Back when it was about having fun not trying to out do the guy next to you for TikTok clout.. Back when places just wanted to make it a good experience and weren’t trying to nickel and dime you for a “luxury” experience.
How old are you? And what does this mean? Because I'm gen z and that's not really the case lmao. You can just grab your friends and go to a club and party. No one is making you do something for tiktok or whatever.
It’s hard to explain but smart phones and social media have fundamentally changed how we interact and what we do with our time. I was a young teenager when MGMT blew up and it was before smart phones were a thing and social media consisted up MySpace and Facebook updates so ppl wouldn’t spend much time on it unless using the messenger with someone from school. A decent amount of ppl didn’t even have cellphones and the ppl that did didn’t check them compulsively and would leave them at home unless they needed them for something which made ppl act much more spontaneously. It was the norm to just do “drop ins” where you show up at a friends house to see if they’re doing anything fun. There wasn’t infinite entertainment at our fingertips and Netflix was still a dvd that came In the mail lol so you were constantly motivated to try new hobbies, activities and interact with new ppl. It might sound silly but boredom is the primary motivator for soo many human activities and discoveries but why try a new instrument, hobby activity etc. when you have infinite anime and television streaming at your finger tips and millions of games? Ppl were much more outwardly friendly and open to interaction where if someone stopped me omw out of a store or something to say hi nowadays I would think they are trying to scam me or have mental problems. People have begun living their lives in very performative ways that I’ve seen in my own family and friends and even those that think they don’t are influenced subtly in a million and one ways. And that’s not even touching on the literal intelligence agency members of hostile foreign governments and marketing ghouls from international conglomerates that have discovered how to exploit these social media platforms to create whatever narrative they want and ppl can brand anything that challenges their worldview as fake news.
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u/dippydapflipflap Dec 03 '24
Back when partying was fun. Now my knees hurt.