I think you’ve got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.
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
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.
I mess with my zoomer children all the time: bruh, no cap, on god, sus/sussy, my guy.
They mostly roll their eyes, but I do enjoy it.
Yeah no millennial is doing that to fit in/not feel old (okay there are probably some but they’re a minority for sure), at best they’re doing that to be annoying/make fun of the crazy slang.
We used to make fun of comic books for making up slang that hilariously no one would ever use, then gen z came along.
Right? We used to be like “this is written like how some 60 year old executive thinks kids these days talk … nobody talks like this we just talk normally…”
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.
There’s an old song popular long before any of us were born called “what’s wrong with kids today?” about the generation we now call “the greatest”.
Iirc there’s an old Egyptian poem about how “the kids are no good”.
Before there was TV and video games, they used to blame social ills on the kids “reading, instead of living”.
Old heads gon’ shit on the youngins, it’s in our blood
Very true! I love thinking about ancient greeks complaining about “kids these days.”
https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/
I think the millennial generation’s biggest sin is the sheer volume of “Live laugh wine” and “Rose all day” content and decor.
Well can blamethe state of big tech on Gen X, right?
GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?
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.
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.
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.
I’m a 1995 kid and I think of myself as being right at the tail-end of what can reasonably be called a millenial
Yeah, my GF and I were born in 96 but both in fairly rural areas so our experience aligns more with being millennial. I think it depends a lot on the context of your personal upbringing, but I definitely agree with your sentiment.
If you were old enough to grasp how 9/11 changed the world as we know it and have clear memories from that day, you’re a millennial. If you had to be taught about it then you’re not.
Everyone has their own definition but that’s always been the cutoff that’s stuck with me.
It was never a hard cutoff, nor was it universal. Technology has long been a big factor, which means people in rural/poor areas were a decade+ later in experiencing the same generational norms.
Even cultural cornerstones are variable. For instance, you might remember the Challenger, or you might not, depending on your early childhood schools and your memory. The news about Magic Johnson or Kurt Cobain may have shattered your worldview, or you may not have even noticed.
But even in the best case, these are only useful as a rough guide. You should not be trying to do anything specific with these generalizations.
I put myself in the elder millennial window too. I think the divider for elder and not is that I remember when we got a computer and Internet. Younger millennials don’t remember not having it, or at least not having Internet
But it’s all just Hokum trying to pigeonhole everyone into neat uniform experiences
I think for that age range it kinda depends on when you entered the work force. Straight out of high school? Probably identity more with Gen X
In college for a while and graduated into the Great Recession? Probably more Millenial. That’s my uninformed take anyway
I fucked around for 10 years before working. Born in 85 LOL. I don’t feel like the younger generation at all. The only thing is that I am shocked when colleagues actually watch traditional TV stuff like that . Other than that I am very detoxed from the typical social media nonsense maybe that’s why.