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KIDS THESE DAYS
Telegram
(no not THAT one)
As a kid these days (by most of your standards), I can indeed confirm that we’re all communicating via Telegram. And it is indeed not that one.
Is being 24 being a “kid these days”? Cause I am and I’ve not heard of this.
I’m a month away from turning 21, I’m pretty sure if be considered a kid in many circles, as would you. Most 15-25 year olds I’ve met are familiar with it. It was kind of the #1 way to communicate in hich school. Maybe it’s a regional thing idk.
Anything under 30 is still a kid, as far as I am concerned.
I rest my case.
Telegram’s great, I’m glad the kids recognise it.
I am starting to get the impression “Telegram” is not referring to people in uncomfortable looking uniforms delivering messages on pieces of paper.
[Cut to the CEO of Western Union wringing their hands in their office]
“Good. Good!”
“You can send and receive 40 words per minute. Welcome to Western Union!”
“Hey, someone wants me to send ._. .._ _ _ ._ _. _._ _ ._ _. _ _ ._ _. _._ _ , am I allowed to tap that?”
“Ugh, kids today and their telegraph sex.”
Make that
._. .._ _ _ ._ _. _._ _ ._ _.
._ _. .._ _ _ ._ _. _._ _ ._ _.
RUTTANKTAN?
ANUTTANKTAN?
…one of us must be doing something wrong
I understand that the vapesters are using smoke signals now
As a kid these days, I wish telegram were more popular here T-T. I wanna escape the zucc just a lil more but all my class group chats still use whatsapp
Ugh, my office makes us use WhatsApp, and I hate it bc it’s only ever used now for birthday spam AND I have to manually delete any gifs they send bc they automatically download to my phone
For me, it was the opposite. Everyone in high school was on telegram, which is the only reason I started using it. I haven’tooked back since.
Does Sal even own a cellphone?
She did at one time. She used the app to call Amazi-Girl that Amber/Amazi put on her phone.
If she does, I’d bet Walky insists she call it the Salphone. If Danny were to catch wind of this I’m sure he’d do the same.
They’re cute.
Can’t wait for this to get fucked up somehow.
“Somehow” is a funny way to spell Linda’s name
At this point, the most dramatic plot twist at all would be if with all the chaos surrounding them, Sal and Danny just have a very normal, healthy, and happy relationship together. Let them be the Rigby and Eileen, please.
It would be a way to do the “no relationships that are like the ones in the Walkyverse” thing.
This isn’t pessimism by the way I’m acknowledging that even if these two are the most aggressively normal relationship they have in their lives they’re both complete disasters and I love them wholeheartedly
Maybe Sal is going to introduce Danny to Lupin III and they’re all going to go on a heist together?
Zenigata is my law himbo.
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/lupin-the-3rd-the-roleplaying-game/news/lupin-the-third-rpg-announced
The preceeding was a public service announcement.
I’d rather it not get fucked up, but I worry that Willis will sink this ship before long.
I don’t get the sense that Danny has ever really known what kids these days do, even when he is one.
I can relate.
Same. I am absolutely that one person.
Me too.
Danny was born at age 45, at least emotionally.
A very emotionally fragile 45.
He’s hip,
He’s cool,
He’s … 45.
Pretty sure he’s still wrong too. Kids these days don’t even text much anymore. They like snapchat or whatever the video call app is now. My nephew who is only 12 basically called me a grandpa when he saw me texting.
I certainly wouldn’t know.
Teenagers only communicate through TikTok memes about Among Us.
I don’t know if you know anything about the young people these days (I’m an expert) but
You’re not actually far off. It’s not social media anymore, it’s mostly in-game chat and similar. Parents monitor TikTok etc, they don’t monitor Fortnite.
Discord. It’s the only thing my niece will talk to me on. We had to make our own server.
I dunno about kids, but I use Skype, Discord, and text, depending where I know the person from.
I use text, Microsoft Teams, Messenger, TF2 chat, and Discord (rarely). I am An Old. 🙁
I used to be with it, then they changed what “it” was!
To be fair, some of that may have been HOW you were texting as much as that you were texting. Like if you were using words instead of stickers and emojis
i was hoping this would look more conclusive, but ah, it does show an overall downward trend for the use of “text” as a verb and a, uh, complicated but very broadly speaking upward-y trend for “message” as a verb =)
of course, i could download the data and massage it until it best supports my hypothesis. i’m just not committed to this enough. …or am i???
Pulling your data from Twitter means you get an inherently biased sample. So since tweets are a text medium, it’s probably worse than that.
It seems safe to say that, regardless of the app, kids these days are using their cell phones and not their watches or laptops. Rocks at the window is definitely old school.
oh it’s biased for sure, and i make no claims for perfect representativity of general usage, also there’s no generational breakdown so all sorts of demographic effects could be affecting the data. i was just having fun playing at science =)
that said, twitter is an interesting text corpus because it’s huge, used by millions, publicly available, and contains a lot of informal speech. so yeah it’s biased, but in very different ways than google books or newspaper archive databases.
Let me assure you that only old people spell out texted and messaged.
i don’t think that’s true? everyone has competent autocorrect now and there’s no character limit to text messages like there used to be in the aughts
I have Highly Incompetent Otto Carrot on my iPad. The things it does to me shouldn’t happen to … well, a Dog.
Tbh i just refer to all DMs as texting for shorthand
Took me the longest time to realize that DM didn’t mean dungeon master.
“YOUTHS!”
I’m pretty sure that the correct pronunciation is YUUTS DEES DAYS.
Same. I’m pretty sure I didn’t really know what “kids these days” did even back when I was a kid.
Why can’t they be like we were, “Perfect in Every Way”? Oh, what’s the matter with kids today?
I use discord and telegram. Unsure what my grandchildren are using.
Sal’s smile is too adorable
agreed
She’s old fashioned that way.
As in, she DRINKS old fashioneds.
And here I was just thinking about the Bud commercials.
Are you kidding? Sal would fall over drunk if she so much as passed near an old fashioned!
Another thing “kids these days” do is THEY GET THE HELL OU OF MY DAMN LAWN!!!
This is just too cute. ^^
Yeah – Willis has to stop drawing Danny this cute.
It ain’t healthy.
He is moe through helplessness.
I don’t have your phone number, dipass.
Phone number. Hah! He needs her twitter handle to dm her. That’s how you know you’re really in.
I need to find the font he uses to switch out the dialog with the alt text’s but keep Sal’s “Hey uh”.
Heck with it.
https://i.imgur.com/1SVkyZ7.png
Perfect. Danny’s outfit seems very fitting for that dialogue by the way.
*Sal types out text on phone, throws phone at Danny’s window*
. . .Oh! Oh! I just realized something.
Danny’s biggest crime isn’t the hat, the vest, or the his little stringed instrument that I can’t remember how to spell.
It’s wearing a *tie* in a casual setting, Why are you going against the comfy code there Danny? This is the largest violation I’ve seen since I’ve heard people talk about going to bed in jeans.
Still have to admit that he’s *owning* the lok.
… I didn’t even notice that until you pointed it out.
Geez. Let’s string him up. With the tie, of course.
It’s called fashion, look it up.
Jeeze, it’s not like he’s using a Trinity knot. I doubt it’s a full Windsor.
Right? TV news anchors don’t wear ties! Bankers don’t wear ties! Plumbers don’t wear ties! Nobody actually wears ties anymore unless they’re C-level executives, and most of that is just carryover 80s business culture inertia because that demo skews toward Boomers.
I like ties…
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As much as I want to be excited by how cute this is, all I can think of is, “How’s the pairing going to fall apart THIS time?”
Trained you well, Willis has.
He’s perfected the art of toying with us, like a cat with a wounded mouse.
I love these two.
Dan out here looking like a newsie got no call for saying what kids these days are doing.
But you’ve still gotta talk to someone first to get their number so you can text them. At least that’s the way I understand it.
And if you’re really into someone why wouldn’t you rather be with them in person, even for the short time it might take to set up a later meeting/date/rendezvous, instead of just sending an impersonal SMS?
If you’re anxious around them, text is the way to go.
What do you even mean by “impersonal”? The sender’s name is attached!
Every time I forget he’s going to Dan it up, and he just Dan’s it so hard every time.
Hey he Danned so hard it caught Sal’s eye. He’s gotta be doing something right.
Panel five is probably one of the cutest Sals drawn yet
Texting is for old people. The coolest hipsters, send a note by messenger child. Or pigeon, but only while wearing ironically non-skinny jeans or jodhpurs.
I’m sure that this was the happiest Sal has looked for a while!
Ah don’t even have your phone number, doofus
About how texting is for oldies
About how she doesn’t have his number
About how they got console gaming ties and may text through game systems what would answer both first whereabouts.
Danny. What is this boomer-speak. Sal, prevent this man from talking further. Drastic measures.
Quick Sal, silence him with a kiss.
Danny sassing Sal while still remaining perfectly on-brand is a thing I didn’t know I needed
“It’s a daaaate!”
They are so cute and Sal looks so happy ♡. Now I’m afraid something will happens and ruin their hanging out after math. Like meet Jennifer’s group or something like that. Please not, they deserve a little happiness, at least for some days.
It’s good to see Sal smile.
Let’s just say I ship them.
All good so far…
But the longer this goes on the more nervous I’m gonna get…
We are a kiss away from the Walkyverse totally collapsing on itself.
This definitely sounds like Sal asking Danny on a date. Now I can only hope this ship doesn’t sink before it sails out of the harbor.
i’m guessing Danny hasn’t overheard the entirety of Sal’s eulogy to him. he would’ve realized her coming up to his
doorwindow is a big step.That’s the obvious complicating factor, going forwards: Danny is going to find it hard to believe someone so outwardly confident as Sal is actually very vulnerable and afraid of being hurt.
They’re courting. Sal has so little experience in this having gone to a single sex boarding school. Danny is sexually experienced but I’m betting those relationships kinda happened to him. Especially the way the girls dumped him.
I don’t think it was? Plus he snuck out a lot so she was probably getting social interaction with the locals.
Someone being both open with her and not resenting her turtling up in the face of that openness is probably new ground, though, given how she acted towards Danny last chapter.
I’m also not sure Danny’s relationships “just happened” since he was pretty forward with Amber before he settled on Amazi-Girl, and then went after her too. We don’t actually know why Dorothy and Danny started dating.
If her other relationships are any indication, Dorothy is attracted to idiots.
Congrats Sal, you’re dating an old man
I like the role reversal Romeo-Juliet parallels.
Sal’s smile, though…
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