Yes, these Gen Zers graduated from high school/college, got their first jobs and started attending concerts and festivals around this time, but they also missed out on fundamental life lessons due to their severely limited social contact and interaction (from roughly 2020-2022).
I know different people reach developmental milestones at different times, but potty training is usually complete well before high school graduation.
Nobody likes a bragger, mate 👍
Semi relatedly apparently there’s some big problem with American children not being potty trained nowadays.
Parents legitimately expect public teachers to do this. I’m not kidding. Not all of them obviously but in my partners class of like 25 1st graders about 5 kids were not poddy trained and one parent legit said she thought the school was going to do it. Like wtf lady did your 1st grade teacher poddy train you or something?
How presidential of them.
How are people not getting beat the fuck up for this? I hate to be the “back in my day” guy but I have seen vicious beat downs on misbehaving jerks at concerts all the way through the 2Ks.
Not to excuse the public defecation, but their reasoning seems spurious at best. The 2 “experts” in the story sound like a couple of old curmudgeons. "These damn kids today got no respect. Back in my day… "
Well, I’m 40 and been to my fair share of concerts and fests, never even heard of people shitting in the crowds so they don’t lose their spot. Heard of and seen a sneaky piss some where or some genuine runny accidents. I’ve yanked my own broken nose straight at the edge of a mosh pit but I’ve never heard of people shitting their pants to hold a spot, nothing near creating a public shitting trend so bad artists are addressing it prior to their show.
Back in my day this wasn’t a thing; you kids are weird.I have a feeling it’s not a thing in this day either. Getting “they have litter boxes in classrooms now” vibes
Also very likely.
Dibs on the band name Genuine Runny Accidents
Just give me some royalties or a writing credit on something.
We’ll definitely give you credit. “We were looking for a perfect name and JamesTBagg had Genuine Runny Accidents”
It’s the Mad Pooper! Aka the buttler.
Poopetrator
What poops at midnight baby!
And so he says to me, ‘you wanna be a bad guy?’ and I say, ‘Yeah baby! I wanna be bad!’ I say 'SURF’S UP, SPACE PONIES! I’m making gravy without the lumps! ’ AHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Never seen shit like that at a Metallica/Korn, Breaking Ben/Three Days Grace/etc. concert.
Maybe it’s the fans of those artists that are the problem, not an entire generation (my kids know better)
Three days grace and Korn in the same sentence
“I ain’t never seen anyone shit themselves at a Korn show”
Meanwhile at Korn shows
His lawyers say he did not carry out the alleged acts and had been the victim of a purposeful drugging incident against his consent and that this had caused his disorientation.
“I swear your honor, I was on someone else’s drugs!” is enough to get your case thrown out? Holy shit.
So I’m going to sound old a hell but back in my day a concerts even for famous bands, were much, much, much cheaper even accounting for inflation and I would argue that that’s a bigger driver than some nebulous crap this author is offering up about people not being taught how to act from the quoted "etiquette expert"s.
Nowadays I can kind of understand because now with paying hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, for a ticket, I wouldn’t want to miss a single second of a concert if I’m paying out the nose for tickets driving more people to do whatever they need to so they don’t lose their spot that they spent way too much money for thanks to monopolies and spent way too long waiting for their prime spot.
I’m pretty sure I saw Green Day for like $20 in a place a little bigger than my house after Dookie came out. Billie Spit on me
I don’t like Green Day anymore, but my gut says tickets are like $100 and I’ll be so far away I have to watch them on a giant TV
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I can kind of understand because now with paying hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, for a ticket, I wouldn’t want to miss a single second of a concert
Shitting your pants, though?
Oh, noses are involved all right
“Gen Z etiquette expert”
People often view concerts as a way to let loose, express themselves, and make the most of the money they’ve spent on the experience
This is a hell of a sentence. Let me emphasize one part of it.
People often view concerts as a way to … make the most of the money they’ve spent on the experience
Man that says a lot. Once something costs $200 you start getting entitled behavior from people who “paid $200 for this.”
Make concerts affordable again.
People often view (expensive purchase) as a way to make the most of (expensive purchase).
Brilliant shit, HuffPost. Heavy hitting journalism as always.
Even inexpensive purchases may be looked at that way! Yeah what they wrote has no meaning.
Maybe take Imodium before the concert so you don’t need to take a shit for many hour then take an exact to loosen back up after the concert.
I would suggest, rather than xlax, use a suppository. Otherwise you’re gonna be a rather uncomfortable for a few hours while it works its way to the brick.
All they need to do is “flush” the pit every show.
Like, back in the day, that was just how it worked.
The closest area to the stage was separated, the only way to get in was a guardrailed line from one side, after every artist, the area was completely emptied to the opposite side. Then ideally staff could do a quick 15 minute clean sweep while the stage changes, they can clear out, and the next batch released.
That’s the only way to keep it sanitary
But that’s all extra cost, it’s cheaper to just leave one giant field and let the nonvips act like animals.
They try to make people move between stages by playing drastically different acts in a row, but it just means they don’t even enjoy what they’re waiting thru.
I stopped going to big festivals a while ago, the people running them just don’t know what they’re doing. It’s not like they need to come up with ideas, they just need to go back to what always worked.
Organizers think they can achieve the same effect by having one show starting at a neighboring stage as one ends.
But nothing ever runs on time so it all goes out the window the moment there’s a 15 minute delay.
Peeing oneself at a concert has a long history.
Not sure if shitting oneself has the same background.
No one is worth skipping the bathroom for.
Nina Simone disagrees.
YouTube warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=995S1v-yHE4&t=71s
Edit: also: feels warning. holy shit. hello to bojack horseman fans.
edit: but also youtube warning because they cut to commercial in the middle of this song. ugh.
edit: here you go, some kind of mirror so you can listen unmolested, but minus the interruption: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1YP4y1c72L/?uid=42563159503479316337324C
A big part of that social contract is the golden rule: “Don’t shit on the floor.”
This is why Noah Kahan will never be as cool as Mr. Bulldops. He always lets us shit on the floor at his shows. https://youtu.be/4ctK1aoWuqY?t=34
EDIT: Also, I’m sorry, but this is the funniest shit I’ve ever read in my life
I bet they’re blaming the ongoing COVID pandemic for every nuisance there is for the next ten years. And by pandemic I mean lockdowns and other mitigations, not the virus itself.
