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As with all recent years, 2021 was not a great year, far from it. But tbh it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Some highlights, good and bad:
â¡ï¸ 2021 saw the release of several great video games including Little Nightmares II, Deltarune Chapter 2, Subnautica: Below Zero, It Takes Two, and Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach.
â¡ï¸ Disney & Pixar finally seemed to make a great comeback in 2021 with Encanto and Luca.
â¡ï¸ Among us references basically dominated 2021.
â¡ï¸ Covid restrictions began to loosen in some parts of the world.
â¡ï¸ 2021 saw the controversial birth of NFTs.
â¡ï¸ Zuckerberg's rebranding of FB into Meta and his dumb metaverse.
â¡ï¸ More covid variants appeared (delta and omicron).
â¡ï¸ As mentioned in another definition, social media is still more or less the same with cringey memes and tiktoks tailored to gen Z taste. Unfortunately not something that will go away soon. We will just have to ignore and move on.
â¡ï¸ And, well, the world... just continued being the world, with covid, violence, protests and natural disasters still happening like it has always been.
So overall, 2021 was a mixture of some bad stuff and also some good stuff, nothing surprising. But to me, the good and bad cancels out just enough to remember 2021 in a sliver of positive light. Just ever so slightly.
2021 was meh, but I'll take meh over bad anyday
As with all recent years, 2021 was not a great year, far from it actually. But honestly it was not as bad as I thought it would be.
â¡ï¸ 2021 saw the release of several great video games including Little Nightmares II, Deltarune Chapter 2, Subnautica: Below Zero, It Takes Two, and Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach.
â¡ï¸ Disney & Pixar finally seemed to make a great comeback in 2021 with Encanto and Luca.
â¡ï¸ Among us references basically dominated 2021. Annoying, yet low-key addicting.
â¡ï¸ Covid restrictions began to loosen in some parts of the world.
â¡ï¸ 2021 saw the controversial birth of NFTs.
â¡ï¸ Zuckerberg's rebranding of FB into Meta and his dumb metaverse.
â¡ï¸ More covid variants appeared (delta and omicron).
â¡ï¸ As mentioned in another definition, social media is still more or less the same with cringey memes and tiktoks tailored to gen Z taste. Unfortunately not something that will go away soon. We will just have to ignore and move on.
â¡ï¸ And, well, the world... just continued being the world, with covid, violence, protests and natural disasters still happening like it has always been.
So overall, 2021 was a mixture of some bad stuff and also some good stuff, personal circumstances included. But to me, the good and bad cancels out just enough to remember 2021 in a sliver of positive light. Just ever so slightly.
2021 was meh, but I'll take meh over bad anyday
Anything or anyone that acts as fuel to ignite feelings of hatred and resent. See also: Reddit comment threads.
I get a constant endless supply of haterade from interacting with toxic Redditors. It's very addictive, though each haterade I consume cuts off one second from my lifespan.
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine marks the period in history when where faith in humanity was, yet again, lost.
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Cancel Culture is an internet phenomenon that has emerged due to the internet's highly dogmatic hivemind mentality, where the opinions and attitudes of the public are harmonized into one giant unanimous blob. The said blob will spontaneously accuse and reprimand anyone who rubs them the wrong way, regardless of the individual's true intention. Often, these indicted individuals aren't even aware that what they said could be viewed in a different light, it's only the people that make it seem that way.
For example, take someone who asked "can marijuana make someone as intoxicated as alcohol" on Reddit. The guy who asked it was simply bored, but the people of Reddit took offense, ambiguously assumed that they're asking to take advantage of girls, and begin exposing all their previous posts to further prove the hivemind's unfounded belief. This right here is Cancel Culture in a nutshell.
Though it's easy to single out the "social justice warriors", do not be mistaken. In reality, anyone can co-opt a cancel culture as long as they share the same dogmatic and hypersensitive attitudes of the majority. In fact, the victims of cancel culture could be anyone who has disobeyed a rule or a policy of a group/affiliation/institution.
Essentially, the gist of cancel culture is about the public (and the individuals representing the public) either making accusations about something/someone they absolutely know nothing about, or overinflating a minor and irrelevant issue.
Example 1: People bashing PewDiePie for using the n-word and making satirical jokes about Nazism are proponents of cancel culture.
Example 2: Disney firing James Gunn for his 'offensive' tweets can be attributed to cancel culture.
Example 3: Diana was kicked out of a group chat on Kik because she didn't follow one of their group rules. She wanted to re-establish bona fide connections with one of the group members (Mikayla), but she rejected her and rebuked her just because she broke one of the group rules. Mikayla has just co-opted cancel culture as there was no legitimate reason not to befriend her.
Example 4: Jason sought help on r/FamilyAdvice because his abusive father kept beating his mother and threatening her and Jason. He admitted that he finally had enough and stood up for his mother by throwing a saucepan at his father. As a result of cancel culture, the people of Reddit decided on a whim thatâdespite the wickedness of his abusive fatherâJason was the one that deserved all the blame because he hit him with a saucepan. This is because public opinion on Reddit upholds the traditional belief to always honor your parents no matter what. Thus, because of cancel culture, the true severity of Jason's situation was never taken into light, and his post (and other comments supporting him) were unfortunately downvoted to oblivion.
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The best response to anything and everything that seems unhealthy, including laziness/sedentary lifestyle.
Person 1: Omg you gotta try out this freakshake!! They put a whole ass cake on your shake!!
Person 2: Uhh no thanks, that sounds like a recipe for diabetes, and dementia.
Guy 1: Hey man wanna chill at my place and get stoned af?
Guy 2: Nah I'll pass, I don't wanna raise my risk of dementia
User 1: Do you play league?
User 2: Does it look like I want dementia?
Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy (Hey, what up girl?)
Grab my glasses, I'm out the door; I'm gonna hit this city (Let's go)
Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
'Cause when I leave for the night, I ain't coming back
I'm talking pedicure on our toes, toes
Trying on all our clothes, clothes
Boys blowing up our phones, phones
Drop-topping, playing our favorite CD's
Rollin' up to the parties
Trying to get a little bit tipsy
Don't stop, make it pop
DJ, blow my speakers up
Tonight, I'm-a fight
Till we see the sunlight
Tik tok on the clock
But the party don't stop, no
Don't stop, make it pop
DJ, blow my speakers up
Tonight, I'm-a fight
'Til we see the sunlight
Tick-tock on the clock
But the party don't stop, no
Ain't got a care in world, but got plenty of beer
Ain't got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here
And now the dudes are lining up 'cause they hear we got swagger
But we kick 'em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger
I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
Boys tried to touch my junk, junk
Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
Now, now, we goin' till they kick us out, out
Or the police shut us down, down
Police shut us down, down
Po-po shut us
Don't stop, make it pop
DJ, blow my speakers up
Tonight, I'm-a fight
Till we see the sunlight
Tick-tock on the clock
But the party don't stop, no