Like the few kinda tech literate GenZers are gonna have to form some guild to keep the internet running at like early 90s levels.
“Brother Jeramathy! The Omni-Web has frozen, I did the ritual of resetting but it did not work!”
“Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul.”
“I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!”
Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y’all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.
I think you’re right on the money with this analysis.
And there’s also a strong undercurrent of shaming people for not knowing something, so they don’t ask for help learning it, and people acting like teaching someone is a horrible chore, so people don’t want to teach and they don’t want to learn.
And I feel you on the “parents didn’t want to teach anything” side of things, mine were the same. More than happy to get mad at me for not knowing things they never taught me though.