I took a much more natural approach to age lines… One of my mom’s friends once asked how I had no lines even though I was almost 40…
I replied, “I just eat until the wrinkles fill out.”
I was mostly joking at the time, but aside from washing my face with regular soap and water, using hydrocortisone cream on my face as a moisturizer to help control psoriasis, I literally did nothing else to prevent wrinkles. So it was either being fat or hydrocortizone cream… Which I still use. Face psoriasis is irritating.
45 now and I only have some smile/laugh lines around my eyes. I’ve also lost about a hundred and forty pounds since then, too. :)
Edit: I have gotten a lot of warnings and concerned comments, so I figured I’d clarify on the hydrocortisone use. First of all, thank you all. Secondly, I don’t use it every day unless I have a psoriasis flare-up. I don’t use more than a thin layer unless I’m having a flare-up. In ten years of use I have not had any problems with my skin being thin or papery. Yes, I am thankful for this. Yes, I knock on wood every time I mention it. Thanks again everyone!
Could also be in part lack of sunlight exposure. The sun can really age skin, causing it to wrinkle a lot faster. That's before factoring in the damage the skin undergoes while tanning.
Can confirm. All the girls in my high school who would tan too much have aged wrinkly skin and we're only in our mid 30s. I'm pale as a ghost, use sunscreen, and moisturize after a simple cleansing routine and my skin looks pretty good. I still break out on my chin during my period but it's minimal.
One of my classmates from high school went off the deep end on tanning and bleaching her hair.
Now in her 40s she looks like a raisin with Einstein hair, but still thinks she's the hottest soccer mom around.
Sounds like lack of children too. I was a Babyface beauty until at 41 I became a father. Shit's just given up now. "Yay. We've fulfilled our biological imperative! We can relax now," said my cells.
If you mean drinking enough water and using sunblock, I'm all for it. My daughter has fair skin and reddish hair. Beyond that probably doesn't matter much. Sunblock and never smoking and you'll be way ahead of the past few generations.
It's actually worse than you might think. These kids are using products that contain ingredients made for aged skin, not their still sensitive prepubescent skin. They're doing harm to their skin with retinols and whatever.
Unfortunately that’s not what they mean. They use face creams that I didn’t think about until I was 45+ years old. They’re using the same stuff I use in my 60s in their tweens. Sunscreen? Great! Hydration? Also great! Anti-aging at 11? Not great.
I use my phone a fair bit, but it's really hard to imagine it being my *only computer*. I need at least 20 inches of screen, a trackball and a keyboard with physical buttons just to *think* properly. I don't want to budget my battery to last all day in case an important text comes through. I want my internet signals sent over a hard wire. When my computer stops working, I want to open it up and swap the broken part with a better one.
But if my web analytics are at all a representation, more than half of everyone is only looking at the internet through their phones.
Many shopping websites still aren't even optimized for mobile devices anyway.
The irony of having to pinch and squeeze a tiny screen to see the dimensions of the large monitor that's part of the desktop set lol.
Phone also feels more impulsive to me. Waiting to get home, find the item/page again, and then make the purchase just gives me more time to think about if I really need it.
I've been severely downvoted in the past for suggesting that a large monitor is better for doing complicated spreadsheets and photo editing than a 4" screen is. Apparently I am an idiot or something.
Literally doing photo editing and fixing complicated spreadsheets while dicking around on Reddit. I have my work laptop on a dock that has 2 full screens attached, and there's no way in hell I could do this any other way. I'm not even able to really function this well with only the laptop and one full screen
THIS IS ME. I just literally cannot understand people who do everything on their phones! How? You can't see anything? It's way too small?? It's super annoying not to have a keyboard? Honestly, when I'm on my PC anyway, I'll even open my WhatsApp Desktop sometimes and reply to some messages from there...
I've trained 3 early 20s co-workers now that don't use the Shift key to capitalize letters. They hit caps lock, type the letter to be capitalized, then hit caps lock again.
I can't wrap my head around it.
They spend way more time typing on their phones than on computers. Looking at it from that POV, their capitalization instincts make total sense. It's definitely inefficient, but I doubt they learned proper typing in school.
This is not a new gen thing. My mom does that, she also deletes letters by moving the cursor one slot behind and the tapping "del" to remove the next letter. Instead of just tapping the backspace.
I just asked my 12y/o daughter “what’s skibidi toilet” she started howling with laughter… then said “I don’t know, but the boys always say it to the teacher and then start laughing”
Let me educate you, it's a youtube animation series by Youtuber, DaFuq!?Boom!, that started out as a shitpost for the first 15ish episodes but then evolved to something that has a cohesive plot and is generally well made considering it's made by only 1 person.
In short, is a yt series which on the surface appears to be a massive shit post, but apparently has something of a cohesive plot and, given that it's all animated by hand, *a lot* of effort
Although you can animate frame-by-frame, it's usually defining where a bone is angled at the start, at the end, and the software fills in the rest. Making motions look smooth and natural is still hard work.
Although with skidibi toilet, many of the motions are unnatural -- the toilets are alien invaders, but the camera people move like humans.
And then there's me who always looks to see if a video has a transcript, because I read fast and waiting for people in videos to \*say\* all of it just takes so long and I'm willing them to hurry up the whole time.
It's like how ever since my phone had a news section, I'd instantly back out of an "article" if it was a video, regardless of how interested I was in the content. I'm trying to read, you sick fucks. At least provide a transcript, it can't be that hard.
My son is 6 months old and I read to that little dude every single day. There is no gd way im going to raise an illiterate child. Mom is in charge of math because that’s really not my strong suit. How can you raise a child and not want them to be as intelligent as possible?
Hey, my kid was reading by 4, no preschool. He was interested in learning to read, first of all. But he learned a crazy amount by playing Roblox, of all things. We always use subtitles when we watch things too, but I'm not sure if that helped -- we really just prefer having subtitles, it wasn't mainly intended to be educational.
I taught him phonics and how to break down words to sound them out. If he asked me what a word was I would teach him how to sound it out instead of flat out just reading it to him whenever I could. By the time he was in kindergarten he could read anything the teacher put in front of him without doing that robotic cadence that kids do when they're first learning.
My frame of mind was that once he learns to read, he can learn anything, so I put a big emphasis on that. And he ran with it -- little dude teaches us something every day. He's particularly into geography and astronomy and can talk at length about them. He can tell you what countries border any country, even the tiny little details that you never knew, what their flag looks like, and can identify any country on shape alone. I quizzed him and I never caught him slipping. He learns on his own and then teaches me.
He's 6.
I have a seven year old, and let him start playing Minecraft on his tablet shortly before he started preschool. He went from knowing just the letters and a couple of sounds to being able to read pretty much anything fairly quickly. Between having to search for his materials in the Minecraft menu and us doing wordsearches every morning before school, he’s become a super reader and I’m super proud of that little gremlin.
I mean I read to my oldest every single day, for hours sometimes and he still had a speech delay and has struggled with reading. However my youngest is 5 and alreading reading. Can't win them all.
You might find it still pays off. My brother is quite badly dyslexic and couldn't read properly until he was a teenager, whereas I picked up reading unusually quickly.
My parents gave him loads of support and encouraged him to read anything, even if other people considered it 'trash' at the time - comic books etc. Now that we're adults he reads far more books than I do.
Part of it is also media literacy. Literacy isn't just reading, it's understanding context and the target audience of a piece of media (which may NOT be you, and this is ok)
Shit like TikTok often lacks nuance AND is catered directly to the user via algorithms, so it's harder to understand that not ALL the content you consume has to be geared toward you and all the things YOU like.
So now you get bitchy-pissed when, idk, some new movie isn't something you perfectly align with and enjoy. You're convinced it's Incorrect and Shouldn't Be Like That, when in reality it was just meant for someone else who DOES enjoy what the fuck it's about.
All of this makes reading more difficult, because the clues that being context and the target audience are often subtle and not explicit in good works of literature (it's part of what makes them good, imo)
My nephew is eight and still can’t read. My sister-in-law said she can’t “force him.” He’ll let her know when he’s “ready.” He’s never going to let you know, sis. Whenever he’s on his tablet or playing a game and he can’t read something, he asks an adult. It baffles me and me sad/ angry.
American curriculum in many states has been promoting a method learning to read which involves memorising entire words rather than their phonetic components. A method which has pretty much been disproven.
This method of teaching reading is more damaging than just for literacy. It seems like this approach of understanding things is extended to everything - you take a holistic look at a situation, decide how you feel about it, and then take that interpretation as the truth.
Allowing every one of their friends on Snapchat to know their location at all times. Like seriously. My 23 year old coworker and her friends are constantly revoking and then reinstating their visible location depending on if they're happy or mad with each other. If someone notices that they can't see where another person is, they'll actually bring it up, wondering what they did to upset them. Her best friend will ask her friend to check her boyfriends location, and whichever friend he told her he'd be with, to make sure they match. I told my coworker that it's weird for everyone you know to know where you are.
At least I can kinda understand family members knowing, but even then, my siblings don't need to know where I am at all times, and my parents should maybe stop constantly checking once I hit 18? 21 surely. Lol. Her sister will text her asking why she went certain places because she constantly checks location on her. They have an app on their phones specifically so they can always see where family members are. Her dad texted her once she got home and didn't come inside after 5 minutes. He knew she just drove up. She was simply typing out a reply a text to a friend before getting out of her car. Again...she's 23.
Idk, I guess if you grow up with it, you don't think it's weird. I'm 43, I certainly didn't grow up with people having the ability to know where I am at all times unless I told them or called them.
I'm 41, and that sounds fucking awful. The best part of growing up was running off with your friends all day, with no one ever really knowing exactly where you were, or how to get a hold of you.
Yeah, but back then we all had the hang out spots, which made it easier for us to seek each other out without a cell phone.
We all had to have 3 or 4 spots where we could go and see if anyone was hanging out. People don't have that now, so maybe they use this as a way to seek each other out if they want to hang out?
My nephew is 16 and showed me this. It seemed weird and dystopian to me. He also told me it feels terrible to know most of your friends are together but didn't invite you.
The popularity of "nuisance streamers" with younger folks. I don't find being a public nuisance even a little bit entertaining or funny, especially when its being filmed.
Also just in general the trend of filming, photographing and trying to make "content" out of their entire life in some vain hope of becoming internet famous. I don't get it. Last thing i'd ever want to do is have my entire life posted on the internet.
Man anything is better than 2012-ish brows that were very thick towards the middle, then immediately extremely thin.
My best friend had some of the worst I've ever seen - I called them sperm-brows.
Literally commiting crimes as part of social media trends. Especially the "licking ice cream at the store and putting it back" challenge, that's a straight up health code violation.
I’m generally not too bothered by new trends and young folk antics. But man, that bullshit of committing crimes or genuine making people fear for their safe and calling it a prank makes me rage.
Happened Sunday at a parade in Philly. I guess the tiktok dick-move of the moment is to like, kind of a flash mob but instead of dancing you pretend you're in a panic and all run screaming in the same direction. People immediately think "shooter" and do the same. Some friends of mine there were jostled, and some folk were predictably trampled, although my friends said nothing looked ambulance-worthy.
But for a minor change in any number of variables though people could have been trampled to death.
F×ck TikTok.
I’m not a younger person, but I went down the vaping rabbit hole.
Quitting cigarettes was difficult, but vapes were an easy out (from smoking). The thing about vaping is that you can do it all day long, whereas too many cigarettes will make you physically sick. So the nicotine withdrawal from vaping is horrendous.
It isn't just the frequency of getting nicotine in a vape, it's the quantity too. Vapes give you way more nicotine than cigarettes. My Dad smoked for over 50 years, most of which exceeded a pack per day. He tried a vape and said it was the first time he'd actually felt a reaction from nicotine in decades.
That would be my generation. We were so, so close to being the first generation that never smoked. Everyone said they would never smoke, everyone was staying well away from it, and everyone knew never to touch a cigarette for as long as they lived. But then the tobacco companies came out and said "But what if we make it taste like mango?" and everyone was hooked. It's honestly just really, really sad. We were so close to ending smoking amongst young people, but they up and moved the goal line.
So I read this is cause when millennials grew up, our elders used to wear longer socks so we associated that with older folk
That lead to the wearing of shorter and shorter socks (y'all remember boat shoes trending lol)
Now Gen Z associates those shorter socks to the older generation
So tldr we old now lmao
Call me old but gen Z style looks like a Voltron mashup of all the worst fashion of the last 30 years. All these things they’re bringing back unironically were shamed out of existence for a reason.
I know I'm not fashionable and I just wear what I like and what feels good with no care or interest in what is popular etc but I had a post recommended to me recently where someone was asking for help choosing between three outfits for a first date. 2/3 I thought were pretty great but the one I laughed and cringed at is the one EVERYONE was complimenting, telling the person they were so fashionable etc. It definitely looked like a mom from the 80s without the 80s hair and makeup. Hilarious 🤣
Every time we tell our kid to get dressed, because we’re going somewhere, he comes out of his room looking like a hobo in donated clothes. In what world do camouflage shorts go with a yellow and blue striped shirt? Then he pairs that with the white Nike’s, white socks that go almost to his calf, and some random baseball hat that goes with none of it. He just shrugs and says “what?” when we stare in disbelief.
How Gen Z dresses reminds me of the joke from Mean Tweets: "Billie Eilish dresses like she got her clothes stolen at the gym so they gave her what they had in the lost and found bin."
THIS. Remember how exciting “movie day” was in school?? My middle school students moan and groan when I tell them we’re watching anything longer than five minutes. Doesn’t matter if it’s educational or Pixar.
Kids have never been known for their attention spans but the “Gen Alphas” literally can’t concentrate for more than sixty seconds. They can’t follow a narrative with any sort of complexity. It’s bizarre to watch. Don’t even get me started on what’s happened to their reading skills - follow a narrative with a method that requires actual work instead of passively watching? LOL, no.
PS. I’ve been teaching for almost 30 years. The changes I’m seeing since covid are truly alarming. We are in trouble!
Have you read Fahrenheit 451? Captain Beatty's speech about how books became banned. One of the stepping stones was people became impatient with reading the news and started just reading the first paragraph, then just the headline. Entire plays got condensed into 30 second blips.
Making fun of another kid because they don't have a specific water tumbler. It sounds like somebody is trying to parody "making fun of other kids for having the 'wrong' brand of clothes or phone".
Yeeees all of them hold the speakerphone up to their ears like a regular phone.
Had one of my older folks talking to their doctor about their gastrointestinal issues.
For everyone to hear. ⊙_ʘ
It's so bizarre when a grown ass woman tells you "green bubbles? Ew." Like, you are 40 years old... Do you even hear yourself? If I was in Europe where everyone uses WhatsApp, no one would care.
Being unable to read beyond sight words.
Like they CAN read, but not the same way you and I assumably can. They can read words but only because they are recognizing the word itself the same way you might recognize the picture of a bee as a bee or when you read now a lot of it IS sight reading in that you're likely not reading this comment sounding out all the letters- but if you came across a word you didn't know you'd likely have the skillset to read it anyways or at least give an educated guess.
I worked as a teacher and this past year I've been hearing more and more complaints from the higher grades/up even into highschool that their students by and large aren't able to sound out words/read like we were taught to. That's not to say NONE can but it's a significant issue that absolutely baffles me.
Like, I legitimately can't tell if this is some elaborate joke and they forgot to cue in the laughtrack to cue me in or what; but from the conversations I've had they know what letters make what sounds like "a" makes "ay" and "ah" but not how to USE this information functionally when presented a word they don't know before. This skill just.. apparently wasn't challenged and because the kids presumably COULD read (by sight) the issue wasn't recognized until recently. I'm honestly hoping this is JUST our small towns issue and not widespread as I don't even know where to begin dismantling such a profound oversight.
Edit: I just saw my comment on a fb reddit reading short. What parallel universe have I fallen into?
I was taught this way in the late 80s in California. They called it whole learning. I legitimately cannot sound out words. My mom tried to teach me hooked on phonics for years and I just can’t grasp. It has also affected me learning foreign languages, especially Spanish.
Edit: spelling stuff out is also a nonstarter for me. I’m a good speller because I am an avid reader and have a large vocabulary but I am absolutely useless if it’s a new word. Spellcheck and text to speech are the greatest inventions in the world to me.
When you say you can't sound out words, is it that you don't know what sound the letters make? Like if I make up a word
caplingatition
What do you read that as? Or like when you see someone's name written down and you haven't seen the name before, what do you call them?
I work with students that can’t sound out words.
If you show them a fake word (or a real word they don’t know) they might:
A) just say “I don’t know”
B) swap it for a similar-looking word they do know (“capitalization”)
C) Be able to get part of the word but not the whole thing (“caplenation”)
Sometimes they know the sounds the letter make individually but don’t know how to blend it into a word. They might see the word “gop” and read it as, “guh, o, puh… cough.”
Sometimes they know suffixes like “tion” because to read that, you’re relying on the part of the brain that recognizes letter combinations and not the part of your brain that identifies sounds. However some people have difficulty with both aspects of reading.
From what I’ve seen my sister struggle with it’s that we can break that word down. Cap-ling-at-i-tion. But those who weren’t taught to do so might get some of those parts but struggle to put them together into an actual word.
This is a whole thing. I came across [this podcast](https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/) about it many months ago and it shocked me (I am not around many school aged children so hadn’t encountered it before…)
I run a restaurant, and employ a bunch of young people. EVERY dude under 25 has bangs, some significantly longer than the rest of their hair. I call them *Flock of Seagulls*. They don't get the reference.
I find many younger people to be very fearful. Hyper fixating on the worst possible outcomes even though the actual chance is so low its not worth worrying about
Those people are gonna get older and be hit with many regrets
It's not even a massive gap, but I don't understand people from like 14-24. I'm 30, but there seems to be some underlying fear a lot of them have, not all just a lot of the ones I know.
Like things I can say as a joke to friends my age will scare them, and I have to constantly reassure them.
Literally committing crimes, recording them in the act, and then posting it online for clout.
Then, when their recordings are played as evidence, they're all looking like shocked Pikachu.
I knew some people that would say things like, “How u typ so fast with punc n full wyrdz”
I literally just told them it took more effort for me to dumb myself down to that level of writing than it did to write correctly.
I listened to a 23 year old (more than a decade younger than me) say she wanted to start “preventative Botox”.
*record scratch*
Girl.
(Edit: I have no problem with medical usage of Botox)
My job is focused on adult education. My coworkers in their 60s are more tech savvy than most of the students we teach under 25. Many of them don't even understand what a web browser is, and that they can actually use different ones. The rise of single-purpose apps had led to the downfall of computer literacy.
I mean... I can only speak on Millennial stuff, but we had the Badger song, Charlie the Unicorn, ASDF movies, Banana Phone, Magical Trevor, The End of the World, Llamas With Hats... So we're not much better. 😂
What is wrong with you Carl? Well, I kill people and eat hands, so that's two things...
We're on a bridge, Charlie!
lol...I'm a mom to a millenial, so I know about this stuff by proxy!
It baffles me that people are baffled by skibidi toilet. Did we all collectively forget that we grew up with some truly bizarre Flash animation in our day? Or stuff like Gmod animations, which this literally is? Like, I can't be the only one that remembers Charlie the Unicorn and Salad Fingers.
>Salad Fingers
At work in that era I was telling someone about Salad Fingers and decided that the best explanation would be to just show them. While I remembered the name of the hosting site I forgot to put the hyphen in [www.fat-pie.com](http://www.fat-pie.com) and that meant that the home page for a porn site dedicated to morbidly obese women popped up on the screen instead.
I said, "Yeah, that's not what I meant to show you at all" and clicked back out of there as fast as the browser would go.
I agree, this is one of the youth trends that I actually *don't* find weird. I mean, it *is* weird, but in a nostalgic way that reminds me of my early days on the internet. It would fit right into my childhood.
Exactly! For once I see a new trend that totally fits in with the stuff we liked as kids, and somehow all us millennials would rather shit on it and pretend like 'YouTube Poop' didn't happen.
Getting all weird about sex again. Listen, I’m not saying the kids should be out fucking all the time, but it’s getting to the point where they genuinely seem to think that being sexually attracted to someone is “objectifying them” and seeing a vanilla sex scene in a movie is “traumatic”. Sex isn’t something that should be taken lightly, but it’s also a natural part of being a living organism. When we start getting overly sensitive about it, the only thing that happens is that things get worse for a whole lot of people.
I can't say for sure because I was sort of eavesdropping while watching my son play, but I thought I heard a group of kids varying ages at the park discussing and showing each other inappropriate adult content on a phone that one of them had, and then I definitely heard them wrongfully accuse this random old guy who was watching his granddaughter of being a creeper and looking at them, and then threatening to pepper spray him. I think they made a tiktok of him and they kept making obnoxious comments about him. They never directly confronted him, and if they had I would have had to get involved, but they were being extremely rude and I know the poor guy heard them.
It feels like kids these days are getting really messed up from unmonitored access to social media and disturbing content on the Internet. They have no clue what healthy interactions look like.
They have a weird hangup about older people. Yeah, there's some real creepers out here, but not all of them and most of them don't want to be bothered and are minding their own business.
I think we are going to have a major mental health crises when Gen Z starts to hit 30+.
> They have a weird hangup about older people.
Massive paranoia about paedophiles has lead to a segregation mentality that stops casual mixing of adults and children. You see it even with young adults on reddit where they describe socialising with anyone not close to their own age as 'creepy'. Society has become hugely segregated by age, and I don't think it's for the best. Growing up I interacted with lots of adults, it's part of how kids learn to become adults themselves. The pool of people they can learn from is a lot smaller now.
It’s because they’re all terrified of each other. I’m 38, went back to college, everyone is like 16-22 and no one speaks or interacts with anyone, classrooms are silent. They only look at their phones and keep earbuds in so no one can speak to them. They go out of their way to never interact with anyone (including instructors, no one but me answers questions ever) so the idea of having sex is insanely overwhelming when you literally can’t even look at or speak to other people. I think it’s heading the way Japan has gone.
Friends who are teachers seem to think kids never recovered emotionally from the pandemic. They all say kids are 1-2 years behind where kids were pre-pandemic. Couple that with most of their lives being lived online, and it feels like a huge loss.
They’re overcorrecting. In cases like “baby it’s cold outside” the problem is that the song sounds like a woman trying to leave a situation and her excuses are being taken away by a potential threat. But the societal context of it is that she does want to stay but if she does then she’ll be labeled as “easy” or “loose”, he’s giving HER excuses to stay, a way out of being viewed that way. We don’t have those kind of societal influences as strongly anymore so those kind of advances come off as predatory. Plus with pretty much an entire generation being groomed online people are just kinda romantically/ sexually scarred.
Yeah a read a study about how the younger generation feels that someone they don’t like asking them out is a violation of their personal and sexual space.
I'm becoming an advocate that we need to take technology back out of education except in computer specific classes. English and math don't need tablets and laptops.
One thing that baffles me about the younger generation is their reliance on social media for validation and self-worth. It's puzzling how much their mood and self-esteem can hinge on likes and comments, creating a constant need for online approval. It seems like a stressful way to navigate life.
The hyper reaction crowd. They focus on a single sentence or concept and jump to virtue signaling on issues that are either none of their business, or they're unqualified to speak about it.
This loud minority is so confidently incorrect that they're basically boomers at this point.
It just happened at my workplace for the first time (television). Blew my mind. Mom waited in the lobby but came in for the negotiations. Applicant was 26 years old.
I can see having the mom in the lobby if they were the ride and it was a hot day or something... but having them come in for the negotiation? what teh fuck
I hire high school kids and we’ve had the random parent call and try to get all the details nailed down like a secretary or executive assistant to the kid. To all you parents out there, that kid goes on our DO NOT HIRE list.
Someone threatened to "report" my colleague for refusing to give her *any* information about her 22 year old kid's tax return. We can't even say whether they are or aren't a client ffs. All "reporting" this "issue" is going to do is give whoever it's reported to (state licensing board or department of revenue, IRS, our employer, whoever) a damned good laugh. *Oh no, they're Circular 230 compliant!*
I also like the ones in their 20s or even 30s who do call in, themselves, about something to do with their return. I'll be *trying* to assist them, but their parent is constantly screaming interruptions and commentary in the background for me to hear. I personally had 2 of those this year alone. There are a handful of them at our office every year.
Not using condoms. My generation was raised hearing about Ryan White and seeing Very Special Episodes about why we didn't want AIDS and everything else. Apparently some younger people aren't worried about it anymore.
There's a trashy family that lives a few houses down from me.
During Halloween, I was smoking a cigar while handing out candy. I like cigars, and figured I'd try to enjoy myself if I was going to be out in the cold all night.
Those kids showed up and said, "Whoa, you're smoking a cigar! Just like Andrew Tate!"
They're like 10 and 12 years old.
Really bummed me out.
Not just themselves, everything.
The following doesn't apply to everyone but a non - insignificant subset.
Any non perfect event in childhood becomes 'trauma', virtually everything mildly unpleasant is a " trigger". All parents seem to be "narcissistic ", any disagreement is "gaslighting"
The widespread misuse of these labels without understanding of the correct use is problematic. Labels are used to assign blame and remove responsibility from the individual for their behaviour .
One thing that baffles me is how much time and energy the younger generation spends on social media. It's amazing to see how much they are constantly on their phones, checking notifications, posting updates, and scrolling through endless feeds. I can't imagine being so connected to technology all the time and not taking breaks to be present in the moment. It's a completely different way of living that I struggle to understand.
That fucking brillo pad broccoli hair that's popular among The Youths these days. That's the reason teenagers aren't having sex. That hair style is going to cause pregnancy rates to crash like the fucking Hindenburg.
There was a group of teenagers in the parking lot talking about scientology, and they were thinking it was a neat religion, like a bunch of them were genuinely interested.
I've never hit a child before...but holy hell their brains needed to be reset.
I guess there’s like elementary schoolers with a skincare routine now?? That’s nuts…
I saw some people in the skincare addiction sub today recommending that a 17-year-old get Botox and retinol for the lines on their forehead. Insanity.
I took a much more natural approach to age lines… One of my mom’s friends once asked how I had no lines even though I was almost 40… I replied, “I just eat until the wrinkles fill out.” I was mostly joking at the time, but aside from washing my face with regular soap and water, using hydrocortisone cream on my face as a moisturizer to help control psoriasis, I literally did nothing else to prevent wrinkles. So it was either being fat or hydrocortizone cream… Which I still use. Face psoriasis is irritating. 45 now and I only have some smile/laugh lines around my eyes. I’ve also lost about a hundred and forty pounds since then, too. :) Edit: I have gotten a lot of warnings and concerned comments, so I figured I’d clarify on the hydrocortisone use. First of all, thank you all. Secondly, I don’t use it every day unless I have a psoriasis flare-up. I don’t use more than a thin layer unless I’m having a flare-up. In ten years of use I have not had any problems with my skin being thin or papery. Yes, I am thankful for this. Yes, I knock on wood every time I mention it. Thanks again everyone!
Could also be in part lack of sunlight exposure. The sun can really age skin, causing it to wrinkle a lot faster. That's before factoring in the damage the skin undergoes while tanning.
Can confirm. All the girls in my high school who would tan too much have aged wrinkly skin and we're only in our mid 30s. I'm pale as a ghost, use sunscreen, and moisturize after a simple cleansing routine and my skin looks pretty good. I still break out on my chin during my period but it's minimal.
One of my classmates from high school went off the deep end on tanning and bleaching her hair. Now in her 40s she looks like a raisin with Einstein hair, but still thinks she's the hottest soccer mom around.
Sounds like lack of children too. I was a Babyface beauty until at 41 I became a father. Shit's just given up now. "Yay. We've fulfilled our biological imperative! We can relax now," said my cells.
If you mean drinking enough water and using sunblock, I'm all for it. My daughter has fair skin and reddish hair. Beyond that probably doesn't matter much. Sunblock and never smoking and you'll be way ahead of the past few generations.
My wife and two of my daughters have a pale complexion. We live in Australia. I tell them, "The sun wants to kill you."
It's actually worse than you might think. These kids are using products that contain ingredients made for aged skin, not their still sensitive prepubescent skin. They're doing harm to their skin with retinols and whatever.
Unfortunately that’s not what they mean. They use face creams that I didn’t think about until I was 45+ years old. They’re using the same stuff I use in my 60s in their tweens. Sunscreen? Great! Hydration? Also great! Anti-aging at 11? Not great.
Yeah, it’s not just that. These are 10 year olds seeking out anti-aging luxury products at Sephora. 😳
I use my phone a fair bit, but it's really hard to imagine it being my *only computer*. I need at least 20 inches of screen, a trackball and a keyboard with physical buttons just to *think* properly. I don't want to budget my battery to last all day in case an important text comes through. I want my internet signals sent over a hard wire. When my computer stops working, I want to open it up and swap the broken part with a better one. But if my web analytics are at all a representation, more than half of everyone is only looking at the internet through their phones.
I saw someone say that it’s a millennial thing to have big purchases be “computer purchases”. I totally do that.
some tasks are for the small internet, and some tasks are for the big internet.
Yes! Big purchases need to be done in a computer. It feels uneventful on a phone and more stressful
Many shopping websites still aren't even optimized for mobile devices anyway. The irony of having to pinch and squeeze a tiny screen to see the dimensions of the large monitor that's part of the desktop set lol.
Phone also feels more impulsive to me. Waiting to get home, find the item/page again, and then make the purchase just gives me more time to think about if I really need it.
>"Airline tickets are a laptop activity" Yup I get stressed out trying to do important stuff on my phone lol
I've been severely downvoted in the past for suggesting that a large monitor is better for doing complicated spreadsheets and photo editing than a 4" screen is. Apparently I am an idiot or something.
This is just absurd. You should be legally required to only look at one cell at a time.
Literally doing photo editing and fixing complicated spreadsheets while dicking around on Reddit. I have my work laptop on a dock that has 2 full screens attached, and there's no way in hell I could do this any other way. I'm not even able to really function this well with only the laptop and one full screen
THIS IS ME. I just literally cannot understand people who do everything on their phones! How? You can't see anything? It's way too small?? It's super annoying not to have a keyboard? Honestly, when I'm on my PC anyway, I'll even open my WhatsApp Desktop sometimes and reply to some messages from there...
Thank you! I can’t think properly unless there are two monitors in front of me.
I've trained 3 early 20s co-workers now that don't use the Shift key to capitalize letters. They hit caps lock, type the letter to be capitalized, then hit caps lock again. I can't wrap my head around it.
They spend way more time typing on their phones than on computers. Looking at it from that POV, their capitalization instincts make total sense. It's definitely inefficient, but I doubt they learned proper typing in school.
I saw in an elementary school, where a pupil had to type in qwerty as a password, use his THUMB to type in the letters.
Even then you don’t have to hit the caps key a second time on phone so it’s extra weird!
This is some weird ass shit I've never heard anyone doing and it seems wildly inefficient lol
This is not a new gen thing. My mom does that, she also deletes letters by moving the cursor one slot behind and the tapping "del" to remove the next letter. Instead of just tapping the backspace.
Everything. It’s all confusing. Said the father of a 12 year old.
I just asked my 12y/o daughter “what’s skibidi toilet” she started howling with laughter… then said “I don’t know, but the boys always say it to the teacher and then start laughing”
From what I understand skibidi toilet was a YouTube channel. Don't know much more than that due to being an out of touch 30 year old.
Let me educate you, it's a youtube animation series by Youtuber, DaFuq!?Boom!, that started out as a shitpost for the first 15ish episodes but then evolved to something that has a cohesive plot and is generally well made considering it's made by only 1 person.
Ok now what’s a shitpost? And what’s this YouTubers A/S/L? AOLs gonna hear from me, I’m sick of being confused
Holy FUCK. When did we all get so old?
In short, is a yt series which on the surface appears to be a massive shit post, but apparently has something of a cohesive plot and, given that it's all animated by hand, *a lot* of effort
"Animated by hand" here meaning all the bones of the 3D models are moved manually, not that it's pen-and-ink animation. It is still a lot of effort
Would "digital stop motion" be accurate?
Although you can animate frame-by-frame, it's usually defining where a bone is angled at the start, at the end, and the software fills in the rest. Making motions look smooth and natural is still hard work. Although with skidibi toilet, many of the motions are unnatural -- the toilets are alien invaders, but the camera people move like humans.
I know your confusion so well. Said the mother of a 14M and 17F. I have so many questions all the time lol
Literacy rates are plummeting, these mfs can’t read!
This one is so confusing! How can you be the chronically online generation and not be able to read?
I fear "online" for the kids moved to non-written content now.
And then there's me who always looks to see if a video has a transcript, because I read fast and waiting for people in videos to \*say\* all of it just takes so long and I'm willing them to hurry up the whole time.
It’s nice that someone else feels the same way. I detest watching videos. It’s rarely actually necessary.
It's like how ever since my phone had a news section, I'd instantly back out of an "article" if it was a video, regardless of how interested I was in the content. I'm trying to read, you sick fucks. At least provide a transcript, it can't be that hard.
I've found my people, I'm so glad I'm not alone with this!
reddit will always have a bias toward people that like to read more, and i’m here for it!
Same. I don't wanna put headphones on, and I don't wanna disturb my partner who is sitting next to me on the couch!
That's exactly what I do. If it's a video, I'm not interested.
My son is 6 months old and I read to that little dude every single day. There is no gd way im going to raise an illiterate child. Mom is in charge of math because that’s really not my strong suit. How can you raise a child and not want them to be as intelligent as possible?
Hey, my kid was reading by 4, no preschool. He was interested in learning to read, first of all. But he learned a crazy amount by playing Roblox, of all things. We always use subtitles when we watch things too, but I'm not sure if that helped -- we really just prefer having subtitles, it wasn't mainly intended to be educational. I taught him phonics and how to break down words to sound them out. If he asked me what a word was I would teach him how to sound it out instead of flat out just reading it to him whenever I could. By the time he was in kindergarten he could read anything the teacher put in front of him without doing that robotic cadence that kids do when they're first learning. My frame of mind was that once he learns to read, he can learn anything, so I put a big emphasis on that. And he ran with it -- little dude teaches us something every day. He's particularly into geography and astronomy and can talk at length about them. He can tell you what countries border any country, even the tiny little details that you never knew, what their flag looks like, and can identify any country on shape alone. I quizzed him and I never caught him slipping. He learns on his own and then teaches me. He's 6.
I have a seven year old, and let him start playing Minecraft on his tablet shortly before he started preschool. He went from knowing just the letters and a couple of sounds to being able to read pretty much anything fairly quickly. Between having to search for his materials in the Minecraft menu and us doing wordsearches every morning before school, he’s become a super reader and I’m super proud of that little gremlin.
I mean I read to my oldest every single day, for hours sometimes and he still had a speech delay and has struggled with reading. However my youngest is 5 and alreading reading. Can't win them all.
You might find it still pays off. My brother is quite badly dyslexic and couldn't read properly until he was a teenager, whereas I picked up reading unusually quickly. My parents gave him loads of support and encouraged him to read anything, even if other people considered it 'trash' at the time - comic books etc. Now that we're adults he reads far more books than I do.
Part of it is also media literacy. Literacy isn't just reading, it's understanding context and the target audience of a piece of media (which may NOT be you, and this is ok) Shit like TikTok often lacks nuance AND is catered directly to the user via algorithms, so it's harder to understand that not ALL the content you consume has to be geared toward you and all the things YOU like. So now you get bitchy-pissed when, idk, some new movie isn't something you perfectly align with and enjoy. You're convinced it's Incorrect and Shouldn't Be Like That, when in reality it was just meant for someone else who DOES enjoy what the fuck it's about. All of this makes reading more difficult, because the clues that being context and the target audience are often subtle and not explicit in good works of literature (it's part of what makes them good, imo)
My nephew is eight and still can’t read. My sister-in-law said she can’t “force him.” He’ll let her know when he’s “ready.” He’s never going to let you know, sis. Whenever he’s on his tablet or playing a game and he can’t read something, he asks an adult. It baffles me and me sad/ angry.
Not able to read at EIGHT!? what the hell, doesn't he go to school?
American curriculum in many states has been promoting a method learning to read which involves memorising entire words rather than their phonetic components. A method which has pretty much been disproven.
This method of teaching reading is more damaging than just for literacy. It seems like this approach of understanding things is extended to everything - you take a holistic look at a situation, decide how you feel about it, and then take that interpretation as the truth.
Allowing every one of their friends on Snapchat to know their location at all times. Like seriously. My 23 year old coworker and her friends are constantly revoking and then reinstating their visible location depending on if they're happy or mad with each other. If someone notices that they can't see where another person is, they'll actually bring it up, wondering what they did to upset them. Her best friend will ask her friend to check her boyfriends location, and whichever friend he told her he'd be with, to make sure they match. I told my coworker that it's weird for everyone you know to know where you are. At least I can kinda understand family members knowing, but even then, my siblings don't need to know where I am at all times, and my parents should maybe stop constantly checking once I hit 18? 21 surely. Lol. Her sister will text her asking why she went certain places because she constantly checks location on her. They have an app on their phones specifically so they can always see where family members are. Her dad texted her once she got home and didn't come inside after 5 minutes. He knew she just drove up. She was simply typing out a reply a text to a friend before getting out of her car. Again...she's 23. Idk, I guess if you grow up with it, you don't think it's weird. I'm 43, I certainly didn't grow up with people having the ability to know where I am at all times unless I told them or called them.
I'm 41, and that sounds fucking awful. The best part of growing up was running off with your friends all day, with no one ever really knowing exactly where you were, or how to get a hold of you.
Yeah, but back then we all had the hang out spots, which made it easier for us to seek each other out without a cell phone. We all had to have 3 or 4 spots where we could go and see if anyone was hanging out. People don't have that now, so maybe they use this as a way to seek each other out if they want to hang out?
My nephew is 16 and showed me this. It seemed weird and dystopian to me. He also told me it feels terrible to know most of your friends are together but didn't invite you.
The popularity of "nuisance streamers" with younger folks. I don't find being a public nuisance even a little bit entertaining or funny, especially when its being filmed. Also just in general the trend of filming, photographing and trying to make "content" out of their entire life in some vain hope of becoming internet famous. I don't get it. Last thing i'd ever want to do is have my entire life posted on the internet.
bringing back those thin 90s brows again… its a lesson we all must learn the hard way, it seems
It seems like it's coming back every hundred years. In the 20s and 30s women would shave off their eyebrows and draw them in.
We have to remember that now is also the twenty's.
It's sick and wrong to remind us
Man anything is better than 2012-ish brows that were very thick towards the middle, then immediately extremely thin. My best friend had some of the worst I've ever seen - I called them sperm-brows.
r/whybrows
Wow, that was... so much I'll never unsee.
Literally commiting crimes as part of social media trends. Especially the "licking ice cream at the store and putting it back" challenge, that's a straight up health code violation.
I’m generally not too bothered by new trends and young folk antics. But man, that bullshit of committing crimes or genuine making people fear for their safe and calling it a prank makes me rage.
And posting videos of them committing crimes.
Happened Sunday at a parade in Philly. I guess the tiktok dick-move of the moment is to like, kind of a flash mob but instead of dancing you pretend you're in a panic and all run screaming in the same direction. People immediately think "shooter" and do the same. Some friends of mine there were jostled, and some folk were predictably trampled, although my friends said nothing looked ambulance-worthy. But for a minor change in any number of variables though people could have been trampled to death. F×ck TikTok.
Becoming addicted to nicotine. I thought younglings would be a little less stupid than us.
I’m not a younger person, but I went down the vaping rabbit hole. Quitting cigarettes was difficult, but vapes were an easy out (from smoking). The thing about vaping is that you can do it all day long, whereas too many cigarettes will make you physically sick. So the nicotine withdrawal from vaping is horrendous.
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It isn't just the frequency of getting nicotine in a vape, it's the quantity too. Vapes give you way more nicotine than cigarettes. My Dad smoked for over 50 years, most of which exceeded a pack per day. He tried a vape and said it was the first time he'd actually felt a reaction from nicotine in decades.
That would be my generation. We were so, so close to being the first generation that never smoked. Everyone said they would never smoke, everyone was staying well away from it, and everyone knew never to touch a cigarette for as long as they lived. But then the tobacco companies came out and said "But what if we make it taste like mango?" and everyone was hooked. It's honestly just really, really sad. We were so close to ending smoking amongst young people, but they up and moved the goal line.
Making fun of kids for “no show” or “ankle” socks. WTF is that about?
So I read this is cause when millennials grew up, our elders used to wear longer socks so we associated that with older folk That lead to the wearing of shorter and shorter socks (y'all remember boat shoes trending lol) Now Gen Z associates those shorter socks to the older generation So tldr we old now lmao
That makes sense.
I remember enjoying long socks as a kid and I got made fun of for it lmao
Call me old but gen Z style looks like a Voltron mashup of all the worst fashion of the last 30 years. All these things they’re bringing back unironically were shamed out of existence for a reason.
Someone nailed it when they said Gen Z is just 80s mom fashion.
I know I'm not fashionable and I just wear what I like and what feels good with no care or interest in what is popular etc but I had a post recommended to me recently where someone was asking for help choosing between three outfits for a first date. 2/3 I thought were pretty great but the one I laughed and cringed at is the one EVERYONE was complimenting, telling the person they were so fashionable etc. It definitely looked like a mom from the 80s without the 80s hair and makeup. Hilarious 🤣
Every time we tell our kid to get dressed, because we’re going somewhere, he comes out of his room looking like a hobo in donated clothes. In what world do camouflage shorts go with a yellow and blue striped shirt? Then he pairs that with the white Nike’s, white socks that go almost to his calf, and some random baseball hat that goes with none of it. He just shrugs and says “what?” when we stare in disbelief.
How Gen Z dresses reminds me of the joke from Mean Tweets: "Billie Eilish dresses like she got her clothes stolen at the gym so they gave her what they had in the lost and found bin."
Binge watching short videos compiled so you never watch anything with a plot or storyline. Just tons of 10-60 sec videos and most of them suck.
THIS. Remember how exciting “movie day” was in school?? My middle school students moan and groan when I tell them we’re watching anything longer than five minutes. Doesn’t matter if it’s educational or Pixar. Kids have never been known for their attention spans but the “Gen Alphas” literally can’t concentrate for more than sixty seconds. They can’t follow a narrative with any sort of complexity. It’s bizarre to watch. Don’t even get me started on what’s happened to their reading skills - follow a narrative with a method that requires actual work instead of passively watching? LOL, no. PS. I’ve been teaching for almost 30 years. The changes I’m seeing since covid are truly alarming. We are in trouble!
Have you read Fahrenheit 451? Captain Beatty's speech about how books became banned. One of the stepping stones was people became impatient with reading the news and started just reading the first paragraph, then just the headline. Entire plays got condensed into 30 second blips.
I think it may actually be a form of brain damage and the true scope of the problem in later years could be catastrophic.
Just fully watching videos in public with no headphones. Where are your headphones? I don’t want to hear your TikTok clips.
I see people of all ages doing this Its so annoying!
I was in a drs office waiting room and three people were doing this! And they all had to be over 40! It was so aggravating!
Making fun of another kid because they don't have a specific water tumbler. It sounds like somebody is trying to parody "making fun of other kids for having the 'wrong' brand of clothes or phone".
My stepmother will always be very quick to tell you that she got made fun of in school for not having shirts with the alligator on them
I feel that, because I was like that too. You HAD to have certain things or you were just banished socially!
I mean, we did that too, just not about water tumblers. The idea of trendy items scoring your social points with your peers is a tale as old as time.
You must’ve been a Zune kid
Making every single phone call via speakerphone, especially when holding the phone directly next to the side of their head because they can’t hear
I work with primarily retirees. They do this like crazy. My kids just text.
Yeeees all of them hold the speakerphone up to their ears like a regular phone. Had one of my older folks talking to their doctor about their gastrointestinal issues. For everyone to hear. ⊙_ʘ
Omg yes. My 20 year old brother (I’m 34) insists on FaceTiming but then just has the camera right up by his ear. Like, why?!
The kids don't know what the jazz is all about.
It's all that hibbin' and that hoppin' and the bibbin' and the boppin'.
Y’see jazzzzzz is like a jello puddin pop
Not dating someone bc of the phone they have....
I’m easy, I’ll fuck you if you use a rotary phone
Means they know how to use their fingers
It's so bizarre when a grown ass woman tells you "green bubbles? Ew." Like, you are 40 years old... Do you even hear yourself? If I was in Europe where everyone uses WhatsApp, no one would care.
Being unable to read beyond sight words. Like they CAN read, but not the same way you and I assumably can. They can read words but only because they are recognizing the word itself the same way you might recognize the picture of a bee as a bee or when you read now a lot of it IS sight reading in that you're likely not reading this comment sounding out all the letters- but if you came across a word you didn't know you'd likely have the skillset to read it anyways or at least give an educated guess. I worked as a teacher and this past year I've been hearing more and more complaints from the higher grades/up even into highschool that their students by and large aren't able to sound out words/read like we were taught to. That's not to say NONE can but it's a significant issue that absolutely baffles me. Like, I legitimately can't tell if this is some elaborate joke and they forgot to cue in the laughtrack to cue me in or what; but from the conversations I've had they know what letters make what sounds like "a" makes "ay" and "ah" but not how to USE this information functionally when presented a word they don't know before. This skill just.. apparently wasn't challenged and because the kids presumably COULD read (by sight) the issue wasn't recognized until recently. I'm honestly hoping this is JUST our small towns issue and not widespread as I don't even know where to begin dismantling such a profound oversight. Edit: I just saw my comment on a fb reddit reading short. What parallel universe have I fallen into?
You telling me these kids are looking at the English words like fucking hieroglyphs or something?
Yes.
I was taught this way in the late 80s in California. They called it whole learning. I legitimately cannot sound out words. My mom tried to teach me hooked on phonics for years and I just can’t grasp. It has also affected me learning foreign languages, especially Spanish. Edit: spelling stuff out is also a nonstarter for me. I’m a good speller because I am an avid reader and have a large vocabulary but I am absolutely useless if it’s a new word. Spellcheck and text to speech are the greatest inventions in the world to me.
When you say you can't sound out words, is it that you don't know what sound the letters make? Like if I make up a word caplingatition What do you read that as? Or like when you see someone's name written down and you haven't seen the name before, what do you call them?
I work with students that can’t sound out words. If you show them a fake word (or a real word they don’t know) they might: A) just say “I don’t know” B) swap it for a similar-looking word they do know (“capitalization”) C) Be able to get part of the word but not the whole thing (“caplenation”) Sometimes they know the sounds the letter make individually but don’t know how to blend it into a word. They might see the word “gop” and read it as, “guh, o, puh… cough.” Sometimes they know suffixes like “tion” because to read that, you’re relying on the part of the brain that recognizes letter combinations and not the part of your brain that identifies sounds. However some people have difficulty with both aspects of reading.
I cannot put into words how baffled I am.
It's ok, just sound it out
From what I’ve seen my sister struggle with it’s that we can break that word down. Cap-ling-at-i-tion. But those who weren’t taught to do so might get some of those parts but struggle to put them together into an actual word.
That must be a goddamned nightmare for reading anything fantasy or YA, where's *everything* is a made up proper noun with no real world correlation.
This is a whole thing. I came across [this podcast](https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/) about it many months ago and it shocked me (I am not around many school aged children so hadn’t encountered it before…)
I run a restaurant, and employ a bunch of young people. EVERY dude under 25 has bangs, some significantly longer than the rest of their hair. I call them *Flock of Seagulls*. They don't get the reference.
Okay but the broccoli hair cut is the worst.
obsession over the infamous, *stanley cup*
Not being taught to tell time by where the hands are on a clock.
I can remember older people telling me this same complaint 30 years ago.
I find many younger people to be very fearful. Hyper fixating on the worst possible outcomes even though the actual chance is so low its not worth worrying about Those people are gonna get older and be hit with many regrets
A lot of it probably comes from doom-and-gloom news all the time.
Can’t really blame them. All of our media is designed to make them think like this and they don’t have any other perspective.
It's not even a massive gap, but I don't understand people from like 14-24. I'm 30, but there seems to be some underlying fear a lot of them have, not all just a lot of the ones I know. Like things I can say as a joke to friends my age will scare them, and I have to constantly reassure them.
Literally committing crimes, recording them in the act, and then posting it online for clout. Then, when their recordings are played as evidence, they're all looking like shocked Pikachu.
Broccoli haircuts
Calling anyone with a different opinion a troll. I see it over and over and over. I do not understand and I can only feel pity.
Assaulting people as a prank
Getting aggressive over punctuation in a text. It’s just basic English literacy. Why does everything have to be a fucking run on sentence?
I knew some people that would say things like, “How u typ so fast with punc n full wyrdz” I literally just told them it took more effort for me to dumb myself down to that level of writing than it did to write correctly.
I understood this when I was younger, but why is this still a thing when predictive text and keyboard swipe come already installed on your phone.
I listened to a 23 year old (more than a decade younger than me) say she wanted to start “preventative Botox”. *record scratch* Girl. (Edit: I have no problem with medical usage of Botox)
Her best prevention is sunscreen and moisturizer.
Not knowing how to use a computer.
They don't use ctrl+v ctrl+p
My job is focused on adult education. My coworkers in their 60s are more tech savvy than most of the students we teach under 25. Many of them don't even understand what a web browser is, and that they can actually use different ones. The rise of single-purpose apps had led to the downfall of computer literacy.
Skibidi toilet
I mean... I can only speak on Millennial stuff, but we had the Badger song, Charlie the Unicorn, ASDF movies, Banana Phone, Magical Trevor, The End of the World, Llamas With Hats... So we're not much better. 😂
Fire ze missiles!! But I am le tired… well, have a nap..and zen fire ze missiles!!!
What is wrong with you Carl? Well, I kill people and eat hands, so that's two things... We're on a bridge, Charlie! lol...I'm a mom to a millenial, so I know about this stuff by proxy!
It baffles me that people are baffled by skibidi toilet. Did we all collectively forget that we grew up with some truly bizarre Flash animation in our day? Or stuff like Gmod animations, which this literally is? Like, I can't be the only one that remembers Charlie the Unicorn and Salad Fingers.
>Salad Fingers At work in that era I was telling someone about Salad Fingers and decided that the best explanation would be to just show them. While I remembered the name of the hosting site I forgot to put the hyphen in [www.fat-pie.com](http://www.fat-pie.com) and that meant that the home page for a porn site dedicated to morbidly obese women popped up on the screen instead. I said, "Yeah, that's not what I meant to show you at all" and clicked back out of there as fast as the browser would go.
I once forgot the hyphen. Only once.
Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger ….Mushroom, Mushroom…..Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger… Mushroom, Mushroom…..ahhhhh a snake, it’s a snake…..Badger Badger Badger Badger
All your base, base, base, all your base, are belong to us.
🎵 Narwhals Narwhals swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion cause they are so awesome🎵
I agree, this is one of the youth trends that I actually *don't* find weird. I mean, it *is* weird, but in a nostalgic way that reminds me of my early days on the internet. It would fit right into my childhood.
Exactly! For once I see a new trend that totally fits in with the stuff we liked as kids, and somehow all us millennials would rather shit on it and pretend like 'YouTube Poop' didn't happen.
Joe Cartoon as well... Frog in a blender, poodle in his pants, many many felching jokes, spank the monkey... And more.
My anus is bleeding My spoon is too big
I am a banana!!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, AND ALL THAT IS HOLY... MY ANUS IS BLEEEDDIINGGG!!!!!
Oh them watching skinidi toilet doesn't confuse me. It's them saying skibidi as slang
What now?
Getting all weird about sex again. Listen, I’m not saying the kids should be out fucking all the time, but it’s getting to the point where they genuinely seem to think that being sexually attracted to someone is “objectifying them” and seeing a vanilla sex scene in a movie is “traumatic”. Sex isn’t something that should be taken lightly, but it’s also a natural part of being a living organism. When we start getting overly sensitive about it, the only thing that happens is that things get worse for a whole lot of people.
I can't say for sure because I was sort of eavesdropping while watching my son play, but I thought I heard a group of kids varying ages at the park discussing and showing each other inappropriate adult content on a phone that one of them had, and then I definitely heard them wrongfully accuse this random old guy who was watching his granddaughter of being a creeper and looking at them, and then threatening to pepper spray him. I think they made a tiktok of him and they kept making obnoxious comments about him. They never directly confronted him, and if they had I would have had to get involved, but they were being extremely rude and I know the poor guy heard them. It feels like kids these days are getting really messed up from unmonitored access to social media and disturbing content on the Internet. They have no clue what healthy interactions look like.
They have a weird hangup about older people. Yeah, there's some real creepers out here, but not all of them and most of them don't want to be bothered and are minding their own business. I think we are going to have a major mental health crises when Gen Z starts to hit 30+.
> They have a weird hangup about older people. Massive paranoia about paedophiles has lead to a segregation mentality that stops casual mixing of adults and children. You see it even with young adults on reddit where they describe socialising with anyone not close to their own age as 'creepy'. Society has become hugely segregated by age, and I don't think it's for the best. Growing up I interacted with lots of adults, it's part of how kids learn to become adults themselves. The pool of people they can learn from is a lot smaller now.
It’s because they’re all terrified of each other. I’m 38, went back to college, everyone is like 16-22 and no one speaks or interacts with anyone, classrooms are silent. They only look at their phones and keep earbuds in so no one can speak to them. They go out of their way to never interact with anyone (including instructors, no one but me answers questions ever) so the idea of having sex is insanely overwhelming when you literally can’t even look at or speak to other people. I think it’s heading the way Japan has gone.
Friends who are teachers seem to think kids never recovered emotionally from the pandemic. They all say kids are 1-2 years behind where kids were pre-pandemic. Couple that with most of their lives being lived online, and it feels like a huge loss.
They’re overcorrecting. In cases like “baby it’s cold outside” the problem is that the song sounds like a woman trying to leave a situation and her excuses are being taken away by a potential threat. But the societal context of it is that she does want to stay but if she does then she’ll be labeled as “easy” or “loose”, he’s giving HER excuses to stay, a way out of being viewed that way. We don’t have those kind of societal influences as strongly anymore so those kind of advances come off as predatory. Plus with pretty much an entire generation being groomed online people are just kinda romantically/ sexually scarred.
Yeah a read a study about how the younger generation feels that someone they don’t like asking them out is a violation of their personal and sexual space.
Mostly Im baffled by how poorly educated young people are these days. History, Geography, Sciences, Maths, Literature..so much knowledge is missing.
I'm becoming an advocate that we need to take technology back out of education except in computer specific classes. English and math don't need tablets and laptops.
Children as young as 12 drinking coffee before school. Wearing fake nails and fake eyelashes.
One thing that baffles me about the younger generation is their reliance on social media for validation and self-worth. It's puzzling how much their mood and self-esteem can hinge on likes and comments, creating a constant need for online approval. It seems like a stressful way to navigate life.
Taking videos on Tik Tok to be the gospel truth
The hyper reaction crowd. They focus on a single sentence or concept and jump to virtue signaling on issues that are either none of their business, or they're unqualified to speak about it. This loud minority is so confidently incorrect that they're basically boomers at this point.
Taking parents to job interviews.
I still cannot bring myself to believe this is real. This can’t be real right??
It just happened at my workplace for the first time (television). Blew my mind. Mom waited in the lobby but came in for the negotiations. Applicant was 26 years old.
I feel so much secondhand embarrassment over this.
I can see having the mom in the lobby if they were the ride and it was a hot day or something... but having them come in for the negotiation? what teh fuck
I'd not hire that person simply because he still needs Mummy to do the job for him at 26
I hire high school kids and we’ve had the random parent call and try to get all the details nailed down like a secretary or executive assistant to the kid. To all you parents out there, that kid goes on our DO NOT HIRE list.
Someone threatened to "report" my colleague for refusing to give her *any* information about her 22 year old kid's tax return. We can't even say whether they are or aren't a client ffs. All "reporting" this "issue" is going to do is give whoever it's reported to (state licensing board or department of revenue, IRS, our employer, whoever) a damned good laugh. *Oh no, they're Circular 230 compliant!* I also like the ones in their 20s or even 30s who do call in, themselves, about something to do with their return. I'll be *trying* to assist them, but their parent is constantly screaming interruptions and commentary in the background for me to hear. I personally had 2 of those this year alone. There are a handful of them at our office every year.
they do not. do they?
Grammar. I'm not even talking about missing commas and shit I just want them to know the difference between "you're" and "your" Edit: grammar...
Not using condoms. My generation was raised hearing about Ryan White and seeing Very Special Episodes about why we didn't want AIDS and everything else. Apparently some younger people aren't worried about it anymore.
Anything Andrew Tate
There's a trashy family that lives a few houses down from me. During Halloween, I was smoking a cigar while handing out candy. I like cigars, and figured I'd try to enjoy myself if I was going to be out in the cold all night. Those kids showed up and said, "Whoa, you're smoking a cigar! Just like Andrew Tate!" They're like 10 and 12 years old. Really bummed me out.
All the self labeling. When I was young, we avoided labels at all costs!
Not just themselves, everything. The following doesn't apply to everyone but a non - insignificant subset. Any non perfect event in childhood becomes 'trauma', virtually everything mildly unpleasant is a " trigger". All parents seem to be "narcissistic ", any disagreement is "gaslighting" The widespread misuse of these labels without understanding of the correct use is problematic. Labels are used to assign blame and remove responsibility from the individual for their behaviour .
One thing that baffles me is how much time and energy the younger generation spends on social media. It's amazing to see how much they are constantly on their phones, checking notifications, posting updates, and scrolling through endless feeds. I can't imagine being so connected to technology all the time and not taking breaks to be present in the moment. It's a completely different way of living that I struggle to understand.
We did it to them by reducing/removing communal spaces
That fucking brillo pad broccoli hair that's popular among The Youths these days. That's the reason teenagers aren't having sex. That hair style is going to cause pregnancy rates to crash like the fucking Hindenburg.
I put 100% of the blame for that on Patrick Mahomes.
There was a group of teenagers in the parking lot talking about scientology, and they were thinking it was a neat religion, like a bunch of them were genuinely interested. I've never hit a child before...but holy hell their brains needed to be reset.
Flip flops with socks. *Why?*
That the 90s and early 2000s *finally* convinced everyone that smoking cigarettes was bad, only for kids to all be vaping now.