#millenial to boomer

[animentality]

[diazmaximoff]

This thread I found on Youtube has me rolling on the floor

[nando161mando]

[long-sleeved-sandwich]

It’s crazy to me hearing Boomers and Millennials talk about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Being Gen Z, most of us have resigned to the fact that we will be poor for the rest of our lives unless some miracle of biblical proportion happens, a revolution occurs and the structures of government and economy are fundamentally altered, or we enter into a relationship with an unhealthy power balance. Owning a bed with a headboard looks like wealth and luxury that we’ll never be able to have. Actually OWNING a house?? Unimaginable. Being in a financial state where we don’t have the constant threat of hunger and destitution hovering over our heads? Nearly impossible. We aren’t afraid of the pain involved in a health crisis, we’re afraid of the expense. Yet I live in the greatest country in the world?

[cellspex]

'Young people too sensitive'

Everytime I hear someone talk about how this generation is so sensitive or easily offended I remember how I Love Lucy couldn't say the word 'pregnant'

Or when I was a kid 'Butt' was a bad word

Same people who TODAY can't bare to talk about women's sexual issues like menstruation without getting grossed out, or more likely can't stand being corrected when they don't know what they are talking about Same people saying that want vote for a guy who literally wants to imprison people for saying anything bad about him.

[safije]

Not interested in getting into this young vs older women beef that people be having online.

Women young or old are our sisters, aunts, mothers, grandmothers, comrades... not competition.

[st-just]

We seriously need to (ideally) stop with this stupid generation naming shit or (at minimum) come up with better and more distinct names though.

[dead-twink-storage]

The heat Death of the West as brought to you by a never ending tide of AI Frozen rip off youtube kids videos made by Bangledeshis who realized feeding a never ending tide of Disney slop prompts into an ai video generator to keep the neglected ADHD Ipad addicted toddlers of "working professional" Millennials quiet for 20 hours a day while their parents neglect them to focus on their "data driven engagement analysis career" is more profitable than trying to scam pensioners out of their credit card number and Amazon login.

[o-kurwa]

[bli-o]

Ok. ok. fellow Gen Z’ers. guys. gen alpha is like. 13? now. They’re starting to join the internet and we’re experiencing the first taste of not being “with the times”. but guys. We have a mission: BE NICE TO THEM. DONT BE DICKS TO THEM. TREAT THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS GOOD.

[pissmoon]

How much of this 'gen z is so special like no other generation before' lame humor is the exact same things people were saying about millenials just 5 years ago. I think like about 80%

[llyfrenfys]

Very much off topic but it has occurred to me that the half-life of intergenerational discourse has shortened considerably over the last few years.

I made a post not too long ago where I was surprised Gen Z was redefined as 1996-2009 (or any such similar range) and I've been thinking about it- and the more I do the more I'm sure of one thing:

Gen Z and Alpha are being exposed to more ire at their existence at much younger ages and much faster than Millenials did from their elders.

When the whole "Blame Millenials for everything" era was in full swing, the vast majority of Millenials were adults (the fact Millenials were adults and not children was a pretty big part of the backlash against the ire). All the "avocado toast rhetoric" peaked when most Millenials were adults.

But Gen Z (my apparent generation) is half adults, half minors at the time of writing. I was born in 2000, I'm 23. But Gen Z kids born after 2005 aren't adults yet. So all of the current doomerism about our generation is annoying for me, but must be so demoralising if you're born after 2005. Like, I can't escape the feeling current generation discourse has given up on finding hope in late Gen Zers. It doesn't seem to know how to categorise early Gen Zers. We straddle Millenial and typical Gen Z experiences and so kinda get the worst ire from both.

Not to mention I've recently seen a whole lot of ire directed at Gen Alpha. C'mon these are literal children now being roped into generation discourse about how they're apparently hopeless or ipad babies.

It was one thing for Millenials to deal with this as adults. It's annoying as fuck for me to deal with it now as an adult. But I worry so much for younger Gen Zers and Gen Alpha who have to bear the brunt of grown ass adults using generations like they're star signs. If you find yourself saying "Gen Z/Alpha are so doomed lol" genuinely take a look at yourself and remind yourself you're talking about literal children. Especially if you're a Milennial yourself who went through the banality of being shit on by every generation preceeding.

It's so easy to not be a dick, yknow?

[accras]

Accurate[x] 😂

[st4r-t3ars]

WHY IS THIS SO TRUE

[meangan-thee-lesbian]

This boomer opinion that "my kids deserve no inheritance, I'm going to spend it all on jetskis and cruises, they should just work hard like I did uwu" is so funny to me because this is the same generation who'll constantly berate the childfree about "leaving behind a legacy" and it turns out the legacy these boomers are leaving behind is their children struggling with lifelong poverty during the worst financial times since The Great Depression, something that their own parents went through and subsequently left these boomers an inheritance so as to avoid.