On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?

Nice try little Timmy, but I won't be telling you how to pass as an adult.
- Because you are a kid and you don't know but are pretending to be an adult. Nice try!
  
  That's what a kid pretending to be an adult would say.
  When I was your age, no kids did that, 'cause we had no damn internets back then. We had to actually walk outside to talk with others.
- Everyone knows you hop on another kid's shoulders and put on a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses and gave the name Robert Businessman.

Very confidently wrong, poor reading comprehension, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, emoji gore, catch phrase/pop culture quotes/talking points repeated with no comprehension of what they're saying, clearly not aware of how many things in life work, religious regurgitation while being surprised everyone doesn't agree with them. Very easily impressed with basic factual statements, clearly thinking confidence is the main thing that makes someone correct. Thinks their mom telling they they are handsome is a valid point. Idk, that's all I got.
- Depending on what you meant by "very easily impressed with basic factual statements" it could go either way. I'm an adult and I'm happy to admit I don't know a lot things, sometimes I've been stunned that what I believed was totally wrong and all it took was some to give me a basic fact to make me realise.
  
  Happy Cake Day!
  
  +1
  Ever since I was a wee flipflop I always liked to learn from my friends (and yes I was that gullible naive friend) but now even in my 20s it’s still fun to learn outside a classroom. I don’t have to worry about my terrible memory not keeping all the info, if it sticks it sticks
  
  I'm an adult
  🧐
- very confidently wrong
  Lmao dude that’s just people in general especially on forums
  There’s also nothing wrong with people learning new info, no matter how simple it may seem. That’s kind of a pretentious/egotistical way to operate.
  Most of this list is actually pretty garbage. Emojis? Using slang/catch phrases? This is basic social stuff.
  
  You😆are🤓🤣wrong🤬😡! 💯💯👁️🍑👁️
  
  Got one
  
  What I wrote -- Very easily impressed with basic factual statements
  What you think it means -- there's something wrong with people who are learning new things.
  Does ''basic factual statements'' mean ''new information that someone is just now learning''. Can it also apply to information they already know, or believe is true? Can it also be referring to basic knowledge nearly everyone knows?
  Does 'being very easily impressed' include a situation where someone reacts to information in a typical fashion? Does it exclude adults learning or recognizing factual information and responding with a simple agreement, such as 'yeah that's true'? Or is this an indication that an overreacting response is the dead giveaway?
  Did the sentance make a claim something is wrong with being a child?
  Did the sentence claim that learning new information is likewise something wrong?
  Please write one 5 sentance paragraph explaining your opinion on the above two numbered questions. Proofreading will not be necessary.
- Bonus: can also be applied to boomers.
  
  Boomers are just decrepit toddlers at this point anyway
  
  “Know why the call them baby boomers? Because all it takes is one little prick to their egos and boom! You’ve gotta baby!”
  
  Could be a new gameshow: Boomer or Toddler
- Huh
  Hexbear is an 8/10 on this scale
- By these standards, most of my adult relatives are actually children.
  
  It's like I tell my kids, an adult is just a child who got old. It's also why a lot of cultures have a concept of adulthood that has nothing to do with reaching sexual maturity alone.
- So every boomer on facebook. Got it.
- This is like reading a reverse horoscope - you've just thrown as many negative traits as you could think of at the wall, knowing at least a few will stick.
  Nothing on your list couldn't also apply to an adult, especially those most privileged and entitled in society.
- Those first two...and a couple others, also apply to a lot of adults I have had political conversations with the past several years...
- I think you're handsome too, reader. Don't listen to the haters.

I remember reading that when national parks tried to make a 'bear-proof' trashcan, they found that there was a larger overlap between the smartest bear and the stupidest human to make a viable product.
I feel like it's a similar situation here. The smartest kid and the stupidest adult are far more similar than we'd like to admit.
- Tbh I find it much more surprising that there's an overlap of bears and stupid people than I do smart kids and dumb adults.
  I've met an unfortunate amount of people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.
  
  Bears can be trained to drive cars and communicate through various means, it's thought they may be as smart as great apes like gorillas. This is why they were a choice circus animal for a long time.
  Yes, this should be terrifying information.
  
  It's less idiocy and more laziness. Any amount of inconvenience is too much for a lot of humans, unfortunately.
  
  That last line is an absolutely brilliant insult. Love it.
  
  Why does dumping water out of boots have instructions? Isn't it like dumping water out of any other container?
  
  ... people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.
  I love that analogy and need to commit it to heart. XD
- I think it's more like: the maturest kids and the most immature adults.
  
  Yeah smart kids can be very immature
- Side note: the National Park Service has an awesome team running their social media accounts. Their posts are always hilarious and informative.
- Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.

Extreme/insane positions on everything. Not just one or two insane positions, not just political extremism; when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING. No nuance allowed. And it has to be fully sincere, otherwise you are dealing with a Jreg.
There are milder versions of this, but I have rarely met a child that didn't have a strongly held insane belief formed from their limited experiences. My favorite was a kid who told me that eating pasta supports fascism because it comes from Italy, so loving Italian products means you support Mussolini. Pizza is fine, though, because that's American.
- I'll bite. What's a Jreg?
  
  A youtuber who was relatively popular with enlightened centerists around 2019. Links so you can look on and cringe:
  A video where he regurgitates right-wing talking points directed at his cat in the name of "satire"
  An actually funny video about top 10 lists
  The video that made his channel really take off
  "Should we dehumanize our political opponents?"
  Man-made satire beyond mortal comprehension.
  He also would attend rallies and spout political gibberist
  
  jreg is a youtube who (ironically?) claims to be anti-centrist, meaning taking an extreme stance on everything, regardless of which extreme.
- Uuuuuugh. I remember being so black and white, there wasn't any middle ground on anything. It was exhausting.
- yeah pretty much this. Dealing with one right now, people are funny.
- This. This is how I pick out if I'm arguing with an adult or not
- Ha ha that's hilarious 😂 such a cherry pick too

I don't think there is a "dead giveaway". Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can't tell if it's a child or someone who doesn't speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There's a lot of different people in the world.
- Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online "that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway", "r/teenagers is mainly grown me", it really bothers me because no, you're just overconfident in estimating people's ages from text
  
  frfr m8
- I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I'm sure I didn't fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.
  Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.
  
  Damn. I know this life. I don't wish it on anyone, except those who exposed me to it...
- I have found the gen xers are the WORST at texting and writing in general. At least the ones I know.
  
  Ever watch a kid who grew up after smartphones try to type?
  
  I would die without autocorrect. I grew up with "mom, how do I spell (word)" and getting "sound it out", witch werks grate in Inglish...
- I can't get over ironically using stupid lingo, without being good at presenting it as ironic use...so I often seem like a child. I am certainly bad at forming sentences that are not stream of thought (with weird punctuation like parentheses containing clarification...like this...and overused ellipsis...)
  
  It's interesting to meet someone else who also struggles with an overuse of parentheses and ellipses (I didn't know what they were called, thanks for that!).
  This is a complete shot in the dark, but do you also happen to be on the spectrum? (I have nothing to base this on expect my theory that overclarification could be more common among neurodivergent people)
  Edit: ellipsis -> ellipses

They're getting private messaged by YouTubers
- 💀
  
  💀
- Or a twitch streamer who designed his look off of the weird pedo dude down at the Batting cages.
  
  Ooooooooof

Not understanding the difference between pre and post 9/11 politics
- Hate to break it to you but people born in 2006 are turning 18 this year (and are technically considered "adults").
  
  Having just turned 43, I can tell you that I don’t think I became an adult until my early/mid 30s.
- That assumes you live in one of a small number of countries for which politics significantly shifted after one of those countries was attacked.
  And also that you're at least old enough to have had a reasonable mature understanding of the political landscape before 2001, so as to appreciate how things changed. Let's assume that'd make you at least 20.
  ...So, we have to be at least 43 years old, and American, or you'll assume we're children?
- Bad assumption, a localized event doesn't affect everyone in the world equally.
- So, uh, what is the difference?
- To actually understand you'd have to have been following politics pre 9/11, which would make you probably 16 at the time. That means 39 right now. That's a lot of adults you're ruling out.
  If you want to say understand society pre and post 9/11, then you're probably talking 12 at the time, so 35 right now. Still a lot of adults you're ruling out.
- I was alive for 9/11 and I don't know the difference.
  I don't care for politics.
  
  I don’t care for politics.
  Your sphere of control should match your sphere of concern; and neither of those things are what you think they are.
  
  Not at least understanding the difference seems irresponsible.

I'm actually gonna give the benefit of the doubt and assume this is actually a grown idiot lol

Kids care too deeply about the most shallow things
- Shut up you care about the most shallow things!!!
  
  no i dont!!!!1!!! i only care about the best things. you are stupid!!
- Only kids? I know some very shallow grown folks with kids of their own.
  
  Those never matured

I aint reading allat💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Like if gay is bad and u a sigma (YT shorts raised me)
👇
- Nice yap sesh
  
  Bro is fluent in yappanese 💀💀💀

I don't know
Edit: thanks for all the likes! I never got 100 before!!! 💀
- riesling !!
  (or smth)

I can't say there is one. Every time i think to myself something like "goddamn, this person is immature" I remind myself that there's a high number of immature adults in the world including myself, so...?
- One was fucking president of USA
  
  And millions elected him

Assuming that getting married means you'll never masturbate again.
- Well. I was married to someone that thought it was disgusting, hated that I masturbated, and did her level best to shame me out of it. She also hated sex. (Well, with me; she suddenly liked sex once we were separated and she was dating.) And many fundamentalist religions do teach that no one should ever masturbate, and that women should always be sexually available to their husbands, no matter what. (Oh, and women don't have sexual needs or desires of their own, they just exist to fulfill male needs.)
  
  That sounds rough, sorry to hear that. Being with someone that doesn't treat you well for too long is damaging. Sounds like you found one of the millions that was absolutely not the right one for you though and I hope you can let it just be that when you're ready. I could stand to take my advice to be fair lol.
- That's just a fundamentalist though
- im an adult and i thought that 💀

Excessive edginess
It's important to differentiate it from like. Having extreme opinions. There are plenty of adults with extreme opinions and they are a whole other conversation. -- But only people under a certain age (not strictly kid, mind, though most people have shaken this off by their mid 20s) have a penchant to arrive at extreme opinions specifically because they are "edgy" and "cool".
This tends to also come with a particularly needless hostile attitude, where they very quickly and easily start with the verbal abuse.

They are on TikTok and not Lemmy

Vertical filming, putting music into videos when you could just use silence

I don't really know, but when they have weird illogical views that they defend with trump like arguments, I think they are kids. They might not be 10.
- Some people's bodies continue to grow well after their brain stopped developing.
  
  Yes, but it's a little worse than that. One might take that to mean environmental, congenital, or even genetic factors. But there's more. Consider the role that trauma has to play here as it can directly cause arrested psychological development:
  https://psychcentral.com/ptsd/signs-trauma-has-you-stuck

When someone asks what’s a dead give away someone is a kid, it tells me they’re not old enough to remember the ASL days.
- ASL
  
  13647/F/a weird anime
- I wrote a whole goddamn novel-sized autorespond in Polaris that triggered on an asl. I was a 96 year old tibetan yak farmer who was allergic to wool and hated the local monks. I used to pee in their milk until one day the abbot found out and beat me with his hat.
  Either that or it started screaming about asexual lizards
- fun fact: a lot of people who don't remember the ASL days are adults now
- Your definition for kid is out of date.

The neat thing about anonymous discussion on the Internet is that it doesn't matter. What you have to say is all that matters.
I don't know anything about anyone and that's great.
- At the same time that's one of the bad parts of anonymous discussion. You never know if someone's an expert or a random person guessing (on ELI5), engaging in good faith or purposely trolling, etc.
- I promise you, no matter how impactful something we have to say is, it doesn't matter.

When they're adamant that voting third party in the United States will be useful in some capacity, I assume they're 13
- The youngsters are downvoting you, but what you're saying is sad but true. It's the reason Bernie never ran as an independent, he knew it would hand the victory to republicans on a silver platter.
- Conversely: when they say this is the most important election of "our lifetimes", and the world will end if we lose.
  (Doesn't mean they're wrong)
- You would need some real insurance that others were commuted to vote 3rd party no matter what. Otherwise the real benifit is just getting to that 5% mark where third parties get some bennies like federal funding and automatic ballot access in some places. Which is minor vs say stopping a campaign of vengeance from a candidate who has acted feloniously already and has abused his position to black bag political opponents before.
- I know a full grown adult that does that in every election. Local elections, sure, I can understand, but he does that with all of them, Basically a card carrying communist that's a useful idiot for right wing politicians.
- Why not vote 3rd party in states that only go one direction? Take NY for instance. What the fuck harm comes from voting 3rd party assholes for president? One time the state elected a republican candidate and it was (still is I think) the largest landslide in history. I'm 36 and have always hated the 2 party system. It's been easier and easier as I got older too with increasing political polarity.
  
  Because if enough people do that, it actually can result in that state not "doing what it always does."
  Assuming voting for X is going to result in Y getting elected over Z "anyways" is not a good strategy for getting what you want.
- Almost anyone with an irrational political stance betrays their youth.
  Political ideology has always captivated the passions of youth, but isn't successfully implemented or even internalized except by people with age and experience and emotional regulation.
  
  I agree with you. Do you think people become more conservative with age or is it society becoming more progressive and leaving them behind? Obviously ignoring the current regressive times of the last eight+ years there.
  To contribute an answer to the original question I offer this post as evidence of age- thinking about how much has changed during my life may have come through above.
- I don't assume they are 13, but they at least aren't old enough to remember what happened in 2016.
  
  Or any other election year, for that matter. I don't think a third party candidate has gotten a significant voter block in 100 years.

I honestly can’t tell. Whenever I see a dumb outrage for video games, I tell my self that it’s a kid, but deep down I I really don’t know
- As an adult, I have smart outrage over video games.
- :yea:

Trick question: assume everyone is a child until proven otherwise.

Poor grammar/orthography
- What do birds have to do with anything?
  
  Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.
  
  Looks up
  Everything!
  Puts on foil hat
  
  Nice try, kid
- This doesn't seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven't figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they're is astounding.
  
  Rest assured it's not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.
  
  As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.
  Essentially a third of the country can't read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.

Asking basic questions that can usually be answered with internet experience ("how do bans/kicks work", or "what is an administrator", "what is LAN" etc.)
Flaunting "new" features that existed on older products. ("This game let's us upload our own music to soundtrack!", "I've never seen a platformer like this" etc.)
- Did you know that you can download podcasts and play them without internet?
  This one got me the other day.
  
  Really? What's next, podcasts delivered over airwaves?
- Is this really common? I dont know any that even used a computer before 2015
- Their gamer tag includes "Killer". They've never heard the terms "gamer tag" or "handle".

"Redditors of Reddit, how do you sexily sex the sex out of sexy sex???"
Serious response: you can't really make a very general rule. There are a lot of people who write quite maturely since their teens, and a lot of people who are morons since their teens and have endless dedication and determination to remain in that state for as long as they breathe.
- I do remember some posts on r/sex back in the day that were absolutely kids (teens) and you could tell by how
  Freaked out they were about totally normal stuff.
  Excited they were about how great sex is.
  I remember there was a funny day when there were two top upvoted posts on r/sex (probably in like 2017) where one was like
  It turns me on when my boyfriend masturbates to me, am I normal?
  And the other one was like
  I (female bodied, they/them / nb) am a furry and my wife and I like to pretend that I'm a wolf and I'm hunting and eating her. What can we make that will look and feel like real organs I can "rip" out of her stomach and eat, and what could we use for fake blood that would be the easiest to clean up?
  People kept linking the second one in the first one and reassuring this poor girl that she's totally normal.
  
  I (female bodied, they/them / nb) am a furry and my wife and I like to pretend that I’m a wolf and I’m hunting and eating her. What can we make that will look and feel like real organs I can “rip” out of her stomach and eat, and what could we use for fake blood that would be the easiest to clean up?
  Absolutely based, all the rest of us plebs just need to learn about the depth and power of their kinkiness. Cheers to their banquet.
- It really sounds like you're 14.
  
  Skibidibi toilet

Excessive swearing, as if they just learned how to say “fuck”.
Not that any damn amount of fucking swearing means they are are a young fucker, but you can fucking tell when you read that shit and they manage nine goddamn swear words in one fucking sentence you know they’re a young bitch who aren’t allowed to swear any other damn time.
- Mother damn, that's a shitting good point my bastard
- Fuck you, I'm in my forties
  
  Yeah, what's this fucker on about? I'm an adult that doesn't even get carded at the liquor store anymore, I fucking swear whenever I damn well please and as often as I give a shit to. Nothing wrong with some cursing, especially at those young fucks that won't stay off my goddamned lawn. Shit, they're at it again.
  Brb, gotta yell at some asshole kids.

I don't know about you all, but I have been posting as an adult human male for a numbers of years now despite being a 4 year old Alaskan Malamute. No one seems to notice or care.
- Moon moon?

When they start calling people "jr" or implying anyone who disagrees with them is too young to understand.
- Yup, I immediately assume these people are children, because it likely comes from their own experiences being dismissed due to their age.
- Generally when people bring up some personal detail, my immediate reaction is to assume the opposite. Especially if it begins with "as a." For example: "as a woman," this person is a man. "As a black person," this is the whitest person you will ever meet. "As a 60 year old," definitely ten.
  
  As a poor person who isn't the president of the US and doesn't have access to nuclear launch codes, I agree
  
  As a late 40s white man, I agree

Quick to call other people kids as an insult.

Not sure if it's the case anymore, but strong opinions were matched with EQUALLY STRONG STYLISTIC CHOICE!!!!!!!, often coupled with poor grammar/spelling, and a tendency to lean more towards rehashing the same opinion rather than making a rational argument for it.
- I dunno, I get this as much from old people too. I think it's less an indicator of age and more an indication of people who aren't great at thinking.
  
  Could it be more of a "new to the internet"-thing, maybe?
- sounds indistinguishable from talking to right-wingers tbh
  
  Similar mental capacity probs.
  
  Was gonna say, that just sounds like some boomers I know.

skibidi toilet

Using a year as an extremely long period of time, never uses "talk it out" as a solution to anything, mentions a YouTuber you've never heard of as if they're a global celebrity.
Also related to the first point, losing their mind over something that delays their education by 4 months or more.

Alpha / Beta male noise. Ok kiddo we get it, you're insecure
- Erm, no, that was popularized by Millennial PUAs, who are all solidly middle aged now.
  
  Fuck you we're not middle age we're upper aged young adults./s
  
  That's great but hopefully they grew out of it. The incel kids these days still run with it.
- I completely agree with you. I, too, cannot respect anything below a real sigma (like myself) (/s)

Specifically in games: constantly repeating the flavor of the month insults. Typically some influencer comes up with a funny insult then for the rest of the month some kids use that one singular insult for every situation

"Arguing" by listing a long list of fallacies that they don't really even understand.
Fallacy fallacy!

Unfaltering loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party

A lack of understanding interpersonal interactions.
And it’s more of a feeling than it is any single behavior. You just… know it when you see it. They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform, and that getting along with others happens solely on their terms. They kind of act like everyone but them is an NPC - not realizing to everyone but them, they’re the NPC.
- That sounds like an adult with a social and/or psychological issue.
  
  lol. While writing that out, I had that thought too, but decided that saying it was more of a feeling was vague enough that I could hide behind that when someone inevitably pointed out it could apply to some adults, too.
  I do feel it’s noticeable - an adult that has some sort of social struggle vs a kid. But it’s like… A kid seems to make statements that come from a place of naïveté, whereas an adult seems to make statements that come from a place of ignorance. Adults seem to couch their words in defensive language, while kids seem kind of blindly assertive. It truly is more of a feeling, I think.
  
  Tomato Tomato

slang mostly, I mod a strictly 18+ space and recently someone used the word "skeet", and would you believe it, they were a minor

Username with a year that tracks as a kid.
- 42,069 AD

This one has been easy for me lately: They spell 'lose' as 'loose'.
- I know far too many people in their 40s who do this.
  The way I try to reinforce the difference with people is this mnemonic device:
  You don't want a loose noose - or you might lose the extra 'o'.
  
  You could also just send them a link to the song "loose yourself" by snoop dawg
- I associate this with boomers more than kids, but that's subjective since an old former friend I know always used to do it.
  They also used "seen" instead of "saw", as in, "I seen dark clouds so I closed the windows." which is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Enthusiasm.

"skibidi" "rizz" "sus"
- I'm approaching 30 and will gladly use all of those both ironically and unironically.
  
  Approaching 50, use SUS regularly, skibidi usage is dropping off, I'm aware of rizz but don't really use it.
- Maybe I've just been hanging out in the wrong places but I have never heard any of these terms used except by previous generations mocking what they think gen alpha is like
  
  I haven't heard rizz, but working in an elementary school, sus has been around for awhile, and skibidi was just starting to get frequent enough to be super annoying towards the end of the school year.
  
  The other day I heard a random (young) girl say "what the sigma" and I had trouble keeping it together
- That may be a better way to weed boomers from Gen X. Especially SUS, among us had a very wide appeal to multiple age ranges.
- Sus isn't even that new. Been using that since gmod ttt

Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of "not reading all that" or other thought terminating clichés.
I've found that as arbitrary as it is - the ability to read a lot of information works pretty well as a mark of mental maturity. Also links to Twitter or Tiktok as discussion points. No one over the age of 19 browses TikTok lol.
- I'm almost 40 and I use TikTok every day. It's literally amazing and I'm always surprised by how many people mock it while using hot garbage like yt shorts or ig
- Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of "not reading all that" or other thought terminating clichés.
  Ouch, I think I'm a kid in my 30s
  
  To take it to a logical extreme, it frustrates me when a post that considers both (or more) views and is a well thought out post, is met with a single world reply - as if it's some sort of "gotcha" or the fact that a single ambiguity in a largely solid argument somehow usurps the entire point.
  I tend to think they're either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.
- not reading all that...tldr?
  \s
- One of my coworkers is 43 and he's on tiktok every day. The olds have come for the kids platform just like they/we always do.

They don't remember what life was like before Google.

The thing with a lot of the methods mentioned is that I've seen both teens that are more mature than me, and people in their thirties that should probably have their internet privileges revoked.

Crypto bros who follow ultra distorted stoicism (the only good philosophy is the ones made when slavery was normalised) that believe everyone else is unaware of what very basic knowledge they world they just learned that day.

Why does he look so much like Pete Davidson

They are a lemmy.world user
- I'm on Lemmy.world because it's the only instance I could make a account on the day Reddit shut down the API. All of the other popular instances had account creation stopped because of the flood of people.
  I could probably make an account on another instance, but I'm pretty lazy. I honestly don't know what the benefit of using another instance would be.
- Heyyyy I'm at least double digits in age.
  
  I'm not impressed. Come back when you reach triple digits!!
- This gives me the same feeling as being carded at the grocery store
- I don't know how to change it in Sync :(
  30 btw
  
  You have to create an account on another instance.
- Hard disagree. Judging by the memes that get posted around here, not a single user of any Lemmy instance was born after 1980
- 🤔 true.

Fr fr bussin no cap the rizzler is mewing

For me personally the first tell is when they are morally loading every statement in an argument and are unable to engage with a topic directly. Adults should be able to discuss or debate certain topics on the value of the arguments alone without feeling pressured to include a declarative virtue signal in every clause.

I fucked their mom

Their usernames are the random ones proposed by the platform, such as Lazy_Platform_34.
- bots.
- I use diceware and random number generators to create my user names.
- or a randomly generated string of 5-6 letters, such as lseif

My general metric:
Hahaha = gen x
Lol = older millenial
Lmao = younger millenial
💀 = Gen z
- I'm Gen Z and use all of them
  
  For me its moreso about what the older gens won't use than what the younger ones will
- This is at least true for me as I'm an xennial or whatever and i use both lol n haha depending on my mood but never lmao. Lol
  
  I am a xennial as well and that was dangerously close to using lol as punctuation which will lose you that sweet xennial cred.
  Seriously though I'm happy to be from this microgeneration. Analog childhood/digital adulthood makes for cool people.
- Most Gen Z aren't children though
  
  When i figure out what gen a's 'funny' synonym is I'll update the list
- The skull thing is pretty dumb.
- This is accurate lol

Extensive use of emojis and abbreviations is a good indicator.