any comparison between early 00s online youth culture and late 10s online youth culture is fundamentally incompatible as soon as you move beyond the similarities of “lol teens being cringey” or whatever because we are in a completely different media landscape these days. making heavily-edited cosplay tiktoks is nothing like curating a deviantart gallery full of anime blingees because the former is always, implicitly or explicitly, an attempt to cash in on internet fame while the latter was simply rooted in the deep twisted psyche of someone feasting on the dark side’s cookies
I have literally met people who think “regular” means small, other people who thinks it means medium, and other people who think it means large, so if you ask for “regular” size you are literally getting whatever the fuck I feel like. Since you don’t wanna decide.
A delivery man came into this coffee shop with a laundry list of drinks and the barista said “okay, so what sizes?” “for which one?” “um… any of them.” “make them all the same size.” “it doesn’t say any size at all here.” “okay so just make them all the same size.” “And… which size would you like them?” “Regular size.” “So… we have two sizes, which one would you like?” “Just the regular one.” “Okay, which of these sizes are you thinking is regular?” “Just whatever the normal one you do is.”
I was just a bystander to this and I was LIVID.
It’s fine to say “hmmm what are my options?”
However I’ve had people receive their drinks and be like “um…. is this regular? it’s kind of big/small.” And then I get to be like “so :) you had a specific size in mind :) when you said regular :) but didn’t just call it by it’s name :) would you like :) perhaps :) a MEDIUM?”
Also “hot or iced? hot or iced? hot or iced?”
Sometimes it’s really like
“Can I have a latte? That’s all.”
And then I have to ask size, hot or iced, any flavor?
And turns out what they wanted was a LARGE ICED VANILLA latte. Like bro what would you do if I didn’t ask. Just gave you a medium hot plain latte. What would you do? It’s what you ordered.
Once a woman came up to the counter with her mom during a rush and asked for a “venti strawberry açaí refresher,” and I said “anything else?”
Her mom goes “well can’t that come with lemonade or coconut milk too? Usually they ask us if we want one of those.” (True, usually I do ask, but we were in a rush so I was trying to move the line along.)
So I was like “oh, you wanted lemonade or coconut milk in there?” And she said “no, they just usually ask.”
personally i am sick of the cryptic shit on tumbler dot com. all of a sudden people are making vague references to a daily dracula and i am just supposed to roll with the punches and think on the fly. i am supposed to understand. but the truth is i don’t even know which bloodsucker we are vagueblogging about. is it the real dracula or the one from hotel transylvania. or are we simply making a new dracula every day????? i don’t know a lot but that seems unsustainable. to me personally
i scrolled on the tag for 3 minutes and i think i figured it out. i created this graphic based on what i learned. let me know if i’m wrong or anything
[id: part of a screenshot of a messaging system. There are two people in the screenshot, one named “Mom HeartGold” and the other named “Mom SoulSilver.” / End id]
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