Can be from fandoms, local acquaintances, niche community forums, social media bubbles, whatever. What’s a big to-do going on that you just don’t care about?
Anything Prince Harry and Megan Markle related. Just like the Konstant Kardashian onslaught, I turn away.
Apparently some big name YouTube guy cheated on his wife or something? I never heard of him before, but every site I go on keeps talking about it. Most I can say is “cheating is bad”. Is that having an opinion on it? Like I don’t really care what happens to them once everyone moves on in a few days.
I can never be bothered with the YouTube drama. Stay out of the influence the channels and it’s actually quite good.
Casein point I have loads of subscriptions to various channels on YouTube, literally hundreds of different content creators all producing different kinds of content. And I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
If someone gets a lot of YouTube drama and says they don’t want it, that’s on them and their subscription choices.
Yeah the only time I’d care about YouTube drama is if it involves someone I like watching. Like I used to love watching Completionist, but then all the stuff about him not sending donation money meant for charity came out so I stopped watching. That’s about as far as I cared to follow the drama though. Maybe something more came out after he was called out with evidence, but I don’t care enough to go look cause I got way more than enough other people to watch.
i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all made up to generate traffic
Considering his past reddit account where he openly fantasized about raping little boys and scat play has now been circulating on TikTok and X, that plan backfired immensely.
As a non-American, the US midterms. If the Republicans win then nothing changes, if the Democrats win they’ll probably do jack shit like they always do and Trump will just ignore them anyway so it doesn’t really matter.
Us elections are bizarre because the democrats could win but trump would still be president. What’s the point in potentially changing the government structure halfway through an election cycle, why do it like that?
Just have an election and then that’s your government for the next four years. Then have another election and elect a different government or the same government.
Well it’s never been like this before. The election is staggered, I assume, to keep the government in check. It gives voters the chance to make corrections. But the founding fathers didn’t know that so many different portions of the government would cooperate. In short, voting in new people, should change the face of the government if that is the will of the people. As it turns out, it doesn’t. So no REAL change.
It’s not really intentional to change the structure of government, just the result of 2 year terms vs 4 year terms vs 6 year terms. But yeah, like everything else it really builds on the current government dysfunction
When I walk into a public bathroom, I don’t care what genitals anybody else in the room has. In fact, I don’t care what genitals anybody has. I suppose I would care a little if I intended to have sex with them.
I wouldn’t know
Yeah in retrospect I should have thought of a question before doing drugs, this shit sucks.
Lol, no worries. You’ll probably get some people with less smartass answers. Though it is Lemmy; we’re all smartasses here.
Speak for yourself, I’m not smart!
I found out from John Oliver last night that last week there was a controversy surrounding some celebrity (whose name I already forgot), who wasn’t able to buy some kind of toy or something and that nobody could stop talking about it. But that was the first time I’d heard about it. So I guess I’d say that
blessed
Feels like everything. I mean I might have an offhand opinion but really everything is kinda unimportant relative to the environment and facism now.
I don’t have an opinion about trans people.
They exist. It’s fine.
I do have an opinion about people that go out of their way to make lives harder for other people though. Fuck them.
I share your opinion about trans people. I have known and had pleasant, and unpleasant interactions with trans folks… they are just people. They are not angels or demons.
However, folks tell me that means I hate them, both IRL and on here. If I’m not for the erasure of heternormativity I’m anti-trans, according to these types of folks. And I notice that most folks who think this way… are not trans themselves, they are self appointed ‘activists’ who think you are either with them, or against them. and if you don’t identify yourself with your pronouns you are against them.
There seems a vocal bunch on the internet that doesn’t seem to realize that trans people are a minority and spend too much time insulting straight people. This isn’t all trans people though.
The trans people I know irl aren’t policing language or flying off the handle if you accidentally misgender them. They just want to live as they want. A true patriot will support their countryfolk’s right to do so. ;)
I was having a fire with my buddy a couple years back, early in his transition, and accidentally misgendered him. I was just like “oh fuck sorry, do I owe you a buck?” and we both just laughed it off and had another beer.
It’s not that hard to get along with people. 🤷♂️
They aren’t just on the internet.
I went to a college full of people like this, granted they were a minority there. But where I live it’s extremely common even outside of college that people get upset about this. I know several people who are in companies who require pronouns, etc. and I’ve had people come after me personally for not using them in my own correspondence privately, etc. Granted not every place is like this, but a lot of places increasingly do this ‘wear the ribbon’ type of nonsense and think if you don’t display the pride flag you are fair game for harassment and violence.
It is very hard to get along with people like that. Who basically think anyone who doesn’t conform to what they want is evil and feel free to abuse and harass those people.
Agree. There are some things American agrees on - example: if you are white don’t use the N word.
But there are a lot of other words/norms that we don’t agree on. Or ones that used to be ok and now aren’t. Example: Sweet Sixteen was a sweet and funny movie when it came out. Now it’s full of rape jokes and racist stereotypes. Same movie - culture changed.
Some folks adapted to those changes more quickly than others. Some folks want norms to change even more. Some folks still didn’t get the memo / are annoyed that people are acting like anything is different.
I did like that movie (am female, 50s) but I also agree it’s a good thing that rape jokes have become less ok. That said - I have a lot of compassion for folks who adapt more slowly. There are jokes you could make 20 yrs ago and everyone would laugh- but the same joke today will get you fired.
I think it’s really important to be kind and patient with folks who are slow to get the memo. I want to be respectful but he/she is a very hard habit to break. I’ll give it the old college try, but if you think I am a bad person for having a hard time adapting to that then I think your expectations are wildly unrealistic.
Even positive changes take time. Be kind to each other. If someone is unkind for sure call them out! But don’t get your panties in a wad of their language or humor is a little outdated but their actions are kind.
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Im not trans or anything but I like people like you.
Any information I know about H3H3 was involuntary communicated to me.
I never heard of them until this thread
I still have no idea. I know H2GT2G but that’s about it
same, just a minor opinion because he got more " clout" a decade again from the guy that did a cringey pickup video and sued h3h3, because he was made fun of.
That streamer who cheated on his wife. First time I’ve heard about him but I keep seeing people talk about it.
Ethan -ic Klein -sing who said that there was no genoxides being conducted right now…
Also the wife that he cheated on had a ’ very interesting military past’ 🤭😏
I didn’t know about him until this thread lol, apparently it’s a thing
I’ve got the one and thebirdspapaya, whatever that is -person or channel or whatever- I keep seeing posts about it…
My boss apparently called me a terrible person and wouldn’t recommend anyone hiring me. I know I’m a good person and very much hireable in my field so I’m like, meh?
I live in tiny city in Slovakia. We had voting for a mayor yesterday. The campaign was sooooooooo dirty like we are the capital or smth. Like calm tf down
Sounds like mayor elections in the UK. I never even heard of any of the candidates. I don’t even know who won.
They have made absolutely zero impact on my life and apparently they’ve had zero impact on everyone else’s life as well because there’s been no subsequent TV interviews, so they obviously don’t seem to be actually doing anything, positive or negative.
Harry and Meghan. Sick of hearing about them.
Who?
Exactly.
Fuck them.
im not british, so these have no effect at all. i see these thumbnails all over yt for some reason, i was thinking" are UK people really into this garbage?and not the increasing problem of mass surveillance, and brexit which never was solved" might be something different if the queen does something, only because she has so much clout.
are UK people really into this garbage?
No.
if the queen does something, only because she has so much clout.
Well she died 4 years ago so she hasn’t been doing much.
I mean we haven’t checked on her in 4 years, who knows what she’s up to these days.
🥳the spider that usually crawls nto her left eye’s skull socket to sleep got scared off by an unusually large snail that slid itself into there today, breaking a 307 day streak of the spider sleeping in therre🥳 Go Team Snail Go! 🥳
Finally so old she can haunt her own pussy
When I used to live in the UK, I always found outsiders were more interested in the royals than we were.
Pokemon cards.
Apparently there used to be Halloween packs of Pokemon cards that my friend would give out for trick or treaters, I don’t know the details if they were cheaper or smaller than a regular pack or just Halloween-themed, or what exactly their deal was, I just know that they’re a thing that exists
By they couldn’t get their hands on them this year. I don’t know if they discontinued them, or if someone snatched them all up, but in either case I’m pretty sure the current pokemon card investment bullshit is to blame.
And I think that’s a real shame, it sounds like a fun thing to give out or at least have as an option for the kids that are into pokemon, and probably appreciated by kids who maybe have food allergies and such and cant really enjoy the candy everyone else is giving out.
$27 for a six-pack: https://www.amazon.com/Pokemon-Trick-Mimikyu-Pikachu-Booster/dp/B0CQCZL211
That’s beyond full-candy-bar territory.
Costco usually brings these around Halloween, they go for like $25-$35 for a 40 pack.
Well, that makes sense. Something strange happened on my Amazon page, because who the hell buys a six pack for trick-or-treaters? I wonder if there’s scarcity for some reason…
Anything involving influences and streamers.
I dont know if its still going on but the Lindsey Clancy trial. I think she killed her kids and some people are using it to hate women and some are using it to hate men. I dont know why people are so invested. All I need to know was that its undisputed that she killed them and therefore she can be locked away. However the court chooses to do it jail or mental hospital doesnt matter to me.
Remember that US midterms are right around the corner. The media networks, which are owned by a handful of billionaires, do everything they can to be disruptive and divisive. Black vs white, man vs woman, gay vs straight, trans vs cis, Christian vs Muslim. Anything they can do to distract people fron rich vs poor.
So the Clancy trial gets blown up with a ton of attention. No one talks about Palestine or Iran. It even quiets some of the talk about inflation and jobs.
Remember the Casey Anthony trial? That was October 2008. Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard? That spanned several years, but arguably most of the headlines were made around August-October of 2020.
The truth is that these kinds of court cases are happening all the time. People go crazy and murder their families. It is waaaaay more common than being murdered by a random stranger. But you only hear about the ones that the Big networks WANT you to, and in a contextual narrative that that create.
There will be another trial but they haven’t set a date yet. It will likely be in the spring.
A lot of crazy people turned it into a True Crime drama, and were online spouting conspiracy theories, like that the husband did it. They deluded themselves into her nonsense and basically harassed jurors over the issue, and the jurors themselves were biased and straight up admitting it after the trial was over.
It was a complete shit show. And people love shit shows.
