Current Events > What Gen Z'ers Really Think of Millennials

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Eliza-Schuyler posted...

literally 1 out of 50 in my class.
every generation had stupid trends.
wasnt there one where people swallowed a live goldfish?
or planking

Dumb asses doing salt ice on the back of their hands to be "tough."

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Media trying to divide the millenials and zoomers. We have the important thing in common which is hatred for boomers.

BeyondWalls posted...

Gen X for the win?
Nobody ever says anything bad about Gen X.

No one says anything about Gen X, period. They are the Forgotten Generation. They are about to be the ones in power though.

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Rainbow_Dashing posted...

Dumb asses doing salt ice on the back of their hands to be "tough."

yes

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Eliza-Schuyler posted...

literally 1 out of 50 in my class.
every generation had stupid trends.
wasnt there one where people swallowed a live goldfish?
or planking

don't forget the gallon milk challenge

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nfearurspecimn posted...

don't forget the gallon milk challenge

oh god
cinnamon challenge too

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Lmao each generation thinks theyre the gatekeepers of the cool

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Eliza-Schuyler posted...

oh god
cinnamon challenge too

milk challenge was the worst because it created headaches for poor grocery workers for a stupid "prank"

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TopKekBro posted...

Lmao each generation thinks theyre the gatekeepers of the cool

True. A couple decades from now, people not born yet will be calling zoomers dorks

Zikten posted...

I bet this becomes an actual thing in like 50 years

It's already a thing. Zoomers are still young enough to be clueless about everything.

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I meant younger people saying ok zoomer to elderly zoomers. the current form of ok zoomer has a totally different meaning than ok boomer

lmao none of this is wrong tho

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Ok zoomer
zoomer please

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I'm so glad someone is calling my generation on the real shit wrong with them like their obsession with Harry Potter.

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DespondentDeity posted...

I'm so glad someone is calling my generation on the real shit wrong with them like their obsession with Harry Potter.

here's my one-minute theory on this:

when we were kids, it was still frowned upon to express interest in nerdy things and it led us to be repressed. now with the internet self-expression and acceptance has made a lot of headway and the repression has led people to overemphasize their interests from when they were kids.

that's all

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the zoomers i've known are are generally more interesting than millennials, i'll give them that

there are a few millennials that are quite interesting but they're not the majority

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TheMikh posted...

the zoomers i've known are are generally more interesting than millennials, i'll give them that

there are a few millennials that are quite interesting but they're not the majority

I always get blown away when I see these people in their late teens/early 20s and they're so much smarter and more aware of the world than I was at their age. I envy zoomers a lot.

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Parappa09 posted...

Theyre always annoyed at the fact they knew they're going to be renting forever, whereas Gen Zs know were just not going to be able to buy a house.

This part confuses md

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DEKMStephens posted...

This part confuses md

they're saying we have the same fate but they've accepted it.

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DEKMStephens posted...

This part confuses md

I take it as the Zoomers accept they won't be able to afford a house, while Millennials stress out over it. But yeah, that was the worst post of the bunch.

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I'm 31 and the girl I'm talking to is 23, her and her friends are way more fun to chill with than my friends, who are in general far more serious and cynical. I think there's a time and a place, but if you can't change things you gotta find a way to enjoy your life. She has the ability to smile through her depression where a lot of people my age allow themselves to suffer in defeat. I really admire her, she's more sensible and mature than I could have imagined when I approached her.

berlyman101 posted...

when we were kids, it was still frowned upon to express interest in nerdy things and it led us to be repressed. now with the internet self-expression and acceptance has made a lot of headway and the repression has led people to overemphasize their interests from when they were kids.

I think this theory has a lot of merit. I was being a little facetious with my post, but I do get tired of always having fandom shit shoved down my throat. I like things, but I don't like talking about them for hours, I'd rather be having real experiences than recounting fiction.

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cymbaline posted...

I always get blown away when I see these people in their late teens/early 20s and they're so much smarter and more aware of the world than I was at their age. I envy zoomers a lot.

i've encountered the theory that while millennials and zoomers were both avid consumers of media, zoomers were so hyperstimulated that they metaphorically burnt out their dopamine receptors early, went full circle, and went in a more productive direction, however unorthodox those routes by older standards.

though coming of age in an era of insecurity across the board - economic, societal, political - it seems they have to be far more conscious of risks and opportunities in life and society, and thus must be cognizant of what trends may be driving them. i suppose it has forced them to be more well-rounded and more prone to calculated risk-taking much sooner, which contrasts with the millennial expectation of stability and security, reflecting their childhoods and adolescences in the comparatively more stable 80s-00s.

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Millennials suck

I know this because I am a milennial, and I suck ass, and I consider myself better than most people in my gen

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Wait until these zoomers actually experience the real world. Lol no one gives a fuck what you think.

So zoomers confuse millennials with generation x basically

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p-m posted...

So zoomers confuse millennials with generation x basically

who?

(no one remembers gen x)

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Conflict posted...

Think about it. If she's 16 that means she was 2 years old when the Nintendo Wii came out. She wasn't even alive when Spongebob was in its prime. So she couldn't have grown up with the same things that people on the younger end of the millennial generation grew up with

I'm 20, I'm a zoomer, and I grew up with Spongebob and an N64. I vividly remember getting a Wii the year it came out. Stop your gatekeeping.

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I think the biggest divide in millennials and zoomers, is that millennials had a decent run before cell phones and internet. It may not seem like much at first, but it's a whole lifestyle change.

PowerOats posted...

I think the biggest divide in millennials and zoomers, is that millennials had a decent run before cell phones and internet. It may not seem like much at first, but it's a whole lifestyle change.

I'm 30 and I don't remember life without Internet access.

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Its ironic because they are viewing millennials from a purely internet social media standpoint because thats all gen z apparently knows to evaluate people.

Those millennials that use and revolve their lives around social media are just a percent and are the idiot percent of any generation.

Millennials that are in the typical 9-5 job (which is a bad thing?) arent posting about their lives because they dont care about that shit and hence why you wont here about them getting new house, car, etc. So its like it doesnt exist to the internet leashed Gen z.

But I definitely like the zoomer whore women. Thanks!

bobaban posted...

Its ironic because they are viewing millennials from a purely internet social media standpoint because thats all gen z apparently knows to evaluate people.

Those millennials that use and revolve their lives around social media are just a percent and are the idiot percent of any generation.

Millennials that are in the typical 9-5 job (which is a bad thing?) arent posting about their lives because they dont care about that shit and hence why you wont here about them getting new house, car, etc. So its like it doesnt exist to the internet leashed Gen z.

Good point

p-m posted...

I'm 30 and I don't remember life without Internet access.

Life without internet consisted of one of two things

introverts: staying inside and watching TV/playing video games

extroverts: interacting with siblings/neighbors/friends outside of the house

the introverts went on to be Reddit posters/Twitch streamers, while the extroverts went on to be Instagram influencers/wannabe YouTube personalities

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People really bent out of shape about what the flossing generation thinks lmfao

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Ving_Rhames posted...

People really bent out of shape about what the flossing generation thinks lmfao

what does this mean

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I mean, they offer many compelling points in exposing the shit I can't stand about us Millies, but, my God, who gives a fuck about what these younger people think? ( '-')

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I take it as the Zoomers accept they won't be able to afford a house, while Millennials stress out over it. But yeah, that was the worst post of the bunch.

That and the part about job security was really weird

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FlameTurtle posted...

That and the part about job security was really weird

Yeah. I'm thinking she doesn't understand what job security means, or why it's being brought up so much right now.

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Conflict posted...

Yeah that's a complete farce

Think about it. If she's 16 that means she was 2 years old when the Nintendo Wii came out. She wasn't even alive when Spongebob was in its prime. So she couldn't have grown up with the same things that people on the younger end of the millennial generation grew up with

But I kinda get it though. They're teenagers. Teenagers hate being talked down to and treated like they're babies, and they always think they're older and relate more to adults than they really are and do. It's a phase everyone goes through.

Spongebob has never really gone off the air yeah?

Also I grew up with the SNES and Mega Drive and I was even younger for those. Wii was a popular family console that had a lot of sales so that actually does add up. Looking it up the Mega Drive is actually older than me and that was my first console heh.

I think the thing that's unique to this new generation is thanks to the internet they can technically grow up with whatever they or their parents want.

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Conflict posted...

I did play SNES games growing up, but even saying I grew up with it is a stretch, because I wasn't alive for half the console's active years.

what year were you born?

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Are 23 year olds Millennials or Zoomers?

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Conflict posted...

1994

thats fair. The SNES was already dying in 1995 and you were barely 1 y/o

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Conflict posted...

1994

So your comparison to the Wii would be PS1/N64.

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p-m posted...

I'm 30 and I don't remember life without Internet access.

I'm 31 and your family must have just been very early adopters, the internet wasn't at all widespread when we were very young. Even for folks who had it, it took up your phone line so they didn't use it nearly as much as we do. People still called each other back then.

Conflict posted...

I mentioned that they would've only been 2 when the Wii came out to highlight that they wouldn't have been able to grow up with the big systems that came out before it that a millennial would've. N64, Dreamcast, PS1, Game Boy Advance, etc. If PS2 wasn't active for over a whole decade that would've been on the list too

And that's just video games and TV. There's plenty more cultural advancements and changes where that came from. Someone born in 2004 certainly wouldn't know what life was like before the smartphone.

Ah I see what you mean now.

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Well looking at those....theyre not exactly wrong lmao

PowerOats posted...

I think the biggest divide in millennials and zoomers, is that millennials had a decent run before cell phones and internet. It may not seem like much at first, but it's a whole lifestyle change.

i was just thinking about this since logos and tv and stuff used to be so much better in like 1991 and then around the time survivor season one premiered society went to shit. we had the rug pulled out from under us because soulless boomers finished their takeover of corporate pop culture marketing and immediately sold it out to the rising equally soulless cgi industry. and if we acknowledge this we're told were just being nostalgic so it's a double gaslight

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