FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoBoomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Realfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1377
arrow-up1377external-linkBoomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Realfuturism.comFoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squareToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·9 hours ago“thirst traps” “simps”? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up24·8 hours agoyea, they got no chill for yassified NPCs, YKWIM, tots delulu. I guess some sigmas simp 4 sludge, rather be mewing all day, no cap.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 hours agoAs the father of a tween, I am disgusted that I understood this.
minus-squareWildmimic@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoI understood without being a father and I’m slowly edging towards my fifties. I am devastated.
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 hours agoHahah, same here. Now you are cursed and so am I, fr fr.
minus-squareGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoI only had to look up mewing, there is no way it means the tongue thing
minus-squareAndy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 hours agoWhy? I don’t understand this comment. Are you unfamiliar with these terms?
minus-squareToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 hours agoParticularly that they’ve made their way into a general media article and title without any effort to define them, as if they are now a common part of the average persons lexicon, and not just cringy internet slang.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·8 hours agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thirst trap https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/thirst-trap https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simp You’re old, dude. Sorry. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093415/thrist-trap-enters-the-lexicon (2018!)
minus-squarejoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours ago as if they are now a common part of the average persons lexicon I imagine the article isn’t written for the average person, but instead a specific demographic that you find yourself not a part of.
minus-squaremrmisses@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 hours agoWelcome to the rest of your life
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoBut I know I’m not, because I ran out. I need to get more.
“thirst traps” “simps”? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
yea, they got no chill for yassified NPCs, YKWIM, tots delulu. I guess some sigmas simp 4 sludge, rather be mewing all day, no cap.
As the father of a tween, I am disgusted that I understood this.
I understood without being a father and I’m slowly edging towards my fifties. I am devastated.
Hahah, same here. Now you are cursed and so am I, fr fr.
I only had to look up mewing, there is no way it means the tongue thing
Why? I don’t understand this comment. Are you unfamiliar with these terms?
Particularly that they’ve made their way into a general media article and title without any effort to define them, as if they are now a common part of the average persons lexicon, and not just cringy internet slang.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thirst trap
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/thirst-trap
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simp
You’re old, dude. Sorry.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093415/thrist-trap-enters-the-lexicon (2018!)
I imagine the article isn’t written for the average person, but instead a specific demographic that you find yourself not a part of.
Welcome to the rest of your life
But I know I’m not, because I ran out. I need to get more.