Who is the youngest person regularly posting on ILX?

cf Who is the oldest person regularly posting on ILX?

Well, I'm out of the running.

Cerebral Caustic has just been banned, they had to have been 15 or 16.

nah, they were still mad about sarah records not getting their due at the time. they seem solidly gen x to me

Mental age then.

I used to be, but that was 20 years ago

And then Aja and Dante came along

No way I’m anywhere close to the youngest, but at least my birth year is a poll option this time.

Finally, a poll for me, a poll that speaks to me

1991

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i am slightly older than flopson

who are the currently active twenty somethings of ILX. do they exist?

their existence is becoming doubtful

what does ilx have to offer a 20 something?

they might just conceivably exist on ILM and simply not be aware of this thread

why wouldn't they just post on a relevant subreddit?

we could tell the 20 something about the good ol days

the young people like to hear about how good they have it, compared to the way it was. but also how the hard days shaped who were were and made us stronger and more resilient, compared to how naive they are. they will have it coming. it's good for them to know that, so they can be prepared

(shakes his cane at KM) now cut that out, young man!

they can also get that on reddit, but with more biting humor and less concentrated pathos.

where is my cane? my back hurts too ya know

There are definitely 20-somethings on ILX! (Not me, to be clear; I was in my twenties way back when M*mus made me aware of its existence!)

what's nice about reddit is that you can get a numerical rating on the value of everything that you do, whether it's a single post or the accumulation of everything you've ever said in public. you can boil it down to a number. it some ways it's a precursor the the crypto / internet of all things dream of assigning a value to everything in life so that everyone and everything knows exactly where it stands in comparison to others

it doesn't need to be reddit. i just inserted a highly trafficked/known site.

is there still a cost to maintaining ilx?

yep! stet and others do a thread every couple years to raise funds. the money is always raised within like 2 minutes

yeah i haven't seen that thread in a while. I didn't know if costs had come down or were up.

I refer you to Marissa’s board description on “l Rate Everything”

Every male person that has posted on the other thread could be my father, but I'm still younger than flopson (born 1987, just turned 36).

older I mean

(born 1987, just turned 36)

*eyes narrow*

"The oldest hath borne most; we that are young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long"

who are the currently active twenty somethings of ILX. do they exist?

hello!

why wouldn't they just post on a relevant subreddit?

reddit is bad for any sort of real or interesting discussion & the format of reddit encourages a tendency towards particularly bland consensus tastes

^ my experience as well. though it's laced with licorice and urine, the taste out here at least isn't bland.

(born 1987, just turned 36)
*eyes narrow*
― imago, Monday, February 20, 2023 10:02 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If you're also from 87 we're one day apart.

answer to thread question = me

my ID? the content of my posts 🖕🏼

i am also est. 1987

1988, but first came to ILX in 2005, after I found it by chance. Not that I was very active then, but feel like I was probably not mature enough to post regularly until I was in my early 20s (and even then I said immature things I regret)

i am also est. 1987

― difficult listening hour, Monday, February 20, 2023 8:11 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

how dare you be my age and make so much better posts than i do

one thing that's become clear - the younger you are, the less likely you are to capitalize words

shout out lower case gang

👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

Unless you’re posting on the go via zing

Anytime I capitalize, I am at a full on sprint

im a 1986 baby, just turned 37. i started here in 2005 at age 19, so almost half my life on here. i dream of a day when my first 7 or 8 years or so on here would be nuked from space.

42, 1980, joined in Sept 1999 just before I was about to turn 19

You’re one of percentage lifetime leaders I think! Possible crut’s % might be higher though

I'm definitely over 50% of my lifetime on ilx too. Maybe this should be a separate poll?

born 1982 here, relatively recent poster. i think i started lurking 7-8 years ago, and been posting for about 5

I was 34 years old when I first posted on ILX on 4 April 2001

born in 1983, been lurking/posting here on and off since early 2004

42, 1980, joined in Sept 1999 just before I was about to turn 19

― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin)

Hang on, is this even possible? I thought ILx didn't exist until 2000?

Freaky Trigger, perhaps?

mainly a lurker, born in 91, first posts in 2009 under a different handle, a 42 percenter

Hi five to the 1983 kids in the house

I'm definitely over 50% of my lifetime on ilx too. Maybe this should be a separate poll?

There’s also the advanced stat “posts per year of your life”, which gives an advantage to people who post too much like me

Christ, I graduated high school in 1983.

I was pooping my pants in 1983 and also when I graduated high school in 2001

I don’t do it now though. (Posts/year goes up)

how dare you be my age and make so much better posts than i do

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, February 20, 2023 6:14 AM bookmarkflaglink

how dare u be mine and repeat yrself so much less

Seems like I've posted around 600 times a year since 2000? Which seems extraordinarily high, given I've said nothing for weeks on end (and say nothing when I do post).

But I suppose there are the odd days like today, where I go hog wild and hit three threads.

No caps is such a young person thing. I wrote all my e-mails in no caps in my early 20s. Sometimes with line breaks between every thought. The practice wasn't aesthetic so much as I would be travelling ~2002/2003 and the only way to respond to e-mails was in those coin-op internet kiosks that were around for a while. The keys were sticky and made of aluminium and so it made sense to omit capitals and punctuation. Then a friend got mad and drunk at me one day and said something awful about my e-mail style. Idk if I should repeat what he said because it was so harsh. No, I'm redacting it. It was really harsh and problematic. Since then I've capitalised everything and done correct punctuation.

boo!

xp yeah I did this in my early twenties, got bored with it in my late twenties, seems an affectation if you’re pointing it out tbh

I think the amount of time I spent on BlackBerry messenger helped cos that would autocapitalise everything and I’ll take the quick reply over aesthetic any day

I didn't write with no caps in my teens/20s, but I did use an excessive number of ellipses...

worrying overmuch abt what is or isn't an affectation is how you end up w a sad story like fgti's :(

Nah I just wrote the way that required less effort

Shit, I just realized I’ve been on ilx (including extended breaks, never more than a year or so) for just over half my life now. Will be 17 years here in March, and 35y/o in May.

*18 years here

real devotees to lower case style manually correct their phone’s auto cap

It's not such a sad story. "How much of it is an affectation": it wasn't by choice that I started composing e-mails like that, but the tone and content of my e-mails definitely shifted in a way to suit the format. So it kind of became 50/50. Like if the only way you can communicate is by haiku, then your communications will not only take the form of haiku but also develop the tone of haiku. After I got home, and had my desktop computer to work from, the format of these non-capitalised e-mails persisted, for two years. Then a friend got drunk and said something mean about it. And I wrote back, and composed all subsequent e-mails, in the same fashion as I am posting at this present time.

1986 here. I have to imagine that C0nner SmedIey was the youngest poster at the time of posting, but he probably has a werefamily now.

Just realized that my first ILX post has been able to vote and buy cigs and dirty magazines for almost an entire year now, sheesh. And I was only a handful of years past that milestone myself at the time.

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first joined at age 23 as "uh", with no intent other than to troll people due to being a miserable kid who needed meds and therapy. now am a 42 year old who is miserable for different reasons but isn't here to shit in the punchbowl. progress i guess.

Hang on, is this even possible? I thought ILx didn't exist until 2000?

― emil.y, Monday, February 20, 2023 5:49 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh... Maybe I'm wrong then. I swear I first posted on my first day of uni. Let me check

Okay, apologies - 11th March 2001 apparently. So I was 20. 22 years, bloody hell...

Just realized that my first ILX post has been able to vote and buy cigs and dirty magazines for almost an entire year now, sheesh.

I have measured out my life with otms and zings

the problem with the posts/age method is that you can only look up your current display name's post count. i have 51K as this name, but who knows how many as Z S. let's just say...2 milion as z s

B. 1982, started posting in 2001, it looks like. Dang.

wish I had found ilx in college like many of you, but i can't complain about the dynamic duo of original unfettered napster and original allmusic, unobstructed by ads and shit, as my online music teachers in that era. it was a glorious time.

I'm basically same as doglatin and Jordan, which puts us pretty high on percentage of lifetime spent on ilx, all over 50%. When I first started, it felt like I was the youngest one on here and every post I made was stupid. Now I'm somewhere in the middle agewise and stupid post-wise

this reveals my clearly fallacious assumption that older = more mature, but i'm still surprised to learn that many of the most mature & good posters here are younger than me (born 1982).

i think i started posting in 2004 or so. i've had some good times but i've also been unnecessarily horrible to a lot of people over the years, a lot of it influenced by unprocessed trauma. i no longer have any desire to do that but i'm still a bit of a prickly pear. i'm grateful to some of the younger folks who contribute a lot to ilm.

^^ same as map right down to the year I think

The practice wasn't aesthetic so much as I would be travelling ~2002/2003 and the only way to respond to e-mails was in those coin-op internet kiosks that were around for a while. The keys were sticky and made of aluminium and so it made sense to omit capitals and punctuation.

I remember those! I always felt like archy the cockroach when I used them.

Born in 1984. My brother told me about ilx early on so I read a few threads on topics I was interested in, but didn't join until 2019. Most of my early internet posting was on Television Without Pity, which had very strict rules about capitalizing, using full sentences, softening your language - lots of "I think" and "IMO" - and not posting about episodes you hadn't finished watching. So my internet voice was kind of formal and careful from the start.

unclear if we have anyone under 30 anymore. probably some lurkers but not posters?

Ufo already posted confirming that she is

oh oops i missed that, only saw the '91s. cool

I was 20 when I first posted…. 23 years ago. Never read your old posts when you were barely not a teenager.

I am too needy for ILX but too introverted for regular social media. The middle of the Venn diagram is "insecure" I guess?

I was always afraid to admit my age here because my music tastes make me seem gen X so therefore thought people might assume I was at least that old = more likely to take me seriously regarding: stuff. Not that this is an ILX thing but it certainly is an IRL thing that is until you reach the vague middle-age spectrum of adulthood. Anyway, '87.

Born in 1984. My brother told me about ilx early on so I read a few threads on topics I was interested in, but didn't join until 2019.

same, well not that my brother told me about it but i was a fan of FT and Tanya Headon in particular at the time. But my numbers are the same.

Def one of the youngest people on here in mental age and maturity, and prob one of the least educated as a hs drop out. see myself as just dipping my toes in here, not too involved but the reality is i probably read and post more than some ppl who are entrenched.

MAYBE MY AFFECTATION COULD BE TO START POSTING IN CAPITALS WITH NO SMALL LETTERS EVER, IT COULD BE REALLY FUN FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO READ TOO

Hey stop yelling, not cool

SBARRO IS GOOD. EAT AT SBARRO. SBARRO. EAT THERE. HAVED SOME FOOD. SPADGETTY. BIG BOWLS. SBARRO. FORK. KNIFE. MILKSHAKE DRINK. TASTES GOOD. NABKIN DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. COST MORE MDONILLDS. BETTER THEN MDONILLDS. COST MORE BURGER KING. BETTER THEN BURGER KING. SBARRO COST MORE DOLLARS AND BETTER THEN THOSED ONES. HAVED SPADGETTY. SBARRO. BIG BOWLS. SIT AT BOOTHS. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. FORK AND KNIFE. HOT AIR BLOWER. THEY COST MORE. THEY ACT NICE. SBARRO PAY THEM. YOU PAY THEM. JUST USE MONEY. DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLICK BRED. FORK AND KNIFE. BIG BOWL OF SPADGETTYS. TO GIVED THEM MONEY. EATING BOOTH. JUST PAY WITH MONEY. THEY DO THE REST. PARMAZING CHEEZE DISPENDER. TASTES GOOD. BETTER THAN MDONILIDS. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLIC BRED ROLL. TASTES GOOD. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. CHAIR FOR BABIES. USE DISPENDER. USE FORK. USE KNIFE. USE BOOTH. USE SBARRO. THEY DO THE REST.

― T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧, Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:16 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

that post is almost as legendary as the xtranormal video someone turned it into (now lost to the sands of time etc)

'87. started reading consistently and posting sporadically in 2005, never stopped reading (consistently) and posting (sporadically)

Lurked at least every week since 2014 (maybe 2013?) with sporadic posting. 95 baby. Hoping to take the cake here.

nice

Lurked at least every week since 2014 (maybe 2013?) with sporadic posting. 95 baby. Hoping to take the cake here.

ah same as me

perhaps this spartan, Craigslistish aesthetic is just not what the young are drawn to these days

try saying that three times fast

Nice to know we’re not alone in this retirement village.

I tried to turn a music student of mine (piano/guitar/drum tutor) onto here. 4chans music board was all he knew (he’s a good kid, trust me). He would be a 2005 baby. Don’t think I succeeded though

I’ll succeed one day with one of my students though. Someone has to fight for this boards survival.

idk you're 95, how many more classes u got left in u

A very closer 94er friend of mine lurks consistently too

oh lol born in 95

#tuomas

Lol

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Didn't Skot's kid post here a few times when he was only 10 or 12? But I feel like that was forever ago too...

real devotees to lower case style manually correct their phone’s auto cap

― la vie wokisme (voodoo chili), Monday, February 20, 2023 11:29 AM

^^me

`81 baby. started posting in 2012?

(there are other "austin"s that are not me btw. this is the only login i've used.)

@real_austin

yeah how does one get a blue checkmark round here?

sorry

A Blue Checkmark™

*quickly sets up cashapp account for @real_ilx_bluecheckmarks*

ilx blues, for the low price of $7.77 a month, receive otms even when they're totally wrong

lol i want the highest tier option. the one where i can edit one character of my choice in every post ever posted.

85-er, ilxor nearly half my life. Got here when I was 20, 38 now

84, been here since early 06

87, found ilx in 02

85-er, ilxor nearly half my life. Got here when I was 20, 38 now

This is me as well although I have rarely posted

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

There is one (1) teenager on ILX

No wait. I just saw the 2013 vote. There's a 9/10 yo ilxor?

^^CerebralCaustic, IIRC.

Its about as likely as the 80 year old from the other poll.

An ILX thread gave birth to a baby

"When two Poxy Fules love each other very, very much..."

given the recent census I'm interested to hear from ilx parents about introducing their children to this place, has this ever happened? surely it must be a possibility at least, wondering if I would when my daughter becomes a teenager

I've sent my daughter links to ilx threads that are especially related to her interests, year-end tv poll results or film threads usually, but if she's ever followed up by lurking or even posting here it would be news to me.

As a pure generalization I find that each new decade delivers a new set of young people who are even less interested in posting something they were required to type out than the young people who came of age in the previous decade. Sure, there are exceptions, but writing as a mode of internet exchange among the general populace grows more and more marginal as time passes.

A teacher at my school is making his English class go on music messageboards and post about song lyrics for a project. I don't know if I'm relieved they haven't heard of ilx or sad they won't show up here in droves to get insulted by calstars.

My 17-year-old son is music obsessed but I can't imagine him being interested in a site like this. One issue is that threads here are mostly artist-centred, album-centred. I get the impression from my son's generation that the music they listen to is pretty much decoupled from artists/albums. They just like the sound or the song and they don't much care who did it or what album it's from, and are not necessarily tempted to seek out the rest of an artist's oeuvre just because they like one of their songs. There are songs that I've heard my son play multiple times in the car and I know it's a favourite but when I ask him who it is, he doesn't know and he has to look on his phone to check.

The 18 year old in my house is really into vinyl! He collects and listens to albums. All hope is not lost.

But the thought young people couldnt be arsed writing online because why waste time say lot word when few tiktok do trick right.

...is depressing, I meant to finish that sentence with, lol.

a few people that are younger than the board (if the poll results are to be trusted) - but no one from 1996–2000!

As a pure generalization I find that each new decade delivers a new set of young people who are even less interested in posting something they were required to type out than the young people who came of age in the previous decade. Sure, there are exceptions, but writing as a mode of internet exchange among the general populace grows more and more marginal as time passes.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, March 5, 2023 8:06 PM

lol wdym?

;)

vexingvexillologist at 7:51 17 Jul 23

thinking about it, it's possible that channel is how i "got into music" in the first place. getting baited by silvagunner rip --> listening to more mashups on youtube --> finding neil cicierega's "Mouth" albums --> getting into Lemon Demon --> developing my own music taste from there. and i doubt i'm the only internet poisoned gen z nerd to take that path, or some version of it!

!

vv is a discord pal/recruit of mine, glad they're sticking around!

Now to get some more people from there here.

get the average age down and the average annual mentions of Ween up

do young people like ween again

the end of ilx, overrun by ween teens

according to the guy who runs the local record store yes. when I saw 'em last I remember looking at some people in the crowd and thinking "man you must've been 6 when La Cucaracha came out"

they made me like Ween, you're all next

My 22 year old book club pals love the Libertines and the Manics, it's weird as hell (they do also have p good music taste in general but damn, they make me feel old).

I'm sure the kids are into all sorts of old music good and bad, but being into old school message boards would be imo the more surprising development

^otm

I had a 20ish student who was way way into Def Leppard and Motley Crue, to the point of making an entire senior art thesis series of large abstract expressionist paintings while listening to those artists

Yeah i mean one of my 22 year old students last year came to class wearing a Heatmiser shirt, and when I told them that I had seen Smith on his last tour and he’d done a version of Plainclothes Man, they were like, “Okay, yr older than I thought but also cooler” lol

tbh I have no idea how Ween got so weirdly popular even after they stopped releasing records. maybe it's something to do with Spongebob, I dunno. usually you can trace this sort of thing to the YouTube algorithm doing something weird or a certain meme getting really popular but I don't think either of those apply to Ween.

jam band crossover imo

Ah, I thought I made a comment on here but it seems like it didn't post...

Hello there 😳 Yeah, I found this through imago and Christine Indigo (it was mentioned on a Cardiacs discord server we were all in). Been backreading for a few months now, I like how this site has a casual tone but is still very open to more thoughtful posts/deeper analysis. It's also nice to find somewhere with active threads on folk music, there's not much discussion of that in my usual online haunts (Discord/RYM/Reddit occasionally). And I was born in 2001, so pretty comfortably gen Z, I think?

And I like Ween! But I wouldn't consider myself a superfan or anything. The Pod is probably my fave album of theirs?

welcome!

first poster who is younger than the board itself??

welcome vv!

i never understood why ILX wasn't a discord group. there is a lot of activity here and it lends itself to that medium. a subreddit pre-IPO discussions would've also been good?

hi vv, welcome!

most of my exposure to ween is 'poopship destroyer' and 'zoloft'. i've never figured out poopship and i've never taken zoloft, but i do like the latter quite a bit

It can't be repeated often enough that being a website that you could plausibly look at during work hours in your office job was/is an important part of ILX.

^^ this is true. also a neat stylesheet would be one to make ilx look like a spreadsheet, for the same purposes

today I d/led a pic of Batman drawing a penis while I was working to send to my personal email and then was sharing my screen and had to show them how to access Outlook files and there in my download history is BATMAN DICK

I live for these moments ILX

(d/led a pic FROM A THREAD ON ILX, to be clear)

It can't be repeated often enough that being a website that you could plausibly look at during work hours in your office job was/is an important part of ILX.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, July 17, 2023 4:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

do you mean people just don't want to use their phones to browse the site or download discord?

Yeah - I mean, there are other issues with Discord, but the big one is that (the last time I checked) it is very obviously not work.

i love the design of ilx and hate the way reddit and discord look. it's a beautiful plain text message board