• Kurroth@aussie.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Nah, I’m early 30s, but grew up around 20th century media, competitive parents when it came to game shows, and a weird expectation to just know pub trivia.

    Took me a while to realise I’m the outlier and still am. Just the other day I was talking to some old colleagues and had to spend energy convincing them that the things they were talking about in the Simpsons are mostly movie or TV references and even then mostly just Kubrick, Hitchcock and a considerable amount of Steven King. They just have no idea how unoriginal most modern/contemporary media is. Not even in a bad way, just in an homage/artist replicatong the old masters etc.

    But it’s really strange for a generation with the biggest access and connection to human culture is somehow just as bubbles/silod as ever.