onion person @junlper.beer · 08/05/2026i think it was fair to say “social media isn’t real life” until like 2019 or 2020, but ever since then real life and social media in most cases are heavily intertwined 562512296
coᴍᴍɪssᴀʀ ʙeʟᴠeᴅeʀe @wormwitch.bzky.team · 08/05/2026oh i been saying. like we elected a poster for president, the internet has been irreparably intertwined with “real life” since at least 2014 minimum. 1260
Professor Xtra @depresseddeveloper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Professor Xtra@depresseddeveloper.bsky.socialOnline spaces are irrelevant and lack power which is why 4chan users are running the government 020
copeistan.bsky.social @copeistan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The Internet is obviously real life who is anyone kidding anymore 000
Siska F. Amity 🏳️⚧️🔞 @siskaamity.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Hmm probably but I think in other countries it's not really the case especially in rural areas Like I don't think a lot of my aunties here in Indonesia are in tune with RFK Jr. Shenanigans 010
Gabrielle @150gsmpaper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The concept of “normies” , as some people in specific internet communities call them, barely exists anymore either. Most young people nowadays understand and use words like “chud” or “larp” The barriers broken lol 020
tay 🗡️ @thayez.bsky.social · 08/05/2026there is genuinely way too much happening online now and I hate itttttt 😭 021
Ash @shleyeden.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I feel like the pandemic had a lot to do with that shift, too. A lot of people ONLY had social media at that time and no other social life, kinda tricked us into legitimizing it 21356
Mikka @mikka-bouzu.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Isn't it great that we allowed big tech companies to run a 20-year experiment on the world's population using untested Pavlovian technology with basically zero regulation or oversight? 031
C.M. Rocker @cmrocker.bsky.social · 08/05/2026"Social media isn't real life", I say into the empty eyes of my coworker. I watch them bounce there for a moment, then he turns down to his phone. I repeat myself quietly, its more for me now than it is for him. "Grok, is this true" I read on his lips as he types my words into his phone. I die 010
Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I think one of the things "social media isn't real life" means that's still true is "don't let yourself think social media clout is the same as real fame, nobody's going to recognize you at the mall because you have 100k followers" But yeah most of the rest of it's just real. 060
Professional Internet Beggar @profinternetbeggar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026“social media isn’t real life” stopped working once jobs, news, politics, friendships, dating, and public meltdowns all moved onto the same five apps 215712
Believelander Says Trans Rights @says-rights.northsky.social · 08/05/2026When COVID lockdown hit it definitely changed in a permanent and palpable way 010
Gilbert @tinpottop.bsky.social · 08/05/2026COVID was where all the remaining grass touching holdouts got sucked in It's an easy pre-post event demarcation 150
therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 08/05/2026COVID led to a lot of people becoming terminally online, including my parents. It’s kind of insane to think that if the pandemic didn’t happen we probably wouldn’t have people like Clavicular 0140
Kobolds! How do they Yip? @koblbird.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The biggest military in the world is now run by a bunch of chronicly online posters so... 060
transmasc dollie @devourersofgod.bsky.social · 09/05/2026i'd argue earlier when web 1.0 started to die off and everyone started getting smartphones, and everybody had one form of social media, whether that was facebook or not. 020
breadboat.bsky.social @breadboat.bsky.social · 09/05/2026it definitely got real enough when anything that wasn't social media started dying 120
Bryan Bones @bryanbones.bsky.social · 09/05/2026TBH for me, more people than ever that I know IRL are just off the internet or use it way less. local community has been building shockingly strong. but i will agree that everyone who has power that matters, is helplessly addicted and making it everyone elses problem. 110
Public Record Sourcerer @publicrecdsource.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Social Media became Real Life(TM) once the USSS took jurisdiction in the wake of the movie War Games Before that it was Phone Company / BBS Admin beef.static.klipy.comShall We Play A Game?ALT: Shall We Play A Game? 110
Critter (Mike) @illumrial.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Social media was my life back when I was a very rural teenager with MySpace. 020
Jisp! @jisp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Social Media is still not real life but everyone has decided it is now so it doesnt matter what the truth is 060
Hyll @hailsaitan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I think this is part true, we have a political class who use social media to gauge public wants, which in turn steers real life policy. In Ireland for example you would think there was a ground swell of support for far right ideals but in 'real life' that doesn't represent Irish people at all 120
Blaq 🐻 @blaqbear.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Most unfortunately, 4chan escaped containment and has infected mainstream political discourse in the US, where being ironically fascist quickly morphed into being eagarly, yet unwittingly fascist. 070
Jay @jay-bunch-o-nums.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I think this is true wrt real life impact due to it being how most people get information now, but in terms of being your real social life, I think algorithmic feeds made it less real life. 010
General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 08/05/20262014 It seems like it’s too early until you realize that Trump was just the fruiting body of the mycelial network of horrors below the surface 150
📺~CRT~📺 @crtvheadvt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Social media is just being social online. Once a majority of people do their socializing online it reflects reality. It's why I hate the "social media is bad for you" argument. Is being social bad for you too? It's the centralized control over the socializing space that's bad for us. 27821
🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026"Social media isn't real life" your oil prices are being set by the IRGC refreshing furiously on Truth Social to see what Trump's newest post means 0593
The Rattling Skeleton @rattlingskeleton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I feel like even before then it was true that, for example, a lot of Boomers had a deeper compassion and love for Fox News hosts than their own kids, as an example. The pump was being primed for a long time. 010
The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Evil game show president that tweeted all the time and now it's moving billions in market speculation 050
a real, authentic person 🌯 @unclecaviar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026They didn’t think it was real life until they monetized it 050
IntangibleMatter @intangiblematter.net · 08/05/2026Everybody become online all the time because of the pandemic, and most people were not equipped for that For some people, like me, the amount of time spent on screens was a natural progression. I was already mostly computer-oriented back in 2018. Most people didn’t get that natural progression tho 120
Cochu @cochu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Sometimes it's not about the chicken being bigger than the car 020
stim8tedprofit1961.bsky.social @stim8tedprofit1961.bsky.social · 09/05/2026That’s a choice we continually keep making 010
Glux @glux.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It was always real life. Everything we do changes our brains and establishes norms. Saying it back then was delusional all along. 010
Ra's al Dolezal @senatorivy.com · 08/05/2026The OG "the internet isnt real life" guy was Lowtax and look what happened 0173
AndyGHK @andyghk.leftis.best · 08/05/2026Fascists WANT social media to be real life! That’s their whole project in a nutshell! 120
Robeleader🏴☠️ @robeleader.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Is this the real life? Is this just social media? Caught in the rightslide, No escape from big Media 020
Vibe With The Void @vibewiththevoid.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I would go even earlier and say when 4chan got Trump elected the streams entangled. Not to 'The Great Meme War' boomer post but for a while there was an honest to god psyop by the most pathetic men on earth to 'do the funny' and put their girth behind Trump. And then it fucking worked. 020
Subaru Malibu @subarumalibu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Yeah, my stance is once people started being unalived because of the internet, that barrier dissipated completely. 020
Dave in Ohio @daveinohio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Yeah it was always funny to hear like "twitter isn't real life" and then you turn on the news and all they're talking about is who tweeted what 030
🏳️⚧️Ms. Alice Cumgutter @alice22222.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's hard to tell what's real and what's just bluster or fear mongering. 030
🦥🎃 lex (they/she) 👻 (luddite arc) @just-slothlike.bsky.social · 08/05/2026imagine having no idea who Peter thiel is and trying to process what is happening 020
