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[kirblar]

Kids are ignorant as fuck in general. That's kind of what being a kid is all about. Millennials were kinda the target audience for 4chan, after all.

"Hey, remember NewGrounds?" is a pretty big Millenial v Gen Z difference.

 

[televator]

The PewDiePie generaration outnumbers us? Fuck.

Millennials finally killed themselves

The killer generation.

 

[Puppet Shadow]

Don't try and turn our attention away old man. The Boomers vs. Millennials conflict won't be over until your generation is dead and buried in cheap shitty coffins because you fucked us over so hard and we're all broke.

Sucker.

Instead of us leaving our estates to our kids, we're taking our retirement savings that we've built up (by being able to afford cheap homes and making our kids take out student loans) and are now spending it all on cruises and all-inclusives. Not sure where your bitterness comes from.

 

[NimbusD]

Twenge does not believe that the term Generation Z label will stick, since "if Millennials aren't called Generation Y, Generation Z doesn't work."

Sounds like someone wants to coin a term. Oh look, she did. 'iGen'. Seriously gonna have to do better than that lol.

These definitions are stupid, the age range she's using includes what's typically used as age ranges for millenials. It's all bullshit.

 

[YaBish]

I always associated more with Gen Z than the Millennial Gen anyways, so this makes sense to my 2 decade old brain.

 

[Bronx-Man]

"Hey, remember NewGrounds?" is a pretty big Millenial v Gen Z difference.

Now THAT I remember.

For all the wrong reasons. Poor Starfire...

 

[Fast Forward]

Hate the baby boomer number as people in the 58-64 range especially the 60-64 range have little in common with most core boomers.

Don't get me wrong. You can make a solid argument for the starting point for X being early 60s, but otherwise, it's about right.

 

[Chindogg]

Sucker.

Instead of us leaving our estates to our kids, we're taking our retirement savings we built up by being able to afford cheap homes and making our kids take out student loans, and are now spending it all on cruises and all-inclusives. Not sure where your bitterness comes from.

I know this is supposed to be a joke, but after getting hit with a $6500 medical bill for a kidney stone despite being fully insured while struggling with $65k in student loan debt forgive me for saying fuck your generation and I hope the majority of you die in very painful ways.

 

[Slayer-33]

iGen = "smh/ayyy lmao/bruh" gen?

Millennial here (83) brehs.

 

[GamerJM]

Grasping what it meant is probably the important distinction. You may "remember" 9/11 but you probably don't have a good personal grasp of how hard society pivoted as a result of it.

If this is where you're going to draw the line you might as well choose an earlier date though. Most people born from 90-94 didn't really grasp what was happening when 9/11 happened either. I was born in that time period and I sure didn't.

 

[Fast Forward]

You should be. I work with a lot of kids around that age and YouTube/Streamers/Memes are everything to them. They're also ignorant as fuck for the most part which is strange considering they have all the information in the entire history of humanity available on their phones.

Honestly, Generation YouTube would make more sense if anything. If you were born in 2000, or later, you don't remember a world before YouTube. I'll take that over the AWFUL iGeneration label for this crowd.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

My kids won't be getting their own internet connected devices until they're in high school. They won't have their minds warped by shitty people like PewDiePie and all the other filth on YouTube.

This seems like an overreaction, but on the flip side, hell if I know a good way of dealing with this shit.

 

[Kayhan]

How does this effect the avacado industry now

It is toast.

 

[Vanillalite]

Don't get me wrong. You can make a solid argument for the starting point for X being early 60s, but otherwise, it's about right.

If you weren't old enough to go to Nam you weren't an actual baby boomer.

Like I've said though I prefer the 10 year starting on 5s theory.

 

[bobbychalkers]

My youngest coworkers communicate exclusively in memes. I was born in 91, they in 98.

Now THAT I remember.

For all the wrong reasons. Poor Starfire...

This is the guiltiest I've ever felt for getting a reference.

 

[benicillin]

This seems like an overreaction, but on the flip side, hell if I know a good way of dealing with this shit.

I talk to my brother regularly about the stuff he watches on YouTube, things he sees, etc. Media and Internet literacy is super fucking important for the next generation of parents.

 

[TheOGB]

"Hey, remember NewGrounds?" is a pretty big Millenial v Gen Z difference.

The thought of Newgrounds possibly being slightly better/less bad than the hell we're now living with is destroying my brain

Now THAT I remember.

For all the wrong reasons. Poor Starfire...

especially after being made to remember this

 

[Hindl]

"Hey, remember NewGrounds?" is a pretty big Millenial v Gen Z difference.

If you never had to fuck with RealPlayer you aren't a millennial

Sounds like someone wants to coin a term. Oh look, she did. 'iGen'. Seriously gonna have to do better than that lol.

These definitions are stupid, the age range she's using includes what's typically used as age ranges for millenials. It's all bullshit.

I've heard iGen for a little bit actually

Now THAT I remember.

For all the wrong reasons. Poor Starfire...

Man....

 

[Jacob]

If you weren't old enough to go to Nam you weren't an actual baby boomer.

Like I've said though I prefer the 10 year starting on 5s theory.

What? The Baby Boom started in ~1945; US involvement in Vietnam peaked from 1964-73. Vietnam was one of the most important defining political events for the Boomers, along with the Kennedy assassination and the Civil Rights Movement.

EDIT: I can't read...

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

I talk to my brother regularly about the stuff he watches on YouTube, things he sees, etc. Media and Internet literacy is super fucking important for the next generation of parents.

My girlfriend and I already started talking about YouTube and shit, and we’re still a few years out from kids, and obviously years more until it’s actually a concern. We have no idea what to do, and outside of paying for the little fuckers that shit is our biggest fear. We understand this all totally and even we don’t know what a reasonable, measured approach would be.

 

[FZZ]

I saw naked fan art of Misty on Newgrounds

those were the days

 

[Puppet Shadow]

I know this is supposed to be a joke, but after getting hit with a $6500 medical bill for a kidney stone despite being fully insured while struggling with $65k in student loan debt forgive me for saying fuck your generation and I hope the majority of you die in very painful ways.

Hmm, my bad. I glossed over the fact that the thread title had 'in the US' in it. If I was an American, I'd be pretty pissed too.

Apologies.

 

[Hindl]

I saw naked fan art of Misty on Newgrounds

those were the days

 

[XiaNaphryz]

I think this is the key. People born in the mid 90s may remember 9/11, but they don't fully realize what it did to the country. In the span of a few hours we went from not giving a shit about anything to giving a shit about everything.

Like, you say you remember 9/11, but do you remember a time when the American flag wasn't everywhere? It was a night and day difference, all of the sudden you couldn't go anywhere without seeing red, white, and blue.

Yeah, a big part of the 9/11 culture shift is how much things changed. Before 9/11, you were able to wait for people at the airport right outside the gate for example, and this was a very common thing to do when picking up folks.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Boomers confuse me. Went from dropping acid and fighting for civil rights to voting for Regan and buying McMansions. Sad.

 

[Captainbojanglesiii]

I was born in 98 and I can say with confidence that the weirdest thing I saw in the article is definitely the willingness to attend church opposed to other generations, as most people I know my age aren’t really into religion much at all. Libertarian leanings I see as the average of the gen so far. A lot of shitheads as there are in any group, and a lot of very liberal people. If 18-22 year olds vote Republican next time I’ll agree with you, but a lot of that is probably the stubborn “middle ground” person not being able to choose between the media-smeared democrat and a total shithead because of their principles or something

It also should be of note that if you cut off this new generation at 2000 like many do, any voting patterns at all are totally out the window

 

[SaviourMK2]

Now we wait to see what Gen Z blames us for.

 

[Vanillalite]

What? The Baby Boom started in ~1945; US involvement in Vietnam peaked from 1964-73. Vietnam was one of the most important defining political events for the Boomers, along with the Kennedy assassination and the Civil Rights Movement.

I know? Did you even read what I wrote?

 

[LegendofJoe]

This seems like an overreaction, but on the flip side, hell if I know a good way of dealing with this shit.

You can be exposed to the world and become a good, grounded, and capable person without spending an inordinate amount of time on the internet. We did it for the entirety of human history prior to my generation (millenial).

If anything, from my experience at least, spending a lot of time on the web makes you more isolated and prone to group-think. I want my kids to meet people of diverse backgrounds and experience things in the real world, not live via someone else they watch on the internet.

 

[Ekai]

Religious and libertarian. So a generation of Rand pauls.

AWESOME.

The future is fucked.

 

[Jacob]

I know? Did you even read what I wrote?

Apologies; I misread. My bad.

 

[NeonBlack]

How does the generation that's always online become more willing to go to church and more libertarian then the one that grew up with dial-up?

 

[XiaNaphryz]

If Millennials eat avocado toast what are we supposed to eat?

Here you go:

Is 'millionaire's bacon' San Francisco's new avocado toast?

You don't have to hit the jackpot to feel like a millionaire, especially when you can just buy bacon for the same effect — well, almost.

That's the idea behind "millionaire's bacon," an upscale side dish that's similar to candied bacon and increasingly showing up on menus across the Bay Area.

"The taste is succulent, sweet and spicy with many different spices going in. It's very complex," said Hoyul Steven Choi, co-owner of Sweet Maple and several other restaurants that serve the dish across the Bay Area.

It all starts with center-cut bacon that's much thicker than the standard sold in grocery stores. One slice is about a half inch in thickness prior to cooking; standard bacon is about 1/16 of an inch thick.

The thick slabs of pork are covered with sugar and cayenne pepper before they're placed in an oven and cooked at a low temperature for a few hours. The technique results in a sweet, spicy and smoky indulgence that put Sweet Maple on the map, Choi said.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Religious and libertarian. So a generation of Rand pauls.

AWESOME.

AbsolutelyDisgusting.jpg

 

[sturmdogg]

Millenials just can't catch a break, no? They fail at everything.

 

[Codeblue]

If they noticed large shifts between Millennials and this new generation, what makes them think they can lump 5 year olds with 22 year olds?

 

[Brawndo Addict]

The rapid development and integration of technology/culture has really thrown the whole standard 20-year generation thing into a blender. Personally, I think the more important dividing lines are the internet (mid 90s) followed by smartphones (late 2000s).

I'd say it goes something like 'millennials' > 'post-internet generation' > 'post-smartphone generation'. So a millennial becomes a sort of gatekeeper between the old world and the new world; culturally equidistant from a smartphone kid and a baby boomer, they have a foot in both times but a home in neither.

 

[kirblar]

If they noticed large shifts between Millennials and this new generation, what makes them think they can lump 5 year olds with 22 year olds?

They can always adjust it later. Millenials adjusting to late '70s- mid '90s is a change from "born in the '80s and '90s."

 

[justjustin]

Now we wait to see what Gen Z blames us for.

Lol, yeah. They'll blame us for having it too good. "I have to work 7 jobs for 30 cents an hour because those entitled millenials wouldn't ditch the minimum wage! They just had to have their fucking avacado toast."

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

The only experience these GenZers will have with CRTs is from their Xer or Millennial parents using them for their retro systems.

I realized that my kids won't be able to have rubber bouncy balls because modern TVs don't have the durable, glass screen that old CRTs have. One hard hit and they are fucked. CRTs could take a beating.

 

[Vanille]

A mid 90s cut-off sounds about right. I cannot relate at all to someone born after the release of Mario 64.

 

[Hindl]

How does the generation that's always online become more willing to go to church and more libertarian then the one that grew up with dial-up?

Libertarian seems pretty normal honestly. The backbone of the internet is built on libertarian ideology and most of Silicon Valley is filled with Techno-libertarians. Geniuses who could cure all of society's ills if the damn government didn't restrict them. Look how people feel that the internet should be free, open, and without regulation, where people can say and do whatever they want. That's libertarian ideology

 

[Supha_Volt]

Religious and libertarian. So a generation of Rand pauls.

AWESOME.

NO THANKS

 

[backflip10019]

"God damn Gen Z-er's" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

 

[Davey Cakes]

As a Millenial, I would love Gen Z to start getting more attention. I'm tired of my generation feeling like a scapegoat for everything.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

the group is known for libertarian political leanings and a willingness to attend church.

And with that, fuck the lot of you iGenners, you cunts!

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

As a Millenial, I would love Gen Z to start getting more attention. I'm tired of my generation feeling like a scapegoat for everything.

It’s too ingrained at this point. Gen Z will get shit, but shitting on Millennials is a cultural institution at this point.

 

[CrazyDude]

As a Millenial, I would love Gen Z to start getting more attention. I'm tired of my generation feeling like a scapegoat for everything.

It's our turn to complain about how the next generation is ruining everything.

 

[sant]

Religious and libertarian. So a generation of Rand pauls.

AWESOME.

What's wrong with being libertarian? We believe in logic and reason to solve problems.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

What's wrong with being libertarian? We believe in logic and reason to solve problems.

Without any burdensome empathy.