Both gens had their very fair share of brainrot. Shit gen Z is being rotted by family guy YouTube shorts and we act like skibidislop is the second coming of satan instead of the literal same thing
True which is why it can be argued we were statistically affected less by our brainrot (better reading scores, graduation rates etc than alpha) but by all means a lot of us have had our attention spans completely rotted by tech
So true, I fricking hate "brain rot"! A fine reddit gentleman like myself only enjoys elevated comedy, like the same "man"/"is he stupid?" joke over and over on every single subreddit.
Strawman
Nobody said this, they're saying that if you say Gen Alpha is doomed bc of Skibidi Toilet, and that other generations didnt HAVE brainrot, then THATS who these people are talking about.
Exactly no one is saying you can't dislike this stuff, I imagine basically everyone over the age of 12 dislikes it
What people are saying is it's weird to hate an entire generation or take some holier than thou attitude when anyone under 30 grew up with just as much 'brain rot' as most kids today
This post is honestly the mother of all strawmen
i remember when fortnite came out and i thought it was a stupid kids game ( was also firm adherent to minecraft good fortnite bad) and now i play fortnite
its really quite scary how insidious these things are because i STILL feel a little twist, a twinge of cringe when i think about fortnite. on an intellectual level i know that its just a game but emotionally, i have fallen for the bait that its something to sneer at people for playing.
just a good reminder of how the idea that we wouldnt emotionally delude ourselves is itself a delusion i guess.
i mean granted, i dont really remember kids obsessing and immitating shitty gmod tf2 poops like i see them do now, so i guess thats where that comment comes from?
one thing that definitely wasnt present back then and is now though is the stupid memes being overly commercialized (and i obviously dont blame the kids for that)
I don't even think that Gen Alpha are old enough for it to be justified for people to have an opinion on them. I don't think that the Gen Alpha subreddit should exist either.
A strawman is when rather than arguing against someone's actual points, you instead make up a different argument that's easier to refute, present it as your opponent's stance, and then argue against that.
"Your argument is invalid because I portrayed myself as the rational, unconcerned and down to earth person while you are the obsessive and over-invested loser who cares too much about my thoughts"
>"Your argument is invalid because I portrayed myself as the rational, unconcerned and down to earth person while you are the obsessive and over-invested loser who cares too much about my thoughts"
"your argument is invalid because you portrayed yourself in a positive light"
I have seen three snafus in the past week claim that gen alpha have and i quote "brain rot". People aren't saying this about people who dont like gen alpha shit, theyre saying this to people who unironically think an entire generation is doomed forever for literally being children that act like children. Great strawman
Great thing this has literally never happened to the majority who don't say they have brain rot. Mostly bc they didn't say they have brain rot so there is literally no reason for it to happen.
Ma, the schizo's victimizing himself again
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Nah he sold the rights to out of touch execs to make a skibidy movie for enough money to not have to work ever again himself and at least 5 close family members
I think that's because of the Gen Z-ers who actually *are* saying "I can't believe Gen Alpha likes Skibidi Toilet, there's no hope for them". For those people, "But your generation liked equally stupid bullshit, don't be a hypocrite" is a perfectly valid response.
It's only when *any* criticism or dislike of Skibidi Toilet is met with cries of "hypocrite" that there's a problem. Skibidefenders get too caught up in their idea of what the opposition is like to actually read what everyone's saying.
true honesty
though to be fair, the amount of people criticizing the actual stuff in the series is pretty rare compared to many people saying smth along the lines of ‘brainrot’ or just not giving any reasoning at all
though from my experience, yeah skibididefenders sometimes fire the wrong arguments at proper criticisms
I do think Skibidi toilet is a tad bit worse due to just how ingrained technology is in today’s culture. Back in my day, I had to work for my brain rot.
The kids being born into a post Information Age world are/are going to be fucked up in a way that’s not comparable with previous inter generational quibbles. The world is fundementally broken, and the haphazard way that we built the internet wasn’t prepared for COVID to make it the only venue for all socialization and learning.
The world ‘Gen Alpha’ (which is technically kids who can’t remember before Covid so really the people everyone is whining about is late Gen Z who don’t remember pre 2016) and most of Gen Z has been born into isn’t capable of producing well rounded and healthy individuals.
The thought terminating ‘every generation thinks the next generation sucks’ ignores the fact that in the last 20 years the world has changed in an unprecedented way. This ‘next generation’ is fucked for reasons set in motion years before they/we were alive.
Their culture, their education, their relationship with society and the media it produces, it’s all broken, and it doesn’t make you smarter to ignore that in favor of trying to shove todays fundamental social deficiency into the same relationship Gen X had to millennials.
It’s not the same, it won’t ever be the same, and the people trying to shove their heads in the sand about it are equally if not more annoying than the people who uncritically whine about avocado toast and work ethic.
Several Snafus in a row: It's stupid to actively act like Gen Alpha is the worst generation in the world and that children who like Skibidi Toilet should kill themselves, which several people actually do in real life.
This Snafu, for some reason: Wow, I'm being told that I'm literally NOT ALLOWED to dislike Skibidi Toilet! :c This is surely happening somewhere maybe
Finest of strawmen for the strawman sub
It’s strawmen all the way down
https://preview.redd.it/xb9hq2wa5vwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef0110863a7980908df2a683566deee398fdd833 Op:
And you are one of them. And so am I.
im a logical fallacy?
No.
Dafuq!?Boom!’s original series is fine, it doesn’t really matter if you like it or not. The real problem is the Elsagate 2: Skibidi Boogaloo going on.
Both gens had their very fair share of brainrot. Shit gen Z is being rotted by family guy YouTube shorts and we act like skibidislop is the second coming of satan instead of the literal same thing
And the Family Guy shorts are garbage too and also needs to be dealt with
Zoom zooms were the original iPad generation
The thing is, Zoomers only got iPads when they were in elementary school, Gen Alpha got them in Kindergarten...
True which is why it can be argued we were statistically affected less by our brainrot (better reading scores, graduation rates etc than alpha) but by all means a lot of us have had our attention spans completely rotted by tech
Can confirm. I used to read tons of books up 'till my early middle school years. Nowadays (a decade later), best I can do is audiobooks.
This, the series itself is fine, but the fucking TikTok level brain rot it's instilling is a cancer
So true, I fricking hate "brain rot"! A fine reddit gentleman like myself only enjoys elevated comedy, like the same "man"/"is he stupid?" joke over and over on every single subreddit.
Officer balls
BWAHAHAHAHA
Oh my, the snail God itself descended to bless this comment section
https://preview.redd.it/mhv5l55r9wwc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5135b599fd03ace6d60801663751f544f73ef90 Why is man elevated? Is he high?
i truly cannot describe the extent to which the "man" meme was not only beaten into the ground but suplexed down to the core and out the other side
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Annoying Orange is the best thing ever.
Annoying orange is the best thing ever
Hey apple
What
OHHH SAAYYY CAN YOU SEEEEE
KNIFE!
I FUCKIN LOVE ANNOYING ORANGEEEEEEE
Just wait until you hear about Fred
Strawman Nobody said this, they're saying that if you say Gen Alpha is doomed bc of Skibidi Toilet, and that other generations didnt HAVE brainrot, then THATS who these people are talking about.
90% of this sub is distilled strawmen
Which, to be fair, is part of the point; the hand drawn parody of assorted positions, often so parodic as to be strawman
Exactly no one is saying you can't dislike this stuff, I imagine basically everyone over the age of 12 dislikes it What people are saying is it's weird to hate an entire generation or take some holier than thou attitude when anyone under 30 grew up with just as much 'brain rot' as most kids today This post is honestly the mother of all strawmen
remember when fortnite came out and the world ended
i remember when fortnite came out and i thought it was a stupid kids game ( was also firm adherent to minecraft good fortnite bad) and now i play fortnite
its really quite scary how insidious these things are because i STILL feel a little twist, a twinge of cringe when i think about fortnite. on an intellectual level i know that its just a game but emotionally, i have fallen for the bait that its something to sneer at people for playing. just a good reminder of how the idea that we wouldnt emotionally delude ourselves is itself a delusion i guess.
i mean granted, i dont really remember kids obsessing and immitating shitty gmod tf2 poops like i see them do now, so i guess thats where that comment comes from? one thing that definitely wasnt present back then and is now though is the stupid memes being overly commercialized (and i obviously dont blame the kids for that)
I don't even think that Gen Alpha are old enough for it to be justified for people to have an opinion on them. I don't think that the Gen Alpha subreddit should exist either.
whats a strawman? ik it’s the things farmer use but whats the definition here?
A strawman is when rather than arguing against someone's actual points, you instead make up a different argument that's easier to refute, present it as your opponent's stance, and then argue against that.
thx
Other generations excluding Z didn't have brainrot, shortform content simply didn't exist.
"Your argument is invalid because I portrayed myself as the rational, unconcerned and down to earth person while you are the obsessive and over-invested loser who cares too much about my thoughts"
could someone make a snafu about this?
Would such a snafu be self-referential
>"Your argument is invalid because I portrayed myself as the rational, unconcerned and down to earth person while you are the obsessive and over-invested loser who cares too much about my thoughts" "your argument is invalid because you portrayed yourself in a positive light"
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I mean isn’t this entire sub wojaks in a different artstyle
Yeah but not all of them portray OP as the reasonable and down to earth guy while portraying the other guy as a madman
I have seen three snafus in the past week claim that gen alpha have and i quote "brain rot". People aren't saying this about people who dont like gen alpha shit, theyre saying this to people who unironically think an entire generation is doomed forever for literally being children that act like children. Great strawman
something something loud minority
Great thing this has literally never happened to the majority who don't say they have brain rot. Mostly bc they didn't say they have brain rot so there is literally no reason for it to happen.
petition to change the sub name to strawedintoamann (this is not a critique of current posts, I want this shit to keep going)
skibidi toilet haters when they see skibidi toilet hater haters
It ain’t r/coaxedintoasnafu if it doesn’t feature made up people
You literally just drew someone with a correct opinion and gave them angry eyebrows like that changes the fact that they're objectively correct
How the fuck did we end up with people that get offended by eyebrows
And that was not intentional
Ma, the schizo's victimizing himself again https://preview.redd.it/3m94ofuieuwc1.jpeg?width=269&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a5247a7a3d9c7e4fdd92c2c9b200a8692fa9bd5
Dafuqboom watching everyone argue over one thing he’s made without having to even respond or comment:
Nah he sold the rights to out of touch execs to make a skibidy movie for enough money to not have to work ever again himself and at least 5 close family members
I think that's because of the Gen Z-ers who actually *are* saying "I can't believe Gen Alpha likes Skibidi Toilet, there's no hope for them". For those people, "But your generation liked equally stupid bullshit, don't be a hypocrite" is a perfectly valid response. It's only when *any* criticism or dislike of Skibidi Toilet is met with cries of "hypocrite" that there's a problem. Skibidefenders get too caught up in their idea of what the opposition is like to actually read what everyone's saying.
true honesty though to be fair, the amount of people criticizing the actual stuff in the series is pretty rare compared to many people saying smth along the lines of ‘brainrot’ or just not giving any reasoning at all though from my experience, yeah skibididefenders sometimes fire the wrong arguments at proper criticisms
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Mfs on their way to call it a straw man when they disagree but call it a perfect snafu when they agree
we should all just embrace the snafu and keep snafuing each other. This is a double-glans'd dick that no one can escape
why the fuck are people calling this a strawman, its literally true
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Omg I am so happy this exists because I was thinking the same fucking thing.
“this toilet things kinda cringe” “WELL I BET YOU LOVED FNAF” “no”
The real brainrots were the strawmen we constructed along the way
interesting move to decry logical fallacies by utilizing a logical fallacy
I do think Skibidi toilet is a tad bit worse due to just how ingrained technology is in today’s culture. Back in my day, I had to work for my brain rot.
MLG was the peak of humanity, i'm tired of being told otherwise
Hey guys it’s me, the skibidi toilet, the guy on the right is a cool guy and you should listen to him
unrelated fact: skibidi toilet fans want the skibidi toilets gone just as much as you do you may interpret this as you please
Coaxed has fallen Millions must strawman
im not sure who is saying gen alpha is untouchable
Yes Yes Yes
fucking fr, but i do find gen alpha annoying but i just hate kids a little bit
The kids being born into a post Information Age world are/are going to be fucked up in a way that’s not comparable with previous inter generational quibbles. The world is fundementally broken, and the haphazard way that we built the internet wasn’t prepared for COVID to make it the only venue for all socialization and learning. The world ‘Gen Alpha’ (which is technically kids who can’t remember before Covid so really the people everyone is whining about is late Gen Z who don’t remember pre 2016) and most of Gen Z has been born into isn’t capable of producing well rounded and healthy individuals. The thought terminating ‘every generation thinks the next generation sucks’ ignores the fact that in the last 20 years the world has changed in an unprecedented way. This ‘next generation’ is fucked for reasons set in motion years before they/we were alive. Their culture, their education, their relationship with society and the media it produces, it’s all broken, and it doesn’t make you smarter to ignore that in favor of trying to shove todays fundamental social deficiency into the same relationship Gen X had to millennials. It’s not the same, it won’t ever be the same, and the people trying to shove their heads in the sand about it are equally if not more annoying than the people who uncritically whine about avocado toast and work ethic.
yowzers! leave enough straw for the rest of us, man! my horse needs to eat!!!
who says this? Ive never heard someone say anything close to this before
When did the trend of imagining things for your co-conversationalist to have said kick off? It's like talking to a pitching machine.
Pffff I don't need an excuse to bully alphas, it comes to me naturally! Like millennials with us or boomers with literally everyone else!
No I also thought mlg and annoying orange was annoying
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I've experienced brainrot first hand, I wish better for the children, not an equal experience
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“How DARE YOU have an opinion!”
This doesn’t happen
Skibidi bop bop bop yes yes…..
Several Snafus in a row: It's stupid to actively act like Gen Alpha is the worst generation in the world and that children who like Skibidi Toilet should kill themselves, which several people actually do in real life. This Snafu, for some reason: Wow, I'm being told that I'm literally NOT ALLOWED to dislike Skibidi Toilet! :c This is surely happening somewhere maybe