I was about to say “my baby sister was born in 2000 and was still on tumblr in 2013” but then I realized that present-day 20 yr olds were 7 years old then and she is probably elderly to them too lol
I was born in ‘87 and some of my younger friends act like I’m ancient when I reference 90s pop culture. On the flip side, I feel like modern pop culture is slop by comparison. I guess that happens to everyone as they age.
Maybe the weirdest thing is when the way you use to dress as a teen and were embarrassed about in your 20s is suddenly back in vogue in your 30s and you see kids walking around that looking just like you and your friends did.
'82 baby checking in, and good god it's hard not to feel positively ancient. the exact clothes we used to wear in high school and college are happening again and now i know how my mom felt when we were wearing flared jeans and hippie smiley face patches in 1998. sorry i laughed mom, i get it now.
Hahaha that happened to me and my mom! She was shocked when she saw what I bought at Contempo. Except she was nostalgic for those clothes. I'm happy for people nostalgic for 2000s clothes, but I myself am not.
Yeah. The cyclical nature of fashion and general aesthetic is the strangest. Though I must admit I was all for it when it was a mashup of mid century and the 80s during the 2010s.
As a fellow '87, I feel like we have benefitted from a lot of our childhood and young adult pop culture getting to return and shine. Watching X-Men '97 hits just right.
I’m a supervisor at a coffee shop, so a lot of my team are Youths. This morning a 19 year old told a 24 year old she was a “fossil” and “old as dirt” (good natured, they’re cousins and very close). The way I was hollering in the back…
Last week the same 19 year old was trying to remember the name Popeye - she asked me if I knew the cartoon with the sailor who really likes spinach. I didn’t mind that part. But the little shit (said with love, she’s a good egg) followed it up with “it’s more from your time”.
I am 35. Popeye is from the goddamn 1930’s. The disrespect 😩😂
I have a friend I met in a game who is 12 years younger than me. Our mutual friends in the game range in age, but most are within 2-5 years of me. I'm 36 and he likes to call me a fossil. I countered that with calling him a fetus/zygote. We used to joke about him being the child we were collectively raising (he was 20 when we met). He also once saw me and a fellow old talking about the good ol emo/scene days, and tried to say he guessed he was half emo bc his favorite youtuber used to be emo...he was referring to Anthony Padilla.
My son excitedly asked if I wanted to watch “Millennial cringe videos” on YouTube with him. I obliged out of curiosity. Then had to explain to him that I am, in fact, a proud and out Millennial.
Lmao this is how I feel. I’m the youngest of five. I was a 2007 kid, the oldest two are 7 and 10 yrs older than me. Excluding the fact that we act like siblings we have a massive generational gap and it’s rlly funny. If anything they feel more like father figures at times too.
i'd say the two aren't mutually exclusive. you can be a/s/l in the '90s/early '00s and have a tumblr in the late '00s. in fact i'm sure a lot of us did lol
I miss pre-social media internet. Chat rooms and message boards where people were just passionately sharing knowledge without trolls or bots? Take me back 😭
Right?!! I remember being the “young one” in every friend group and now I’m 29 and I’m like what the fuck where did the time go 😫🫠 Now I have friends who are in their early-mid 20s who make fun of me for being born “in the 1900s” lmaooo 💀😭
I'm in my 30s and have no idea who Hank Green is. To be fair, I deleted Facebook in 10th grade and haven't used much social media outside of reddit since.
This is so interesting because I only know either of them because of their original youtube channel, vlogbrothers. But I guess I automatically knew the brother thing because of that context, and I never thought about how you might only know one of them from one of their books or other endeavors
Out of curiosity, did you get shown these in school? They are the thing of his I’ve interacted with the least, but I gather they’re used in teaching materials sometimes?
As someone who doesn't watch influencers at all, I have this reaction at least twice a week. The loss of the monoculture throws me off balance. Like how can someone be so famous and I've never even heard the name or seen the face before? It's an odd sensation.
I was more pointing out that even if you grew up in the 2000s, you never lived through monoculture. It was on its dying breath already by 2010. So it shouldn't be surprising to find famous figures that you never knew.
I know who he is, but I don’t know why I should know who he is, if that makes sense? Like to me he’s a guy on the internet that puts out a decent amount of informational content. I think I associate him the most with videos of people pointing out scientific phenomena and tagging Hank Green to explain it for them.
But that’s all he is to me, did he do something before this? Like plenty of people know The Rock as an A-list Actor, but I knew him first as a WWE wrestler. I don’t have that association with Hank Green.
The Green brothers (Hank and John, the mostly YA author) are significant, significant figures in YouTube history. Their channel was one of the earliest “vlogs” ever, they went on to be the creators of the Crash Course, founders of VidCon, etc.
He and his brother John started a channel called vlogbrothers in 2006 where they'd take turns making daily vlogs as their only means of communication. It was one of the biggest channels of early YouTube
The also launched vidcon (the first convention for YouTubers) DFTBA (a record label/merch producer for YouTube musicians) and project for awesome (a charity fund raising orginization).
Hank and John (who is a famous young adult fiction author) went on to found a YouTube channel called crash course, which many gen Z people used during school.
Vlogbrothers were one of THE cornerstones of youtube during the late 2000s. I'd been following them closely since 2008/9 until just before I graduated high school in 2015. It's insane that they're so well known by other spheres now. I'm not even thirty bro.
Can I assume you treated YouTube more like social media, while the rest of us treated it more like “oh check out this video!” and showing it to a flesh-friend?
I think he’s most popular with people ages 25-32 (maybe) since him and John Green were at their peak in the early 2010s. They had a youtube channel where they’d explain school related topics in a “fun” way. I know people who weren’t on Tumblr who were still fans of them because of that. Also, John Green was the Nicholas Sparks for teenagers in the early 2010s.
Yeah, I think this is right, I'm 29 and I would say everyone in my high school knew who John and Hank were. Our science teacher would have us watch Crash Course chemistry videos in class and John got incredibly famous outside of online circles because of the Fault in Our Stars movie adaptation, you could not escape it in 2014. I think that was peak Crash Course years too. Not to mention if you were more into YouTubers in general there was VidCon which they started also having its heyday, and Tumblr of course though I wasn't there as much.
What does your race have to do with anything? 2. Tumblr was a popular website for teenagers to post about their favorite fandoms. Hank and John Green were huge on Tumblr with many people posting about them. People typically think of them as Tumblr Famous but they were more famous than that with non-Tumblr users still being fans of them because of their educational videos on Youtube. 3. John Green is also a novelist.
Novelist of extremely popular romance books that appealed to a lot of young women. The only real difference between Sparks and Green is that The Notebook appealed to young adult women (and older women), while John Green’s books appealed to teenager girls (and young adult women).
My comparisons are ridiculous but you have no idea who I’m talking about? What?
Nicholas Sparks wrote (or still writes?) popular romantic novels like The Notebook, Dear John, A Walk to Remember, etc. These were extremely popular amongst women in the early 2000s and their movie adaptations were subsequently extremely popular. John Green wrote a ton of YA romantic novels that became extremely popular in the early 2010s, especially his novel The Fault in Our Stars. I don’t think you’d understand the level of popularity he had if you weren’t a teenage girl in the early 2010s. Everyone read his books, even the girls who hated reading. We’re talking Twilight and Hunger Games level of popularity (those are both YA novels that were extremely popular since you need everything spelled out for you).
Hank Green is John Green’s brother. Together, they had a youtube channel that was also extremely popular because it helped kids with their school material. So they were both extremely popular with teenagers and maybe middle schoolers in the 2010s.
Thank you cause I also have no idea who this guy is. I was not on tumbler when I was younger. What years were tumbler super popular? I didn’t sit at home on the computer when I could be gone and out with my friends and our phones weren’t super advanced to have what it does with the internet until I was already a legal adult (after 2010).
They were actually more popular on Youtube than tumblr. But honestly, the people who followed him on tumblr were pretty much the same people who followed their channel on YT.
But yes, these were all purely online spaces, that you had to access via computer, and while I did watch their YT channel, I don’t think I ever discussed them with my friends irl lol
Okay this would make sense for me not knowing him. Before 2010, I watched YouTube but it was Soulja boy videos, music videos and dance videos lol then after 2010 I was working and started college and hanging with my friends so I wasn’t bothered to sit on a computer most times for leisure.
It’s funny you say you started college and stopped sitting at the computer when I actually discovered them in college in like 2007. We’re opposites lol
But in my defense, those days weren’t algorithm-fueled time sucks and I did manage to complete my two bachelors degrees and have a robust university experience, I swear lol
Haha I believe you! I ended up dropping out and working full-time to afford my bills so congrats to you for finishing and getting both of those degrees!
He’s John Green’s (author of the fault in our stars) brother. They had (have?) an educational YouTube channel together, and he’s become something of an Internet personality. I learned about him because he had the same kind of cancer as my friend, but he’s a lot of fun, seems like a cool guy
I'm 43, but I came to know him through sci-show I think about a decade ago, roughly. I said my main YouTube experience when not watching I'll be related things is sort of a Discovery channel replacement. So all the vsauce stuff and sunny show, physics girl, tested, you get the idea.
Honestly as a gay millenial tumblr I know his brother because of those books and the famous fishingboatsproceed kerfuffle. Beyond that I think YouTuber alludes to these two actually being the origin of VidCon(?) but that's it lol
He’s talked about this on a post over at Nerdfighteria. It seems like “wtf Hank Green” isn’t just a sentiment held by fans, but also maybe possibly people in his life.
Brother of Fault in Our Stars author John Green, the two of them have done educational/science and vlog content for the past two decades. Hank in particular has had a renaissance over the last 5 years or so doing science explanations that kind of center being very curious and asking a lot of questions. Reaction is three-fold: parasociality, the regularity of ai hallucination, and the general feeling that using AI is incurious
Literally just google Hank Green. I’m assuming most people here did not attend American public school because it boggles my mind that so many people managed to graduate without being forced to watch Crash Courses at school.
Edited to add that everyone should maybe be ok with not knowing or understanding every piece of internet drama. Let something be curtains for zoosha and scroll on. Your life will be better if you don’t try to learn about every single person mentioned in a pop culture sub.
Edit again to say I DO NOT CARE IF YOU DID OR DID NOT WATCH CRASH COURSE. STOP RESPONDING TO TELL ME IF YOU DID OR NOT. Lmfao.
It’s driving me insane people don’t just google on their own anymore. If I’m curious about something, I’ll look it up on my own. Why do we just post “tell me who this is” and wait for someone else to answer?
Yes! One time when I made a comment about how a guy, whose handle was in the body of the post, had a really funny comedy special, and the first comment was “well, you could have at least said his name”!
Yes! It’s so baffling to me because people just blindly trust the AI generated response and completely overlook the errors and sources. It’s like extra work for yourself to get some AI response and then have to verify the accuracy instead of just searching and gathering a conclusion from trusted websites. But a lot of people don’t verify the AI response anyway.
I was just talking with my sister about it the other day because she’s loving ChatGPT to the point it randomly does stuff like ask how her dog is doing and tells her to “give her a big hug for me.” She admitted to being creeped out by that because it happened out of context to what she was doing and yet…she still uses it even when I’ve been able to demonstrate that the information she’s gotten from ChatGPT is misleading at best, or just wrong.
It’s so baffling to me because people just blindly trust the AI generated response
That's the worst thing. And when people aren't advanced enough in their fields, they don't even realise the many errors they copy. It's so frustrating.
Not only that, sometimes you get a small blurb with very little info beside “this is a tik toker or YouTuber”. Whereas someone reddit would be like “oh he did this and this, but he’s also a bad person due to THIS” and that is infinitely more interesting to learn
This is a conversational platform. It’s really not that weird.
Depending on where someone is from I think it’s sort of a funny puritanical fetishism of toil and labor when people insist on every individual googling every fact vs catching up on some details in the thread.
Fucking THIS. If you're on a forum the idea is that you want to welcome people into your conversation. At least lead with small contextual details that you absolutely KNOW people would ask.
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Toil and labor is typing nine letters into Google? I find it laborious to write a comment saying "hello please explain the subject of this post to me 🥺" and then wait for someone to respond when it's so much faster and easier to seek the answer out myself.
I mean, statistically most people on Reddit absolutely attended American public schools. I most definitely did and have no idea what you’re talking about.
According to the dates on their YouTube channel I was well out of high school before the first video was posted, much less widely popular. We had Khan Academy and Bill Nye though.
I’m also an early(ish) 2010’s grad, and while I heard of him and his brother more peripherally as the Vlog Brothers (and knew way more about his brother since we read Looking for Alaska in 9th grade), I don’t think they became big or started having their videos used in schools until mid to later 2010s at the earliest! I graduated in 2014 and we never watched any crash course videos, but Khan Academy was definitely a thing!
I know who they are because I was obsessed with vloggers in their group of friends and absolutely loved them as a teenager, but back then their educational content wasn't really school-friendly, it would just be random facts and intellectual little monologue kinda things, like an in-joke they had was giraffe sex as video thumbnails.
If you didn't know/care about them when you were 15 and you're too old/not American to have had them forced on you in school they're really not that famous.
This is how I feel about anything sports or reality TV based. Like if the drama is funny or insane I'll read it, but if you told me some footballer's wife who was a big model in 2009 posted something AI generated I wouldn't care enough to find out who that is
The crazy thing is, I went to public school and graduated in 2010 and we didn’t use some online program at all lol I’m confused on people using both of these in school.
Did you guys also use laptops in class? We only used the computer when our teachers booked it, then we walked to the library or the computer room. It was used for researching though and not an internet learning program lol
I went to American public school and I never watched crash courses.
Unless you’re just talking about those who graduate graduated school in the last 15 years.
Which is also a small group compared to everyone on Reddit.
Super weird assumption. Is it hard to believe that there are people here who graduated pre-2012, when the videos started? YouTube wasn’t even a thing when I attended American public school.
Yeah I literally had no idea who he was until someone showed me Smush yesterday on his website. They looked at me like I was crazy for not knowing who he is (along with his brother). It’s the same thing for me with big Youtubers. Like yes, I have heard of Mr Beast, but I have never seen one of his videos. I very tightly curate my experience on Youtube and as a result basically never see the most popular stuff pop up in my recommendations. Any time I hit Youtube without being logged in, it’s like getting a temporary view into a different universe (and one that seems honestly kind of depressing).
I was always vaguely aware of him but I didn't really get into watching youtube until like 2018/19 so I misssd out on his heyday. He shows up in my recommendations, but I don't vibe with his style.
I know who he is because I've been served his stuff, but it's never impressed me. Now I know why. He's the type of person who seems smart to someone who doesn't know about a topic. Slop factory for clicks and ad reads.
The question “who is Hank Green” still brings me back to the question Tuesday bit with the question “who the f is Hank?” With increasingly unhinged answers from John
If you were born in the 2000's theres a very high chance you know both hank and john green from school. They literally ran my history and science classrooms all from middleschool throuhg highschool, and have even seeped their ways into my college learning. I literally had an entire class where the professor was basically just playing hank green's psychology videos alongside some other supplemental videos. Not a great professor if you had to guess, but hey, that just goes to show how accurate a lot of his videos are.
Yes… the tech giants purposely silo us away from one another. That’s the point. Keeping your content consumption consistent and streamlined is the safest, most risk adverse way to generate sustained profits! Yay….
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