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+ this is kind of weird, but recently I have noticed I no longer keep up with slang

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    - the fuck is a skibidi??

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- maybe this is because I no longer browse memes.
not on our friend circle's private Discord, not on Reddit, pretty much nowhere

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    - memes largely arrive to me directly from specific people.
    I don't go out to kill boredom with memes anymore.

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    - at some point I realized browsing memes adds nothing to my life, and I just stopped doing it.
    obviously something had to take their place in killing time, and that became... reading [Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
    I think that's a net positive since you can genuinely learn a lot from people's writing about computing, but getting time for that required abandoning memes.

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- the realization that I gain nothing by browsing memes is probably what one could call a piece of _wisdom_; life knowledge, stuff that shapes your worldview.

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    + but by gaining more wisdom, I have lost knowledge of popculture

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        - not that you can define _popculture_ in today's society that well anyways.
        there are so many little corners of culture that it's hard to tell what's popular anymore

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- ...don't tell anyone, but I like it that way.
I can focus on my art and making it unique.
no need to chase trends.

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    - even if it means being called an old fart at some point.
    timeless > trendy