• jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world
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    GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?

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    I feel like this comic is mislabeled. Gen z should be boomer, or Gen Z should be saying something to a millennial, but not millennial to Gen z.

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        For me the joke just doesn’t work reversed. The younger generation grows up hearing the older generations slang, so even if the younger generation doesn’t use that slang they know it. Older generations don’t tend to keep up with younger generations slang so, at least to me, the joke really only works with the older not understanding the younger.

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    My favorite part about generations is how the cut off changes with every source I look at. Like, technically I’m a millennial, but I was born in '81 which is only sometimes part of the millennial age range and never part of the gen x age range. It’s almost as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real.

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      Y’know, it’s almost exactly as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real. Good point, friend-o.

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      The line between generations isn’t a date, it is collective experience. For example, the split between Gen X and Millennials is digital technology. And whether one’s experience more closely aligns to either generation is entirely down to the individual - and thus, not a rigid date.

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      I think for that age range it kinda depends on when you entered the work force. Straight out of high school? Probably identity more with Gen X

      In college for a while and graduated into the Great Recession? Probably more Millenial. That’s my uninformed take anyway

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    I’m a Gen Z with a millennial girlfriend, and she doesn’t talk anything like that. In fact- I have never heard anyone talk like that.

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    So is this intentionally mislabeled? Only the youngest millennials would be like 5% that bad, while gen z would actually be like that at times.

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    Whats funny is that as soon as I read big spicy boi i knew exactly what it was. High key vibed with that tbh. Big relate. Mans got me dead.

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    Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression

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      Millennials are split into the older and the younger ones. I am one of the older ones, and I don’t know what the heck is going on with the younger ones.

      Can GenX adopt me please?

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        As a younger one, we grew up with social media becoming available to us right at the worst age. Like seriously imagine if you and your parents were allowed on Facebook right as you hit puberty and nobody understood what it could do to you.

        That and also growing up not remembering 9/11 but remembering adults mocking al gore for caring if we all die of ecocide.

        We’re basically the prototype for gen z. You merely adopted hopelessness. We were born into it, molded by it, we didn’t see a chance until we were adults.

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          I hate to break it to you, but memory of 9/11 is kind of a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border. If you don’t remember it you’re likely Gen Z or right on the border where generational definitions get really fuzzy.

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        Might as well. GenX is trying to keep a roof over its brainwashed parents’ heads while its own kids rack up student loan debt. What difference would one more mouth make?

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    Um… I always took that to mean positive slang describing a person. I don’t think I’d use those words for an actual fire. I’d be just a tiny bit more direct.

    “Excuse me, I’d hate to bother you, but the other room over there seems to be just slightly on fire… Uh yes… The whole thing…”