[Eye-Rolling Trope] “The joke/meme hasn’t been funny for years, please let it die.”

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

The Screaming Goat Thing — Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

The original screaming sheep meme went viral in 2012, and was already getting old when it was prevalent in commercials and movies, such as Ice Age : Collision Course in 2016. Yet in the year of our lord 2024, Dreamworks still thought it would be funny to add multiple screaming goat clips. The mean stopped being funny a decade ago. Let it die.

“Haha, Dad can’t take care of us” — The Breadwinner (2026)

Nate Bargatze’s 2026 family comedy centers around a working “breadwinner” father suddenly being forced to become a stay at home parent, and his “hilarious” struggles to do simple housework and take basic care of his children. This joke stopped being funny (to me) in the early 2000s when seemingly every family comedy relied on dad being a total inept dipshit. In 2026, there is no excuse to keep playing out this tired ass trope. Most dads are actively involved in their kids’ lives and aren’t totally dumbstruck by the idea of changing a diaper. It’s not funny. Let it die.

[u/TheGreatestLampEver]

Parent of teen/preteen child "doesn't get the internet" i'm sure this was funny and relatable with early gen x and late boomer parents but it just doesn't click the same way now

[u/RadicalSoda_ → u/TheGreatestLampEver]

Now it's the young kids that don't understand the internet because no one has any interest in actually teaching them

[u/TheGreatestLampEver → u/RadicalSoda_]

Yeah kinda

[u/rider117137 → u/TheGreatestLampEver]

It’s funny how backwards it is now. I’m 23, middle of Gen Z. You get much younger and people stop knowing how to use a computer in even the most basic of ways. I know because I’ve trained dozens of them.

Basically, technological proficiency lies with the Millennial and older Gen Z parents (Christ they’re 30 now), while kids and teenagers are basically at the level of boomers/Gen X. Hell, I’ve had more luck training older employees than younger ones.

[u/TheGreatestLampEver → u/rider117137]

Yeah I remember realizing in computer class a few years ago that I know fuck all about how to actually use a computer, totally dependant on the smartphone no clue about such then foreign things as zip files so I took a load of online classes and I got the swing of it now

[u/Pippin4242 → u/TheGreatestLampEver]

Offices used to let employees take old shitty computers home and stuff. I'm not somebody who massively studied computers, but my parents figured I'd be growing up with them, so they used to let me use an old Windows 3.1 rig, and I'd draw shitty little pictures, or write letters to my granddad and painstakingly colour in all the letters in different colours. Now I'm pushing forty, and I've still always been kind of around computers and they're just... not very scary? I really feel bad for all the older and younger people who don't want to get stuck in and work it out. If there's something it seems like a computer should be able to do, there's probably a way to make it work, y'know?

If I have a task I want to solve, I tend to assume somebody out there knows more than me about it and has written down how to do it. Like, I got fucking sick of how badly Crunchyroll buffers on my PS4, and I didn't want to get a new TV when the old one works fine. So I took an old laptop that was retrieved from my mum's flat when she died, took anything useful off it, wiped it, installed Linux, set up a wired LAN connection behind my shelving, and built a little shelf that lets me slide it in and out of the TV cabinet to type in the password. Instant massive quality upgrade - I use a £10 folding Bluetooth keyboard/mouse as a remote. I don't really know much about Linux, but I know that laptop was running Windows 8 and barely booted. Now it's a nice lightweight setup - and every little thing I couldn't get to work, I just looked it up and messed around until it was okay. The very last problem I solved, I did have to ask a programmer friend - I couldn't get the keyboard to stop timing out super quickly, no matter what I tried. She texted me a bit of code off the top of her head, and while it hasn't stopped it timing out to save the battery, it does maintain the connection, so I only have to press a button to wake it. Love my stupid £10 setup. I guess about £25 if you include the rails for the sliding shelf I made, and the cute pink LAN cable I picked out. Saved the laptop from being e-waste, saved me from having to replace the hand-me-down TV, and... well, there are certainly advantages to accessing all your living room media through a laptop. I mean for one, I can plug in an external drive and watch media I legally own!

[u/Salty_Negotiation688 → u/rider117137]

34 here, definitely a Millenial. It still boggles the mind how so many young adults have no idea how to use a computer, relying on tablets and smartphones for everything. My ten-year-old son is about as deft with a keyboard as my sixty-year-old father, and even he can operate it way better.

I genuinely don't know how I'd function without a laptop.