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Round_Candle6462

has anyone else noticed a change in people in the past few years?

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idk where to post this but i've noticed that people these days seem to have less spatial/factual awareness than what i remember 10 years ago. maybe she's just getting old (but she's in her fifties) but she got the name of the town where the family lived ages ago wrong, and she and her mother keeps randomly gifting me stuff every time they visit my house for no reason (including bobble hat and this stupid "wearable blanket" thing even though its spring). i've met people who were convinced the civic center is open 24/7, its not it closes 5pm weekends. i overhear people talk about life in terms of computers, software, hardware, program a lot more frequently than i used to. people also have worse grammar than before (maybe it's on purpose to avoid sounding like AI, but i also hear it IRL so maybe it's on to something) and i often overhear people using clearly incorrect words to refer to objects. i've also noticed that emotional reactions that were considered normal and natural and healthy and understandable 10-20 years ago get labelled "dramatic" nowadays

Posted Apr 2, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

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