When did it happen to you?

When did it happen to you?

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A year and a half ago I quit going to house shows and fucking bisexual drug floozies. I also stopped watching tv then too. Only crypto trading and lifting now.

I never was with it.

but on 4chens when i unironically saw people start talking about harry potter instead of just the shitposting spoiler.

2 years ago, I am officially no longer with it.

hasn't happened yet. I feel like it'll happen any day soon, though

Two or three years ago.
Pretty much as soon as I left university.

When I realised all this gender bullshit.

I was never with it but when mobile phones and social media became big with normies was the first time I truly didn't feel with it.

People keep talking about youtube celebrities.

Apart from Pewdiepie, I have never heard of any of them. Apparently all kids do these days is watch others play and talk on youtube.

I'm literally sounding like I'm in my 70's when I say "I don't really watch the tube"

This was when it started dawning on me too, the kicker was when I found out about "reaction videos" - apparently people genuinely enjoy watching videos of people watching videos. Like some kind of electronic verion of when your friend would make you watch his favourite movie and glance at you every few seconds to check you're enjoying it properly and laughing in the right places.

When all these lil uzi and lil whatever rappers started getting popular.

Of course most of them are not even 20 yet (goes without saying, "lil" after all)

I shouldn't feel so old at 25.

when edward snowden reset the timeline

same

What timeline are you from? He's a musician here.

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Last year. A friend watched "100 facts you didn't know about episode x of show y" on youtube, and a girl commented that she watches the same. I had no idea people did stuff like that and I have absolutely no desire to get into it myself.

around the time chuck's feed & seed changed hands

here here

When Sneed bought out Chuck's.

This except you're young and with it because you know who "pewdipie" is

I only know because he's been featured on the news SEVERAL times now.

He was even mentioned in proper newspapers a while back because of how much money he made with his retarded shit and then again over the nazi stuff. I hadn't even heard of the guy with the suicide forest video before he popped up here on Sup Forums.

same, only heard of the new guy since he's on the tech section of the BBC which I read on my lunch break. Before that, never heard of him.

Makes you realise how many people on Sup Forums are 13-16 years old.

approximately senior year of college

When I was watching Lost a few years back. It was season 3 or something and I realised how fucking bored I was, and that I had started feeling the same about most entertainment. Being strung along by a bunch of hacks who just want you top keep watching to make the show last as long as possible for some reason ($$$$) really isn't fulfilling or productive. A lot of other shows was the same story, everyone's talking about it and you just have to watch the latest most amazing thing that everyone is talking about, so you do, to fit in. So you can be included in the conversation at work the next day by the water cooler. Looking back the only reason I thought any of this garbage was good is because I didn't know any better, and it was all new to me. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that rather than being 'out of touch', I've just grown up and am now old enough to see how utterly worthless 99% of pop culture is. The Hollywood blockbuster you watch is the same as the sugar, water and food coloring (aka Coca-Cola) you buy in the lobby. They just want you to buy it. It's shit. They know it. They pretend otherwise (aka marketing). You fall for it.

I'm 33, and it's been happening over the last 5 years, but now it feels like I've caught up to whats cool again, and that I'm in the now.

So who knows. I felt like that when I was 16 and discovering my current style.

wtf is wrong with you.

The soy has finally made its way to his brain.

about the time lil yachty became a thing and college kids started taking justin bieber seriously. im not with that shit.

A bald assertion isn't an argument. I've already refuted your representation based arguments. Give me something else.

When I turned 20 and didnt understand who the youtube people my friends talked about or why they were popular.

is this a new pasta? seen this posted at least once in various threads since the new year started

I honestly feel like people with smartphones are lobotomized zombies.
This is why you don't just accept every new piece of crap technology that comes out.
Thank god we evaded that VR garbage.

When Chuck's Fuck & Suck went out of business.

*tips black mirror merch*

Never owned a smartphone, I still have a Nokia 3310. I'd buy another Rift tomorrow though if I had to.

Smartphones.

>a friend of mine introduced me to the Filthy Frank/h3h3 shit
>we were both 22

Are we mental defectives or something?

Yes. I didnt like that gay shit in my teens.

Mass Effect 3

Jill is cute.

2013

It's just dawned on me that's going to be half a decade this year-there's no going back now

>1997 was 39 years ago

8 years ago, people started texting all the time and I didn't like using my cell phone, 22 now.

Like a year ago when I started to realize how stupid social media is.

>yesterday was 6 months ago

2005

i'm only 26

I don't know when exactly yet, but I can't follow all those shitty facebook memes that people talks about all the time, and I don't know shit about youtube besides music

When i was 22. But the thing is, it feels like i'm starting to get back in on it. 24 now.

When social media took over the internet for good (~2011 or so.)

during my divorce in 2013-2014. I changed completely. Since I was young I was always so cock sure of everything and thought that I would always be the same, think the same... how wrong was I.

You are a fucking neet posting on Sup Forums but say others are zombies.

Even pewdiepie isn't it anymore. He was it 3 years ago.

I've always been one of those few people gifted with an innate connection to "it" - there are a very rare sample of artists who embody it their whole lives. I know that's a big claim but it's really true in my case. It's kind of like being a medium, and it's not something one loses in the way I have it.

Like I have a natural artistic and musical ability, but a big part of it - and one of its most key aspects for me - is this perpetual vitality and vivid prescience and clarity in the emerging vision of the time. I'd displayed this even as a small child, was perpetually tuned-in through my youth, and have been so charged in the subsequent years it's as if I'm guiding the times with my mind. I think a lot of people, as they're growing up, have a moment in which they kind of mindlessly sync briefly - usually in their late teens / early twenties - with the moment, but in that case it's more just like they're the crop of that year, its flowering. And shortly afterwards they stay in that form as its wilts. In my case that blossoming happens more at a metaphysical, perpetual level that precedes the form so I have a perpetual well, and it's always tuned into the most powerful ideas.

How the fuck did you miss the culture the youth of your generation created in 2008-2014?

two years ago with dabbing and whip and nay nay or w/e it is....

You just had your first big fuck up, big when world didn't go the way you wanted it to go. You will get over it, there will be more of those and you will realise they are part if life.

I wasn't

I couldn't even afford warhammer, the rich kids cornered the geek area

Your a fagot

When newfags started think board culture wasn’t important, when anons couldn’t figure out when content was board appropriate or when it was off topic i.e. cartoons when Sup Forums exists, spamming same threads, when spoonfeeding became acceptable and when retards failed to understand simple concepts like lurk moar.

i'm 40 and i still find hip shit that i like. but we live in a strange time where there is no future, really... everything is shades of retro, revivals, remixes maybe but still shit we all have seen before. so ... is it even possible to make something really NEW? and blow people's fukcing minds? i'm waiting...
maybe what's "it" will just be a trend in normiehood like the disneyfication of youtube like we have seen in their yearly recap vide and then sure i am not with it , i don't see whats funny cool interesting mind bending fascinating captivating with any of them clean faces: i guess i am not with it and it seems strange to me...

1995.

>implying labelling something as a "bald assertion" isn't making an assertion itself

nice try

lil Pump, lil Peep, etc. honestly, I just don't get it, it's complete garbage

strange how all that young generation seems bamboozled into getting on the corporate DICKTRAIN , hoping so hard to just have fun for the rest of their lives accumulating stuff making money being little shills , flashing BIG SMILES and doing ADVANCED SELFIES for their adoring crowd

They talk about them, and then you'll see and hear these "stars" and you want to fucking pound them with a fucking baseball bat full of nails

about 2013 when kotaku started getting overly SJW, anime went to shit, and everyone started talking about those goddamn cape movies at work

My teenage brother and sister started using memes I wasn't familiar with.

i wonder if there will be a "punk phase" on youtube where people will want something a bit more edgy and critical and get away from that "pop fluff empty celebs".

anime is always shit to be honest, i only got fed up with it when my high school years were getting pretty far behind me and i had moved on from those hangups and fantasies and stop caring about who i was back then, what i thought etc... i can't really watch an anime with a high school setting these days. too bad there is not more postcyberpunk and other adult stuff like GITS.

I would say arround 2012, so not that long ago
I lost it arround entering my 20's

Been a long agonising process since my early twenties. Started with an awareness that i was slipping and a comfort that at least i knew it and could, if needed, get my head around the zeitgeist.
Then came a total divorce from everthing, which although awful, at least preserved a semblance of what i knew in my mind.
Now in a zombie world where i know more about pop culture than i did five years ago yet everything and everyone looks like a pastiche of various eras, everyone under thirty is a child and past icons and art are unrecognisable.

So what have accomplished with this gift?

Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram were the three that tipped it over the edge for me.

It's funny how people above the Generation X line, with maybe 5 or 6 exceptions (who have that gift of being able to perpetually find the vitality), always say this. History has legitimately left a lot of Generation X in the dust. And they so stubbornly dig their heels into their old paradigms. To such people I would suggest the problem is it's a combination of them being: 1. old + 2. also uninspired and ungifted. It's a lethal combination, because for the uninspired, once their youth moment has passed, they're fucked. For the great artists, the best and most inspired work actually BEGINS in one's 30s, but for ordinary people, they have a kind of brief, accidental cool moment at age 21 and then they fade. Maybe they ride out their generational thing for a bit but when really new paradigms hit, they're lost.

This

Quite a bit so far, actually, but I'm not going to show that on here, am I?

why would something be wrong with me? shit i grew up with when I was in my late teens, mid 20's became old and dated when I turned 30, but my taste have changed into what's popular making me part of the in crowd again.

Nah you're still with it, and must have seen larger library of it with having so many decades of memories of it. Youtube just isn't it right now.

It basically already has and I'm 28. It could be a couple years before that.

So you're saying people like justin bieber or lady gaga were ordinary people?

Yes you moron. They were immensely popular. Hence part of the norm. Learn that normal actions or ordinary actions don't have to be what you find acceptable.

If they have staying power, I'll know their name at some point, no fucks given about footnotes.

Why not?

Sometime during 2017. I'm 25 and I was with it for a while before I got a full time job and witnessed the emergence of edgy memes taking over actually funny/interesting content. I suppose there was a slow buildup as well, but it didn't really hit me until last year.

Then what are these great actors that stay with the times and produce their great works in their 30s?

Do you believe that Bieber and Gaga are the most vital representations of their zeitgeist? Like, would you say that David Cassidy or Tom Jones were the most vital forces of their time?

And a zeitgeist has many heads, btw, many channels, several of them opposed to each other. And not everything happening on a mass scale is necessarily the 'hip'/ vital thing of that time; maybe more the problem being worked with.

When people my age started not giving a shit about video games anymore and became obsessed with nignog music and general celebrity shit. Probably around 7th grade or so.

I haven't enjoyed anything in life since I was 12. So I guess it was then.

I literally can't think of bigger musicians of 2008-2011 than those guys.

That's already a thing, it's called the alt-right/skeptic/racial "realist"/etc shit show.

They were stand-ins / symbols for ordinary people, basically fluff that would be dropped by its own fickle fans when they grow up and move on to other things and styles change. Like LMFAO. Operating at that level / modality is really a shitty place to be in the culture. Sure, you get to be the featured performer at the Super Bowl, and have your face featured all over the magazines in every super market line, but it's a very short shelf-life, and I can't imagine the humiliation for the people who achieve that kind of popularity and then become universally regarded as shallow jokes. I've heard stories about the LMFAO guys being depressed now and getting uncomfortable just from hearing their old songs.

You sound like a rad lad in your epic larp

I think of them as imposters at best. They're there to suckle on the last remaining energies of fading trends as the more clueless majority shower them with glory and accolades. I'm not against pop, or popularity, but there is vital pop and there is fluff pop. I can even enjoy the latter, but you should be able to recognize where the real action is and where it's all just passing hype. And anyways, the whole "idea" behind Lady Gaga is even fine, it's just that she was jumping on it in a really unoriginal, unremarkable way decades after the fact.

>tfw

I remember the first time some bitch in my class was sitting across from me looking straight down and texting for 10 straight minutes. To me, it almost seemed like a tic or something.

I am "it".

"It" seems illdefined in this thread. Like, do you consider the most shallow girl in, say, Wisconsin, with her head in a smart phone, "with it"? With something, but which?

Like, in the late 60s, who was more "with it"?:

Girls / kids watching The Monkeys, and listening to bubblegum, or to Frankie Vallie? But who also loved The Beatles?

Cutting edge art scene people in NY... Fluxus, or Minimalists, or people hanging at Warhol's Factory, or doing Conceptualism, etc. etc. etc. etc.

Black America; soul and funk; coming out of Detroit, Philadelphia, Memphis...

Swinging 30 and 40somethings listening to Tom Jones, Putula Clark, Frank Sinatra, jazz.

Psychedelic culture; acid rock in SF, or the freak scene in LA, or psychedelic folkies, or trippers drifting towards country, or the psychedelic bands starting to get harder and heavier?

Political radicals... peace activists/anti-war, or the Free Speech movement, or radicals who promoted violence, Civil Rights, or Black Power, or 60s Feminism...

etc. etc. etc.

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