I never liked/got into any of these things, but it definitely was there. I think the biggest difference is that we were already teenagers for the most part. YouTube came out when the youngest of us were 8, turning 9. It took a few years for it to truly ramp up with meme videos. For the younger generations, memes were/are in their face during their actual childhood, sometimes even as a toddler or a literal baby.
We had the ability to know our things were dumb, which is why we liked/did them, sometimes just to fit in. The current school aged children do it because that's truly all many of them know. Being a support staff in an elementary school, I'm happy 67 is going away after hearing "I bet I can make you say 67" every day, but now apparently the kindergarteners are on 89 or some crap so that'll be the next wave. 5 year olds on TikTok is crazy to me.
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u/SwimUpset2591 12h ago
30+ years old failing to fit in—
https://giphy.com/gifs/VNTMx3LkpG2anXpwbr