Yeah got a lot of flak for "watching TV" when I was a kid, it was like murder or yaking drugs or something. I didn't even watch tv almost at all🤷🏼‍♀️

Today: both genitors are glued to their tv or their phone.

I can get on board for all this "you have become what you hated" fun poking.

But let's be real. And I won't be alone in this because Lemmy is loaded with tech folks who probably spent a lot of time sitting at a desktop computer in their younger years. I submit the following:

My parents staring at facebook on their phone all evening is an objectively worse activity than teens/20s me sitting at a desktop computer doing 20 different things all evening. One just might turn you into a software engineer or IT professional and the other just might turn you into a drooling nazi.

Can we please go back to the emo/hipster/scene era look for women? I know people hated it but I didn't.

Love it all. MCR, avenged 7 fold, gir from invader Zim, half-life, fall out boy. So nostalgic.

Oh missed home star runner!

Rawr

You can't tell me what to do

You know what the crazy thing is? My mother is fully capable of recognizing the AI videos (uncannily so, actually, she always passes those "AI or Real" tests with flying colours compared to the rest of us). She just doesn't care.

Invader Zim, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance. Half-Life. Homestar Runner.

Yep. I 'member