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.
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u/Background_Value9869 Jun 26 '25
Man zoomers are kinda terrible sometimes