• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    1081·
    11 months ago

    Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y’all zoomers were better than that.

    • bigmanjezza@lemmy.world
      48·
      11 months ago

      hello, I’m a 2020 hs graduate, I’m probably in the zoomer category. from my experience, this does not exist outside of movies.

        • KluEvo@lemmy.world
          12·
          11 months ago

          fun /s

          I mean, as a nerd with no interest in prom, it wasn’t all bad. My hs has us still do graduation almost as normal (masks and spacing, ofc), with the only major difference being that it was split across multiple days so we could fit everyone on the front lawn.

          The fact that they had to do the speeches six times was the only reason I was slightly glad to have missed out on being valedictorian/salutorian

        • bigmanjezza@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          pretty boring tbh. most of it was the same, just with masks on, and classes online. thankfully, mu part of australia was mostly unaffected by covid, so final WACE exams were basically the same. the big send off was already done before hand

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        923·
        11 months ago

        Can we stop this “Introvert” BS? An “introvert” is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves. Nothing more. This “the extroverts are the sports guys and the introverts are the intellectuals” is completely made up and people will not like you more or less depending on wether you wear your heart on your tongue or not.

        • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
          281·
          11 months ago

          An “introvert” is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves.

          That’s not correct at all, and it’s funny because you’re so confident about it

    • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
      10·
      11 months ago

      This would have been maybe edgy or interesting 20 years ago

      Having been a teenager approximately 20 years ago, no this wouldn’t. We partied and went out, and played video games and surfed the net back then too.

      • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        Eh. I grew up in a football town. There was definitely a dichotomy between the popular kids and the “nerds” back when the term was only used as an insult. I think people have to remember their local experiences are only indicative of their locale, not the world at large. The same likely applies here. Won’t be true for everyone, so the post is at least wrong in that regard, but the person who made it probably just didn’t consider their experience is the same as everyone else’s either.

    • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      Based on just browsing social media, this would be more accurate if it were stated as a spectrum and the two extremes hate each other. That would explain the posts in the recent past of people complaining about “normies” (unironically) joining Lemmy.

        • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, except I’ve observed that theme. So it does happen. I’m confused. If you claim to admit it happens, why then state you don’t believe it happens? I don’t even follow what you’re saying anymore.

            • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
              1·
              11 months ago

              It’s worth paying attention to if it happens to you personally though. Sure it might not be across the country, but most teenagers don’t get to venture outside the town they grow up in, so if it’s like that, it makes up most of their world. So yeah, that it happens is enough for some people as that would constitute their entire teenage life. I don’t understand why this is difficult to grasp. I literally opened and said it’s a spectrum and the people do exist at either end and that obviously implies it’s not everywhere. So half of what you said isn’t even treading new ground or refuting anything.

              It’s not major if it doesn’t happen to you. It is major if it does. This is super simple even a child should understand it.

  • bighatchester@lemmy.world
    16·
    11 months ago

    I was actually both . I was in the robotics club and programming/ gaming on my free time. Then on the weekends I was out drinking and hanging with a completely different set of friends.

    • nexguy@lemmy.world
      111·
      11 months ago

      The double loser? Gaming and having friends must have been painful to live through.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I’m about to blaze up and jump into this Tarkov wipe with the boys. The fuck is this.

  • GeekFTW@kbin.social
    7·
    11 months ago

    I was the Internet/Gamer kid raised by television who got drunk at 17 and fell off a roof. Why was I drunk on a roof? Fuckin’ 2001.

    Not sure which category I fall under.

    • platysalty@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yeah lol. I was an internet troll through and through, and somehow found my way into a pretty diverse group in uni.

      I don’t even want to start on the drunk shenanigans we got up to.

    • tetris11@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      I lived in terraced housing and I used to walk across the steep rooftop of my house down to the neighbors. At the time I thought I was being cool, like my hero, Daredevil. Looking back on it now, it was ridiculously dangerous.

      I lament the loss of quite a few of my parallel selves.

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.club
    English
    6·
    11 months ago

    Oh no, I was in the first group (for 3/4 of high school) and I definitely thought that I was a loser.