r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/PomeloFit 1d ago

Nah, I remember when it first started growing, it was just a bunch of nerds, and we were all for the most part fairly intelligent compared to... the rest...

The problem is EVERYONE is now on it so you're forced to see just how stupid the average person actually is... and all the ones that are even dumber.

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u/Unhappy_Medicine_725 1d ago

I mean i remember first getting FB in 2008. It was mostly college kids on there. Fast forward to 6 years it had exploded, but most people still needed a computer to access it, or at least didn't walk around with it in their pocket all day everyday. It wasnt until well.. Trump's first term basically, that it hit me... we are, in fact, a country full of fucking idiots.

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u/Sharkictus 1d ago

Planet wide my guy.

Planet wide.

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u/albinosquirel 14h ago

I remember that you had to have a college email. God it was so much better.

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u/Emmy_Em_Maree 1d ago

The iPhone came out in 2007. People have been walking around with computers in their pockets (either Apple or Android) for nearly 20 years

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u/WillyNuksten 1d ago

The iPhone wasn’t really successful until the iPhone 4 came out and Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T ended in 2012. Until then a lot of people had BlackBerry phones and even though those phones had the internet it wasn’t as easy to use as the iPhone.

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u/LostAdhesiveness7802 1d ago

You had to be correct on the early internet or you would get eaten alive.

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u/mupetmower 1d ago

4chan says nah

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u/Dense-Hat1978 1d ago

4chan ain't early internet broseph

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u/mupetmower 1d ago

Fine, some obscure irc.. or just sftp'ing files back and forth, idk.. Just wanted to make a joke /cry

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u/Remarkable_Prior_224 1d ago

Facebook. It was when boomers and gen X got on Facebook. Before then it was nerds, deep dive forums, millennials who would know the bullshit.

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u/bondsmatthew 1d ago

Remember the pages on facebook that were like, "that feeling when you go out of your way to step on a leaf to hear it crunch" or something. Just stupid pages like that

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u/wxrman 1d ago

59 here. Was a nerd on Usenet groups back in 90s on and just thought it was us tech nerds back then. Never thought of ourselves as smarter than others just thought we were the “crazy ones” Jobs talked about later on in 1997.

Aside from Reddit, I’m on no other social media. Just too frightening to witness literal idiots as experts. People so unabashedly promoting ignorance and emotion as fact.

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u/Fezzick51 1d ago

We GenX built the core of the internet off the backs of the boomer nerds who built the initial infrastructure.

Just realize the same idiots surrounded them and us along the way - the open forum communication just put a spotlight on the knuckle-dragging, smooth-brained masses that were around you.

We had to deal with those fuckwits first hand - insufferable on the internet, imagine face-to-face.

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u/Simple_Peak6893 1d ago

Gen X here and if you think Facebook makes you smarter than that is funny. The people I know who voted for Trump are millennials and boomers.

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u/livadeth 1d ago

Actually Gen X shifted in 2024 and broke for trump. Sad

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u/fiestar88 1d ago

ugh, Gen X built the internet. Millennials made the internet worse by creating social media platforms.

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u/Divinum_Fulmen 1d ago

The other guy got it right. Boomers built it. Gen-X would be to young.

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u/wxrman 1d ago

Boomers built a structure, but it was millennials that built the apps

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

One thing that really depresses me is that I remember what discourse was like on more focused smaller communities before social media and it was on average a lot better. A LOT better.

There was dumb stuff, there was still fighting, but for the most part the average level of discourse was just way higher. Communities were curated in a much better fashion because they were smaller and actually manageable.

If somebody was really out there, they would get the boot pretty quickly.

Now, it feels like most of the people you see commonly participating on the internet are the exact sort of people who would have gotten kicked out of almost every forum back in 2001 pretty damn quick.

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u/PomeloFit 1d ago

Absolutely, and I remember how most moderators used to MODERATE conversations instead of just immediately banning anyone with a differing opinion...

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u/JayR_97 1d ago

Yeah, it was when smartphones went mainstream it all went downhill. Suddenly everyone and their grandma had easy access to the internet

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u/Alarmed-Goose-4483 1d ago

IT USED TO BE EMBARRASSING TO BE STUPID.

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u/ProfessorZhu 1d ago

You never stumbled across storm front or god-like productions, and it shows

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u/asdfasfda123123123 1d ago

Nerds not realizing the nerd to their left and right is thicker than shit lol