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This reminds me so much of being in middle school and high school and just the moments where it was lonely as hell and just being a teen online
Oct 22, 2024
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📺I remember the 2000s being particularly lonely. I think part of it was that I was a queer child and always knew there was something about me that my friends didn't quite get. The other factor, is that there was no social media. Nobody had phones. If you were hanging out it was a school event, your parents put it together, or you were neighbors.
So, I spent a lot of time alone, riding my bike (with a boombox tied to the handlebars) and reading at the used bookstore.
& everything required being a little bit sneaky because everything was physical. I hid the books I read, I hid the movies and CDs I checked out from the library. I hid the bra-catalogs I stole from my aunts recycling bin. Ultimately, I think it was good to form an identity in absolute privacy. I can't imagine how hard and intimidating it must be do that now, in full view of and connected to everyone, all the time.
Jul 20, 2025
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‼️i think that the era of the cool mysterious girl is out and we should just all go back to when we were thirteen being obsessed with the hunger games & divergent and running fan accounts and wearing merch and getting excited over things again!!!!!!!!!!! like when was the last time you went to a thursday midnight premiere of a movie sequel??? ........ my point exactly.
Jun 4, 2025
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🤮hahahha i feel bad for people who only learned how to use the internet for like stupid formal shit like a 9-5 (🤮)
sidebar: i feel like this is very GeNeRaTiOnAl ~~~~~ and kinda depends if you were popular or not growing up. i saw a tt video one time of a girl explaining how she’s an elder millennial but can keep up with internet culture. bc she used it to survive high school as a bit of an outcast. bc popular peeps didn’t need to find friends on the internet but us outcasts….. yeah 🪞bloop!!!! (logic voice: WHO CAN RELATEEEEE)
back to my main point: and didn’t learn how to use the internet by doing something amazing, cute, funny, stupid, silly like all the shit we used to use the internet for (was in middle school for the limewire, myspace/xanga/live journal/flickr and high school for height of tumblr era, start of ig, snap, etc.) i miss THE PEOPLES internet … i hate the megacorp internet we have now 😫 FUCK FASCISTS
sidebar: i feel like this is very GeNeRaTiOnAl ~~~~~ and kinda depends if you were popular or not growing up. i saw a tt video one time of a girl explaining how she’s an elder millennial but can keep up with internet culture. bc she used it to survive high school as a bit of an outcast. bc popular peeps didn’t need to find friends on the internet but us outcasts….. yeah 🪞bloop!!!! (logic voice: WHO CAN RELATEEEEE)
back to my main point: and didn’t learn how to use the internet by doing something amazing, cute, funny, stupid, silly like all the shit we used to use the internet for (was in middle school for the limewire, myspace/xanga/live journal/flickr and high school for height of tumblr era, start of ig, snap, etc.) i miss THE PEOPLES internet … i hate the megacorp internet we have now 😫 FUCK FASCISTS
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My parents told me many times growing up they both love this movie and I finally watched it last year for a class that I took
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💖It’s just so nice when people genuinely give a shit about you or your friends and you both want to get to know each other more love people like that
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🌫There’s been multiple reports of AI taking up lots of energy to generate things and we don’t need more energy being wasted to produce a soulless, computer generated piece of AI art (Idk how others feel about AI art but whenever I look at it I feel sick and my heart sinks because it just feels so empty) so that’s one thing. Another issue is all these horrific deepfake scandals, to an incident that happened to at least 1 girl at the high school I went to (I’m not gonna say their names or anything because they’ve already been through so much shit) to South Korea’s recent crackdown on deepfake p0rn which revealed just how rampant it was throughout the country (and I just know shit like this is happening worldwide it’s not just their country). There’s also social media manipulation, biases in AI (only 100/7,000 of this world’s languages being used in chatbot training which only contributes further to languages being endangered), the very real threat of AI to be used to create more inequality, etc. While it looks like generative AI is flopping in some areas now (thank god) I’m still very concerned about it