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“You know this thing every generation does that’s often just simple jokes? It’s corporate-funded class war!”
Yeah okay lol
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“ahaha, millenials, teens don’t think you’re cool”
I can already feel the raging fires of class war
Meh, with people genuinely proposing to increase the voting age because “Gen Z bad”, the jokes are wearing thin.
People are really proposing that? lol
Of the list of things I’m struggling with as I’m getting older, this is pretty fuckin low on the list.
Like, I understand the adults in my life as a teenager and why they didn’t really give a shit about what I thought about certain things. I was young and stupid and didn’t know shit about shit.
I was stupid when I was a kid, especially at times, but also I clearly remember situations where I was like 8 and still know to this date that the adults were drastically in the wrong and I was completely right. It was insanely early for me when I learned that adults were wrong as shit sometimes. What took me a very long time to accept though, is that often people do not care if they’re actually wrong, they’re more concerned with feeling/acting right. When you’re a kid especially, these types of people love to steamroll you.
Gen-X here. I would like to know who in our generation decided to let their kids (Gen-Z) raid their closet. Yesterday alone I saw multiple teen girls wearing 90’s era mommy pants and two, TWO, girls wearing MC Hammer parachute pants!!! Neither of these was ever cool!
Millennials. If our kids give you grief, just remember that they thought it was a good idea to bring back parachute pants.
It’s how it always goes. First, it’s stylish, then it’s lame, then it’s R E T R O
Some of this shit skipped the initial stylish step though
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This guy Hammer Timed.
Good Charlotte and AFI shirts will be back in a few years along with studded belts.
I kinda miss the bell bottom revival of the early 2000’s. Not the late 90’s “equilateral triangle from the knees down” look our big sisters did; I always liked the “just enough bell bottom that the tip of her shoes poke out.” I always thought that was a cute look.
The last pics or videos I saw of everything “cool” (VIPs, gen Z stuff like interviews, festival pics,…) felt like old 90 stuff. I really thought they were old but no, it was stuff from about 1-2 weeks ago. Why is stuff like hair styles and make up also the same as it was years ago?
Fashion is cyclical
My neighbor’s 13 year old thinks I’m cool as shit because i make them loads of baked goodies. Cakes, cookies, granola, cupcakes, or whatever I’m baking for my weekly challenges.
Ummm that sounds like you are cool as shit.
Won’t you be my neighbor?
gen z here. I genuinely think most millennials are cool asf. y’all took the brunt of the hate from older generations for us. I just hope we can pay it back somehow in the long run
While I appreciate the sentiment, I honestly think us Millennials just did our time in the barrel and now it’s your turn. My evidence: I use Firefox, by default it congregates a bunch of “news” articles from around the web (via Pocket, I think. Whatever the fuck Pocket is) and here’s a headline from Elle I’m looking at on my other monitor as I type: “Is Gen Z Killing Vintage Fashion?” You are The Demographic now, so there’s going to be about 15 years of exactly that bullshit to roll your eyes at.
I’m so glad I’m not being blamed for the decline of a shitty industry no one else took part in either, otherwise it wouldn’t have failed.
Yeah, now it’s more like “are gen Z killing X industry?”
me: “God I fucking hope we are”
Maybe they’ll finally deliver the death blow to golf courses, country clubs, guest rooms, diamonds and other shit we can’t afford… Or would really care to, if we’d have the means.
Fight the fights we turned complacent on.
From everything I’ve seen, you will. Just keep working for what’s right and good.
There’s a trend of elder millennials shitting on Gen Z because Gen Z is doing what all kids and young people do: rebel against their elders. And it’s the most cringe thing I’ve ever seen. Eddy Burbank had a video on it a while ago and holy crap. Just stop, y’all. The poster in the pic has the right idea.
Gen Z is alright. I like to believe the future is in good hands with them. Other than the cringe, but we were all cringe at their age, we just trauma-block it from our memories.
You guys trauma-block your cringe instead of remembering it while trying to sleep?
I sleep like a baby every night. Daytime is when all the crippling memories come.
Oh no, I definitely remember lots of cringe while trying to sleep. It’s just that sometimes some piece of ancient cringe will come up with photo evidence that I have no memory of, and I conclude that my mind was trying to protect me from that specific piece.
Yeah, millennials getting pissy about “kids these days” is cringe as fuck. Wasn’t that long ago you were getting “kids these days” about dumb shit, really couldn’t wait huh?
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Joke’s on them, I don’t care what teens think is cool.
I think only ones caring what teenagers think are other teenagers.
That sounds pretty coool to me…
Just remind yourself that teens bet other teens to do really really stupid and often inane/dangerous things. We were all there. (And sure, not all teens) but a lot have need to be still watched by an adult so they don’t kill themselvs attempting what most adults do. Getting to the point, it isn’t worth any self esteem damage if they call you basic.
The teens are correct, I am not cool. To quote Abe Simpson, “I used to be with It, but then they changed what It was. Now what I’m with isn’t It, and what is It is weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you.”
Now I think I’m slightly younger than Abe was in that scene, but I’m not yet at a place where teenagers are “weird and scary” to me. Juvenoia hasn’t set in yet. I’m definitely out of touch, like I don’t know what bands the kids are listening to these days, slang is starting to leave me behind. But I think I feel okay with the kids these days growing up in their own decade, which a lot of adults seem to struggle with. I’m going to try to hang onto that.
As for their opinion of me? Yeah sure. I’m a 36 year old homeowner that spent my free time last week cutting back my azaleas and canning a year’s supply of homemade jelly. I have a shelf where I keep my carpet cleaning supplies. Any teenager who thinks I’m not cool is pretty much correct. And I’m fine with that.
Coolness can never be conscious, so anyone concerned about being cool is, by definition, uncool.
Despite having been one less than a decade ago, I definitely refuse to keep up with the trends as I feel most of them are either dangerous (tide pod challenge), illegal (property damage in your school bathrooms), absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it’s quirky), or just flat out dumb (think fortnite and such if that’s still even a thing and the slang as well). The slang they use feels like a foreign language and I refuse to learn it just like I did with a lot of slang from my time.
I feel most of them are either dangerous (tide pod challenge)
You say most and then cite only the most overblown, ridiculous example. I haven’t seen a single death actually linked to the tide pod challenge, it was just a meme that a select few idiots took too far and got hospitalized. That happens with literally any popular trend. Don’t forget millennials had plenty of “dangerous” trends (planking, off the top of my head) that the mainstream media blew out of proportion.
illegal (property damage in your school bathrooms)
This has been happening to school bathrooms for a very long time, it just wasn’t on social media prior. I remember a trend in my area of kids fucking up their school bathrooms.
absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it’s quirky)
So millennials didn’t do all sorts of incredibly tone-deaf impressions and jokes back in the day?
or just flat out dumb (think fortnite and such if that’s still even a thing and the slang as well)
“Fortnite dumb” like okay. Fortnite isn’t dumb, it’s just not made for you. I don’t enjoy it, but I love playing it with my nieces and nephews, and while again it’s not my speed, it’s definitely not dumb.
The slang they use feels like a foreign language and I refuse to learn it just like I did with a lot of slang from my time.
If you just hate using slang that doesn’t mean gen z slang is dumb, just means ur a hipster.
There’s plenty of totally enjoyable, innocent gen z trends as well as some obnoxious ones, gen z slang is just an evolution of millennial slang, and gen z are more savvy in some areas and less so in others than millennials. But ofc ppl are gonna see what they want.
Period. Zoomer slang is dog water, no cap.
You bet. Zoomer slang is awful, I will not lie to you.
absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it’s quirky)
You had me on most of these, but oof
One of the worst things you could do to someone that actually has a disorder is to disregard it because you think their pretending, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt thanks.
I’m mostly referring to the people who actually do fake it. I also tend to give the benefit of the doubt, but I’ve seen various cases online of people actively faking it for clout. People who got called out on their bullshit.
Millennials, Teens? I’m almost 30…
I think you misread something?
Ah, I see.
In that case: why would/should I care what teens think of me?
I think it’s easier to not really care about what is or isn’t cool to teens.
My kids’ friends all think I’m cool, and they’re Gen Z. Which is weird because I’ve never been cool.
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