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[–] 123 points 3 years ago (3 children)

A false dichotomy created by pop culture to divide teenagers into cliques.

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    [–] 112 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    hello, I'm a 2020 hs graduate, I'm probably in the zoomer category. from my experience, this does not exist outside of movies.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    fun /s

    I mean, as a nerd with no interest in prom, it wasn't all bad. My hs has us still do graduation almost as normal (masks and spacing, ofc), with the only major difference being that it was split across multiple days so we could fit everyone on the front lawn.

    The fact that they had to do the speeches six times was the only reason I was slightly glad to have missed out on being valedictorian/salutorian

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    pretty boring tbh. most of it was the same, just with masks on, and classes online. thankfully, mu part of australia was mostly unaffected by covid, so final WACE exams were basically the same. the big send off was already done before hand

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Gamers truly are the most oppressed ✊😪

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    In the 90s it wasn't a problem to do both, so I became a double loser.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm about to blaze up and jump into this Tarkov wipe with the boys. The fuck is this.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Alcohol gives you cancer, gaming does not.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    If you’re not born rich, you’re a loser. There.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I really don't care about party-goers.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Oh no, I was in the first group (for 3/4 of high school) and I definitely thought that I was a loser.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I was both of these as a teen and basically still am. I'm also a confirmed loser so this meme checks out!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Spoiler alert...

    They both suck

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Bruh this meme is so stale could clobber someone to death with it

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm part of the two, am I special? 🙊

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