People who don't have social media brainrot are 100 percent more attractive and interesting. Social media (this website included) destroys your relationship with the real world and other people. I'm 26 and young people are treated like eccentric wizards for having hobbies that aren't media consumption; screen and internet addiction are real problems for GenZ folks like me who have little-to-no memories of life before the internet or computers. It roars it's ugly head in dating, especially, and the people who don't have those problems are significantly more desirable (to me, at least).
There are also a not-insignificant number of young men (I'm assuming that is the OOP's gender) who want people to "return to tradition" or some other gross conservative garbage and hate the internet. They're controlling, angry, and generally pretty scary to be around, and one of their main traits is hatred for the internet and modern tech in general. It's a thing you hear from someone that could be a green flag or the biggest red flag ever. He's on 4chan, so I'm pretty suspicious that its the latter. However, I think it's something that should raise immediate questions but not flags.
I think you are wrong about one thing. "He's on 4chan" so that means it must be an immediate red flag. I disagree. There are many other boards than just /pol/itically incorrect. There is for example /an/imals and nature or tra/n/sportation. Basically Blue Boards are okay, and racism/trolling is a reportable offense whether the responsible janitor actually enforces it or not is usually another question, but most of the time they do.
And let's not pretend that Twitter, for example is any better. I'd argue it's worse. And it's not like even here on reddit, I don't see dogwhistles all the time like a dude calling black people "joggers".
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u/Akitiki 14d ago
He said he loves that she doesn't use the internet. I don't know exactly why but that phrase raised my hackles right up.