Moon Atari posted:

Goons are the uber-millenial, whose tendency towards cynicism and irony has doubled up on itself and turned inwards. Or possibly we have a higher saturation of gen-xers who never grew up than most sites, and their nihilistic sensibilities clash with the carehard styles of the average millennial. Or possibly we just hate everything, and millennial is a good descriptor for lots of behaviour that is hateworthy but not too depressingly real to joke about. Or maybe gbs has short-lived micro-memes of topics that have proven to spawn threads that successfully pass the firstwave barrage of shitposts.