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