Why so many lolcows born around 1980? - Were those years just cursed?

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I've noticed that there's an unusual amount of lolcows born in the years 1977 - 1982. Just a sample:

*John Walker "Brianna Wu" Flynt (1977)
*Richard Spencer (197
*Lucas Werner (1979)
*Bam Margera (1979)
*James "AVGN" Rolfe (1980)
*Noah "Spoony" Antwiler (1980)
*Patrick Tomlinson (1980)
*Shane Nokes (1981)
*Robert "MovieBob" Chipman (1981)
*Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker (1981)
*David "Olivia" Hill, Jr. (1981)
*Nick Rekieta (1982)
*DSP (1982)
*CWC himself (1982)

Incidentally, these years are usually considered the cutoff between the youngest Gen X and the oldest millennials. Is the number of lolcows in this age range a product of lacking identity growing up? Or maybe it's because they were the oldest to grow up getting plopped in front of the TV and vidya games and wasting their 20s on their internet, and this is the fate that awaits all of us when we reach that age? Is this why Jim Metokur (born 1981) could so readily understand lolcows, because he's from that same generation?

Discuss.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

Earliest to experience the internet so to say, they had to deal with the wild west version of the internet to which had impacted at least some of them, most notably CWC who foreshadowed many things to which would become common on the internet (Let's plays and bronies for instnace). This is to not say he was CWC was not a lolcow beforehand. No, he had the attributes previously but much rather it was those that went online during early web 2.0 had these characteristics amplified for those to see, and it was early algorithms to which pushed them. In the case of Spencer, Wu, and Tomlinson these would have been people who would have not really garnered much attention in the past, and really only managed to gain it due to their personalities (which again, was amplified to the masses). For whatever reason their formative experiences had let them to cowdom, in the case of rackets it's a midlife crisis.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I predict in the next 20 years people will wonder why there are so many degenerates born around the year 2000. Compare your own list to the list of degenerate fags who shot up a school last year.

 

[blitzkriegson]

I wouldn't say that 80s babies are more prone to being lolcows, it's more about them being a reflection of an older, more insular Internet that hadn't had as many people that there are nowadays. Weirdos, eccentric people back then were interesting and have been paid more attention to mostly due to the very fact that getting a connection on the late 90s and early 2000s was very expensive so not many people were there in the first place and also most of them were in their late teens or early 20s.
I would argue that there are just as many, if not more, Gen Z and Millenials "lolcows" then there were back in the day, however considering the sheer number of people using the Internet it's almost impossible to focus on one or two weirdos that you've found while browsing around and at the same time create a following of eager shitposters behind everything that they post.

 

[Syrup]

Three Mile Island.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Also not to mention the rising cases of Autism, ADHD, Alzheimer's and any other brain disorders. It really does feel like a tempt of Satan to make the world as unstable as possible through brain plaques, sensory issues amongst many other of it's sadistic features. We all saw the situation get worse but one must acknowledge their own flaws and try to get above that.

 

[Herman the rooster]

It is not that they were cursed years, they were very different times unlike today with the globalized Internet and with so many social networks to publish their statusesmoods there you have to take into account that lolcows on the internet are around between 40 and 50 years old, at the time they were no more than 20-year-olds who barely discovered the internet in the early 2000s, given their autistic behavior that they easily became targets of ridicule on sites like 4 chan and dramatic encyclopedia. I personally think there has been a considerable increase in cows in the 2010s thanks to sites like tiktok and musically.

 

[PermaLurker69]

People are more insane now then ever. You can just talk to people and they will have a bigger spergout than most lolcows would have. More normalfags qualify as lolcows than not.

Lolcows just have cult followings. There can't be a thread on every fursuiter, tranny, too politically invested, mental asylum nominee, people who will never get a job, over socialized, etc etc people.

Although I do believe the number of people who seek milk from lolcows is shrinking rather than less lolcows, making less cults for the following.

 

[BPD Gunt Rider]

1980 kid myself...

I think we were born at a perfect time to be fucked up in a burgeoning fucked up society.

Raised by boomers that had no idea of what the world was soon to be, taught us antiquated ideals and family life that soon became near irrelevant. Many of us were latchkey kids too, and that also filled our heads with wrong nonsense.

3rd wave feminism dug its grips in the school system right in our formative puberty years. Girls and colored people can do anything! Fuck you, white boys. I remember how cool it was that every hot girl in my high school had their lesbian phase and would be all touchy with each other.

Our outlet to this suddenly shifting shitty world was the newly growing Internet in our early adult lives that was the Wild Wild West. We could say anything, do anything, be whatever we wanted to be. It was a paradise for ugly boys like me.

And then normies eventually starting taking over the Internet by ~2007, our fun dwindled to now it's a dystopian nightmare we can only avoid going on fringe weirdo sites like here.

I can understand how many people around my age are lost and can't make sense of the world.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

The 80’s made people think that Hoverboards and the rise of the unstoppable force of the Internet and vintage video games would change the way we view society. Problem is that the wrong kinds of forces chose people that subverted the changes we see in these kinds of lolcows today.

 

[Freya]

seems like you are searching out for people born around then to confirm this. I would say that the average year of birth for a thread subject is 1993. a 1980 birth would mean that a person was coming of age just as the internet was taking off and the field wasn't as crowded as today. Basically they just happened to get there first.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

seems like you are searching out for people born around then to confirm this.

That's called the scientific method.

 

[XANA]

I figure it has to do with the beginning of the mass-use of the internet and the wide spread of various fashion happenings (think: scene, emo, etc.) that happened around the time. Millennials basically grew up with the internet, and being that they could easily interact with people internationally (and participated with interacting with others online enthusiastically), they also ended up being the first guinea pigs for various social media companies to try to perfect their skinner box. This also meant that they generally started to be the first people to be terminally online.

...And being that they're also terminally online, it also means that their stupidity tends to be documented, as opposed to older generations who did stupid shit but were either isolated (so they couldn't gather into various communities and encourage each other) or had evidence of said stupidity erased or contained locally (think embarrassing picture albums the family keeps somewhere on a dusty shelf).

I also would suspect that the bulk of lolcows being around that time has something to do with the increased physical isolation from others as a result of the internet (lack of meaningful friendships and bonds), and gathering in related communities, which is kind of like a social contagion. I see quite a bunch of lolcows troon out as a result of being isolated in their hugboxes.

 

[Carnivorous Plant]

lol

 

[Town Drunk]

Give it a few years. All of the "influencers" on Tik Tok and Instagram will be noticed as cows, putting the old ones to shame. It's already happening.

 

[XANA]

I forgot to mention this, but it's also because Null does not allow threads to be done on minors. So Zoomers will be increasingly featured soon.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

seems like you are searching out for people born around then to confirm this. I would say that the average year of birth for a thread subject is 1993. a 1980 birth would mean that a person was coming of age just as the internet was taking off and the field wasn't as crowded as today. Basically they just happened to get there first.

We need to make lolcow analytics would be a prosperous field of study. Birthdates are pretty easy to confirm and don't change unlike addresses and plotting it on a graph would give interesting data I'm sure some journo/"academic studying extremism" will steal without attribution.

 

[CuzinEd]

Gen X produced a lot of lolcows. Are they also narcisstic slackers only concerned about themselves? That's another Gen X trait. They called it the "Me" generation for a reason.

 

[Shamino]

For what some genX told me, theirs were one of the most prepared generations, the issue was for the majority of them It was for naught because they were obedient children. Their boomer parents send them off to get top notch education across the world but didnt really left a legacy Gen X could keep building from; despite enjoying a wealthy post war era, boomers in prime years rather went to play as hippies . If there is a predominantly self centered generation, boomers are. Gen X was a generation of cowards that didnt really stood up to their parents.