/lit/ - Literature

>>18799156
The first American millennials that were becoming adults were tossed into an unrelenting job market in the middle of the worst recession since the 1920s and already overpriced universities that were constantly panicking and changing their curriculums because obsolete jobs were rapidly being phased out while new jobs were popping up on the market. Causing a lot of people to aimlessly navigate through college where most ultimately dropped out or ended up with a useless degree or the worst case scenario where they became an engineer that never knew how to market themselves.

Thus a massive wave of depressed, young, poor people with nothing going for them latching onto their childhood favorites like Harry Potter, Eragon, Twilight and etc. and a massive growth in entertainment outlets in general, especially "free" ones like Youtube. When something like reading takes effort for someone who is working multiple slave wage jobs to make ends meet, you end up with a culture where the average person just wants to turn off their brain and play video games or watch movies.

And because massive amounts of reform didn't happen 13 years ago. We have an entire generation that is too tired to read and revolutionize efficiently. Zoomers aren't much better because they're already effectively divided by culture wars. Some found /pol/(or worse, /pol/ facebook groups) too early and got brainrot, while the young tumblr zoomers are still arguing about Heterosexual lesbians being a valid wholesome lgbt identity.