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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People with social anxiety born before 1980 didn't have the memes to express themselves

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But were there so many of them?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes. They just didn't have nearly as many outlets to express it.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 months ago

Hard to say. Definitely not as many people actually naming their anxiety. It was sort of taboo to talk about mental health plainly.

But a lotttt of folks with dubious coping mechanisms, just repressed and bottled up without even the memes to combat their anomie.