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All right everyone it's time for an old person check!
If you identify with this meme you might be old!
it's important for you to recognize every generation was cringe because life is cringe. It's a little part of growing up, try to be kind to those around you even if they're younger.
Not really about generations, it's more about manners, anyone blasting shit around people who never asked for anything deserve a kick in the groin. Bonus kicks for people ruining the calm in a natural landscape.
Agreed. Every generation is chock full of idiots, just basic math. Two generations ago this would have been an idiot blasting his boombox on the bus.
38 years later...
And instead of greentext, the response was people applauding Spock.
But this post explicitly defines the situation in terms of their generation not their attitude, separating the two changes the context and my response was to the context.
My neighbours are ALWAYS listening to really loud Drum and Bass
Love it
If it's not about generations then why is a specific generation mentioned in the post, title, and pretty much half of the comments?
Also, natural landscape? This is on a bus
This post is an excuse to get mad at a stereotype of young people.
Yeah, the people saying it's "not about the generation" are coping because they don't want to admit it's tribalism.
This post didn't have to mention the generation and most certainly did not have to put it in framing that perported it was the reason they behaved like that.
People in these comments don't understand how close they are to the "millennials are the problem with x posts"
I am 18 any almost all my friends consume this type of media at a rapid pace. This is not really an -old people hate youngsters thing, what these consumers are dou g is simply not okay (specifically the unreasonably loud tiktoks, without headphones obv)
Exactly. At the end of the day, a haircut, or fashion, or what you like to do on the bus is super unimportant. Manners and common decency are timeless. Too bad that parents aren't really teaching those values as frequently these days.
I’m pretty sure that, in my grandfathers days of the 1950’s, long hair was frowned upon. This stuff has been happening since the dawn of man.
Agreed, but listening to anything in a public setting without headphones is a shitty thing to do. It was when I was a kid with a Gameboy or Walkman, and it still is now with tiktok.
No question
I remember kids in my class randomly shouting “Waffles!” or “this is a spork!” Because lol so random xd
Kids so obsessed with invader zim that they acted like him in real life
Also l33t sp33k being cool for a minute and “the narwhal bacons at midnight”at the peak of Reddit popularity
The whole gangam style craze. I went to a wedding held in a barn and everyone did the gangam style
People saying “epic fail” all the time
This is just what I can remember off the top of my head, but I think you get the point. None of us are without blame, we are all cringe. Let the kids be cringe too, it’s part of growing up
Remember when everything had to have a moustache, crocs were all the rage, and the whole Scene fashion? I miss that era. Simpler times.
Being annoyed by someone blaring their phone’s volume in public isn’t an age thing. It always has been, and always will be fucking obnoxious.
And I say that as someone who’s literally in Gen Z.
It is when you define it as being because they're gen z, my issue was with saying it was because of their generation.
Jokes on you. I was never cool.
Jokes on you, I think you're cool
That is actually the most wholesome thing I have read on Lemmy in a long time!
And for the record, I think you're both amazing and really cool!
Pssh, I think you all are the complete opposite of cool.
Like really really hot x3
Every time I see somebody complaining about how (younger) people consume media today, I'm reminded of a video I saw of somebody talking about the so-called "ADHD Epidemic" and this one comic in it of a kid sitting at a desk in school and staring at a flashing billboard out the window while the teacher was yelling at him to pay attention. His response was, "To what?"
Gen X and Millenials are a product of that environment and it's gotten worse since the rise of social media. Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world of a million points of stimulus attempting to hog their dopamine receptors all at once. Is it any wonder that they can't focus on any one thing for more than 3 seconds?
All of our attention spans for generations now have been stolen by advertisers looking to make money off of it. The younger generations deserve our kindness for what's been done to them. Or else we're no better than those older than us were when we were young.
I'm a millenial (born 1981), and I remember my father (a boomer) complaining about MTV in the 90s and 00s, and how "confusing" it was. He couldn't fathom how the young people could pay attention to what was being told on the account of how fast and abrupt the cutting was.
Fast forwards to today, and the MTV-style is everywhere: YouTube, TikTok, Reels etc is directly traced back to the fast paced MTV style of cutting.
Question is. How fast can we go!?
I dare you to watch an original Transformers cartoon episode. Holy fuck, I’ve never been so exhausted in 15 minutes by a TV show.
But this time is different!
In what way does this somehow make it not be obnoxious as fuck to play tiktok scrolls in public?
I've said it quite a few times now so listen up.
This hypothetical person in the green text is in the wrong. However my issue is that it is painted as an issue with the generation rather than just plain human decency. This could be an issue with anyone. It's deliberately used to paint the generation in a negative light and is an attempt at pretty tribalism that has been tried with every generation.
This tactic has been used to separate generations and create tribalism especially politically for years and I do not condone it.
It's just how humans work. In your zealousy you became what you hated
Yeah absolutely humans are predisposed to tribalism, the issue is when you allow that predisposition to be weaponized.
Nobody is conspiring to wedge the generations brother
If you don't think anyone weaponizes tribalism you haven't seen the GOP messaging over at least the last 8 years
If an older generation thinks a younger one is cringe, why would the younger one care?
Probably not but I still think it's important to be kind and not prejudice because of the generation.
This person in the green text is in the wrong but not because they're a zoomer
If anything, communists are less likely to blare music / scroll tiktok on speaker in public.
Every Communist and Socialist I know is violently introverted, forcing them to blare music would be torture.