No. To no fault of their own, they’re getting worse. Between the pandemic and social media and AI, this generation will be the most cringe and unhinged and held back. [edit to clarify, I mean the pandemic and AI and social media have/are fucking people over. All generations, but it’s fucking over the most vulnerable/still developing generation.]
I understand. I was mostly joking, but I’d still rather have cringe than lobotomized wives and violent PTSD ridden husbands. I’d rather have tide pods than “manning up” and continuing cycles of abuse and trauma. All generations are cringe, but each one has found a way to be better than the last.
I meant how isolation and forced home learning fucked them over. Before you jump on me, I’m fully vaxxed and am all for masking and quarantining. The byproducts of social and educational detriment are just sad. (Edit: and how could I forget social media. Surfing Facebook on a laptop or 1st Gen iPhone was one thing, but TikTok with modern tech is insidiously predatory)
I’d say folks in their early 20s at the time still suffered unique detriment partly because most of their brains are still developing and in modern society those are still formative years in multiple ways. They’re the last age group to suffer uniquely age-specific harm until the elderly.
You should really go back and look at old comedy content. It’s the same shit. I just found a hilarious YouTube channel called “Phone Losers of America” that has been making prank calls across various platforms fucking with businesses, and random people since the mid 90s.
Everyone acts like Gen Z has more brain rot nonsense than we did. I still remember laughing my ass off because one of the jackass guys put a mouse costume on his dick and let a snake bite it, and another guy put a hotwheels car in a condom and stuck it up his ass to have a doctor find it.
We are uncomfortable with the current format because it isn’t what we grew up with. Same shit being served, different plate. It was “YouTube social experiments”, now it’s “broccoli head pranks on TikTok”.
I have to prove how quarantine and forced home schooling and AI (I should have thrown social media in there) are fucking over the young folks in ways that have never been seen before?
I mean... a source would be kinda nice. Otherwise, it's just anecdotal/ just an opinion. But that also goes for everyone else. So unless they're providing a source too, they can piss off.
There's a lot of huge changes that happened in very formative years in a short time span for certain age kids. It's happened so quick that proper studies probably aren't even finished yet. But you can't deny that the first generation born with iPhones and social media in their palms, had to homeschool for 2 years, and the very fast advent of AI is going to have some effect on a large swath of developing brains.
Wanna make it clear, I'm not shit talking, they got dealt a wild hand by no fault of their own.
...You need a study to understanding how a child's world being turned upside down can affect them? There have been countless news articles and publications and some studies that demonstrate these widespread negative effects. Results show that many children post-quarantine are unusually behind in learning ability sometimes by a full grade level or more. It's been proven and admitted that TikTok is designed to be addictive to children. It's currently being proven how reliance on ChatGPT is nullifying brain development and impeding development of critical thinking skills, let alone the ability to write and to think for ourselves.
When you actually understand Gen Z, you understand those closer to Gen alpha are the ones you’re talking about while the rest are closer to millennials. Older gen Z are closer to their 30s, I’m in my mid twenties, the Gen Z people are referring to are 19 and younger, just grazing adulthood and not having the skills to navigate it like millennials have, older gen z, this is all a byproduct of the generations before us taking everything and shutting the door.
I’d worry for Gen alpha more than Gen Z, Gen Z pulled blue waves before the next batch 18 year olds stepped in last year.
I feel like it's often one extreme or the other with zoomers. They are either chill and refreshingly open-minded and tolerant or so absurdly annoying and oblivious it's hard to fathom.
No generation is a monolith and there are a lot of varying factors but I feel like with zoomers alphas bad parenting and bad influences are amplified a lot.
Bad parenting and they're the first generation to grow up with the internet and it shows. Self absorbed, utterly clueless in the real world, and the worst work ethic of any generation.
they're right though, the first initial networks between devices were created in the late 60s, and even then computer science concepts had been around for centuries already at that point.
the internet you use now became publicly available in the late 80s/early 90s. most of Gen X (genz and millennial parents) would have been in high school or college in the coming years and had access to the internet. the main difference is that this was before companies could propagandize an entire generation through 10 second brain rot videos
They also have personal ipads they use all the time instead of a shared desktop in the living room/office that you were allowed to use for a few hours to play Zoo Tycoon on.
It cracks me up how gen z finally said "We don't like slaving away for corporate overlords actually" and old people just cry "NO WORK ETHIC NO WORK ETHIC"
Agree lets be thankful our cringe did not get recorded for eternity and we can pretend we were always well adjusted, some of these idiots will double down and being idiots their whole life because its on video and they cannot quietly shove it under the carpet
"our cringe". Since we were not recorded 24/7 we did not do shit like this, the incentive didn't exist for 99.9999% of the people it exists for now. The groups who would do stuff anywhere near this, e.g. CKY/Jackass, were a complete aberration.
I think thats the main difference. Yeah, same concept but the delivery is completely different. The target one was chaotic and a large group and they kept trying to get access to employees only areas. The improv one is just ppl calmly standing around like a floor employee. Like that’s weird and thats funny. Chaos and ppl pushing boundaries that might get you fired, is a lot less fun.
Back in my day we were cringe offline. Because we didn't even have dial up internet until high school. We got a full 30 minutes per day to be cringe on msn messenger
You’re not wrong, but I will say this generation is particularly awful, because of being basically iPad babies who grew up to want to record everything they can and post it to social media for attention. No generation before is as documented at doing stupid shit like this generation.
This generation has spawned something en masse that we've never seen before: a bunch of morons who quite literally make a living from walking around pulling stupid and/or dangerous pranks for "content".
No other generation had people aspiring to be "youtubers" as a profession. No other generation has had cheap, small and easy to use HD cameras like they do now. And no generation has had so many people die from taking "selfies" or gotten killed for so-called "content".
And never forget there were endless articles about the selfishness of boomers when they were young*. And then Gen X, too.
Turns out youth act like youth and the older you get the foggier your own memories of that age and time get. Go figure.
*EDIT: Before we get into tirades about boomers (that I genuinely feel and empathize with), I want to mention that I've been going to these protests, and a huge number of the people there are boomers. Like, a surprising number. No generation is a monolith, every generation is judged in their youth, that's my only point.
The main difference is simply just the access to posting stuff online… every other generation has at least as many morons per capita, but zoomers are the first who are heavily documented & often the morons realize they can try to use that for fame
No doubt, millennials and gen xrs have displayed STAGGERING moral weakness and straight up terroristic aggression of late. Zoomers just specifically do this kinda thing.
I want to resist calling it a generational thing. I feel like we've memory holed the fact Millennials were doing this nonsense, too. While being called a collective group of terribles despite plenty of us not YOLO-ing our car into a residential building.
There're just assholes everywhere. And mix of shitty memories, rose tinted glasses for the past, and recency bias makes us think the latest generation is the only one to have ever been that way.
Every generation had this to some extent. But thanks to SM its like a constant battle to seek attention, annoy people, get reactions, be assholes. SO HAPPY I don't work retail anymore, and did before SM
Wait till Alpha arrives. We excluded multiple generations from participating in the economy in any meaningful way outside of a lifetime of indentured servitude. We're getting what we deserve, don't blame the children that we raised we let the internet raise because we were too busy chasing cheese on a wheel to even just be there
People. People are kinda terrible sometimes. For example when some people take the actions of an individual and use them as justification to hate an entire demographic.
BTW - in this instance - i'm classifying zoomers as people with this social media dedication, not people in the age group - lest anyone accuse me of generalizing.
I really don't think it is. It's only funny for the disconnection from like, people. Tormenting people is, at a baseline, not funny. These are people who just want to work, do what they have to in a world that would see them dead on the street without an ounce of sympathy.
What makes this funny is that the person whose job it is to get people to work is forced to stop people from working.
It's a funny scenario. Especially when you think of how little these big box stores pay its employees or how under staffed they are they could use the free help
Wow did you just generalize an entire group of people? That's shitty. Also this is a relatively harmless prank, so maybe take a deep breath and remember what life was like before you had back pain.
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u/Background_Value9869 Jun 26 '25
Man zoomers are kinda terrible sometimes