Confession time. What's something you need a younger generation to explain to you?
Posted by TheDorkyDeric@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 388 comments
I have no fucking clue how discord works. I tried and failed, twice. It's confusing!!!
Got this idea from the post I saw from u/meldiane81
whistleridge@reddit
Discord is just AIM, but with video.
143019@reddit
Thank you. This explains it in a way I can understand it easily/
Ilves7@reddit
Video? What? Who the hell uses discord for video? Voice sure.
notoallofit@reddit
It’s pretty common to use video to play D&D
kittenpantzen@reddit
My wow guild has movie and Jackbox nights on discord.
notoriousrdc@reddit
Alternately, it's fancy ICQ. Or Slack for gamers.
sircastor@reddit
It’s IRC with pictures.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
And walls around the garden. When they IPO, a lot of people will lose their archives.
stephsco@reddit
Honestly it's odd to me that someone on Reddit doesn't get Discord (no shame to the OP, just making a point) bc to me it feels like a message forum app, but with groups that are more private than Reddit.
Trixie1143@reddit
Uh oh!
ComebackShane@reddit
Slack for gamers is the most accurate analogy for sure. They’re functionally the same tool.
boost2525@reddit
I'm not sure I agree with this. AIM was primarily a one-to-one communication tool, closer to something like sending a text message.
Discord is more like Slack, or IRC (anyone remember mIRC?) - where you connect to servers, and servers have channels, where many people are communication all at once.
whistleridge@reddit
For 95%+ of our generation, IRC was just AIM, but with numbers instead of usernames, and chat rooms in addition to one on one communication.
That’s why I used AIM as the example. The technological functionality isn’t quite 1:1, but the social role is identical.
Forgotten_Tea_Cup@reddit
It’s basically chat rooms + message boards.
Staggerlee024@reddit
That is an interesting take. I have been using Discord for a couple of years now and have never seen a video on it. It's just AIM chat rooms. No video.
kittenpantzen@reddit
You can use it like face time, but when they say video, they probably mean screen sharing.
Rob_LeMatic@reddit
So if I want to use it I need to already have friends? That's lame
TrixieBastard@reddit
Not necessarily, there are communities that are open to all. A lot of games that have guilds or alliances offer Discord servers too, and often individual guilds will create their own servers as well.
The_best_is_yet@reddit
Whaaaaaaaaaat
sarithe@reddit
I legitimately need someone to explain the Roblox phenomenon to me. Everything I've ever seen my nieces or nephews play on it looks awful and not remotely fun. One of the games they play is legitimately a "box opening simulator" where they open boxes until they open enough to go up a tier and open "better" boxes that are just different colors. Apparently when you get to the "end" it just resets and you start back over in whatever the lowest tier is, but your gain a prestige level that is just a nameplate color change.
Also, it could just be a small sample size, but I feel like it's filled with child predators. One of my nieces plays some horse game on there and there are people constantly posting incredibly sexual things in the chat.
blondeviking64@reddit
I was a big warcraft 3 guy but my favorite part of it was the ability to play all the custom games. I played Defense of the ancients (which became league of legends and also eventually DOTA 2), I played tower defense games, I played lord of the rings battles....it was a sandbox like someone here mentioned. Roblox is that for this gen. They can play on pc, phone, tablet, online and just try out any old thing that seems interesting.
sarithe@reddit
I played a ton of DotA. I still play DotA 2 somewhat actively.
My issue with the Roblox games is that most of them seem pointless. They’re not doing anything in most of the games. They’re repeating the same actions over and over but there is no purpose behind them. There’s no competition. There’s no story. There’s nothing that should theoretically keep them engaged with the game other than “number go up.” Which to me just feels like they’re playing a graphical spreadsheet. I’m sure there are games on Roblox that are more like “real” games, but most of the ones I have seen do not fit into that category.
blondeviking64@reddit
My students play and they enjoy the games. Maybe you are just seeing the stuff some weird kids play? I dont know. Ive seen some odd games for sure like one where you have to escape grandma i think. But yeah, I do feel like kids taste in games has changed, and I do feel like mobile style games tend to have far less depth than computer games we played.
The one that gets me is watching some streamer on twitch or YouTube play a game that the kid watching doesnt play, doesnt want to play, and will never play. They aren't watching to decide on the game, they aren't watching to get tips or tricks, or even just to find games they dont know. They are just watching....to watch.
sarithe@reddit
The watching Twitch/Youtubers play stuff makes sense to me. That's their version of cable TV. I've watched plenty of shows and movies about all sorts of stuff that I would never want to do myself. Especially if it has an actor or actress (streamer) that I really like in it.
I'm gathering from yours and other responses that my nieces and nephews are just little weirdos, which honestly adds up. I'm legitimately happy that they are finding enjoyment in stuff, even if I don't understand the appeal personally.
blondeviking64@reddit
I dont really know what makes a weirdo and Im certainly not trying to say that them.
As far as the streamers go, to me games are to play. I want to play them. If I am watching it is because I want to find something I didnt see or know. I guess I really didn't watch much I wasnt in to. Sports is maybe the only place like that for me but honestly, I only watch sports I like to play, used to play, or want to play. So I dont quite fit into that mold there either. But people can enjoy themselves and I dont have to understand it. But I am curious and what you said about liking the streamer is a recurring response ive had from students. Not the only response, but one ive heard.
sarithe@reddit
Oh I call them weirdos 100% as a term of endearment. I love them all to death. Like I said, I'm glad they are finding enjoyment in something. The world tried it's best to beat all of that out of me when I was their age.
My sister and I had rough childhoods, so the fact that my nieces and nephews can come home from school and play "dumb games" on their consoles or tablets is honestly great. The oldest one has started to branch out into more games that I personally find a lot fun. She's played Expedition 33 and just started a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough. I'm very jealous of her getting to experience BG3 for the first time.
blondeviking64@reddit
Very cool. Gotta get a coop playthrough going
CatsEqualLife@reddit
My daughter is not allowed to be on TikTok or YT shorts. She has found a Roblox “game” that is just Roblox TikToks. It may lead to Roblox getting deleted…
strongcoffee2go@reddit
Their parents should turn chat off. I created a discord server for my daughter and her friends to talk to each other while playing Roblox and Minecraft and turned off in game chat. I also limited her ability to chat with anyone else on Discord and monitored regularly.
PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit
There is a class action lawsuit going on against the company from parents whose children were groomed or sexually abused by someone on Roblox. Predators are definitely a problem on it.
Pretend_Ad_3125@reddit
Fashion Famous is fun. I haven’t played it in a bit but it was a game my niece and I enjoyed together.
intentionallybad@reddit
When my kids were younger (teens) they liked to play a Roblox game that basically had you throw yourself off a cliff and you got points for how many bones you broke. They figured out that they could score higher if they launched themselves up with a rocket.
Stupid games aren't exclusive to Roblox though, they also enjoyed playing "Goat simulator" on Xbox.
We just disabled the chat plus the computer they played on was in the living room with the screen fully in view.
stephsco@reddit
That's pretty funny. I definitely see the appeal of an odd game that you can master in your own way.
whoisbill@reddit
Yea. Roblox is just a sandbox for people to create games with. Some are cool, some are stupid and I think it's just funny to play the stupid ones.
As far as being filled with child predators. You are not wrong there. Parents need to really keep an eye on their kids if they play.
Prinessbeca@reddit
I play with my kids!
Or I did, for a bit. I got bored about a month ago.
I got really into Grow A Garden, that's what got me playing. Then 99 Nights In The Forest came out and I LOVED it. We played that together, and I started playing it even without them.
They played other games, too, but I found them boring.
I was hard-core into Generic Cooking Game for about a week and a half. And then I realized I was just walking around the game cleaning up after my "coworkers", complaining about how incompetent they all were! It got wayyyyy too realistic.
That was when I put it down and read the book for my book club for this month. 🤭
patient_brilliance@reddit
My daughter and I went hard on Dress to Impress for a while!
InconvenientGroot@reddit
Yo....my daughter is allllll into this and it is insane. I just recently found out it was a Roblox thing.
temporary_bob@reddit
Yup. I've played so much Roblox with my daughter. My garden got pretty good and I have so many pets I've adopted 😂.
I tell other moms who are concerned about Roblox and predators that I play with her and they often look at me like I'm nuts 🙂
Altruistic_Bus1988@reddit
I used to play Roblox with my daughter all the time. My favorite was Epic Mini Games!
GreekGoddessOfNight@reddit
Omg I love 99 Nights!! And I’m freaking horrible at it. I always die before day 12, one time some girl ate all my pumpkins (thanks a lot, Peyton) and I had no other food, I can’t help but love the damn game.
fannyalgerpack@reddit
Haha this is so real and I loved going along your journey
VVrayth@reddit
The long and short of Roblox is this: It's free to play, when everything is expensive. This also explains Fortnite, Minecraft, and other very sticky games that continue to be extremely popular after all these years. Consoles are super-expensive, Sony just raised the price of the PS5. Games are expensive. A free game that you can play forever with your friends just becomes a regular hobby unto itself.
And, people can create all kinds of content in Roblox, so it is its own entire ecosystem that it ensnares kids in.
martin-silenus@reddit
I use Discord a lot, but the other day I had to reconfigure my key binding to mute my mic on a new computer and was mashing impotently on uninteractable options for like 10 minutes.
Turns out that even though the "mute" item is already listed as a keybinding, you still need to "Add" it (again?!) to change it and I have no idea what kind of psychopath thought that was the right way to put a UI together.
TheDorkyDeric@reddit (OP)
I have no clue what you just said. Foreign language to me. lol
Bondedknight@reddit
Instagram stories.... whats the point of posting something for a day instead of actually making a post
silver_tongued_devil@reddit
Apparently, according to my gen z friend, "The tiktok vibes". But that was when they first came out with stories, which was years ago now, and vibes probably isn't even slang anymore.
invuvn@reddit
It’s supposed to imitate Snapchat
DefendsTheDownvoted@reddit
It's made its way to our generation. My buddy and I use it unironically now. Which means there's no way the kids are still using it. I like that one.
I was very happy when "yeet" died. Hated it with a passion.
MediumLanguageModel@reddit
It took me several years to bother clicking on stories. The UX of flipping right to left is annoying when flicking up through the rest of the feed already works better.
jayne-eerie@reddit
I figured it was for privacy, like if you want your friends to know about something but don’t want your potential boss to find it in five years. Honestly I think it’s pretty smart — it lets kids share party photos or whatever without putting them on the permanent record.
Forgotten_Tea_Cup@reddit
It’s like a quick daily update/thought but you don’t want to commit an entire post too. Stories can be linked in highlights and be viewed forever afterwards. Anyway, something something engagement and it’s affects on account algorithms.
frooootloops@reddit
My kids show me shit all the time, and I love it! Keeps me young.
Big_Tap3530@reddit
Thank you! I’m 45 and struggle with discord! I also didn’t realize word programs auto save now!
Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit
This weekend, I a Xennial 82 and my Boomer/X boyfriend 63, had to call one of his adult children (early 20s) to help us cast a video from my phone to his smart TV. It was humbling. I have PhD in clinical psychology and my boyfriend is a teacher and we couldn't make it work.
RaphaelSolo@reddit
I'd ask them what the deal was with 6-7 but frankly I don't actually care, just idle curiosity.
Dimplefrom-YA@reddit
everything new. instagram, snapchat, discord, iphone 17+, facebook marketplace, and best boba teas
therealpopkiller@reddit
Bitcoin. I do not understand how it works. Or worked, now it feels like it’s his smoother tradable commodity
DrenAss@reddit
How the fuck do you "mine" bitcoin?? It's digital nonsense, so you can't dig for it in the ground.
Also I'm pretty sure it's just become a scam, pyramid scheme, something like that.
SnooDrawings7662@reddit
That's easy, it's a scam. All the crypto coins are a scam.. Bitcoin is just the first big one, so it has the most staying power, but on the whole, all the crypto coins are a scam, pure and simple.
IndubitableMatt@reddit
“Nobody:” memes. I’ve even Googled them to try to understand. Just when I think I do, I’ll see one that makes no sense to me.
AsaToster_hhOWlyap@reddit
!!
spinereader81@reddit
What's wrong with a little there and there? Why does everything in the house have to be brown, beige and grey? And why does that have to extend to your baby? Why can't they have colorful blocks and fun clothes?
jayne-eerie@reddit
K-pop, specifically how they enjoy music when they can’t understand the lyrics. I know somebody’s going to make a joke about not understanding Eddie Vedder either, but there’s a difference between slurred/mumbled English and a language you totally do not speak.
spinereader81@reddit
The music videos have English subtitles.
It's mostly bubblegum pop so the lyrics are just fluff.
Fans are mostly focused on the choreography, rhythm and looking at the members.
jimkurth81@reddit
Clout. Like why do you care about likes on social media? Especially when there’s something illegal happening or someone is being hurt or an accident happens and people rush to pull out their phones to record videos and post to social media instead of calling emergency services. It’s not hard to dial, 0118 999 88199 9119 725…3.
LeftOn4ya@reddit
You understand clout, it’s like Reddit upvotes, and you quoted the IT Crowd just to get some clout.
jimkurth81@reddit
I don't comment this for likes or for some ego-boost. I just did it to joke around with something hopefully I wasn't the only one who knew becuase I was upset that people record videos and post on social media when someone should be calling 9-1-1, and since that's really just an American thing, i resorted to emergency services instead of saying 9-1-1 and then my mind took me to that funny scene from The IT Crowd. None of what I commented on was for "clout" or at least what I think clout is (like trying to become popular with the abyss of the internet). That wasn't my intention. Upvotes is not clout. I think people just either like or dislike the comment. Isn't that different than clout?
DrenAss@reddit
I've never looked at my reddit karma. I just did and it's 40k something. I don't know if that's good, bad, or otherwise. A little surprised I've been on reddit for 14 years.
artemis_floyd@reddit
"Well, that's easy to remember!"
jimkurth81@reddit
cigarandcreamsoda@reddit
I’ve joined a couple subs focused on identifying what is AI and what isn’t. At this point I’m just assuming everyone and everything is.
CalgaryChris77@reddit
I wouldn’t even get hung up on a lot of the tells because they will be fixed soon. We will never know except for common sense.
Long-Effective-2898@reddit
Listening to others explain how to spot AI gets so confusing. I started writing stories with the AI on my phone and it has taught me so much about how to spot AI (things that others don't notice especially if the person uses the AI a lot) as well as realized that AI as a long way to go before it can compete with humans at writing storylines. AI loves to insist all humans are blonde with green eyes, women are all very short and size 00, men are very tall and gym bros. Even is you specifically tell the AI a description of the characters it will default back to this description within 2-3 prompts. Also, AI is determined to make all stories go a very specific direction, can't keep track of more than 2 characters, insists that all of the characters of the same gender as the account holder have that person's name and you have to constantly correct it, it just goes on. AI is here to stay so everyone should get experienced with it IMO
TrixieBastard@reddit
I want to upvote for the info, but downvote the last sentence. There is no reason that AI has to be "here to stay," nor should it. It's far too environmentally damaging for us to remain so blasé about its existence. People "getting experience with it" are directly contributing to the extreme harm that is already impacting electrical grids and clean water supplies wherever data centers exist.
jayne-eerie@reddit
The thing is, the driver on the environmental factor isn’t individual consumers using it as a smarter search engine or to make their family members look like Disney characters, or any reasonable one-person use. It’s Google and Microsoft and Meta shoving it into every single operation. We don’t need to guilt-trip each other about playing with it, we need to make big tech stop enabling it everywhere as a default.
It’s like that thing where we all obsessed over plastic straws for a while, while fast fashion companies were straight up dumping tons of plastics into the water.
TrixieBastard@reddit
Yes, but if individuals keep using it and creating a perceived demand for genAI everywhere, we won't give them any incentive to rethink their insistence upon including it every product and service they provide.
jayne-eerie@reddit
Maybe, but the issue I see is that it doesn’t give you a choice. I don’t want AI to help me write an email, but my work and personal email platforms both prompt me to use it every time. (Microsoft will let you turn it off, but then turns it back on in the next update.) I’m sure I could go deep into the settings and figure out a way to entirely disable it — or at least I would hope that’s the case — but how many people are going to do that? And then every time you run a Google search, which most of us do several times a day, AI chips in — not because anyone was asking for it, but because Google wants you to stay on its homepage instead of clicking through to a different site.
This isn’t New Coke where it went away because people didn’t buy it. It’s being integrated in everyday technology in some pretty fundamental ways. It really does feel like resistance is futile.
Long-Effective-2898@reddit
I say it is here to stay because history has shown that technology advances will continue to be made no matter how people feel about them. AI has been around for at least 30 years now. It has been dreamed about since at least the 60s. The way people today view AI is the same way people reacted to TV. As time goes on people will adjust to either the impact it has or they will make advances so it doesn't have the same impact. It has been shown time and time again that the choice is always to adapt or be left behind. There is no fighting for humanity to go backwards, all we can do is support better ways so the impact can be made better.
jayne-eerie@reddit
I haven’t had those specific experiences around character creation but I agree that playing with AI is the best way to spot its tells. ChatGPT especially has a very specific voice it tends to use — sets of three, “it’s not X, it’s Y,” alternating short and long sentences. I feel like people who don’t use it are more likely to get duped.
Long-Effective-2898@reddit
The issues with characters really varies based on the AI and if you are just writing reddit stories or killing time writing longer stories. I work overnight as a hotel babysitter basically. I have a task at 11pm and 2am and that's it unless a guest needs something so from 11pm to 7am I basically do nothing but write short or long stories to stay awake.
jayne-eerie@reddit
Yeah, I use it more as a research tool and sort of a diary that talks back. I’ve played with writing on it out of curiosity but it’s not a major function for me.
Way_2_Go_Donny@reddit
Since 1994 I have assumed everyone online who claims to be female is actually a 54 year old convict using the prison library computer.
BringBackHUAC@reddit
Beavis and Butthead taught me they might be female, but that sexy voice on the phone could belong to a 400-pounder in a housecoat chain smoking in her garbage-strewn trailer surrounded by her 10 kids.
cigarandcreamsoda@reddit
What about people who claim to be 54 year old convicts?
madlibs13@reddit
Those usually are 3 kids in a trenchcoat
Hiciao@reddit
I feel like everyone could benefit from spending time on the "is this ai" sub where the experienced people point out how they know. It's just insane how hard it is to spot now.
Your last sentence is pretty much my mantra for everything. If I'm going to share with others something I learned or saw or I'm going to let the information I learned/saw shape my world-view, I'm going to make sure it's factual. Otherwise, just assume it's entertainment and move on.
That's kind of how I feel on those am i the a-hole subs. There's always like 50 people in there shouting how it's fake. Like, who cares? Just assume it's entertainment and be done with it.
mixreality@reddit
Reddit is horrible with AI accusations, I posted a real picture of a road sign the city put on my street and there was a slew of people accusing it of being AI and a bunch of other commenters agreeing with them pointing out completely bogus shit about the photo.
They were upvoted and took over the post and then I went and took a video and show what morons they are and eventually they got downvoted but it was a frenzy of delusion.
PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit
Happens with written things too. If you use certain punctuation in your posts or comments you get accused of using AI to write them. People have been using em dashes long before AI existed, people.
TrixieBastard@reddit
I get accused of being a bot all the goddamn time just because I use em dashes. It's ridiculous
Blando-Cartesian@reddit
We need to —urgently— reclaim the em-dash by using them in every comment.
RelevantFilm2110@reddit
Punctuation is bad enough, but sometimes people will accuse you of being a bot just because of some style reason like you phrase something in a way that they think is repetitive or gives examples.
Background-House-357@reddit
You - are - an - AI - bot - con - artist.
throwawayfromPA1701@reddit
Anything well written gets accused of being AI. It's kind of maddening.
NoExam2412@reddit
I disagree with this! AI has correct spelling, but it ends there. The grammar is often incorrect, and the writing style is annoying. It's not this, it's that! Honestly, truly... everything in threes.
I hate AI writing so much. I can't even look at LinkedIn anymore. Everyone uses it to look smart, and, instead, they look unoriginal and incapable.
jayne-eerie@reddit
Can you give me an example? I’ve heard people say this, but I’ve never seen anything get accused of being AI just for being too well-written.
djdecimation@reddit
This comment is A.I.
Twitchmonky@reddit
That's exactly what A.I. would say... shit... so is this... I might be A.I. too!
agent_uno@reddit
Wait, I thought I was AI? It’s so hard to tell these days! Especially when subbed to the Weird Al sub! Suddenly everything is Weird AI instead of Weird Al!
JumpingSpiderMonkey@reddit
I welcome Weird Al with open arms! Weird AI not so much.
siiilenttbob@reddit
existential A.I. crisis
Penelopeslueth@reddit
So is that comment.
DicksOfPompeii@reddit
Waiting for the video of that guy typing his comment about recording a sign that he posted using AI.
mixreality@reddit
Your mom is AI
Morriganx3@reddit
Also people have forgotten that plain old photoshop still exists. It could just be edited to hell; it doesn’t always have to be ai
Salty-Tea6815@reddit
That’s because of the Reddit sheep syndrome. Once there is one downvote then everyone else just joins suit regardless of what was said or if it’s true or not.
siiilenttbob@reddit
I felt a really strong urge to downvote this
Humble_Ladder@reddit
Funny, I have had the opposite experience. I feel like I get what AI is and isn't and when the topic has come up with youngers find that they constantly try to dispel myths I don't believe and we can't have an actual discussion because of their insistence on re-explaining shit I already know on repeat.
Ishvale@reddit
I think I can ELI5 this for you. It's a very advanced search engine. It's not conscious. It doesn't even know what you're asking it. It uses something called tokens, portions of words, and matches them to searches. It does this with a very good interface that seems like it's talking to you. That's the large language portion of it, it's kind of the token dictionary. It only seems intelligent because of how well it presents it's searches.
That's today. Can't say about tomorrow. Also, I welcome a data scientist to fix/update anything I said
jayne-eerie@reddit
I’m never going to find this, but I read something really interesting recently that explained the LLM thing is only layer one. Layer two is that the output is tweaked to favor responses users prefer, and over time the output has improved as the software gains more information about user reactions.
Which makes sense because if it was just the predictive text part, it’d end up sounding much more like gibberish.
Purple10tacle@reddit
Every account on reddit is a bot except you.
BrightSpark80@reddit
What do you mean? Beep boop beep boop…
___wiz___@reddit
My 9 and 6 year old nephews often think things in 80s and 90s movies are AI
sator-2D-rotas@reddit
Same. But I also question if the youngin crowd even knows.
eastbayted@reddit
That sounds like something AI would say ... Or does it?
InvestmentMain8414@reddit
If it makes you feel better my kid sent me a thing today that she was really upset about. It was AI generated crap....so even gen z can get bamboozled.
polipolimist@reddit
I actually think they’re more susceptible to being duped. Us old peeps are much less trusting of technology.
YakApprehensive7620@reddit
lol the xennial parent of my student, who is also an english professor, loves pointing out that spell check is ai lolol
aliceinadreamyland@reddit
This is me. Those is this ai subs are mind blowing.
ericwbolin@reddit
Why they're dressing like us when we were young.
the_girl_racer@reddit
I would be rich if I had kept my JNCOs
projectkennedymonkey@reddit
Yeah, I absolutely don't get this. There's tons of pictures of how bad we looked. Why would anyone think, let's do that again almost exactly the same!?
MrVeazey@reddit
Because that's how fashion trends always work. It's always cyclical and it takes a couple of decades for the cool thing to rotate back around to "what the middle aged people wore when they were teens."
flamingknifepenis@reddit
My own pet theory on this is that people inevitably are drawn toward whatever style was popular in the media they first watched when they were young kids, because it feels “authentic” to them. We watched bell bottoms come back when I was in middle school, and then by the time I graduated the ‘80s were already getting trendy. A decade later people were starting to embrace the early ‘90s, and now we’re seeing ‘00s nostalgia.
I think it goes beyond fashion, too, and involved the music that was on the radio, the cars on the road, etc.
MrVeazey@reddit
I think this is a great way of looking at it. I remember watching a ton of Looney Tunes and being especially drawn (no pun intended) to how people dressed in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and early 60s.
MickeyMatters81@reddit
And my mother said the same thing to me when I went out clubbing in lowrise flairs and a boob tube
mickeltee@reddit
I was at the mall with my wife a few months ago. Three guys were walking towards us and it was like looking back in time through a mirror at my friends and I. JNCOs, vans, chain wallets, and beanies.
stephsco@reddit
Selfishly, I like that era and happy for the teens if they like it too. Bleached jeans, stirrup pants, and clear shoes - those don't need a comeback IMO
mouse6502@reddit
I never stopped wearing jncos and kikwears, it’s nice to know my suffering bucking skinny jean fashion wasn’t for naught 🤣🤣🤣🤣
TrixieBastard@reddit
Okay, but we did the same thing in the 90s when 70s fashion came back into style. Fashion is cyclical.
ericwbolin@reddit
For sure. I was asking my peers at the time why we were doing that, too.
MisRandomness@reddit
But at the same time making fun of our low socks. Like wtf, you’re trying to be us right now, why are you so offended by my low socks?!?
brandi_theratgirl@reddit
I have no questions about this. They're right up copy our style
the_ballmer_peak@reddit
Same reason flared jeans were popular when we were young. You think we invented that?
the_girl_racer@reddit
New age slang. That’s it.
Inside_Drummer@reddit
TikTok videos. I still don't get them even after the explanation though.
elphaba00@reddit
I currently have a 13 year old mad at me because I won't let her get TikTok. I can see everything she installs on her phone so she knows she can't sneak it there. My oldest (19) isn't into social media at all so it's not a fight there.
arcxjo@reddit
I don't know what's worse, that they're in portrait or that they're all backwards. It's like OkCupid bathroom selfie from 2007 except there are no mirrors to be found.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
Yeah I hate short form content.
-threefeetoffun@reddit
Said the same at work tonight. I don't get it. I love Youtube.
arcxjo@reddit
Which is also getting to push TikTok videos on me
zerocoolforschool@reddit
Yeah I love a good podcast that’s anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour.
-threefeetoffun@reddit
Same. I want to learn or think about something. Or maybe veg out to a let's play.
Ws6fiend@reddit
Hate is too weak of a word for how I feel about it. Loathe fits.
cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit
I detest it
throwawayfromPA1701@reddit
Saaame. Absolutely loathe it that I'm not even shy about how snobby I am about it.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
It’s such low effort. And to me it just screams Main character attitude. They don’t even make the effort to create quality content. It’s just lazy bullshit.
throwawayfromPA1701@reddit
It's melting brains and making the world dumber.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
All these fucking people that can’t focus and watch a 2 hour movie without scrolling them their phone.
sassylassy423@reddit
They all feel like commercials to me. Not necessarily that they're all selling something. They just give off commercials vibes because they're constantly changing, the volume, the pace, the backgrounds, the content. It just reads like commercials in my brain, and I am trained to hate them after decades of having to watch them with content.
They trigger my " this is a commercial" ignore, mute, or change channel reflex.
blackandbluegirltalk@reddit
HAAAAAAAAATE lol.
I have a coworker older than me (48) who is constantly shoving her phone in my face to watch some damn TikTok and they are NEVER safe for work. Like fuck, I'm not trying to get fired over this junk, put it away!! You already watched it once and it's NOT that interesting!!
zerocoolforschool@reddit
My wife sends me Instagram reels and I hate it. So much.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
You don’t need to get them. I just wait for the good ones to hit Reels.
MuffinMatrix@reddit
I feel like there's some list of scripts out there, that literally everyone and their mother follow.
Like I'll see some random reel popup of a couple doing something. Then over the next few days 10 other random couples are doing the same gag.
EmmyNoetherRing@reddit
Wazzzuuuup
TrixieBastard@reddit
Right? As if we didn't behave exactly the same way, just with different media sources. For us, it was movie lines and commercials 🤷♀️
Imnotonthelist@reddit
Exactly what I do 😂
Myfourcats1@reddit
I love them. Cats. Book discussions. What’s not to love?
she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit
Recipes, art, original music, choreographers, comedy, puppy daycare, parrots, the top 10 dogs of the week? So fun!
digitaljestin@reddit
No, you get them just fine. They really are that stupid.
What you don't get are the people that like them.
Significant-Rush-129@reddit
This is me, especially with the whole “influencer” shit. We here are all first gen social media users. The second gen approach has me a little confused. I mean for me it’s always just been about connection, but the next gen want personal fame?? I think?
AmyGranite@reddit
When words have dramatically different meanings. Like "bop."
woadgrrl@reddit
"Out of pocket" drives my husband insane these days because, to him, it still means someone lost money on something.
Steelclad@reddit
The worst part is that ”out of pocket” now has THREE completely separate meanings.
nevernotworryingx@reddit
Ok I need to know - I only know work related meanings for OOP (and only one of them makes sense to me). What are the kids using it for?
Steelclad@reddit
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Out%20of%20Pocket
To kids now, it’s the first one: saying something that is going too far/etc.
To me, it’s that you have to pay for something out of your personal funds (typically used when you pay for something you could/should later get reimbursed for, whether by work, insurance or whatever).
To some of my co-workers it seems to mean being uncontactable.
All are valid, but it does require some context to be sure which one is intended.
OrchidLeader@reddit
We did the same thing to boomers, so I guess it’s just our turn lol.
For example: 👍
Boomers: complete agreement
Millennials: acknowledgement
* Gen Alpha: dismissive
Also:
LOL
…
(typing in all caps)
rip
probablyatargaryen@reddit
For me it’s “crash (out)” which I believe means go to sleep. As in, “Can I crash at your place?”
And “raw dog” because it clearly has a veeerry different connotation to me than to them
sassylassy423@reddit
Hate hate hate the attempted rebrand of raw dog.....
DicksOfPompeii@reddit
Oh god. What are they doing a raw dog? I’m gonna hear my kid say it and lose my shit for no reason?
sassylassy423@reddit
Younger people have been using it to describe approaching a day or an event or chore without either pharmaceutical help or digital distractions..
For example, " I don't understand how my boyfriend can just raw dog the day like this, I need Ritalin"
Or, " I'm so proud I was able to Raw Dog this flight. Digital detox commenced!!"
More-read-than-eddit@reddit
It’s the same thing it was for us. An act with no intermediary involved.
DicksOfPompeii@reddit
Oh! I think I’ve heard it in that context now that you said it. Still hoping my 9 y/o doesn’t bust it out though.
Thanks!
Dorkinfo@reddit
What is raw dog now?
sassylassy423@reddit
Younger people have been using it to describe approaching a day or an event or chore without either pharmaceutical help or digital distractions..
Like, "Man my phone died, can't belive I just have to raw dog the rest of this day"
It will only ever make me think of unprotected sex, though. I don't care how many times I hear my students use it in other context, it always sounds radically inappropriate to me.
JackSpadesSI@reddit
Is the same usage, really. Raw dog sex is without protection. Raw dog in your example is facing the day without the emotional protection of their phone, which is like a security blanket.
Dorkinfo@reddit
Oh that raw dog. I think it’s funny ~ because~ I think of unprotected sex.
OhWhatever_Nevermind@reddit
Rawdogging. 🤪
maggie320@reddit
I heard that recently and couldn’t believe kids are using it in a different context.
_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit
This is the absolute worst repurposing of a word I’ve ever heard.
mickeltee@reddit
Crack and goon are ruining my life.
RanklesTheOtter@reddit
Lol thanks to National Lampoon's Vacation. Everytime I hear 'bop', I think of when Cousin Eddy's kid asks Rusty: "You ever bop your baloney?" 😂
Maleficent-Box4114@reddit
Came here to say “literally everything that comes out of their mouth”. My nephews used to translate for me, but are older now and too cool for auntie!
ElectricLego@reddit
Crash means fall into bed, to me. Or if somebody was asleep, hanging off the couch with their mouth open I might say they "crashed out". I guess to the kids now that phrase is what we would call "going postal"
That and all the censorship speech like unalive, I hate that crap.
Background-Action-19@reddit
I need to understand how people can unironally say "lowkey" or "Lil bro" and not immediately feel wierd as hell.
GarciaWolf@reddit
Apparently Za means weed now?
_ism_@reddit
i discord, but i don't game. and i've tried to have people exlpain various games to me and help me learn and i just fucking can't. but discord is easy. i'm chronically online which helps
ClassyInBoston@reddit
67
I have no idea what in the world is the big deal about 67.
TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit
https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA?si=9YaAp11dF-HuKtDg
It's basically no different than some of the slang used by previous generations to keep the adults out of the loop, like "23 skidoo", "fo shizzle my nizzle", or "phat". It both doesn't mean anything, and means different things depending on the context. The kids that use it don't necessarily know where it actually originated, but use it anyway because it's something that's theirs that the adults don't get.
EmmyNoetherRing@reddit
Right? It’s not like it’s the secret to life, the universe and everything
herseyhawkins33@reddit
Nothing, it legitimately means nothing. People just laugh when the number comes up organically in conversation.
DigitalxDevilx@reddit
anchises868@reddit
I said “68 ± 1” as an intergenerational joke.
ughyoujag@reddit
Slang. I can’t retain new slang. I can’t tell you how many times I googled “no cap” before it stuck. I’m always looking stuff up and feeling out of touch
bozotozoratio@reddit
I've had this explained to me 6-7 times and still don't get it
TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit
https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA?si=9YaAp11dF-HuKtDg
It's basically no different than some of the slang used by previous generations to keep the adults out of the loop, like "23 skidoo", "fo shizzle my nizzle", or "phat". It both doesn't mean anything, and means different things depending on the context. The kids that use it don't necessarily know where it actually originated, but use it anyway because it's something that's theirs that the adults don't get.
killit@reddit
Isn't 6-7 just meant to be a meaningless phrase to annoy adults because it has no meaning, and for us adults, that doesn't compute?
The_best_is_yet@reddit
Lololol
ughyoujag@reddit
Just replace “cap” with “lie” in your head if you see it. It just means truthfully
magster823@reddit
Someone in an Indiana sub posted a pic of a license plate earlier, saying they were shocked it got through. I had no fucking clue and the first few comments didn't help so I had to Google.
G00N3R.
For those as clueless as me, a gooner is someone who practices extended masturbation involving edging.
buttery_orc@reddit
I hate this term so much, but I can't explain why. I have absolutely no problem with crass language or slang or euphemisms, but this word just doesn't sit right with me and it's everywhere.
jayne-eerie@reddit
Because goon already had a meaning and there were already abundant slang terms for people who masturbate, so it’s like … compounded redundancy. Or that’s why it bugs me, anyhow.
Hour_Affect3046@reddit
Or is a fan of the soccer club Arsenal.
Plus, remember Chappelle reminding us that saying skeet, skeet in the radio may not have been the best thing. “White people don’t know what it means yet.”
ughyoujag@reddit
I actually learned what that meant on Reddit a few months ago! Some Gen Z jagoff made fun of me for asking what it meant. Now I tend to google new terminology instead of inquire
PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit
No cap isn't Gen Z slang though. It has existed for decades.
ughyoujag@reddit
Ok well it’s new to me 🤷🏻♀️
barbeloh@reddit
One of my students referred to something as being "out of pocket." Had to look that up. Now my wife always asks how Out of Pocket is doing
Neil_sm@reddit
Oh I know that one, I think it just means when your insurance doesn’t cover it!
EmmyNoetherRing@reddit
you probably don’t remember whatever language you took in high school either. It’s just harder if you’re not hearing it and using it in daily life. If you spend a bit of time in some younger spaces online it’s easier to track.
ughyoujag@reddit
What are you talking about? La biblioteca!
Boom Spanish.
arcxjo@reddit
¿La araña discoteca?
ughyoujag@reddit
🤣🤣
Illustrious-Highway8@reddit
My kids bring home new slang every couple of months. I’m sure we did too, but I don’t remember it changing so often when we were kids.
ughyoujag@reddit
It changed a lot and I used to make fun of my parents for not knowing it
Illustrious-Highway8@reddit
I just intentionally misuse their slang with them. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. They die from embarrassment.
ughyoujag@reddit
You’re my dad 🤣🤣🤣
Hiciao@reddit
With social media and such, it's easier for a lot of slang to spread fast. I think about the slang of our own generation and I don't think I realized at the time how much was generational slang because it entered our vocabulary slowly and naturally. Whereas this feels like kids watch certain viral videos with the new words and every kid is using it the next day. As a teacher, I get the impression that the kids are very aware these are new/slang words.
neon_farts@reddit
My 12 year old is in a text group called the biggest bigbacks. What is a bigback
nerdylegofam@reddit
It's their way of calling someone a fat kid. Between friends it's usually used in a joking or self-deprecating way. But of course it can also be used in a mean way.
neon_farts@reddit
Dang I thought it meant fat ass but obviously I need to be more on top of this
sickofgrouptxt@reddit
When did crashing out change meanings? I am 100% sure it used to be about falling asleep and now it is losing one’s shit
ughyoujag@reddit
I’ve actually been able to adapt to that one. But it still has two meanings to me. You need context and the age of someone saying it to know what’s up lol
ScreenSensitive9148@reddit
I’m lucky with this one. All “Gen Z slang” is just recycled words that Black Americans have been saying for years. It sounds weirder coming from their mouths than my friends.
ughyoujag@reddit
Wasn’t that the case with our slang, too? lol
ScreenSensitive9148@reddit
Yeah, but it was new back then. Listening to non Black Gen Z “discover” this slang (and often misuse it) is bad enough. Then having to hear my white counterparts discover the discovering is it’s own meta hell.
ughyoujag@reddit
That does actually sound like a nightmare
SeanOTG@reddit
Based
Josef_Kant_Deal@reddit
Urban Dictionary is your friend.
Top-Sleep-4669@reddit
Type shit.
That_Weird_Mom81@reddit
The remote. Less need explanation, more dont have the patience to type things in on the remote
BackFromTheDeadSoon@reddit
Why forums died when they are strictly better than Facebook and Discord as repositories of knowledge.
giant2179@reddit
Forums died because of the site we are using right now. Everything moved to Reddit
cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit
At least reddit is indexed on the web unlike fucking discord where you need an account and an invitation to even read anything on there
giant2179@reddit
I hate discord. Trying to find an solution to even a well known issue is impossible
thecurvynerd@reddit
Meh I prefer discord - a private space for my friends to hang out is incredible.
DefendsTheDownvoted@reddit
Reddit is like thousands of forums in a shithol on the internet. If you stick to just the subs that you curate, and stay away from popular and all, it's a decent place for knowledge.
HylanderUS@reddit
Yeah, the death of forums (and before that newsgroups!) is really a huge loss of knowledge, and also somewhat identity. Being in a subreddit is not the same as being in a dedicated forum. I had meetups with my car forum friends, and learned so much about working on cars from there.
stephsco@reddit
I met my husband bc of a forum! I'm still friends with a bunch of people from a few forums I frequented in the early 2000s.
GuybrushT79@reddit
Newsgroups on Usenet were the best
maggie320@reddit
Twitch. I don’t get the point of watching someone play WoW for hours on end.
Forgotten_Tea_Cup@reddit
Did you never go to your friend’s house and watch them play Super Mario Brothers for hours and then go home to replay all the levels but now with knowledge of where all the hidden items were? Maybe that was just me.
OrchidLeader@reddit
Same.
For me, part of doing that was also to hang out with friends, and when one considers that younger folks are more comfortable just staying home instead of going out, Twitch seems like a natural progression.
Stickyouwithaneedle@reddit
No
Clionora@reddit
Not sure if you actually care to learn how discord works but I could show you. lol. I’m in my 40’s and got introduced to it at my grad school. It’s basically a series of (sometimes confusing) chat rooms. They can be fun though, and you can join niche interest groups if that’s your thing.
gowithflow192@reddit
Rizz. I know it comes from "charisma" but I still don't understand exactly how the term is used.
Aerospaced0ut@reddit
C'mon my dude... Discord? It's basically a newsgroup... Remember those from '94-2000? You have a group... group has threads, people post. Discord is made for Xennials.
trinicron@reddit
The concept is easy. For me it's the user interface, absolutely no sense to me, I really really tried to use it but just give up, and all this "invite" mechanism? All I want is a place to talk about naked plants, that's all, is it to difficult to put a search+join?
vabello@reddit
It’s just a blinged out IRC with voice capabilities. If you’ve never used IRC or any chat room, I’m not sure what to compare it to.
Pyrite13@reddit
NFTs. Why would I want to spend $1000 for 1/50th of a digital cartoon drawing? I can get the whole thing with a simple right-click for free.
chromix@reddit
Former director of software engineering at a high flying blockchain startup: NFTs are all scams. The token is just a number. We tried to make it into a way to own an Internet thing and we failed. People did it anyway and it's nonsense.
jinsaku@reddit
NFTs are like anything crypto: a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist.
EastTXJosh@reddit
TikTok
AMCR
K pop
Why is my Instagram feed filled with promoted accounts instead of people I actually follow?
DefendsTheDownvoted@reddit
K Pop I don't get. K Pop: Demon Hunters, that I get.
PopcornSurgeon@reddit
I have never heard of AMCR before this moment and I think I’m choosing to continue to have no idea what it means.
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
AM_C_R? Not AMSR?
EastTXJosh@reddit
I think that might be it.
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
I love that shit. It’s just a term that describes certain auditory and/or visual triggers that cause a relaxing tingly response for some people. I actually used to experience it as a kid before it had a name.
ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit
That's just the enshittification of the Internet.
RamshackleDayParade@reddit
I have no bloody clue how to navigate Snapchat and at this point I'm both too afraid to ask and don't really care.
BoobieCancer@reddit
6 7
Tapping index and thumb together
That weird breathing laugh thing while holding the hand away from the face
Vocal fry (and I'm seeing this more and more with people my own age, it's so grating)
I don't get any of it. 👵🏼
Vegaprime@reddit
6 7
S_A_R_K@reddit
Influencers. I just can't wrap my head around it. They're just telling you what to think and buy? Why?
EmmyNoetherRing@reddit
why did people buy the wow shammy or whatever? Selling stuff through personality is an old gig.
S_A_R_K@reddit
I get that but with your analogy, now people are just like following Billy Mays and buying/doing whatever he says because they think he's cool. It makes no sense to me. They're literally called influencers too. I'll never understand it
stephsco@reddit
I don't study this or anything so I could be wrong, but I'm wondering trusting influencers comes from many of them being "regular people" - at least that's how it started. It was someone who's seemingly at your level, like a peer, who's getting to do cool experiences or getting access to something exclusive and sharing it with you. It's not a corporation selling to you, so it feels more personal. Even though we know the trajectory of influencers is exactly that: people selling you stuff because they are getting paid for it.
And we know it's not honest or real because social media is all a facade, but the game us thats these are real.people doing real things, even if their life is sponsored by a company. It's like propaganda. I can't believe political propaganda works, but it does. A sleazy politician says something that throws up a red flag for me, and then here's my coworker repeating it as truth.
S_A_R_K@reddit
Because it was fucking awesome
scattershotdreams@reddit
Discord is very similar to IRC chat, so I took to it easily. lol
SanPadrigo@reddit
I have a 22 year old co-worker who can make gifs almost instantaneously.
And I’m amazed because I have no clue it’s done and at this point it would be so embarrassing to ask them to explain how.
Soggy_Porpoise@reddit
I use licecap all the time at work as a way to give a gif to people to show them how to do things. It's a great tool for working remotely.
Rustymarble@reddit
My phone does it automatically, its so weird!
(If I take a video with my phone, one of the options is to save it as a gif. I then have to confirm the length of the gif and boom, done!)
cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit
ezgif.com
pixmix.com
the_ballmer_peak@reddit
You could Google it
No-Helicopter6172@reddit
I’d likely ignore this advice if someone offered it to me, but you might think about having that chat with your coworker.
It’s easy to lose our innate curiosity as we age, and gif-making might end up being something you really dig.
Plus, it’s fun to hear people talk about stuff they’re really into, when you mainly talk about work stuff otherwise.
Soggy_Porpoise@reddit
This thread has old boomer energy.
Grammarhead-Shark@reddit
6 7
Please ELI5 what it means
Steelclad@reddit
It literally has no meaning, you’re not missing anything.
AFCartoonist@reddit
Most social media beyond Facebook and reddit. I'm that stereotype.
Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit
Discord is just IRC with video chat. ;)
But I just don’t get tik tok
Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit
Oh, and why the sudden reclamation of nü metal. It was (mostly) terrible then, and it’s still (mostly) terrible.
Steelclad@reddit
*entirely terrible
Nacho_Sideboob@reddit
Same here, feel like I just missed the discord train.
jackfaire@reddit
I tried those Battle Royale PUB G games and I swear they are beyond me I can't catch on before dying. Crawled back to my solo games.
degeneratesumbitch@reddit
I used to play cod and shit like it, but I just can't compete with the twitchy always online adhd kids. So I just stick to Borderlands and Destiny. My best friend who's the same age as me plays PUB G almost exclusively and hates the games I like playing, so our time gaming together ended around 2010. I think for me (might not be the case for you), it has to do with getting beaten down by everyday life. The "shit happens" of day to day busy and stressed adult life that makes me want to jump in a game and casually shoot shit at my own speed. Getting steam rolled by a shit talking 13yo doesn't help me relax. In fact, its quite the opposite.
CliftonHangerBombs@reddit
Cars!! Seriously! I’ve been living in nyc for over 25 years. I don’t have a car. I don’t drive. I take the subway or walk everywhere.
Cars are so different now. There are no keys! And there are screens! And I sometimes think about leaving this city, but then I remember that new cars scare me. The few cars I’ve driven over the past 10 years have all been older models. With keys. And buttons.
degeneratesumbitch@reddit
Push button start is old technology. Chrysler had it in a car in the 50's. It's just perfected now. No matter how cold it gets, my KIA with push button start will always start. Unless the battery in the fob freezes and the car gives me a key not detected message.
roonilwonwonweasly@reddit
As a driver I can tell you that I feel the same about these new cars. My husband has a push button car and I hate it. I need a key. I don't mind not having crank the windows down but a key is essential for a car, at least for me.
Self driving cars freak me out. No thank you. Nope. My husband has a friend who drove his Tesla down the East Coast and only actually drove for 15% of the time. The rest of the time was the car driving.
The only car that needs to drive itself is KITT.
Sea_Bodybuilder_1439@reddit
The appeal of YouTube content creators over movies and television. I can't hardly ever get my teenager to watch anything with me. He sits through endless hours of walkthroughs for games he has no interest in playing, and fake documentaries about paranormal investigations. But he won't watch a single episode of Star Trek with me and he said Ghostbusters looks boring. Which made me cry a little.
Revolutionary-Fly538@reddit
Nothing 😎
Dickrubin14094@reddit
Watching people do anything. Watching people eat. Watching people play games when the camera is only showing them and never shows the game. Watching people open boxes.
Why? Just why?
aisledonkeypuncher@reddit
I joined discord and I still have no clue what it’s supposed to be or do.
Brave-Ad-7460@reddit
I tried to get my step kids to explain to me why they use the word bet all the time for weird things, I’m just thinking I’m not betting that you accomplished something or because we are going to do something, also I want to know why they refer to cops as 12
FraggleGoddess@reddit
I've always been good with tech, been the go to person to help with stuff. But I have no idea with most social media, I only use Reddit + FB.
I open Discord occasionally, get confused and leave again. I still cant figure out how to post on Instagram and make it go on FB. I'm baffled by my colleagues (around my age) spending hours on Tik Tok.
greatswordstudios@reddit
I feel you with Discord: still struggle with it. Which is weird, because I totally got Slack just fine.
woadgrrl@reddit
Same, but I think it's just down to a poor (IMO) UI.
Weasel_Town@reddit
Yeah, Discord is like Slack but worse.
greatswordstudios@reddit
Accurate.
barbeloh@reddit
Why on earth would I want to watch a video of someone commenting on someone playing a game instead of just playing the game myself
zerocoolforschool@reddit
I’m 44….. what’s confusing about discord? It’s a voice chat program that also has some text chat channels.
imalasagnahogama@reddit
The UI is very confusing to me. I hate how it always wants to stay open. If I close the app, I expect a call to end but it doesn’t. On top of that it updates all the time and changes your settings. I’m used to it now but I found it very unintuitive for a while. Now that I get it I’m more pro-Discord, but used to feel like OP.
purpleteenageghost@reddit
I agree. I feel like it has more in common with IRC than more modern social platforms.
Illustrious-Highway8@reddit
Yup. It’s just mIRC in an app.
silver_tongued_devil@reddit
Only there you get slapped with herrings!
lowercasenameofmine@reddit
I had no idea it was a voice chat app 🤣
she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit
I've never heard of ventrilo or Team Speak.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
Relics from a bygone era.
cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit
Mumble always gets left out
she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit
I'm the same age as you. Wonder what I was doing during said era 😅
ihatecatboys@reddit
I think the thing here is Discord is so frequently being pushed beyond the gaming space now. I grew up alongside the rise of voice chat, so for me Discord was an absolute breeze, but now all these non-gaming brands and organizations are creating servers that have zero context for what they are or how they work. The closest thing they may have ever seen is at work with Slack or god forbid Teams.
cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit
I love catboys 😢
zerocoolforschool@reddit
Yeah same. To be fair, Teams and Slack are kinda similar in concept. Just more corporate.
ihatecatboys@reddit
My office had a few women trying to join discord servers because of some online book clubs and they would be like "oh its Teams but more complicated" and I wanted to die inside every time.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
I just really don’t see how it’s even complicated. I guess if you’re trying to set it up, yeah, but if you’re just joining it’s really straight forward.
Thatoneguyfrom1980@reddit
Omg fuck microslop teams!! It’s such ass!!
ericwbolin@reddit
For me, it's less that it's confusing and more that I don't want to bother to learn another messaging platform for work that won't be around in 10 years.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
Discord has been around for at least 10 years. I think it will be around for a while. Unless they continue to kill it.
ericwbolin@reddit
It will, but I imagine when the next new, shiny service comes out and captures attention, workplaces will jump to it. I just can't be bothered as I don't use them in my personal life. Only at work.
therealskittlepoop@reddit
Oooo is that its main thing, for voice chat? Look at you, teachin us new stuff n shit! Yeah, the text chat, I was like how tf does anyone keep up with this 😆
zerocoolforschool@reddit
Yeah originally it was voice chat. But kinda turned them into something similar to old forums.
Twanlx2000@reddit
In fairness to OP, I don’t know what those things are either.
zerocoolforschool@reddit
It was mostly for gaming back in the day. Someone would have a Ventrilo or TS server and you could hop on and chat. Kinda like Skype but without video.
143019@reddit
Same
jojackmcgurk@reddit
It's not that I need it explained, because I usually get it pretty quick.
It's that my brain screams out "WHY?!?!?! OMG WHO CARES?!?!" Whenever I come across it.
a_solid_6@reddit
NFTs. It's been explained to me many times, but I can never quite wrap my head around a picture file having value.
Also... crypto-- exactly what it is and how it works. Should I be embarrassed about that?
JamesMattDillon@reddit
I had to ask on tiktok what "grape" was 😆. At least with "unalive" I could figure out that one. I hate that they have to censor themselves because someone might get triggered by it.
Daw_dling@reddit
This makes me nuts. I don’t even think it’s for triggering people it’s for the algorithm to not limit who it gets shown to. So the solution is that now grown up ideas and conversations sound like they are happening in a daycare where you don’t want the kids to ask awkward questions.
maggie320@reddit
Rugs is another one.
JamesMattDillon@reddit
What is that one supposed to be for?
maggie320@reddit
Drugs
JamesMattDillon@reddit
FFS, that is obvious too, lol
EmmyNoetherRing@reddit
Less people, more the algorithm.
ineffable_my_dear@reddit
That’s not why people censor. Use of certain keywords can flag your account.
Sad_Training_1595@reddit
Why they feel the need to display their whole life on social media.
animus218@reddit
Why they like Spotify so damn much. I miss Pandora.
SoloCongaLineChamp@reddit
Pandora still exists. Spotify is run by scumbags, I refuse to use it.
cranberries87@reddit
Pandora got bought out by scumbags. I was really disappointed.
SoloCongaLineChamp@reddit
Well now I'm disappointed too. Sirius XM.
Nothing gold can stay.
silver_tongued_devil@reddit
I just want Sirius to stop moving the Alt2k and yacht rock radio channels around. I like lithium but sometimes I need a different speed.
animus218@reddit
I know it does, i just acquiesced because I have a kid in college who uses it, so I do too. It's just worse, and the podcasts? Ugh.
Aiku1337@reddit
“They”? Man when Spotify came out I was all over that. Still a member. Who wouldn’t want all the music at their fingertips? I had to work hard to “find” mp3s back in the day, especially full albums. Now I just search.
Isn’t pandora just like radio? You pick a genre? Spotify has that too.
animus218@reddit
I don't like Spotify's algorithm. There are third party options to correct that, but I liked the Pandora algorithm and options to adjust it better.
S_A_R_K@reddit
Come back, it's great
fuzzyjelly@reddit
What this fucking thing is
TheVexingRose@reddit
Discord was really hard to figure out because it was pitched to me as an AOL alternative, and the UIs are very different. The only thing they kind of have in common are that channels act a little bit like chat rooms, but beyond that, I find both platforms very different. Discord is a Millennial app that Gen Z adopted though, so I got into using in the first wave a decade ago. It had less features, so if you can believe it, it was more confusing back then.
I don't understand Roblox at all. It looks like Legos tried to make a GTAV video game. I thought it was for little kids at first.
sprinklesadded@reddit
I thought about doing streaming or TikTok but cannot figure out how to do it. And what are stream decks??
burnafter3ading@reddit
6/7
ZipperJJ@reddit
This is so fucking dumb but…
I didn’t grow up with a dishwasher, and I don’t have a dishwasher myself. My parents got a dishwasher after I moved out but I never used it. I rinsed the dishes and loaded it but never put in soap or turned it on.
So some 5 years ago when I had to start doing dishes for my now-disabled mom, I had to ask my nieces how to use the dishwasher 😂😂
she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit
I don't understand "the talking stage" in relationships.
Dorkinfo@reddit
That was a thing when I was in middle school. (b. 83)
she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit
Not where I went to school. I first heard of it a few years ago and I still don't really get it. 🤷🏼♀️
Dorkinfo@reddit
It’s just the dating part before you decide you’re committed.
csstevens@reddit
The appeal of dating apps over meeting organically through friends, social settings, or hobbies.
Kalathefox@reddit
Op. I've run a discord server in one way or another since it came out. I can help you understand. (Est. '79 btw) I've had to walk my own mother through it. (Est '60) and.... honestly countless other folk at this point. I can give it a crack if you want.
The main part of understanding... is knowing what knowledge you have to work with, and branch from it.
As far as things younger peeps have to explain to me? Operating a Tesla, or other smart car... how many menus? To open the ..frunk?...
Latranis@reddit
Discord is IRC
TheThrivingest@reddit
I don’t get discord either
JackSpadesSI@reddit
It’s giving. Why did “this is creepy” morph into “this is giving creepy”?
Waste-Reflection-235@reddit
That and everything else to do with social media. Technology in general. When I was in college I was pretty tech savvy. I would buy computer hardware to upgrade my computer. Practically built my own for god sakes. I knew code and built my website from scratch. But somewhere along the way my brain said that’s enough and gets frazzled. I’m don’t know if it is because I can’t keep up with the pace of technology, I don’t care anymore or both.
Dog_Baseball@reddit
Discord sucks
dominator5k@reddit
Watching other people play video games instead of playing them yourself. And then sending them money for it? Wtf?
Dorkinfo@reddit
The money part I don’t get, but I used to watch people play in arcades and I’d watch my brother at home when it was his turn.
catsoncrack420@reddit
Some comedy, music , trends and appeal to stuff. Also asking my kid why her generation loves the 90s.
Dorkinfo@reddit
We went through lava lamps again, they get to make our mistakes with arguably better music.
ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit
I’m in 3 discords that I hardly ever use because every time I fire it up I feel like it’s actively trying to confuse me, almost like it hates me or something.
shrikelet@reddit
I need someone to explain MOBAs to me. I tried to play one once and couldn't complete the tutorial.
adammonroemusic@reddit
Yeah, I don't really understand Discord or Telegram either. I'm pretty sure they are just newer versions of AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Chat and things that used to exist or have been around forever. Honestly, the fact that every new generation needs a new app that does exactly the same thing as some previous app or website has become tiresome.
Been tiresome since Facebook replaced Myspace replaced Friendster ect. When Instagram first started, I was like, "oh, we need another photo sharing app, Facebook isn't good enough?" And now Facebook - sorry, Meta - owns Instagram. Or Twitter, or Snapchat, or Threads, or Bluesky, just a bunch of apps that essentially all do the same thing with minor tweaks and it never ends.
Cyrussphere@reddit
Oh come on people, we were the generation that learned the new technology as it was introduced and kept pushing ahead. Have you truly just given up learning?
BK_0000@reddit
Sixty seven.
Dorkinfo@reddit
What should AMCR stand for?
Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit
Slang. My GenAlphA kid keeps me in the loop, so long as I ask when I don’t understand something.
_R_A_@reddit
The whole 6 7 thing. I still don't understand it.
DirtyBirdDawg@reddit
I also have zero idea how Discord works. All I know is that it is a thing that exists.
fidgety_sloth@reddit
Until this thread I had no idea it was a voice chat thing.
beckypulito@reddit
Discord mystifies me as well. Go team!
NakedSnakeEyes@reddit
Modern slang.
Norse_By_North_West@reddit
Just slang probably. I'm in tech, so I doubt there's anything they know better than I do on that angle.
the_ballmer_peak@reddit
It'll happen to us eventually. My father in law was a DBA for decades and even in his 60s was working with NoSQL solutions. He kept up. When he retired he had to start relying on my (non-technical) wife almost immediately. It's like his brain fell off a cliff.
Historical-Piglet-86@reddit
I still don’t know what 6-7 is
bozotozoratio@reddit
Even my kids can't explain it
NocturnalSerpents@reddit
why they dont listen. lol
Hiciao@reddit
I'm surprised that discord is what has stumped you. I moved my book club to discord once none of us had free zoom anymore. It took a little bit of work, and one of the women turned another woman upside down for months before I suggested that maybe she could just rotate the view. Other than that, it's worked well for us.
But, I have no intention of shaming you, so I WILL share that I once mentioned that I couldn't stand Instagram stories because sometimes I can't read fast enough and it was my MOM who told me how to make it freeze.
GutsAndBlackStufff@reddit
Wheelies
peen_was@reddit
Dank ones? Nooners?
herseyhawkins33@reddit
PSA Urban dictionary is a lifesaver for slang
MuffinMatrix@reddit
Discord is cool where its like Slack/Teams, but anyone can use for free. Easy way to make a channel for friends and have free calls, etc.
But passed that I have no idea about. How different things link to their Discord, or how Midjourney needs a Discord channel to function, etc.
That kinda stuff is too complicated for such a platform.
I only use it for a few friends where we can call and share screens, etc.
For me:
Some of the new slang is just stupid. When we were growing up, our slang was actual words, and you could pretty easily tell what it meant from hearing it. Now its mostly pure gibberish. Like so many words aren't even new words or slang, they're just.... sound effects.
Minecraft. Like I get you can build things, so as a game for kids.. sure, fine, whatever. But how people run their own servers for it and what the appeal is.
Pokemon cards. I was big on the game when it came out for GameBoy. I played Magic, so knew all about CCGs, etc. But what the hell is the deal now? I've seen people selling a pack for $750+. Do people even play the game?? Whats the appeal?
helikophis@reddit
I don’t need it explained cuz I don’t actually care to know, but I cannot make televisions function for quite some time now
LMurch13@reddit
Current music artists. I'm always asking my daughters, "who's this?"
cbih@reddit
Nothing really. I don't care about their slang and they don't know anything.
therealskittlepoop@reddit
Dude I try discord every now and then — was kinda cool to use it for gaming chat, but like any of the discords I’m in, the whole chat sitch baffle tf out of me 😆
Reportersteven@reddit
Alpha slang.
Similar-Sir-2952@reddit
What is Discord?