I never really intended it to be a generation complaint. Note that, in the meme itself, I didn't say "old nerds" on the top and "young nerds" on the bottom. I said "nerds back in my day" and "nerds in the current era."

A LOT OF THE NERDS ACTING LIKE SHIT-FOR-BRAINS MANIACS ARE TOTALLY THE SAME NERDS WHO USED TO ACT BETTER, BACK IN THE DAY.

It's a mixture of oldheads who went insane and new nerds who went insane more quickly.

I just think the pointless debates were a little less annoying, when they were at least done from a position of "haha, I'm so smart," as opposed to throwing tantrums.

I think part of it is how social media has allowed us to put so much pressure on producers, writers, showrunners, etc, to deliver "explanations" for stuff that they're doing.

Back in the day, you'd have to write a physical letter, stick it in the mailbox, and hope someone at the studio wouldn't just throw it directly in the trash, before it could even get to the producers you were angry at. So the nerds just talked amongst themselves, knowing it would be pointless to engage in letter-writing campaigns.

But now, we collectively abuse our power, brigading media creators for the slightest little thing that we might dislike.