• @ysjet@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    Whoever made this comic has never actually seen millennials and zoomers interact. We all cool.

    • @ZMonster@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      We are the only generation to acknowledge just how fucked the next generation is regardless of whether they “get a job” or not. We’ve also experienced enough bald-faced ignorance from previous generations that we have the humility to acknowledge that there might be things as we grow that we just won’t understand, and we can tolerate it either way. Or at least that’s been my experience among my age group. In fact I’ve never been more supportive and proud of the younger millennials and zoomers. Our racist octogenary and parent is handcuffed to the wheel and dead set on speeding the car up as fast as possible toward a firework factory and we all in the car calm and holding each other like, “well, we’re fucked but they’re dying soon and we might have time to hit the brakes”.

  • @OpenStars@startrek.website
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    01 year ago

    Sharing skibidi toilet with everyone across the Fediverse - I’ve been doing my part! :-P (few have ever heard of it, even fewer like it, none understand it -> it’s perfect art!:-D)

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    01 year ago

    i disown and disavow all millennials who give zoomers a hard time

    zoomers are fucking priceless

    gen-α needs the strongest possible start and the best support we can offer

    let’s NOT act like those FUCKING BOOMERS.

    • @Gabu@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      Zoomers are great and all, but their brains don’t seem to stay on for more than 20 consecutive seconds at times.

  • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    The concept of generations is just a social construct. These kinds of things are mostly just selection bias. If what’s seen as someone from an older generation criticizes something done by a younger generation, then “generational trauma” confirmed. If an older person agrees with a younger person, it’s ignored. If someone of the same age group criticizes, it’s also ignored.

    It’s especially ridiculous when considering opinions on something as subjective and inconsequential as a meme.

    • @eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      While I do broadly agree, I feel it’s important to note generational trauma is a real and separate concept. It just refers to the idea that trauma can be passed down from parents to children by repeating the same behavior or perpetuating the same ideas that traumatized them. This can be especially apparent in children of immigrants, religious extremists, or survivors of abuse, all for completely different reasons. It’s very common and worth talking about.

    • @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      01 year ago

      I’m not a fan of the tiktok Insta influencer culture and communicating in 90% emojis but other than that it’s all good.

    • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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      01 year ago

      Me, here.

      Picking on younger generations is healthy and natural: They’re still figuring stuff out and it’s a good way to give some teachings while everyone has a chuckle. What’s not healthy and natural is leaving them with neuroses where silent expectations, judgements, unwillingness to see their side etc. are the usual weapons: Don’t carry a dagger behind your back, doubly so don’t be unconscious of it, instead, open-carry a super soaker.

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          So you wouldn’t pick a snowball fight with a whole primary school because you’re oh so moral, not because you’re scared. Makes sense.

          • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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            01 year ago

            Unlike you I do not, in fact, fear five-year-olds. And it’s not because of fear or principle. It is because I am not a craven, sadistic lunatic.

            • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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              I shall look forward towards your experience report picking that snowball fight with a whole primary school, then. Also primary school is like 6-10, at least over here. They can throw.

    • Exocrinous
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      I don’t have a problem with zoomers, but I will make fun of them for using TikTok. It’s an unhealthy social environment. I know a zoomer who struggles with tiktok addiction and always does more poorly after using that app. They’ve been braver and kinder since they quit it.

      • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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        01 year ago

        So instead of building a better platform for them, you denigrate them for conforming to the world you left behind for them.

        You are exactly the boomer you claim to hate

        • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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          So if they’re not going to save the world, nothing they ever do amounts to anything. Worse, the whole thing worked (the Zoomer quit Tiktok and they feel better now) so that was obviously bad.

          And now, and please do mind that has nothing to do with age: Your argument is dumb and you should feel bad. In fact the first thing is Boomer talk, the shit they tried to get us with. Fuck that.

            • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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              At some point further down in your life you’re going to look back, in regret, thinking “Why did I become the me version of Ben Shapiro”.

  • @Zozano@lemy.lol
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    When you think about it, Great-grandpa is actually based.

    Great-grandpa calling Grandpa a snowflake because he called Dad cringe.

  • @Zink@programming.dev
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    I’m part of the Oregon Trail generation, essentially the border between X and millennial.

    I definitely try to do what the meme shows, but I had to post because I’m in my 40s and I recognize the meme because I have a 6 year old.