I went to an anime convention with a group of early-twenty-somethings and we basically couldn't relate the entire time I was there. My friend from highschool was there and all he could do when I genuinely talked about the anime I liked was spout off all the references and "memes" he had gathered about them in succession with no explanation. It was fucking annoying.
It's nice not needing a smartphone glued to my face so that I can "obsess" over the latest astroturfed scam game or be completely unable to put myself into a different historical context when talking to older people, but the older guys I talk to usually aren't looking to be very sociable and have their longtime friendgroups already established, so I'm stuck in this middleground. I'm not even sure if i should go to conventions anymore since all I do is walk around looking at untouchable happy young people for a few hours then slink back to my room and sleep the day off. I've been going to them for fifteen years and nothing's changed for me. The audience changed but I can't stand them.