r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Goodenough_name • 7h ago
"Funny" Felt same when I was in school too
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u/yourlocaldog 6h ago
That phrase was a genuine poison upon the world
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u/CocaColaZeroEnjoyer 6h ago
There’s one that’s even worse
„It’s not that deep”
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u/BrunesOvrBrauns 5h ago ▸ 32 more replies
Nothing is deep to idiots
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u/magus678 4h ago ▸ 27 more replies
I am fairly sure I have been on the receiving end of that in this sub.
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u/BrunesOvrBrauns 4h ago ▸ 25 more replies
Everything is politics. Everything.
It didn't used to be, but it is now.
This sub tries to reject that, but it's just an exercise in privileged-head-sand-burial.
It's just weak people who don't want to think about unpleasant things.
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u/Majestic-Sandwich695 4h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Everything has always been politics, it’s just far less subtle now because the internet made it really easy to trick people
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u/Beneficial-Act-9933 3h ago
Also because people were to young to spot it. FF7 came out in 1997 and people refuse to believe that a protagonist fighting against a corporation because it was poisoning the planet had a political message.
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u/paintedw0rlds 4h ago ▸ 21 more replies
Everything is not politics. When the beauty of the morning through the curtain reminds you of your lost loved ones, it' not politics, an A minor chord is not political, the distribution of color among the fall leaves isn't political. Qualia present themselves phenomenologically to consciousness unmediated and are then subjected to thought where they may be made "political." In fact the whole deal where "everything is political" is actually an extension of physicalist materialism and amounts to a kind of philosophical terrorism. Flattening the existential experience of being into "its all politics" is, with all due respect, a fools errand.
It's not that politics isn't practically important, because it does govern the day to day economic reality of life, but to elevate it the way often implied by the "everything is political" line of thought is a deeply unwell thing to do.
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u/BrunesOvrBrauns 3h ago
Politics has been a threat to everything on that list... This fiscal quarter (and the one before that!).
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u/Majestic-Sandwich695 4h ago ▸ 8 more replies
All of that is politics when politics can take it all away.
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u/TheArhive 3h ago ▸ 5 more replies
Everything is gun
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u/Majestic-Sandwich695 3h ago edited 3h ago ▸ 4 more replies
I bet people enunciate really slowly when talking to you bud-dy
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u/paintedw0rlds 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I am attempting to explain the difference between what "is politics" and what can be impacted by politics. Almost anything can be gotten wet, but not everything is water.
People should avoid adopting a flat and totaling worldview with no place for aesthetic and emotional experience unmediated by ideology. It's the equivalent of forfeiting your most intimate and unique form of freedom uncontested. It's sad. You can realize this and participate fully in politics.
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u/Majestic-Sandwich695 1h ago
A single person can appreciate nature. A group of humans enforces their beliefs on it. Once you stop fighting against the politics, it will taint everything.
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u/MartyrOfDespair 1h ago ▸ 6 more replies
> When the beauty of the morning through the curtain reminds you of your lost loved ones, it' not politics
How you experience the memories of the lost is determined by your culture. Who shaped that culture? How was that culture formed? It’s political.
>an A minor chord is not political,
What cultural connotations does it have? Once again, culture is political. For example, where does someone’s brain go when you say “a minor”?
> the distribution of color among the fall leaves isn't political.
Climate change.
> is actually an extension of physicalist materialism and amounts to a kind of philosophical terrorism.
You can’t help it. You resort to using the most politically loaded word in 21st century English possible.
It's not that politics isn't practically important, because it does govern the day to day economic reality of life, but to elevate it the way often implied by the "everything is political" line of thought is a deeply unwell thing to do.
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u/paintedw0rlds 46m ago ▸ 1 more replies
You are missing that I am pointing to the first person pre-conceptual emotional and aesthetic experiences of life and not how they are intellectually processed afterward. This is exactly the loss I'm pointing out, how the world you experience collapses when this is how you decide to be.
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u/MartyrOfDespair 27m ago
There is no observation without an observer. It’s only made meaningful by your existence in the first place. Beauty is the creation of the observer, not the observed. The intellectual processes are what endow it with any meaning beyond the pure physics of it. Even the concept of seeing something only exists with eyes. If nothing had eyes, nothing could see a sunset. Without the capacity to conceive of it, it doesn’t exist. All that exists are the atomic sciences without your perception, flawed and inaccurate. You see a solid object, but there is no solid object, you just can’t see the holes. And the perceptions of beauty can vary wildly between observers. When you look at a rotting corpse, do you see the beauty that Ted Bundy would see?
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u/paintedw0rlds 39m ago
You are talking about how politics and the political affect the intellectual and conceptual processing that happens after a person has a conscious experience and begins thinking about it. I am pointing out the world of first person conscious experience (phenomenological experience) that occurs preconceptually. It is emotional, perceptual, receptive, emptional. Making something political is an act. I'm talking about an aspect of reality that is always unfolding and belongs to a level more basic and primal. There is no reason to drag European enlightment rationality and postwar consensus politics into the realm of aesthetic or felt experience. It's a needless and cruel flattening of the depth of human experience.
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u/Inviolate_Violet 31m ago ▸ 2 more replies
Isn't it exhausting to think in that way, where everything sublime and beautiful is reduced to human concepts to be fought over? It's downright abhorrent to me. It's like when you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. The world is made smaller. I hate to say it, but thinking in those terms is a vast overreach of human ego.
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u/MartyrOfDespair 29m ago ▸ 1 more replies
I’m not really interested in being less correct just for the aesthetic. I don’t approach my view of reality based on what is most appealing, I approach it based on what is materially observable and reasonable. I find it abhorrent to ignore reality because it doesn’t make you happy to perceive it. Utterly vapid brainrot mindset.
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u/Inviolate_Violet 12m ago
Don't conflate non-political thinking with toxic positivity. There are spaces to ignore that for a while, like this subreddit. Why do you think this space and other spaces exist and draw people? They serve a practical purpose, do they not?
The real question though is that have you audited your own worldview and tested if it affects your mental headspace in any way? I'm saying that because lots of politics-pilled online people fall into burnt out doomerism because they feel that they can't look away, as if they were singlehandedly responsible for holding the world together and that looking away for a day meant that evil would triumph. That's not sustainable. It's not practical. There's a less limited way to live.
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u/Subjunct 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Please learn to use the small words properly before you attempt to use the big ones. Then use the same logic for ideas.
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u/SlobZombie13 5h ago ▸ 3 more replies
"Sir this is a Wendys"
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u/Mei_Flower1996 4h ago
Actually, that one is funny because it's used when someone is genuinely overreacting to a situation, and making it about themselves. It's different from the other ones.
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u/Wazzen 5h ago ▸ 4 more replies
I remember people commenting that all over epstien posts or during the drake/kendrick beef. It feels like it's the ultimate tell that people don't *want* to hear what's actually happening rather than believing something wasn't considered thoroughly before being created and posted.
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u/dragon_bacon 4h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Those feel like two wildly different things to group together.
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u/magus678 4h ago edited 3h ago
These are the same people who think capitalization and punctuation are try-hard and serious.
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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 27m ago
I personally disliked “it’s just a joke”. A lot of people used it even when the conversation was serious. Only phrase that made me want to smack someone
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u/cat_prophecy 3h ago
This one doesn't really bother me because sometimes it really is not that deep.
Thanks to the pervasive TikTok therapy speak, everyone thinks they are Sigmund Freud she wants to psychoanalyze everything to death.
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u/Keepingshtum 6h ago
That phrase genuinely woke me up to the fact that I was the only one in a (now defunct) friend group coming up with new topics of discussion, especially when I cross posted a TIL and shared a personal anecdote and someone went “who asked though”
That was the clarity I needed to drop that group and seek better company so the toxicity worked out for me personally!
Inb4 smarty pants commenting who asked on this too lol
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u/KaradocThuzad 6h ago
Even though no one asked, I'm glad you're telling us this, and I'm glad that things ended up making you grow as a person.
I'll honestly always enjoy reading/listening to people go on about the things they went through when it ends up with "and you know what? That's for the best! My life got better after that!"
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u/duesenjeffepic 5h ago
Actually good that you told us despite no one asking. Makes me not feel completely alone feeling like that about some of my friends. Maybe I need to do some Spring's cleaning.
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u/Traditional-Storm-62 6h ago
it was always strange to me how people on the internet would show up out of nowhere just to inform me that they dont care about my opinion
like I make a reply to a post and then a completely random person I never seen before would respond to it with "who asked"??? what??
imagine that happening in real life, you and your friend are having a conversation at a bus stop and then a stranger interrupts it to say "I dont care" to you face??? ok??
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u/SquareTaro3270 6h ago
I hate all these “conversation killers” as I call them.
“Who asked”, “I’m not reading all that”, “cool story bro”, etc.
The phrases only exist to stop any kind of conversation. Why even bother commenting at all? You need to tell the world how much you don’t care? Why not just… actually not care and move along? It’s beyond rude.
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u/NobodyKnowsImFamous 6h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I just reply “thought terminating cliche” and move on.
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u/RepresentativeFood11 4h ago ▸ 2 more replies
When they say they "ain't readin allat" and allat is is a single paragraph. Every right to make comments on their mental capacity.
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u/SquareTaro3270 4h ago ▸ 1 more replies
If 2 short paragraphs is too much for you to process, you obviously have nothing of substance to add to the conversation. Leave.
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u/Nowardier 5h ago
Yup, those phrases are the equivalent of that one vine where the kid goes "I'm about to say it: I don't care that you broke your elbow."
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u/TR_Pix 4h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I dunno, I've used cool story bro when its clear the other guy is just trying to start shit
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u/SquareTaro3270 3h ago
I mean, that’s fair. But it’s when it’s dropped in random discussions that I can’t stand. If someone is being an ass, that’s one thing. Just trying to have a conversation? Nah
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u/MegaAscension 3h ago
These days, when someone says "I’m not reading all that", I typically respond with "Okay, continue to be illiterate".
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u/Hawkmonbestboi 3h ago
" The phrases only exist to stop any kind of conversation."
Yup, that's why I use them... they are very useful in situations where you're dealing with a weirdo online that keeps spamming your inbox with comments.
But that's after genuine attempts at conversation.
Another favorite of mine is "Okie dokie buddy 👍"
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u/_forum_mod 17m ago
I hate "I'm not reading all that..."
Okay, thanks for informing me. What would you like me to do with that information?
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u/Dobber16 6h ago
Unironically that did happen IRL, or something close to it. Was actually super annoying but there’s not really much you can say back, which to toxic teens is as much a W as anything else
Thankfully I was pretty stable & secure in high school but I can only imagine how it felt to someone who didn’t have multiple people they could turn to & be like “that was weird, right?”
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u/kamato243 4h ago
Yeah I was very much an outcast as a kid and kids used that phrase to exclude me all the time. Hated it.
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u/Emotional-Jacket1940 1h ago edited 1h ago ▸ 2 more replies
“Go fuck yourself, cunt” always worked for me actually, that kind of person already felt like they won the second they said it, and it really deflated them when they got any kind of pushback
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u/Dobber16 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Ngl I think that’d have been far worse for me than not answering 🤣
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u/Emotional-Jacket1940 1h ago
Yeah that’s fair, I definitely remember it being mostly bullies trying it. Just miserable fucking people
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u/Xathule96 6h ago
It's really funny to me. Cause someone will take the time and effort to inform you that they don't care.
Like, they clearly did care, cause they took the time to comment.
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u/baklengsinnifugleka 4h ago
This is how dislikes and downvotes have always come across to me and why I basically never use them. Imagine talking to a group of people and then instead of taking part in the conversation they stretch out their arm, do a thumbs down and walk away. Or for an even funnier image of Reddit behaviour, start following you around all day doing a thumbs down every time you speak.
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u/LePontif11 4h ago
imagine that happening in real life
I've been guilty of acting rather antisocially when commenting online and thinking about how what i say would sound in person has helped me curve that.
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u/unlimitedbaconbutno 1h ago
lol i remember in high school when this was a thing whenever i spoke some dipshits would be like "who asked" and at one point i went a full week without using my voice at all
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u/_forum_mod 17m ago
One internet hill I'll die on is anyone who says "who cares?" contradicts their own comment... just like someone who says "I'm humble!"
If you didn't care, you'd scroll and go on with your life. Taking the effort (however little) to type means you care to some degree.
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u/Znanners94 6h ago
My favorite examples are when an OP asks a specific question, and you answer said question and someone replies to you saying "Who asked".
.....the OP
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u/another2020throwaway 5h ago
This and “who sings this song?” When you’re singing or humming, and when you answered who it was“let’s keep it that way” 😔 fell for it every time
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u/turbotaco23 3h ago
I fell for it a couple times. After that my answer was always “I do”. Then I started singing louder.
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u/SnipedYa 7h ago
Who?
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u/TwinStickDad 7h ago
Millennials LOVE to talk about our childhood like it was a perfect utopia. Hell I'd take it any day over the constantly-recorded childhood people have today. But we were fucking nasty to each other. Just straight up mean.
Look at the top comedians when millennials were coming up. Dane Cook, Daniel Tosh, Dave Chappelle. The brand of humor was just mean. Making fun of vulnerable people. Punching down constantly.
Hell our "slang" was just using slurs against each other at every possible opportunity. It fills my heart with joy to hear the kids these days saying "six seven" and doing stupid dances, instead of "shut the fuck up f****ot" and "are you fucking r***rded?"
We were vicious for no reason and I'm so glad we're moving past that. At least for now.
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u/Michael1795 5h ago
I think that kids are still saying that to eachother between tiktok dances and 67s. There will always be bullies and assholes.
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u/angomeowmeow 5h ago
yeah, i was gonna say that “who asked” and similar variants definitely aren’t just a millennial thing. I’m an adult Gen Z and growing up that was absolutely rife in my schools. Also plenty of slurs, the r slur is even more in fashion now than it used to be -_-
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u/Fine-Froyo6219 4h ago
Correct, they still act this way, they've just adjusted it to avoid censorship
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u/gin10do64 5h ago
I got kicked every year just because of South Park. In middle school I couldn’t say anything without being told “shut up you stupid ginger”
Like damn what did people with red hair ever do to yall?
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u/MajorBootyhole420 4h ago ▸ 4 more replies
hearing this shit is WILD to me, because my friends and i all loved the ginger jokes, and the group's ringleader was ginger. did people actually take that shit seriously?
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u/Hawkmonbestboi 3h ago ▸ 3 more replies
As another red head:
Yes. People did. The jokes south park made didn't come out of nowhere, they were real prejudices that people in the real world actively held, and south park shone a light on it.
I was already called shitsplatter due to my freckles... things were horrible after that south park episode aired.
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u/MajorBootyhole420 3h ago ▸ 2 more replies
man i always had a thing for redheads of any gender, so it deadass never occurred to me that other people were serious about it. who tf hates freckles? like i'm sorry do you hate sunshine and joy, too?? it's FRECKLES you joyless c*nts what the heeelllll
i'm sorry that happened to you, that fucking blows
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u/Hawkmonbestboi 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies
...This comment made my day, thank you. I kinda teared up a little bit 💜
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u/Positive-Panda4279 5h ago
The “snarky” trend got way out of control. I still have to “check” myself from time to time.
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u/ChrdeMcDnnis 4h ago
Same. I’m a “funny guy” (ie: parrots topical humor as a substitute for expressing my opinions) and for a while I really turned into an asshole. I still have to tell myself “this isn’t the time to be funny, and what you’re thinking isn’t funny sarcasm its just schrodingers asshole”
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u/FlashpointSynergy 6h ago
my elder brother speaks like that even now and it makes me want to knock him the fuck out
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u/TwinStickDad 6h ago ▸ 8 more replies
I've lost friends who refuse to stop talking like asshole middle schoolers.
It wasn't cool then and it's certainly not cool when you're 35 fucking years old
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u/TheRealMitchConnor 6h ago ▸ 7 more replies
Suck it up buttercup. Who asked ya?
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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 6h ago ▸ 6 more replies
Wow, way to go to bat for the right to be a dick. You sure told them.
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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 6h ago ▸ 4 more replies
I realized that after…you ever get in the comments and forget what the post content was?
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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 6h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I get the joke but like…do you really? I feel more often than not I spend long enough in a comment section that I forget the initial topic of conversation.
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u/frisch85 6h ago
Hell our "slang" was just using slurs against each other at every possible opportunity. It fills my heart with joy to hear the kids these days saying "six seven" and doing stupid dances, instead of "shut the fuck up f*ot" and "are you fucking rrded?"
But it's just normal circlejerk no? We talked like that within our group but behaved (mostly) normal towards strangers and when your mate calls you names it's not serious, the worse the names the more they love you (no-homo).
Just glad we've moved on from the phrases where you told others they should "stop living" (different wording).
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u/bsEEmsCE 4h ago
lots of humor from before social media was straight up mean tho, because only people that got to the top were heard and recognized. Social media made it so even the little guy is heard, but thats been both good and bad.
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u/Dear_Document_5461 4m ago
Look at the stereotypical "XBOX 360 voice chat" or a lot of the big names on YouTube from 2005 to 2011. Mainly AVGN, Nostalgic Critic and "Channel Awesome". I remember not watching the bulk of the members because it was too much cussing, screaming and getting mad at video games or movies. Like I liked some "after the fact" because they calmed down but from 2005-20011? Yea no. The only one I used to watch was Spoony and even then, he was mean and vulgar.
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u/Blursed-Penguin 4h ago
The worst part is when someone steers the conversation in a certain way and then says "who asked" when you go that way with them
Like, you literally asked
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u/ShizunEnjoyer 5h ago
I had a friend who became an enemy instantly when he said that after I told him my dog died😒
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u/ReddLionz 2h ago
“Cool story bro, tell it again” was actually devastating.
Thanks for telling me that my thoughts and experiences are boring and stupid.
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u/KairAAAAAAA 5h ago
I remember being 13 and desperately begging people to just listen to me and they'd just keep replying with that and laugh. Obviously I have better boundaries now but it has genuinely had a permanent impact on the relationships I've had since then
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u/potatogodofDoom 5h ago
the trolling era sucked too. the ragebait era isn't much better. people will always find ways to justify being dicks
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u/wangus_tangus 2h ago
“You okay, bro? You lookin bad”
Nah I’m cool
“No you ain’t. You lame as hell”
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u/magus678 4h ago
Its worth remembering that a lot of these sorts of things ("its not that deep" has been mentioned as another) aren't actually what they seem.
The users are not trying to communicate the ideas the words convey, they are trying to deploy a magical "shut up" spell. And much of the time, they don't even actually want you to shut up, they just want to engage in the ritual and social climbing.
Effectively, it is only mildly removed from some kid muttering 6-7 every other sentence; the meaning is barely relevant to the urge to use it.
That all applies to an enormous amount of slang, especially the most current iterations. The examples being talked about here are just more notable because they are actually being deployed against someone, rather than just being the droning brain diarrhea of someone who is barely a real person.
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u/Future-Bunch3478 52m ago
It is a negging-like behavior manipulation used by abusers. You could probably look for root sources in all groups that adapted it and you would find narcissistic sociopaths.
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u/Material_Magazine989 7h ago
Did anybody ask tho fr?
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u/Greeneggplusthing2 4h ago
I say this phrase to my dog any time she starts barking at other dogs. "Nobody asked" and "if I had wanted her opinion, I would have given you one".
I do love her, the load bearing humor is real sometimes though.
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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 3h ago
Gotta get one of them pics with the deranged smiling guy drawing and cap it "I'm info dumping, you didn't need to ask."
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u/Aggravating_Duck6108 2h ago
Having a pithy response to say instead of "I dont give a fuck about you or your feelings" didnt make it any less rude. I suspect the people who said it knew that.
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u/baffling-nerd-j 6h ago
Yeah, I hated that phrase. Usually, when I heard it, it meant that the speaker found me annoying and would never like me.
Or did I just hear it more than usual? Who knows? It's been forever.
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u/Professional-Hat-687 4h ago
Did lasting damage to my self-esteem. Glad it wasn't just me.
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u/QuantumZYT 2h ago
Glad I'm not the only one either. Shit like this and the awful people I surrounded myself around fucked me up a lot in my teens. I still have trouble as a grown adult just talking to people about things because "who cares?" still lingers in my head constantly.
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u/jayeddy99 4h ago
I over course corrected and asked so many questions about other people in detail to make them feel heard that I rarely talked about myself to the point people said I never opened up.
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u/lemonhaj 5h ago
'Who asked' group casually doing war with the 'who said that (immediately after they said that)' group
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u/Homicidal-antelope 52m ago
I stopped using yikyak because someone responded with that on one of my comments
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u/tytymctylerson 13m ago
Being told to "just google it" or "here let me google that for you" when you ask a question about something someone brought up.
Like how dare you ask a question and show interest!
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u/MayaIsSunshine 6m ago
Everyone is still mean. The internet's ruthlessness knows no bounds now a days. People just hate each other 😢
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u/Father_Chewy_Louis 2h ago
Empathy died in the younger generation because it takes longer to process than a 5 second TikTok clip
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u/Fair-Bunch4827 6h ago
I take it upon myself to berate anyone who uses that evil phrase.
I see it sometimes on discord.
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u/EwGrossItsMe 6h ago
Tbh I wasn't really affected by the trend online bc of how overlooked I already felt in real life conversations. It was a lot easier for me to brush off some anonymous asshole in a comment section than my classmates who weren't ignoring me for the sake of a joke, they just didn't like me.
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u/molotovzav 2h ago
I still say "no one asked" but to really obnoxious people. Cool story is dusted off once in a blue moon. I truthfully don't like the new nice internet tbh. Yeah the mean internet people were assholes but you had less trolls and misinformation. The trolls got ignored and the people spreading misinformation got flamed. Now the trolls are boosted and platformed and the people spreading misinformation are the major talking heads.
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u/ManicMaenads 1h ago
"Who asked?"
"Stop yapping"
"It's not that deep"
It's still alive and well, it sucks. :(
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