• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    34
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Excessive edginess

    It’s important to differentiate it from like. Having extreme opinions. There are plenty of adults with extreme opinions and they are a whole other conversation. – But only people under a certain age (not strictly kid, mind, though most people have shaken this off by their mid 20s) have a penchant to arrive at extreme opinions specifically because they are “edgy” and “cool”.

    This tends to also come with a particularly needless hostile attitude, where they very quickly and easily start with the verbal abuse.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    63
    arrow-down
    13
    ·
    2 days ago

    They like people like Lenin and Stalin.

    It’s a wakeup call for a lot of young people when they start to recognize the absurdity of anti-communist propaganda, but a lot of kids swing too far the other direction and figure all the bad things they’ve ever heard about history’s worst communist leaders are lies.

    It doesn’t mean that Communism is uniquely bad, but these men were violent tyrants who don’t share values with most mainstream western leftists today.

    Some never grow up and say dumb shit like that radical gender expression was common in the USSR or something…

  • noli@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    65
    ·
    2 days ago

    Specifically in games: constantly repeating the flavor of the month insults. Typically some influencer comes up with a funny insult then for the rest of the month some kids use that one singular insult for every situation

  • shneancy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    slang mostly, I mod a strictly 18+ space and recently someone used the word “skeet”, and would you believe it, they were a minor

  • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    125
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Extreme/insane positions on everything. Not just one or two insane positions, not just political extremism; when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING. No nuance allowed. And it has to be fully sincere, otherwise you are dealing with a Jreg.

    There are milder versions of this, but I have rarely met a child that didn’t have a strongly held insane belief formed from their limited experiences. My favorite was a kid who told me that eating pasta supports fascism because it comes from Italy, so loving Italian products means you support Mussolini. Pizza is fine, though, because that’s American.

  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    272
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    I remember reading that when national parks tried to make a ‘bear-proof’ trashcan, they found that there was a larger overlap between the smartest bear and the stupidest human to make a viable product.

    I feel like it’s a similar situation here. The smartest kid and the stupidest adult are far more similar than we’d like to admit.

    • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      82
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      Tbh I find it much more surprising that there’s an overlap of bears and stupid people than I do smart kids and dumb adults.

      I’ve met an unfortunate amount of people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        41
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        Bears can be trained to drive cars and communicate through various means, it’s thought they may be as smart as great apes like gorillas. This is why they were a choice circus animal for a long time.

        Yes, this should be terrifying information.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        … people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

        I love that analogy and need to commit it to heart. XD

      • huginn@feddit.it
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        3 days ago

        It’s less idiocy and more laziness. Any amount of inconvenience is too much for a lot of humans, unfortunately.

      • Faresh@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        Why does dumping water out of boots have instructions? Isn’t it like dumping water out of any other container?

    • jsomae@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s more like: the maturest kids and the most immature adults.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      3 days ago

      Side note: the National Park Service has an awesome team running their social media accounts. Their posts are always hilarious and informative.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      3 days ago

      Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.