• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 days ago

    Who the hell even writes articles like this? 🤣

    Do people really think that people born between certain years invented…staring?

    Seriously, you could change the dates on an article like this, make it about Gen X or Gen Y, and it would be the same thing. Or about boomers. Or fast forward a bit and it will be articles like this about Gen Alpha.

    “The older people just don’t understand the ways of the younger people. It’s like this is a completely novel thing between these two generations.”

    😒

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      7 days ago

      Y’all missed out on the “Millenials killed the (insert here) industry, and are broke due to avocado toast” articles of yesteryear.

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        LOL, Gen X here. We saw a lot of that kind hand-wringing about how we were a “slacker generation” that was not taking up ad campaigns in expected ways and/or playing video games too much and not being career-minded enough, etc. and how we thought there was “no future” because of things like the Cold War and nuclear annihilation, kids of broken homes and latchkey kids, homes needing to have two incomes to get by, and the dystopian movies we grew up on.

        Then they mostly skipped over us because Gen X is not as large of a group as Gen Y.

        That’s why when I see articles like this about Gen Y/Z/A, I just lauuuuuugh. It’s all so very unimaginative, but the people writing these galaxy-brained things seemingly have no fucking idea how recycled it all is.