The mentality that most people on the vlogging side of YouTube had when the site was just getting started, back before being paid for making videos was a thing and YouTube gatherings were just a bunch of nerds standing in a field. The term was first used by Jazza John (rhymingwithoranges on youtube) in a video he did with Ashley Mardell to describe people who treat their favorite content creators like people, as opposed to objects.
Instead of treating her favorite YouTubers like unattainable celebrities, Amy treated them like they were her friends. She had the 2007 mentality.
Thinking you're a nice carefree person when you're part of the problem.
Old example: Little-House-On-The-Prarie-type European settlers going west to "Put in a solid day's work and carve out a new life" while being part of the mass genocide of Indigenous Americans.
New example: People moving away from California because they "Couldn't stand it anymore" and ruining the property values and job markets of their new location while transplanting the California-style politics they claim they were getting away from.
1. "I just want to promote healthy living and calm to the people I meet on social media"
"Your lifestyle is funded by your sugar daddy using child labor at off-shore factories Caitlyn, you got a real settler's mentality"
2. Instagram models advocating for mental health while their income comes from an app destroying people's mental health is some serious settler's mentality.
3. Bro you can say you support Black Lives Matter but if you keep voting for officials who defend bad cops that's just settler's mentality
when someone is crazy for Asian people.
person 1 - "I only like Asian woman."
person 2 - "You’re mental for oriental."
Don't be part of the problem, be the ENTIRE problem
Speaker 1 : I didn't support child labor at McDonalds, I provided the children
Speaker 2 : Wow that's The Maik Mentality right there
The act of snorting at something funny in your head because nobody is around to hear you do it out loud.
I saw some douchebag giving the camera finger guns in his corporate picture. Nobody was around to hear me so I gave it a mental snort.
When you get into a situation where mutually-assured destructive behaviour is the only option. Superior to reckless.
“Dam bro… what’s gotten into you?”
“I dunno fam I think I got that Hiroshima mentality taking control”
the act of pleasuring oneself by using only the mind to concentrate on something stimulating.
No one would every know that during the meeting Brandon was mentally masturbating because he wasn't using his hands to touch his penis.