If this was 20+ years ago this situation would be completely reversed . Unfortunately, and I don’t say this to sound elitist, the quality of Internet patron has gone down. Once upon a time the average Internet user was a little higher on the evolutionary ladder. Now I see people who can obviously use the technology(they know where the power button is – Hooray) but are so stupid they ask the most rudimentary questions instead of just using a search engine for a definitive and immediate answer. Think: How do I boil an egg?

I suspect at least 20% of them don’t even know they could open another tab and search for the answer there. Let alone have the critical skills to think of that solution in the first place. Another 20% only recently found out that their hair grows from the roots and not the tips with the subsequent fear that their brain will be infiltrated with hair that could harm their delicate grey matter(this is a TikTok reference and actual reality and fsck is their grey matter delicate).

The first time I watched Idiocracy I saw it just as a movie now I see it as prophecy because all around me I see the most stupid shit all the time.

As BD said “The times they are a changing” and not for the better.

I guess this post exposes me as an old, wrinkly curmudgeon elitist and completely intolerant of(if not completely bigoted) towards the terminally stupid.

EDIT: remember ‘planking’ of which the object was to lie down and stay as still as possible. People died doing this. Like WTF really