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[–] [email protected] 269 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's millennials trying to fit in with Gen Z to prove to themselves they're not old.

[–] [email protected] 149 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the Gen Z is... reading a newspaper? Nah fam, I don't think that's what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remember the internet before Facebook and Instagram? Good times. It was all Flash Games and p... Uhm, videos

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I still know my ICQ number. Back when all instant messagers had open protocols and you could use one open source client for all of them.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Grandpa knew what he was doing when he called all the pokemen pikachu

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

pokemen

I... I think I'm having a panic attack.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right? Everyone knows the correct plural form of "pokemon" is "pokemons".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's 2020s, the proper term is pokepersons.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

My favorite is on cap, no god.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

We used to make fun of comic books for making up slang that hilariously no one would ever use, then gen z came along.

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I have updated the comic for fairness.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Lmao Fuck an a that's radical man.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Did you mean "Fuckin' A" ?

Bone apple teeth moment

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Bone apple teeth

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3d657d2f-9213-43bf-b53a-83f399567bea.jpeg

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Idk, from my perspective gen Z, Millenials, and gen X are all united in hating boomers.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 192 points 10 months ago (2 children)

GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Uh that performance is cultural appropriation

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (6 children)

No cap.

He should be rizzin that W in Ohio, boomer 💀💀

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's the newspaper that is off-putting

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 months ago (22 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Y'know, it's almost exactly as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real. Good point, friend-o.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Typical Xillenial comment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The oldest millenials are in their 40s. Who is drawing these things?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Boomers, or millennials with boomer energy. Really anyone that wants to shit on "the youth"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As a "Millennial" in the 40s, myself and others my similar age don't ever seem to fit into the millennial category well. The start should be in the mid 1980's not the beginning. Gen x seems more fitting for the early 80s. But the generation thing is kind of silly anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Eh I don’t mind if they do that?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (8 children)

How is this millennial lingo?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago

As a millennial I have no idea what that person is saying.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

On God. Fr fr, no cap on the rizz with a lizz until I jizz. Yeet!

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would assume big spicy boi is a big shit. I am a millennial. Guess this makes no sense.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I’m a Gen Z with a millennial girlfriend, and she doesn’t talk anything like that. In fact- I have never heard anyone talk like that.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

So is this intentionally mislabeled? Only the youngest millennials would be like 5% that bad, while gen z would actually be like that at times.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He should have mentioned the other room looks like the "this is fine" meme. Rookie mistake smh

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