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It's a platform catering towards techy middle aged men that can't relate to her story at all. Of course, there's always the bullshit about "of course I can't relate to being a greedy billionaire" but it's every single aspect, namely, never having been a teenage girl.
These guys will then go on to act like the teen girl story is a gimmick and that she should do something more mature, then scroll and geek out over painting some 40K figurines. Spoiler alert, we never stopped being kids, we just got wrinkly and gray.
I don't get Swift. 300,000,000 women do. Clearly, she's striking a chord somewhere significant.
the demo on lemmy to me mostly seems to be techie 20 somethings.
I'm a 54-yo techie. There seems to be far more people my age and older than I ever saw on reddit. Part of the reason I say that is so many mention their age when appropriate in context. There was an Ask Lemmy thread the other day where you almost had to state your age and I felt on the mid-younger end. Weird.
Also, there's so many joke and memes that I would think only Millennials or even back to GenX would get.
"As god as my witness, I thought turkey's could fly."
Loads of people will get that reference. And that aired in 1978!
Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!
That might be biased because your own age puts you into groups of interest to others your own age. I tried to be encompassing with "middle age" because, well, that probably includes me, a 30-something teenager. But that being said, I have felt there's been a slow swing to at least be inclusive of 18-25 year olds. But I also have confirmation bias there because I can't hang with the kids' slang anymore, so it stands out when I see it.
Digression: I'd like to do a study on "what's the funniest number" because it's both age and time dependent. 69 has been funny for a long time, but for boomers and older, was there any other funny number? Gen x and some millennial would likely say 42 (Hitchikers guide to the galaxy). Other millennial might hark back to SpongeBob with 24/25. But what has obviously gotten me curious is 6-7. Of course, my assumptions stem only from my own observations and I could be missing large entries.
It's definitely older than 20 something. As a 20 something, the things that are popular here don't align with that age group.
Swift arguably never got to be a normal teenage girl either, and/or is still mentally a teenage girl. She was pushed into stardom from a young age and was surrounded by yes-men so she was never challenged, therefore never given an opportunity to grow.
Also, there's a difference between having stereotypically immature hobbies and being actually emotionally and creatively immature lmao
Is this your hobby? Thinking about why Taylor Swift is bad?
I dabble lol. She's an interesting case study and sometimes it's nice to dissect something that's trivial
You're criticizing thinking now?
She has been given every opportunity and resource to do better, more than the billions of other people in the world.