VoltasPistol

That doesn't account for how so many showed up all the sudden.

Image Transcription:

[ A young person (roughly in their 20s or perhaps early 30s) in a black hoodie sweatshirt hunches over a deep-amber-colored wooden desktop, their neck craned and their glasses slipping down their nose as they attempt to assemble the plastic components of a do-it-yourself model kit, which we can see partially assembled in the foreground. An instruction book is laid out in front of them, with complicated diagrams and tiny eyestrain font. Beside it is a soft drink can on a coaster and the extruded plastic frame that the kit pieces shipped in. The kit appears to be some kind of Japanese-style robot with excitingly chunky limbs, but exact details are impossible to identify because the toy is sharply backlit by the midcentury-style adjustable desk lamp that illuminates the scene. Beside the person's hands which are flexed as they put the pieces together, a long-haired brown tabby cat is visible, it's attention focused on one of the small plastic parts,reaching a paw out to steal the transparent cap of a utility knife that is out of the cat's reach. The scene is softly lit and cozy with a certain mischievousness on the part of the cat. ]

Image Transcription for the visually impaired:

[ A young shirtless brown-skinned man in his 20s with a faced etched with concentration, tousled brown hair and a short, tidy beard is dramatically caught mid-action, his left arm raised and his biceps flexed in the moment before the snap of the wrist that will send the projectile inside the military-green rock sling hurling forwards towards its target, but for this instant that we see him, the olive-colored rock sling is suspended, taught, in the air above him at a rakish angle. In his right hand he holds the pole of a roughly 3' by 5" flag that unfurls above and behind him. The flag is a red right-facing triangle on the left edge overlaid over a horizontally-striped black, white, and green tricolor: The flag of Palestine. He is garbed only in black athletic shorts (a small white Adidas logo is visible) and a long-sleeved t-shirt that used to be red but has long ago faded to a rust color is tied around his waist giving the appearance of a loincloth. Behind him are two men in black tactical gear: Bulky stab-proof vests over their civilian t-shirts, their black military-grade gas masks pulled below their chin or above their face, their riot helmets secured at their sides-- They look bewildered and lost compared to the mostly naked youth in the foreground armed by little more than what the biblical David carried when he faced Goliath. Smaller figures, far away and out of focus on the far right are turned towards us, towards the youth, their attention seemingly fixed on him. Dark grey smoke billows in the background, suggesting that this battle has been raging for a while, though a bit of blue-grey sky can be faintly seen above the smoke. ]

That's absolutely uncanny,....

That's big talk from the generation that unironically said "RAWR :3" to each other.

I was there.

Livejournal? Emo? "Lol I'm so Random"? Leet speak?? And we took it SO seriously. Peak "No mom it's not a phase".

We were criiiiiiinge.

I just remembered that brief trend where teenage boys were wetting their pants in order to look more vulnerable and soft, took selfies of themselves looking vaguely ashamed with a giant wet spot, and a lot of girls really seemed to like it??

And even if you weren't peak emo, Elder Millennials were wearing flannel and pretending to be just as jaded as Kurt Cobain because they were sad no one was playing POGs anymore, while Younger Millennials had skunk hair and that "greasy sk8r" look.

So what if Zoomers are embracing "Coastal Grandma" looks and TikTok dances? We can't really point fingers.

Nope, I found it before AI had a good grasp on anatomy, like, back when it wasn't sure how trees worked and how many legs a dog had.

That fixed it! Thank you!!

Omg hi! A friendly familiar face!! Happy-dance.gif

Excellent image transcription! 👍

So wild, absolutely beautiful.