Subjak
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Unpolished, unfinished and very bad version of it right now. I don’t like how I sound like a corny high schooler who got hit with 12 grams of coconuts in the head when I was three years old. Any interesting points I want to consider should be posted here. I’m reading books. (Will include a mention of Gen Z’s disapproval of alcohol.) I will polish it though.
Greetings, guys. This is my first proper essay.
It first started with Valentine’s Day. I noticed that literally except archetypal rich Instagram moms celebrated it. This is understood. After all, the male loneliness crisis has reached the fever pitch and celebrating Valentine’s Day might as well be a fuck you in the face.
But then, St. Patrick’s Day. Okay, this one is just universal. This one has to be at least effectively celebrated, right? RIGHT? Then, a few social media posts and that’s literally it. A Google doodle probably. No holiday specials. No videos about it. Nothing.
And then, the ultimate “blackpill”/realization. April Fools. A few mediocre events and that’s literally it. I barely saw anything. But how? April Fools is such a large observance. To not celebrate it must have been scandalous even in 2024 or 2023!
And now, we have to explain why this phenomenon happens. One large factor is Donald Trump’s presidency which made everybody pessimistic. A morbid smoke of doom and gloom was around, fabricated or not. I wouldn’t go too political here as I want you to form your own political worldviews.
The second factor is excessive commercialization of holidays and other observances. The art of holiday marketing has been perfected a long time ago with sales and dumb tweets by brand accounts. One can’t forget that the goverment, corporations, think tank institutions, etc become more and more ingrained within a very poisonous and dark thicket. It’s natural that most people would be in disapproval of these systems and so the commercialisation of various traditions.
Another contributing factor is that families are being more and more divisive. Classic memes about racist uncles vs. TikTok daughters come to mind. Social network algorithms love anything particularly hyped or outrageous, and so, family feud videos get picked causing a chain reaction of imitated feuds. Families are becoming more and more idiotic with a resemblance of pop culture depictions of cavemen. Uncles are becoming Bible thumping rednecks while daughters become blue-haired liberal SJWs. Perfect archetypes for social media algorithms.
Also, it doesn’t help that [unfinished]
Greetings, guys. This is my first proper essay.
It first started with Valentine’s Day. I noticed that literally except archetypal rich Instagram moms celebrated it. This is understood. After all, the male loneliness crisis has reached the fever pitch and celebrating Valentine’s Day might as well be a fuck you in the face.
But then, St. Patrick’s Day. Okay, this one is just universal. This one has to be at least effectively celebrated, right? RIGHT? Then, a few social media posts and that’s literally it. A Google doodle probably. No holiday specials. No videos about it. Nothing.
And then, the ultimate “blackpill”/realization. April Fools. A few mediocre events and that’s literally it. I barely saw anything. But how? April Fools is such a large observance. To not celebrate it must have been scandalous even in 2024 or 2023!
And now, we have to explain why this phenomenon happens. One large factor is Donald Trump’s presidency which made everybody pessimistic. A morbid smoke of doom and gloom was around, fabricated or not. I wouldn’t go too political here as I want you to form your own political worldviews.
The second factor is excessive commercialization of holidays and other observances. The art of holiday marketing has been perfected a long time ago with sales and dumb tweets by brand accounts. One can’t forget that the goverment, corporations, think tank institutions, etc become more and more ingrained within a very poisonous and dark thicket. It’s natural that most people would be in disapproval of these systems and so the commercialisation of various traditions.
Another contributing factor is that families are being more and more divisive. Classic memes about racist uncles vs. TikTok daughters come to mind. Social network algorithms love anything particularly hyped or outrageous, and so, family feud videos get picked causing a chain reaction of imitated feuds. Families are becoming more and more idiotic with a resemblance of pop culture depictions of cavemen. Uncles are becoming Bible thumping rednecks while daughters become blue-haired liberal SJWs. Perfect archetypes for social media algorithms.
Also, it doesn’t help that [unfinished]