9 mo. ago • 97%

It's just a little call back, it's still good it's still good!

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Is it just me or is there a new generation about every 4 months lately?

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- Gen Alpha started in 2010 bro, where ya been?
  
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  My question is who comes up with these names?? Is there a commission I was never invited?
  
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  Wait... I was born close to the start of 2010.
  
  Am I gen alpha?
  
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- Unless my 5th grade kid had a kid, no. You're just getting old. Alpha's been with us for a while now.
  
  The marker is supposedly anyone born entirely within the 21st century and living in a world that's connected to the internet 24/7 since birth. The "iPad kids".
  
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  I tend to agree with the person you're responding to in that actual generations tend to be marked by massive paradigm shifts more than chunks of years.
  
  Like fall of the Berlin wall through 9-11 is a generation.
  
  9-11 through COVID is a generation.
  
  COVID until the water wars is a generation.
  
  It's marked by things that the basically the whole world is affected by, and we all experience it together in some way.
  
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  More the latter than the former. GenZ commonly includes 2005ish, and people born in the early 2000s got to experience the proliferation of the internet during their childhood
  
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- I think you are correct.
  
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Except when OP is making breaking bad references

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- Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
  
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I mean 90% of my dad's humor is dad jokes and Monty Python

And it's awesome lmao

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- Thanks! Which one of my kids are you?
  
  14
  
  Will you be my dad? I miss my dad.
  
  5
lisa needs braces, DENTAL PLAN...

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- Stupid sexy Flanders.
  
  7
  
  Oh hallelujah our problems are solved. We have banana bread.
  
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- Iron helps us play!
  
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We're calling them gen a?

We can just end the whole "gen" thing.

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- I think it's alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).
  
  But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.
  
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  OK, EUmer
  
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  Yeah it's a strange, obviously inaccurate consolidation of millions of people, as if they all share a personality.
  
  Pretty useless and somewhat demeaning trend.
  
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  In the case of this post, I'd say it's more a fact that the early seasons of The Simpsons are 20-30 years old rather than different generations have different perspectives. Gen alpha will not be exposed to those seasons unless it's by someone older.
  
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  The capital letter alpha also happens to look the same as Latin and Cyrillic A, so the all-caps text is still good enough
  
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Remember folks, don't show your significant other The Simpsons/Futurama/South Park/ or anything else until after you're married. Then they can know you aren't actually funny

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- Add Rick and Morty and you just found the other 9.99%
  
  Last 0.01% is "nobody here but us trees"
  
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Great googly moogly!

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- Their aren't nearly enough Phineas and Ferb memes
  
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  I know what we're going to do today!
  
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Simpsons did it

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I watched a random episode on my media box today (Season 7, Lisa becomes a vegetarian). It's been a while and I forgot how good it is. The sheer number of scenes that my wife and I quote to each other on a regular basis that were just in 1 episode was ridiculous.

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- You win friends with salad.
  
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It's gone

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Yes, that’s a real pickle.

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I'm helping!

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Same but married with children

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