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if I had to isolate a truly insufferable 'generational trait' along the wave of my peers it would be that. please give us a hard time for it if we continue the generational wars against you, we deserve it

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Generations have been invented by the media to sell you "new" music

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am a zoomer school teacher in a room of alphas this resonates for me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Of course I can only speak for my zoomer friend group, and things can always change as we age, but I feel like the prevailing opinion of ours for the kids is pity. Like the contradictions and crisis that have made our last decade shit are only going to get worse for them. Here's hoping we don't continue the war.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Generations are a fuck but also you've gotta be in your twenties at the oldest, you don't get to be almost Kids These Days. You are kids these days.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The oldest zoomers are like 28, ten years after legal adulthood definitely qualifies them for a Kids These Days license

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The oldest millennial is 50 or so and I'm in my early 30s, generations are nonsense and it's generally bad to generalize based around the oldest of a made uo demographic regardless.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

50 is still gen x territory I think, oldest millenials are ~40

To me there mark of the millennial is spending all/almost all of their entire working life in the wake of the financial crisis. These are the folks for whom the American dream was dead on arrival. A 50 year old would have been born in 74 and so 34 in '08 and started their career in the 90s, they probably felt a glimmer of hope at some point

They got fucked hard actually since they're the ones who saw their home equity collapse, got laid off mid career etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

50 is definitely gen x

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

I fart on all generations

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought GenX owned detached cynicism.

Is this shit just in a cycle?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

X-ers are cynical chauvinists. Zoomers are cynical nihilists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We call it absurdism thank you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

At least in my friend group, we actively talk about killing cynicism in ourselves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Gen alpha will not make it to adulthood

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn’t Gen alpha the same as the zoomers

[–] bdonvr 13 points 2 days ago

No the zoomers are adults now, alphas boutta hatch

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, it's the next one, gen Z then starting again with a...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does that make today's babies generation omicron

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The whole thing is absolutely bullshit anyways, but no, lol, gen beta; couple centuries to go til Omicron (we won't make it that long probably)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

generation beta

Haha rekt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Gen C(ovid)