Is Gen Z really this impaired or has there always been so much cluelessness?

This is her parents’ fault.

Cleaning out the lint trap was the first thing my mom told me about when she taught me how to do laundry, with the admonition that I’d almost certainly burn down the house if I ever forgot.

But I wouldn’t lay this in the lap of an entire generation.

[quote]"Thankfully we have praying parents."

Welp, there's the problem.

Staged.

This is the 21st century version of America's Funniest Home Videos.

They only do this for attention.

What a stoopid bitch

Proud moron for clicks. Zero embarrassment smiling to the camera.

Just imagine what lovely items I could craft from that ...

[QUOTE]They only do this for attention.

[QUOTE]Staged. This is the 21st century version of America's Funniest Home Videos.

What?! What kind of attention?

Dumbass woman.

I feel bad for them - schools and parents are failing to teach them or engage with them about anything. So yeah it isn't surprising when they grow up with a huge lack of basic adult life skills. It was like that for me and yes I had to teach myself everything about cooking. laundry etc. because I couldn't pay my fucking parents to talk to me. That came with a lot of embarrassing blunders over things that are supposed to be common knowledge but just weren't for me. I'm an older millennial, and this problem is so bad for those younger than I that there was a trend of 'adulting' classes you could take electively. In comparison with the zoomers, I didn't have such a hard time adjusting. I'm so over it with this age war and all you dried out hateful bitches.

Because non-attention-seeking Zoomers are just out there living their lives and cleaning out their lint screens. Doesn’t make for good rage bait.

Is Gen Z also to blame for the tendency not to be able to select the better of two photos that both convey exactly the same info?

Choose one of the two (or 5) inconsequentialy different images, FFS.

Did she put the dryer to her face? Bitch looks 35.

I'm not convinced "schools and parents" have failed rather media has transfixed them their entire lives. And many occupy their time on media with idiocy.

Signs of addiction increased throughout 2024. The giant, automatically continuous revolving doors at my perferrred supermarkets are now routinely stopped by zombie teens who cannot put down their phones to go through a revolving door. And when such doors stop, the youngish teens don't even look up and around and discover they are the culprits. COMPLETE attachment to the screen.

Makes you wonder who is the most clueless the morons that would make a video like this or the morons who watch videos like this then are so moved by the video they will start a thread and or comment.

I’d be scared to death to go more than 2 dryer cycles without emptying the lint trap.

[Quote] And many occupy their time on media with idiocy.

This is so true r14. It even shows up here on the DL.

R10, as a pre-tech generation you had an excuse if your parents didn't teach you anything practical, but Gen Z doesn't. YouTube has tutorials on everything you could think of, from cleaning the bathroom to organising your accounts to cooking a souffle, and they know this.

Case in point at link.

For some reason they choose to affect helplessness. In a lot of cases it's the reverse of your supposition: they have mothers who practically still blow their noses for them when they're 25.

Just try working with them. They're like dumb puppies.

She’s a fucking idiot, but trust, each generation has them and has had them. The pages of my high school yearbook, and likely yours, will verify that.

My friend is 58 and has young adult Gen Z daughters who live with her. She does all their laundry including folding their clothes and putting it all away. Cleans their rooms. Cooks for them. It is fucking ridiculous. She has taught them nothing. When the one who works a few hours a week doesn’t feel like going to work, she calls the boss to tell them her daughter is sick or whatever.

I find that it is liberal parents who baby their kids, do everything for them, and rarely discipline them

Conservatives tend to believe in old-fashioned punishment and being industrious and independent.

R3 I'm reminded of this MADtv skit. 😂

R22 that’s bullshit and don’t bring politics into this. I’m a liberal parents and I taught my kids how to do shit from age 6 on. Both are hard workers and independent.

This has always been going on.

Back when I was on college during the Stone Age, more of my classmates than not arrived on campus not knowing how to using a freaking washer. They approached them warily as if Maytag had dropped them from Mars.

Stupid, clueless people used to know they were too stupid to life. They kept a low profile. Now they celebrate their stupidity with zero shame. Thanks internet!

^Too stupid to live.

R24 and plenty of kids running wild doing drugs and whatever have maga parents who don't pay a lick of attention to them at all. dlers love these stupid canards and platitudes that make no sense.

I made extra money in college having classes at my apartment teaching some pretty basic shit, doing laundry, making the most simple of meals (and I mean simple simple, not dl simple), grocery shopping etc.

The transfer of agency to algorithms has profoundly altered our perceptions, view of ourselves and others, and ability to generate and act on thoughts.

Gen Z is the first generation whose cognitive, emotional, ethical and even physical has been managed by digitally delivered influence.

I am old, I will die in time, but the rest of y'all are fucked.

Whether this is real or staged, why is it being held up as some example of Gen-Z-pocalypse?

I have a friend who’s a boomer and has owned cars for 45 years, and has never once taken any of her cars in for an oil change or tune up.

And a Gen X friend (my Gen) who had a very strange smelling living room, so I checked his filter on his AC and it looked like a mattress of lint in there.

People don’t always know how to maintain machinery.

You may well be right, R30. I have a friend in his late 70s who keeps complaining to me that his YouTube algorithm keeps recommending things he doesn't want to watch, or else things that are all the same as each other. I tell him to stop clicking on the algorithm's suggestions and just Search topics he DOES want to watch. I know he knows how to do this, but he seems to be too lazy or too captive to actually do it, so he keeps complaining that the algorithm should change.

Maybe younger people are the same but it doesn't occur to them to enunciate the issue, or that they might change the situation with a few searches. It's a form of mass hypnosis, "I must do what the algorithm tells me."

And yet we still worry about the point at which AI becomes sentient! When it does, it will "pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause there're bugger-all down here on earth."

[quote] Back when I was on college during the Stone Age, more of my classmates than not arrived on campus not knowing how to using a freaking washer. They approached them warily as if Maytag had dropped them from Mars.

About 10 years ago I lived and worked in a college town and would go to the laundromat every so often. I watched one young girl struggle with the machines and the dispenser on the wall that dispensed 75 cent boxes of detergent and/or dryer sheets.

HS curriculums should have one 12 week class for practical living skills.

This is what happens when parents don't make their kids do chores around the house.

Die in a lint fire!

To answer OP, it's a bit of both.

I've been imparting laundry skills to clueless apartment neighbors for decades.

My mom went back to work when I was around 9 so I quickly learned how to do laundry/make food/clean up as part of my chores.

R34 I think a lot of parents have a shitty approach to it. Giving little instruction or guidance and framing it as a kind of punishment. Chores would have been fun if my parents were teaching me about cleaning techniques, the importance of maintaining a home, etc.

What really amazes me is that washers and dryers, laundry detergents, and fabric sheets all contain WARNINGS ⚠️ in CAPITALIZED letters outlining improper uses and lint build-up in dryers, yet...

These folks admitted ignorance and responsibility, yet how many out there are filing nuisance lawsuits because they're too goddamn stupid to breathe?

lawsuits about laundry accidents? 😵‍💫

When a house burns down, r39, what do you think Americans do first rather than examine themselves for responsibility?

oh the relation to laundry and gen z is that a stupid lazy Gen z will set fire to his dryer through negligence and burn down his house, then sue. Ok then.

I’m Gen-X - I actually loved cleaning the lint out of the dryer as a kid.

I also liked getting picked to go to the eraser cleaning room in my elementary school with the wall mounted mechanical brush machines and copious amounts of airborne chalk dust.

R41 suddenly recognized himself here.

R22 i.e.

One thing thatt is different about them is they have no idea how much anything costs. FDon't know why that is. There used to be consumer ed classes in school. I suppose those all got chopped.

It's not Gen Z at all.

I was clueless about obvious knowledge at times in my late teens and early twenties.