At least those horrible things required human effort to make, so there was a limited quantity. An unlimited supply of content that a human had no part in making is completely new territory
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Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
When I was a kid in the early 2000’s we were vibing to a funny song about a famous pedophile, watching pictures of dead people on rotten.com and ofcourse porn on the late night tv. We also had candy resembling tobacco products as well as ones with racist names.
I think new parents especially often seem to forget all the similar things they did as a child and then apply different standards to their own kids. Yeah, it’s not optimal, but they’re probably going to grow up just fine.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s not obvious to me why the non-human origin matters here. Eventually AI will get so good that you can’t even tell the difference, or if you can, it’s because it’s so high quality.
In my mind the meat of the issue is the amount of time we spend watching that content, and less so who made it.
papertowels@programming.dev 7 months ago
Non human origin matters because it’s easy to flood the field with this stuff.
If finding quality videos becomes a needle in a haystack amidst ai generated bullshit, each looking to passively earn a few bucks, overall quality of life will suffer as the ouroboros eats its tail.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I remember candy cigarettes. My favorite was the one that also double as gum. But guess I miss the racist candy? Or did I not get the racism?
Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 months ago
But guess I miss the racist candy? I don’t know it either, but I feel like when someone clarifies, I’ll be like “Oh… OHH! That.”
Hule@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This one comes to mind
sheilzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
These were called “Neekerin suukko” which translates into “Nigger’s Kiss” and they were sold under that name well over into the 2000’s. It’s basically a chocolate egg with a flat waffle bottom and filled with this white creamy filling.
Flyspeck@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They were called chocolate babies in the 80s/90s and think they still go by that name but are no longer made by a major manufacturer
tym@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty sure that’s every generation in relation to the next: arapahoelibraries.org/…/generational-blame-a-brie…
anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wait, are you talking about some variation of candy cigarettes that I have never seen, but would be insanely jealous if they existed, or the flavored ones Camel used to have? Cause yeah chocolate mint Camels were awesome. Never liked the orange flavored ones, but that seemed to just be me in my friend group.
frogfruit@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Millennials have higher rates of mental illness than previous generations. We are far from fine.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d imagine an increasingly hostile world economy coupled with a then-looming but now beginning climate crisis might have a huge impact there.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There are multiple possible explanations for that. I don’t see any direct link between the kind of content we millenials consumed in our childhood and the apparent rise in the number of mental health cases. I’d be willing to bet that the time spend consuming said content plays a much bigger factor.
frogfruit@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Glitchington@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When I was younger I wasn’t sad because I was online, I was online because I was sad and felt out of place in reality.
The cough isn’t the cause of the cold, it’s a symptom.
Also, I gained more empathy the older I got. So you probably need a bigger data set than your own experiences.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hard to believe this isn’t simply due to improved detection, reporting and treatment options.
frogfruit@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Gen X and boomers still go to the Dr and undergo depression screenings, yet Gen X has roughly half the rates of depression as gen z and millennials. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9934502/
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The key metric would be to review care detection and frequency at the same chronological age of participants, not simply today.