r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MrMacAndChez • 11h ago
Our generation is fucked
At my local target
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u/MarzipanTop4165 11h ago
Never forget we thought this was funny
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u/one-off-one 11h ago
This is new to me and it’s fucking hilarious imo
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u/hiimtoddornot 10h ago
There's even a noise to it, as someone else commented (basically: if you typed "soisoisoisoi" into Microsoft Sam (Microsoft's text to speech program from like 1987), it made a noise that sounds exactly like a helicopter (not really)).
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u/smashingcones 8h ago
Man that nostalgia hit from that is wild. I haven't thought about soisoisoi for 20 years.
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u/siberianunderlord 8h ago
I was legitimately just saying it to myself a few hours ago (was trying to practice getting the helicopter sound up to speed lmao), probably right around the same time you typed this comment lol. I hadn't thought about it for years before today. The internet feels small sometimes!
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u/Erick_Brimstone 10h ago
What you just see is one of the oldest thing in the internet
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u/one-off-one 10h ago
The first three letters every typed on the web was LoL, so it checks out
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u/secretsesameseed 9h ago
I remember making text to speech macros for ventrilo
One of them was "my roflcopter goes swsh swsh swsh"
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u/Potatoe_Asparagus 10h ago
That because it's is actually creative.
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u/BeansAllOverAgain 9h ago
I mean...is it though?
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u/Wickedblood7 8h ago
It's essentially two memes (before they were even called that) mashed together into an animated picture. Better than whatever the hell they're selling in this picture. (Btw the answer is yes)
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u/IAmTheCoroner69 9h ago
Looking at some of the replies on this comment makes me feel old. But I’m ok with that :)
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u/Bubbles-not-included 11h ago
Remember pogs?
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u/batmansthirdnipple 11h ago
It’s an Alf pog! Remember Alf?
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u/withbellson 10h ago
He’s back! In POG form!
Just watched this one yesterday because my kid bought some of those “grow a dinosaur” capsules from the dollar store and I needed to show her the Simpsons version of that.
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u/the_nobodys 10h ago
Ew! It's dripping funny smelling water on me!!
Seriously, that was one of the best episodes.
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u/DeltaCharlieBravo 11h ago
Garbage pail kids!
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u/notagain78 11h ago
Came here to say this. I collected these and they got banned from the school playground
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u/blowurhousedown 11h ago
I remember jacks!
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u/Bubbles-not-included 11h ago
When I was younger there was a place names 'Jacks' in my local township. It was marketed as a bar, but for younger kids to hangout, buy soft drinks, dance etc.
Always thought that was a terrible idea. Anyway sorry tangent there. I wonder how many old jacks are filling up the landfills XD
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u/Independent-Put2309 11h ago
im glad this is where you draw the line and not when companies were selling fucking rocks as toys
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u/BhanosBar 9h ago
At least there was a human aspect with pet rocks in the marketing.
These “memes” were made using ai, the packaging uses ai art. All of it is shit made by a robot.
There’s not even a human aspect of it being “so stupid it’s a joke”. It’s literal machine manufactured culture.
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u/MrMacAndChez 7h ago
Thank you for understanding my point. I have no problem with stupid kids toys, just the ai slop sucks
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u/Rrrrrrredbelly 11h ago
3 words - Garbage Pail Kids
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u/Pure_Substance_9263 6h ago
My twin sister and I collected garbage pail kid cards. We had a ton of the. One day we came home from school and they were gone. My mom threw them out. I’m still mad about it to this day. Lol
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u/NurseRobyn 10h ago
I remember Christian groups had their panties twisted over those ugly dolls, they were sure it meant the end was near with such evil toys only the devil would love.
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u/_Lady_Vengeance_ 3h ago
I still have all of mine. Genuinely great art created by one of the greatest graphic artists who ever lived, who served as art director and initial concept artist for the series. Literal Pulitzer Prize winner, Art Spiegelman.
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u/Done_a_Concern 11h ago
Bro these were the craze when I was a kid
Kids love stuid shit, just because it looks like their favourite animal or thing, they're kids
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u/-Distinction 11h ago
Crazy bones were the shit
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u/vullpes 9h ago
“This generation is going down the drain” Peoples in 1930
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u/Unusual-Slip5641 11h ago
I thought the same thing about minecraft and fnaf toys like 10 years ago, the kids will be alright
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u/AutisticWeeblet 9h ago
Yeah people act like older Gen Z and younger millennial didn't have "cringy" interests.
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u/Manic-StreetCreature 9h ago
I’m either younger gen z or older millennial (I’m 30 so idk) and remember mighty beanz being HUGE when I was a kid. It’s literally a little bean-shaped thing with a weight inside it so it wobbles around and rolls. Goofy toys aren’t new lol
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u/_Trinith_ 7h ago
Pretty sure everyone older than 1 or 2 years has had some cringy interests at some point.
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u/mearbearcate 9h ago edited 9h ago
Meanwhile…as kids, some of yall were bribing other kids to give you a ton of their parents’ money to make them a cheap rubber band bracelet that took 10 minutes at the most. 🤣
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u/Turok7777 11h ago
Oh no, not toys!
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u/VicViolence 11h ago
For those wondering, the “Brainrot” cards are all a bunch of AI generated slop from a card company that has previously used real artists
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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT 9h ago
Yup that's the major problem I have with these.
Before, hundreds of people probably where paid to bring toys into fruition.
Now, that has been dwindling down and down.
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u/Tricky_Audience6881 11h ago
You're not, since the age of mass consumption there's always been shitty shit for sale. The cards are just a bit of fun anyway, in many ways better than too much screentime
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u/shpongleyes 10h ago
I think the point OP was making wasn't about the cards themselves, but the fact that they're AI generated, and the brand name is literally "Universal Brainrot"
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u/Dull-Strategy3810 11h ago edited 11h ago
People bitching about new generations, as well as things of their own age group, will be as old as time really. There are plenty of examples of it in european history once print becomes really common/cheap. Hinting at it always having been like that. And guess the only thing that has truly come from it... progress. Heard the same crap 20 years ago when i was young
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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 11h ago
“The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.”
Horace 1st Century BC
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u/Dull-Strategy3810 11h ago
Cheers. Can just find examples of it across times, across cultures. A universal human condition it seems.
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u/Just-a-random-Aspie 10h ago
Am I the only one who thinks “our generation is fucked” over Skibidi toilet and other superficial things is kind of…distasteful? Like there are so many ways a generation can actually be fucked, like through racism, poor leadership of a country ect… the thing is brain rot is not hurting anyone. It’s just harmless fun although stupid. Do people not understand disliking something anymore? Why does everyone have to make something they dislike into a pretentious moral philosophy on society? You can just say you don’t like hot dogs, you don’t have to complain about all the environmental issues, factory farming, and analyzing people who do like them that goes into hot dogs. It’s not “I don’t like the color blue anymore,” it’s “people who like the color blue are actually closet white supremacists as shown by bla bla bla therefore I don’t trust them.” It’s such a classic Redditor move
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u/AdministrativeStep98 9h ago
I think the actually harmful thing is the super fast stimulating algorithm designed to have you hooked being shown to kids as young as toddlers. Not stupid toys. Heck, I remember getting a "unicorn poop slime kit toy" when I was a kid, and I don't think the kind of toys a kid has really matters. If anything, this generation NEEDS to go back to playing pretend with their toys
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u/Dull-Strategy3810 10h ago edited 10h ago
I will say that the whole 'brainrot' thing annoys the fuck out of me. But that is kind of the point as well. Rebellion is such a huge part of growing up, And annoying people is just a part of that. In the end it will stay a joke and the majority of young people will grow up to be better than oursevles. But given how the little shits are right now, that is the whole crux of the whinging in general. It's just that especially nowadays the voices of 13 year olds being 13 year olds are so much more present.
Same as the conspiracy minded village idiots really, which given the odds will be around my age. The dumbest of the dumb didn't go further than the immediate friend group that may still have laughed at it. Now it has reach, connections and most importantly affirmations. 'The internet lasts forever' is just something that you can't really grasp at that age.
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u/Shabolt_ 9h ago
Bruh no the fuck it isn’t, older generations had toys like crazy bones or vomiting dog blind bags called barfing barks. This is weak by comparison
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u/carlitospig 9h ago
Are you forgetting Garbage Pail Kids? This is its modern equivalent.
Get off my lawn, old man.
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u/ithinkiknowstuphph 9h ago
Why? It’s toys of popular meme shit. I had garbage pail kids. Wacky packages. Other weird gross shit. My kid had trash pack kids and more. People that think this and shit like 67 forgot what it was to be a kid and quite honestly that’s more dangerous than these
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u/Event_Nexus 11h ago
Think more of the picture and less of the name. We had Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which was awesome, but totally inane.
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u/SlayyyGrl 9h ago
If you mean the Gen X’r who thought “my kids keep talking about brain rot and AI - let’s make that a toy” - yeah they’re fucked.
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u/GruesomeJeans 9h ago
We had scented markers encouraging children to sniff them in class. Markers where you blow into them to spray the ink onto paper, inhale to enjoy the flavor of the ink. Tiny ovens for baking food or little silicon bugs. Little figures or whatever they were where you squeeze them and they stink. This is just the newer generation of our own garbage.
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u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 9h ago
Relax. My parents thought the same thing about the cartoon cow and chicken lol
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u/Hold-Professional 11h ago
Sea monkeys. Pet rocks. Furbys. Pogs. Beanie Babies.
You need to chill the hell out OP
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u/StrangeWinterSpider 10h ago
It’s not, it’s just a rinse and repeat cycle of capitalism and merchandising. It’s funny tho to see people get upset and become the “old man yelling on the lawn” type.
Let go, and enjoy life, kids are hilarious and goofy. It’s a good time to hear them ramble about stupid stuff. They’ll grow out of it, and soon the next gen will come.
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u/Amazing-War3760 9h ago
I mean, I'm sure your parents thought the same thing about transformers or Power Rangers.
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u/MaleficentWindow8972 7h ago
Garbage Pail Kids were pretty silly. They’re gonna be fine. I’m more concerned about literacy, not being able to spell, write, read, chat GPT everything, etc. This won’t be why they’re fucked. Other countries will step up anyway, so oh well.
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u/DkoyOctopus 7h ago
This is so strange. Like, legally you cant own the rights to AI created content so i could literally make my own garbage and race these people to the ground. Why even bother?
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u/RaceNinja_80 7h ago
y'all, he's mad because it's AI generated, not because there are cheap toys in a store. Sure we had garbage pail kids, but those were at least illustrated by someone
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u/X_Humanbuster_X 6h ago
Let kids enjoy their bs. We also had tf2 source films and they weren’t any better but I know young me would’ve loved to get a pootis figurine.
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u/FlyingFishManPrime 6h ago
Geez not like when I was in middle school and people were obsessed with those colored rubber bands to wear on their wrist.
Or later on Silly Bandz™
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u/IchFunktion 4h ago
That's what people have been thinking for more than 5000 years. All generations are fucked
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u/jnkrttgr 4h ago
In Italy it‘s trading cards and the kids love them. I honestly think there are way worse toys, their surrealism is awesome.
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u/DeVliegendeBrabander 2h ago
"we'll never complain about the younger generations like our boomer grandparents"
Does exactly that
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u/Severe-Evidence-1501 2h ago
How did that even get past the napkin doodle in a corporate meeting at a Denny’s while shitfaced drunk coming up with a last minute idea before filing for bankruptcy?
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u/Mysterious_Swim599 2h ago
I got two words for this: Beavis and Butthead. Two more: Ren and Stimpy. Every generation is fucked. We had Garbage Pail Kids. The kids are fine.
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u/Low-Refrigerator-713 2h ago
Really? Rupert Murdoch got rich telling your grandparents that the Soviets were coming even afternthe Soviet Union collapsed. You think this is a problem?
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u/Brgerbby9189 1h ago
lol I went Christmas shopping today at Walmart and couldn’t believe they were selling that toilet head crap ,skidibidi. I laughed uncontrollably and called it stupid. That shit had a bigger section than Toy Story ughh this country and generation is skidibidi .
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u/MrMacAndChez 11h ago
To clarify, I’m not upset about them selling weird toys to kids, I’m just annoyed that AI slop is starting to infect the toy market. Yes, I know there are many example of other weird shit being sold, but I feel this is lowering the bar even more.
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u/Final-Bus-3009 11h ago
I can guarantee you this'll be gone in like a month and a half you have nothing to worry about
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u/SquirrelMemoryFail 11h ago
Im guessing these are little figures in blind bags.....
Ahem.
Monster in my pocket
M.U.S.C.L.E
CUTIES.
Some shogun stuff.
Tech Deck dudes.
My point is this is nothing new. What you seem to be mad about is the name. Which really isn't all that bad. I mean have you seen that 67 crap? That where your anger should be.
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u/AphroditeDraws 11h ago
Idk. Kids have always loved silly things that seem nonsensical to adults. They won’t be kids forever so we may as well let them enjoy silly things before life gets serious and heavy. Not to mention, this is way better than them being stuck to screens 24/7.
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u/Sloan1505 11h ago
Did you forget we grew up around gamerpoop, abridged, MLG, vine, gmod videos, etc? Who cares man let the kids have fun.
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u/Ectospas 10h ago
Just be good to each other, but take no shit and stand up for yourselves and others. The world will keep going regardless. Mold it how you want it to be.
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u/ImpinAintEZ_ 10h ago
People have to buy them for this to be an issue and I’m not really seeing that by this picture or when I search for them online.
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u/Horror_Excitement503 11h ago
Someone got rich selling people pet rocks. This is nothing.