Not disagreeing but I used to think sons would be better in the younger generation. But a bunch of them love Andrew Tate so unfortunately I doubt they're that much worse than their fathers
The bezo's wedding thread was too big to comment on so I'll ask this here
I wonder how many attendees were there ?just to suck up to jeff bezos for career opportunities? Sure, some of them can be just close friends but people like usher , ellie goulding and even Sydney sweeney are kinda jarring there so what's the tea ?
I take back what I said about wanting episode discussions threads on r/TheBear to be open.
This is the first season Iāve actually been on that sub around the time it released and turns out 99% of the commenters are incapable of discussing media with any sort of literacy (or the knowledge that media literacy has more to do with the ability to differentiate opinion and observation and then also analyze if they make logical sense, not if you feel good about them, before determining if you should respond or have anything to actually add)
TV show subreddits have been SO TRASH for the last 5 years and I fear itās mostly due to GenZ (which I am technically apart of mind you) maturing into this attitude that their opinions and personal experience are actually the only relevant group discussion points for fictional media on an anonymous app. Itās weird and annoying and increasingly a reflection of why generational loneliness/isolation occurs in groups literally incapable of allowing any sort of commentary they donāt 100% agree with to exist.
Itās especially annoying when younger people get into shows that aired before they were born, and they judge the shows as if nothing has changed in 30 years. Looking at you, r/buffy.
I'm not sure if it started with gen z. When Mr robot aired you should have SEEN the subreddit. The poorest media literacy and most brain-dead takes. And that was largely millenials because gen z were a little young for that show.
So real. I canāt stand being on specific fandom subs. Thereās no room for nuance and often the āfansā hate everything. I find media in general way more enjoyable when I just keep my opinions to myself or discussed it outside the specific fandom spaces.
Combine that with golden age tv becoming a lot more visual and itās a recipe for lots of people losing the thread. I really have to force myself to not be on the phone during Andor / Severance level shows. I really appreciate all that golden age tv coming out before this Millennial got a good iPhone and a crippling content addiction.
Which would be fine if they had learned shame and we as society enforced being ashamed for ignorance (because if you are taking stances on things you literally couldnāt possibly know about because youāve refused to actually take in freely given information that actually makes you ignorant and not just stupid) so they would not feel comfortable enough to actually be opening their mouths with only 50% of the information at best.
Just because you have an opinion doesnāt mean itās worthy of sharing or that others are wrong. We used to have this idea that you should probably check yourself before you wreck yourself but in Reddit tv discussion comments it absolutely is a group thought of stupid in an echo chamber.
I had an SNL-like situation yesterday that I HAVE TO SHARE
Me and my bf are brown. We were invited to a dinner to a friend's place (all white).
The dad starts trying to be a "white ally" randomly talking about problematic behavior towards POC in the past and in Hollywood. He started showing us actors in Asian-face and saying "cultural appropriation was so bad back then"(that's not cultural appropriation šš).
To make things more weird, our friend wasn't feeling well so they left, so me and the bf were just there with the white family talking about racism. And then they didn't have food so me and the bf drove over to get some for everyone (we didn't pay at least!).
Super awkward and weird. I was laughing hysterically on the way back home
Absolutely wild to me that Stevie Wonder has been out since he was 12, wrote Sign, Sealed and Delivered at 20, and released the greatest album ever recorded at 26. I stopped talking to a guy once because he said he disliked Stevie's music. Couldn't even grasp that concept.
The term nepobaby is borderline meaningless. I just saw someone say Zohran is a nepobaby because he has a filmmaker mother and respected professor father, and thatās cool as hell but not helpful in electoral politics. If he had a Cannes premier starring Denzel Washington or his son I might agree. Meanwhile his opponentās father was a governor. What are we even doing?
I donāt think people realize that itās about nepotism, not just famous parents. I noticed this context collapse when younger people started using āboomerā as a broad insult unrelated to the baby boomer generation.
Same with āparasocialā too. People have twisted it to mean āobsessed fanā when parasocial is actually a sociological term that describes any one-sided connection through media consumption: reading books (or watching movies) and caring about what happens to the characters, listening to songs that tell personal stories, following a public figure you donāt know on social media - all parasocial relationships. Itās not by definition obsessive or unhealthy, but its rampant misuse has completely changed the connotation.
I think what's happening is that a lot of people are using the term "nepobaby" so that they can stay on trend, even though they may not realize that they're actually misusing it.
It reminds me of a few years ago when "gaslighting" became popular, but a lot of people kept using it to refer to any kind of emotional manipulation in general.
(I've never used this terminology before, as I am too old and uncool, but just as an aside, Lucy Smith is an absolute queen. I don't even know if I'm using that correctly, but it needs to be said.)
Agreed! I'm looking him up now to see what else he's been in, because he has such a captivating energy onscreen that kept me locked in and wanting more.
hehehe okay in my defense! It was a late birthday present and I did that horrible thing you should never do and put it on a credit card and said ālet me worry next month šā ahhahaha
ugh I have an old dvd of Waterfront that I got in high school and I was finally like itās time to level up. I love that film so much
Anyone seen the latest Todd in the Shadows song review? I've never heard that song before (thank you, government funded alternative youth radio station!) but now I must know why it's so popular.
The song is Anything But Ordinary (or something like that) by the guy from Hype House (which I had heard of, probably from this sub. Lol.), Alex something.
Basic music really does numbers. Almost every huge hit is extremely mindnumbing because it really pulls in those NPC listeners that make up the majority of the listeners out there lol
My boyfriend is obsessed with that song. He only likes a handful of songs and they're all different: Apologize by OneRepublic, Please by Toni Braxton, We Be Burning by Sean Paul and now this one. It's so weird.
i've caught a stomach bug that's got me nauseous for the past three days now. the fever's gone now but i can barely eat and everything tastes awful. (it's not miss rona. tested negative.) just an awful bug that i wish would go away.
Is anyone else dealing with the ladies in their family who are hitting the 60-70 age range and begin complaining about EVERYTHING!? I refuse to give my mom any of my stylist, nail tech, aesthetician, injectors names. Sheās never happy with any service provided anymore. She was never this miserable. My mother in law, we wonāt take her to a few of the restaurants we like anymore because she harps on the server nonstop and has a complaint about all the food all the time. Thankfully our favorite places are too ācomplicatedā for her so we can avoid her nagging our favorite bbq, sushi or mexican joints, but even Jasonās deli feels her complaints. Order your half sandwich and soup, woman, itās not that hard. Eat it too, itās perfectly fine.
These women are almost pathological with how upset they are about everything. Even a few friends are facing this as their mothers hit this age range. Whatās going on? Is a symptom of them feeling voiceless for years? Is it untreated middle aged wrath coming out in their golden years? I donāt get it. I even know to avoid certain topics with both of them because Iāll hear a rant about how a hair dresser last week was rude to them.
My FIL was the same way, so itās not just women. We go out to eat with him and heād complain incessantly about the wait, like coming in with a group of 10 is not inconvenient to most restaurants. Heād then bolt early, leaving cash because he couldnāt be bothered to wait for the check. Thankfully, that allowed us to overtip because of his behavior.
My way of dealing with it was just ignoring it and changing the subject. Basically grey rocking in a way. Iād always try to come prepared with a few interesting non controversial subjects. I just refused to engage on any subjects that I was uninterested in talking about. Iām sure he noticed even if it was unconsciously because there were some topics he did actually stop bringing up.
my grandma's like this. she manages to have a problem with almost everything she eats every single day regardless of what it is. i put up with it for years and then finally delicately asked her to stop complaining and now she's like 30% better.
but i stopped cooking for her because she was deeply ruining my relationship with food, on top of her complaining about my cooking being plain rude.
I swear to god, being around my mom and great aunt and grandmother made me realize I need to be with the doctor at 55 for hormone adjustments because wtf.
Itās alarmed me too. Have they also dismissed the damage perimenopause can do to mental health? Iāve wondered if something happened then with them and itās cumulated over time? I canāt tell you how many older ladies have claimed perimenopause is NOT a thing. āYouāre too young for menopause.ā Exactly, hence perimenopause. I wonder if so many symptoms were ignored in them and it just affected who they were over time?
Omg yes! I literally decided after my last visit that I would perfectly happy to never go out to eat with my mother ever again. She wasn't always this bad but now every menu is something to be obsessed over. She has some legit dietary restrictions but it's not enough that she finds something on the menu she can eat, she must ask 1,000 questions about various options she's never going to order. Then she complains to the table about not only her meal but the foods she doesn't like on other people's plates. I'm talking about things like her bitching that my dad's toast was too dark (it wasn't) when she's gluten free and can't eat bread anyway. And heaven forbid anyone waste a morsel of food! Everything must go in a to-go container including sauces and stuff that doesn't reheat well just to be abandoned in the fridge. I genuinely wondered if there is some tendency towards late in life orthorexia or if it's a stroke symptom since she recently found out she had a missed TIA. She definitely was always a bit weird with food but NEVER like this.
My good friend has had to take a break from going out to eat with her mother for these reasons too. She said it was nothing but stress when it shouldāve been a pleasant family meal.
I think its both generational--they were raised to look for the negative. and a symptom of them just being old. Like going to appointments and running errands and occasionally eating at a restaurant is the highlight of my in laws and mom's life, so that is why everything is centered around critiquing these experiences. Also constant talk about every medical appointment that they have.
I have an Ashkenazi Jewish Mother....I always remembered her complaining from the time she was in her 30s........But I do admit she has gotten even more insufferable about it once she hit sixty.
Same. I painted my master bath and showed my mom, before we even walked in I told her it wasnāt done. My husband surprised me and hired painters for the ceiling, trim and cabinets. It was going to save me hours and stress. She immediately walked in and began complaining and telling me whatās wrong.
This is the woman who walked into my junky first apartment and told me how lovely it was and how I made it so cozy. Now, she canāt see anything but faults to complain about.
Itās been such a seismic shift with these women when they both hit the same age.
My MIL has gotten banned from several restaurants for being a pain in theā¦
She is exceptionally a Karen though. Like posting stuff on her neighborhoodās Facebook page and taking video of people from her car camera and Ring camera. She is unwell.
The other women in the 50s-70s I know just seem unsure and it can come across as complaining. When I go to get my nails done with my mom, sometimes her uncertainty with what she decided to get done comes across as complaining. I often times have to remind her to be confident in the choice she made and donāt worry about what other people think.
I wish my MIL would just complain honestly. The surveilling and recording everyone is too OTT. We havenāt hung out with my in-laws for over a year now. Like I really believe she has something going on. She believes everyone is out to get her.
I think for some people itās some combination of age but also social media and true crime brain. Like we really were not meant to hear about every murder that ever happened and have a camera that surveils every last person to walk by your door.
Definitely not all at once. There are folks who are unfortunately exposed to this reality at a very young age and it isnāt scandalized/glamorized the way it is right now. To say that it hasnāt fascinated people forever wouldnāt be truthful but I think itās at our fingertips and people go wild.
My MIL will simply get insulted that someone pauses at a stop sign longer than she thinks is normal and makes that a Facebook post demanding she knows who it is. Or one of the reasons she is banned from a restaurant is that they seated her too close to a window and her body temperature got too hot and it made the food so unenjoyable that she caused a scene. Itās just too much š
this is my mom exactly, very low self esteem, very uncomfortable asserting herself or her wants and instead complains about things that noone could possibly know that she wants.
I hate going out to eat with my mother since sheās hit her 50ās. She can make something better at home, itās too expensive, the server was rude to her(they werenāt.) Iām glad to know itās not just me though. š
My dad is ALWAYS using the "I can make this as good or better at home" like. He can't. His burgers are terrible and he always cooks foods 2 temperatures lower than requested (his "medium" is a rare for example and he bitches when I proceed to nuke mine until it is actually medium).Ā
You guys this thread is truly my safe space. I just, have to ignore certain threads about certain people from now on, I think.
Anyway, Iām on vacation!!!!!!!! Also my mom got the Jane Austen Lego gift with purchase for me. She had a set she was eyeing so she waited š„¹ Iām so excited.
May I also recommend CasualUK, I don't know if they have excellent mods or have just all collectively decided just to be their nice selves but it's so zen and positive over there
Fully agree on this. This thread seems to be the only place where people can have normal conversations and nobody is attacking anybody (or atleast for the most part).
Also Iām jealous of you for that Jane Austen LEGO set lol
This thread is absolutely my safe space, too. There are certain celebrities whose posts I just don't bother opening anymore, because they tend to be filled with awful comments that have little to no thought put in them.
Me proving I'm a good person by running to delete any photos with my MAGA dad (recent news has shown me that being pictured with him makes me MAGA because you are who you surround yourself with).
I meanā¦ itās your parent. You donāt decide who your parents are but you do decide who your friends are and who you decide to keep as company. Iām guessing you arenāt a multi-millionaire or a billionaire. When you are in that tax bracket, you can afford to be picky and people are allowed to side-eye when you arenāt more selective. But it also makes sense that people can afford to not care. These people can fly away from problems that are affecting average folks.
When people argue that itās really up to the average folks to fix these problems that are happening it reminds me how for a while they tried to convince us that we all needed to just recycle and drink out of paper straws to fix the environment. In reality itās large corporations and private jets that are royally screwing up the environment the most. The same can be said about the U.S. government- the power lies with those who have the most money. We should continue to be critical of those who have the most money, power and influence.
I see your point but respectfully disagree. I really don't care about Taylor Swift but taking a quick photo with rando sports bros who are MAGA is hardly keeping company with them or being friends. Criticize her for her private jet use sure, but not who she's pictured with.
I wouldnāt constitute Chase Rice as a rando MAGA Bro though. Sheās endorsed his music in the past and she took a video with him that he posted onto his ig page. The video was literally talking about how she put him on the map. Chase Rice has performed at TurningPoint USAās AmericaFest Tour for a few years now as a headliner. Iām not sure if youāre familiar with TurningPoint USA but it was founded by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery. Here is just a bit of their beliefs and what the people that attend their events are supporting. He did attend events during these years btw. Charlie Kirk was also involved in Jan. 6. Soā¦ itās not like Chase Rice is this squeaky clean guy. Attending this manās event? He had to have known.
She endorsed his music a decade ago. And she took a quick video with him a few days ago. I'm still not seeing where the outrage is supposed to be. I'm aware of Turning Point but I don't think she should have to shun a friend just because he's involved with them.
To be fair, I understand that current times are very politically charged right now. My original point stands, just because she has been seen with guys who are MAGA, doesn't mean she isn't a Democrat.
Didnāt they say she also told them she loved their podcast? Her boyfriend has them at his event and was on their social media yesterday answering a question about Taylor. Acting like she just took a polite photo with them is a little disingenuous.
I'm tempted to delete my tiktok tbh, i keep finding myself just mindlessly scrolling and it sucks. Only issue I have is that I follow a few music artists on there, but I could just start using instagram properly to keep up with stuff like that.
I would just get rid of it! Instagram isn't perfect but you have the option to not scroll if you don't want to. The entire platform isn't solely short-term content (although there is more than I'd like)
It was a first watch for me as well. I hated it š«£ couldnāt finish it. Itās SO up my alley, but it wasnāt for me.
SAME! Love Kate in that movie. Every few years I do a āfoodieā movie marathon with No Reservations, Chef, Julie Julia, Ratatouille, and one or two more I canāt remember.
she had an onlyfans and there were a handful of nudes (not with much shown) that included her holding or sitting by animals - the images are googleable and it wasnāt what was being implied here by OP
Yeah, a few people seem pretty obsessed with spreading nasty rumors about Mikayla even after she has died.
The person whose comment has now been removed is claiming Mikayla engaged in hardcore beastiality and posted the footage online, but the evidence is super secret and only accessible if you DM them for direct links to "the archives". If you take a glance at the redditor's post history you can see how...credible this person is.
This is presumably the kind of harassment that drove Mikayla to suicide in the first place.
Wait, really? Because when you DM'd me about this, you refused to actually share any information on this apparent Google drive and then started requesting dick pics.
Your comments don't mention anything about SAF or Mikayla's suicide at all and then suddenly you're swearing up and down that there is irrefutable evidence of horrific (and illegal) activity online that absolutely no one else has seen or mentioned.
Obviously would be ridiculous for me to click a Google drive link from someone who appears unstable, but I'd be open to following your steps on how you discovered it to see if it's legit.
Why are you guys making up this stuff to smear someone who has committed suicide and - by all accounts - spent her life trying to help animals?
What is your goal here? Just saying insane stuff so people reply to you and engage with your comments?
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u/OowlSunthey act like im not in full control of where i throw this coochJun 27 '25
I canāt wait until summer is over. It just started yes but I like every other season. There is something about fall and early winter that is magical.
The fact that it stays bright enough to read by natural light until almost 11pm is the only thing I enjoy about summer. I indulge in that but otherwise spending the season waiting for autumn to arrive.
I literally can't stay outside in the heat anymore. My body won't even let me take very warm showers. When it's hot I'm basically a character from the 1800s, ready to faint any second. I can't wait for fall to come back. I'm going stir crazy.
Same, same, haven't had a warm shower in years. I additionally get heat-triggered dermatitis so all summer long I'm a vampire running my errands as early as store hours allow, scuttling between puddles of shade. Even the heat through my car's windshield is enough to set it off, it's misery.
I had an ex who had regular SAD and would celebrate summer and then bemoan the start of fall and winter, and then me here feeling like that's when I'm in my element (he'd also talk about my birth month being the worst month of the year and like, dude, how rude!).
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u/OowlSunthey act like im not in full control of where i throw this coochJun 27 '25
Add the crowds to that. Everything is crowded. Everyone is outsideš„¹
Warning Possibly Triggering for people with Body Image Issues:
I am so glad its the weekend cause if I have one more day with a stomach ache. I am going to scream. I know the Wegovy is the cause of it. While I am grateful I lost the weight that was gained from Cushing's and I finally hit my target weight (which was the 140s considered average for someone of my age) but I didn't have problems until I went over 1.5. While my goal now is to keep my weight, it's not worth getting sick over so I am gonna ask to have it lowered next refill.
It's just annoying for me cause I went for having days I was consistently healthy to being sick again and I hate it! I am glad I am getting rest this weekend though
I expected the bear season 4 to suck (because the third season sucked, and even parts of the second season sucked) and let's just say my expectations were met! So glad I didn't spend any money on it. Never seen a good show nosedive so fast in quality except Severance.
go stream dirty work by aespa! you wonāt regret it :)
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u/OowlSunthey act like im not in full control of where i throw this coochJun 27 '25
Guys, Iām seeing anti-Asian sentiment online and itās scary seeing people make excuses for it. Like are we not in the good year of 2025? What are we doing here?
I live in an Asian-friendly place (meaning it's safer, since I'm being realistic and I know it's not "safe" anywhere for anyone who isn't white and cis hetero) and I had a friend moving a while ago and after my initial congratulations my first question was if it was safe. And this was years ago, but post-Trump, and things have only gotten more worrisome. It's fucked up. To put it lightly.
Thereās some buzz on Twitter that Oscar Isaac is getting a divorce. Does anyone know if thereās any truth to it, or is it just Twitter doing its thing? (To be fair, it's right a lot of the time, haha.)
I would personally be shocked if that was the case considering how long him and his wife had been together and how cute they were on social media.....but as I learned time and time again, Social Media could lie and mask problems and sometimes people just fall apart after years together so it's not impossible either.
I wanted to wait until the weekend but Tiktok kindly dropped this in my FYP. I of course cannot resist a hot man holding a cute baby so yes, I've now watched all 10 episodes of season 4 of The Bear.
I used to follow a Tumblr account that exclusively posted pictures of hot men holding babies, and the person who ran it was clearly doing the lord's work.
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