Lucky me, I’ve never been ‘with it’.
I’m at the point where what is ‘it’ is weird to me, but it isn’t scary yet.
What amazes me is how much stuff I was “with” is still relevant to kids these days. I’m amazed at the staying power of Source Filmmaker for example.
Yup, this comic is very much a “simpsons did it” situation.
I can haz cheeseburger?
Day takin me bucket
Both of those animals are dead now
Fuck that. I’ll be too engrossed in my nursing home LAN parties to be talking to Gen B or C or K. Whichever it is when we’re all old.
Inform them about their mother while you are at it
At this rate, generation wasteland.
I don’t quite understand why it’s okay to pigeonhole people based on their age. It’s the same obtuse logic that racism works on: You ascribe all your prejudices to a imaginary group that is defined by nothing more than a single characteristic - be it age, race, gender or whatever. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a millennial myself and I think this post is funny. Other might not.
What I’m trying to say is that I can’t quite understand that with all the political correctness that is rightly emphasized these days, age discrimination seems to be excluded.
I just don’t think this form of discrimination is particularly helpful to anybody, as it also pits one group against another - just like rasicsm does. So please don’t normalize that stuff just because it’s the only …ism left that is accepted in social media.
And just to get that out of the way: Ok, boomer or millenial comments in response to this comment are not particularly original.
Ok, Boomer. Tl;dr. Skibidi ohio.
I think we do this because of the school system, fast moving trends and technologies, and lastly marketing campaigns.
The school system does a good job keeping everyone separated by age. So different classes will often have different trends and might compete against each other. Then once out of school, people still have this framing.
There are also real differences in how I experienced childhood versus other people when they were kids, with internet and cellphones not being prevalent like today. Also certain events like 9/11 and Columbine caused a lot of national conversations. It felt unique to my experience and so I want to share and contrast that with others. We all have a shared human experience, and it’s interesting to find commonalities and differences in that. Which is probably why OP posted - the shared human experience of getting old and what we might look like.
And last, I think a lot of the simplistic, controversial stuff just comes from advertisers trying to make people feel insecure so they can sell them something.
Yes, sure people always like to think in a in- and out-group kind of way: people in your class, people in your city, people in your country, people of your race, of your age group, gender and so on. It’s a social thing that helps us to categorize things and deal with the complexity of the world.
But what I don’t get is how one can be against any kind of stereotype thinking when it comes to one thing but think in the most stereotypical kind of way when it comes to the next thing. It’s weird.
Well, that’s an interesting thought for sure and it’s something linguistics and philosophy focuses on - the arbitrary nature of boundaries/categories and what’s salient and why.
There’s a good book called Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasia that talks about salience to different people. It makes a soft argument that perhaps everyone has synesthesia, but we all repress it to some degree (unless diagnosed with the actual synesthia condition). And different people have different types of synesthesia. So we are all experiencing and categorizing differently.
Then we have life experiences and trauma on top of that. Many times people focus on particular groups because of systems, perceived or real, within those groups that affected them. Sometimes it’s not even a real experience, but instead trauma from parenting that is triggered by the metaphor of these systems. They are mainly worried about safety and security, which is often why the group they hate is simultaneously weak and powerless while also being horrible and the worst and extremely deadly.
When you combine those two, you can see the drive for their stereotyping (desire for safety) and what they find salient to criticize. Ignoring the nonspecific value statements (eg bad, stupid), and focusing on more specific criticisms can help you suss out what’s actually being disliked and if it’s related to a sensory thing, trauma, and/or rational criticism.
“They are awful. I hate soldiers. They burned my village. It smelled like smoke. Whenever I see someone in camo, I smell smoke that tastes like death and cooking bodies.”
The above person has gustatory-olfactory synethesia and that’s how their brain triangulates their memories, along with sight and emotion. They may even KNOW not all soldiers will hurt them or burn down their new house. But they have these mental and emotional patterns that automatically get triggered. They’ve likely based a lot of their mental scaffolding on that. To suddenly change their mind isn’t physically possible because it takes neurochemicals to change mental pathways and it takes time. Just like I can’t deadlift 300lbs immediately because it takes time to grow those muscle cells enough to do that.
Some people don’t have any energy, neurochemicals, or time to change their mind. Some people are living desperately and can only focus on so much. Being humble enough to self analyze and improve yourself, being brave enough to deal with the fear and pain of trauma, is a lot. We also all have blindspots and aren’t all perfect.
Race, gender and whatever are “people that are not like me”. Jokes about old people are jokes about myself, because I (hopefully) will get old myself one day.
Aww, that’s wholesome.
Ok, boomer!
Everybody says “OK, boomer”, but nobody says “Are you OK, boomer?”
Boomers: racism, wife bad
Millennials: aggressive misunderstandings, the collapse is imminent, domng cute
Gen alpha: remember when there was fish, skibidi
Gen Z is the new Gen X, lol. People just skip over them.
Gen Z are millennials without the beginnings of joint pain or basic knowledge of internet safety
To be fair, I’ve met a quite a number of millennials who don’t know what internet safety is, either. Some barely know how their magic typing box (read: computer) works.
The collapse is imminent, and y’all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it. Living as if you haven’t nothing to worry about tomorrow, how do you get through the day?
y’all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it
Is that helping?
That’s their point. It’s millennial sarcasm: indistinguishable from actual sentiment, that way they can deny they mean it.
Ya like dags?
Perfect score 5/7
9/7 with rice
And catwife. +50 social credit and party approval.
I guarantee you the majority of millennials don’t talk like fucking moronic children spewing the most unoriginal leddit brainrot
Every generation has its own slang. Lighten up.
They’re good dogs, Bront.
*Brent.
Brant
Bort
You talking to me?
My cat is also named børt.
as an aging millennial i approve of shaming people for saying doggo
But it’s so good :((((
it’s lame and your dog is ashamed
And you seem like a sad person! I’m going to use the language I enjoy and live for me 😤😤😤
(You should do the same)
no, people who say doggo must be stopped
Never!
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