i think seeing young people earnestly buy into conspiracies bums me out because i was convinced our generation was gonna be skeptical af
i vividly remember seeing my aunts and uncles pass around blatantly fake chain-emails and thinking "hah! my generation would never do that"
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like… our generation grew up with computers! we have access to infinite, instant fact-checking. you'd think we'd be the best skeptics
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i can't go 12 hours without seeing some fully fake shit on tumblr get 30,000 reblogs because the person who typed it put some words in bold
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its jokes my dude
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yeah and they probably saw their aunts and uncles do that with *Real* mail and thought the same thing
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nick we're just having some fun online
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People are as gullible as ever. It'll never change.
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I am still shocked how many folks suck with computers given that we all grew up with them
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The awful truth is we inevitably become just like our parents
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