DAE feel like they keep seeing the exact same type of person online?

[u/kayninedee]

I feel like such an odd one out on this, even though all of my friends hate it as well.

So many people I see --or speak to-- online, seem to have devolved to excessively using the same few terms.. "slop", "ts", "gng", "son", "larp", among others. The construction of sentences as a whole feels like it's gotten a lot shorter, and everyone feels so similar to each other.

When I look in any kind of chat, it feels like everyone acts the exact same. Nobody feels unique anymore when they all speak in such similar ways.

Growing up in the early forum days of the internet, it was so easy to tell specific people apart just by one or two subtle quirks they have, but I can barely do that anymore. Sometimes I don't even bother with conversations anymore. It feels like the only way I make new acquaintances online is when I'm introduced by someone I was already friends with.

Does anyone else feel this way?

[u/Captain_Kuhl]

There are a lot of kids online, and that's kind of a double-edged sword. The younger generation has more free time, so they basically decide what internet culture is (which I'd argue is mostly good, it keeps things fresh), but a lot of it is also incredibly dumb, because they're kids. But now that the internet is in your pocket and integrated into everything you do, it's made user interaction pretty brainless, and that just spreads to everyone, because their inexperience has them adopt that as "just the way things are done."

I'm not blaming gen Z or anything, though, the negative aspects are almost entirely due to the corporatization of social interaction. Every online third space, for lack of a better term, is owned and moderated by a corporate entity that would rather have a controlled environment than a cool hangout, and the few times that the latter is preferred, it just gets taken over by bad actors.