More teens crying "minor" over everything!

[Theendoftheline]

Was reading some YouTube comments the other day it was a video about some teen this or that and in the comments, of course some guy had to bring up that his voice sounded gay, well another guy went around and said jokingly "I bet he has a sugar daddy"....here comes goody two shows gets offended by everything teen saying "BRO HES A MINOR THATS DISGUSTING" the other commentors were trying to tell him it's just a joke but he wasn't having it he kept saying "you don't say that or joke like that about MINORS"" and no matter what anyone said he just kept saying how the teen in the video is a lil child and all this and that.

Anyway feel feel to share your experiences on this topic or what you think!

[PorcelainLark]

I think MAPs and the concept of "minors" play a function in directing discourse, i.e. if a person is a minor you moderate your writing, if a person is an adult MAP then they're fair game.

We've got to get past this Youtube Drama level of politics. Everyone has seen how insincere and pointless it is to cry on camera for your popular audience, why are we still taking people like the hosts of Breaking points seriously?

[Theendoftheline]

I think MAPs and the concept of "minors" play a function in directing discourse, i.e. if a person is a minor you moderate your writing, if a person is an adult MAP then they're fair game.

We've got to get past this Youtube Drama level of politics. Everyone has seen how insincere and pointless it is to cry on camera for your popular audience, why are we still taking people like the hosts of Breaking points seriously?

YEAH i get it, the issue is when I was a teen we joked like that all the time and others did to and had no issues, I'm mostly just interested in the how and why people that are by and large 1 or 2 years away from legal adulthood find any lil joke they can and scream "MINOR" if its even hinted at that said teen might be with someone older in said joke? Ya know what I mean? Why and when did teens become so so sensitive to shit like this? For instance do minor teens now days have NO pride in themselves at all? When i was 16 or 17 i never called myself a minor ONCE and doing so would feel like I was insulting myself. Now It feels like mostly anyone under 18 now pretends they are lil innocent flowers that cannot handle anything without screaming how they are a "minor" I don't understand it at all.

What cause it? social media? feminism?, group think and not want to stand out against modern norms? All of the above? I just, really do not understand youths train of thought I suppose you could say and imo its somewhat of an interesting case study in how teens back in the early 1900s worked, supported families, dated within 10 years or more of themselves in some cases to where we are today where literal 17yos fuck these days even some 18yos have bedtimes, are not allowed to drive to parties walk around the neighborhood, or if they do they have ridiculous curfews at like fucking 8pm in the summer....its just gotten out of hand and it feels like that "im just a small child" mentality that many teens have now voids any pride they may have in themselves into internalized infantilization.

I know I kinda beat this topic like a dead horse but its just interesting as heck to me how in the last several years everything has changed and only seems to be getting worse overall. Itd just be nice if young people actually learned to think freely for themselves instead of listening to hyper woke tick tokers spew their garbage about how "at this or that age ur a lil baby" propaganda and not realize that at certain ages once you have a decent sense of self you are 100 percent capable of fully understanding and grasping a great many very adult topics, instead of doing what many now do and throw their pride as an individual away and use "minor" as a shield for "im just a fucking stupid kid".

[zarkle]

I think MAPs and the concept of "minors" play a function in directing discourse, i.e. if a person is a minor you moderate your writing, if a person is an adult MAP then they're fair game.

We've got to get past this Youtube Drama level of politics. Everyone has seen how insincere and pointless it is to cry on camera for your popular audience, why are we still taking people like the hosts of Breaking points seriously?

What cause it? social media? feminism?, group think and not want to stand out against modern norms? All of the above?

Youtube Drama is a great term that describes how normies behave about the topic where they say "BLANK IS A MINOR", in a serious tone. as if the State's legal definition of the number 18 is suppose to carry grave weight in a conversation. To me its just a spook that I choose not to let haunt me but to a normie it is a serious social norm violation that just be apologized for.

As for what causes it, its many factors. But one of them has to do with how natural selection wired us. Our brains are meant to replicate ideas to help us socially fit in and ideas of high cultural concern replicate faster. Feminism and Qanon are ideas in the culture, and human brains are designed to replicate ideas in the culture to maximize social reward. Just as catchy music and memes (like 67) becomes popular and disseminates in the culture so do ideas about political views, especially if they are simple and nuanceless. Complex ideas also end up being reduced into simple narratives and catch phrases.

If the ideas are about "child harm" the ideas will spread faster with urgent concern regardless if they're is real harm or bullshit, and normies will show hostility to those who reject it just like qanon crowd says "you are with us or against us". in fighting the respected non-existent satanic pedos.

Evolutionary models show evidence that the strategy of "copy the majority" (conformity) is often more successful at adapting than trial and error learning (the individualism route). That's memematics in work , feminist ideas run their course in the culture and get widely accepted especially if they are framed as advanced morality and child protection.

If we really want to look deeper on feminism then the next question to ask is, Is why do secular feminist of today and religious feminist of the past who both supported the number 18 as an AoC use different structure to justify it? Why are they arguing from different reasons that both would consider invalid?

While nuance exist on child protection on both ends.

A feminist in 1925 would say 18 as the AoC is to keep women of the church pure to avoid the sin of prostitution so they can make a better choice at finding a husband for life long marriage. Back in 1920s the feminist had to defend their position.

A feminist in 2025 would say the AoC of 18 is to protect children from hard and exploitive men. Today they can accuse you of being pro rapist and pro predator if you disagree or even add nuance on late stage adolescence.

That is what we can think about. Also lastly the "BRO HES A MINOR THATS DISGUSTING" part can be explained away with research on what disgust really is.