I’m definitely too old, but as a Millennial I love Gen Z. They got their funny internet things, their doom memes, their music, and I say go for it. They’re picking up and running with the rights for all, they’re more open than we even are, and it’s just awesome to see. People love to make fun of the younger generation but are so quick to forget what we were actually like back then.
You didn’t have to say you were a millennial. The Weeds meme was enough.
Millenial representative #2: Completely agree. Gen Z is so sensitive, smart and respectful, I love them. I run a lot of tabletop RPGs like D&D and had an all-Gen Z group back in 2021. My favorite memory is them explaining the Ohio meme to me. The kids are alright.
I love that they picked up the baton. I feel like us millennials were the young folks when gay marriage was the main topic of discussion and we were a very loud voice in support. Now GenZ is coming up and I love that their reaction isn’t “Oh should we?” It’s “Why haven’t we?” when it comes to Trans rights. I’m all for it, I’ll be there at the voting booth along side them.
Please, for the love of Thor explain Ohio to me. X’er lost AF.
There is a great wiki about memes if you are even unsure what they mean.
Millenial here, I wager it’s about Jake Paul. Listen to the song “It’s everday bro” if you dare.
I am assuming this is it not what they are referring to.
I love the dank emojis. Bless the new generation for the new things you bring. Bless you.
Removed by mod
Can confirm. Fight the power, fuck the system and all that jazz. I was told it was my “maximalism of the youth”, a phase that would pass, but I only become more and more radical in my views as I mature, so that was a fucking lie.
Aye. I’m almost 30 now and I feel like I’ve gotten more radical rather than less.
Makes sense though. In the 30 years I’ve been around I can tangibly see ecosystems failing and the climate going haywire. And for what? Wealth inequality has gotten worse and the idea of owning a house is almost a pipe dream.
Meanwhile everyone’s getting more hateful. LGBTQ people, women, and minorities are having rights scrutinised and stripped away.
There’s war in Europe again. The gerontocracies are still going hard. The oceans are dying. The mummies are melting along the permafrost.
We lived through a pandemic, companies made record breaking profits, yet none went to workers. Everything is turning into subscriptions, we’re literally fighting to get to repair stuff we’ve bought. We are to own nothing and be happy about it.
Humanity, society… it’s all bullshit. Everything is bullshit.
I’m over 60 and not at all represented by these old motherfuckers. It’s partly their age and partly their wealth – they can’t represent people who actually work for a living.
There are various theories of how age and term limits could limit this.
Here’s my fantasy, which is just that.
Set up an AI unit that’s been programmed to a 90 IQ level. If these assholes can’t beat it in chess three times out of five – or checkers for that matter – enjoy the rest of your life on the porch.
Just a fantasy.
I love boomers shitting on boomers. Gives me hope
It was never about age, that was just another distraction. If old people, trans people, gay people, black people, Mexican people, democratic people, and all the rest are responsible, you won’t have any attention left to pay the rich guy who’s fault this actually is.
Time to munch some billionaires
Oh I wouldn’t put that in my mouth, which says a lot given my proclivity for putting things in my mouth. I’d rather let the guillotine do its job.
deleted by creator
Yup, I’m 41 and I haven’t gotten less radical, just more detail-oriented in how we make it a reality.
You poor? Usually people get more conservative the more wealth they accumulate. I’ve got barely anything to my name which might be why I slowly getting more and more radicalized on the left. That and you know reality.
I grew up poor (rural Arizona, living in a trailer we couldn’t afford to heat in the winter, mom worked at Walmart, dad was a mechanic, just to paint a picture of what I mean). Both my parents are more progressive, we moved from the Bay Area of California when I was ten because we couldn’t afford it and also so they could get away from their druggie friends circle. Thankfully I liked science and had people who encouraged me, and I now have a PhD in molecular biology and my partner does computer programming and makes a lot.
But before I decided on science, my progressive parents + being poor + Intro Philosophy + Against Me anarcho-syndicalist punk rock made me want to major in some combo of history, economics, and political science so I could change/overthrow the system from within. I still have the anarchy tattoos behind my ears, though! But I think Scandinavian style Democratic socialism is better suited to modern technological society.
And now I’m in academia, most people here grew up middle class or upper middle class, and the entitlement is mind boggling sometimes. I’m learning more and more how to blend in with them, my partner is upper middle class academic family. But sometimes I still feel like some of them can tell I’m a dirty poor.
It just pisses me off so much that there’s soooo much wealth in the world and it’s all locked up by rich people. I read somewhere that a study by the Swiss bank found that if all the wealth in the world was evenly divided amongst every men women and child, each person would get like $30,000. That would be amazing! No more world poverty! A living wage would be a great start.
Anywho, it’s late, I’m tired and rambling. TLDR: eat the rich.
I’m in my early 30’s but I have no problem reminding the kids to “Never trust anybody over 30”
Spoken like a boomer
I want to make a guillotine
Le Nationale Razor is good for tyrants and peasants alike.
My views haven’t changed one bit, I just had to make some compromises in lifestyle to survive (e.g. get a job).
deleted by creator
I’m a liberal progressive GenXer and my workplace is full of MAGA millenials. I thought I would be OK when the boomers started to die off from heart disease, but here we are.
Millennials skew more left than previous generations. Unfortunately there’s still plenty of brainwashed MAGATs in every generation.
Then it’s high time for us to recognize the problem is not generational but of political affiliation.
That sounds like hell on earth.
Burn the place down and when the cops ask say it was infested with spiders.
Then burn it down again to make some bacon.
deleted by creator
Dude, that sucks. Tots and bears go out to ya.
Right there with ya, dude. My work is MAGA to the core, and most of them are in the 20 to 30 year old range.
Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.
kids don’t want to work these days
people need to just save more money
immigrants are taking all the jobs
[2hrs of scrolling]
I was in a “generational diversity” course at work recently where we would break apart and talk about what behaviors are common among each generation and why, and how to be good leaders for each generation. We started with the “greatest” generation and the “silent” generation and worked our way down in age. Everything started so respectful and nice for the old folks, even excusing their shortcomings when one was actually brought up due to how they were raised and the tough circumstances they grew up under. By the time we got to millennial and gen z, things took a turn. Even the instructor was laying on the judgement pretty thick. “They have had everything handed to them growing up so they don’t appreciate hard work”, “[…] participation trophies […]”, etc
That sounds… like a judgement your class was meant to learn to avoid…
Right?
That seems so weird to begin with. Particularly since there aren’t many Greatest Generation left, and Silents are well into retirement.
They apparently make up something like 3 percent of our employees.
What, the youngest greatest gener is 97 lol. Are you sure it wasn’t 3 total and they are the CEOs?
No, it was 3 percent with the greatest and silent generation combined, not just the greatest. No idea how many (if any at all) of the greatest generation there actually are. Maybe 1? Idk.
I don’t think I could’ve sat there and not fucked that teacher up emotionally.
I would have loved to witness that TacoButtPlug
If you don’t want kids to have participation trophies don’t give them participation trophies. You didn’t go out and buy yourself a trophy for everything, did you?
If I want to buy a trophy for myself with my own hard earned money to make myself feel like a winner, those boomers can kiss my ass.
kids don’t want to work these days
Work at these shitty jobs? No, they don’t, and I don’t blame them!
I pumped gas up hill, both ways, all summer when I was 16 and used the money to pay for college, buy a house, and invest in oil. You just need to try harder.
I guess I’m lucky to live & work somewhere where the system kinda works, but the boomers are a great well of institutional knowledge, and the kids are working hard and changing the game. The ball was kind of dropped in the late 90s & 00s, but now millennials have surpassed gen x in terms of responsibility & authority in my industry and the zoomers I’ve had the opportunity to train are legit. I’m not sure what happened to gen x, but they all seem kind of sad and/or lost.
Those are the genx’ers that now have wealth… the genx’ers without a pot to piss in are… err… pissed.
Almost like its wealth disparity, not age, is causing the problem after all!
shocked picachu meme.
Alternatively.
“No, it’s our children who are wrong”
The kids are alright
Gen X to everyone, you fucking donkeys.
Exactly. The amount of millenials I see that want to drive muscle cars and big pickups but then shit on gen x for the climate is too damn high.
Gen X to Gen X: You fucking donkeys
Gen X to Gen X: we probably should have stopped saying whatever and done more.
Everyone knows what they did.
World would be a better place if they did
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I am a geriatric millenial and watching gen Z grow up has actually been incredible. It is a generation that has more compassion and self-awareness than the ones that came before them. I am proud of these kids (even though most of them aren’t even kids anymore).
It’s OK, GenX is used to being forgotten or misunderstood.
Lots of Millenials can’t tell the difference from a Boomer.
Idk, I would say the older half of Gen X could almost be described as “Boomer Lite”. They didnt quite have it AS nice, but still definitely way better than anyone born in the 80’s or later. Not to mention their Boomer-like attitude…
As an older Gen-Xer, who had married another older Xer far too young (because we were brought up that all we needed to do was get a job and life would be awesome) I can agree that some in my age range are definitely watered down boomers. Which is also a fair part of the reason why he’s my ex husband now.
As the mother of 3 Gen Z sons, I couldn’t be more proud of the amazing men they’re becoming, and couldn’t be more disgusted about the conditions that some of my generation and those before me have created for them.
Not to mention their Boomer-like attitude…
How, exactly?
Slightly less offensive boomers
“Anybody older than me is a boomer.”
More like anyone with a selfish mentality, that thinks everyone just has it as easy as them and those that don’t reach the same status are doing it wrong.
I’d go with owns property and acts better than everyone who doesn’t
You are mentally deranged if you think Gen X owns property, I know dozens of Millenials and Gen X both of which only a couple have property, and all of them inherited it from boomers recently.
The Boomers closed the door behind them, Gen X is just the first in line to maybe get some leftovers when they die.
We don’t exist and I’m okay with that.
Gen Z’s biggest problem (which spawns all the other problems) is being constantly online, but it’s hardly their fault. The older generations (which I’m part of) founded the internet, molded it into digital heroin, and then went ahead and purchased the kids their devices that had mostly no restrictions or protections.
It perfectly fits the Who Killed Hannibal meme.
Gen Z’s biggest problem (which spawns all the other problems) is being constantly online
huge citation needed…
couldn’t possibly the rigged economy, two tiered justice system, racism baked into every system, religious fundamentalism, imminent environmental collapse, no it’s the phones…
Your argument would be valid if this phenomenon was specific to USA, but it’s not. It’s happening (to my knowledge) everywhere where kids were given unrestricted access to the Internet. That’s the common denominator, not political or social issues.
That we also have political and social issues is not making the situation easier, but I don’t believe that’s the root cause for kids’ increased mental issues. The previous generations had their part of alarmism and issues as well – e.g. world wars, nukes, oil crises, cold war, smaller wars everywhere all the time (Korea and Vietnam even constituted a general draft in the US, which must have not been a great time), satanism panic/red scare/gay scare.
I think his argument is valid, just as yours is.
You’re right it’s not only the US. But he’s also right that phones are not the only reason / common denominator. Basically every country has a rigged economy and a two class justice system - some more, some less. But the ruling class secured their privileges everywhere. Our planet’s doom looming over the horizon is also a global phenomenon.
What unrestricted access to the internet is doing: it’s making everyone much more aware of those things, their global scale. Everyone gets a feeling of how bad it is because there seems to be no greener pasture anymore.
Something about the demise of 3rd spaces (ie public parks) also plays a role. Just yesterday was told we couldn’t have a library in our neighborhood because of lack of surface level parking.
Minimum parking requirements in cities need to be abolished
But then you’ll just be making it harder for my automobile overlords to have complete control over our shitty infrastructure! Don’t you just love going anywhere and seeing nothing but parking lots?
As a gen Xer, I’d rebel if my back didn’t hurt.
I wonder if in the future, millennials and gen z will become the new boomers and gen X.
That will make me kinda sad. I just hope we don’t go down the same path…
I don’t think so. Generations that actually struggle end up being good to the next generation. IE the greatest generation
It’s the entitled cunts that got everything handed to them that turn into massive assholes. IE Boomers
Nice theory, but as the parent of a teenager, younger generations don’t tend to think highly of their elders no matter what. It’s kind of human nature. I predict that Millennials and Gen Z will absolutely be disliked by the generations afterwards, just as Boomers and Gen X are disliked by Millennials and Gen Z. For that matter, love Gen Z all you want, Millennials, just don’t expect it to return the favor. Every generation thinks it’s better than the ones that came before. Ever heard of hippies? Yeah, they were gonna save the world from everyone over 30. Now we just call them Boomers.
Sure, I (as a millenials) may dislike, or not understand, the kids as they are doing new things. I mean i have NO idea what that new TikTok NPC stuff is about and I am to afraid to ask…
But unlike boomers we do know what it is like to struggle for our place in the world and we do not have that skewed of a view. We do understand that sometimes you may even feel trapped or can’t see a way out of a dooming scenario.
We understand that trying to live your life is actually hard. Just like Gen x understands that as wel.
Boomer hate is not coming from them hating our punk years or different music taste. Boomer hate is coming from their inability to accept that they had it better then all other generations and continuing to “proof” that every of our issues is easily fixable by “not buying advocado toast”.
I don’t know, I’m an X, we don’t really exist anywhere, we are transparent and ignored in societies.
Hey man, I notice and appreciate you.
My parents are (early) Gen X. In general I don’t think you are transparent or ignored. I’m not saying this isn’t your case though.
I appreciate my parents and even though they are “outdated” on some stuff, I value them immensely. For instance, if it wasn’t for my dad I likely would never have gotten into omputers. And that would’ve led me not have my current job (probably). I owe everything to them.
In fact, in my country at least (not US), I’m pretty sure Boomers + Gen X make up the majority of the voting power due to declining birth/death rates. (These stats are 100% pulled out of my ass, so they can very well be wrong.)
So, if anything you’re the ones who hold more power (again, in my country at least).
What I’m trying to say is, things aren’t as black and white as this stupid memes make them seem. We’re all collectively messed up somehow. :)
You won’t, you’re all perfect of course! All the best commercials tell you so, to say nothing of the most reliable source, one another!
Gen X isn’t naturally like this because of age, but because of political and media marketing that worked to stamp their generation with certain conservative values from a young age. If this is gonna happen to Gen Z, it will happen soon. But few tend to deradicalize once they are anti-capitalist.
Yeah, I’m honestly concerned since my parents’ political views changed radically the last 7~10 years or so. They were super loving and caring. Now they’re very “paranoid” about things that shouldn’t really leave them that stressed and xenophobic bordering full on racism. Overall gender related topics topics, random news on Facebook, immigrants…
I think that, if my parents that were so understanding and caring about everything and everyone, can somehow have their opinion change drastically in 5-10 years, what’s preventing that from happening to me down the road?
Yeah, computers and Internet aren’t their expertise so maybe they’re more likely to fall for fake news and clickbaity titles designed to infuriate them and generate views.
But who knows what’s coming? Maybe there’s something else coming up that my generation will be too “boomer” to understand. Maybe we’ll fuck up everything without even noticing we’re doing it until it’s too late. Maybe I’m just being too paranoid myself.
Think tanks are paid a lot to figure out how to dupe every generation and make fools of us. Should be obvious, but a lot of young “leftist” or “progressive” democrats are… maybe happier to tow the party line than they let on. And oddly support Israel, full-stop. Maybe we will vote in a “leftist” raegan democrat or something. The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
What’s wrong with gen x? I remember being repeatedly told growing up that we were the first generation for which things were gonna be worse than the previous. Lo and fucking behold.
Millenials were the original “avocado toast” generation targeted by boomers. We’ve been conditioned to protect our young from the real babies in these older generations. But there are good ones and bad ones in every generation.
Ha never thought of it this way but I like that, and yeah I feel that. No way old people, you picked on us long enough and blamed us for “The world going to shit”, you aint doing that to the young 'uns. (and the fact that now they’re doing it to gen z just proves they have no fuckin idea)
deleted by creator
I think its mostly focused on the older gen x, some of them are worse than the boomers.
A lot of them aren’t, though. They were named Gen X at least in part as a reference to Malcolm X due to their rebellious nature towards previous generations and their societal norms.
We got your back. Not sure who’s saying millennials dislike gen x, but they’re not speaking for most of us.
I wrote an eight paragraph response and then deleted it and condensed down the highlights.
-
Millennials and Gen Z have to pay many times over what it cost the Gen X for a quality education but they still have more than twice as many four year degree holders as Gen X had in their 30s.
-
The Boomers aren’t running anything anymore, they’re median age 66 ffs. Gen X are the new corporate overlords. Their first act as voters was either Reagan or Bush Sr, both of whom gutted most systems of oversight.
-
They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
-
They still share the boomer view on gender roles, that only men wear pants and go to work, that girls like pink and boys like blue. Anything outside of that very specific framework is viewed as creepy and immoral.
In the nicest way possible, the world will be much better when Gen X is gone.
Millennials and Gen Z have to pay many times over what it cost the Gen X for a quality education
Due to decades long processes set in motion by boomers and older while Gen X were still children if born at all.
The Boomers aren’t running anything anymore, they’re median age 66 ffs
Half of Congress (54% of Republicans in Congress) is 65 or older. The president is too old to even be a boomer
Their first act as voters was either Reagan or Bush Sr
The first presidential election where they were old enough to vote, the only other realistic challenger was the VP of the president who had been successfully smeared in the media as the most inefficient in modern history and the alternative in 88 was Dukakis. In both cases, the Republican won by a landslide in a media landscape of intense gaslighting and other propaganda in their favor, so you can hardly blame Gen X for them.
They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol
Not even remotely true and even if it was, that would be a hell of a lot better than devoting your life to work and money
They still share the boomer view on gender roles, that only men wear pants and go to work, that girls like pink and boys like blue. Anything outside of that very specific framework is viewed as creepy and immoral.
Also false of the majority. In their youth, Gen X were pretty much DEFINED by rebellion against the societal norms of previous generations, including outdated and restrictive gender roles.
In the nicest way possible, the world will be much better when Gen X is gone.
Sounds like there’s more of a YOU problem than a Gen X problem tbh…
Fortune 500 Company CEOs median age is 58, the same as the Median Age of voting House Members! It’s very close but that’s Gen X.
- They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
Jealous?
The dichotomy of admissions like this and outright refusals like the wall of text above.
They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
Only 90% of our lives, but the rest we just wasted.
And if we keep this up your grandkids will say the same about you.
I worry my singular grandchild will think of me as someone wasteful who had every opportunity to fix things but did nothing. I worry that I may never have the opportunities needed to do net good in the world because the generations before did everything in their power to consolidate wealth and keep us all under their thumbs, even at the expense of their own majority because their idiocy placed more value in short term satisfaction than knowledge and freedom. Worst of all is I can’t even be truly angry at them, because they will suffer the most of all, abandoned in low budget homes waiting for the failing system of medicine to let them die.
My Nephew thinks I’m cool, though, so I’ve got that going for me.
-
Sorry but those broccoli haircuts are a deal breaker for me. Sucks about global warming and all though, yall got the short end of the stick
Gen z here believe it or not. Gen x and boomers fucked up a lot of stuff. I sadly feel doomed ):
Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous 🫂🥹
Hey, look. For the most part Gen X tried to be benefactors of future generations, but we lacked the demographic to make any impacts.
Watch Stranger Things. Do you feel the helplessness of the protagonists? That was us. Nobody listening. Nobody taking us seriously.
This is Gen Z’s world now. As you come of age, Z, we anticipate your righteousness and your worldview. You have the demographics gp make change, at long last. Make it stick.
The Devil knows we tried, not that anything mattered.
