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Very well put. Current attempts by Millennial Establishmentarians at repressing the Zoomer mass-digital-revolt are futile. To be a "Zoomer" is to be a digital native - Millennial Establishmentarians are forever trapped in the cultural sensibilities of 2010s/2000s and cannot fully adapt to the actual Vibe and so are enslaved eternally to forcing their own ambitions and aesthetics upon the Online. The true Vibe eludes the Millennial Establishmentarian; it exists naturally within every Online Zoomer.

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fr. we need to adopt Millennial as a kind of non-age-specific r-slur. what defines Crumplar, Monahan, and Woke Brutalism is a literally *retarded* millennial *attitude*. you can obviously have a 19 year old who acts like a Millennial and a 9000 year old in the 30th century who acts like a zoomer. in fact i meet teenage millennials all the time. the vibe shift was irreversible in that it named an Extinction Scene and not a scene-scene. it had and has nothing to with Dimes etc. to be a Zoomer is to know all this....

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Exactly. I think "Millennial Establishmentarian" is, despite its long-windedness, an accurate term, as it describes very well the *strain* of Millennial we are referring to. I don't like saying simply "Millennial" as many Millennials are awesome and have the mindset of a Zoomer, like you said. Either a new term is needed, or "Millennial" has to be redefined.

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"Millennial Establishmentarian" is super useful and yeah what I am suggesting is a complete re-definition of those terms. we can have Millennial Woke Brutalists and Zoomer Millennials and Zombie Zoomers and clouted Millennials, but the real point is that the vibe shift is a term that hasn't gone away (it's not me that's kept it in circulation) and that it isn't enough to simply say the Cancelled will inherit the earth (Charlotte Fang). the cancelled won't inherit the earth as there will be no earth which they can inherit... and just that is OG Vibe Shift Zoomerism Extinction Theory 2023. anything else is Millennial Establishmentarianism Relapse

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100 percent agree.

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"I honestly don't know, but I can promise you that you will be the first to know if we are about to compromise"

"I don’t think so, but I will be the first to let you know when it happens."

it's the most important sentence

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ANGELICISM01 滲み出るエロス DO YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT

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real

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my nigga

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great piece, havent really been hearing anyone in New York talk about "corecore" tho

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Mason Noel is ~ nineteen years old and presumably doesn't give a shit about New York. the corecore i mean is the one i imagine and make when i watch it, not the actual one on Tiktok, which is kinda too sacharine. corecore is film01

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Gonna show articles like these to my children some day as cautionary tales about what internet-induced delusion and a wasted eduction looks like.

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Gonna show Substack articles like these to my children as parables about what internet induced delusion a wasted education looks like.

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one year later this seems like a battle everybody lost

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Wondering aloud if Angelicism is precisely the project of Romantic nihilism, the critique of judgement of the online if you will, invert sublime arriving via pleasure not pain, yet yields pain, yet yields deliverance via the awareness of the limits of subjectivity. Wondering what Adorno would have to say about Angelicism... Angelicism may be tapped in here, but others are looking at the object from a different point of view, which Angelicism may or may not be aware of. Parallax, frfr

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