No one warns you you spend your 30s watching your and all your friends first dogs they got as adults die either
Getting old is a bitch sometimes
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He looks like Hasan Piker
Pretty sure that dude is 55
Jokes on you, I never respected any of those fuckers to begin with. Except my dad, he gets a pass.
Perfect age to realize how bad your parents were at raising kids too!
It might seem bad now, but later in your twenties you'll lose respect for people you don't know, too! By your early 30s you should be on track to lose respect for entire institutions, and eventually just humanity in general!
Mid to late 30s is an awkward phase of losing faith you didn't even know you had. Like, dozens of times. You'll hit rock bottom again, and again, and again, and whatever new low your brain just established for human malice and stupidity will be gut punched as your peers enthusiastically elect a pedophilic antichrist. Twice.
Eventually you realize there is actually no bottom, and you start to go numb - which is fucking great compared to the decades of getting dragged through through the coals!!
50s here. it gets worse before it gets worse.
Today I learned I lived through my 30s in my 20s
I lost most of my faith in humanity with COVID. I lost all of my faith in my countrymen in 2024.
In 2025 I found out that even losing your faith in everyone still isn't rock bottom. There are still somehow ways they can disappoint you even further.
Not sure what 2026 will bring at this point
This has been my experience. I am pushing 40 and the last few years have beaten the optimism right out of me, and I already thought that was long gone.
I have often wondered if this is what most people have experienced throughout history or if this another fun millennial game we were forced to play. I'm sure every generation has had their stupid trends and societal problems but watching a country collapse under the weight of it's own stupidity seems less common. Not new, but certainly not something every generation deals with.
My biggest issue is finding friends with no kids! All my earlier friends are off doing their own stuff and don't care about me anymore. Which is fine, I'm good at being alone. I just want pals to hang out with.
Not to mention a non existent family due to maga brainwash.
Then you don't know good people or you are setting unrealistic expectations.
In the first case, you need to reevaluote your circles.
In the second, be gentler. Many people (most likely you included) try do do the best their knowledge+awareness allows them to. I started to lose respect for some people too, but when you realize that we are all improvising, that nobody "knows" how to live, you start seeing people with more compassion.
Keep it up, stranger :)
I probably have to talk to a therapist, but I've changed so much, I am upset at everyone who was my friend in the past. TF was wrong with them??? What assholes, they respected me when I was like I was?
I think realizing Hulk Hogan would celebrate a fascist pedophile authoritarian if you paid him enough was the worst part for me, personally. Chuck Norris, too.
Same with Snoop Dogg. Who could have guessed a gangster rapper would love the government so much?
They’re both pretty gross people if you delve further into their history and it makes it less surprising.
The most surprising one for me is how MC Hammer was a legit gangster but low key about it after his fame.
So* many comedians I grew up with turned out rotten too. Fuck.
We call them posers. So many posers.
Had to Google this. I didn't know about Snoop Dogg... deep sigh
Stop worshipping celebrities.
Don't fuckin sit there and pretend you have zero childhood heroes.
Still respect Attenborough
I genuinely can't think of any at the moment. I didn't follow sports or anything—i played video games. Not only that but i never cared about the VAs, or publishers, or anything like that.
The closest thing might be Marty O'Donnel—the video game composer—who is an Israel supporter. But, when i found out, i didn't really care, tbh.
However, i promise that I'm much more disappointed in my parents than you are for some celebrity.
Yeah but esme weatherwax and baba yaga stayed cool
But everybody else isn’t on the cereal box! You can see the bind we’re in.
Facebook helped a lot with that.
That's the process of life. Adults are incredible, nigh all-powerful beings to a child. Then you get older, and all the esteem you had for people is burned away as you realise we're all just idiots with a few talents and trainings.
except yourself. you are pure infallible genius who knows all that is worth knowing...
Is this GoodTrouble? My wife sends me his videos sometimes
Got a whole Geraldo thing going on there.
so we're just going to name drop and make others feel old as fuck?
ok, fine.
Sally Jessy Raphael called and she wants to know if your wild teen needs bootcamp!
This is not a thing that is familiar to me. Anybody want to actually share their experience beyond just another mind numbing variation of "THAT'S ME".
I never lost respect for my parents.
Uh... yeah, that's it.
Stop worshipping celebrities.
Edit: Oops, meant this as a reply. I'll leave it here, anyway.