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Are Millennials hating on Gen Z? I always thought our attitude was more like this:

Also, love how this skips Gen X. Always the forgotten generation.

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That’s how I like to see us too, but I’ve definitely met some Z hating millennials.

I met a fellow “old millennial” recently who said “we’re the last generation to be raised right”. I disagree, but hearing it from a guy my age really cemented me in old man status.

Then he told me he had 3 kids. Who’s responsible for raising that generation!? Lol.

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Go onto TikTok or Reddit (verboten, I know). Gen Z is currently going wild on how cooked and ruined Alpha already are.

They also have very strong opinions on what good child rearing looks like despite making up a huge portion of the child free ideology.

I generally dislike broad generational… uh generalizations. However, trends are undeniable. And as Z ages they appear to be going through Boomerification. I think that’s why so many public freakouts on service workers happen with them. Millennials have the opposite reputation, of bending over backwards to be overly polite.

Edit: to say that I’ve never seen a generation publicly express nostalgia as hard and young as Z. My older Alpha kids are sort of up there with their friends, too, but Gen Z just seems like they are retreating into a false past which never really existed as they remember it because the world is so shit.

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Besides the thing about talking about how children should be raised I completely disagree. I’ve never see anyone have nostalgia for anything besides music and fashion maybe since a massive amount of us are gay or trans so there’s no reason to want to go back to the past. And every gen x or millennial I know will gladly argue with cashiers for longer than any gen z since they’re still working as cashiers and were the generation that invented the concept of Karens and watch all the “customer gets owned” " I am the manager moments"

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I mean I kinda get it. I’ve met a couple of gen Alpha kids that were raised as proper iPad kids, and they are just so developmentally fucked.

They had their pad in front of then literally 24/7 playing those wierd as fuck AI kids videos on youtube or scrolling through the most mind numbing youtube shirts and would barely react to anyone in real life to the point the mum had to send him a message on the iPad to get him to respond to anything.

Even my own nephew who was raised with strict screen time limits is kinda fucked up as well. Just not as severely.

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It is interesting that older millennials like us will be the last ones to really remember the pre-internet world, though.

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As a millennial, I’m rooting for the zoomers. They’re angry and I love it.

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Awww we love u too <3

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Go get em champ!

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The other day my dad tried to tell me he was a millennial, because he was too young to be a boomer.

Even Gen X forgets about Gen X

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Born in 84, so technically a millennial although I feel more like a Gen X. As I like to say when X is overlooked - our apathy made us invisible. :-)

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I guess you can be an honorary Xer, but I was 14 when you were born, so it’s just a fact that a lot of what I and my fellow Xers have in common time-wise is going to be significantly different. Consider; you were 7-years-old when I was 21.

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35 points

Gen bait

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It’s up to you to break gen bate

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If only I can prevent forest fires, then that means 8bn other people dont have to worry about it

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Comics like this miss that due to the 15 year gap between generational groups, a family is likely 2 generations apart. Thus Boomers raised me, a Millennial, and I am raising Gen Alphas. My sister-in-law is an Xer and raised a Zoomer.

Also many of the best breakdowns of new memes are done by Millennials because we remember the wild early internet in all of it’s Hamster Dance, All Your Base, Flying Spaghetti Monster glory.

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Hi. I’m a millennial raising gen z and gen alpha children.

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Fuck yeah

I hate people hating on “the new generation”. Already in school in the last years some people started so say stuff like “oh the new 5th graders are so […]” and I always called them out that that’s such a bullshit and they were exactly the same

I hope I’ll stay like this; well see I guess

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I like the younger generations. Wish they had more confidence however.

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