#zoomer problems

[thepeacefulgarden]

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

[randomthefox]

[black-rose-writings]

"You're a child of the electronic era, you can make yourself some digital note[to remember to bring a mug to work]"

No, granny (affectionate), I'm child of the electronic era which means I have no object permanence, thank you for understanding.

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

If you can’t save to PDF that is literally not my problem

[svartalfhild]

Can someone please explain to me why the fuck colorizing black and white film and photos has become so popular and lauded? TV channels are showing colorized versions of old movies without even noting them as such now. That feels wrong to me.

I do not understand why everyone is so excited about colorization. All I see is a lot of splotchy guess work and a phenomenon that will give people the wrong idea about what the technology of the time was like. I can see a certain amount of value in colorization as an academic exercise, but I don't think it should be used as the primary way of showing old material to the general public, especially if you're not even going to acknowledge that it's colorized. That feels like a misrepresentation of history to me.

And the thing is, you're never going to be able to make it look real. It's always going to look like someone took a marker or something to a black and white photo, because there's only so much you can do. And you're never going to know most of the correct colors, so you have to guess, and you're never even going to be able to represent the colors you picked accurately, because you're layering it on top of something that you can only alter so much without losing the original shape and shadows.

Is it fun/interesting to try to get an idea of what something might have looked like with color? Yes. Should it be treated as completely accurate or as if you're "restoring" color? No. Should it be used commercially? No. Absofuckinglutely not.

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

should I apologize to boomers cause zoomer has to be the most annoying fucking term and maybe i get the annoyance now (/j)

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

My current infinity inc thoughts are

1. I love how for the first arc it seems like Todd's just a little shy but then as soon as they actually become a team it is immediately clear he doesn't like anybody else there except Jade and Norda because they're all yuppies and he cant stand it. Turns out hes just kind of a jerk. I love it

2. This is the first time ever I feel like being a zoomer is effecting my reading of a comic in like a noticeable way. Not negatively but everytime the JSA are here im like painfully aware i was born in 2001

3. Helix and Mr. Bones kick ass. MISTER BONES possibly the only good comic book character really

[the-ugly-ly]

boomers get so mad when you call them boomers. like up in arms.

it only they could bring that same energy to the issues like the crumbling economy they caused.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[visenyaism]

if pointing out that the age of getting a phone decreasing along with the prevalence of short form video as the dominant form of social media content during the most significant collective educational gap in recent history all of which happened during one of the most significant windows of psychological development in a human lifetime has had a deleterious effect on the attention spans, self-regulation, impulse control, social skills, tech literacy, and actual literacy of zoomers and gen alpha. if pointing out that that is a real and serious problem makes me a boomer and an old crank who has fallen for “kids these days” propaganda someone find me a porch and a rocking chair so i can yell at you to get off my lawn

[lemonhemlock]

Lol! Some more reliable leaks accounts have sources in casting or production, some connect with people near the set. There was the guy who did fly a drone over filming 😭😭 it’s all meant to be in good fun and to hype fans over what might happen, but it’s become a race to report on something first, regardless of how true it is. We’ve been promised Daemon and Rhaenyra fighting side by side in battle, Aemond killing the Strongs at Harrenhal with Larys in tow, and Rhaenyra in disguise at the KL riots 😵‍💫 None of which seem to be very true at all. The latest one was another Daeron casting- an account posted that this one actor was confirmed for the role, and then followed up that post 30 min later with “lol jk”. It’s just become spreading fake info around for likes and it’s frustrating for people who do actually want to get excited over something as small as Jason Lannister looking cunty on the battlefield 😭

yeah it does sound like a quagmire out there. at the end of the day people wanting to get excited over asoiaf developments (of any kind) is normal. but another year of this doesn't sound v sustainable for one's peace of mind. my personal advice would be to revisit other parts of canon - at least it will spare you the headache of sifting through fake news. for example, the hate fire & blood gets in the hotd fandom is way overblown and i don't even think the majority of show viewers have even read it.

[corythesaxon]

I agree with all of this so much. Like I am embarrassed to be Gen Z (granted I am an older Gen Z but still.)

Like so many of the younger ones that I’ve encountered mirror the things mentioned in this link. That and I can’t even talk to Zoomers that are 20 and below because they act like self centered morons.

[olderthannetfic]

Wait so…if the only things making companies censor the internet is payment processors then why can’t internet sites just stop using them? Are they required? I thought it was the app store. I know zoomers and gen alpha are addicted to algorithms and too tech illiterate for browsers but the smart ones will follow if censorship goes too far and people leave apps altogether. What sites still function without apps besides ao3? I feel like soon ‘mainstream media’ is just going to mean app based socials.

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Payment processors are what let you take credit cards. Paypal will generally desert you if you're a site for horny. You have to get one of the vastly more expensive options that are designed for live action porn with high profit margins. Sometimes, the credit card companies themselves will come after you, in which case, no payment processor can help you.

The problem is financing a site. Modern sites are very, very expensive, and the higher the traffic, the more expensive they become. If you can't rely on paypal or ads, it's hard to figure out a model that works.

The app store is definitely a problem, but it's only the beginning of the woes of any site trying to host socially unacceptable stuff.

[anneapocalypse]

"Zoomers are reinventing gender essentialism!" I assure you they did not need to reinvent it; it is alive and well in the society they have been raised in. They just haven't had the time and life experience we have to begin unlearning it. Be patient with the Youths even when they're annoying you, they are also stuck living in a society they didn't choose, and I'm willing to bet that even the most progressive of us queer adults have at some point repeated some bad discourse we thought sounded reasonable at the time.

And idk, blaming young people for a very very old problem isn't a very useful or accurate or compassionate take I don't think.

[the-ugly-ly]

i miss facebook it was literally the easiest platform to get information on people.

location? job? relationship status? family members? schools? past cities? all on facebook.

now you gotta genuinely STALK peoples account and gather information and assumptions… also good luck finding anyone with an arbitrary username.

i just kinda miss facebook.