Gen-X here. I would like to know who in our generation decided to let their kids (Gen-Z) raid their closet. Yesterday alone I saw multiple teen girls wearing 90's era mommy pants and two, TWO, girls wearing MC Hammer parachute pants!!!! Neither of these was ever cool!
Millennials. If our kids give you grief, just remember that they thought it was a good idea to bring back parachute pants.
80The teens are correct, I am not cool. To quote Abe Simpson, "I used to be with It, but then they changed what It was. Now what I'm with isn't It, and what is It is weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you."
Now I think I'm slightly younger than Abe was in that scene, but I'm not yet at a place where teenagers are "weird and scary" to me. Juvenoia hasn't set in yet. I'm definitely out of touch, like I don't know what bands the kids are listening to these days, slang is starting to leave me behind. But I think I feel okay with the kids these days growing up in their own decade, which a lot of adults seem to struggle with. I'm going to try to hang onto that.
As for their opinion of me? Yeah sure. I'm a 36 year old homeowner that spent my free time last week cutting back my azaleas and canning a year's supply of homemade jelly. I have a shelf where I keep my carpet cleaning supplies. Any teenager who thinks I'm not cool is pretty much correct. And I'm fine with that.
14Just remind yourself that teens bet other teens to do really really stupid and often inane/dangerous things. We were all there. (And sure, not all teens) but a lot have need to be still watched by an adult so they don’t kill themselvs attempting what most adults do. Getting to the point, it isn’t worth any self esteem damage if they call you basic.
9Despite having been one less than a decade ago, I definitely refuse to keep up with the trends as I feel most of them are either dangerous (tide pod challenge), illegal (property damage in your school bathrooms), absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it's quirky), or just flat out dumb (think fortnite and such if that's still even a thing and the slang as well). The slang they use feels like a foreign language and I refuse to learn it just like I did with a lot of slang from my time.
7Boomers, people who went to Vietnam, people who were in highschool from 1990-1993. Those are my generational distinctions and I truly need no further categorization than this.
4I like to wonder about how many peers I've survived longer than. Like, if we started with 72 Million in the USA, what is my current ranking? I'm shooting for top 90%, but I'm sure there is still a long ways to go. I know I'm probably losing in other score metrics like wealth or contribution to humanity, but I figure there is always time if I don't smoke or drive home drunk.
4Coolness can never be conscious, so anyone concerned about being cool is, by definition, uncool.
3That's my thoughts exactly
2There's a trend of elder millennials shitting on Gen Z because Gen Z is doing what all kids and young people do: rebel against their elders. And it's the most cringe thing I've ever seen. Eddy Burbank had a video on it a while ago and holy crap. Just stop, y'all. The poster in the pic has the right idea.
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1Ha ha ha. I take the teens/tweens won't be lining up for Disney's next Marvel movie. I take it they'll all throw their Pokémon in the trash.
Please, no one wants your youtube minecraft fever dream bullshit. Be grateful you get to live in our nostalgia because when they the start releasing 'Jake Paul' feature films we all might as well jump off the golden.
-4Most kids these days are borderline retarded. They all have anxiety issues because their parents shoved a tablet in their hands instead of a book. They all vape. They listen to the WORST music that is all remixes from the 80s and 90s with chipmunk sped up voice. I don't hate them, but I couldn't give a shit what Gen Z or Alpha thinks of me.
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