• assembly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m so confused. Can someone explain this one to me? It just looks like someone is playing a phone game or DS or something. Don’t people play phone games still or is that the joke?

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      3 months ago

      Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public playing a handheld game console.

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        3 months ago

        Interesting, so being into ad-infested, freemium mobile games is okay, but being into real games that you can play straight through without interruptions is cringe?

        I’m suddenly glad to be an adult.

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          3 months ago

          At least according to the three children im around on a regular basis, phone games are also in the category of “cringe things that are boomer-coded”

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            3 months ago

            That’s super interesting. I would have assumed most kids nowadays were completely addicted shitty mobile games and playing on the go would be the norm.

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          3 months ago

          Getting a solid answer on that from teenagers is basically not possible. They live life based on “vibes”, and the vibes are cringe