I'm not sure if you're stating that you know [nearly] all the people shown in the video, or if you're inferring it from appearances. If the latter, mentionably, you're only seeing what journalist had a fixation on showing (typically fursuiters, and probably other stuff they misinterpreted as furries), as well as just one person interviewed, and just one reoccurring event at one geographic location.

Additionally, I'd argue there's a gradient of different cohorts of people:

People that have ONLY engaged online and have no interest in any sort of in-person gathering
People that used to engage in-person, but displaced, and mostly online-only at this point
People that engage more exclusively on VR platforms
People that engage in meets and maybe a convention or two
People that questionably have their life revolve around several conventions

There generally seems to be certain categories of people, that are more commonly exclusive to one of those cohorts.

Alternatively, there's a lot of folks just plainly displaced by new people. I had noticed a local-ish meet that started getting questionably younger, to where people stopped attending and/or split off to their own separate gatherings, where it was practically high school kids left (wat? Where in the f'k did all these high school kids come from?).

There needs to be a term for this term of zoomer furry who only goes to meetups and engages with the culture purely to socialize and not out of an appreciation for drawing animals. (...)

Are you sure not just describing Zoomers plainly, which have a profound abundance of free tools and resources available than has ever existed before, but can't bother to focus on a hobby?

Oh I already have 82 hours into that, before this latest wave of interest post-1.0 release.

It's also conversely weird where people hold the belief that if they were insanely rich, that their life would be substantially better.

Yes, you would no longer have financial stressors (then again, if you're not stupid and blow it all and end up broke..), wouldn't have an obligation to work, but then some people also start to lack finding purpose or function in life on their own. You've 100%ed the game, what objectives are left?

But even moreso is all the fake people. That you could be a center of attention to a crowd, but where it's not genuine. It's not where [at least most] people even actually care about you personally, and are more interested about being in your proximity just for your status and money. If you're too notable, you can't live as a nobody anymore. You're also a magnet for the occasional crazy person that you've never met.

I remember there being a news article about one notable figure that had made it very big, that they felt essentially alone and depressed. There was such a condescending public response, of people mocking said person, as if it's like impossible to be a multi-billionaire and also be depressed, even as a genuine person (not like someone that faked their way and used people to get to their status, whereas in that case, it'd certainly be due).

I'm speaking from my out-of-box experience on Kubuntu 25.10, 32GB physical, +4.3(?)GB swap. I'd be totally fine with my userspace stuff being forcibly killed on OOM rather than having an unresponsive system that's hiked up with activity on shuffling things in and out of swap under pressure, with SysRq reset being the only option out.

As is the situation of hitting OOM whether you have swap or not. Swap just slows down the time of getting to the threshold of the OOM killer being invoked. If you're pushing into the situation where you "need" swap, it's usually going to saturate swap too, unless you have like a +8 GB or so swap volume or something, whereas as far as I'm aware, most people only have a 1GB swap by default.

Let the kernel kill a process in an OOM situation and continue to run just fine? Use a userspace OOM killer earlier before the kernel has to step in?

I love swap completely slowing down the process of reaching the threshold to trigger the OOM killer to be invoked (if at all, and hopefully not stuck in the limbo in-between), thrashing my NVMe or SSD with useless activity for several minutes into hours, to sit and watch a system be so dogged down, that you can't even log into a virtual tty without it timing out (all while the kernel is actually responsive to immediately respond to magic SysRq keycombos). It's great.