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[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

I doubt you feel that way since I'm the only person that really exists.

Jokes aside, when I was in my teens back in the 90s I felt that way about pretty much everyone that wasn't a good friend of mine. Person on the internet? Not a real person. Person at the store? Not a real person. Boss? Customer? Definitely not people.

I don't really know why it started, when it stopped, or why it stopped, but it's weird looking back on it.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Andrew Tate has convinced a ton of teenage boys to think the same, apparently. Kinda ironic.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Puberty is rough, for some people it’s your body going “mate, mate, mate” and not much else gets through for 4-5 years, or like 8 maybe.

I’m about the same age. (Xellennials or some shit like that, apparently). And at the time, there was also a big movement in media and culture to sell more shit to people our age (we’d also been slammed toy and cereal ads as kids in the 80s). MTV was switching to all reality bullshit and Clinton was boinking anything that moved. We were doomed to only think about ourselves.

The problem is that a bunch of them never outgrew it, or made it their “brand” like Tate and his ilk.

this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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