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Meh, kids are weird. Like REALLY F’N WEIRD. I was pretty f’n weird and hell, I still am. I’m not mad at kids for being odd little shits, I just correct my kids when they’re not being good humans to others, other than that, good luck, the world’s on fire 🤷
Petition to replace cringe ageism with based classism (against the rich)
Seconded.
Thirded!
Fourtheth!
You’re out of touch I’m out of time - Time But I’m out of my head When you’re not around
“No it’s the wealthy elite who are cringe”
That’s big talk from the generation that unironically said “RAWR :3” to each other.
I was there.
Livejournal? Emo? “Lol I’m so Random”? Leet speak?? And we took it SO seriously. Peak “No mom it’s not a phase”.
We were criiiiiiinge.
I just remembered that brief trend where teenage boys were wetting their pants in order to look more vulnerable and soft, took selfies of themselves looking vaguely ashamed with a giant wet spot, and a lot of girls really seemed to like it??
And even if you weren’t peak emo, Elder Millennials were wearing flannel and pretending to be just as jaded as Kurt Cobain because they were sad no one was playing POGs anymore, while Younger Millennials had skunk hair and that “greasy sk8r” look.
So what if Zoomers are embracing “Coastal Grandma” looks and TikTok dances? We can’t really point fingers.
I mean, we were cringe at their age. It would be more surprising if they weren’t cringe.
Yeah, it’s not that Gen Z is cringe. It’s that any and everyone who is between the ages of 10 to 16 are cringe.
It happens with every generation. It happened with everyone before Gen Z and it’ll happen with everyone after Gen Z.
Wow what a fascinating deep conversation. Someone should write all of this down in a magic book
They actually made a documentary about just this in 2004. It was a multi-part series.
Here’s a compilation of a few clips from it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IM-TQHJKefA&feature=share7
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You can probably jack that age limit up to the early 20s, tbqh.
I thank god smart phones didn’t exist in thebMySpace/FaceBook transitional time. Holy god I was an edgy atheist getting into “debates” about religion with my friend’s parents.
Don’t start fights between millennials and gen-z. We’ll both lose.
Is OP a bot? They’re literally generating random posts by the minute
Are you confusing me with 196.
Gen-X here. Leave our kids alone. Y’all are just mad you’re middle aged now. Believe me, been there.
We are looking out for your kids. Just like everyone else looked out for us when we were teenagers on the internet: By mercilessly roasting us because what we were doing deserved to be roasted lol
Being a teenager and being embarrassing is like the strongest connection in the world. If I ever had to take more advanced science classes in my poorly educated state, I’d tell you what kind of covalent or electron bond or something it was, but I didn’t. But trust me, being young and embarrassing is a rite of passage. They just happen to be going through it now.
Oh, I know. My comment is meant to be tongue in cheek. Millennials are at that age where they are very sensitive about teaching middle age and it’s difficult to pass the opportunity to twist the knife. It’s payback for everytime a millennial told me they enjoyed Nine Inch Nails cover of Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”.
I liked their cover of old town Rd more
A gen Xer dissing NIN?!
As a millennial, I was involuntarily subjected to your terrible taste in fashion and music until my generation’s tastes took over.
Of course it is your children who are resurrecting baggy jeans… you passed on your terrible taste to them. It is only a matter of time before they try to bring back Limp Bizkit too.
I’m so sorry. I’ll tell my kids to get off your lawn.
I have zero problem with gen Z.
Millennial here, zoomers are fucking funny. Way funnier than we ever were.
GenX here, oh I dunno, you millennials were pretty hilarious
Also they don’t take no shit, compared to us who constantly apologize for existing
That’s because we were raised to think everything is our fault.
This is the nature of aging. As an older millennial I wish more millennials would get with it. We spent our 20s and 30s wanting to be treated as adults. Well, this is how young people treat adults.
You have to remember that gen Z’ers are early twenties. It’s not usually the early 20s ones that are cringe, it’s the younger teenagers who, almost as a rule, are always pretty cringe. They don’t have the sense and forethought to not do really, really embarrassing stuff. They’re just full of emotions and hormones and those impulses aren’t tampered by fully developed brains thinking better than to…do really weird stuff. It’s not out of the ordinary. Millennials are late twenties to late thirties/early 40s.
Oh, I just meant the first part. Yes, we’re out of touch. We’re old. Deal with it. Don’t be like my mother, dying your hair into your 70s.
I thought we killed generational trend analysis anyway.
Your mom sounds pretty cool, actually. My mother is around the same age and like straight out of medieval times in terms of how she sees the world.
My mother will only vote Republican. :(
Gen X here. You’re all weird, and that’s fine. Just don’t be like Boomers.
Zoomers, keep being weird and wonderful, I love it.