Really enjoyed this piece! I always wanted to have a cool ringtone and even downloaded a few -- I think I had a Ben Folds one and a Weezer one for a bit -- but never got much of a chance to use them. I had to keep my phone on vibrate at school. I had to keep my phone on vibrate at work. I ended up keeping my phone on vibrate at home because when I left it on my parents harassed me about who I was talking to or what I was doing every time I got a notification. I think ringtones died out because, as phones evolved into things that went with us everywhere, it became a dick move to leave your ringer on and subject people to it, cool ringtone or not.
loved it mate, particularly the dive into teenage incubus intellectualism.
my ringtone of choice for all of high school was the first 20 seconds of "world war me" by from first to last. listen to it, i think you'll pick up what i thought i was putting down lol.
also, here's a funny one. my dad, in his early sixties, without a shred of irony, started using "drop it like it's hot" as his ringtone. for the latter third of my adolescence and nearly all of my adulthood, he continued to keep his ringer on max volume at all times. each time he got a new phone he made zero attempt to understand it's updated technological capabilities, apart from figuring out how to get the ringtone bumping again. in 2022, at 71, he had a pretty devastating head injury that had him in intensive care, fully out of it for about 3 weeks. although this was one of the bleaker stretches, i still chuckle when i think about the time in the icu being punctuated by the occasional call from a colleague, announcing itself to the whole hospital staff via a (surprisingly loud, every time) falsetto "snoooooooooooop."
Really enjoyed this piece! I always wanted to have a cool ringtone and even downloaded a few -- I think I had a Ben Folds one and a Weezer one for a bit -- but never got much of a chance to use them. I had to keep my phone on vibrate at school. I had to keep my phone on vibrate at work. I ended up keeping my phone on vibrate at home because when I left it on my parents harassed me about who I was talking to or what I was doing every time I got a notification. I think ringtones died out because, as phones evolved into things that went with us everywhere, it became a dick move to leave your ringer on and subject people to it, cool ringtone or not.
loved it mate, particularly the dive into teenage incubus intellectualism.
my ringtone of choice for all of high school was the first 20 seconds of "world war me" by from first to last. listen to it, i think you'll pick up what i thought i was putting down lol.
also, here's a funny one. my dad, in his early sixties, without a shred of irony, started using "drop it like it's hot" as his ringtone. for the latter third of my adolescence and nearly all of my adulthood, he continued to keep his ringer on max volume at all times. each time he got a new phone he made zero attempt to understand it's updated technological capabilities, apart from figuring out how to get the ringtone bumping again. in 2022, at 71, he had a pretty devastating head injury that had him in intensive care, fully out of it for about 3 weeks. although this was one of the bleaker stretches, i still chuckle when i think about the time in the icu being punctuated by the occasional call from a colleague, announcing itself to the whole hospital staff via a (surprisingly loud, every time) falsetto "snoooooooooooop."
Incredible. Somehow we need to get this story in front of Snoop.