I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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It's millennials trying to fit in with Gen Z to prove to themselves they're not old.
And the Gen Z is... reading a newspaper? Nah fam, I don't think that's what's going on.
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
Remember the internet before Facebook and Instagram? Good times. It was all Flash Games and p... Uhm, videos
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.
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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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.
Grandpa knew what he was doing when he called all the pokemen pikachu
pokemen
I... I think I'm having a panic attack.
Right? Everyone knows the correct plural form of "pokemon" is "pokemons".
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I have updated the comic for fairness.
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.
Idk, from my perspective gen Z, Millenials, and gen X are all united in hating boomers.
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GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?
Only as performance art
Uh that performance is cultural appropriation
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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.
It's the newspaper that is off-putting
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.
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.
Y'know, it's almost exactly as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real. Good point, friend-o.
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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.
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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The oldest millenials are in their 40s. Who is drawing these things?
Boomers, or millennials with boomer energy. Really anyone that wants to shit on "the youth"
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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Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.
Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.
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How is this millennial lingo?
Because everyone under 25 is a millennial. There is no other generation between or after genX and millennials.
> 50 = boomer < 25 = millennial
For everything else, there's MasterCard
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As a millennial I have no idea what that person is saying.
I would assume big spicy boi is a big shit. I am a millennial. Guess this makes no sense.
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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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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.
Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression
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?
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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.
Millennial, what the fuck are you talking about
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