in wisdom you become old

this is kind of weird, but recently I have noticed I no longer keep up with slang
- the fuck is a skibidi??
maybe this is because I no longer browse memes. not on our friend circle’s private Discord, not on Reddit, pretty much nowhere
- memes largely arrive to me directly from specific people. I don’t go out to kill boredom with memes anymore.
- at some point I realized browsing memes adds nothing to my life, and I just stopped doing it. obviously something had to take their place in killing time, and that became… reading Lobste.rs. I think that’s a net positive since you can genuinely learn a lot from people’s writing about computing, but getting time for that required abandoning memes.
the realization that I gain nothing by browsing memes is probably what one could call a piece of wisdom; life knowledge, stuff that shapes your worldview.
- but by gaining more wisdom, I have lost knowledge of popculture
  - not that you can define popculture in today’s society that well anyways. there are so many little corners of culture that it’s hard to tell what’s popular anymore
…don’t tell anyone, but I like it that way. I can focus on my art and making it unique. no need to chase trends.
- even if it means being called an old fart at some point. timeless > trendy