Ignorance or enlightenment?

Are people actually getting their undies in a bunch over a 3 year age gap? I find that hard to believe.

I also don't use Twitter, Instagram or TikTok because they're terrible.

I also don't quite understand why a 20-year-old dating a 23-year-old is contentious. There's no age gap at all. Who exactly is having a problem with this?

He sounds like a perfectly normal person who just doesn't read the news.

I am 24, autistic, straight edge, and a data analyst. I'm the youngest person in my company, the closest person to me in age is 45. I haven't used a regular social media site since I was 14. My only interaction with modern discourse is my girlfriend's 18 year old sister. When she talks she might as well be speaking another language. My hobbies are unix, classic literature, VHS collecting, and synthesizers. My girlfriend calls me her 80 year old boyfriend.

How is a 3 year gap a problem if she's 20, wtf.

Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner; maybe I'm also too disconnected, but I didn't get half of the supposed contentious items listed in this post.

Reading the comments, I was like, 'oh, that's what they meant by...'. The body count really surprised me, and in a negative way. Body count sounds so... tasteless. But who cares. Since I don't use that expression, I'll probably forget it soon (the good side of having a lousy memory).

Speaking as someone who was overly sheltered... All of this is plausible.

And this man is probably the most mentally healthy man this guy knows as well.

We need more people like Alex

What is "body count" in this context? Does it mean your number of sexual partners? If so, that's very dismissive and reductive.

This is funny but I have a slight feeling that it's made up

What DOES from the river to the sea mean?

Edit: thank you all for helping me/us understand more about this.

He is living the life.

The person who wrote this sounds like a twat. Why judge the guy and put him on blast because he doesn't follow the same social norms as you?

Lemmy really gives reddit for boomers with these made up rage bait posts like this.

Gets straight to the top and everyone is saying they wish they could be this guy because they don't care about modern issues and want to go "back to the good ol days". Rage bait didn't even get rage, just people creaming over the idea of not thinking about global issues and trans rights.

This is one of those people who dont live or care about the internet, honestly this sounds like a very healthy lifestyle.

A real human bean, and a real... hero.

I can't tell whether this particular person is real, but I fully believe that there are thousands such people, if not more, in every developed country. I count myself among them. My social media interaction, other than Lemmy and Reddit, is limited to reading and writing 1000+ words long blog posts. I recently left our company's Christmas party after an hour when I realised I had nothing to talk about with the others - I don't know the current trends in movies, TV or music, and nobody in my work shares my interests. So, I may be perceived as just as weird (or endearing, as the ending suggests), even though I see myself as perfectly normal.

Sometimes, it's better to be ignorant.

Definitely home schooled

This is the top of my feed on lemmy.world... yeah Reddit is totally dying

I used to be like this. I would also accidentally make sexual innuendos, some of which were never explained to me.

hundreds

Either he didn't actually play mw3 a lot or he was terrible at it.

What the world really needs right now, more smart Alex...🤓👍

This guy got that ohio skibidi rizz.

You know it's interesting how in touch I am considering how out of touch I am. I want to be a part of the cultural zeitgeist so I can get jokes, and talk to people, and generally be alive and understand what's going on in the world, but at the same time it's truly exhausting. I dunno, I think as I've understood how much "the culture" is just pioneered by like, some 12 year old somewhere brainlessly chaining nonsense words together, the more I find myself wanting to disengage. See, and then, that's not even real, because "the culture" no longer exists. You get viral memes that are spewed forth on their ability to masquerade as "the culture" without actually being it. I'm sure some stupid kid somewhere talks like they're a terminally online brainrotted weirdo, and that kid should probably stop being on the internet, but to say that this stupid kid is "the culture", is false. This isn't the case.

Everyone just collectively hallucinates some fake thing in their head that they can be mad or find funny or both. There is no "culture" anymore. There's just a bunch of atomized communities who independently do whatever they do, and then somehow everyone has cultural osmosis knowledge of a mr beast video because they know someone who knows someone who watches it and they have to have an opinion on everything. I want the ride to stop, I want to get off! I want the ride to stop now! I would like to go back to rage comics please!

I would give my left arm for this level of innocence... or maybe my frontal lobe.

That's not your Coworker, that's a young Peter Griffin.

My horseshit detector is beeping like crazy 🤔🤔

I want to believe this guy is running an incredibly funny scam. Or he's really that pure. Either way it's a W

ITT: OP discovers high functioning autism

Image Transcription: Reddit

My coworker is so unaware of modern cultural discourse it's hilarious, submitted by /u/BengalRoute47 to /r/redscarepod

He's 23. He doesn't use TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter. His favourite drink is Bud Light and was confused when an old dude at work asked him why he still supports them. He's dating a 20 year old college junior which isn't much of an age gap to most people but you already know that bothers a very loud subsection of the population. He saw someone wearing a sweater that says "From the River to the Sea" and asked which ocean the sweater was referring to; he's a huge cartography nerd. When he saw a manager put he/him pronouns in a sent email, he was confused and asked me "what does that mean? I thought he was already a man?". We had a bit of a coworker get together one day and played drunk truth or dare. Someone asked him what is body count was. His response was "I played MW3 a lot when I was 10 or o it's definitely somewhere in the hundreds"

Never change Alex. Love you man

Gotta love that guy.

Not familiar with the discourses except he/him and from river to the sea.

Can someone please ELI5?

Red Scare referring to everything as "discourse" is very funny to me.

The guy quoted in the article is so false-consensus that it's almost more adorable than sad. Almost.

It says it’s ignorance

Ignorance.

I'm willing to wager that Alex is a het cis white man - and this post describes that privilege that this phenotype sometimes angrily exclaims does not exist.

I wish I could be this ignorant and my life not be affected by remaining ignorant.

Ignorance. Choosing actively to not engage with society to the point where you dont know whom you support or whom youre being antagonized by will not serve you well.

Also, sounds like this place of business is toxic as shit.