No, it's not because of my age. Young people these days are even more in-your-face, "toxic", nasty etc than the teens I knew growing up. I don't think this really changes based on their politics
Basically young people have less chill today than they did 20 years ago
This extends to every form of media. Kids shows like Amphibia and other Disney channel stuff have faster dialogue and animation sequences than stuff from 20 years ago.
Video games: FPS shooters have become faster. Halo was the standard back in 2003, but the Call of Duty overtook it to become way more popular. CoD is way faster paced and you die in 2 shots instead of Halo's 20 or so.
MOBAs: the entire genre is a symptom of this.
Overwatch: combining MOBAs with FPS is also a symptom of this, the amount of stuff you need to pay attention to is insanely high
Everything 20 years ago, and even 10 years ago, was just way slower and normal.
Okay, for all the naysayers, this video was the impetus for me posting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0DEVvjkuIU
Someone posted this here in a different thread, and I realized that if this show were made today, over half the population would be screeching about it. If you posted this in like...25% of all english-speaking discord servers out there, it'd be met with hundreds of racial slurs and threats of violence.
This wasn't the case in 2002. There would be racist comments, but it would be mostly grumbling from older people. Nowadays it's literal "Kill all Ns and dropkick Ns into the trashcan" and it's coming from white teenage girls and boys AND poc girls and boys who hang out with them.
It's just so obvious to me that the fundamentals of behavior have changed, even if you look at other issues that have nothing to do with racism
2002 was real close post 9/11 wasn't it? were the teens less racist or were you less aware of it? like not asking as gotcha question just kinda wanna know your opinion on this
I'm Indian and I never got any racist comments even though I came of age in the 2000s.
I lived in NJ/NY though
There's definitely more racism now than post-9/11. Both specifically against Indians, and also just in general against other POC. Maybe less Islamophobia specifically.
Well for one discord wasn’t around in 2002. I think you might have a severe case of Too Online. Fortunately there is an easy fix. Log off for a bit.
Police violence, racist shootings, and Karens calling the cops on you for no reason have increased too, but thanks for the whitesplanation
You know what, you’ve turned me. I’m convinced. The shiny lights and fast paced action of Overwatch really did make children more reactionary or whatever.
It's more that the lack of chill, a critical element needed in the stepping back in order to analyze something properly, has made people both more reactionary AND more hooked onto faster-paced video games
It sounds like you're bent on proving me right!
No it hasn't.
All of that has gone on forever, but no one was able to record it with a smartphone and the news wouldn't report it because it was business as usual.
Be careful using online behavior to gauge general outlook. These voices only seem numerous because the internet collapses geography -- it's a self-selected group of angry people, scattered across the english speaking world, who are posting hateful things because they haven't got anything better to do. They don't represent the median attitude.
discord is not even used by like 70% of youngsters, and among those that do most aren't super active. people who use discord a lot are weird, they do not represent the majority of youth.