripped off, fuck that

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4Throw2My0Ass6Away9@reddit

😂😂😂😂

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_Sai@reddit

Oh, I knew that pain very much.

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Sorry_Age4261@reddit

i saw rengoku in the backround so your getting an upvote (:

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MycologistPutrid7494@reddit

I teach high school. The kids are not great with technology. It's shocking how much they struggle.

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E-2theRescue@reddit

Yup. They can build amazing buildings in Minecraft. But ask them to install a mod without using a mod manager, and they can't do it because they don't understand the file system or anything else that is basic to us.

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Sonikku_a@reddit

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E-2theRescue@reddit

And yet, they can't figure out how to move a file to a different folder.

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Arnessiy@reddit

brings some memories ngl

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Iokua113@reddit

I don't know about that. I watched my cousin's 11 year old son struggle to use a computer mouse once. The kid kept trying to use the monitor like a touch screen and couldn't seem to comprehend that it wasn't one no matter how many times he was told it wasn't a touch screen.

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Happy-Injury-8942@reddit

wow so whos this then?

https://youtu.be/syeggFTBZCI?si=yCYZwyanBd7f35io

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Working_Stomach476@reddit

Yet they can't connect to the WiFi in any other place other than my house.

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Btriquetra0301@reddit

Why does this physically hurt?

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loztriforce@reddit

This is what I used to draw when I was a kid

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BrobdingnagianScroll@reddit

Kids are super fast at closing out ads on their smartphones.

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Ambitious-Cancel-838@reddit

I remember putting a floppy disc in and having to it in a series of commands in DOS just to play Tie-Fighter.

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BrobdingnagianScroll@reddit

I'm old enough to remember how easy it was to accidentally delete a term paper.

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SJSsarah@reddit

Microsoft Paint …. Man that pathetic 7 year old me thought I was the next world’s best graphic designer…. My art looked like a Simpsons version of SIMS, way before SIMS came out. The stuff kids can do with games now days blows my mind. I’m happy for them, honestly, it’s very cool that they have these creative outlets.

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daylight1943@reddit

to be fair, back when i was struggling to draw legibly in ms paint, i had pretty much no guidance on how to use a computer and often didnt even have internet access. it was just me and my pc.

i picked up ds3 pvp back in 2019 or so and there are TONS of youtube vids, guides, twitch streams etc and within a year or so i was sitting there calmly clacking away at a million buttons on my kb, swapping all my weapons and gear around, mid combat, within a second or two, which i assume is in a small way analogous to stuff like building during combat in fortnite.

its a lot different when you have extensive guides, twitch, discord communities, subreddits, etc etc all telling you what to do and how to do it.

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SweaterFromHeaven@reddit

Everyone is talking about MS paint, but watching kids today do PVP in Minecraft and build in Fortnite really humbles me. I feel like a caveman watching their advanced techniques.

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sharkyire@reddit

This is so true

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TahaymTheBigBrain@reddit

That’s me as a genz kid 😮‍💨

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Butcher_Of_Hope@reddit

My job had a set of recent new hires where this is their first job out of high school. They barely know how to use a computer and require the same level of training as our senior workforce.

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AfraidApricot4482@reddit

sketch completely ripped of from another creator

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mean11while@reddit

I used to pretend to be a doctor. I'd draw a person in paint, then randomly cut across it a bunch of times with the eraser tool, and then "save" the victim by trying to repair the damage and holes.

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CaicedoBrickWall@reddit

I'm not as old as y'all but I had a gen z kid get hired who didn't know how to turn off a PC

And that's just the most extreme example of that generation having zero fucking clue how to operate a computer.

While there are certainly talented individuals, as a whole gen z and alpha are virtually computer illiterate. (On top of being actually illiterate).To their credit they can work an iPad and a phone no issue.

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Udosari@reddit

Cringe.

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immunogoblin1@reddit

This is like the 5th one of these I've seen in the last two days.

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jvillager916@reddit

At least your hands were the right size to hit Ctrl + Z

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daddytwofoot@reddit

Kids don't know how to use computers anymore. Those first clips in Minecraft are made by autistic 37-year-olds.

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belonii@reddit

lets be honest, tons of kids are computer literate because software got too handholdy.

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LadyDayinDC@reddit

We had Legos.

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

Apparently Legos are back. My 13 year old just sprained her ankle so she's on recliner rest, and has built 3 sets now. And says she loves it. The big box stores have basically 2 whole aisles dedicated to just Legos, we had 2 kits and that was it.

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jojocookiedough@reddit

Yeah my 7yo just went to a Lego themed bday party yesterday

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Individual_Sale_1073@reddit

Kids these days don't even use computers though.

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ReyWorm@reddit

Yeah, I'm a 40yo geek teacher, and I can't agree with this meme.

I p4wn them newbs any day of the week.

They can't use computers for shit, at least not any better than my mum.

They were taught through smartphones, those things are designed to be instinctively usable by literal chimps and human babies.

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starcell400@reddit

I'm actually not sure, seems like a lot of the next generation kind of sucks ass on computers. Maybe too much mobile and touch screens. I'm sure there's a few different crowds though, and anyone who's been on a desktop (or laptop) from a young age is probably going to look like a genius compared to us.

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Confident_Fun_6381@reddit

This is the 3rd fucking video I've seen of this same joke.

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puffinfish89@reddit

It’s amazing how quickly this joke gets copied by different “influencers”

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Cyrrow@reddit

I remember my wild life management teacher in highschool used to paint something on MS paint everyday.

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shingaladaz@reddit

Relate

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GeetchNixon@reddit

I have that same blue hoodie as the one from the first shot. It’s my favorite hoodie all time!

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witcharithmetic@reddit

That’s till me on procreate

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AccordingMedicine129@reddit

Wow another stolen joke

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Grobbekee@reddit

Wait, you guys had computers like some Roger Wilco in the 25th century?

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lydatl@reddit

still only use Microsoft paint for everything I do because I don't know how to use anything else

lol this is my bf 💯

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

I'm not taking it as a diss. I just created a sticker a few days ago that I hope to sell online. I heard you can do that nowadays. LOL

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Hup3DOhWow@reddit

I heard the internet is just a series of pipes! Thank god I got cast iron pipes so all these internets won’t make a sound.

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lydatl@reddit

do it to it! i heard you can sell pretty much anything online nowadays and some of it is even legal, everybody gotta get their nut 😁

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rearwindowpup@reddit

My friends older brother in the 90s would spend hours editing single pixels on paint, was always some super detailed stuff

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lydatl@reddit

yep dude still does this to mock up livery designs for his 88 4runner and overly optimistic reno plans for the house and yard

tbh there's too much shit on most editors you don't need and it's just confusing unless you learn enough to get paid for it. i do get paid for adjacent design stuff. i'll take a simple app that gives me pixel level control over adobe anything

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povertyandpinetrees@reddit

I actually do a pretty decent job of restoring old b&w photos in MS paint.

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diickhed@reddit

Same, I still use it for making stained glass patterns. It's what I know and it works just fine

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Jets237@reddit

HAHAHAHA. Not closing the circle and painting... the struggle was real

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gokusfart@reddit

All good just hit CTRL Z.

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novo-280@reddit

these kids dont even know what a file explorer is. its all muscle memory and undiagnosed autism

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psionfyre@reddit

Bahaha 🤣. Nice! I remember making MS paint battlegrounds in the school library during lunch. However, now my building skills are about as refined as the first clip, but I'm big on building games.

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UrAverageDegenerit@reddit

Who here remembers Kid Pix? It was the MS paint before MS paint.

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Jinzhu7@reddit

"Undo" existed even back then.

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dufflebag7@reddit

Yeah……but at least we got to play minesweeper and solitaire without ads!

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QuesoChef@reddit

We played minesweeper and number muncher every Friday in my computer class. Every Friday should have 40 minutes of brain relaxation.

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

Ahh the good ol' days of just playing one game. Not having to play another game ad to go back to playing the game you were playing.

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mrossm@reddit

I did the paint thing a lot but I remember windows 3.1 having these interactive tutorials that kid me just thought were cool as hell. Basic shit like "how to scroll" or "how to click the mouse". I'd do them over and over.

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QuesoChef@reddit

I’ll play typing games as comfort until I have arthritis.

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PotentialPlum4945@reddit

Most of my seniors still hunt and peck.

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Immediate-Yogurt-558@reddit

I had a younger cousin I used to babysit a lot and this was all we would do. There was like a specific console that was dedicated to paint graphics.

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stykface@reddit

Okay, that was absolutely on point with the paint bucket hahaha!!

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Blackboard_Monitor@reddit

MS Paint, my proto Photoshop.

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cleverinspiringname@reddit

Fuckin awesome content

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Stonetheflamincrows@reddit

Why is this so spot on?

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

We didn't have the YouTube how to videos to learn from. Kids today also have more people around them to ask questions.

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goofytigre@reddit

I work for a large software company and I only use Microsoft paint for my mock-ups. They're not the prettiest of things, but I can do them quickly and they get the job done.

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chrisH82@reddit

When I was a kid we had to memorize how to start DOS, and then memorize code and do math to have the computer draw a square

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davidsands@reddit

Yeah, but can these young uns resolve an IRQ conflict while installing the new drivers for a soundblaster?

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A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit

I felt this in my (old) soul! That paint bucket was my nemesis!

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CaptShrek13@reddit (OP)

I just did a project recently that required me to use the bucket, I thought for sure every click was going dump the whole screen. Thankfully it never happened.

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