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This has been bothering me since 2020. Millennials and Zoomers on Hexbear: without googling, do you know who Alfred E. Neuman is? (hexbear.net)

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In the 2020 primaries, Donald Trump said that Mayo Pete looks like Alfred E. Neuman (which is devastatingly accurate), and Pete countered that he'd never heard of Alfred E. Neuman and it "must be an old person thing." That was incredibly weird to me, because I'm younger than Pete Buttigieg and I know who Alfred E. Neuman is.

It seems like there's three possibilities: One is that Pete does know who Alfred E. Neuman is, and his retort was simply try-hard and pathetic. Another possibility is that Pete does not know who Alfred E. Neuman is because he's been such a careerist psycho his whole life that he knows nothing but the most basic of pop culture references and whatever his staffers tell him about. The third possibility is that I'm unusual in my age cohort for knowing Alfred E. Neuman. My friends and I read Mag Magazine as kids, but we were nerds, and it may have been well past the heyday when Mad was a universal cultural touchstone for kids.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These are the same people who don’t know what woods porn is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

For zoomers like me who were like "I mean, I don't know what that is, but I don't want to look like I'm not in the know afront my venerable elders":

woods porn = porn you find or keep in the woods. It's that simple.

Youngsters had more woods to explore and more freedom to explore them, and porno was at this time mainly sold as physical magazines — so, if you didn't want your mags caught, you would keep them (or specific pages) in various locations "off the beaten path", so to speak. Other youngsters might stumble upon each others' caches while exploring the great outdoors, and this was naturally seen as quite a valuable and cool find.

This is at least how I understand it from a quick Web search.