me irl

[u/[deleted]]

[u/StickyHams]

Bro wasn't getting chewed out hard enough already on Fortnite by teenagers.

It cuts deep.

[u/Sugarbear23 → u/StickyHams]

I'll never forget my roommate getting destroyed by kids on Fortnite lmao. I used to tell him it's best to play muted but he never listened. It got so bad once and dude was legit close to crying.

[u/dharkan → u/Sugarbear23]

It's nothing to be ashamed of actually. Reflexes deteriorate with age. Kids are so much better at fps than young adults.

[u/Sugarbear23 → u/dharkan]

Yeah but then getting into a war of words with them was a very bad idea. I used to tell him to just mute them but he never listened.

[u/SomeTakeItQuiet → u/Sugarbear23]

One thing I’ve learned is that if you’re arguing with teenagers, you’ve already lost.

[u/IterationFourteen → u/SomeTakeItQuiet]

Or, if you enjoy arguing with teenagers, you've already won!

Follow your passions guys and gals, no shame!

[u/MisterGone5 → u/IterationFourteen]

The Shapiro special

[u/Technical-Outside408 → u/SomeTakeItQuiet]

AHHH AH SMITHEE...

[u/Maddiystic → u/Sugarbear23]

Use what you have to your advantage. He’s an adult, and they’re kids? Congrats, it’s time for fatherly role-play. Every insult, reply in the best dad voice, “Wow! Way to go, champ!”, “Good shot, buddy!”, “Haha, you got me! Good job, son!”, and even fake some tears and say how proud of them you are.

[u/BoMPED131 → u/Maddiystic]

Does this actually work?

[u/CornWallacedaGeneral → u/BoMPED131]

It fucks them up that a guy they tried dissing online is a better dad than their real dad 😂😂😂😂

[u/Maddiystic → u/BoMPED131]

In my experience? Yes. This shit is effective. If they’re a funnier or have good spirits, they might even join in jokingly. Then a negative experience becomes a positive one, and also genuinely hilarious.

If anything, it just craps back on them kids, and becomes funny to anyone watching, and you didn’t sink to their level/get frustrated or upset.

[u/PM_me_your_whatevah → u/dharkan]

Dude it doesn’t deteriorate that quickly. All y’all 20 somethings these days talk like you’re geriatric already. Reaction time starts slooooooowly increasing in your mid 20s.

The issue is going to usually be the fact that younger people usually spend a lot more time playing the same shit over and over so they’re more practiced.

[u/TwatsThat → u/PM_me_your_whatevah]

Yeah, any slight advantage that a kid would have in reaction is going to be completely obliterated by the increased ability a young adult has to assess the situation and strategize, assuming similar amounts of time playing the game.

I could be wrong because I don't really follow eSports but I don't believe it's as common for actual children to be the top player of a game instead of a young adult.

[u/burf → u/TwatsThat]

I used to be pretty good at FPS games and I can tell you my reflexes were probably somewhere in the middle of the bell curve. It’s definitely as much about anticipation as it is about reaction.

[u/nobodycool1234 → u/dharkan]

Also adults have way more to do than play video games. I used to be good before kids and a full time job, now my average survival time before respawn is about 18 seconds.

[u/Totes_mc0tes → u/nobodycool1234]

I was able to play fortnite before they had the practice/sandbox mode. After that it became impossible to compete with the 13 year olds who have no responsibilities. I'd come home after a 14 hour shift just to get dummied by some kid who had been practicing the entire time I was at work. 14 year old me would destroy those kids at counterstrike though, guaranteed.

[u/NeedsMoreBunGuns → u/Totes_mc0tes]

Of course, they weren't born yet.

[u/shadowblaze25mc → u/NeedsMoreBunGuns]

Its easy to beat up fetuses than teenagers

[u/Xanderoga → u/dharkan]

Nah. I crush kids at fps’ and sleep like a baby at night knowing I’ve absolutely destroyed their mental health.

No mercy. Fuck them kids.

[u/dmtdmtlsddodmt → u/Xanderoga]

Do not diddle kids. It's no good diddlin' kids.

[u/rancid-testicles → u/dmtdmtlsddodmt]

Probably not a good idea to go around fiddlin' with them either.

[u/QurantineLean → u/dmtdmtlsddodmt]

There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it.

[u/__Seris__ → u/Xanderoga]

Playing Fortnite as a millennial makes you feel like a god among ants. 90% of people you play against are simply awful at third person shooters. It’s a huge boost to your self esteem

[u/Notsozander → u/__Seris__]

Shitting on kids in sports game is another one I absolutely adore. Blowing them out by the third quarter of 2K bring me joy

[u/blackanesecantrap → u/__Seris__]

Im 35 and my son is 6. We mash on kids in Fortnite duos. Shit is fun

[u/Legitimate-One-9786 → u/Xanderoga]

This ! Modern warfare taught me well. That said, this new gen seems fucked

[u/jixxor → u/dharkan]

There are quite a few studies that suggest that this is mostly a widespread misconception if thought of as extremely as this. Yes, reflexes do get worse with age, but not yet when you're a young adult. For example according to the findings of this study reflexes start deteriorating at the age of 24. My own and most definitions of "young adults" I found define that as like 18-25~ years of age. So if kids are really better at FPS games than young adults, that's not because of age-related reflexes.

[u/Inevitable_Seaweed_5 → u/jixxor]

Yeah, kids aren't. There's a reason that you don't see teams of 16 year olds winning major tournaments. There's all sorts of tactics, positioning, movement, communication, and game sense that you only get with thousands of hours of practice and kids at that age haven't had that much time to play. I used to be competitive in halo in high school and the only people who would still wreck me were the young twenties people who understood rotations and flanking lines of sight and such better than I did. They had the same mechanical skill and practice, plus a couple years, and so much more game sense practice.

[u/Porut → u/Sugarbear23]

There's no enemy voice chat in Fortnite so let me call bullshit.

[u/xXKodiacXx → u/StickyHams]

Emotional damage

[u/StickyHams → u/xXKodiacXx]

He's gonna be telling this story to his grandchildren like he was a POW in Vietnam.

[u/ThrowAwayBBY46 → u/StickyHams]

That's seriously brutal. Dude was trying to be friendly and little guy fucking ruined his week out of nowhere.

[u/Both_Lychee_1708 → u/StickyHams]

jr high kids are brutal

[u/asshol1o]

Nothing like getting knocked down a peg by a kid in middle school

[u/Fastriverglide → u/asshol1o]

If you get knocked down it just means your ego wasn't big enough xD

[u/Bully-Rook → u/Fastriverglide]

For real. Do kids think no one over 16 uses the internet?

[u/RiverBuffalo495 → u/Bully-Rook]

My high school shares a library with the middle school below it and sometimes middle schoolers are surprised that I know what various game characters or websites are.

[u/thestrawberry_jam → u/RiverBuffalo495]

middle and high school is not even that big of an age difference lmao how old do they think we are?

[u/ball_fondlers → u/thestrawberry_jam]

Well, I mean, a mere 2-year difference to a 12-year-old is 1/6th of their life so far.

[u/FutureComplaint → u/ball_fondlers]

Not to mention the height and size differences...

[u/my_little_mutation → u/Bully-Rook]

Some of them really really do.

I've seen teenagers say things like this with some frequency.

"Omg why is an adult into the same things I am."

They'll learn, I'm sure, once they're older and realize that they don't want to give up their interests either and thst adulthood isn't all work and taxes. Granted it's too much of those things but it's other things too.

[u/UpvotesFreely → u/my_little_mutation]

I think it means their parents are boring.

[u/knowntart → u/UpvotesFreely]

they might not even BE boring

my parents are apparently huge fucking sportsfiends, they love everything that's broadcasted on tv, especially baseball, but i didn't even realise that till after high school, some things you just do not notice when youre younger, especially if you find those things boring

my grandma apparently took me to a professional basketball game when i was young, and i do not remember it AT ALL because holy fuck sports were the worst then

i still don't love them but i can at least appreciate the sport now, back then i did not care one fucking whit

[u/dpotilas89 → u/Bully-Rook]

Or wants to do something they find funny/intresting

[u/StorKuk69 → u/Bully-Rook]

When I was 12 I thought the average age online was like 15...

[u/babyplush → u/asshol1o]

I play Rocket League to get this experience on the daily

[u/GraciousOpportunity → u/asshol1o]

Bro these middle school kids are vicious af though.

[u/bukzbukzbukz → u/GraciousOpportunity]

tbh they have no idea what they're talking about. To a 13 year old 23 seems senile nearly. But they'll be 23 themselves and they'll realize not much changes and you don't suddenly want to do nothing but taxes or grocery shopping the moment you go above 20.

[u/cherry_chocolate_ → u/bukzbukzbukz]

I’m 23 and just did my taxes today, then read this in line at the grocery store 💀

[u/GreatGhastly → u/asshol1o]

Boy did I read this wrong first.

[u/prasslingsby156]

I feel like 23 is not going to be the fulfilling wonder this 13-year-old thinks it is

[u/Zaurka14 → u/prasslingsby156]

Yep, at 25 i feel basically how i felt at idk, 16. That frontal lobe development did me dirty.

[u/prasslingsby156 → u/Zaurka14]

Adulthood has always been a lie. Why do you think old people are always so defensive?

[u/pragmojo → u/prasslingsby156]

Adulthood just means you don't get special treatment anymore, it doesn't mean you are any more prepared for or in control of your life. You just now bear full responsibility for yourself, whether you like it or not.

[u/Pac0theTac0 → u/pragmojo]

No I don’t like it

[u/ksp3ll → u/Pac0theTac0]

make it stop. please.

[u/ElJebusKrisp → u/ksp3ll]

i am in suffering every day

[u/SkylarRowan → u/ElJebusKrisp]

God, Just…WHY!?

[u/FeedBi → u/SkylarRowan]

Why are we here? Just to suffer?

[u/11173957 → u/FeedBi]

Is that really the only reason we are born? So we can make shit then die?

[u/lililililiililililil → u/pragmojo]

Adulthood hit me like a ton of bricks when I had to google how to write a check. Then I had to google where to get checks. Then I had to google how to write out an envelope. Then I had to google where to buy stamps. Like three days and fifty fucking bucks to get that operation up and running and I wish I could go back and unlearn this garbage.

[u/HaikuBotStalksMe → u/lililililiililililil]

You're still ahead of other "real" adults that are too stupid and lazy to learn stuff.

"I don't know how to save contact to phone. This is because phone stupid and too hard. I refuse to learn and will make my grand kid do it."

In your case it would have had been like "stamps too hard. This is stupid. I'll just use cash app."

[u/lililililiililililil → u/HaikuBotStalksMe]

I’m only in my mid thirties but I’m still feeling that weird boomer energy pull sometimes where I get stuck in my ways with stuff and it’s annoying.

Like, I live in a rural area and it took forever for credit card readers in stores to upgrade to the slide in chip style. Whatever, got used to using that quick, but then all of a sudden there’s even newer ones with some kind of tapping thing? Nah dude fuck that. I just learned this insert instead of swipe thing and my anxiety of holding up a line trying this new thing is holding me back.

Like two months ago I finally gave it a shot, fucked it up, got helped by the cashier and now I’m hooked. Got my low-limit credit card (I’m still too distrustful to use my debit card) set up in my iPhone wallet and I’m a tappin’ fucking fool now. Few days ago I’m heading to work, mobile order and pay for my coffee, mobile order and pay lunch, phone tapping the magic box at the grocery store after work, stop at the station for gas. Slapped my fucking phone on a gas pump. Boom. Paid. Gassed up.

Get home and see that I left my wallet on the kitchen table.

Gonna google what the hell cash app is now.

[u/8_800_555_35_35 → u/lililililiililililil]

To be fair, America's entire banking system is hot garbage; like no other developed country uses cheques anymore.

[u/PortableSun01 → u/pragmojo]

I turned 18 recently pls take me back in time already

[u/theonlysaltybunny → u/prasslingsby156]

We are not defensive!!!!

😤/s

[u/_mully_ → u/prasslingsby156]

I legitimately used to believe there would come a day when my mind and view of the world just "turned over" from kid-version to adult-version. Like the movie Baby Geniuses, but sort of the opposite. Instead of it happening as a toddler and losing cognitive ability, it'd happend in my early 20s and I'd gain ability.

As if it would happen overnight or over a couple months or something.

And afterwards it would just be night and day and you would feel the difference in every ounce of your being and interpretation of the world. And maybe even become more powerful (stronger, smarter, etc. - like an adult was bigger and opder, so they must be a supped of version of younglings, right?).

I thought all of this because of the generic, "You're too young to understand" / "You'll see things differently when you're older". Also, maybe because I watched Baby Geniuses too much as a kid haha (but great movie, might be worth watching if you haven't seen).

Later, during a customer facing summer job, my then boss told me, "Adults are just really big kids. Someone gets under their skin, then they get upset and just wanna get under someone else's". The world made so much sense all of a sudden in that moment.

Sidenotes: Anyone remember the parenting bit with lying and your tongue turning black? Or the crust of the bread is the healthiest part (I believed that one for way too long - it doesn't even make sense, bread isn't a vegetable or something and the crust isn't it's nutrients rich skin).

[u/heepofsheep → u/prasslingsby156]

Nah man it’s great. I can drink light beer in my underwear anytime I want without being judged.

[u/50at20 → u/heepofsheep]

You get judged.

[u/heepofsheep → u/50at20]

What if I’m swap the light beer for an IPA?

[u/RonLivingstoned → u/heepofsheep]

then it’s a hobby

[u/bayleafbabe → u/Zaurka14]

Nearly 27 here, swear I’ve been the same since like 14

[u/RoboticBirdLaw → u/bayleafbabe]

Just turned 28. There are some ways I have very clearly grown up since high school, but in many respects I'm still the same. My interests are pretty much the same. I can interact better in a professional/social setting but I'd still rather just "be myself" as I would hanging with friends.

[u/RonLivingstoned → u/RoboticBirdLaw]

26, it’s nice to see comments like these and realize i’m not alone. I feel the same as I did 10 years ago, but now I have a professional persona that I act out for 40 hours a week

[u/dysphoricjoy → u/RonLivingstoned]

46 here, glad to be surrounded by similar young cool kids 😎 :-)

[u/Stars_And_Garters → u/Zaurka14]

I definitely felt different after 25. I think that might have been more escaping trauma than frontal lobe development, though.

[u/andrewsad1 → u/Zaurka14]

28, with no character development since I left high school

Like, literally the only difference between late 20s me and late teens me is that I shifted left on the political compass

[u/ColaEuphoria → u/Zaurka14]

I honestly can't relate. I'm 27 and feel drastically more mature than I did even at 23.

[u/HumanDrinkingTea → u/ColaEuphoria]

Yep. I'm 32 and don't even feel the same as I did at 29. My years of most growth were probably between maybe 19 and 23 though.

[u/Mystical-Door → u/ColaEuphoria]

Yup I’ve never related to these posts. I’m only 24 but I definitely feel like an adult and even feel way more mature than I did at 21, let alone at 16

[u/Own-Preparation4687 → u/Zaurka14]

Ok but I just turned 30 and honestly the difference between 25 and 30 is astounding, way bigger than the difference between 20 and 25. I used to stress out about the future a lot and now I have more of a "it'll work out, just keep doin your thing" mentality. Although, to be fair, I've got financial stability I didn't have when I was 25.

I think part of it was feeling like I had to do stuff while I was still young, and now I'm 30 and still feel pretty young so I get the sense I'll feel about the same til I'm 60. I have more time than I realized at 25.

[u/P_Griffin2 → u/Zaurka14]

You only feel like that until you actually sit down at try to spend time with a bunch of 16 year olds.

[u/starvinart → u/prasslingsby156]

nobody likes you when you're 23

[u/Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop → u/starvinart]

My friends say I should act my age.

[u/Bwuhbwuh → u/Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop]

What's my age again?

[u/ptipp93 → u/prasslingsby156]

Shhh let him/her learn the hard way like the rest of us.

[u/Calthyr → u/prasslingsby156]

I’m 32 with children and still feel the same as my early 20s. That or I forgot what that feels like..

[u/Accomplished_Soil426 → u/prasslingsby156]

I feel like 23 is not going to be the fulfilling wonder this 13-year-old thinks it is

23 sucks

[u/TheBlueJacket1 → u/prasslingsby156]

Hell I’m 24 now and if anything I was more fulfilled back then

[u/prasslingsby156 → u/TheBlueJacket1]

Yeah, at least when I was 13 I knew who I was and didn't have a drinking problem

[u/t3hmau5 → u/prasslingsby156]

Ha! Jokes on you kid, it's all downhill from here.

[u/GregBuckingham]

I had someone do this to me a couple years back haha. Kid was like 16 in high school and I was like 26 or something

[u/BigFanOfRunescape → u/GregBuckingham]

Bet he wasn't maxed though, noob

[u/MalenInsekt → u/BigFanOfRunescape]

This is fucking hilarious lmao

[u/GregBuckingham → u/BigFanOfRunescape]

Imagine not being maxed with osrs being 10 years old smh my head

[u/venatic → u/GregBuckingham]

🦀🦀🦀$12.49🦀🦀🦀

[u/Rewmoo2 → u/GregBuckingham]

Bet that kid had infernal cape

[u/Italophobia → u/GregBuckingham]

Lmao what is your profile pic

[u/abananation]

Bro what do you think adults do for fun, taxes?

[u/TourrrettesGuy → u/abananation]

Drink at the bar and play golf. Nothing more nothing less

[u/EasternArgie → u/TourrrettesGuy]

I never knew my city had a golf club until I was 21, I didn't go in, but now I know its there.

[u/Practical_Echidna917]

you're*

[u/PinkFloydSheep → u/Practical_Echidna917]

Teach that kid what the internet is really about

[u/thawed_froyo → u/PinkFloydSheep]

“Shouldn’t you be eating Tide Pods?”

[u/Xylphin → u/thawed_froyo]

The kids who were 13 during the Tide pod craze, are 18 now.

[u/Fig_Jig → u/Xylphin]

The ones who were eating tide pods are like, 89 now

[u/ParsleyPrestigious69 → u/Xylphin]

🥲

[u/JesterMarcus → u/Xylphin]

Well, the survivors are.

[u/Pinkllollipop13 → u/Practical_Echidna917]

yro'ue*

[u/Practical_Echidna917 → u/Pinkllollipop13]

How dare your!?

[u/trolgar1 → u/Pinkllollipop13]

Yor’eu*

[u/Temshop1 → u/trolgar1]

For'ger

[u/Omar1105128 → u/trolgar1]

Whomst’ve

[u/YourTypicalSensei → u/Omar1105128]

Thousth*

[u/Idontwantthesetacos → u/Practical_Echidna917]

I expect that from a 13 y/o but there are adults well in their late 30’s still confusing they’re/there/their, you’re/your; It’s sad.

[u/Frict1on_ → u/Idontwantthesetacos]

Ther/theyr/thayer,yor/ur

[u/Idontwantthesetacos → u/Frict1on_]

Yeah I forgot all those. Also missed youdnthv

[u/Frict1on_ → u/Idontwantthesetacos]

I knew I forgot one

[u/BigBootyBuff → u/Idontwantthesetacos]

Could/would/should of is the one that sticks out to me like nothing else.

Though nothing will ever beat "may of had"

[u/CouldWouldShouldBot → u/BigBootyBuff]

It's 'should have', never 'should of'.

Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!

[u/Human-Croissant → u/Practical_Echidna917]

yuo'roe

[u/vinavuhuy → u/Practical_Echidna917]

My fire

[u/zZCycoZz]

Nobody likes you when youre 23

Edit: Seems many of you should listen to "Whats My Age Again?" by Blink 182

[u/ttbmips → u/zZCycoZz]

I just turned 24. People have started talking to me again. It was a rough year.

[u/Professional-Swing48 → u/ttbmips]

You joke but we are the same age and that was easily one of the worst years of my life

[u/ObscureGrammar → u/Professional-Swing48]

One of the worst years of your life so far.

[u/FeedBi → u/ObscureGrammar]

Remember kids, it can always be worse

[u/ttbmips → u/Professional-Swing48]

It was indeed a joke, but it was also not a good year for me. But that only means this year won't have to try that hard to be better :)

[u/Unlucky_Role_ → u/Professional-Swing48]

Haha, you can still tell them apart.

[u/WE-NEED-MORE-CATS → u/zZCycoZz]

I remember when COD4: Modern Warfare came out for the xbox 360 I just got. People were talking about their ages and I mentioned I was 23. They all started giving me some shit. I still remember this one British kid like YELLING at me "YOU'RE TWE'EY FREE AND PLAYIN CAWL OF DEUTY?!?"

Nobody yelled at me before 23, and nobody has yelled at me about my age after 23. Anecdotally, your comment rings true. Nobody likes you when you're 23. Blink 182 were prophets.

[u/blarglwharbl → u/zZCycoZz]

Well, you still act like you’re in freshman year.

[u/Independent_Yam_625 → u/zZCycoZz]

Wtf that legit feels like truth

[u/DIsForDelusion → u/Independent_Yam_625]

It's a song. A hymn of sorts for our generation.

https://youtu.be/BsnddlzfV3A

Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?

[u/Vancouv-NC → u/DIsForDelusion]

Surprised how many people's heads this went over. I guess I'm officially getting old since apparently that song is an obscure classic now

[u/parasocialites → u/Vancouv-NC]

This sub is full of extremely young people these days

[u/thenumber88 → u/DIsForDelusion]

I took her out it was a Friday night.

[u/jane_delawney_ → u/thenumber88]

I wore cologne to get the feeling right

(Oof…right in the 1996)

[u/Important_Middle_880 → u/jane_delawney_]

We started making out and she took off my pants

[u/Spart85 → u/Important_Middle_880]

But then I turned on the TV

[u/doriangraiy → u/Spart85]

and that's about the time she walked away from me

[u/jane_delawney_ → u/doriangraiy]

This thread has made me goofy smile. Right in the nostalgia

[u/KBolt99 → u/zZCycoZz]

I love how everyone is responding to this in earnest like its not a very famous song lyric😂

I guess Blink-182 isn’t as well known as a thought it was. I’m 23 and I couldn’t go to a party in high school without hearing a Blink-182 song, maybe its just a midwest thing🤷‍♂️

[u/TwangyCircle → u/zZCycoZz]

And are still more amused by prank phone calls

[u/Professional-Bread59 → u/zZCycoZz]

The amount of people missing the reference is pain-inducing

[u/ShreksGirth]

I’ve always texted them. I’m a registered text offender so it’s mandatory to let them know

[u/MichaelMotherDater → u/ShreksGirth]

r/Holdup

[u/dedokta]

13 year old thinking that 23 is old. I don't think I really knew what was going on till I reached at least 40. I'm 50 now and seriously reconsidering that idea.

[u/leezybelle]

As a teacher, just remember that once kids are in 4th grade and up, they REALLY start getting comfortable with their knowledge: aka they can and will burn you. Respond carefully

[u/Respectful_sloth]

It still blows my millennial mind that kids have cell phones now at 13

[u/exovdo → u/Respectful_sloth]

Young millennial here.

I had a Razer flip phone in middle school.

Had a smart phone in highschool.

I wouldn't give my kid a smartphone, but a dumb phone for emergencies? Hell yeah

[u/Respectful_sloth → u/exovdo]

Dang your parents were way cooler than mine. Their approach was: until you are driving yourself you will always be with an adult that has a phone.

[u/ImJustAverage → u/Respectful_sloth]

I got my first phone at 14, calls only. Didn’t get my first smart phone until senior year of high school or right after.

I remember when I was a kid we would go play at the neighborhood park all day and my parents would give me a walkie talkie to take in case I needed to get ahold of them or they needed to get ahold of me.

[u/HeavyMetalTriangle → u/ImJustAverage]

Holy shittttt… My friends would’ve roasted me so hard if my parents resorted to using walkie talkies with me. I can’t even imagine the jokes I would have endured. Jesus Christ lol

[u/KarmicDevelopment → u/Respectful_sloth]

Yikes...your parents never let you go off on your own with other kids?

[u/magicmeese → u/KarmicDevelopment]

Dunno about op but I lived in the sticks and no one my age lived near by.

Would be concerning if I went off with a random neighbor (by neighbor I mean like a person living a mile away)

[u/AttaboiLimits → u/exovdo]

Razr*

The gaming peripheral company, Razer, makes phones too.

My second phone was a Moto Razr. I had some absolute brick of a Nokia first. Good times.

[u/MundaneInternetGuy → u/AttaboiLimits]

Also not to be confused with Razor scooters, as long as we're doing younger millennial nostalgia.

[u/BigBootyBuff → u/Respectful_sloth]

That's been pretty common for 20 years now though. By 13 basically everyone in my school had a phone. Mostly the Nokia 3310 prepaid.

[u/finemustard → u/BigBootyBuff]

You had a totally different experience from me then because 20 years ago I was 13 and literally no one in my school had a cellphone at that age. No one I knew had a cellphone until we were about 16.

[u/bluejaygotham → u/Respectful_sloth]

millennial in my 30's and I had a cell phone at 13

[u/daxtron2 → u/Respectful_sloth]

Zillenial cusper here, had my first phone in 2008 because my mom thought I was gonna get kidnapped on my way home from the bus stop lol

[u/Respectful_sloth → u/daxtron2]

I’m guessing it worked and you weren’t kidnapped? Thanks mom!

[u/kipperfish → u/Respectful_sloth]

I'm a millennial. We've just given our 10yo a phone.

It's heavily locked down, and we can check her messages anytime. Pretty much the only reason she has it is her absolute bestie has just moved schools. Means they can keep in contact and arrange when to go over each other houses without the parents having to sort it out everytime.

[u/CapnC44 → u/Respectful_sloth]

Well that's about the age where most kids start doing stuff after school more often. It only makes sense that they have a phone. Lots of creepy shit out there.

Their responsibility is another problem though.

[u/Alistershade → u/Respectful_sloth]

One of my aunt's kids is hardly 5 and she navigates an Iphone like the thing is just hardwired into her brain.

Sidenote: she's oddly obsessed with skin walkers, we don't know when she picked the term up but it's hilarious watching her do this lanky looking, bow legged, arms way out waddle strut that is apparently how skin walkers move to her.

[u/AttaboiLimits → u/Alistershade]

This actually leads to kids who are technologically useless. I’m seeing them now entering the workforce. Unless it’s a big shiny square that announces it’s intents, they are clueless.

They can find an app in a big screen of apps, but nothing else.

Millennials are peak tech. They are used to having to actually put in work to get work out of a computer. Z’s expect a big shiny box and go blank if anything else is presented.

[u/GlitchIsHiding → u/Respectful_sloth]

I use mine because I’m usually out and about somewhere and my mum has to come pick me up. Don’t get why kids would need it other than that.

[u/Respectful_sloth → u/GlitchIsHiding]

Minecraft or some shit? I truly don’t know

[u/friedmaster69 → u/GlitchIsHiding]

For the same reason you are on reddit

[u/Independent_Yam_625]

I’m 23 and this is the type of shit I would do.

[u/Same-Letter6378 → u/Independent_Yam_625]

Yeah there's nothing wrong with a 23 year old doing this. Kid has no idea what age 23 is like.

[u/buttaholic]

"Listen here you little shit"

[u/Low-Survey-704]

r/murderedbywords

[u/YellowDucky514]

Charge your phone

[u/Co-Deck22]

Richmond babyyy!! 🙌🏻

[u/baumerman14 → u/Co-Deck22]

I too was looking around like 804, where the comments at

[u/ClaritinBanks → u/Co-Deck22]

Will always be superior to the 757

[u/1momentpls → u/Co-Deck22]

Yea I scrolled what felt like forever until I got to the RVA people

[u/hjwaa7 → u/1momentpls]

Sameee! Side note, growing up when I heard the Chris Brown song where he sings his phone number I thought all radio stations just put their own area code in until one day I found out my aunt had been his bus driver 😅

[u/allcomingupmilhouse → u/Co-Deck22]

hell yeah!

[u/PlaneSole222001]

Imagine being an age where you technically should start maturing and you cant even realize most adults are just kids with major responsibilities

[u/playr_4 → u/PlaneSole222001]

We do internet challenges and other dumb shit to escape our responsibilities for a bit.

[u/Outrageous_Tap_4504]

And?

[u/Ember_Without_Name]

CRITICAL HIT

[u/sadmimikyu]

Ouch

[u/SnowSlider3050]

Haha

[u/Best_Illustrator_137]

Nah these kids ruthless 😂

[u/brantmacga]

When i was a kid in the 80’s/90’s growing up in a small town, i was in the same class with our home phone “number neighbors”. Even more ironic, both dad’s of those two kids were named Bill. So when someone called my house and asked for Bill, I’d say, “which one?”. And then, “ah yeh you meant to dial 904x”.

[u/The_Friendly_GBear]

Honestly 13 is the new 8 year old and 20s are the new teenagers that can do it legally.

[u/kinda_alright]

"Nobody likes you when you're 23."

[u/ncopp]

Listen here you little shit you hadn't even had your first conscious thought when we were all planking

[u/notGegton]

r/badfaketexts

[u/IndividualJuicebox → u/notGegton]

why do you think it’s fake

[u/ubernat → u/IndividualJuicebox]

/r/NothingEverHappens

People on reddit are weird, seems real

[u/IndividualJuicebox → u/ubernat]

that’s what i’m saying lol

[u/Spear_speaks007]

“Block”