Are Ya Winning, Son?

ARE YA WINNING, SON? No dad, i'm not winning, I don't even play games anymore they're not fun. I just sit and scroll twitter mindlessly for hours. It's the same everynight. i'm tired dad I understand son, when I was your age I felt the same way. We tell you about how harder things were in my days but really we know it's the same, we just want to believe that our kids are living in a better world, rather than accepting that we forged a worse one. For that, I'm sorry son, and I understand that we have our vices, what is twitter to you was the park to us, we were no better, but you can be son, you can be, and I love you.

A father asks his son whether he is winning, but the son sits at a computer and admits that he no longer plays games and instead scrolls Twitter for hours. The father responds empathetically, recognizing that both generations have their own vices and apologizing for leaving the younger generation a worse world. The meme is used as a bittersweet reaction to burnout, internet addiction, generational disappointment, and feeling unable to enjoy things. EN: A father asks his son whether he is winning, but the son sits at a computer and admits that he no longer plays games and instead scrolls Twitter for hours. The father responds empathetically, recognizing that both generations have their own vices and apologizing for leaving the younger generation a worse world. The meme is used as a bittersweet reaction to burnout, internet addiction, generational disappointment, and feeling unable to enjoy things.

• @afrosidemoon / 26719 2020-05-01