♦ Unpopular Opinion Thread ♦

the discourse about gen alpha is going a bit too far. the whole "generation wars" for me is insanely stupid, but for a different reason that most people won't expect; it's nowhere like that in the outside world. all the discourse i see, all the explanations come from people that are in english speaking countries like USA. meanwhile, the only thing i see about gen alpha nowadays in the country i'm in, and people from my same language, is the "weird" interests we just don't understand and then move on. but cocomelon? ipad kids? ipads are SO expensive not even adults have these. cocomelon? when i was younger with my sister we used to watch animated stupid toddler shows about the different sounds the animals made like the cows, birds, etc. skibidi toilet, digital circus? we used to watch gmod SMG4 youtube videos and "killing justin bieber" video slanders. pretty similar to what gen alpha obviously is going to watch, obviously will move on from, and OBVIOUSLY won't define their generation! it's just one of these times its so clear the statement that the world revolves around USA and nothing else, because it's NOWHERE LIKE THAT in the rest of the world!

is there problems in the generation? sure! i notice lack of understandment towards computers and it's all about phones. but shit is, big surprise, the kids never grew up on the old internet where everything was even more wild and strange. there's also problems 2020 left to kids of all ages, but that pretty much affected everyone. it's a GLOBAL issue. not a GENERATION one. dehumanizing the next generation into thinking they're all braindead, doomed, etc, will just make things worse. or have you, gen Z, never been told about how your generation will ruin the entire world? we always going through the same cycles it's insane. i never, never in my life, heard about all this generation nonsense until i learned english and went to western influencer content. and that tells a lot. let's just chill, stop being morons, and wait.

and i bet, i bet, that if i was on these english countries, gen alpha isn't that bad. gen alpha is just having its weird phases and/or some kids just were terribly raised by their parents. it's just tiktok and twitter trends trying to be superior like "oh, thank godness we aren't like these creatures, right guys?" ugh. my mother is a teacher of pree-teens and she always praises this generation for their acceptance to diversity, the complete break of gender norms and feminism. if i asked her about ipad kids, she would be surprised that even ipads are bought nowadays.

^ I agree. I think Gen alpha is going a bit south because of their parents, and blaming it on the children is insanity. These kids didn’t wake up and ask for an iPad, half of them don’t even know what an iPad is. The parents are the ones who should be criticized, not the children.

Press on nails > acrylic nails any day. They’re much cheaper and easier to manage in my opinion. 

⬇️(x3) that’s my main problem. It’s actually affecting their ability to think and comprehend basic things and there are seventh graders without intellect disabilities that can’t read or write because of how they were being parented. It’s dystopian, honestly. 

Thranduil even the studio did him dirty. He’s not unattractive at all in most of his headshots. He even made a YouTube video on how it ruined his career recently and people were wishing literal death on him. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Devon Bostick as Rodrick, but this hatred towards Charlie was unwarranted and just flat out unacceptable, especially the death wishes.

^ Please I’d rather kids watch cocomelon or “brainrot” over MLP character gore or Omegle. Bad parenting has always existed. Back in the internet 1980s people left their childhood to go play by themselves or to go alone to stores when they weren’t even in their double digits and some of these cases lead to tragedies. Kids don’t deserve blame for what adults do to them. If you don’t give a kid any boundaries and just expect them to live off love and cuddles that’s setting the poor kid off for disaster, but if you are too stern and your love is conditional it’ll destory them too. A balance is needed. 

Sometimes, salty foods and sugary foods combined aren't THAT horrible. Take pineapple pizza for example.

you really had to use the most controversial example for that huh /lighthearted  

But I agree on salty + sweet being a good combo, while pineapple pizza specifically isn't my thing I love a bunch of foods that are both sweet and salty

Pineapple pizza is great! And so does cheese flavored ice cream ^u^

pineapple pizza good and the people who act like its existence is a total sin are losers

i don’t know about y’all but i can’t stand the thought of eating pineapple because of the texture let alone pineapple pizza

also i kinda don’t understand why everyone likes to diss on ajr like they’re not the absolute best but they’re not really bad at all imo (though i haven’t listened to much ajr either way; going off of the several songs i know)

people who don’t believe the news/speculate/are skeptical are not always conspiracy theorists, people are tired of being manipulated by big companies. 

flashing highly intense neon background color isn't "old web" it's a fucking hazard. It seems like troll behavior but some people are dead serious. " sorri :3 hihi that's the only way to portray it. neons are my personality uwu ". Highly aggressive eye-bleed web design isn't 'old web', it's an awful choice of color & design. it was back then, and it is today. I highly dislike it when people call their non-existent harmony of color "old web".

here, look at that: old-web, and my eyes aren't popping.