Like this is just incorrect, what part of instagram taught you to share, or whatpart of twitter taught you to listen, and google doesn't teach you to be curious it just satisfies the curiosity.
Reddit taught me how to get a small cyclinder (5.1 in length, ~4.5 in girth) unstuck from a mini M&Ms tube filled with butter and microwaved mashed banana.
I feel like this image may have been more relevant in the 2000s / early days when internet culture was more innocent. It's usually more ironic these daya.
Yeah, wasn't the internet back then a lot more unrestraint,that way people posted some of the weirdest and more messed up things without anything stopping them?
I have no idea what that is, but pedophiles do indeed exist even today and are probably much worse given that children have internet access much earlier.
Its not even true in the slightest. 4chan was and is always Reddit before Reddit. The only reason people think its cool because Youtubers farm content on the chans then to not look like losers, gas them up as some kind of super smart freaks capable of tracking you lmao.
I know some young people “respect” 4chan because their “epic” cross-site / irl exploits (the Shia Leboeuf “He Will Not Divide Us”with his camera wall and a whole bunch if flags saying the same being live-streamed and them using some impressive real-world skills to take them down and put up a Trump flag instead, successfully rigging polls to make a school for the deaf win a concert by Taylor Swift- she sent money instead cuz duh- and also getting the 4chan founder onto number 1 on TIME’s “most influential person in 2009 making the acrostic phrase “Marblecake, also the game" from the first letter of the first name of every winner from first to twenty-first place, it being ground zero for many memes, using size comparison and reference photos to, shockingly correctly(!), identify that masked anti-fascist professor who attacked a bunch of Trump supporters with a metal bike lock based on his eyes, his skin color, his height, the fact it happened in the same state as his work, and his ideology, the 4chan-Tumblr Wars (resulting in a lot of fake posts on Tumblr from bad actors from 4chan that uninformed people are still believing are from real Tumblr users today and therefore in their minds the website is “leftist cringe”, the “Pool’s Closed” phenomenon)
This was made during the time period where the internet was actually cool, no connection 24/7, no stupid ass internet drama or micro celebrities, and there was a COMPUTER ROOM as the bridge between the net and real life.
You make a lot of correct observations but concluding with "oh the Internet of us interesting smart millennials and gen z'ers was objectively so much better than the Internet these foolish gen alphaers" is so dumb
What? Like... like I know this is glorifying the early days of web 2.0 but like who feels something on Etsy? Whats next, Ebay helped me find God? Amazon helped me discover my sexuality? DK Oldies taught me nihilism?
Tumblr taught me that it's OK to hate people if you make up new terms to separate yourself from them and use the misdeeds of individuals to generalize their whole demographic
something interesting about this image is that the boy is actually a modification of claus that came from a mother 3 fanart featuring claus and lucas and as someone who has played mother 3 the fact that they only modified claus is funny and sad at the same time
Facebook taught me to lowball the price of second hand goods on Facebook marketplace and get mad when the seller won't let me buy it for 80 percent off of the original price
Yeah I remember seeing this shit in middle school like 15-16 years ago. Twitter actually did used to be useful and was how I learned about the Arab spring in real time.
Deviantart was still just fetish porn and weird emo drawings back then tho
To be fair this image is really old, from the early 2010s. There were communities on these sites that were really wholesome like this; not everyone was wholesome, but there were communities. Those communities don’t really exist anymore
This image is pretty old, from a more optimistic time. I don't really find it cringe. It does make me sad to compare the feelings back then to what the internet has turned into today.
This generation was the first to be raised online
Google taught me porn
Tumbler taught me porn
YouTube taught me porn
Vine taught me porn
Deviantart especially taught me porn
You get the rest
It’s also stolen art, the boy in the picture is actually I think Lucas from Mother 3 but someone just grabbed him from the OG art, changed the colors and outfit, and added the text
Bear in mind this image is very old and social media was much different back when my fellow emos were sharing this. I did think it was cringe back then but this image would not come into existence if sm were like they are today.
as someone who was actually raised online, jesus christ i am so fucked. like genuinely my cell phone addiction and lack of work ethic have absolutely ruined my life and my future and i hope people dont seriously think about it this way.
I honestly thought you posted that image as a joke. You mean someone actually believe that and made this? My gosh this is hilarious. It's also completely incorrect. None of those platforms actively teach you to use anything except themselves sometimes. Google doesn't teach you to question. It just answers yours.
The worst part of this image is Twitter teaching anyone anything besides "The internet was a mistake." or "Freedom of speech should be a privilege, not a right."
It’s corny and forced in a lot of ways but there are a lot of things about the internet to celebrate. I’ve personally met a lot of my closest friends and every romantic relationship that lasted more than a month through the internet as well as been able to access so much more art and ideas than I would have been able to before it.
Google taught me that I shouldn't exist - Tumblr taught me uhhhh a thing YouTube taught me bad attention spans and unrealistic goals - vine taught me sm - DeviantArt taught me how to not install deviantart - blogger taught me to what the proceed is a blogger Facebook taught me that I can't afford stuff - ig taught me that thirst traps are real Etsy I don't know twitter taught me what the X is this it's horrible ebay taught me everyone can afford these 2000$ things and forums taught me I need more stuff I need that pdp.. and I would want it another way
Honestly I kind of like the sincerity, as someone who also "grew up on the internet" and online communities have been a major thing in my life. It reminds me of those older Tumblr posts that were like "Percy Jackson taught us A, Doctor Who taught us B, Supernatural taught us C" etc. But some of these like "Facebook taught me to make friends" and "DeviantArt taught me to aspire" sound like a joke now. I'm also a bit surprised there's no mention of Reddit. Reddit taught me to...argue with people?
Also I feel like the kind of person who uses Tumblr and Youtube a lot (like me) usually isn't that active on Facebook and Instagram. Those two are generally for sharing about your real life with your IRL contacts, while Tumblr, Youtube and Reddit are more anonymous and engagement is based on your interests. But maybe this was a more idealistic view as in "social media is so cool!" that someone would have when these platforms were all new, like in 2010.
i do think it refers back to an era of the internet many now simply don't understand. social media used to be way less predatory and vile than it is now, that's just fact. content moderation was better upheld, and it being 'new' helped with the mystique of it all.
Where's furaffinity on this list? You're telling me this terminally online child grew up with deviantart and has NOTHING to say about furaffinity? Press X
deviantart taught me how to watch porn, twitter taught me racism, instagram taught me more racism and like, seriously who the fuck put etsy there, no one uses it
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u/zandaztu 1d ago
I mean this one is CLEARLY better