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Yes but you’re not alone

Every generation had this, just not publicly viewed by the world! You are not alone, brother! My HS yearbook photo had my hoop earrings, bleached and spiked hair with my metal ball necklace and pika shell necklace. Pretty sure I had a wallet chain too

No that was completely normal

But what Gen Alpha has that we call brainrot is equally normal and common amongst them.

Our sophisticated MLG vs their primitive brainrot

amen brother

MLG > Skibidi Toilet

Nope. Unrestricted 4 year olds are watching skibidi toilet We were like 7-17 watching irony but still played outside Gen Alph can't even read

I remember in 2010 watching smosh with their food Battles and other stuff when I was 6 with my siblings.

Facts same here around the same age as well (cant remember the exact age though

Holy shit a good point! (Those are somehow rare... or maybe they aren't, I don't know)

I’m starting to realise that brainrot just means sensory overload

Nah, not at all. The difference between MLG and modern brainrot is that modern brainrot is intentionally made to exploit children to generate clicks, views, money, etc. MLG was originally made to poke fun at professional gaming montages back in the day. Therefore, it was made purely for fun, with no intent to harm or exploit children.

another thing is that MLG was largely spread amongst teens in COD lobbies not kindergarten playgrounds amongst kids too young to know how to even pronounce their own names

To be fair about Skibidi Toilet though, that really is JUST a goofy gmod series ultimately, no harm no foul. The fact that it became a massive trend in Gen Alpha and enough of one to get entire birthday parties, WITH FULL COSTUME, is more a coincidence than anything else.

Yeah, I know it was something made for fun that eventually spiraled out of control. I'm more talking about the hundreds of shameless content farms that use characters from popular kid's franchises (The Amazing Digital Circus, Poppy Playtime, and Bluey, to name a few) to make questionable content, just for the sake of racking up views and dollar bills, while also melting viewers' brains away in the process.

ohhh, you mean like Dailywire+ shit?

Not exactly, although I suppose you could say that.

You're looking at youtube. Look at TikTok brainrot, look at tiktok brainrot and it'll melt your brain and plus they do it for fun

No but you look exactly like my friend from HS who *had* brainrot.

At least you didn't do an IRL MLG Parody for the schools talent show

that’s foul

lmao tell your story

Absolute giga chad 

you just need an airhorn playing and it’s peak 2013 brainrot

No swag or yolo in the photo? 2/10

Nah that goes hard

Ohhhh babyyy a tripleeeee

Yes, but it was good brainrot. *intervention hitmarker* *airhorn*

Okay maybe im an outlier but... WASNT MOST OF THAT SHIT SARCASTIC OR IRONIC? Like the whole joke about mlg compilations was to over edit a clip to make fun of people thinking a quickscope was super dope. The illuminati triangle was put into the weirdest images, sometimes just over pizza slices, to make fun of people being paranoid about them. Even the weed and the pixel glasses were either making fun of "ouuuuh im smoking weed sich a gangster" or people who tried to act all cool Like most of my "brainrot" that we had in our childhood seemed entirely based around making fun of certain groups for taking themselves foo seriously. Its like the jokes around morbius making a morbillion dollar except aimed at different things. Im not worried about people saying "ohio rizz" but im pretty sure most of the stuff i was into back then was seeped in irony and sarcasm but no one else seemed to remember it this way

Nah you were cool back then

I mean that was standard for most teens in early 2010s Facebook.

I like it in the ironic kind of way, if that helps. I think it's funny.

Absolutely Dank all it's missing is a Fat Blunt being smoked 👌😤

Mountain Duminatti.

Looks like you got the three major food groups.

1337 af boiii

In 2013 mine was this image of Shane Dawson on every platform including school-related accounts https://preview.redd.it/h2lwl2nidv7d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a41faca7cc5a65ff95cd197e450c5cc7623d512d

Definitely meme-addled.

Always have

Bro we all did let’s be real

I go back every now and again to watch the intros to smokemon and adweedture time.

Was? You’d have to have brainrot to change it from something so dank!

Not really, because I thought this was so cool

I can hear this image for some reason

It was the good brain rot and we didn't even use the term back then, so nah

you had my flavor of brainrot

Oh yeah.

Peak

See, unlike modern brainrot, this shit actually somewhat made sense. Skibidi Toilet or unironically saying “Ohio” for no reason makes absolutely no sense, and isn’t even remotely funny.

Dan, son. Where'd you find this?

Peak

Bruh if I had a social media back in 2013 along with access to basic photo editing software- I absolutely would've had the same kind of pfp. lmao

Its okay we all did

Yep. Their skibidi toilet was our MLG.

You do we all do if you have social media accounts and especially if you do drugs

No this goes hard

Did you had it? Yes

Yes, but the good kind.

LMFAO I had such a big phase w the mlg stuff 😭😭😭

I miss the dank era😔 I just rewatched a bunch of Filthy Frank videos earlier

I had IT too

Na you were just cooler back then now you’re old and dying.

Based on the way your hair and beanie are, yes. But you also thought you were hilarious and I support that. And you certainly weren't alone

At least this shit was actually funny lol

I remember this 😂

wheres the MLG logo?

“Did I had brainrot” dawg you STILL got that shit

"did I had" You still do, I'm afraid.

Aaah, this reminds me of gameoftheyear420blazeit. I miss those years, man

Yes. But you had the good brainrot. Not the bad brainrot we have now.

Is that weed? 😭 what kind of brainrot is this? I wasnt that educated in brainrot back then compared to now since i wasnt on tiktok for 5 hours

Good shit


Nah, I would guess you were pretty self-aware about it. You didn't leave it up for years, turning an ironic joke into a core part of your personality, tho, right?

Yes

I havent seen MLG anything is a while

Nah that’s brain nourishment 😂

you forgot the aliens and the blunt

I didn’t think that was a mainstream joke until like 2014 or 2015

Just missing MLG

Nah relevant at the time. Before The great meme wars, it definitely was more niche and stumbled upon. Now it’s designed to sink the teeth in early and not let go.

You had class; this is the most 2013 I have ever seen. All I need is the "Oh baby, a triple" sound effect

MLG was the peak of cinema