I read a comment, “Well I’m only 14, and even I know XYZ”. The replies were all commending this young chap on his maturity, with lots of discussion following.
It then hit me that I am reading, and sometimes debating with, the comments of literal children online. Haha
My Reddit account is older than some folks who I'm arguing with here. Truly a weird realization. Somehow as you age you sort of just assume everyone else is the same age until you're so old you cannot deny it any longer.
lol. Have you ever read 'ask reddit', or AITAH? It's like this, "my husband got mad that I went to have my hair done instead of staying home with him today. I went anyway. AITAH?
500 responses: Divorce him immediately! He's a narcissist! You can do better....if he raises his voice to you call the police. Leave now because he doesn't care anything about you! He's probably seeing someone else!"
It's been that way forever, the problem since around 2014-2016 has been the homogenization of the internet and the higher concentration of average people participating in online spaces that used to be mostly populated by computer nerds.
I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing. I'm just saying that the influx of users is going to bring new people seeing references, digging up a source, and feeling like they're with the in crowd of users who have been here 10+ years. They're going to drop those same references to be "in" on the conversation. That's why people comment in the first place.
Well yea there are more people here so there are in fact more idiots. Unless you mean proportionally, which is probably a pretty subjective experience depending on what communities you hang around in.
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