Maybe I’ve just been hanging out in the wrong places but I have never heard any of these terms used except by previous generations mocking what they think gen alpha is like
I haven’t heard rizz, but working in an elementary school, sus has been around for awhile, and skibidi was just starting to get frequent enough to be super annoying towards the end of the school year.
Wait how’d we go from alpha/beta obsessed millennials to incels?
I thought incels were internet communities that blame women and society for them being permanently single/virgins or something like that.
And thought the former were the roided bro communities where a sentence isn’t a sentence until it has some version of bro in it. Usually womanizers but as gym rats were also usually appealing enough to women.
The PUA-types and this alpha/beta/sigma nonsense really appeals to the incel crowd. They believe that they can somehow game relationships in order to get sex. Like, they do steps a, b, c–which is the kind of systems PUAs are/were pushing–and you get laid.
The whole thing is a constellation; I don’t think any of those groups exists in a vacuum, and there’s lots of points where they cross over.
I never got to see these things in action while in school, but I remember hearing they were on the way. To this day, I’ve still only interacted with analog boards.
My very rural school used a technology grant to get a few smart boards (that first kind). I’m an older millennial. They were not as useful as a white board for drawing stuff on the board but quicker to setup for slide presentations.
I’m on Lemmy.world because it’s the only instance I could make a account on the day Reddit shut down the API. All of the other popular instances had account creation stopped because of the flood of people.
I could probably make an account on another instance, but I’m pretty lazy. I honestly don’t know what the benefit of using another instance would be.
The benefit is more so for other users on other instances. Lemmy.world in particular is causing a lot of trouble for small instances hosted outside Europe and North America. For example in aussie.zone local communities comments are taking 8 days to arrive from Lemmy.world because of the latency and how Lemmy processes federation serially. Hopefully in an upcoming release we’ll get parallel processing of federated activities making this less of a problem