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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 246 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

[–] prayer@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's millennials trying to fit in with Gen Z to prove to themselves they're not old.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 147 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the Gen Z is... reading a newspaper? Nah fam, I don't think that's what's going on.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You think millennials read newspapers? We are the first digital native generation. In fact, we saw the internet growing up while we grew up ourselves

[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember the internet before Facebook and Instagram? Good times. It was all Flash Games and p... Uhm, videos

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still know my ICQ number. Back when all instant messagers had open protocols and you could use one open source client for all of them.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 1 year ago

I'm still slightly mad that everyone wanted to use AIM instead of ICQ, even though icq was better. It had offline messaging and you could change your display name, neither of which aim supported.

Anyone younger than like 30 probably has no idea that those were noteworthy features at one time. You could only send someone a message if they were actively connected at the same time as you.

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[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know i'm old, i just found a new hobby: messing woth the younger generation by messing with their slang.

You know, like how grandpa called every pokeman pikachu...but on purpose.

[–] noli@programming.dev 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grandpa knew what he was doing when he called all the pokemen pikachu

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

pokemen

I... I think I'm having a panic attack.

[–] not_a_dog@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Everyone knows the correct plural form of "pokemon" is "pokemons".

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, it's 2020s, the proper term is pokepersons.

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[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 190 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have updated the comic for fairness.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Lmao Fuck an a that's radical man.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Did you mean "Fuckin' A" ?

Bone apple teeth moment

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Bone apple teeth

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3d657d2f-9213-43bf-b53a-83f399567bea.jpeg

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[–] Saltblue@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I thought it was overly exaggerated but then I saw the generation before me, blame my generation for the problems of the world and the "decadence of society " and then I saw my generation blame the next for those exact same things. Nothing new under the sun I guess.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk, from my perspective gen Z, Millenials, and gen X are all united in hating boomers.

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[–] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 180 points 1 year ago (2 children)

GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Uh that performance is cultural appropriation

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[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like this comic is mislabeled. Gen z should be boomer, or Gen Z should be saying something to a millennial, but not millennial to Gen z.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No cap.

He should be rizzin that W in Ohio, boomer 💀💀

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the newspaper that is off-putting

[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

For me the joke just doesn't work reversed. The younger generation grows up hearing the older generations slang, so even if the younger generation doesn't use that slang they know it. Older generations don't tend to keep up with younger generations slang so, at least to me, the joke really only works with the older not understanding the younger.

[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (19 children)

My favorite part about generations is how the cut off changes with every source I look at. Like, technically I'm a millennial, but I was born in '81 which is only sometimes part of the millennial age range and never part of the gen x age range. It's almost as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real.

[–] SoapyYogurt82@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y'know, it's almost exactly as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real. Good point, friend-o.

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[–] III@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The line between generations isn't a date, it is collective experience. For example, the split between Gen X and Millennials is digital technology. And whether one's experience more closely aligns to either generation is entirely down to the individual - and thus, not a rigid date.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

One: Hello, fellow Xennial. I'm just a couple of years older than you.

Two: I find we sort of sort ourselves based on life experience, family structure, etc. I have an brother 7 years older than me, so I skew Gen-X. My wife is less than a year younger than me, but she's the oldest and her parents are a touch younger a d fair bit less traditional than mine, so she skews Millenial.

The generations are a convenient shorthand to discuss broad trends about how certain cultural and economic factors affect the shared experiences of certain cohorts, but they're pretty silly, especially on the edges. Chronological astrology, really.

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The oldest millenials are in their 40s. Who is drawing these things?

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Boomers, or millennials with boomer energy. Really anyone that wants to shit on "the youth"

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a "Millennial" in the 40s, myself and others my similar age don't ever seem to fit into the millennial category well. The start should be in the mid 1980's not the beginning. Gen x seems more fitting for the early 80s. But the generation thing is kind of silly anyway.

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[–] anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social 65 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh I don’t mind if they do that?

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How is this millennial lingo?

[–] Dettweiler42@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Because everyone under 25 is a millennial. There is no other generation between or after genX and millennials.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

> 50 = boomer < 25 = millennial

For everything else, there's MasterCard

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[–] extant@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

As a millennial I have no idea what that person is saying.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

On God. Fr fr, no cap on the rizz with a lizz until I jizz. Yeet!

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would assume big spicy boi is a big shit. I am a millennial. Guess this makes no sense.

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I’m a Gen Z with a millennial girlfriend, and she doesn’t talk anything like that. In fact- I have never heard anyone talk like that.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

So is this intentionally mislabeled? Only the youngest millennials would be like 5% that bad, while gen z would actually be like that at times.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Millennials are split into the older and the younger ones. I am one of the older ones, and I don't know what the heck is going on with the younger ones.

Can GenX adopt me please?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Whats funny is that as soon as I read big spicy boi i knew exactly what it was. High key vibed with that tbh. Big relate. Mans got me dead.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Millennial, what the fuck are you talking about

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