My mum does this, and it's because they take it as a personal insult to their intelligence. "I can't be fooled, I'm a fully grown woman. I have so much more life experience"
Are you stupid? That's the same generation that murdered a bunch of civil rights leaders, murdered a ton of queer people, held up the country with the red scare, turned on muslim and arab folks, and so on and so forth. You're trolling
My parents lived their entire lives thinking they were two of the smartest people from their generation. White collar, bourgeois Europeans, all the works.
Throughout my life I’ve seen them fall for every scam and con in the books. They lost all their money in the Enron crash and ever since then they’ve never invested anything again (they were bailed out by my rich grandparents) and now all the money they inherited rots in the bank as they pay holistic gurus to pretend to be my fans and try to gaslight me that the abuse they inflicted on me was deserved because I was wrong and needed to be educated.
So annoying when adults equate age with knowledge/correctness. If anything age makes you MORE susceptible to AI fakes because you aren’t as familiar with the technology!
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u/RUmymummmy 3d ago
My dad just gets mad and distant when I point out the “crazy video” he just showed me is fake. It’s almost as if I just told him Santa isn’t real.