Oh triangles are everywhere. My 9 yr old ne spotted Illuminati in his Pokemon. His generation (GenZ) mocks Illuminati and conspiracy theories. It’s the stuff of GenX and GenY, and all over the Internet. They’ll be a psychologically healthy generation I think.
Just say the words, “Jet Fuel Doesn’t Melt Steel Beams” and you’re in. They’re also really rough with their treatment of 9-11 clips… but that’s ancient history to them – I mean, they weren’t even born yet, so the bodies falling to the ground and going thump is amusing to them.
Understanding a 4th grader’s head in 2015 requires a lot of cultural anthropology on my part, so I try to stay ahead of him in all the memes.
It’s funny – he was all about ORAS until he saw a video talking about its flaws. At first he argued with the video, like any of us argue about anything here.
Then he got X+Y for his birthday (3DS XL I think he has). Now he’s agreeing with everything that video said and prefers the graphics of the old style. He talks like he’s been playing Pokemon for 20 years, and considering he’s watched videos made by people who HAVE played pokemon from the beginning, he’s acquired all of their knowledge in compressed form and become an old pro.
lol hipster / trend setter? I dunno I don’t actually *play* unless I’m playing it with him. I just find cultural shifts fascinating. I’m 43 yrs old, been online since 1988 and love noticing trends and patterns. I don’t participate in them but I like making the connections. I also put myself on every social network.
I *did* run a Minecraft server for 23 months though [got 28,000 unique players total] – at first for my ne but then I fell in love with the game… and I AM hooked on Vine (made over 10,000 videos), so a hipster? Probably. But I know I’m just a foolish middle aged guy who enjoyed things that are “new”. Things get old quickly to me, so I like things that are genuinely novel to my eyes, which don’t come around often.