Goldfish

The worst our society has to offer
== What is a goldfish? ==
Meme Lord describes the goldfish as a generation, though this isn't technically the case. Goldfish are all primarily part of Gen Z, though this isn't always the case and there are a quite a few millennials and even people in Gen X who fall into this category. The quickest way to describe a goldfish is to imagine the most stereotypical marbel movie fan you can fathom.
The term "goldfish" is mainly due to the main trait of the goldfish: their mythic 5-second memory. Thus this is where the fabled generation gets its namesake, as their biggest flaw is their attention span. A goldfish can be primarily defined by someone who spends either a lot of their time or most of their time watching short-form video content such as Youp-tube shorts, instacrap reels, or the infamous Tic tac. This is their primary form of entertainment, where they will spend hours simply scrolling through each small video, perhaps not even finishing more than half of them, onwards to the next. They will likely forget more than 80% of the info they just consumed.
This type of media consumption carries over to other areas, hence why the goldfish would enjoy marvel movies for their quippy quick humor, no plot, and mindless flashy lights and noises over real cinema. Hence why the goldfish would enjoy mobile games where they aimlessly run as a wacky gorilla or something for 30 seconds then do something else rather than a challenging story or puzzle game. Hence why the goldfish would enjoy going with the flow and whats easy, as they are incredible lazy and ineffective members of society; why have an actual meal when you can go to mcdonalds and chic fil-a every day; why drink water like a normal person when you can spend 20 dollars on a dessert uh we mean a coffee at starbucks every morning? All the better since the goldfish are being raised in the education system that encourages more graduates over actually intelligent, responsible, disciplined and competent students ready to go into society. Don't ask questions, just consume content and get excited for next content.
Goldfish are also horribly unproductive and leeches on everybody's time and money, few of them having actual motivation to succeed or get a real career and would rather sit around watching videos, playing video games, or purely wasting time. When they do get jobs, its typically bottom-of-the-barrel retail and fast food work, where they constantly complain and even film themselves complaining for views, and then unironically think its 'cool' to quit as many jobs as possible. If you hadn't noticed, all these traits so far center quite a bit around cellphones, the Goldfish's mightiest asset. This is their true bane; Goldfish, most of which had no real parenting and were given cellphones and tablets since they were toddlers, center their lives around their phone. They are constantly on social media, genuinely caring about other people's posts and stories, obsessed with getting their own following, obsessed with texting. Hence Goldfish are often awful to talk to in person as they have a pretty bad grasp on reality and how real people actually act. They seem like they're not all there, or that they aren't aware of their surroundings. The goldfish has no care for history or culture, they would sooner know which movies are "racist" because they didn't give the african american character the same exact amount of screentime as the protagonist (or something else stupid), then they would know about how their own town, state, or even country was even founded.
Unfortunately there are millions of goldfish, and they are genuinely making everything a little worse each time one of them decides a broccoli haircut would be a good idea. They have no futures, no standing, no work ethic, no respect for history, their elders, their community, no gauge on where they even are, how to have a healthy relationship and a family, and no care in the world for actual problems or how to even take care of themselves. They are truly the most pathetic people on the planet, and they only seem to multiply as time moves on.
== Origins ==
The earliest origins of this term in the Council can be traced back to small conversations in back in 2020 and 2021 between The Snazzmaster, Mike Kachowski and Meme Lord, about how Snazz and Mike Kachowski had 'goldfish memory syndrome'. Obviously the word "goldfish" was used previously, but to describe the s-tier snack item and not this slur (Yeah I guess its a slur). On 7/13/2022 is where the term would see its first proper use, by Sly Frog Fry. He sarcastically thanks Tic Tac for being primarily responsible for lowering people's attention spans "to that of a goldfish". He says this after Meme Lord shares a stupid Youp-tube recommendation he got; a video of the Duffer brothers explaining the end of Strangle 4. Meme Lord furiously mocks the video, mainly mocking the kind of audience with an attention span and grasp on reality so bad that they need to watch a video explaining the ending of a show they just watched. 
Finally, on 7/26/2022, Meme Lord coins the term 'goldfish generation' and begins using it extensively after this. This was due to a conversation with Tactician discussing a stupid and counter-productive piano "teaching" app that actually does the exact opposite. Meme Lord would go on to truly differentiate the difference between other members of Gen Z, such as most of the Council, and the goldfish. The Snazzmaster also uses the term often, to mainly just describe the individuals' short term memory. Some Gus server members such as Rina are made up of Goldfish. Meme Lord expanded the definition and eventually makes an entire chart, dubbed the 'Goldfish calculator', that can be taken by anyone to find out how much of a Goldfish they are. This calculator was made on 2/8/2023, and was improved with a more in-depth version later that day. Some memebers did the calculator themselves. 
A running Council joke from this chart was the use of "+(number)" being said after someone does something attributed to Goldfish. For example, if someone said they watched a lot of instacrap reels, someone would likely respond with "+35" or some other large number.
The moral of this Council Wiki page is, don't be a goldfish
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