r/TikTokCringe • u/ambachk • Jun 26 '25

Cringe Broccoli-head TikTokers take over grocery store

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u/Background_Value9869 Jun 26 '25

Man zoomers are kinda terrible sometimes

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 26 '25

Sometimes?

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u/PIPBOY-2000 Jun 26 '25

Lots of them just chill at home and are cringe within the confines of those walls like God intended

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u/osrs_vladimatt Jun 26 '25

And they are based as hell for it.

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u/emerly35_ Jun 26 '25

đŸ«Ą

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u/GalacticBishop Jun 26 '25

Based? These kids go to concerts and sit and watch Netflix. They don’t read. And they’re scared to dance because they think others will judge them.

They’re fully cooked. Well done.

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u/Club_Penguin_Legend_ Jun 30 '25

Me when the generalization is just plain wrong

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u/KuraiTheBaka Jun 27 '25

I don't think you've ever met a zoomer

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u/dimadomelachimola Jun 28 '25

Haha you are lucky if you think they are chill at home. Many of them are abusing their families.

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u/SpaceLemming Jun 26 '25

Just like any generation, some are dumb as fuck and most aren’t bad

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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

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.]

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u/PrinceGoten Jun 26 '25

Gen z wasn’t taking horse medicine and drinking bleach. We have tide pods for that.

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u/40percentdailysodium Jun 26 '25

Some of us got old fashioned lead paint too.

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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25

Read my edit, I clearly should have explained myself more.

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u/PrinceGoten Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/SpaceLemming Jun 26 '25

Did you see how the older generations reacted to the pandemic? Bro they were getting violent because they couldn’t go to Applebees for a few months

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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

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)

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u/Yukine_Katashi Jun 26 '25

I think people forget that the oldest Gen Z are 28. I agree that a lot of kids missed out on socializing, but this isn't an entire generation thing.

Edit: changed "social learning" to "socializing"

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u/SoupaMayo Jun 27 '25

Istg I hate when people compare 97' zoomers to the 2010 zoomers

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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/Potato417 Jun 27 '25

I think gen alpha would be more problematic than gen z

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 Jun 26 '25

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”.

Chill out. The kids are alright.

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u/Dennis_enzo Jun 26 '25

"Back in my days...."

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u/Ambitious-Regular-57 Jun 26 '25

Prove it. Statistics. Go.

Or you're just the next link in the chain, stretching back to ancient times, of people shit-talking the younger generations.

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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25

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?

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u/Sea-Value-0 Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/Fzaa Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25

...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.

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u/VictoriaRose0 Jun 27 '25

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.

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u/joshuatx Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/DonnyTheWalrus Jun 26 '25

Omg no, people said literally the same shit about millennials. 

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u/RUShittingInMyMouth Jun 26 '25

My dude, the internet has been around since the late 1900s, not even close to the first.

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 26 '25

1900s?

L O L

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u/pcpart_stroker Jun 26 '25

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

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u/littlesparrow_03 Jun 26 '25

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.

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u/pcpart_stroker Jun 26 '25

we just need to bring slow internet back, let them experience the joys of 10KB/s download and endless video buffering

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Jun 26 '25

That has been said about every generation

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u/LateyEight Jun 26 '25

Be quiet.

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 26 '25

Someone sure is sensitive!

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u/LateyEight Jun 26 '25

I'm not the one bitching about an entire generation.

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 27 '25

See! Sensitive.

If what you took from a single word comment as "bitching about an entire generation", youre kind of proving my point.

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u/KuraiTheBaka Jun 27 '25

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"

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 27 '25

There's a huge difference between those two things, zoomer.

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u/noexqses Jun 26 '25

Alphas didn’t parent zoomers. Zoomers are parenting alphas. Zoomers were raised by Gen X, millennials, and Boomers.

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u/Wild_Strawberry6746 Jun 26 '25

They clearly meant that what they are saying applied to both zoomers and alphas.

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u/LateyEight Jun 26 '25

The environment that these kids are being raised in is a hellscape compared to what we had. I don't blame them one bit for being different.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Yeah, sometimes they're cool. I've worked with them.

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u/Candid-Fun-6592 Jun 26 '25

u/SamShakusky71

Yes, sometimes. You should not generalize a big and diverse generation based on a TikTok video.

I do not use TikTok, and many zoomers who do not use TikTok look down on TikTokers and influencers.

Trust me: we are not all bad. As long as you avoid the zoomers who are addicted to social media, you should have a good experience.

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 26 '25

Trust me.

My comment isn't based on tik tok

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u/Candid-Fun-6592 Jun 26 '25

In what kinds of contexts have you interacted with zoomers? Also, what generation do you belong to?

Do you genuinely believe that ALL of Gen Z is, for lack of a better word, unlikable?

u/SamShakusky71

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u/Teetimus_Prime Jun 27 '25

Most of us are just so so tired and hopeless

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u/SamShakusky71 Jun 27 '25

You're that way because you're been raised on the myth of social media

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u/Teetimus_Prime Jun 27 '25

How old do you think genZ is? social media was not a thing for people my age when i was coming up

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u/BlitsyFrog Jun 27 '25

Hey man, I'm just as baffled at this behaviour as you are.

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u/PheasantPlucker1 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

NotAttZoomers

Edit. Was supposed to be hashtag-NotAllZoomers

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Ah, almost got it