On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?
1y 11mon ago by lemmy.ml/u/TheImpressiveX in asklemmy@lemmy.ml from lemmy.ml
I remember reading that when national parks tried to make a 'bear-proof' trashcan, they found that there was a larger overlap between the smartest bear and the stupidest human to make a viable product.
I feel like it's a similar situation here. The smartest kid and the stupidest adult are far more similar than we'd like to admit.
Nice try little Timmy, but I won't be telling you how to pass as an adult.
Because you are a kid and you don't know but are pretending to be an adult. Nice try!
That's what a kid pretending to be an adult would say.
When I was your age, no kids did that, 'cause we had no damn internets back then. We had to actually walk outside to talk with others.
Tell me more about this "outside". Can I get it on Amazon?
And now you're here, arguing with kids, because you're also a kid.. Nice try.
Up hill...both ways!
In the snow!
Everyone knows you hop on another kid's shoulders and put on a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses and gave the name Robert Businessman.
Very confidently wrong, poor reading comprehension, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, emoji gore, catch phrase/pop culture quotes/talking points repeated with no comprehension of what they're saying, clearly not aware of how many things in life work, religious regurgitation while being surprised everyone doesn't agree with them. Very easily impressed with basic factual statements, clearly thinking confidence is the main thing that makes someone correct. Thinks their mom telling they they are handsome is a valid point. Idk, that's all I got.
Depending on what you meant by "very easily impressed with basic factual statements" it could go either way. I'm an adult and I'm happy to admit I don't know a lot things, sometimes I've been stunned that what I believed was totally wrong and all it took was some to give me a basic fact to make me realise.
+1
Ever since I was a wee flipflop I always liked to learn from my friends (and yes I was that gullible naive friend) but now even in my 20s it’s still fun to learn outside a classroom. I don’t have to worry about my terrible memory not keeping all the info, if it sticks it sticks
Fun fact: Australia is wider than the diameter of the moon.
Ankther fun fact! The Netherlands is smaller than all of Europe combined!
Happy Cake Day!
very confidently wrong
Lmao dude that’s just people in general especially on forums
There’s also nothing wrong with people learning new info, no matter how simple it may seem. That’s kind of a pretentious/egotistical way to operate.
Most of this list is actually pretty garbage. Emojis? Using slang/catch phrases? This is basic social stuff.
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Got one
What I wrote -- Very easily impressed with basic factual statements
What you think it means -- there's something wrong with people who are learning new things.
Does ''basic factual statements'' mean ''new information that someone is just now learning''. Can it also apply to information they already know, or believe is true? Can it also be referring to basic knowledge nearly everyone knows?
Does 'being very easily impressed' include a situation where someone reacts to information in a typical fashion? Does it exclude adults learning or recognizing factual information and responding with a simple agreement, such as 'yeah that's true'? Or is this an indication that an overreacting response is the dead giveaway?
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Did the sentance make a claim something is wrong with being a child?
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Did the sentence claim that learning new information is likewise something wrong?
Please write one 5 sentance paragraph explaining your opinion on the above two numbered questions. Proofreading will not be necessary.
Jfc no thanks bye dude
Bonus: can also be applied to boomers.
Boomers are just decrepit toddlers at this point anyway
“Know why the call them baby boomers? Because all it takes is one little prick to their egos and boom! You’ve gotta baby!”
Could be a new gameshow: Boomer or Toddler
Huh
Hexbear is an 8/10 on this scale
This is like reading a reverse horoscope - you've just thrown as many negative traits as you could think of at the wall, knowing at least a few will stick.
Nothing on your list couldn't also apply to an adult, especially those most privileged and entitled in society.
By these standards, most of my adult relatives are actually children.
It's like I tell my kids, an adult is just a child who got old. It's also why a lot of cultures have a concept of adulthood that has nothing to do with reaching sexual maturity alone.
So every boomer on facebook. Got it.
Those first two...and a couple others, also apply to a lot of adults I have had political conversations with the past several years...
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I don't think there is a "dead giveaway". Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can't tell if it's a child or someone who doesn't speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There's a lot of different people in the world.
Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online "that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway", "r/teenagers is mainly grown me", it really bothers me because no, you're just overconfident in estimating people's ages from text
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No cap
Bet.
I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I'm sure I didn't fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.
Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.
Damn. I know this life. I don't wish it on anyone, except those who exposed me to it...
I can't get over ironically using stupid lingo, without being good at presenting it as ironic use...so I often seem like a child. I am certainly bad at forming sentences that are not stream of thought (with weird punctuation like parentheses containing clarification...like this...and overused ellipsis...)
It's interesting to meet someone else who also struggles with an overuse of parentheses and ellipses (I didn't know what they were called, thanks for that!).
This is a complete shot in the dark, but do you also happen to be on the spectrum? (I have nothing to base this on expect my theory that overclarification could be more common among neurodivergent people)
Edit: ellipsis -> ellipses
Add to your knowledge- they are ellipses. A single ... is an ellipsis. Many words that end in "is" are pluralized as "es"
This is pronounced like iss versus eeze.
I don't present as on the spectrum, but I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid. I haven't suffered from it much as an adult. I have heard that the parenthetical over clarification and typing as your thoughts would flow naturally is a sign of Autism in particular. I can control it when I focus, but if I am ranting it comes out in force.
I have found the gen xers are the WORST at texting and writing in general. At least the ones I know.
I would die without autocorrect. I grew up with "mom, how do I spell (word)" and getting "sound it out", witch werks grate in Inglish...
I grew up getting "Look it up!" and I still can't spell for shit.
I HATED that one...look it up in the Dictionary....sure ok, let me look up a word I can't spell ...ffs!
Ever watch a kid who grew up after smartphones try to type?
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They're getting private messaged by YouTubers
When they're adamant that voting third party in the United States will be useful in some capacity, I assume they're 13
The youngsters are downvoting you, but what you're saying is sad but true. It's the reason Bernie never ran as an independent, he knew it would hand the victory to republicans on a silver platter.
I don't assume they are 13, but they at least aren't old enough to remember what happened in 2016.
Or any other election year, for that matter. I don't think a third party candidate has gotten a significant voter block in 100 years.
Ross Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992. While he didn’t get any electoral votes he likely prevented a second HW Bush term.
the analysis shows perot damaged Clinton's margin of victory.
Source on this? I was young but I remember that election. Perot seemed to be like some kind of ultracapitalist "run the country like a business" moron that people respected because he was rich. My grandpa loved him and I rarely heard him talk politics. He was also only educated to the sixth grade for what that's worth.
Seems like the kind of guy to take a bite out of the conservative vote.
I'm gonna fix my ignorance and go look him up right now though.
Edit-- I'm back, learned a lot. I love that he supported electronic direct democracy way back in 1992. He was in favor of gun control and money for AIDS research. Openly supported gay rights in 1996 but notably not until his second campaign when he really had no chance.
He didn't believe trickle down economics worked. Was a billionaire who spoke against greed which is really strange. But me calling him an ultracapitalist is probably misplaced. Also not a moron. He was into taxing the wealthy, starting to like this guy, but balancing the budget by cutting social programs, nevermind do not like.
He opposed outsourcing factory jobs and favored environmental protection. He wanted to decrease the budgets of both the military and NASA. Wanted to cancel the space station.
Quite the complicated guy. I love some of his policies and hate others. Seems like a weird mix when viewed through a modern lens. I think I'd have considered voting for him if I was ten years older in '92. Probably would have voted for Clinton though who notably achieved one of Perot's primary goals, which was to balance the budget.
So I ended up researching Clinton's campaign and it was straight up racist against black people. He also pledged to end welfare "as we know it". I think I actually would have voted for Perot! Maybe there's something to what you're saying about reducing Clinton's margin of victory.
Fair -- outliers might exist, on rare occasion
Yep. A third party candidate hasn't gotten a single electoral college vote since George Wallace, and the only time a third party has done better than either a Democrat or a Republican was with Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party, which crushed Taft but got absolutely obliterated in turn by Wilson due to the spoiler effect.
Conversely: when they say this is the most important election of "our lifetimes", and the world will end if we lose.
(Doesn't mean they're wrong)
I know a full grown adult that does that in every election. Local elections, sure, I can understand, but he does that with all of them, Basically a card carrying communist that's a useful idiot for right wing politicians.
You would need some real insurance that others were commuted to vote 3rd party no matter what. Otherwise the real benifit is just getting to that 5% mark where third parties get some bennies like federal funding and automatic ballot access in some places. Which is minor vs say stopping a campaign of vengeance from a candidate who has acted feloniously already and has abused his position to black bag political opponents before.
Why not vote 3rd party in states that only go one direction? Take NY for instance. What the fuck harm comes from voting 3rd party assholes for president? One time the state elected a republican candidate and it was (still is I think) the largest landslide in history. I'm 36 and have always hated the 2 party system. It's been easier and easier as I got older too with increasing political polarity.
Because if enough people do that, it actually can result in that state not "doing what it always does."
Assuming voting for X is going to result in Y getting elected over Z "anyways" is not a good strategy for getting what you want.
What I want is more than 2 fucking options. What you are assuming is that I wouldn't get what I want if a conservative won NY. For this to happen there would need to be a mass exodus of democrats abandoning their party to vote conservative. So for that to happen either the democratic candidate is God awful or the conservative is a homerun. Either way I dont give a fuck.
I vote for my interests in state and local elections. Presidential elections in NY are the least concerning elections as they should be for every fuckin American.
If you want more than two options vote for Democrats in primaries that support ranked choice voting initiatives. As it stands, you realistically have a binary choice and until you have ranked choice voting that will continue to be true.
This, comments like "Presidential elections in NY are the least concerning elections as they should be for every fuckin American" is how you know someone is a kid. Saying the presidential election is the least concerning election? The guy who appoints Supreme Court Justices that shape our laws and lives? The guy who basically runs the country, don't worry about that one. What the actual fuck lol.
Gave my age in the parent comment of the one you replied to mid-thread. Unless you already saw it and are asserting that my age qualifies me as a child! In that case, my receding hair line is flattered!
Overreacting to comments that don't align with your own doesn't give away age but sure as shit shows your maturity.
Read my parent comments for better context and if you need help understanding the fundamentals of federal, state and local elections, I'm happy to explain further! 🍻
Well first, you can lie, it's the Internet, it's known to happen from time to time. You could be older but I find that idea worrying and a little depressing.
Secondly, me pointing out that saying "presedetail elections should be the least concerning elections to everyone" is just straight ignorance. I mean you don't even seem to understand the impact of the Supreme Court on every day citizens alone (abortion rights much) and how they are appointed, why would I bother sift through your nonsense comments lol.
Either way, hope you get some good information/education from all the responses people are giving ya! 🍻
So you didn't read the comments that added context lol. Starting to think this is more of a reading comprehension issue lol.
So Ill give you the outline:
I live in NY.
There would have to be like 5 million democrats voting republican to even create a scenario where my voting 3rd party affected the outcome.
NY goes democratic every election no matter what my vote is for. For that reason the presidential election is the least important election.
The quote you keep taking out of context emphasized the importance of voting for EVERY elected official because even with Roe v Wade over turned nothing has changed where I live for how abortions are handled.
Yes, so let me introduce this concept called "swing states" where it is not like NY. There, votes matter. So them voting does matter and have an impact. Either way, even if you know your state will go one way, the outcome of the election is still very impactful to citizens.
You said the presidential election should be the least concerning election for everyone. That's just wrong. Swing states have power and the president can impact everyone. It is very consequential to multiple people.
If you're upset that NY is always blue blame republicans who are against getting rid of the electoral college and having rank choice voting.
Or you can just keep insulting me because I disagree with you, that's a very Republican move.
But sure, over turning Row v Wade hasn't impacted you directly so it doesn't matter. No one should be concerned about the president because big changes to law haven't impacted you so they shouldn't matter to anyone. Jfc... Some people were impacted you know, you are aware of that right? And that was a direct result of the president that was elected selecting a conservative justice. But hey, it didn't effect you so it shouldn't matter to anyone right?
"Presidential elections in NY are the least concerning elections as they should be for every fuckin American."
You can say I have a comprehension issues all you want, but you seem to think all voters shouldn't care about the presidental election because it won't impact you in NY, big lol.
I agree with you. Do you think people become more conservative with age or is it society becoming more progressive and leaving them behind? Obviously ignoring the current regressive times of the last eight+ years there.
To contribute an answer to the original question I offer this post as evidence of age- thinking about how much has changed during my life may have come through above.
they did it it Britain i guess since the lib dems are growing
They aren't First Past The Post constitutional republic. There's a lot to be said for parliamentary governments where multiple minority groups have to form coalitions. Long running successful constitutional republics have almost always failed. But like uh don't worry and shit
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Serious response: you can't really make a very general rule. There are a lot of people who write quite maturely since their teens, and a lot of people who are morons since their teens and have endless dedication and determination to remain in that state for as long as they breathe.
I do remember some posts on r/sex back in the day that were absolutely kids (teens) and you could tell by how
- Freaked out they were about totally normal stuff.
- Excited they were about how great sex is.
I remember there was a funny day when there were two top upvoted posts on r/sex (probably in like 2017) where one was like
- It turns me on when my boyfriend masturbates to me, am I normal?
And the other one was like
- I (female bodied, they/them / nb) am a furry and my wife and I like to pretend that I'm a wolf and I'm hunting and eating her. What can we make that will look and feel like real organs I can "rip" out of her stomach and eat, and what could we use for fake blood that would be the easiest to clean up?
People kept linking the second one in the first one and reassuring this poor girl that she's totally normal.
I (female bodied, they/them / nb) am a furry and my wife and I like to pretend that I’m a wolf and I’m hunting and eating her. What can we make that will look and feel like real organs I can “rip” out of her stomach and eat, and what could we use for fake blood that would be the easiest to clean up?
Absolutely based, all the rest of us plebs just need to learn about the depth and power of their kinkiness. Cheers to their banquet.
It really sounds like you're 14.
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Not understanding the difference between pre and post 9/11 politics
Hate to break it to you but people born in 2006 are turning 18 this year (and are technically considered "adults").
Having just turned 43, I can tell you that I don’t think I became an adult until my early/mid 30s.
This is a truth that everyone under 30 denies until the day they turn 30. It’s like a magic spell is suddenly broken, and you realize you’re alone in an aging meat husk that now knows the glory of back pain.
I know a young person will read this and think this won’t happen to them. To that person: I am you from the future. Remember us as we were.
I know a young person will read this and think this won’t happen to them.
I rather thought "Huh, 30s is still young."
I have no illusions anymore that this pattern won’t repeat. I enjoy my back pain for what it is: the pre-hip pain era.
I think it's kinda like the old dating age formula; you can date people (your age) / 2 + 7 years old, and you feel like that's the age of an adult.
When I was 15 I felt like ann adult, but people younger than me were teens. When I was 25 I felt like an adult but people under the age of like 20 were just kids. Now I feel like people in their early/mid-20s are just about adults. I'm sure when I'm 50 I'll think back to myself now and consider myself barely an adult.
I'm 27 and I think I'm there already
I thought that too. I regret to report: it gets worse.
I'm 40 and it seems like I can continually look back at myself from five years ago and think damn I was an idiot back then. I wonder how I will feel in five years...
That's a relief!
Wow, you're me!
Being 34, I can confirm. I just turned adult last week.
That assumes you live in one of a small number of countries for which politics significantly shifted after one of those countries was attacked.
And also that you're at least old enough to have had a reasonable mature understanding of the political landscape before 2001, so as to appreciate how things changed. Let's assume that'd make you at least 20.
...So, we have to be at least 43 years old, and American, or you'll assume we're children?
To actually understand you'd have to have been following politics pre 9/11, which would make you probably 16 at the time. That means 39 right now. That's a lot of adults you're ruling out.
If you want to say understand society pre and post 9/11, then you're probably talking 12 at the time, so 35 right now. Still a lot of adults you're ruling out.
Bad assumption, a localized event doesn't affect everyone in the world equally.
So, uh, what is the difference?
I was alive for 9/11 and I don't know the difference.
I don't care for politics.
I don’t care for politics.
Your sphere of control should match your sphere of concern; and neither of those things are what you think they are.
You think politics are in my control in any way, shape, or form? They've gerrymandered my vote to irrelevance.
I still vote, I look at the platforms and vote for whomever I feel serves my interests the most, not that the party's platform means jack or shit. They're all just pandering to whatever they know you want to hear, and once they get into power, they do whatever the hell they want.
My district leans a particular way, and whether I vote with them, or against them, the same party is elected to govern. I'd say my vote is pretty useless in that context.
I was too young to vote, pre-9/11, and had even less interest in politics than I do now. I've vaguely followed along since I got registered to vote when I got old enough to do so, but it's not like learning about what happened before I was registered to vote will help me in any way. I make the best choice based on the information that is available, and in the end, it doesn't even matter.
Could anyone persuade you to vote on what's better for most people instead of what's better for yourself? Maybe it's the same policies maybe not.
I usually want whatever is best for the majority. I'm done college, and I paid my student loans, I'll vote for student loan forgiveness and a restructuring of that system so others don't have to go through what I did.
I'm pretty healthy and rarely need hospitals but universal healthcare is something that everyone should have.
I would also vote for UBI, though I would get no benefit from it, as I've been employed pretty much non-stop since I left college.
I would also vote to raise the minimum wage, though my salary is significantly amount the minimums.
My principles are in line with what most people would consider to be the greater good for all people. I believe in true equality, and I don't feel like that's what we have, some people just aren't given the same basic rights, especially in America with roe v. Wade being overturned. Bodily autonomy and the right to love, and marry whomever you want. I don't believe in lowering the bar to give the illusion of things being "fair", eg, allowing people who are otherwise mentally or physically incapable of doing a job, to do the job just because they're a particular race, gender, or something else (making it more about who they are than whether they're the best fit for a job).
I don't think I need any convincing to vote for what's good for someone else.
Agreed, we are like minded in many ways. Thanks for the kind and long response. I believe your earlier comments were being taken by myself and others as fuck everyone I'll get/I've got mine. Sorry I don't mince words at the moment.
No apology needed. No offense taken.
I know that text replies, especially terse ones can be interpreted in many ways. Often I tend to be rather verbose to get my point across accurately. Some then complain about the verbosity of my replies.
It's a struggle to find the right amount of terse while being verbose enough to not be misunderstood.
Not at least understanding the difference seems irresponsible.
Who needs an informed electorate anyway?
Why? How does knowing how politics worked before I could vote, help me as a voter today?
I understand enough about politics to cast my vote and beyond the act of voting, I generally don't follow politics. I vote based on party platforms (what they intend to do) and the likelihood of those things happening. Eg, if a party was to say that they'll make everyone rich, I would consider that statement to be delusional, unrealistic and not something that could be fulfilled even if that party was voted in. This is an extreme example, but I think you get my meaning.
Beyond doing my due diligence in figuring out who I want to vote for, and then voting for that party.... What else do I realistically need?
My district always elects the same party anyways, whether I vote for them or not. I've landed in a gerrymandered location and that party basically always wins, but I still vote regardless.
IMO, I shouldn't need to take a political history course to be considered to be a responsible voter.
I'm actually gonna give the benefit of the doubt and assume this is actually a grown idiot lol
I don't really know, but when they have weird illogical views that they defend with trump like arguments, I think they are kids. They might not be 10.
Some people's bodies continue to grow well after their brain stopped developing.
Yes, but it's a little worse than that. One might take that to mean environmental, congenital, or even genetic factors. But there's more. Consider the role that trauma has to play here as it can directly cause arrested psychological development:
That was really interesting. I had a friend who's brother killed himself when he was a young teen. If things didn't go his way or he was overly irritated, especially when he was drunk, he reacted by destroying things like a pubescent boy might. He also came from a wealthy family so I always thought that contributed as well, like not caring if he breaks something just buy a new one. But he didn't just break his own things. I had to end the friendship when he drunkenly threatened a woman who lived in my building with a gun. I hope he's ok.
Sorry to hear about your friend. While I'm no doctor, that seems to fit the bill to me. I've known people that had other trauma when young, and yeah, maintaining healthy relationships seems to be the hardest thing for them. Your story reminded me of a lot.
Specifically in games: constantly repeating the flavor of the month insults. Typically some influencer comes up with a funny insult then for the rest of the month some kids use that one singular insult for every situation
I don't know about you all, but I have been posting as an adult human male for a numbers of years now despite being a 4 year old Alaskan Malamute. No one seems to notice or care.
Moon moon?
Men come in all shapes and sizes.
UwU
I don't know
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Kids care too deeply about the most shallow things
Assuming that getting married means you'll never masturbate again.
For me personally the first tell is when they are morally loading every statement in an argument and are unable to engage with a topic directly. Adults should be able to discuss or debate certain topics on the value of the arguments alone without feeling pressured to include a declarative virtue signal in every clause.
I can't say there is one. Every time i think to myself something like "goddamn, this person is immature" I remind myself that there's a high number of immature adults in the world including myself, so...?
A lack of understanding interpersonal interactions.
And it’s more of a feeling than it is any single behavior. You just… know it when you see it. They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform, and that getting along with others happens solely on their terms. They kind of act like everyone but them is an NPC - not realizing to everyone but them, they’re the NPC.
That sounds like an adult with a social and/or psychological issue.
lol. While writing that out, I had that thought too, but decided that saying it was more of a feeling was vague enough that I could hide behind that when someone inevitably pointed out it could apply to some adults, too.
I do feel it’s noticeable - an adult that has some sort of social struggle vs a kid. But it’s like… A kid seems to make statements that come from a place of naïveté, whereas an adult seems to make statements that come from a place of ignorance. Adults seem to couch their words in defensive language, while kids seem kind of blindly assertive. It truly is more of a feeling, I think.
This is the best way of describing it. Assertive statements with very naive foundations. I can recognise some of my own thought patterns from when I was young in some of the things they say.
Tomato Tomato
uh, you got them backwards, it sounds all weird that way. I think you meant "Tomato Tomato"
No, it's definitely "Tomato Tomato"
my mistake. I thought they'd said "Tomato Tomato" but now I understand I misread it and it's "Tomato Tomato". I ought to be more careful.
Might add lack of general understanding but it's pretty much what you said, like physics, math, nature and society.
They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform
A adult would usually understand enough to at least recognize there is always consequences to a lack of knowledge.
I'm 62. I'm accused of being a kid all the time.
62 sounds like the kind of random age a kid would say they are. Found 'em!
Damn it.
And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling adults. I gonna go eat my Kraft mac & cheese.
Fuckin hell I'm 52 and haven't had cereal since 1984. I get called a kid by 30/40 year olds that still eat sugar for breakfast 😂
What an odd thing to be proud of.
I feel especially called out here... Pop tarts and cereal in the morning. Only thing that changed was fruit juice was swapped out for coffee.
Get yourself a danish or something if you're going to eat dessert for breakfast. Damn kids.
Holy sugar spikes.
Oatmeal, made with water and a little salt.
Username with a year that tracks as a kid.
Trick question: assume everyone is a child until proven otherwise.
Enthusiasm.
Excessive edginess
It's important to differentiate it from like. Having extreme opinions. There are plenty of adults with extreme opinions and they are a whole other conversation. -- But only people under a certain age (not strictly kid, mind, though most people have shaken this off by their mid 20s) have a penchant to arrive at extreme opinions specifically because they are "edgy" and "cool".
This tends to also come with a particularly needless hostile attitude, where they very quickly and easily start with the verbal abuse.
They are on TikTok and not Lemmy
When someone asks what’s a dead give away someone is a kid, it tells me they’re not old enough to remember the ASL days.
The neat thing about anonymous discussion on the Internet is that it doesn't matter. What you have to say is all that matters.
I don't know anything about anyone and that's great.
Their usernames are the random ones proposed by the platform, such as Lazy_Platform_34.
I honestly can’t tell. Whenever I see a dumb outrage for video games, I tell my self that it’s a kid, but deep down I I really don’t know
Asking basic questions that can usually be answered with internet experience ("how do bans/kicks work", or "what is an administrator", "what is LAN" etc.)
Flaunting "new" features that existed on older products. ("This game let's us upload our own music to soundtrack!", "I've never seen a platformer like this" etc.)
Did you know that you can download podcasts and play them without internet?
This one got me the other day.
Really? What's next, podcasts delivered over airwaves?
It’s called WiFi smh
Their gamer tag includes "Killer". They've never heard the terms "gamer tag" or "handle".
Is this really common? I dont know any that even used a computer before 2015
slang mostly, I mod a strictly 18+ space and recently someone used the word "skeet", and would you believe it, they were a minor
Fr fr bussin no cap the rizzler is mewing
Alpha / Beta male noise. Ok kiddo we get it, you're insecure
Vertical filming, putting music into videos when you could just use silence
Extensive use of emojis and abbreviations is a good indicator.
"skibidi" "rizz" "sus"
All I'm learning from this thread is that no one can tell any consistent signs.
Using a year as an extremely long period of time, never uses "talk it out" as a solution to anything, mentions a YouTuber you've never heard of as if they're a global celebrity.
Also related to the first point, losing their mind over something that delays their education/life plans by 4 months or more.
Excessive swearing, as if they just learned how to say “fuck”.
Not that any damn amount of fucking swearing means they are are a young fucker, but you can fucking tell when you read that shit and they manage nine goddamn swear words in one fucking sentence you know they’re a young bitch who aren’t allowed to swear any other damn time.
Mother damn, that's a shitting good point my bastard
Fuck you, I'm in my forties
Yeah, what's this fucker on about? I'm an adult that doesn't even get carded at the liquor store anymore, I fucking swear whenever I damn well please and as often as I give a shit to. Nothing wrong with some cursing, especially at those young fucks that won't stay off my goddamned lawn. Shit, they're at it again.
Brb, gotta yell at some asshole kids.
Don’t get it twisted, I love cursing like a sailor and do so regularly. But when I see it excessively in an internet post that makes someone seem like they’re trying too hard to fit in with adults online and be extra edgy
Alright, just stay off my lawn and we're cool.
Or they speak English as a foreign language. Then all the swear words hold no value or weight, unlike in your native language.
Adults can drive though and rush hour traffic is the ultimate swearing walhalla
My general metric:
Hahaha = gen x
Lol = older millenial
Lmao = younger millenial
💀 = Gen z
I'm Gen Z and use all of them
For me its moreso about what the older gens won't use than what the younger ones will
I am a xennial as well and that was dangerously close to using lol as punctuation which will lose you that sweet xennial cred.
Seriously though I'm happy to be from this microgeneration. Analog childhood/digital adulthood makes for cool people.
I'm a lmaoer myself but i can throw in a lol depending on who I'm talking to.
Most Gen Z aren't children though
When i figure out what gen a's 'funny' synonym is I'll update the list
From what I've seen it's also 💀
Lol
rofl
hahal💀lma💀
"im 9 btw"
lethal amounts of cringe
idk man frfr ong. thats not skibidi rizzler fanum tax of you to assume im a younger and have L rizz, im no cap a sigma fr. anyway im finna dip and be like an alpha. 💀
Crypto bros who follow ultra distorted stoicism (the only good philosophy is the ones made when slavery was normalised) that believe everyone else is unaware of what very basic knowledge they world they just learned that day.
Quick to call other people kids as an insult.
Unfaltering loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party
Poor grammar/orthography
What do birds have to do with anything?
Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.
"Ahh no see, you wanted entomology man, which coincidentally means study of bugs"
What about the study of Ents?
Looks up
Everything!
Puts on foil hat
You made a perfect example of the original question there. Emoting in italics like an old geeky chat. I'd bet you're no younger than 35.
How do you do, fellow geriatrics?
Nice try, kid
This doesn't seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven't figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they're is astounding.
Rest assured it's not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.
As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.
Essentially a third of the country can't read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.
When they start calling people "jr" or implying anyone who disagrees with them is too young to understand.
This one has been easy for me lately: They spell 'lose' as 'loose'.
Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of "not reading all that" or other thought terminating clichés.
I've found that as arbitrary as it is - the ability to read a lot of information works pretty well as a mark of mental maturity. Also links to Twitter or Tiktok as discussion points. No one over the age of 19 browses TikTok lol.
not reading all that...tldr?
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Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of "not reading all that" or other thought terminating clichés.
Ouch, I think I'm a kid in my 30s
To take it to a logical extreme, it frustrates me when a post that considers both (or more) views and is a well thought out post, is met with a single world reply - as if it's some sort of "gotcha" or the fact that a single ambiguity in a largely solid argument somehow usurps the entire point.
I tend to think they're either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.
Agreed, it can be very frustrating - and is often used for that very purpose, to let the person know they just wasted x amount of time to compose a message no one is going to even read let alone take seriously. But I do not think this is really a good indicator for someone being a child, it's just intentional insult.
I tend to think they're either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.
There's a lot of us who are not very great at communications for various reasons. I personally might just lose interest in conversation and can't get myself to put in the effort to actually contribute value to it and just phase out, and same happens online in a way. As fucking annoying it might be for the person I'm conversing with, it's not intentional nor meant to insult
This is Reddit in a nutshell.
One of my coworkers is 43 and he's on tiktok every day. The olds have come for the kids platform just like they/we always do.
Not sure if it's the case anymore, but strong opinions were matched with EQUALLY STRONG STYLISTIC CHOICE!!!!!!!, often coupled with poor grammar/spelling, and a tendency to lean more towards rehashing the same opinion rather than making a rational argument for it.
I dunno, I get this as much from old people too. I think it's less an indicator of age and more an indication of people who aren't great at thinking.
Could it be more of a "new to the internet"-thing, maybe?
Maybe it was at a certain time, but how many people are realistically getting introduced to the internet as an adult at this point in developed countries.
They’re the ones who are not obsessing over children’s toys or saying “adulting is difficult!”.
skibidi toilet
"Arguing" by listing a long list of fallacies that they don't really even understand.
When someone explains something everyone knows or is obvious as if they just thought of it for the first time in human history.
Just assume everybody is 12 and you'll be good.
Probably just internet slang and the skull emoji. That and poor grammar are (possible) indicators.
It might disappoint you to learn that among american english speakers, literacy isn't a good indication of maturity by age. Barbara Bush made a literacy initiative that's still around, the One Good Thing(R) left over from the bush regime. The site has a handy map to show you the 40-60% adult literacy rate counties spread all over the states. It definitely helped me come to terms with the fact that sometimes a kid who is trying is gonna be more eloquent than an adult repeating the same tired take they've been rebutted for a thousand times.
It's easier for me personally to gauge age as it scales up when anonymity is involved - referential humor, recognizance of the ancient runes (Duckroll, Bill Murray's face with only the jaw moving), and informed chitchat about presidential behavior predating Bush SR are all dead giveaways that a user is older, but with younger users you have a lot of hobby/interest overlap going all the way up to people in their 40s. You can't look someone in the eyes and see if the light of youth has gone out yet on forums and imageboards.
The Amber Alert going nationwide is also Bush era. But I don't wanna detract from the remainder of your comment.
True, I'd forgotten about this and I'm glad to be detracted in this way tbh
Easy, just ask them what show was on channel 3 when they were a kid.
name or slot?
Biologically a kid or adults too?
when you see this: skibidi gyatt rizzler sigma grindset cap fr fr
They don't remember what life was like before Google.
I fucked their mom
Unable to understand and/or admit that both sides can be bad. It's ok to admit the "your team" did some nasty shit and it doesn't in any way cancel out what the other "team" did.
Also, Winning an argument doesn't in any way make you a winner. Actually, an argument that someone "won" often doesn't lead to a change for the better or even make anyone convinced that your arguments were valid.
Why does he look so much like Pete Davidson
The thing with a lot of the methods mentioned is that I've seen both teens that are more mature than me, and people in their thirties that should probably have their internet privileges revoked.
References TikTok as a source of knowledge
💀
Kids Next Door on some recon huh
They keep talking about how much they like turtles
Wait! I thought there were no kids on the internet. Men are men, women are men, kids are FBI?
And small blue creatures from alpha centuri where real small blue creatures from alpha centuri.
They don't drink at all and they think consent is literally impossible after any amount of alcohol.
Lol, comment removed. It ended with, "...support for the Chinese Communist party" as a way of finding out someone is a child.
Which was then removed in a, dare I say, childish act of moderation.
(Which is fine, the folks at .ml are welcome to censor as they see fit, of course, and I'm sure this comment isn't long for this world.)
Well, you could count redditor-esque petty opinions as part of that,
That, and using pepe the frog as a PFP... as childish...
Dude, fuck these tankie mods. Childish af.
Support for the Chinese Communist Party.
Imagine thinking everyone in China is 15yo. It says a lot of you.
Imagine thinking everyone in China supports the CCP.
According to Harvard in 2020, 95.5% do. That certainly isn't 100%, but it's pretty high, I would say.
I bet is very relevant to:
On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?
AIs are eagerly scooping up this as a source lol
Ask them if they think that the movie "The Wall" is a good representation of the song.
I'm old enough to remember when both released and I don't have a good answer to this, assuming you mean the pink floyd movie and not some other I'm not aware of.
I am and I am, and it's a trick question because the movie is the entire album which is a rock opera.
🔥b00bs🔥 feel like bags of sand 💯
They play Gatcha life or that Toca boca game (forgot it's name)
Y'all trying to get me banned from .ml again. I'm not falling for it.
Many people wouldn't know I'm not a kid if they spent all day interactively standing behind me in a queue.
They post memes to Lemmy
the gettier problem
i knoW; right‽
One kid in a roblox "exposed" type of video said that he could tell adults apart because they "typed really fast" - so, if it's in a game, check if they type kinda slow? In a forum, no idea.
They think that communism is the solution to the world's problems.
Kinda true because the inverse is true. If someone is terrified of communism without knowing what it actually is, it is peak boomer-signaling.
I'm pretty sure looking for kids on the internet will get you a nice little seat with Mr. Chris Hansen.
They hate porn.
calling people online kid or kiddo.
edit: this isn't about using the word altogether. it's about comments online where people try to be condescending by calling other anonymous people "kid" or "kiddo". always seems like compensation to me.
their and your instead of theyre and youre
idk, but i wish they'd go away because i fucking hate them.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR VAPID DRAMA. QUIT MUDDYING THE WATERS OF DISCUSSION WITH YOUR LACK OF ANY REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE.
They like communism.
When they think communism is a great idea
It can't be fully implemented properly because power corrupts.
Why would "power corrupts" mean Communism can't be fully implemented? What on Earth are you talking about, specifically?
I'm not the original commenter but I agree with them and I see it like this: Under communism, you need people in power to make sure everything is "fair", but human nature will lead many of these people to selfishly abuse their position.
Basically this. I should have put it into words more clearly
You need organization, yes. What is "fair?" Why can't there be democratic processes keeping these people in check? What does "human nature" have to do with this, does the local post office go rogue?
I understand that the basis of Capitalism is that it isn't fair in any way, shape, or form, but why does that mean it's better?
I'm the wrong person to ask these questions, I'm a socialist. I despise what capitalism has caused.
doesn't work for Estonians, kids are taught that.
lol
ur
literally
mid
lul
till
The signs of poor education are there. This sign can often be found in indolent kids whose education is incomplete, or adult Americans who are victims of the 'no child left behind' mess.
Lul, this is literally mid. Oh, wait, I have a PHD. I suppose I am no longer allowed to speak how I want.
Are you suggesting that generation-specific vernacular is a sign of poor education?