Awkward that you would mention streaming. We moved on to gleeking 3 years ago.

I'm seemingly also close to the grave, because I have no idea if those words are actual products or just made up.

Streaming is so 2024.

Everyone is womping now. You can womp on gubu, or womp ad free on poopdeck.

Zombo com.

excuse you, that's the Rizzler

yeah I feel that way. Its like what do I care what celebrity a person may be unless I like their stuff.

Oh please, those kids can be five year olds at best, and I refuse to believe otherwise.

A few years back I was a firearm salesman. The first time I sold a gun to someone born in the year 2000 I had an instant mid-life crisis.

Now I have a side gig teaching night classes at the University, and the students graduating college now weren't alive for 9/11.

I have to interact with a lot of them for my job, almost is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

People basically act like children until they're in their 20s, and kids born in '07 are currently still in high school.

I'm in this image and I love it. I don't give a fuck what the kids are down with these days.

Just stay off my damn lawn!

I like celebs who age gracefully. I had a lifelong crush on Courtney Cox before she had that horrific facelift. Just age, and maintain your dignity.

Nah, this is millennial energy right here. "Fuck social media, why doesn't everyone have a geocities page with a webring that links to their angelfire page and guestbooks and ICQ and stumbleupon KIDS NEED TO STOP HAVING A DIFFERENT INTERNET EXPERIENCE THAN I GREW UP WITH!"

Gen-x, as is their nature, simultaneously doesn't care and complains endlessly about everything equally, even the stuff they like, especially the stuff they like.

To put it in a perspective that this audience will understand; boomers are superintendent Chalmers. Millenials are Principal Skinner. Gen-x is Comic Book Guy.

These aren't radically new forms of celebrity so much as new methods of circulating a fad. Thirty years ago we had Pewdiepie and Mr. Beast, they were just Talk Radio shock jocks and daytime TV game show hosts. The names and faces change, but the gimmicks are all the same.

"Oh, you don't know who Octomom is? Oh, you haven't heard about the Macarena? You don't know all the call-lines to Rocky Horror Picture Show? I guess you're not cool." shrug These things come and go. You can follow them or not. But pretending the height of socialization is knowing the current crop of Mouseketeers-turned-pop-idols isn't going to make you less of a Boomer than your great-grandparents.