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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Millennials are older than Gen Z. Why would a Gen Z'er be sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper? Gen Z would be born between 1997 and 2012, these people basically grew up online.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

He's just committed to the vintagecore aesthetic

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suspect the author meant Gen X, but was too busy laughing at their own joke to bother checking which generation is which

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's not even millennial lingo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. If anything it should be Gen Z (or Alpha) saying those things

[–] Peppycito 2 points 1 year ago

Could be an engagement tool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gen z are all about the retro stuff they didn't grow up with

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Millennials: nostalgic for the late-80s/90s/early-00s because that's when they were growing up.

Gen Z: nostalgic for the late-80s/90s/early-00s because that's when there was still some hope in the world.

Gen alpha: not old enough yet to be nostalgic (but will probably be nostalgic for the pre-trump/pre-covid days of the US).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I read that as Gen X. Gen Z makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The joke may have merit, all generations have their lingo but it does seem to have gotten extra meme-ish as of late, but the labels are all wrong. Millennials are the old ones, the meme language speaker should be labeled as Z (which came after millennials) or Alpha (came after Z, born 2010-2025.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think if they were gen alpha they would just be texting weird memes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lazy gen A, not even done being born yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The new gen just has the ability to disseminate slang faster with all the online tools. Back in my day, words only entered slang status when a celebrity used it in the media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's kind of insane the turn around of slang. Can't tell if it's because I'm older that it appears that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, that's a pretty decent explanation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they switch alphabets too when rolling over from Z to A?

[–] Peppycito 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, they went Greek. Starting the letter naming scheme with X turned out to be a mistake.

[–] tyrefyre 21 points 1 year ago

Looks like they got the labels backwards

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Gen X fits a lot better than Gen Z.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Except it doesn't, because it's gen z's lingo. This comic is just all wrong.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

As an older millennial, I wouldn’t know what they mean either.

[–] DumbAceDragon 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've met more zoomers who talk like that than millennials tbh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah my millennial girlfriend does not talk like that nor do her friends. That's more juvenile speech and millennials are creeping into late stage adulting at this point and past that nonsense.

Signed... GenX

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shouldn't Gen Z know what a 'Spicy X' is though

(it's everything and nothing)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Spicy X? That site sucks nowadays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Still tastes better than Da Bomb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spice x means everything and nothing ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not exactly, I think @PugJesus (brilliant username and pic BTW) means that "a spicy X" can mean a lot of different things dependent on what word "X" is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Plutonium is just spicy rocks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No bussin? Cant be Gen Z.