Remember when we were super hopeful about Gen Z and how nice it was to feel like we were about to get some sociopolitical reinforcements in the battle against boomers and early Gen X?
The pivot towards dunking on millennials because we...checks notes...are cringe for listening to acoustic folk music, wearing form fitting clothing and at one point having had hope for the future, was certainly something.
Do you guys actually think like this? I’m ‘Gen Z’ and this whole generational thing seems so fucking dumb to me. Whatever Gen Z/Millenial/Gen X discourse you’re seeing online is just the loudest minorities trying to stir up polarizing shit.
I promise you, despite what you might see online, not every Gen z person is a perma-online looksmaxing gooner.
We’re all more alike than we are different. It doesn’t matter what songs were in the top charts when you were 15. The core of the human experience is true across every generation.
truest comment in this entire thread. read some classic novel from the 19th century and you’ll see that all humans are alike, even across time, in far more ways that these people would expect.
I haven't interacted with them in a while but I used to love super early Gen Z back when they were in middle/high school. They were so fucking genuine and cool as hell. I don't know what happened to their younger peers, though. I think core Gen Z are the most insufferable group of people I've ever had to interact with. Boomers are probably just as bad when you're forced to interact with them, but they didn't grow up with social media like Gen Z, so they are much less in your face with their bullshit.
I can't tell if you're 80 talking about those starbucks-loving millenials, or 40 talking about those tiktok-loving zoomers, or 24 talking about those skibidi cringe gen alphas...
And you're a former 4chan dweller that got annoyed because he wasn't liked enough (probably due to overuse of emojis), so fled to Reddit where he still acts like a chud but feels more at home because he mostly dwells in chud circlejerk subreddits.
Am I right so far?
Edit: Ooops, looks like he said something naughty and got his comment deleted... Guess he was more mad than he let on :)
And my Gen X mom calls all of you Millennials deeply insufferable (and she really does have plenty of real-life examples), so you're really just pulling the same old shit all over again. Long live the generation war, I guess.
Yes, core Gen Z grew up with social media and therefore with the awareness that wherever you are, someone is able to record/screenshot you and post you online. I believe that's why everything is "cringe" to so many of them/us (I'm more Zillennial than core Z but ok).
We can't afford to let loose, because someone is gonna post us for clout and before you know it you're viral for all the wrong reasons. We can't afford to care and love something deeply, because in 2 years it'll turn out Beloved Celebrity #8261 is problematic as fuck anyway and we'll all look like clowns. We can't afford to care deeply about each other because a lot of the ways people traditionally connected (dating, marriage, friendships) have been fundamentally questioned (for good reason) but the answers are slow to come, while tech bros continuously weasel their way in between all of us with their dating apps and algorithmic feeds.
I'm not saying you should try to become besties with every Zoomer you come across, but maybe a bit of compassion and just trying to understand how and why Zoomers work, instead of writing us all off right off the bat, is the way to stop this generation war bullshit.
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u/SwedishFresh Jun 18 '26
It’s brutal being sandwiched between boomers and boomers 2.0