• 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.

    • @ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Yes, but …

      Setting aside the polarized nature of named generations, as a class; for these are entirely arbitrary and designed to create polarization …

      There’s fun theory on the “Gen X are forgotten” meme. Yes yes, you Gen Xers got shafted, here’s a cookie 🍪 Please hear me out.

      Most people fall on the cusps of their “generation” and Gen X is no different - in this case, you’re either old enough to identify with boomers, and are shouting “snowflake millennial” with them; or you’re young enough to identify with millennials, but still too old to identify with Gen Z, so you’re shouting “cringe zoomer” with the millennials, they who are cuspers themselves and too old to identify with Gen Z. The quintessential Gen Xer is uncommon, but exceptionally kind. You always know when one is around though, because they are quick with a self deprecation point out that Gen X was “forgotten again.” 😉

      The sad thing is that many of the so-called boomers are being replaced by Gen Xers. And the millennials shouting the same inter-generational slurs will eventually take the throne of generational bully.

      On the other hand, there is hope inspired by this meme - all we need to do to stop inter-generational trauma is stop perpetrating it.

      • @Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        The only millennials I give a shit about are the ones who made my life painful as they entered the working world and even then, away from the office as long as they are not trying to police speech we are chill.

  • BaroqueInMind
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    01 year ago

    As a millennial, I do not understand Skibidy Toilet, but will embrace the weird because it is actual art in its purest form and makes people feel differently in almost every possible way when you see it; renaissance painters would have killed to see people respond to their art the way everyone in contemporary times react to this shit.

  • @lelgenio@lemmy.ml
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    01 year ago

    The circle has already been broken, as ~zoomer, the vast majority of millennials I interacted with were really nice people.

    • Luminocta
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      01 year ago

      I think boomers to millennials would make more sense. Boomers are so hateful and desperate to keep what was promised to them that they will hold on to it even if it costs 3 generations of people almost everything.

    • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      Is the circle even real? Some of the nicest people I’ve interacted with in my entire life were Baby Boomers. I’ve met shittier Gen Xers and Millennials than Baby Boomers.

      • @Auli@lemmy.ca
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        01 year ago

        It’s all bullshit, just generated for people to hate someone other then the ones they should be.

      • @CTDummy@lemm.ee
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        Yeah that’s been my experience as well and I work for a bar. Most of my coworkers in that generation have been easier to get along with, easier to communicate with and don’t visibly panic at a “dead inside” joke. Direct contrast to my last workplace with more millennials/boomers. Ive yet to cop inter-generational shit talking from zoomers so they sure won’t get it from me. Plus look what they did with memes.

    • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      I’m a millennial and I love you guys, my aim is to be kinder and more helpful to y’all than our predecessors were to us

      • Gen Xers have always been pretty cool, as long as you don’t expect them to care about much. I get the feeling that the close proximity to the Boomers really took it out of them.

    • Alex
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      01 year ago

      I’m a really young zoomer and most millenials I interacted with were also really nice.

      But there were also a few jerks

  • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    01 year ago

    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.

    • cassie 🐺
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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.

  • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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    01 year ago

    Baby Boomers as a generational cohort are well on their way to completely dying off and generational antagonism is a tool of the capitalist class to turn the workers of different ages against one another. Be better than that. Make better memes.

    • @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      01 year ago

      generational antagonism is a tool of the capitalist class to turn workers against each other

      Isn’t that what this meme is about?

    • @Gabu@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      Generational antagonism predates capitalism by about 2 thousand years (of our recorded history)

  • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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    01 year ago

    Ugh the generations… I don’t even know which is my own. Every time the topic crops up people give me a different timeframe for each gen.

    Anyways, interesting to see the zoomer holding a mate and termo. I wonder what the original cartoon was about

    • @placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      There’s no official time frame, so you’ll get different answers. Also, generations are somewhat arbitrary delineations that are defined by things other than age, particularly major events and themes that occurred in early life.

      For example, it seems that “millennial” is congealing around 1981-1996, at least according to Wikipedia, but there’s still variance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenial#Date_and_age_range_definitions

      • @Truck_kun@beehaw.org
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        01 year ago

        Yeah, basically you’re a millennial if you’re currently in your 30’s. If you’re within a few years of that age, you may technically be a millennial, or even if not, you may still consider yourself a millennial, and that is fine. Generations are gradients, there is no firm start, or end, and as stated, is more about generalized experiences of your age group.

        If you are 25 and want to call yourself a millennial, that’s fine, if you want to call yourself a gen z/zoomer, that’s fine too.

  • @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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      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”.

  • @Zink@programming.dev
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    01 year ago

    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.

  • @Katrisia@lemm.ee
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    01 year ago

    I use TikTok (I know…). There, when there’s rivalry, it is frequently ‘gen Z’ the one bullying ‘millennials’. They criticize the way they use technology, their fashion sense, their attitudes, their musical tastes, etc. Studies are noticing that ‘gen Z’ tend more to the right-wing, so I guess there’s a part of them also criticizing previous generations for being too leftists or whatever.

    I use the quotation marks because this whole generational thing seems to me arbitrary and U.S.-centric. I’m in the years that are considered the transition between these two generations and I share characteristics with both. It’s silly how serious we’ve taken this thing.

    • I’ve noticed the same thing between many generations regardless of chronology. I’ve also noticed it outside of the us. I think the root issue is that groups of people want other groups of people to be angry at.