2y ago

Truth.

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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.
- Can grunge be stylish again? At least it was comfortable.
  
  Just be a lesbian, you can grunge all you like and it never goes out of style.
  
  The whole athleisure thing of the last 10-15 years has been great for dressing comfortably everywhere.
  
  Grunge was never stylish. That was the point.
  
  I just want Jnco’s that aren’t $300.
- The last pics or videos I saw of everything "cool" (VIPs, gen Z stuff like interviews, festival pics,...) felt like old 90 stuff. I really thought they were old but no, it was stuff from about 1-2 weeks ago. Why is stuff like hair styles and make up also the same as it was years ago?
- I literally saw a 12 year old the other day wearing a "Boyz in tha Hood" shirt, like, do you even know what movies are?
  
  Menace II Society is the true underrated gem.
- I kinda miss the bell bottom revival of the early 2000's. Not the late 90's "equilateral triangle from the knees down" look our big sisters did; I always liked the "just enough bell bottom that the tip of her shoes poke out." I always thought that was a cute look.
- Kids are wearing pipe leg jeans again 🤧
- Good Charlotte and AFI shirts will be back in a few years along with studded belts.
- What are your thoughts on U.F.Os?

I keep having to explain to my 9-year-old that I'm not a boomer 🤔
- I just said this in another thread- my 13-year-old thinks every discovery she makes about the 80s or 90s is something I didn't know about.
  
  Did you know phones used to be in the walls and they were the internet?
  
  "Oh my God, have you heard about these old 'Tamagotchi' things?"
  "DO NOT QUOTE THE ANCIENT MAGICS TO ME, CHILD, I WAS THERE WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN"
- OK boomer.
  
  Your the bees knees.

Joke’s on them, I don’t care what teens think is cool.
- I care
  If teenagers think I'm uncool, I'm probably doing something right
  Teenagers are lame af
- That sounds pretty coool to me...
  
  He cracked the code!
- I think only ones caring what teenagers think are other teenagers.

Why would I care what teenagers think?
Haha losers I can get into a bar. Go drink your warm keystone while hiding from your parents. Make sure you make curfew.
- This is the true take lol
  Frankly, being seen as uncool by teenagers is a good thing. Modern teenagers think people like Logan Paul are cool (not that we were any better when we were teens, but that just furthers my point)
  
  A lot of teenagers in our age cohort thought that Heidi and Spencer Pratt were cool. Obviously, lots of us didn't; which I assume is also the case for Zoomers and the Pauls.
  But some of them will grow out of the Pauls, some of them won't. But just as the Pratts, they'll slowly fade into oblivion as time passes.
  
  the teens (and people) that are actually cool are the people that can actually be themselves and not shackled by societies perception of a cool person. aka not being an NPC lol
  people that like logan paul esque content are literal NPCs they have to be. none if these rich white dude trendy people have ever made decent content its always been obviously for money.

Did we ever want to be cool to teenagers?
- Businesses care very much so they can extract their and their parents' money from them. Sadly, it's working very well, fellowkids posts mocking cringy corporate ads are the exception and not the rule.

gen z here. I genuinely think most millennials are cool asf. y'all took the brunt of the hate from older generations for us. I just hope we can pay it back somehow in the long run
- While I appreciate the sentiment, I honestly think us Millennials just did our time in the barrel and now it's your turn. My evidence: I use Firefox, by default it congregates a bunch of "news" articles from around the web (via Pocket, I think. Whatever the fuck Pocket is) and here's a headline from Elle I'm looking at on my other monitor as I type: "Is Gen Z Killing Vintage Fashion?" You are The Demographic now, so there's going to be about 15 years of exactly that bullshit to roll your eyes at.
  
  I'm so glad I'm not being blamed for the decline of a shitty industry no one else took part in either, otherwise it wouldn't have failed.
- I'll help zoomers all I can to have a better future politically
- From everything I've seen, you will. Just keep working for what's right and good.
- Fight the fights we turned complacent on.

My neighbor's 13 year old thinks I'm cool as shit because i make them loads of baked goodies. Cakes, cookies, granola, cupcakes, or whatever I'm baking for my weekly challenges.
- Ummm that sounds like you are cool as shit.
  Won't you be my neighbor?

Of the list of things I'm struggling with as I'm getting older, this is pretty fuckin low on the list.
Like, I understand the adults in my life as a teenager and why they didn't really give a shit about what I thought about certain things. I was young and stupid and didn't know shit about shit.
- I was stupid when I was a kid, especially at times, but also I clearly remember situations where I was like 8 and still know to this date that the adults were drastically in the wrong and I was completely right. It was insanely early for me when I learned that adults were wrong as shit sometimes. What took me a very long time to accept though, is that often people do not care if they're actually wrong, they're more concerned with feeling/acting right. When you're a kid especially, these types of people love to steamroll you.

The 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.

Just 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.

Get off of my generation X lawn.
- Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.
  Gen X is too cool/apathetic to care about lawns. The issue is that Gen X isn't really trying to gatekeep anything.
  If I had to tell the boomers or millennials or gen z to "stay off my bandwidth" I'd probably be more like "ok, suit your self, I have no shits to give".
  While there are plenty of issues where I'd support the younger generations against the older, being cool isn't one. None of them have any idea, and neither did we.
  
  Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.
  How about: "step aside, I can't see the TV."
  
  You do you, just stay off my LAN.
- Pssh, youre genx. It's not like you've had the time to use your lawn for anything fun. It's not the kids fault your entire generation got sequestered off to middle-management purgatory.

Despite 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.
- I feel most of them are either dangerous (tide pod challenge)
  You say most and then cite only the most overblown, ridiculous example. I haven't seen a single death actually linked to the tide pod challenge, it was just a meme that a select few idiots took too far and got hospitalized. That happens with literally any popular trend. Don't forget millennials had plenty of "dangerous" trends (planking, off the top of my head) that the mainstream media blew out of proportion.
  illegal (property damage in your school bathrooms)
  This has been happening to school bathrooms for a very long time, it just wasn't on social media prior. I remember a trend in my area of kids fucking up their school bathrooms.
  absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it's quirky)
  So millennials didn't do all sorts of incredibly tone-deaf impressions and jokes back in the day?
  or just flat out dumb (think fortnite and such if that's still even a thing and the slang as well)
  "Fortnite dumb" like okay. Fortnite isn't dumb, it's just not made for you. I don't enjoy it, but I love playing it with my nieces and nephews, and while again it's not my speed, it's definitely not dumb.
  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.
  If you just hate using slang that doesn't mean gen z slang is dumb, just means ur a hipster.
  There's plenty of totally enjoyable, innocent gen z trends as well as some obnoxious ones, gen z slang is just an evolution of millennial slang, and gen z are more savvy in some areas and less so in others than millennials. But ofc ppl are gonna see what they want.
- Period. Zoomer slang is dog water, no cap.
  You bet. Zoomer slang is awful, I will not lie to you.
- absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it's quirky)
  You had me on most of these, but oof
  One of the worst things you could do to someone that actually has a disorder is to disregard it because you think their pretending, I'll give the benefit of the doubt thanks.
  
  I'm mostly referring to the people who actually do fake it. I also tend to give the benefit of the doubt, but I've seen various cases online of people actively faking it for clout. People who got called out on their bullshit.

I 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.

Boomers, 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.

Coolness can never be conscious, so anyone concerned about being cool is, by definition, uncool.

Millennials, Teens? I'm almost 30...
- I think you misread something?
  
  Ah, I see.
  In that case: why would/should I care what teens think of me?

That's my thoughts exactly

There'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.

mazonga

Ha 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.

Most 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.
- As a millennial, chill out dude. First, the chipmunk music thing is just a way to sneak music past DMCA filters. Second, who the fuck cares about any of that? As long as they're generally good people, which they seem to be, what does their taste matter? It's not like any other generation was much better.
- ok oldie
- To be fair, the 80's and 90's were arguably the best eras for some genres, just NOT the ones they are listening to.
  Talking namely house, techno, trance. I still bump Blake Baxter, Richie Hawtin, Fatboy Slim, Cocooma, Darwin, The Prodigy, because that shit was fucking awesome. If you listen to the top tracks of some of those genres now, they feel completely soulless in comparison, ESPECIALLY when it comes to happy hardcore. Some of the others have mostly stayed the same with some improvements.
  
  I've never understood the frustration with what strangers are listening to. As long as it's not being played on obnoxiously loud speakers, who cares? If the volume is that loud, I don't really care what the genre is, tbh.
  If music never adapted and evolved, practically no music would exist today, and that even includes most (if not all) old classical music. Beethoven would be unknown. There's no way that rock music would exist.
  Ah, it's also a timeless thing. Anything liked by newer generations is bad, because new=bad. There was even push back when rock music first came out. I also don't understand the "specfic genre-only" mindsets, either. If you like it, you like it. So what if it's out of your normal scope? There's music out there for every mood. If you don't like it, cool. There's a whole world of other things to listen to instead.
  There are also various reasons that people listen to music. Soulless music is great for studying, because it's easier to not want to dance to. Noise music can help drown things out. Some music can help validate how you're feeling, and some songs are just earworms. Certain songs might bring nostalgia, or they might hype you up.
  Life is short, enjoy what you can, especially if it's something that's just to yourself. Why limit yourself based on the opinion of someone who doesn't even have to hear what you listen to?

There are literally zero millennial teens in existence, rn. Wut.
- There's a comma between those two words.

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