A false dichotomy created by pop culture to divide teenagers into cliques.
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Yeah, I mean I did plenty of both.
And have felt super cool and like a total loser doing both.
Hell yeah.
Imagine not cracking a beer while playing Vidya Games.
Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y'all zoomers were better than that.
Actually not. You can be a massive nerd these days and still go get fucked up and party.
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This would have been maybe edgy or interesting 20 years ago
Having been a teenager approximately 20 years ago, no this wouldn't. We partied and went out, and played video games and surfed the net back then too.
Eh. I grew up in a football town. There was definitely a dichotomy between the popular kids and the "nerds" back when the term was only used as an insult. I think people have to remember their local experiences are only indicative of their locale, not the world at large. The same likely applies here. Won't be true for everyone, so the post is at least wrong in that regard, but the person who made it probably just didn't consider their experience is the same as everyone else's either.
Based on just browsing social media, this would be more accurate if it were stated as a spectrum and the two extremes hate each other. That would explain the posts in the recent past of people complaining about "normies" (unironically) joining Lemmy.
When I've seen complaints about "normies" using Lemmy, it has more to do with people who are enlightened centrists / freeze peach warriors bringing their diseased takes here from reddit
I don't think it has anything to do with which specific hobbies people enjoy, especially since we can't even see that through the screen. I don't know anyone who really cares if you enjoy clubs, gaming, or both.
Fair point
I was actually both . I was in the robotics club and programming/ gaming on my free time. Then on the weekends I was out drinking and hanging with a completely different set of friends.
The double loser? Gaming and having friends must have been painful to live through.
In the 90s it wasn't a problem to do both, so I became a double loser.
I was the Internet/Gamer kid raised by television who got drunk at 17 and fell off a roof. Why was I drunk on a roof? Fuckin' 2001.
Not sure which category I fall under.
Yeah lol. I was an internet troll through and through, and somehow found my way into a pretty diverse group in uni.
I don't even want to start on the drunk shenanigans we got up to.
Gamers truly are the most oppressed ✊😪
Gamers rise up!
I'm about to blaze up and jump into this Tarkov wipe with the boys. The fuck is this.
I really don't care about party-goers.
If you’re not born rich, you’re a loser. There.
Oh no, I was in the first group (for 3/4 of high school) and I definitely thought that I was a loser.
Alcohol gives you cancer, gaming does not.
You haven't played LoL, have you?
I think I tried it out but discovered that I find MOBAs boring as hell.
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They both suck
I was both of these as a teen and basically still am. I'm also a confirmed loser so this meme checks out!
Same except for the still am part.
I'm part of the two, am I special? 🙊
no
fuck
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