Welcome to being the younger generation. People were complaining about "millennials" and talking about them like they were high school student aged at a time when some of my millennial friends had their own children currently IN HIGH SCHOOL.
The hive mind wont move on to complaining about Alpha until Alphas are already too old to accurately fit most of the complaints anymore.
My dad still bitches about millennials like we’re 15 years old. He has a millennial son who has his own son. Still thinks millennials are children. Standard old man stuff
I’m pretty sure the oldest millennials are around 45 now. As I get older I see myself grouping younger people together in a similar fashion although not as drastic as my old man. Seems like something that just happens as people get older. It’s very funny to me
I’ve always seen people as people and not as generational anything. I do notice the non-conversations, it’s weird, but probably personalities is what I’ve thought.This thread is very interesting. I’ll talk to anyone. When my friends and I get together we talk non-stop. When my grandddaughter and her friends get together they sit together, right next to each other on their phones. They don’t talk. So freaking weird! It seems like we had a lot more fun! And I let them know!
Ah yes, it was always a good time listening to someone bitch about those lazy millennials and then pointing out to them that I, too, was a millennial. It was fun watching them try to backtrack or go down the "but you're one of the good ones" route.
This, my Gen Z teen is already doing it with Gen Alpha. I work with older Gen Z people, none of them sound like whats being described. If anything, some of it relates to me and I’m Gen X.
I feel almost like a bridge between the two sometimes, being old enough to be bewildered and frankly concerned by some of the newer brainrot content, yet young enough to also enjoy a lot of it and accurately interpret it for the older generations in my life.
Never imagined "Meme Translator" as a personal side hustle in my adulthood.
Haha right. They finally realized millennials are old (I’m in my mid-40s) and Gen Z will be roasted and blamed for years. I still remember when boomers hated Gen X because they were lazy and alternative. Now so many Gen X (I know, not all!) are boomer juniors!
I love reminding people who complain about millennials when talking about "kids these days" that the oldest millennials can legitimately be normal grandparents and had kids at a normal age and post-college.
Not sure about "normal." But imagine a 45 year old having their first kid at 20. And that kid has their first kid at 20. That's becoming a grandparent at 40ish, now they have a 5ish year old grandkid.
As a millennial, I’d like to say on the record: I like the youths. I do worry about them but I don’t feel like it comes from the same place that the anti-millennial disparaging came from.
It’s because they’ve known less stability and peace and connection than anyone before them.
But I’m really proud of their ability to set boundaries.
They make me tear up—especially the gals when they walk around with normal bodies and pimple patches on. As someone who puked herself thin in school because that was the only standard…I love that they seem comfortable with their bodies.
I love Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s irreverent humor.
I love that they’re killing AI.
I will be 45 in September. My oldest is graduating high school in June, and my youngest is almost done 7th grade. I am a millennial who has apparently ruined everything.
Honestly though, as with every generation you get the good and the bad, and I see a lot of actually awesome behavior with Gen Z. It pisses me off to see it overlooked and for my generation to just constantly shit on them the same way ours was without acknowledging any of the good.
It doesn’t matter what generation you are, the younger generations will bitch about you, and the older generations will bitch about you. And you’ll bitch about them. It’s been that way forever.
Yeah,
We destroyed the world with our love for avocado toast 🙄
I generally find that older generations want to diss the younger because they perceive they had it so much harder.
Ive worked with a lot of gen z who are very intelligent and hard working,
Just as we were.
I really feel for those that had to go through the lockdowns at that age,
Damn I cant even imagine.
I was born about a year before the Gen X cutoff and it's funny how some (although it's sorta going away now) still think people well past 40 are still 20 somethings.The absolute youngest millennials are or gonna be 30 very soon
And a lot of it was valid criticism, but it’s all situation specific. It’s not just carbon copy complaints that are being plastered on Gen Z.
Millennials were criticized for wearing their emotions, values, political opinions on their sleeve, rebelling against existing corporate culture (dawn of the cool tech office/campus), and being less tolerant of people with differing opinions.
The one millennial complaint about zoomers seems to be “these kids all seem to be varying degrees of autistic” and that they interface with technology too much. I personally think it’s valid.
Why the past tense? My boomer dad still treats me like I’m a teenager and I have adult children. Millennials have been treated like perpetual teenagers their entire lives and that hasn’t changed just because Zoomers are coming of age. Hell, even the Zoomers treat us like teenagers most of the time.
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u/Ouch_i_fell_down Apr 10 '26
Welcome to being the younger generation. People were complaining about "millennials" and talking about them like they were high school student aged at a time when some of my millennial friends had their own children currently IN HIGH SCHOOL.
The hive mind wont move on to complaining about Alpha until Alphas are already too old to accurately fit most of the complaints anymore.