honestly kind of floored at the prevelence and virulence of incel panic, biggest collective journo meltdown since summer before the election
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for us none of what's emerging into mainstream discourse is at all new or strange, it's mundane, what we grew up on
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what's novel is watching all the people for whom it is totally alien suddenly have to scramble and try to cope with it
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And they've still never heard of Usenet.
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...and I have the even more liminal experience of having grown up on the *old* internet culture and always thought of the chan kids and the like as dregs and a bit other, but also having always been aware of them
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My Usenet elders were still sentimental about Eternal September.
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Yeah, I remember those "September 9012, 1993" >-quote intro lines too :P
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