Holy fuck.

CW: reddit-logo and generally horrifying information about the state of affairs. Some choice quotes:

People always say that every generation thinks the younger generation is getting weird, and is crazier. But I believe that what I am witnessing of the gen alphas is just completely different from the type of rebellion of my generation (gen z).

People will keep saying “we’ve always complained about the newest generation,” but society is fundamentally different now and it’s not just this generation. My parents are victims too, slaves to their devices. It seems like only some Gen X and Millennials are at least technologically aware enough to see what’s going on.

The screen and media addiction of generation alpha is actually an emergency that requires government intervention. Its literally like a black mirror episode what this stuff is doing to kids.

They are that incapable of looking at stationary with print on it. If it doesn’t have a back-light and it doesn’t move, it will not keep their attention.

  • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I think it’s bad, but the stuff listed in the thread you linked isn’t all that wild. A twelve year old girl said a really hurtful thing about someone’s appearance? Lmao tune in at seven for some real news.

    If I could ban smartphones for kids below a certain age I would (really, I would much rather ban social media/algorithms/never-ending feeds, but I digress) but as a millenial, kids my age were watching hours of TV after school, staying up literally all night playing video games, and consuming absolutely horrifying content on the internet way younger than they should have been.

    None of this is new. It’s just getting faster and more intense. I also worked with a lot of Gen Alpha last summer in a context mostly devoid of phones and internet access, and while COVID has been fucking rough on them, many are quite bright and empathetic, and if you can get them outside and touching grass for an extended period of time, it’s a whole different ball game. I don’t give a shit that every other sentence is skibidi or rizz or fanum taxes.

    The growing gender divide is almost a bigger concern IMO, but that extends up through people in their early twenties at the least. Most young straight cis people are nowhere near ready to be in any kind of long term relationship with each other. Again, probably not a new thing, but damn is it dire out there.

    Little edit: the young twenty-somethings I am with are currently watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I can promise you with all my heart that the toxicity in that show is astronomical and engenders a kind of brainrot that is far, far darker than any effect a skibidi toilet might have on a young, impressionable mind.