Normie is fine, NPC is where it gets cringe
Someone described Lemmy as less accessible safe space for internet veterans. Oof
I was just thinking the other day how unhealthy it is to think that if someone isn’t terminally online they’re lame or dumbasses
Get a job that requires you to spend 60+hours of your week offline and you’ll quickly realize how mind numbingly boring your coworkers are. That shit incinerates any personality you possess and makes you appreciate how much more interesting those “terminally online” people actually are. You’ll not pry anything beyond small talk out of them no matter how hard you try.
Strong disagree. We just left the place overrun with „normies“ and one of the reason they stay and go on using reddit with their vanilla apple devices while sipping a moccachino at starbucks is because they‘re basic and boring.
Edit: Okay, since we don’t all have the same humor, I‘d like to spoil that this was not a serious comment. I just don’t think calling Someone a normie is different than „nerd“.
Reas this again like someone else wrote it. It’s condescending and patronizing. You’re not better than these people you judge.
We’re calling Redditors normies while Redditors call Twitter and Instagram users normies. “Everyone is a normie but me!” lol
While twitter and insta users call facebook users normies which call people who actually go outside normies. We‘re being called normies by coders and they are called normies by hackers the likes of anonymous. The never ending normieception.
Does the cycle begin and end with the likes of folks like Linus Torvalds actually enjoying nature as a hobby?
Would make sense! :)
Ironic meme template choice
Out of curiousity, why?
Of all of the alt-right pundits, Steven Crowder - the one pictured here, is the one most likely to call somebody a normie.
Huh. I really can’t imagine normies exist.
When I think of a normie, I think of the Cleavers, or the Simpsons. A conglomerate average of what we expect white America to look like.
I think every family has to deal with weird shit, weather mental illness, disability, fentanyl addiction, Juggalos or a Gen X discordian auntie who takes no-one’s bullshit. We all have stuff going on that kicks us out of the normie threshold.
Which kinda is the point of this meme. The usage of ‘Normie’ has gotten mainstream and everybody refers to each other as ‘Normie’ implying that they themselves differ. But you know, most people differ a bit. Mainstream is mainstream, but just because you are using a “special” website, that doesn’t make you abnormal.
I’m confident normie comes from 4chan, I’ve seen it thrown around there since long before it became mainstream, but there they were using it to refer to people living normal lives, something they (mostly) wanted to achieve. (I.E.: “I’ve got a girlfriend, I’m finally on my way to become a normie”)
Now in its current usage it is more like an insult, something like saying “you are a basic bitch”, which implies that person who said that isnt.
I remember when the only place I saw people unironically use the phrase normie was 4chan. And now ironically the normies have adopted the phrase themselves, unknowingly appropriating 4chan culture
I wouldn’t call what goes on over there “culture”.
