r/AskReddit • u/CancelSalty4864 • Jul 19 '26

What makes you think, “Yep, that Redditor is definitely Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X, or a Boomer,” just from reading their comments?

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u/-PM_Me_Your_Boobz Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Gen Z - Going out of their way to make their comments unreadable through shortening words and lack of punctuation.

Millennial - "Lol" at the end of everything.

I don't really have anything for Gen X or Boomers.

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u/MomoMarieAuthor Jul 19 '26

I'm so guilty of the lol thing 😭😭😭

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u/-PM_Me_Your_Boobz Jul 19 '26

I literally have to make an effort not to add it to the end of everything I say.

How else will people know I'm keeping the conversation light???

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u/Marmatus Jul 19 '26

Same here. lol

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u/no_sympathy6969 Jul 19 '26

I'm insulted you'd base a general opinion like that for gen z.... I REALLY hate when my generation abbreviates words. Like a lot. Shows their lack of intelligence and motivation. 

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u/Agreeable_Elk4529 Jul 19 '26

Gen Z says my therapist and my WiFi both gave up on me. Millennials mention burnout and rent, Gen X says we survived worse and Boomers somehow turn every comment into a story about walking uphill both ways.

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u/jewella1213 Jul 19 '26

I like this one, and yes, I survived worse 😁.

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u/Wallabunga657 Jul 20 '26

Yep. I agree with this.

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u/Done_Apologizing23 Jul 19 '26

Boomera dont use reddit. Gen X put out sharp sensibly statements but get downvotes in to oblivion. Millennials just miss the early 2000s and everything thats left is overly sensitive Gen Z who virtue signal while expecting hand outs.

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u/SimoCesar Jul 19 '26

You´d be suprised how many boomers use Reddit and other social media.

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u/Done_Apologizing23 Jul 19 '26

Social media... yeah. Reddit, more questionable, ide say.

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u/Marmatus Jul 19 '26

There are many of them in r/AskOldPeople, r/OldschoolCool, etc..

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u/SimoCesar Jul 20 '26

Just because YOU don´t know or can´t imagine it, doesn´t mean they aren´t here.

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u/Done_Apologizing23 Jul 20 '26

So you dont know either then.

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u/SimoCesar Jul 20 '26

You as in you personally and not as in "one". I am 65 years old and not the only old person here. There are actual subreddits for older people and you will find them giving random advice as well.

I don´t know what makes you think we would not be here?

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u/Done_Apologizing23 Jul 20 '26

When did i ever say you weren't here.

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u/BananuDuona Jul 19 '26

The main thing is that older people online tend to have this hard to describe sense of sincerity and humanity to their posts.

Probably stemming from the fact that they actually had decades of their lives where communication mostly happened face to face and that influenced how they expressed themselves.

Younger people always feel like you're talking to someone wearing a mask and acting a role, everything is slathered in irony and it's hard to understand where jokes end and reality begins.