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Gerhard Haderer (born 1951 in Leonding, Austria) is an Austrian cartoonist and caricaturist.
Since 1991 his work has appeared regularly in Germany’s "Stern" magazine as “Haderers Wochenschau” ("Haderers weekly news"). From 1997 to 2000, and from 2008 he published his own monthly satirical comics magazine called Moff". He has produced designs for several satirical puppet shows.
henrikpetersson51
Honestly, I don’t even understand what he’s attacking in that one... Being fit?
Snugglelobster
Honestly feels like im14andthisisdeep stuff but for boomers, it's satire but so conventional.
Kamina90
"WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!"
ReginaKasteen
Speak for yourself, I live in a house.
fiddlewheelx
Some of these are great, but some of em... Are we still doing "Okay Boomer"?
corpofilth
Ok boomer
tyrunn
These reveal a scared old man terrified of technology and the new. Centuries before he'd have bemoaned paper replacing slate
Icantthinkofaname2
He'd have been right too.
carlsagansghost
Technology bad. Lol. These are such try hard bullshit. Look up reading fever. Screen scare is just another moral panic.
FireSolvesProblems
#10 Oh come on the GOT series finale wasn't that bad.
Bhargo
fuck the anti-technology sentiment some dipshits have. I talk to people in other countries on my phone, maybe you just arent as interesting
ENCHANTMEN
PHONE BAD WIFE BAD BOOK GOOD
gigglefitsmcgee9000
All the incisive wit of an old man at a bus station who shouts in your ear about those damn kids and their phones.
cleverlydisguised
Yeah, its rich coming from the generations who raised their kids on TV and tech and now complains that everyone uses it too much
ButIBuildAThousandBridges
This artist is getting roasted here for not liking cell phones, but some of these (like the UN one) are great.
chipsconqueso
Takes a quite dim view of humanity don't he
DeeDoubleYu
I agree, go out an cut someones fuckin lawn instead of moaning about it.
ragnahare
Phone bad.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
I mean some of these accurately depict how family life has changed as we've embraced tech & further disconnected ourselves from each other.
Silverforte
boomer art.
Icantthinkofaname2
Here's the thing. It is.
ThreeDimesDown
Oh, chill tf out. They're all making a connection through sexting. They're all sexting.
whywait
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Sprinx
That’s a gateway to souping or trampolining
FabulouslyTiti
I'd rather not associate kids with sexting, if you don't mind. :|
caerulakid
Is the “satire” him making fun of every other 50+ y.o. artist who is wants to complain about new thing? It’s hard to spot Poes these days.
AMBM2
Never understood why people are so upset if you read news on a phone or computer rather then a paper. It’s More environmental even
TheAngryMarineBiologist
AMBM2
Yeah basically lol
Lichelf
Ah yes, boomer comics.
glacialbae
Why does every single person have a separate mouse for their laptop in #1?
RailRabbit
And not a single wireless mouse
LoopStricken
Because trackpads are awful.
tyrunn
Because the person who drew these has an incredible lack of techno knowledge
Fatkats93
He's Austrian born and raised during the rise of lenins communism. He's probably wary of media in general. Lots of blatant propaganda and 1
Fatkats93
And social control that young people don't understand. AntiSemitism is even on the rise in a big way. Much fueled by the propaganda he 2
Fatkats93
Grew up with. My guess is thats what he fears more. The divides in society highlighted by technology. Not the phones themselves. 3
laiskamato
Shh don't try to use big words and concepts around "pHoNe bAd" -bandwagon.
Fatkats93
Or you know....
Zahnradfee
In 1951 Lenin was a) long dead and b) had no influence on Austria.
Fatkats93
I'm meant Stalin. Good catch.
Fatkats93
Been reading a lot of Jewish communist/socialist history. Got my commies mixed up.
krapmyself
Reminds me of black mirror. Which of course reminds me of the twilight zone and then I feel sad.
RickWilde
Yeah but Black Mirror is never inherently anti technology. It’s more ah ‘let’s take an aspect of technology as take it to the extreme’.
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
His art would be better if he wasn’t boomering endlessly about phones and laptops. He’s way too in love with that vibe.
TheAngryMarineBiologist
Asteroidrules
That was boomer AF.
ridureyu
PHONE BAD. BAD PHONE SMASH. MILLENNIAL BAD. OLD WAYS GOOD. TWO LEGS BETTER. Yep, that’s about right.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
Sure some of these are questionable like #1 but there is substance to many of these. We are becoming disconnected from each other.
ridureyu
We just spent a year being forced into physical disconnection, with the internet saving people’s sanity.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
True, but things are rarely black and white. It has many benefits but we'd be ignorant to stay blind to the aspects that are destructive.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
Could understand these being exaggerated warnings/fears of the artist and the amount of vitriol and rejection it faces is disgusting to see.
ridureyu
They are tools, and how you use them is important. But going all “HURR HURR PHONES BAD” hardly helps.
mccar7hy
I will say though that the need to document over the need to experience kind of bums me out
LonelyHotline
R/im14andthisisdeep
ecstaticpuppy
This is the boomer-iest bullshit I’ve seen on here
LoadOfShit
Knew this was gonna be here, +1
RatchetnClank
God is that a Matt Gaetz forum?
AmArschdieRaeuber
Some of them are good. But many aren't
Whatagatabitsuberry
r/imaboomerandthisismyfacebookpost
IsendDickPicsIfYouAskNicely
r/lostredditors
QuotesGoHere
T E C H N O L O G Y B A D
JamJarre
I can't get over the smugness of people who do these kind of "technology bad" cartoons.
Icantthinkofaname2
I can't get over the defensiveness off people who have to pretend technology is good.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
I mean there is some substance to their message. We have become extremely addicted to tech & picked up many detrimental habits.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
Just look how poorly people hold discourse online. People are as a whole are becoming like homeschooled children. Disconnected and fragile.
LiquidSunshine
Tech use is both the greatest and worst thing to happen to humanity. Let’s hope it plays out ok haha
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
Agreed. We have all the information in the world at our disposal and all the disorder to become completely lost inside of it.
willupvoteforboobz
Especially knowing without technology, nobody could see their cartoons. "Dont use technology, except to look at my art."
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
Spiegel is still published weekly in print. So no, people could still see his cartoons even without smartphones and all.
ReginaKasteen
Cartoonists: "Media technology is bad!" Typesetters:
Denvercoder09
"Like, share (only this but it's okay because this is good content) and then throw your phone in a dumpster and buy a newspaper"
WeirdStealth
Specially when said technology is extremely useful, just take the US Army and it's Regulations, DA Pams, and Tech Manuals.
WeirdStealth
I'm a 92Y(Supply for you none military types), I have at least 10 different regs that has information pertaining to my job. CTRL + F is my
WeirdStealth
best friend when I have to search up a regulation as to why I can or can't do something. I have a surface tablet that I use to help me in my
WeirdStealth
supply work, and the fact that I have almost every single army form, reg, and my military email at my finger tips any where I go, makes the
WeirdStealth
2 or 3 pound device worth it. On top of that, car wrecks, if you get into a wreck, you can pull out your phone, and call 911, and take pics!
Howdoesonehuman
I work at Ancestry and boomers are our #1 demo. If we didn't have technology, they'd likely never have access to their family records or be>
Howdoesonehuman
Able to connect with long lost family members. Totally agree that tech isn't just "bad."
orbat
Yeah this has a "old man yells at cloud" vibe to it. Few hundred years earlier he'd have been against books
itiswhatitis365
ensensu
And your memory, according to Socrates.
ReginaKasteen
Grumpy old man complaining about that young whippersnapper Chaucer writing in the vernacular instead of proper Latin...
laiskamato
Books don't have constant, neverending supply of cheap validation and overstimulation. They don't nag until you pick them up again.
wintercoat
Never heard of a penny dreadful or dime novel I take it? Cheap media has always been a thing.
laiskamato
*cheap validation. Entertainment is not my issue here at all.
JRSketchesPourly
Seems like you need to read different books.
laiskamato
Haven't been able to find my Liber Ivonis for a millenia; must've left in my other sourcerer's tower!
Crowlands
https://xkcd.com/1601/
laiskamato
Don't know why you felt the need to teach your father to make love but here we are.
ztygs
Excuse me but what the fuck?
DadsHumor
My books do. They speak. They whisper. They tell me to burn stuff.
laiskamato
Ooh Necrotelecomnicon!
carlsagansghost
Look up reading fever. It’s all just moral panic.
RickWilde
I wish I could hypervote this.
Elroydb
Exact same arguments against print by luddites. Except they were referring to the people loudly trying to sell newspapers
RickWilde
Exactly that’s all this anti technology stuff is. Luddites.
laiskamato
Yeah it's not the media but how the people responsible for the content uses it. The more effective the media, the larger the implications.
laiskamato
I'm a tech-head myself but I also work in the mass media field. Nothing is given away for free and if you don't pay, then you're the goods.
corrosivebrain
Idk about you but I've definitely been nagged and distracted by books. Some books are just too good to resist. ?♀️
laiskamato
I miss that feeling, the concentration and imagining stuff. Maybe it's just the us xennials, who longed for better tech but spent their
laiskamato
formative years still being entertained in the analog world, who are not equipped to deal with the cheap and instant stimulation and
corrosivebrain
Im in a horror book club. I still get that feeling sometimes. We hit duds, sure. But when you find a good book, that shit slaps
WTFantastico
The whole technological juvenoia always comes off as smarmy and ignorant. "People don't connect like they used to" is empirically bull.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
I feel like many of you are overlooking the artists message to come up with vitriol about "boomers" and antitech sentiment that's not there.
afatrollofmyown
Their "connection" is usually "dude who can't take a hint bothering me on the train"
WeSingLalaWhileTheDevilDoesTheChaCha
I learned a new word today.
Icantthinkofaname2
But they don't. So....
TheMaXX37
Hey Vsauce, Michael here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0x7ho_IYc
goatamon
I generally agree about the "TECHNOLOGY BAD" bullshit, but AFAIK there is actually some evidence to suggest that people are lonelier than
goatamon
before despite the existence of social media. Or rather, social media makes people feel lonelier. Personally I've definitely gone off online
goatamon
dating and tinder, meeting people face to face is just infinitely better in my experience.
apcamanda
This is my take away from these pieces. makes at least some sense that people won’t say things to ur face but online they’ll be nasty 4 fun
apcamanda
Social media + tech. are making anonymous attacks available to anyone trying to deal with life. B4 u had to figure it out offline./
CorneliusCornwall
ok boomer we get it, technology bad.
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apcamanda
I interpret some as a perspective how technology has changed everyday life, with a somber/neg take. “Tech is tool but doesn’t fix life”prhps
Icantthinkofaname2
It's not just a tool. It's a whole ethos and worldview. Technology is not neutral, not a tool. It's a seduction.
MikeArclight
that's your take away from this?
CorneliusCornwall
laiskamato
That's the knee-jerk reaction when people feel that their way of life is under attack; the low-hanging fruit for internet points. Which is
laiskamato
pretty much what the images seem to be about, at least more than the "phone bad" -oversimplification.
laiskamato
The old man & could aspect is there but there certainly is a difference in stimuli and consumer habits. If someone argues otherwise they
laiskamato
feel personally attacked - like unsolicited advice for a drunk or smoker - and I get it, as an addict-brained individual. But I also work
itiswhatitis365
You seriously are missing the point and take offence. Sorry to see how misjudged our current problem with society is. Not boomer.
CorneliusCornwall
Then explain the point.