The Off Topic Topic

[Habbaku]

Closed down?
Why? They were printing money.

The important part here is "before the new season". They didn't close down for good.

[Sheilbh]

Fortnite is up there with famous YouTubers in making me feel there's a clear generational difference between me (a millenial) and the kids and it makes me feel old

[Syt]

[Habbaku]

Fortnite is up there with famous YouTubers in making me feel there's a clear generational difference between me (a millenial) and the kids and it makes me feel old

I don't feel old, but I also don't really see the appeal of Fortnite either. Famous YouTubers just makes sense, though. Especially since a whole heap of them are Millennials.

[Josquius]

I sometimes look at what kids these days are into and feel old.

Then I remember that when I was a kid I didn't really like what kids were into then either.

[garbon]

Fortnite is up there with famous YouTubers in making me feel there's a clear generational difference between me (a millenial) and the kids and it makes me feel old

I don't feel old, but I also don't really see the appeal of Fortnite either. Famous YouTubers just makes sense, though. Especially since a whole heap of them are Millennials.

I'm with Sheilbh. I don't see why people would want to follow these "content creators".

[Sheilbh]

Fortnite is up there with famous YouTubers in making me feel there's a clear generational difference between me (a millenial) and the kids and it makes me feel old

I don't feel old, but I also don't really see the appeal of Fortnite either. Famous YouTubers just makes sense, though. Especially since a whole heap of them are Millennials.

I don't know what Fortnite is really

With YouTubers I just didn't notice it until like 20,000 Londoners were trying to buy tickets to see two YouTubers box each other. And it just struck me this whole new culture had built up behind my back. It's fine I just suddenly noticed.

Same with Fortnite, I became aware of it because footballers were doing Fortnite victory celebrations and I was like - what?

[Eddie Teach]

If by follow you mean subscribe to their channels, we do it because they make content that resonates somehow.

[Syt]

[Tamas]

Fortnite is up there with famous YouTubers in making me feel there's a clear generational difference between me (a millenial) and the kids and it makes me feel old

Yeah, Youtubers, and apparent pop music for me. There is now clearly a generational gap between me and young people, and it is only going to widen.

I mean, timescale-wise, me listening to 90s rock now is EXACTLY like people listening to 60s rock when I was a kid. Depressing.

[celedhring]

Fortnite is up there with famous YouTubers in making me feel there's a clear generational difference between me (a millenial) and the kids and it makes me feel old

Yeah, Youtubers, and apparent pop music for me. There is now clearly a generational gap between me and young people, and it is only going to widen.

I mean, timescale-wise, me listening to 90s rock now is EXACTLY like people listening to 60s rock when I was a kid. Depressing.

Yeah, one of the weirdest things of growing old is when you realize that stuff that was relevant in your life time (movies/music from the 1990s, for example) is closest to stuff you always thought as OOOOOOLD!!!! than current day music/movies.

[Syt]

Hey, everyone knows that music was best in the [insert decade when you were a teen/came of age]!

[Liep]

Hey, everyone knows that music was best in the [insert decade when you were a teen/came of age]!

Except if that age was just after brit pop but before the Strokes.

[Eddie Teach]

I try to listen to a healthy dose of recent music. Keeps me young. 

[Syt]

Tbf, I do make a habit of trying out new genres and new bands from genres I like.

My preferred decade is the 90s, but not all genres. E.g. friends and I listened to metal and grunge at the time, plus indie bands, while the charts were dominated by dance pop/techno which I still can't stand. I do like the charts music from the early to middling 80s, though, when I was a kid, so what do I know.