Great convo and hit on a lot of the ways I feel about it as, I guess, a fringe zynternet member(?) I’m 31, have had Twitter since 2010, went to college at Ole Miss, am addicted to college football, understand all the memes, think the majority are funny, make jokes about them with my friends, but we kinda all do them ironically because to actually be associated with any of this in a real way would be highly embarrassing.. I think the phenomenon of it all is fascinating and the cross between the generations (millennials/gen z) is also interesting. It seems to me that a lot of the millennials are grabbing onto it as a way to still feel connected into what’s mainstream, but when they get to into it and sincerely think they’re part of the bit, idk if you want to call it a bit, regardless, then it feels pretty cringe.. like the zyn jokes are funny (I’ve never used it but friends do so the jokes play) but to actually be a zynternet guy in my age range would be a tough look yet the barstool portion of it all is aiming at the post 28 age range with a lot of their content which draws back on some late 90s nostalgia. I only get barstool content thru big cat and pft and they’re about to be 40 and they’re the mascots behind portnoy of all this, and while they have the biggest podcast, they aren’t as cringe at trying to become gen z with it all like portnoy is. It would be highlyyyy embarrassing to be an out and about portnoy fan. But I’m also from Los Angeles and no one here is so I don’t see it. But maybe on college campuses now that’s how it is. It’s not embarrassing to be fully portnoy/zyn/lose $100 gambling on college football guy, the zynternet has smooth brained them all as to not realize the jokes are funny but we aren’t laughing with them more at them.
There’s probably a parallel here between the zynternet for boys and brat summer for girls where at a certain age it gets cringe if your a 80s millennial doing all these brat summer things (even if Charli is 32).
Anyway I rambled but it’s interesting to hear an “outsider” perspective about a bunch of things that I interact with on the internet. (Although fuck the for you page, I stay off that except say once a week, I like to know what I’m gonna see and who it’s from.)
Great convo and hit on a lot of the ways I feel about it as, I guess, a fringe zynternet member(?) I’m 31, have had Twitter since 2010, went to college at Ole Miss, am addicted to college football, understand all the memes, think the majority are funny, make jokes about them with my friends, but we kinda all do them ironically because to actually be associated with any of this in a real way would be highly embarrassing.. I think the phenomenon of it all is fascinating and the cross between the generations (millennials/gen z) is also interesting. It seems to me that a lot of the millennials are grabbing onto it as a way to still feel connected into what’s mainstream, but when they get to into it and sincerely think they’re part of the bit, idk if you want to call it a bit, regardless, then it feels pretty cringe.. like the zyn jokes are funny (I’ve never used it but friends do so the jokes play) but to actually be a zynternet guy in my age range would be a tough look yet the barstool portion of it all is aiming at the post 28 age range with a lot of their content which draws back on some late 90s nostalgia. I only get barstool content thru big cat and pft and they’re about to be 40 and they’re the mascots behind portnoy of all this, and while they have the biggest podcast, they aren’t as cringe at trying to become gen z with it all like portnoy is. It would be highlyyyy embarrassing to be an out and about portnoy fan. But I’m also from Los Angeles and no one here is so I don’t see it. But maybe on college campuses now that’s how it is. It’s not embarrassing to be fully portnoy/zyn/lose $100 gambling on college football guy, the zynternet has smooth brained them all as to not realize the jokes are funny but we aren’t laughing with them more at them.
There’s probably a parallel here between the zynternet for boys and brat summer for girls where at a certain age it gets cringe if your a 80s millennial doing all these brat summer things (even if Charli is 32).
Anyway I rambled but it’s interesting to hear an “outsider” perspective about a bunch of things that I interact with on the internet. (Although fuck the for you page, I stay off that except say once a week, I like to know what I’m gonna see and who it’s from.)
Thanks for the pod haha