A lot of young men are lacking role models and community these days.

More kids are growing up without fathers around now (single parenthood is up from 9% in the 1960s to about 25% today).

Most people’s source of community used to be church, but since the advent of the internet, people are rapidly moving away from organized religion. I think this has disproportionately impacted men, who tend to be less social on average.

And I think in general, a lot of young men feel like nobody cares about their personal struggles.

So, even some toxic dude like Andrew Tate can show up and say “Hey, you’re great. Here are the reasons why things are bad for you and what you should do, and here’s a community of like-minded people to interact with.” and these guys are going to dive in head first.

It’s a play on an existing meme format:

I’ve noticed this too. It feels like we’re culturally losing touch with even the relatively recent past, and I’m not sure what to think about it.

I guess it concerns me in the “those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it” kind of way.

Yeah, is satire ok here too?

I have another intentionally funny one too. Maybe I’ll drop it somewhere else just in case.

Glad you’re here!

I was reading this reply from my inbox and took longer than I should’ve to realize this was about the Minecraft post.

Oh wow, in my head I pictured it starting around 2006 or so.

Community, IT Crowd, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Scrubs… The 00’s had a lot of great sitcoms. We didn’t know how good we had it.

It got so popular, had occasional Star Trek references, even a cameo by Leonard Nimoy, and I still couldn’t get myself to enjoy it. It’s such a a shame.

I haven’t played Minecraft really since the alpha, but I can’t imagine why they shouldn’t. What am I missing?

I’m sure we all remember when our parents had the talk with us about this.

I’m very confident that I would injure myself with a flail.

I thought this was going to turn into a psychological thriller.

It’s totally a thing in the downtown of some older cities, and occasionally in some apartment complexes that have popped up recently, but I’d say that throughout the majority of the country, residential and commercial zones get drawn without overlap.

This is the exact reason why c/memes on lemmy.world has a “no politics” rule.

The disrespect!

Couldn’t have said it better. It’s the ultimate free speech.

We have a bad habit (speaking as someone in the US) of celebrating these lofty ideals, but then privatizing the way that they are commonly experienced so that it technically isn’t a violation of our values by the government. I think if it’s something we truly hold dear, we should strive for it everywhere we can.