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I've also come to a parallel realization recently, as someone who wasn't born in an English-speaking country. Not about the eternal September but about how trashy the internet is.

Whenever I go to YouTube and forget to use my VPN, I get recommended content from my country, and it's inevitably trashy and vulgar, stuff I would never engage with. Then I go to the English-speaking internet and swallow it all up like it's perfectly fine, and I've always wondered why my local social media is trashy and English-speaking social media isn't... But really there is no difference, it's all trash, trash and kids. I just couldn't recognize it because my social frame of reference for English content is the trash itself. Now that I've realized this I see it everywhere, the vulgarity, the generalized rudeness, the topics being discussed.

Anyway, yeah it comes of as elitist I suppose. Although I'm not sure it's a matter of class, because whenever I meet someone from the English axis they are most often perfectly lovely people regardless of their background, I think it's just a system optimizing for the lowest common denominator.

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Elitism is not necessarily classist. It can apply to pretty much any ingroup.

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The examples the GP gave were related to class, "good neighborhood", "good school", ...