Is there anything actually unique about Gen Z?

They embrace the nonbinary

They've been raised by single mothers, and have never been within 150 ft of a male = the sight of a daddy drives them wild at the bathouse. Christmas everyday for hairy middle aged slightly gone to seed me, and my pals.

Everybody just thinks they're millennials.😂

They have been showing up to vote in droves. They care about the environment. They care about women's rights. They care about LGBTQ rights. They see the Republican Party for the grifters they are. Did I mention they vote?

They're just another version of hipsters.

[quote] They have been showing up to vote in droves.

Do they really now? Because evidence shows they aren't that much better than the generations before them.

They seem to have their priorities right (environment, labour laws, mental health) but they lack any sense of humour.

Their parents insist that they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. And how DARE you disagree!

They have stinky feet and horrible pits.

Millennials have a better dress sense. Most middle-class Zs I see in my city dress like 1980s squatters and ravers who have been partying for 24 hours and haven’t showered in a week. The kids from less well-off neighbourhoods all dress in black and wear hoodies.

They are extremely FAT and dress in played out 90s fashions that every other generation has already lived through.

Their mothers insist that they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. And how DARE you disagree!

corrected that for you R9

I'd rather have sex.

R13 Their mothers are actual Karens

They think "rain" and "snow" are motives for not showing up at work. They have mini dishwashers for a single person. They expect to have their rent paid for by their parent (the only one). They take immense pride in passing for SJWs. They're FEMINISTS even though they don't understand what it means.

Their feet, balls and ass stink

I had a Gen Z colleague once, who never showed up on snowy days because " he couldn't drive his car out of the garage". he lived 3 bus stops (or 35 min walk) away from work.

They are like millennials, minus any sense of youthful fun.

They rely on their cellphone to know if it's raining outside, rather than looking through the window.

Their entire life is TikTok. Like seriously.

They believe that Greta whatever , the moron who was paraded in the media by her failed actors parents some years ago, made an actual difference in the climate

They haven't got a clue if they're male or female. They tink you can actually change the chromosomes

The gay male ones are really skinny. It’s like they eschew masculinity.

They're awkward socially -- spend more time on their phones than actually socializing or having sex.

Not really. All the music and pop culture they enjoy is courtesy of millennials until they come up with their own thing.

Differences from millennials that I've seen are:

Gen Z are all activists by nature/default, having come of age when politics was pop culture, whereas older millennials are a bit more balanced and less radical.

Gen Z paradoxically believe that sexual and gender identities are nonbinary, but that almost everything else sociopolitically is a stark binary of virtuous or evil, with nothing in between. Millennials are not at all like that.

Gen Z kids are the ones who police others' words and who are apt to point a finger and call out "witch!" and think nothing of tearing down a person's whole livelihood and reputation because of a single comment, even one that may have been misconstrued.

In that respect, I don't think I've ever seen a single young person of Gen Z age issue a mea culpa and admit to having been wrong about something. They seem entirely self-assured once they settle on the notion of someone being evil.

I think millennials are less religiously affiliated than people older than they are, but that gen Z people are far less religious as a whole.

However, astrology is extremely popular among gen Z people.

Gen Z slang is largely made up of slang popularized by RuPaul's Drag Race, an interesting mainstreaming of a subculture's language. They call people they like "queen" and "mother," etc.

I'm guessing because of the above, makeup is popular among boys and girls alike in Gen Z. It's a pastime. TikTok popularized 'get ready with me' videos in which young people blabber on with sociopolitical commentaries while piling on many layers of makeup, and girls and boys both do it.

Gen Z boys are as assimilated to a Barbie-standard ideal type of appearance as girls have been for many generations. It's more common than ever to see starved and ripped young men who live on supplements and are obsessive about their appearances.

Sex is less taboo to Gen Z than to any prior generation in our history. They grew up seeing porn on the Internet probably from toddlerhood, and they came of age seeing attractive people become wealthy selling their bodies online and they admire that as a career option.

Many are obsessive overachievers raised by overachieving executive Gen Xers whose identities are based on their credentials, and these kids still believe in Ivy-League universities based on status. More Gen Z than any other generation though reject higher education altogether.

This generation does not understand the idea of education for the sake of self-betterment, improved critical thinking and as a value itself. They've been told universities are a con and they reject the temptation and think they can create wealth for themselves through creating sexy or smart social media personas. Millennials still believed in college.

Gen Z probably is the most aware generation since the hippies that elected officials and journalists engage in propaganda and have an alarming influence on how we think and behave. Millennials were not very aware of this comparatively.

Gen Z don't have any real concept of how good movies about actual human beings can be; they think movie=CGI live-action comic books and Disney animations. Millennials were still exposed to some decent feature films before the Marvel takeover.

Most Millennials would have watched Star Trek, the Jetsons or read Nineteen Eighty-Four when they were young and would have had the impression that all of those are futuristic. Most gen Z kids would regard all of those as antiquated.

Actually, no.

This video to me is a perfect representation of unique qualities of the Gen Z generation:

1. TikTok persona

2. Shirtless young guy. (If they are in decent shape, they are always shirtless because that always increases views and engagements—very creepy way to cultivate a person's personality IMO.)

3. Applying beauty products. In this case, it's a guy in probably his early 20s using plastic under-eye patches.

4. While applying his beauty products, making a declaration of what IS and IS NOT.

5. While applying his beauty products and making a declaration of what IS and IS NOT, CORRECTING another gen Z person who was doing the same but who is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

6. Kind of debating, but not actually debating using any kind of evidence or argumentation. Just declaring that someone is wrong, done through a passive-aggressive "Let's not pretend that..."

7. All in about 10 seconds, because that is the attention span of people today but especially young people, and short videos get more views and engagements, and THAT, my dears, is the entire point of doing anything.

8. If you liked this list, be sure to LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE for more great content! You're all queens!

Actually, yes. Hormones. This is the most hormone obsessed generation in history. Using them to gain muscle, or to become “male”, or blocking them to feminize and become “female”. The lifespan of this generation should not be long due all this drug use. I would say 50s max, if they live that long.

The stereotypical GenZ ids are all middle to upper middle-class.

they're all faggots

They have very little in common with millennials. Millennials were out of high school by the time smartphones and social media took over the world, whereas Gen Z experienced a completely different world throughout their formative years. The phenomenon of latchkey kids ended completely with millennials too. The oldest millenials are now in their early 40s. There is a big difference between the older millenials and the younger millenials and the older zoomers and the younger zoomers. The rapid pace of changes in pop culture and particularly the impact that technology has had on social norms among young people has created a lot of generational gaps and I think that's a completely novel thing. I have a lot more in common with the experiences of a Gen Xer who is 20 years older than me, than I do with a zoomer who is 8 years younger than me simply because the iphone didn't come out until after I graduated. The Gen alpha kids who have been getting blasted by an iPad screen starting at age 4 I consider to be a new species altogether, an invasive one in fact. They'll make zoomers look like the silent generation.

[quote]Gen Xer who is 20 years older than me

You’re what, 35? A little older?

R34 31

I would say that social media and the internet started to become very much a thing in the mid 2000s but it was a novelty that people had a much healthier relationship with. The people who were obsessed were just nerdy outcasts, it would take quite a while before it completely usurped all of our social behaviors. I remember chatting with my friend group during my underclassmen years about how texting was a fad that would never really catch on, it's so much easier to call. Maybe a couple of rich kids had a blackberry my senior year, myspace was something you went on for 30 minutes at the end of the day, it was nothing like now.

You look 31.

What's unique is the hostile, dead-eyed looks they give you whenever you dare to order a coffee from them. The most self-centered generation imaginable. When they actually bother to interact I clutch my heart in surprise.

Take all of the negative characteristics of a millennial, and multiply it by 10x. And there you have it.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

I have a feeling Generation Alpha is going to overrun them very soon.

So many bitter, fat old cunts on this thread

So Gen Alpha will be even more unbearable?

I imagine the upcoming generation will be feral.

R42 probably. But they'll live up to their name. Z is a Beta generation.

So expect more Trumpism and transgenderism from Gen Alpha? Ugh.

R45 Gen Alpha are the kids of Millennials and I don't think they're going to wait around taking cues from Zoomers. They're going to be pushy like their parents.

Agreed the gay boys are femme and have daddy issues. Also agreed, they have smelly assholes from not showering daily.

Largely uninspiring, thinking fat = booty, porn stache = masculine, and perm = cool haircut.

Most 20 somethings aren't even worth a second (or first) notice these days.

It's time we talk about OP. They have inflicted trauma on me. They need to be cancelled so that this.. weaponization of questions.. does not continue to inflict hurt, pain, and suffering upon others.

They have no male power. There isn't a Sean Connery in this generation

[quote][R45] Gen Alpha are the kids of Millennials and I don't think they're going to wait around taking cues from Zoomers. They're going to be pushy like their parents.

What are millennials like?

[quote]Agreed the gay boys are femme

Why is this a problem?

R50 like the generation who are finally pushy and demanding enough to shove Baby Boomers out of the way for good.

R51 because....no F., no F., no A.

Boomers and Millennials like each other, though.

R54 Just wait until ALL of the Millennials start turning 40. They're not going to wait around for a baton to be passed. They're going to grab it

They have people like Dylan Mulvaney to represent them and to speak for them.

R54 do we?

R51 Because femme gay boys take on the worst characteristics of yoga chicks and draq queens combined. Cunty and sassy for no reason. Plus, have you ever had sex with a femme guy:

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, ooooooooooooooooohhhh, ohhhhhhhh, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee fuck my poooossssssssssy daaaady. Haaaaaaaaaaaaarder ahhhhhhhhhhh ooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaa weeeeeeeeeee oh my pooooooooooooosy!"

I don’t think I agree, R55. Boomers and Millennials get along. It’s Boomers and Gen X who don’t get along.

Should they transition, R58?

R59 Millennials are not going to wait around and let whomever else is older dictate the second half of their lives.

Boomers have met their match.

Lots of flaunting of chronic illnesses on social media.

Dire hygiene.

They have zero resilience, if the krauts came back to send them to deathcamps, they would commit suicide en masse like lemmings, before being even reached.

I really don’t know^. I don’t know much about Millennials.

Despite the fact that there are subjects that they are very humourless about, Gen Z are overwhelmingly “funny” online in that Lil Nas X way. Even “basic” Gen Z’s are surprisingly witty when it comes to their social media output. And it’s not gendered, girls are expected to be as funny as boys.

And I agree that they are much less gendered than we were when it comes to gen z boys being expected to perform “sexiness” the way millennial girls were. All the aesthetics and “homiesexual” gay stunts on social media seem like an example of that.

They take offense to everything said in humor.

The females find any man over 50 who says "Good morning" or "Good afternoon" to them as 'creepy'.

They have a very undeserved sense of entitlement and importance.

Their anxiety becomes 'triggered' by any slight variation of their planned day, as they can't handle 'stress'.

They last at a new job, on average, for five months before they quit without notice. They find their older colleagues 'creepy', they feel 'bullied' by their boss, and are inconvenienced by the fifteen minute commute to work.

R50: assertive

College is so expensive for them it is often unattainable, not even a possibility. They haven't been able to get the normal teenage or young person work experience, Even the typical summer jobs are taken by adults who are otherwise forced out of the workforce starting in 2008. Things are incredibly competitive and shut out for them- college, ever thinking of owning a home, hell even renting an apartment. Car insurance alone goes up $3000 a year just as having them as a secondary driver so many aren't even getting their drivers licenses.

They sure have enough money to buy make up, nail varnish, High end cell phones, and pay the surgeon for their transition though

Don't forget all the facial products. My niece spends $500 a month on a regimen that takes half an hour in the morning and the same at night. She's 25.

I want to tell her to save her money for when she'll really need skin care at 45.

^ woops, not R69, meant to reply to him

don't bother, she'll never reach 45

She'll probably request assisted suicide in a few years, when the world will be too tuff for these exquisite flowers

They hate Pride (because of Gatekeeping Eldergays, according to what I once read on a DL thread), but they still insist on its flag being updated with more and more stuff on it.

They hate gay Pride no matter what^.

Pride is so 1999.

Everything is a safe space right now. Too bad they're also triggering.

Man, I'm glad I'm too old for this shit.

They have zero accountability, they don't understand the word "duty", or the concept of "debt". When in a male/female couple, the male self-identifying ones ask the female self-identifying ones permission to make an appointment for a phone call with their self-identifying male friends. They don't grab a drink at the bar, they join "circles" to discuss super serious socio-political topics listed in advance, such as "what does it mean to be male?"

[quote]the male self-identifying ones ask the female self-identifying ones

Is this satire or do you for real speak this way.

I hear the bio males have very big cocks due to hormones in the food or some such.

Shame they chop it off

You don't have to have a cock to be a man.

Zoomer perms/broccoli hair: yea or nay?

They don't know how to socialize in person. Their only form of socialization all their lives was on technology. They don't know how to make eye contact with someone, they don't know how to make conversation with someone, etc. If someone tries to make conversation with them, they feel uncomfortable and call you 'creepy'.

They also don't go on dates with anyone. If they consider themselves 'in a relationship' with someone, that means they text all day. The physical contact they have with each other is at their apartments (paid for by their parents) or their dorm room - in which they order food in via GrubHub or DoorDash. They don't go to restaurants. They don't go to movie theaters, either, for a date - they watch Netflix. They don't attend parties - the men have their 'buddies' come over to their apartment or dorm, drink beer, and play video games. The females gather together and watch 'The Bachelor'. And most perplexing - whether they are 'in a relationship or not' - they don't have sex.

They seem sickly. Don’t go to gym, don’t care about clothes or appearance, don’t have career aspirations (beyond being an influencer). Many are non-sexual, which is sad for a young person.

R84 I work in a university, and have learned over the years none of them want 'careers'. They want skills (mostly tech or math skills) where they can job jump from position to position to 'make more money' (usually every five or six months). No one wants to 'settle' into a 'career'. I've kept in touch with a few students who graduated in the past - those who have graduated three years ago (2020) have averaged 6 - 8 different jobs by now. It's very scary.

And yes, none of these hot hunky male students are interested in sexual relations with another human. They're satisfied with masturbation.

R85 That's because "careers" have largely disappeared outside of academia and a few administrative industries. Most other career tracks require participants to move on frequently - indeed, some look down on anyone who's stayed longer at a job than 2 years.

R85 = creepy

Not being sexual for younger non-married free adults was probably the norm for most of human existence. It's not always been the late 1960s thru say early 2000s.

[quote]They're satisfied with masturbation.

I blame pornhub.

R87: Gen Z thinks EVERYTHING is creepy and everybody is out to get them. They've rendered the word useless.

They hack off their body parts and are afraid of their own shadows.

They also don't believe in showering every day and using deodorant. Boy, can you tell.

60% identify as lgbt but only 20% have had any same sex experience. Most are online gay only.

r7, ya cunt.

Gen Z are proud of being 'neurodivergent' and take great delight in obtaining an autism or adhd diagnosis. They're not offended by being called a cunt so call them a SPAZ if you want to offend them.

r95, I called R7 a cunt, who is clearly not a Gen Zer but someone who denigrates them.

Oh, and Fuck you, too, ya cunt.

[QUOTE] However, astrology is extremely popular among gen Z people.

Yep. They're more superstitious than any generation since the Victorians and most sleep with crystals.

My niece won’t return to school because “they’re all a bunch of liars”.

They're having less sex than any generation ever because online porn has intimidated them and made them body conscious. Far more of them identify as asexual than any previous generation just so they can remove the pressure to have sex.

They are all medicated. I don't know of one college student who isn't on heavy-duty medications for depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, etc. They either walk around the campus at a frantic pace or they walk around like a zombie.

Sickly pallor, medicated (as above), humorless, neurotic. They need fresh air and exercise and they need to get rid of the smart phones. Where is the Surgeon General on this? Geez.

R98 she'll do well in life

One of them online presented me with a list of trigger words I am not allowed to say . Talking with them is like picking your way through a minefield. No banter, no smart-ass rapport, no twisted jokes, no damn fun at all. They are the humorless bureaucrats and Gen Xer's are the misfits with divorced parents using humor to stay alive.

They get triggered by the 😂 emoji and tried to get it banned from twitter.

The basic difference is that millennials didn’t have cellphones or the Internet until they were in their late teens and social media wasn’t really a big thing until 10 years after that.

Gen Z grew up online and has all the disadvantages of the neuroses that come with that, as well as the advantage of a greater awareness of social issues

R104 I always use the skull or coffin now to indicate laughter, just to be on the safe side. I'm sure they'll come for that at some point in the next few years, too.

Do Gen Alpha even use emoji?

this entire thread acts like gen z r very lib,

meanwhile, gen z guys r very in2 q anon, trad wife, alpha, incel culture, gun culture

What?

Bullshit R107. Incel, rape culture, QAnon crap are Republican control culture issues.

Not Gen Z liberals.

I was banned from r/neoliberal and then banned completely from reddit for saying that transgender is way conservative, and that these LGBTQ, non-binary Gen Z-types will make Trumper Boomers look like a honeymoon.

It is a rebound generation that that's come of age under Trump. They will move Democrats from the coin flip, edge stand Democrats have called "majorities" to genuine Democratic majorities.

Republicans will not go quietly.

They banned you from reddit? Damn. Just goes to show there is no such thing as free speech .

Yep banned^. That’s what banned me for good. I was suspended a few times from reddit because I commented that ex-gays are stigmatized and treated like shit in a pro-trans thread on askgaybros, or one of the gay subs. I was calling out their utter bullshit and hypocrisy. The final nail in my reddit coffin was the “conservative” comment.

R112 free speech only applies to the government. It is so we can criticize the government. It does not extend to private companies. a private company can make up its own rules.

r109 u must b a fool if u think all gen z r lib

a lot of gen z poor, white guys feels left out of the conversation, so they became bitter incels

its not rite, but they feel neo-nazi trump stuff gives them a leg out in the hierarchy

they worships guys like andrew tate

u need 2 get out mo

I'm shocked at their inability to talk on the phone. On reddit, gay yutes make post after post about getting "ghosted". Someone usually asks them if they talked on the phone to get to know each other a bit and establish a rapport.

The answer is always no. They try to devise strategies to avoid getting ghosted, but talking on the phone beforehand, is a no-go.

Why?

They literally don't know how to carry on a conversation. And it terrifies them to even contemplate the act.

They're very into conspiracy theories and screaming PR when their favorite artist dates someone they don't like. They worship ugly straight people like Louis Tomlinson and are convinced that they're gay.

[QUOTE] always use the skull or coffin now to indicate laughter, just to be on the safe side.

Ridiculous that they are fine with a skull or a coffin but not a laughing face. Dumb emo clowns.

Generation Alpha has been born at a time of falling fertility rates across much of the world, and are experiencing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as young children. For those with access, children's entertainment has been increasingly dominated by electronic technology, social networks, and streaming services, with interest in traditional television concurrently falling. Changes in the use of technology in classrooms and other aspects of life have had a significant effect on how this generation has experienced early learning compared to previous generations. Studies have suggested that allergies, obesity and health problems related to screen time have become increasingly prevalent among children in recent years .

[quote] as well as the advantage of a greater awareness of social issues

Advantage? They’re full of shit and jump on bandwagons based on lies.

R107 - why are you writing like that?

It’s like listening to someone try to type with a Kardashian accent.

Incel hide the fact that their horrible beliefs about women, leave uneducated, unemployable males UNFUCKABLE.

Live stupid, die stupid.

They/them don't vote.

They/them are unproductive workers.

They dress oddly , like they're about to go to Mars.

"u need to get out mo"

Mo lives under the couch, honey.

Oh, sorry, "2", not "to". It's literacy day, boys and girls!

They wear oranges wigs and horrible huge tattoos on their neck by age 14

20% identify as LGBT. That's new.

Most claim to be bi, though.

20% are truly gay or bisexual. 60% claim to be “LGBT” - which is a cult.

And none of them have actually had gay sex.

Most people are actually between 0.1 - 5.9 on the Kinsey Scale. Grow up, DLers. The kids are right.

Kinsey is “trans” meaning — it’s a fallacy. Garbage.

[quote]And none of them have actually had gay sex.

Nope, they may do things on camera, but they keep it far away from gay men, just like every other generation.

R133 they just seem to avoid in-person sexual or physical contact in general, unless they're getting paid or getting clout for it. It's not specifically homophobia in this case.

It's a brave and weird new world. I'm a celibate Millennial, and my horny slutty peer group used to make me feel like an absolute freak and a one in a million for being so avoidant and uncomfortable with physical intimacy. Half of all the highschoolers and College kids of now though are just like I was (and am tbh).

[quote][R133] they just seem to avoid in-person sexual or physical contact in general, unless they're getting paid or getting clout for it. It's not specifically homophobia in this case.

They will never have sex with men because they are not gay or bisexual regardless.

I heard someone recently say that we're all shedding our humanity in a social sense because of technology. Intimacy has been thrown away because of porn and on-demand sex apps like Grindr. People only look at one another when talking on Zoom or Facetime; in person, they look at their devices. Our minds have reprogrammed themselves not to connect with other human beings, not to make eye contact, but to make eye-to-screen contact.

Younger people are even more modified because instead of conversing and discussing and relating with human beings, developing complex and nuanced relationships, they broadcast themselves and tally quantified engagements and likes and shares. They understand base human desires better than older people did because the data don't lie, but they only understand and care about base human desires because those are what get them the social media stats they covet.

They don't want friends; they want followers.

They learn to give people what they want to get what they want. All things are transactional manipulations.

Years ago, it was considered demeaning to strip or sell sex. Then it became 'sex positive' to understand that those are not inherently shameful behaviors. Now stripping and fucking on camera are just means to get to the fulfillment of income and followers.

Looking attractive paradoxically is more important than ever because conventionally pretty or 'hot' people are the only ones who amass huge followings.

They don't believe in education because it won't help them gain followers, which means money; only being pretty and on top of trends can accomplish that.

And they are right. People with tens of thousands of followers or more can easily secure a book deal from a major publisher *even if they can't write.* And a brilliant writer with few followers cannot.

Young people's backward evolution into less-sophisticated, more basic types of animals is a product of real-world inputs and rewards.

The way everything in life is just "content" to them, even debates about truly existential world events, weirds me out.

I think the AI takeover arrived when Generation Z arrived. They don't seem to be quite fully human.

Oh, please, r5. They’re actively erasing women. And they’re pro “sex work.” Abortion rights is not a priority for them.

They’re the most misogynist generation I’ve seen in my lifetime. Probably has something to do with being internet natives.

[quote]They are the humorless bureaucrats and Gen Xer's are the misfits with divorced parents using humor to stay alive.

And yet don't you think it funny that most of their parents are Gen X. And Boomers who complain about and hate millennials were the ones who birthed and brought up millennials.

What's up with that?

R90, the irony is that they themselves are creepy.

[quote] People only look at one another when talking on Zoom or Facetime; in person, they look at their devices. Our minds have reprogrammed themselves not to connect with other human beings, not to make eye contact, but to make eye-to-screen contact.

So I spent years learning eye contact and forcing myself to do it even though it makes me feel like exploding for *nothing*?

[quote]So I spent years learning eye contact and forcing myself to do it even though it makes me feel like exploding

Why does eye contact make you/autistics feel like exploding though? Kind of doesn't make sense to me.

R136 summed it up brilliantly.

R142 interesting question, thanks for asking.

It's a multifaceted answer, and obviously different according to the individual. One common complaint reported though is that the social and instinctual 'rules' of eye contact in various situations and relationships are too complex and subtle for us to understand naturally, and as we're never taught it explicitly as children it's a painful learning curve replete with social landmines to 'get it' and pass as someone who hasn't had to study it.

E.g. I've been told off or given shit before because I looked too long or didn't look at all at someone, lost in confusion about whether or not I should and if so when. For many years, I couldn't seem to time it right or judge the appropriate moment to gaze or look away. Maturity, experience, gentle hints and work to reduce social anxiety help that. One trick I love is to visually trace or spot someone's iris with a soft gaze as they're speaking for just a few long seconds, as it makes them feel respected and heard without feeling like they're under a microscope.

In my specific case, it's also a matter of intimacy, social safety & control. Over the course of my life I've misunderstood and misjudged so often, over both ASD and other things, that I don't like to feel too closely connected to people unless I'm very sure of them as emotionally 'safe' people (an absurd concept intellectually, I know there's no truly 'safe' person as we're all capable of harm). What's more, I grew up with a neglecting and rejecting critical parent who vents anger with expression, so I've learned to associate emotional close confrontation with danger. I also find that I take the feelings of others too much to heart or misread them, sometimes, and eye contact intensifies that.

Hope that helps clarify at least a bit? I feel like I've waffled or contradicted myself but perhaps not :) Paul Micallef, ASD educator on yt, explains it clearly and accurately (to my experiences, anyway) in the video at the link.

They never seem to have any fun. They whine and cry, bitch and moan constantly about really stupid shit. They take themselves so seriously even though they don't know anything.

They don't interact naturally with people but keep people at a distance because they're wondering where the buttons are to push. I think technological manipulations we take for granted translate for them into manipulating people. I honestly think they are a mostly scary bunch who grew up unnaturally and are not socialized.

My preteen male cousins only know how to talk about Minecraft, Nintendo Switch and superheroes. They have no understanding or interest in anything else, and can’t seem to hold forth in discussion on general real life either. They’re 9 and 12 years old, so it’s not the end of the world at this point in development but also is a slight concern. Or it should be imo, I don’t think their parents care (or have the energy and capacity to care).

If the younger users I see on tumblr--that I only still use and frequent to liveblog sports games--are any indication, they're all sensitive, reactionary, small-minded Naz! crybullies who can't tolerate a reality check. Only their worldview is correct.

They've got an amusing, abstracted and nihilistic post-modern sense of humour, though.

To answer OP, they're shy. I don't think of Millennials as being very shy at all.

They are constantly trawling people's social media for signs of racism or homophobia. If you're white and wore your hair in cornrow braids aged 12, they'll cancel you. Calling someone a queen or a dyke will also get you cancelled.

Being Millennial today is just like

They don’t seem to care about personal hygiene and some of them dress embarrassingly bad. I saw a guy yesterday wearing a button down shirt with pictures of pizza on it.

They have posts on Tumblr with 200k notes reassuring each other that if you're too depressed to shower, it doesn't matter and 'your body will forgive you.'

They are anti-racists.

They are voting in higher numbers than every generation at their age before them since 18 year olds could vote did. And they are breaking in higher numbers for Democrats than generations before did for Dem/liberal candidates.

They’re pro-violence

Alot of the complaints about Gen Z are simply what ALL young people are like, regardless of generation.

And a good number are simply bitterness from older people who can't get young people to fuck them. When you go on and on about how the younger generation don't like sex and dress frumpy then it becomes obvious that you can't get laid by anyone young and attractive.

Some criticisms are legitimately concerning though.

The people I knew in my 20s showered

20% of them are asexual.

60 percent are fake bisexuals.

They think they’re smarter than previous generations simply because they know what buttons to click on an app.

They don’t realize that technology has been dumbed down for mass consumption.

And that one day their kids will know more than they do.

And that future generations will blame them for all the ills of the world.

They need to put down their devices & learn how to think deeply. Otherwise, they’re screwed.

They’re good at trolling, that’s for sure. Unfortunately, that’s not an admirable talent.

They think they know how to make the world a better place. But they’re actually making it worse.

Previous generations have worked very hard to achieve professions such as doctor, engineer, etc. Gen Z has brought us a new profession to which they aspire - influencer.

To me, Zillennials--those born in the mid and late 1990s, currently aged 25-29--are a curious bunch. They have a mix of traits, values, interests and references from the generations either side of them, and can be mistaken for either. They're not much like the oldest/older Millennials now aged 40-ish, but they're also not that like kids born in the 2000s.

Honestly, though, I think '90s babies are a generation of their own, anyhow. I was born in the early-mid 1990s, and I don't relate to older Millennials or to Gen Z either. And I don't look up to Boomers or abhor Gen X, fwiw.

Their whole 90s wannabe aesthetic is not working.

They seem entitled, judgmental, and neurotic. They don’t like to work. They are selfish and bad with money. Is that too harsh?

I know so many Gen z people who claim to be in nearly constant pain and can’t handle much physically. Like an hour of walking causes them pain the next day. Either they’re really sickly and out of shape or insane.

The Baby Boomers were a distinctive generation. Those on either side of them—the WWII generation and Generation X—had particular qualities that make them worth singling out for commentary (partly by virtue of their relationships to the Boomers). Other than them, named generations are just about people trying to sell columns and books.

R167: More of that Baby Boomer exceptionalism. What the hell makes them so damn special?

[quote] I know so many Gen z people who claim to be in nearly constant pain and can’t handle much physically.

There’s been toxic levels of microplastics, heavy metals and radiation in everything since they were born. Perhaps they really are in pain and ridden with illness.

Or it's all in their heads.

It's not "exceptionalism," R167; it's purely a historical phenomenon. There was a baby boom, and the postwar kids grew up with a certain cultural experience and distinctive trajectory (peanut gallery, counterculture, yuppie sellouts, old farts). No one thought of reifying a generation to that extent before, and it doesn't work well for generations since (as opposed to plain old historical experience).

Baby boomers come across as cold and hard to me quite often.

R172 - we are.

We’re losing sight of that light at the end of the tunnel. The new normal does change you, after so many years.

Each of the younger generations is less and less capable of actually solving the mess we are in. Apathy, entitlement, and cultural narcissism are future-killers.

Gdamn Millennials…

20.8% of them identify as LGBT

R176 - that’s cool. But when the entire group are narcissists, they are incapable of advancing gay rights. Narcissism overrides sexuality.

R172 many in the elder generations are having a difficult time not being in their prime. They've gotten used to calling all of the shots and they don't want to share with anyone younger.

Seriously, ageism is everywhere. Everywhere.

They need hospitalization when they lose online debates:

R178, I’m a GenXer. I don’t recall ever calling any shots.

I’ve never seen youth have so much power before now…they’re the ones calling the shots now. We have to tiptoe on eggshells to not say the wrong thing. It’s hard to know what they consider the wrong thing because none of it makes sense.

They can get people fired from their jobs. They can make a ton of money on YouTube & tik tok. They have no problem with using slurs & invent new ones every day.

I told a friend at brunch today that the kids today want to be edgy but nothing shocks GenXers. So they keep trying to prove how hard core they are to the point of ridiculous.

They’ll outgrow it…they’ll look back & realize their brains were still physically growing…they’ll discover that they don’t know it all…& then things will change so much for them they won’t know anything. It’s the natural evolution of a human lifecycle.

...They have no patience or need for attention spans?

They’re more fragile than anyone who came before them. We’re doomed.

[quote] [R178], I’m a GenXer. I don’t recall ever calling any shots.

You're the CEO, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, presidential candidates, on the Supreme Court, office managers, bosses.

It's pretty safe to say that you're part of who is calling the shots now!

[quote] Each of the younger generations is less and less capable of actually solving the mess we are in

The two older generations , the Boomers and Gen X, are the real problem right now. This is where FOX News and America's political disruption happened. Not the Greatest Generation, not the Silent Generation, not the Millennials, not Gen Z, not Gen Alpha.

That's all Baby Boomers and Gen X.

[quote]r185 The two older generations, the Boomers and Gen X, are the real problem right now.

I feel I’m about to be loaded on a cattle car!

HIDE ME!

R186: I'm sorry. Did the Baby Boomers' attack dog have something to say to me? I missed it.

I didn’t choose to be born!

The most unoriginal, annoying, hipster, soy obsessed, easily offended generation there ever was. The next generation after it will probably be worse..or all declare themselves as light-beings, and attempt some trip onto a comet, because a batch of soy or kale or Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber told them to.

77% of Gen Z voters are Democrats. Anyone born before 2005 can vote.

They are bad news to the crazy right wingers.

R185 wants to start WWIII

R185 the ONE good thing Millennials are going to do is reverse course and get RID OF FOX NEWS for good.

They love Tiktok

[QUOTE] But when the entire group are narcissists, they are incapable of advancing gay rights. Narcissism overrides sexuality.

NOT THE NARCISSIST TROLL

The reality is that every generation thinks they're special.

The boomers thought they were rebels with the whole flower child/hippy thing - then they sold out and turned into the me generation of the 80s.

Gen X thought they rebelled against society (slackers, first gen to not achieve the success of their parents). Xers sold out and conformed to the demands placed upon them by boomers (lack of vacation time, 40 hour work weeks, low wages etc...)

Millennials think they're hard done by compared to others and the first not surpass the financial success of their parents (that honor actually belongs to Xers in terms of being the "first"), but because there are so many millennials, and the rise of the youth orientated culture/media of the early '00s the problems Xers faced are overlooked. Millennials are now nothing special - a decade ago we thought they'd "change things." So far, they haven't. We'll see whether or not they change things or just become sell-outs too.

It's too early to speculate on Gen Z, but I suspect that in about 20 years, younger generations will be complaining about them too.

What's that song that goes, "every generation blames the one before" ??

Typical Gen Z post from Tumblr:

i mean this completely seriously but… a cup of coffee can save your life a little, a shower can save your life a little, making your favorite meal can save your life a little…….little things actually add up to really big things in the long run if you let them, the secret to surviving everyday is infusing a little bit of magic into the mundane i truly believe that

Hoes are mad.

as soon as the internet decided depression and anxiety were the everyman mental illnesses and therefore not to be taken seriously we were all fucked tbh bc the fact that i have to feel embarrassed to admit i have debilitating anxiety because people will think im just an uwu dont call me out coward is ridiculous. its insane that i have to clarify that my depressive episodes are like life threatening and not whatever dipshit dumbed down idea of depression people seem to have like oh yeah i just wanna watch netflix and eat ice cream and not text people back. like bro i think im the devil

When you take their electronics away and they have to make eye contact, the feral little beasts act like that girl on the plane:

They lack discipline, coping skills and act really immature which is natural being raised on social media and mobile devices. But at the same time, they are more open minded and less divided by race, gender, culture, religion and class. They pretty much dress in every decade imaginable, it's hard to pin down what exactly their fashion sense is. Also, they aren't into movies, TV or reading that much. Video games, anime, TikTok and YouTube is their entertainment. So traditional narratives aren't popular with them either. They aren't bad but just so different that it's hard to read them.

[quote] They have been showing up to vote in droves. They care about the environment. They care about women's rights. They care about LGBTQ rights. They see the Republican Party for the grifters they are. Did I mention they vote?

Sure, Jan.

Millennials are the largest generation now. Gen Z is irrelevant.

Most young people are apolitical. Sure they'll have ideals but the actual political arena and participation in voting isn't interesting to them. People once they start working jobs, living on their own and paying taxes, they start getting more genuinely concerned with politics.

No. Nothing at all.

Get out of the house:

It’s time for Gen Z to stop “bed rotting” and leave the house.

Working from home could stunt career growth and romantic relationships, Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit last week.

“You should never be at home. That’s what I tell young people. Home is for seven hours of sleep and that’s it,” Galloway dished in a clip posted by the Journal on TikTok.

“The amount of time you spend at home is inversely correlated to your success professionally and romantically. You need to be out of the house,” he urged.

The overuse of the internet and smartphones saps creativity. You're surrounded by manufactured media 24/7 to divert your attention. Aren't forced to be bored, delay gratification and explore your environment like you used to.

[QUOTE] Also, they aren't into movies, TV or reading that much.

The girls read more than any other generation but it's Twitter and Tumblr posts and fan fic. They're not illiterate like those educated in the liberal 90s when there was an anything goes approach to grammar.

They do become obsessed en masse with some tv shows and movies. Succession, Stranger Things, Shadow and Bone, Heartstopper, the Spiderman movies with Zendaya in, Dune for Timothee, the new Barbie film.

They are also adept at waging online hate campaigns such as the recent one against Matty Healy and last year's against Olivia Wilde.

[quote]They're not illiterate like those educated in the liberal 90s when there was an anything goes approach to grammar.

They just ignore grammar altogether.

Grammar is racist.

Distinctive subcultures require socialization and also a type of stability and knowledge of the previous cultures. The lack of socializing along with widening class gap and lack of concern for history and learning the arts is why there hasn't been much development of new styles, musical genres and attitudes. Everything is stuck in a loop.

Is this strictly an American situation or are other countries experiencing the same Gen -Z socialization problems?

Texting became the millennials primary form of communicating because of their overprotective mothers. Mommy wanted kiddo to have a cellphone so Mommy and kiddo could alway be connected. However, in the 1990s, Mommy worried that cellphones caused brain tumors from being held close to the head. Mommy encouraged kiddos to text and not call. Then when cell phone plans started offering unlimited texting, the kids just started texting everyone for anything.

Cell phones didn't go mainstream until the mid-2000s. So half of millennials who were teenagers in the 90s and early 2000s never even had cell phones. Also in the 2000s people still used landlines and most parents called their kids not text them. So that theory is wrong r212. Texting was popularized by teenagers in the 2000s in fact to keep conservations private from their parents and teachers. Parents actually complained about kids texting rather than calling.

They all need to fuck their cell phones, then marry their phones. They do not seem to need other humans.

My relatives kids are Gen Z, the last time we got together for a family barbecue, the Gen Z kids were at the barbecue with their partners. All of them were looking at their fucking phones all day. None of them put their phones down once, they even took their cells to the bathroom. These people would all be lost without their cells. Attempting a conversation was futile.

Imagine a group of people not being able to converse, to have an actual conversation about something. If you attempt to talk to them, they will keep looking at their cells. NOTHING is that important. None of my relatives kids are doctors on call. They aren't even emergency plumbers!

They are not curious about much. Most seem braindead.

They can't write with a pen or pencil. Forget about cursive.

Absolutely nothing

R211 most of the Western and much of the East Asian world that I've seen, yes.

Their lack of an ability to have a nuanced conversation - to pick up on nuances , period - is no doubt directly tied to their ingestion of social media.

R5 has it.

Most DLers mistake Gen Z for millennials, who they think are still in high school.

R212 is a moron. Except for very wealthy teenagers with permissive parents, kids did not have cell phones in the 90s and they sure weren't texting.

I was an urban working class teenager in the 90s. No one had cell phones and no one was texting. Some people had beepers.

[quote]r222 Some people had beepers.

WHORES, primarily!

[quote] The stereotypical GenZ ids are all middle to upper middle-class.

That's because the people who indulge in generation-labeling are all middle class cunts whose only interaction with young people is in the office and/or twitter.