#millennials hated gen z

[riymeep]

Holy crap gen z we are literally the latest example of a generation that was screwed over by the previous ones. Start being smarter and NOT fall into the trap of thinking the next generation sucks just because they’re younger and grow up a little different and maybe, I dunno, actually help them become better if you hate them so much considering they’re only like 5 and will only become worse if we treat them like shit????

[disasterhimbo]

Hey, remember like 10 years ago when many of us were in our teens and twenties? Remember how there were all those news articles making fun of “millennials and their avocado toast,” that they didn’t know certain skills that had stopped being taught in school, that they were ruining the economy by killing various industries?

Remember how we rightfully said that was bullshit and we would be the generation to end it, that we would be nice to the generation after us?

I’ve seen a couple posts shitting on gen alpha kids. Don’t do that. Remember that they’ve already been through climate disasters, political unrest, and a global pandemic in their young lives. Talk to them. If they’re being rude, it’s probably because they’re struggling, not because they’re evil. Treat them as we wanted to be treated when we were their age. Children are people.

[claires-audience]

Put your clothes back on

I was actually gonna explain to you how the beige aesthetic isn’t a millennial/genz preference for soothing colours and neutral toned dressing, its actually a deviantly fed style choice to the general public so that when eventually you throw out that overpriced Stanley, the junkyard doesn’t look as concerning as it does with multicoloured objects. Every item is meant to look beige/neutral so that THE TRASH can look *aesthetic* to the rich overlords

[fallout-fucker]

Sole Survivor Headcanon

Kind of OC based but it's also vague (Although Minutemen leaning) so like. If your Sole wasn't a soldier or lawyer. Or anything. Just a skill-less bastard. You might like this. Enjoy.

Sole being trusted by so many factions just for breathing is so funny actually. Like they deadass crawl out of a cave, freshly traumatised, and told they're a General? Because they helped someone? Cool, yeah, sure, uh-huh. That's a great amount of pressure to handle on top of their circumstances.

I like to think that everyone also assumes they're insanely clever. It's not that Sole isn't, per se, but everyone treats them like a genius. A prodigy. People have told Sole they understand why Preston trusted them so much because the Commonwealth 'needs their level of knowledge and intelligence to get better'. To which Sole is always bewildered, because their 'extensive level of knowledge' is just. High school level. Basic science lessons.

They know about evolution and stem cells and stuff. They know how disease and antibodies work. They're praised for changing people's opinions on vaccination when, with the help of Curie, they start a campaign to bring back vaccines. Their goal was to fight the viruses that had been brought back from near extinction from 200+ years of no healthcare system, no scientists and doctors to cure them. A tilt back in the direction of accessible Pre-War healthcare.

Sole knows history. They know what to watch out for, how to spot tension between factions. They know how to avoid more war, lessons learned from textbooks and late nights with post-it notes. They know how to piece together a scale and pin point the tipping point to stop it before shit goes down because they did a project about it on a WW1 assignment. The Great War. The irony is not lost on Sole when they contemplate that name for too long.

They're decent at Maths. Decent enough to make sure the caps and donations to the Minutemen are being put to good use. To make sure the book keeping is up to code and every cap is accounted for, and what it should be put towards. Like trying to bring back vaccines from 200 years ago. Negotiating with Vault 81 to let Curie use the old lab there goes way more smoothly when they've got the caps to make a worthy case for the cause.

Sole knows why people assume their mind is unmatched, though. In a way it is, sort of, they suppose. Since education is rare in the Post-War world, and even then it's not at the level it was Pre-War, Sole just seems smart. Everyone thinks they are.

Sole never knows how to handle it.

Are they complicit for letting people believe they're a genius? Should they keep up the charade so people listen to them? The thought keeps them up at night. Preston laughs at them for it.

MacCready reminds them of the many times they looked like a dumbass in every other circumstance where they lacked knowledge. 210 years of missing out on General Wolrd Stuff will do that to ya. It's not necessarily their fault, but he still likes to drag them for the time they got food poisoning because they didn't realise some of the new plants had to be cooked before consumption.

Every time someone acts in awe of Sole's intelligence, MacCready snickers because he was there in the early days. Sole had hired him to watch their back. Soon enough he became their mentor on how to shoot a gun properly. How to maintain it. What to eat, what not to eat, what to definetly not eat. How to make sure mole rat meat is 100% cooked. How to safely remove as much radiation as possible from water and food when you have only basic supplies. He would never think Sole is stupid. They know a lot compared to most people, but learning how to survive and knowing how to count are very different types of knowledge. No, he'd never think they're stupid. But he definetly humbles them, which Sole is actually happy about. He still affectionately calls them an idiot and reminds them of the time they tripped over their own laces, alerting the radstag they were hunting of their presence. And the food poisoning thing. And the incident with the bucket. And when they almost touched a deadly plant because they thought it would look nice in a vase they found.

Thing is, Preston taught them basics of how to shoot and fight before they left Sanctuary. MacCready picked up the workload when he met Sole and realised they'd likely get them both killed if he didn't. Cait showed them hand to hand combat and lockpicking. Everyone at some point taught Sole something. So Sole goes red from embarrassment when being complimented on their mind, because they know they're gonna get an earful from their friends later. Affectionately bullied. You know Deacon has some blackmail level information from the months he followed them. They all sit at Sole's kitchen counter and share stories of Sole's embarrassing misadventures over breakfast. That's just what a family does.

[isawthismeme]

[solradguy]

I wonder if there's a way to find out if trans/nb people sometimes having unconventional names* was something that existed before roughly 1985 or if it's a direct side effect of generations y & z being exposed to American 1980s action movies, Japanese animated media, and the encouragement of personal handles on the internet not being an actual name

*Names of objects, weather phenomena, animals, adjectives, etc.

(yes I know about Public Universal Friend but that's only one example and an accurate dataset one example does not make)

[starsarebleeding]

HELLO I want to say something about age gap relationships, because the amount of sanctimonious vitriol they get (often irrespective of how old the younger party is) is, I think, a concerning symptom of something else that's JUST as sinister as purity culture.

Now look: there is & always will be conflict between generations. It's the way of growth and evolution, fine. What's different in current society is that how we conceive of generations is based on marketing tactics.

That is: the grouping of ages helps to create a clearer target audience that corporations can sell to. The more you stay in your generational box, the easier you are to pigeonhole in a boardroom, and the more your consumerism perpetuates the actual hell of capitalism we're in.

This would just be another way to take advantage of you EXCEPT: remember a few years ago when Gen Z waged absolute war on Millennials for virtually no reason? Like yeah fine Millennials are earnest, and goofy and less ironic than Gen Z in their humour, but at the core, we're actually quite similar (or were, at the time, before the alt-right radicalization of Gen Z men -- which is part of my point) in our beliefs and core values of progressiveness. We're also the generations most harmed by capitalism, and most at risk as a result of all the bad decisions made by those that come before us.

Man -- sure would suck if Millennials and Gen Z, both extremely online and therefore globally connected, teamed up to start a real revolution, wouldn't it?

Man, what's this new TikTok thing taking off?

I'm not saying the Millennial-Gen Z war was a conspiracy (okay secretly I am lol) -- what I AM saying is that: the further away we get from interacting with other generations for stupid dumbass reasons like style choices and bad memes, two things happen:

1) we fit more and more neatly into the boxes the ruling class wants us to (this is where the altrightification of Gen Z men fits in: the question to always ask yourself is -- who makes money off of your online presence & content consumption, and what are their motives?)

and

2) we isolate ourselves from learning about the (much deeper) similarities we have with previous generations, and we lose the opportunity to learn from them

So.

When I hear someone saying that "an age gap of 10 years is creepy no matter what" or whatever -- what does that actually mean? Take that to the logical conclusion. Does that mean the younger person cannot be expected to be an adult and hold their own boundaries, regardless of their age? Friendships can be intense and manipulative too, sometimes -- so does that mean friendships that cross generations are also creepy? Wait, does that mean any interaction across generations is suspect and weird?

No, it doesn't, like I'm not dumb I get that the antis are just stressing about grooming or whatever and don't understand the definition. But, for any antis that come across this: no one is saying pedophilia in real life is acceptable. But if you keep raising the age of actual adulthood, not only do you infantilize actual adults -- you are effectively arguing that actual adults should not learn from, connect with, or mobilize with previous generations. You would prefer to force adults into the boxes that corporations have put them in. And that lack of intergenerational learning and exploration is nothing but bad for us.

Only power can be found in generations working together against the ruling class my bros, please don't ruin this for us by creating a culture where younger people feel so weird about connecting with older people that they just don't do it.

[subpixie420]

The people who seemingly had some sort of camaraderie with me were the most evil people amongst the bunch in terms of sex workers

If you read this and worry it may reside with you. It does and feel bad about it sex workers of Tumblr who were in groups with me.

[justiisleepy]

Y’all ever think about how the oldest gen alpha are 11? (Gen Z is 1997-2012; so only people born after 11:59 p.m December 31st, 2012 are by definition gen alpha.) People started complaining about “Sephora kids” in mid 2023, it’s barely 2024, they were Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

Skibidy toilet? Phantom tax? GYAT? Rizzler? That’s Gen-Zalpha baby, just wait until the pure bred Gen-Alpha’s start hitting the market. (In about 4 years) that’s when we’ll see their true colors.

Also college kids with avocado toast? Those were the zillennial’s, Instagram started being popular in early 2013, avocado toast started about a year after and was a trend among early 20’s (late millennials) and late teens (elder gen-z) so stop shitting on millennials for that too.

Right now we’re only seeing the cusp. We have about 4 years before we really start hearing about Gen-Alpha’s rebellious teen phase, and 6 before we hear about them getting a drivers license

So, if you’re gen z shitting on skibidy toilet/ blaming the Sephora kids instead of the parents, you’re shitting on yourself too bud. Wipe your ass and get over the weird “cool” generation superiority complex.

Also for those curious, Harambe was the start of gen-z rebellious teen phase. Tide pods was when we got our drivers license (2016, and 2018) right now Sephora kids are our avocado toast (the transition/ preteen puberty)

-Sincerely, a gen-z who is frankly tired of everyone’s bull shit.

[goldfinchwrites]

You cannot and should not modernise bret Easton Ellis novels…the beautiful thing about them is how excessively of the time they are. The way the first three are so overwhelmingly 80s is too fundamental... Rules of attraction movie nonetheless is so special to me

[tshifty]

this is going to be a hot take but the worst managers ive had have all been millennials. like don't get me wrong, gen x and boomer managers can also be wild. but the most notably terrible managers? millennials. lmao

[claires-audience]

The sheer number of math-question memes like, “My sister was twice my age when I was 5, so how old will she be when I’m 45?” proves two things:

1) we’re collectively terrible at math, and

2) this probably millennial-era joke has somehow achieved eternal life.Its unfazed by logic, surviving every generation.

[dddemigirl]

Millennials 🤝🏻 Gen Z

Inheriting a dystopian hellscape of a world that we didn’t ask to be born into

[pupkou]

can we come together as a community and be honest with ourselves .. because i’m tired of seeing everything turned into an egg roll. not everything needs to be an egg roll

[low-po1y-princess]

I do not fucking care about generation names or culture anymore i was born in 2004 and that's all you need to know