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On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Erm, no, that was popularized by Millennial PUAs, who are all solidly middle aged now.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck you we're not middle age we're upper aged young adults./s

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Upper aged young adults.. I'm stealing that, 😂

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's great but hopefully they grew out of it. The incel kids these days still run with it.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait how'd we go from alpha/beta obsessed millennials to incels?

I thought incels were internet communities that blame women and society for them being permanently single/virgins or something like that.

And thought the former were the roided bro communities where a sentence isn't a sentence until it has some version of bro in it. Usually womanizers but as gym rats were also usually appealing enough to women.

Are these the same groups now? Lol

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The PUA-types and this alpha/beta/sigma nonsense really appeals to the incel crowd. They believe that they can somehow game relationships in order to get sex. Like, they do steps a, b, c--which is the kind of systems PUAs are/were pushing--and you get laid.

The whole thing is a constellation; I don't think any of those groups exists in a vacuum, and there's lots of points where they cross over.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Fuck me I'm old 🤣 Googled "PUA Types" and only got Pandemic Unemployment Assistance articles hahahaha I give up.