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[–] 132 points 1 year ago (33 children)

I KNOW RIGHT???

And people were like "oh the killer carved UWU what's this and Helldivers 2 memes on his bullets, that's common in Groyper circles"

Bro are you talking aboutttttt, what do you mean????
I just find it absurd how these niche-in-a-niche-in-a-niche communities develop and how seemingly random bits of internet culture turn into dogwhistles inside, it reaches a point where I'm just like dude, our lizard brains can't handle the internet. We just weren't wired to work like this, there's no way

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I really, truly, with all of my being, feel that we are reaching the end limits of what the human mind is currently able to contend with. We are so overstimulated it's insane. We literally need to evolve our physical bodies as a species to continue living as we are or we will literally die.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Or maybe just not go on the internet so much?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Most people are addicted. It's like you are saying "Just stop smoking cigarettes so often"

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's a more reasonable suggestion than "evolve more lungs"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    With cigarettes, we recognized the harm that they did and in response developed a series of regulations about where they could be used, who could use them when, how they could be advertised, warning labels that had to be applied, and taxes on them to discourage use and offset the societal harm. As result we get this:

    ...and this...

    The internet is a tricky one on account of it absolutely having crossover with the first amendment, but there's got to be a conversation about its effect on mental health and what if anything can be done in response.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sorry man, but it's going to get worse before it gets better.

    And I have no idea if it's ever getting better

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I saw someone who described the murder as a shitpost and that scarily makes sense.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I'm a grown-ass, nearly 40 year-old family man, and I fucking know what "uwu" is. These idiots think they're "exposing the conspiracy", when in reality anyone who has spent more than 4 seconds researching any meme would immediately recognize it.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It wasn't even "uwu" meme

    It was the "OwO what's this?" Meme. Which makes it even weirder/funnier/messed up

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It's this face. Like :) is a smile and xD is supposed to be somebody laughing so hard their eyes have squinted shut.

    owo is the same face, but the eyes are open.

    Edit: I have misread. You do understand it lmao

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    seemingly random bits of internet culture turn into dogwhistles

    My favorite thing is the neonazis wearing pleated khakis. Like, the only item of clothing even nerdier than that is lederhosen.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My nephew is being sent to an evangelical school whose uniform is khakis and a choice of a red or blue polo shirt. Want to guess which color is social suicide?

    Im no longer talking to that part of my family.

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