#zoomers problems

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I can’t stress just how much I did NOT need this.

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#MillennialProblems

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Sometimes I wonder about the effects of photography though? Like, almost the entirety of human existence on Earth was spent without any record of people’s physical appearance. Unless you were a king or had a very talented relative with a lot of time on their hands, you would have no image of yourself at all. In fact, you would barely know what you looked like. And now, over a very short period of time, we’ve moved from that to a few generations who had maybe three undated photos of themselves (first communion, leaving for the army, a wedding) to another couple of generations who had a few hundreds (many of them blurred, badly centered, and ‘ugly’) to camera phones and social media. And I know we talk a lot about the effects of IG and Facebook on our mental health (and we should talk about it even more, imo), but I do wonder about the deeper impact of those constant images on our sense of self. For instance, children like seeing photos of themselves, and hearing about those times they were too small to remember. Does having thousands of cute photos from birth to adolescence change anything in how you perceive yourself and build your own awareness? Is it a positive impact (more memories, a clearer path from point A to point B, the proof of time passing, look how many people love me!) or a negative one (vanity, self-importance, possibly dysmorphic disorders, loss of control over who owns our faces and what they do with them)? I don’t know. It’s such a big change in how our entire perception of the self is constructed, and it happened so rapidly, and yet we barely even notice it. Cheese.

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#MillennialProblems

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Okay, now I’m curious - 

LIKE if you use gifs by simply adding the first gif you see that fits what you’re trying to say, 

REBLOG if you only use gifs from movies/shows you know well because you’re worried about the in-story context and giving the wrong message if maybe a gif you see as funny is actually from the most tragic moment of the movie or what you think as a romantic hug turns out to be two people who hate each other and so on?

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ffs imagine getting paid in skins like it’s the goddamn 1860s and you’ll need at least 14 pelts to buy yourself a wife smh

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Turns out Chinese is the German of Asia.

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The shaven butt story (in the author’s own words)

So it all started around a week ago when some girls in my friend group came together and started drinking. They started boasting about their butt and next thing you know they wanted to do a ‘best butt’ competition. I wasn't there so I don't know the details, but we were sent a message in a group chat. Rules were simple: if you wanted to join you just had to send a pic of your butt to this certain girl who would present them anonymously to 8 guys and they would all vote for the picture of the best butt.

Well, I thought it would be funny to join, but I knew that they wouldn't take it seriously because my ass is naturally extremely hairy, so I did the most logical thing at the time. 

I shaved it. 

I took the shaving equipment I normally use for my face, switched the blades and went ham. 

Well - this is were the first problem came in.

The stupid person I am didn't lock the door. 

My mom walked in on me shaving my ass. She just awkwardly wiggled away and I turned extremely red. She didn't say anything, so I thought she would just ignore it. 

She didn't. 

She started googling. 

That evening, she asked me to come to the dinner table to talk. My father ran away so I knew it would be bad, but I didn't expect it to be that bad.

She wanted to talk about intercourse safety in a homosexual relationship. 

(Keep in mind: I'm not actually gay.) 

She was extremely well-prepared. Highlights of that evening were: practicing with a condom and a cucumber, the dangers of gay sex without lube, and a brief summary of objects I should definitely not put in my butt (such as lamps and beer bottles). She would not listen to any of my denying and would just say: "It’s okay, Your dad and I still love you".

I thought the worst was over so I sent a picture of my shaven butt to the girl that was collecting them. Two days later the 9 pictures of all the contestants were sent, all without any distinguishable features, to the 8 boys. So one thing you should know is that I do have quite a good butt. I got pretty good genes in that aspect and I've been skating since I was 14. I now skate around 60km a week and skating is an incredible way to get a firm round butt of decent size. 

You can probably see where this is going. 

I won with a total of 5 out of 8 votes. 

(Most of the girls did think it was hilarious on some sort of level...it is, however, extremely awkward to talk with them as they now look at my ass quite frequently.)

[click here for source and NSFW details]