#generational gap

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[icedsodapop]

Hot take, but there's a recent trend in online spaces of millennials acting as if they are somehow oppressed by boomers and gen z for being millennials, and acting as if criticism from boomers and criticism from gen z are somehow the same? And it feels kinda reactive.

Like yes, being made fun of by gen z can sting and it's stupid. But millennials somehow forgot that gen z are just the latest group of young adults to enter the job market, and they def don't have the same level of power that boomers have becos gen z adults aren't the majority of upper management. Gen z don't have the power to influence job market trends, so when a gen z person is making fun of millennials online, that's just a rando with little power thenselves being mean online.

[furiousgoldfish]

I'm noticing that adults are often very offended when they see a child who has something they themselves didn't have in their childhood. I've had someone randomly start ranting about how their own grandchildren have 'too much toys', and how they don't appreciate any of it. They went on to explain how they, as a child, only had one toy, and they had to play with that one alone. They're also upset that children can now use phones, which also wasn't an option in their own childhood.

This is concerning to me, because while busy noticing all the things that children have, which are toys and phones, people don't tend to notice the things we had that are no longer available to the new generations. Planet free of pollution, free of climate change, adults got to experience that. Economy that isn't in this bad of a state, availability of jobs, education being worth something, financial safety, probability of owning a home. All of this has critically declined and turned into unstable, unreliable and difficult to manage situation for children, to the point where there's no clear path to a safe future anymore, for anyone. Current children have to invent jobs and find a way to produce a safe future without relying on an existing path, something that was available for most of the population in the past.

And the availability of phones and toys is not necessarily a luxury; back then nobody had a phone, or a mountain of toys, so it would be unusual and privileged for just one child to have it. But when everyone has that, it would be unusual and almost humiliating not to have it. The prices of these had reduced, they're more available and easy to get. The phones connected to the internet will ensure that the child will be exposed to a lot of information every day, and they'll have to find a way to deal with all that, it can become overwhelming and damage their attention span and emotional stability, if they're constantly exposed to distressing or disturbing information, which often finds its way to kids.

What will it mean for their life, if they had toys and phones as kids, but later on, they don't have a safe job? They can't hope to have a home of their own? They are not at freedom to financially plan their futures, their families, they have to depend on their own parents or relatives to get by? What will it feel like when they can't count on the climate and safe and reliable food sources? What when they're suffocated by the financial demands of just staying alive and fed? What if they don't have anyone to help financially? What if they're rendered mentally ill by the stress and perils happening in the world, all of it so close to them via constant overload of pain and suffering?

Having toys and phones is nothing compared to having an experience of a safe, stable, predictable life, on a planet with a normal, stable climate. We failed to secure this to our children. We have no business being jealous that they now have a phone.

[ethereal-w0lf]

I think the big difference between young Millennial and Gen Z offensive humor vs like older Millennial and Gen X humor is Gen X tends to punch down more and joke about racism and homophobia because there was this impression those weren’t a real issue anymore. This is because of the theory of the end of history in the 2010s where it was believed there was actual equality in the west and “There will be no more war only conflicts”

Gen Z on the other hand grew up seeing these problems are very much still real, they saw that the peace and equality weren’t really there. I think a lot of Gen Z dark humor comes from apathy and disillusionment. Majority of Gen Z offensive humor punches up or straight. Mocking politicians, celebrities, scandals, interests, Law enforcement or personal beliefs.

There is still Gen X style offensive humor with Gen Z, see most alt right jokes. Though it’s less popular, Gen Z offensive humor also is more likely to have a punchline instead of the entire joke being “I can’t believe someone would say that and that’s why it’s funny”

TLDR: Gen Z’s offensive jokes usually punch up or straight and joke to cope with the failure of the world while Gen X and older Millennials offensive jokes root from the idea that every problem was solved so the issues are safe to joke about now.

[ellewantsrevenge]

the internet was never meant to be the answer - it was always supposed to be the tool

when i was 13ish (1998-2000) i was maintaining an angelfire website that i updated with my handwritten fanfiction that i transcribed after school

i was taught how to use the internet in middle school. how to perform searches, use Boolean searches, etc.

we also had less homework bc there was no expectation we could move mountains at home. you couldn't assume everyone had computer access in those days. only 40% of US households had internet in 2000 and it was dial-up

we couldn't rely on it outside of the school computer lab bc it was never the answer, just another tool like a textbook or calculator

we all learned basic coding for myspace, livejournal, xanga, whatever. back in the message board days you would have a request thread so people who couldn't code could request things from people who did code

message boards used bbcode and it was really annoying since everything else use html or CSS. what was even more annoying was if you had a message board that wouldn't let you swear and your livejournal link had a swear word in it

the point is, no matter what we did we couldn't hit behind a complete mask of bullshit. even cheating took effort (or money)

this is the same old story, but things speed up and eventually start going so fast that there's nothing to do but let the runaway train hit the brick wall with the circle drawn by the your own self at full speed

i understand why people think we're stuck in a simulation. how could this many collective people for this many generations be so wrong so many fucking times?

[21tampons]

I think maybe there's a reason that some adults are so unaccepting of mental health measures, like kids using headphones in school hallways. And I think that reason is that the adults in their lives just like. Didn't give a shit about them. Like they literally had a commercial that reminded them to think about their kids.

"It's 10:00, do you know where your kids are?" "Oh shit, I forgot we had kids. Honey, call them back from the coal mine or wherever the fuck they're at."

And people who grew up like that just can't imagine kid's needs being accommodated. My dad's a teacher, and I've hard him bitch about kids going to the counselor, kids wearing headphones in the hallway, kids going to a quiet room during lunch, kids having a water bottle with them in class, even kids wearing pimple patches. And I'm pretty sure it's because they've spent their entire lives being told that their needs don't matter and just to suck it up, and now they can't imagine the next generation being treated like human beings. So they just call them attention seekers and say that their faking it.

[cringecorp]

teenagers these days are making video essays and engaging in discourse. when i was 16 i was driving to the library so i could play Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo

[iammercules]

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