this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
675 points (95.1% liked)

Microblog Memes

6014 readers
2688 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dumbass@leminal.space 25 points 1 day ago

Would you leave us the fuck alone, we're old now!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Millennials are like 40 years old now. Does this article writer think Millennial just means "kid"?

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Millennials are like 40 years old now.

PS. I'm not actually 40 but I'm getting there before I even realise it.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago

I just turned 40. It's fine. Same joints ache as when I turned 30, less heartburn (because I've figured out my triggers).

[–] biomjsull@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I'm a millennial and watched the Seinfeld finale live...

[–] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

It’s worded like we’re all still in our early 20s.

It’s just hot clickbait garbage for boomers

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

Someone should tell them to definitely stay away from Curb Your Enthusiasm (created and starring the co-creator of Seinfeld). It's like a rated-R version of Seinfeld that has absolutely no boundaries. LOL

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of you assume I'm younger. I'm closer to 50 then I like to admit. I'm just not from the US, maybe that is part of why it didn't click with me.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 117 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Ummmm, the whole point of the show was that the people were horrible.

The show ended with them jailed after they made fun of a guy who was getting mugged.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The gang on It's Always Sunny is worse but they are obviously not people we're supposed to empathise with. It's quite a bit less obvious on Seinfeld.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Always Sunny was taking the idea of Seinfeld and dialing it up to 11.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
[–] stinerman@midwest.social 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's weird that "this group of people don't like that show that you like" is supposed to create some sort of negative reaction. My enjoyment of a thing does not depend on a certain number of other people liking it.

I must be numb to "outrage is the best way to engage people" that everyone uses these days.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To be fair, Outrage Marketing does work, but it usually isn't this obvious.

Like when Disney announced that the Snow White remake would have Seven Multicolored Normal Sized Human People? And later it turned out the final movie will indeed have dwarves?

That was just done to get bigots talking about the flick. Wouldn't be surprised to learn Aerial being black in the newer Mermaid movie was the same thing. I mean it worked, people were too busy defending Disney from criticism for this move that they didn't notice the movie is, like most Live Action Remakes of Non-Live Action media, shit.

Hey Disney, bring back your 2D Animation, have them do another Lion King, then dub it over with the audio for the Mufasa film. I guarantee I'll actually consider watching the damn thing if you do that. (These Live Action remakes have got to be a Money Laundering scheme or something)

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe an episode about an minor pursuing Elaine written by someone who's ok with dating a minor when he was 35 should be raising questions. Or when they had an episode pushing Tort reform when they made fun of the woman who was burnt by scolding hot McDonalds coffee.

Seinfield, both the character and person, is just a selfish, unsympathetic person and we're suppose to view the world though. I'm glad he's being called out for his shallow snark. This has been a long time coming.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's the laugh track that's offensive.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's a live studio audience in this case. Not that it makes it any less annoying.

Edit: a word

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the first time? We grew up with this show.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ya know how growing up, our parents called every system a "Nintendo", even if it was clearly a Playstation or a Sega Genesis?

Yeah that's what boomers do with age groups. Anyone younger than them is a "Millenial Zoomer on Youtube's TikTok app"

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

most of my millennial peers were all in on Friends and thought Seinfeld was pretty much only for old people. it had its cultural moment but it was popular because pretty much everyone older than 30 in the 90s loved the show.

Basically people who are around 50/60 now were the ones who truly enjoyed Seinfeld.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I grew up watching Cheers with my dad and had no problem transitioning to Seinfeld when I got older.

It's got a certain East Coast dry sense of humor. Friends is more generically goofy.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh Joey, Cue laugh track and 🤮

load more comments (1 replies)

I like older shows and I enjoy it. It's definitely from it's time, the humor hasn't aged, but idk where they get the triggered millennials from

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What‽ I grew up on it and I'm as young as we get. No it's his current stand up that's in poor taste and one night of Kramer's stand-up that's actually offensive

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kinda amazing that nobody in this whole thread did any research on why seinfeld is offensive... Just reacting to a meme from fox news.

For example... https://www.cbr.com/seinfeld-puerto-rican-day-controversy/

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I found it funny but curb your enthusiasm is much better

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Curb Your Enthusiasm convinced me Seinfeld was like 95% Jerry riding Larry David's coattails. Jerry is so rarely funny to supposedly be "the guy."

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We were the ones watching it when it was first airing. I don't think there was anyone in my highschool that wasn't watching it.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] noxy@yiffit.net 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They said "not that there's anything wrong with that" about gay people in the 90s. WAY better than most of the shit at the time.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›