Real talk I'm calling bullshit. Gen z humor is off brand millenial humor. Also cat. (hexbear.net)

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

Gen Z humor be like:

Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors, he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection.

You start with Mario—the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi—the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario—Mario turned septic and libertarian—then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others.

Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t—without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man.

In a capitalist world where our identities are shaped by parasocial relationships to brands and consumption, we are all just as devoid as Waluigi.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

I'm a millennial and this is awesome

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Oh, sorry, didn't mean to post Baudrillard Waluigi. I meant beanis

[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

yea there's tons of gen z "i hate my life" humour lol

[-] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I listen to my younger gen z coworkers constantly say "guess I'll just die" as a throwaway punchline almost every day. Used to shock me when I first heard it but now I guess I'm just used to them saying it

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

i guess we say it so much it doesn't register as humour to some lmao doomer

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Used to shock me when I first heard it

Brought me back to standing around in the distribution center warehouse when something or other caused a total stand still.

Co-worker (put together adult person): "What should we all do now?"

Me (Human trash bag): "mass suicide?"

I was the only one who found it funny

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

gen z coworkers constantly say "guess I'll just die" as a throwaway punchline

they're finally understanding how the system works!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

constantly say "guess I'll just die" as a throwaway punchline almost every day.

Eh, womp womp /j shrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lol literally the thing that got the most laughs from my nephew during the super Mario movie was the luma hoping to die in the cage, if anything gen z has really normalized black-pilled humor.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

I've really lost all my dark humor over the years since becoming a communist. That or getting older does the trick. I dunno at this point.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

I still am of the opinion that cynicism is very funny, but pure dooming or dark humor is just boring.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I've hit a perfect balance between hexbear cynical humor and silly dad jokes.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

imagine thinking millennials didn't have absurdist humor when they were teenagers. im sure boomers did too but they didnt have newgrounds.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Isn't the lolrandom thing something millennial are made fun of for?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

i dont know, probably. it seems like the generational conflict on tiktok is mostly just making up stuff about other generations. but it turns out that human nature is actually not capitalism, it's cringeism.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

My dad and his brothers developed proto memes as boomers growing up in the 60s and 70s, many based on the really low rent Hannah Barabarra cartoons, Looney Tunes and The Muppet Show. They all pretended Top Cat was the greatest cartoon ever made, all household cats were given Sylvester style voices with some difference and unrelated to pop culture if anyone asks where someone went the go to answer is 'they're on the roof eating oranges'

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Class of 2009 is basically a more PC version of classical millenial humor.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Never heard of it

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Boomers absolutely had absurdist humor. Consider the enduring popularity of Monty Python, along with other counterculture comedy like Firesign Theater. Consider also Discordianism and The Church of The Subgenius (though the latter is more of a Gen X thing).

Oh, MAD Magazine is another good example. Boomers love MAD.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Yeah I think Gen Z was just going through their "lol so randum! I can haz cheeseburger?" phase and is probably growing out of it as they enter the work force where what little hopes and dreams they have left is crushed for good.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I am gen z and nearing 30, a lot of gen z are adults and have been for a while.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Anyone who thinks absurdist humor is generational is a goober.

Here's some absurdist boomer humor:

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

And the entirety of modern Heathcliff is absurdist Millennial humor.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Oh shit

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Gen Z humor is 10% weirder versions of jokes from like 2008

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Its almost if "humour" is similar between younger millennials and older gen z. Also since the age gap between the generations isnt as big as for example between "boomers" and "zoomers" - the humour is of course an evolved form the "I am adulting" millennial stick.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

damn almost like generations are fake

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

The microplastics are accumulating

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Gen Z humour seems a lot more blackpilled than millennial humour. Also a fair amount of surrealism as another commenter pointed out

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

my favorite memes are surreal/inscrutable ones and ones that reference how surreal/inscrutable memes are.

i collect them and sometimes go back through them and laugh in a way that is difficult to explain to others.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Gen X humor: forgotten like always lmao

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Gen X humor is now boomer humor

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

objection

GenZ humor as a subsection of generational humor is not fully characterized unless someone goes "so, you're ALL depressed and want to die???"

Millenial humor is "here are watchmojo's top 10 reasons I'm yiking out right now"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

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