• _____@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I don’t regret any of this one bit, you look them up and it’s always someone shilling products extremely hard while doing extremely low effort content like reaction videos or streaming Minecraft.

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      2 months ago

      This.
      The TV stations around me are desperate to attract the young viewers, so they always have influencers as guests on their shows and what not, and I simply do not get it.

      Today’s guest: Billy Bobberson.
      What’s he famous for? Oh he posts some selfies on Instagram daily and every other post is a sponsored brand promo.
      Why the fuck do people even follow influencers like this???

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        Because most people are stupid. It is easier for stupid people to follow fake celebrities aka influencers, than to read a book or think for themselves.

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    I often need to remind myself that Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are not recent movies.

    It’s the same as being a kid in the 80s, which I was, and thinking The Seven Year Itch was a recent movie. Now, I had seen that movie on TV, because my parents liked it, and I thought it was funny, but never did I think of it as “recent”.

    Still, you can’t tell me that Harry Potter movies didn’t happen in the last ten years.

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      No no! THIS is different ! 😀 it’s because it’s funny to mess with kids.

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    Well and here we are! I don’t even know if peeble and doop are real places online or she just made it up to make a point 😆

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    I used to work at a hikers’ hostel on the Appalachian Trail. A group of hikers needed a ride into town but were short on cash. One of them suggested they offer the hostel owner some weed in exchange for a ride. Another one said, “He doesn’t smoke weed. He’s old, like in his 40s.” He actually was in his 50s and bought his weed from me lol

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        Also “the fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so we can turn it around”

        There has never been a young generation not saying this. Many of them have been correct too, but few have turned anything around when it’s their turn.

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    I was talking to my primary-school age kids about their teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.

    “He’s old,” they said, “he must be at least fifty”.

    I said “nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon”.

    They had me with “no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper

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    They’re lucky not to know, doop fell hard off after it was acquired by Skoot Corp.

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      I’m still so mad at the Skoot Corp CEO for that ridiculous re-skeet where they memed the javalina charrp boys on doop.

      Am I having the stroke? Or is everyone else?