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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 196 points 1 year ago

I'm definitely too old, but as a Millennial I love Gen Z. They got their funny internet things, their doom memes, their music, and I say go for it. They're picking up and running with the rights for all, they're more open than we even are, and it's just awesome to see. People love to make fun of the younger generation but are so quick to forget what we were actually like back then.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 52 points 1 year ago

You didn't have to say you were a millennial. The Weeds meme was enough.

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Millenial representative #2: Completely agree. Gen Z is so sensitive, smart and respectful, I love them. I run a lot of tabletop RPGs like D&D and had an all-Gen Z group back in 2021. My favorite memory is them explaining the Ohio meme to me. The kids are alright.

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[-] shartworx@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 year ago

I'm a liberal progressive GenXer and my workplace is full of MAGA millenials. I thought I would be OK when the boomers started to die off from heart disease, but here we are.

[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Millennials skew more left than previous generations. Unfortunately there's still plenty of brainwashed MAGATs in every generation.

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[-] nik282000@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago

Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.

kids don't want to work these days

people need to just save more money

immigrants are taking all the jobs

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was in a "generational diversity" course at work recently where we would break apart and talk about what behaviors are common among each generation and why, and how to be good leaders for each generation. We started with the "greatest" generation and the "silent" generation and worked our way down in age. Everything started so respectful and nice for the old folks, even excusing their shortcomings when one was actually brought up due to how they were raised and the tough circumstances they grew up under. By the time we got to millennial and gen z, things took a turn. Even the instructor was laying on the judgement pretty thick. "They have had everything handed to them growing up so they don't appreciate hard work", "[...] participation trophies [...]", etc

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 1 year ago

That sounds... like a judgement your class was meant to learn to avoid...

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[-] Yantantethera@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Gen X to everyone, you fucking donkeys.

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[-] Domille@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I am a geriatric millenial and watching gen Z grow up has actually been incredible. It is a generation that has more compassion and self-awareness than the ones that came before them. I am proud of these kids (even though most of them aren't even kids anymore).

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 1 year ago

As a gen X it's just nice to be remembered that I exist.

Still, I own my own home without my parents having to die, so I'll rub that in your faces if you try to make me feel old.

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago

It’s OK, GenX is used to being forgotten or misunderstood.

Lots of Millenials can’t tell the difference from a Boomer.

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Idk, I would say the older half of Gen X could almost be described as “Boomer Lite”. They didnt quite have it AS nice, but still definitely way better than anyone born in the 80’s or later. Not to mention their Boomer-like attitude…

[-] Duranie@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago

As an older Gen-Xer, who had married another older Xer far too young (because we were brought up that all we needed to do was get a job and life would be awesome) I can agree that some in my age range are definitely watered down boomers. Which is also a fair part of the reason why he's my ex husband now.

As the mother of 3 Gen Z sons, I couldn't be more proud of the amazing men they're becoming, and couldn't be more disgusted about the conditions that some of my generation and those before me have created for them.

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[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why this whole generation concept is so popular these days. I don't think it helps anyone if it's just used for sensationalistic general statements that pit one group against the other. This is the same unthinking logic that racism operates on. I cannot see that this way of thinking would in any way help to find solutions to the real problems or even to identify the actors who are responsible for today's ills. On the contrary, it only helps irresponsible profiteers to continue their greed for profit at the expense of the general public by placing the blame on an anonymous group rather than on the individuals who are actually responsible.

[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago

Because the baby boom that created the boomers was an actual generational cohort that shared a TON of similarities and had a huge impact as being the largest slice of the male population as so many died in the two World Wars. That lead demographers into thinking all generations worked like this and it took time to have other generations to compare them to.

Pew just announced recently they are moving away from generational cohorts because while someone born in 1979 is technically gen x they have a lot more in common with millennials born in 1985 than a fellow gen x er born in 1967

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[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago

As a gen Xer, I'd rebel if my back didn't hurt.

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[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with gen x? I remember being repeatedly told growing up that we were the first generation for which things were gonna be worse than the previous. Lo and fucking behold.

[-] PlatypusXray@feddit.de 33 points 1 year ago

I am Gen X, and I am pretty sure that people who group other people by age are retards who desperately long to be part of a group that just has to be better than the others. 50 years from now, the same kind of people will complain how Gen Z politicians were responsible for the genocidal war.

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

I am Gen X

retards

Yep, your credentials check out

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[-] hungryphrog 19 points 1 year ago

retards

Oh how I just love encountering ✨casual ableism✨ every single day!

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[-] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago

AFAICT Gen X should really just be split into Boomers and early millennials.

I'm a late gen X (1978) and do not associate with boomers at all.

We're basically millennials before the internet.

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[-] npz@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Millenials were the original "avocado toast" generation targeted by boomers. We've been conditioned to protect our young from the real babies in these older generations. But there are good ones and bad ones in every generation.

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[-] Waker@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder if in the future, millennials and gen z will become the new boomers and gen X.

That will make me kinda sad. I just hope we don't go down the same path...

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think so. Generations that actually struggle end up being good to the next generation. IE the greatest generation

It's the entitled cunts that got everything handed to them that turn into massive assholes. IE Boomers

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Nice theory, but as the parent of a teenager, younger generations don't tend to think highly of their elders no matter what. It's kind of human nature. I predict that Millennials and Gen Z will absolutely be disliked by the generations afterwards, just as Boomers and Gen X are disliked by Millennials and Gen Z. For that matter, love Gen Z all you want, Millennials, just don't expect it to return the favor. Every generation thinks it's better than the ones that came before. Ever heard of hippies? Yeah, they were gonna save the world from everyone over 30. Now we just call them Boomers.

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[-] Magister@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I'm an X, we don't really exist anywhere, we are transparent and ignored in societies.

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago

Making your ancestors proud < making your descendants proud.

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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gen X here. Full support to my Milennial and Zoomer homies.

[-] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Gen z here believe it or not. Gen x and boomers fucked up a lot of stuff. I sadly feel doomed ):

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous 🫂🥹

[-] Nerrad@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I'm genX. I just got off the monthly GenX Skype call. Mostly we bitched again about boomers spreading aids everywhere just as we were flowering. Anyway, I mentioned this post, they told me to tell you that we DGAF what GenZ thinks, so long as you pay your rent.

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[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/generations-age/

Demography is moving away from generational studies because aside from Boomers they do not indicate much

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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 17 points 1 year ago

But why only millennials that seem to get shitted on by every other gen?

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