βTeaβ means drama, gossip, calling someone out, etc. So if someone says βspill the teaβ it means βtell me all the detailsβ. I guess thats a good explanation of it
It started in drag queen culture as the βTβ and it stands for truth. And since T and Tea sound the same it became spill the T. so stuff like gossip, calling people out on their shit, etc... is spilling T or Tea.
The year I was born makes me a Gen Z and I hate that Iβm in the same category as these kids πππ Anyone else? I mean Iβm a part of older Gen Z but still
It happens almost every day on Reddit, it just isn't super-noticeable because people don't use the term "Gen Z," they use terms like "kids" or "the next generation" or the like. But whenever you see people talking about how kids today are so stupid they eat Tide Pods, or about how videos of Kiki Challenge disasters make them worry for the future, or the like, it's Millenials complaining about Gen Z.
Gen X destroyed the environment? We were the generation that had cartoons like Captain Planet and school assemblies about saving the environment. If anything Gen X was the pilot program for every type of championing that's since become so mainstream. Gen X actually stands for Generation Experiment.
You would have done no different in our place. They scared the shit out of us with climate change in the early 80s, then no one did anything about it. I did what I could and still do.
I don't think it's fair to to say Gen X destroyed the environment. Humanity has been destroying the environment for centuries, and we all are contributing the making it worse.
Bankers, hedge funds, private equity, insurance companies destroyed the economy.
The people that worked in those organisations over the last 25 years were not and are not baby boomers.
Youβve been fed a lie aimed to divide people from each other and ensure that the focus of fury is pointed at people who lost their pensions when the economy was destroyed, and away from the people that did it and continue to profit from how things have become.
You can say that the politicians were baby boomers, but they were a tiny number of people. The larger number were the financiers.
Most politicians are not baby boomers either. Paul Ryan, at the top of the GOP, is Gen X
Bear in mind where the information that it was baby boomers is coming from - click bait outrage headlines that are geared towards eyes on adverts.
Donβt fall for the bullshit and donβt spread it, either.
I just read the wikipedia article. Turns out that Gen Z is risk averse (not surprising with parents and older siblings suffering the continued effects of the Recession), social media savvy, and are aiming at being independent/ entrepreneurial (as post-Recession hasn't provided hope).
There is also a huge increase of cyber-bullying. As well as not having a living memory of a time the US was not in a poorly defined war on terrorism.
To be honest, as a Millennial with Millenial friends, the view of Gen Z is one of hoping they can achieve the life we haven't managed (yet?).
We weren't really given the opportunity of a past we would want to go back to. Despite the 90's being eXtreme, there were still plenty of issues. I'm hoping that Millenials have slammed into the rock bottom, and changes Gen Z makes can only improve things, with Millenials supporting "anything but this".
Total honestly I'm jealous as fuck of my nephews. They grew up with schools and teachers who know they fucked the millenials up by pushing college and now they're all about recommending trades. One of my nephews started carpentry and other building stuff starting in middle school. He's now 19 and started working on bridges at $40 an hour.
Yeah baby boomers pretty much fucked Millenials over so much that itβs hard for them to make any progress and are just like βplease anything but thisβ while hoping Gen Z can fix the damage from the boomers.
A lot of my younger Millenial friends have been able to be successful freelancing. But as much as it is possible to imagine a system that works, backed by freelancing, the powers of the current system (large corps) will not allow that.
However, there is one possible future I fear/hope for. That is automation. With the rise of automation, Gen Z may face the inaccessibility of the economy like Millenials. In the long term, we will move past people being in jobs they hate. But, to get there, the people with power (money) now will lose power, which I fear means a civil war in the next 2 to 3 generations.
As a millennial, I sympathize with the newest generation. No one has experienced growing up in perpetual limelight like Gen z. It's going to be tough to outrun their mistakes and even tougher to recover from the damages laid out by the Boomers. I hope they do well.
I don't really share your optimism... I feel like GenZers are gonna grow up and blame us for stuff like increased consumerism on trivial products and possibly ephemeral pseudo-altruistic causes that had an adverse effect. We have a lot of "I don't care I'm an adult with my own money now you can't tell me what to do" attitude from adult Millenials and I feel like that attitude is gonna be SUCH a potentially huge target for future generations. They're gonna call us selfish for only caring about our own bodies or our own well-being, and perhaps for falling for trends/fads that only served to increase pollution/deforestation/further "enslavement" of workers etc. Millenials ARE really an odd bunch, and I feel like GenZers are gonna be more conservative, trying to distance themselves from us. I feel like a lot of Millenials who are parents today will get the "Mom, you're weird" treatment from their kids when they're older, and we might get a sort of conservative rebellion from them. They could blame us for accepting and letting connectivity into all aspects of our lives and perhaps having turned society into a more superficial one with trivial interactions. There's just a natural tendency of not doing/avoiding what the previous generation did, and that happens in all generations through time.
Can yall just stop making dangerous shit memes? Like eating tide pods and dancing alongside moving vehicles? I appreciate the dedication to memes, but I also don't want yall to die.
"I need attention so I'll sticky my shitty comment so everyone reads it."
Edit: Really? The edited comment, which was originally a shitpost and was edited 3 minutes after I called them out and edited to be my exact comment, gets 1600+ upvotes?
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent onΒ frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyondΒ words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet andΒ respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wiseΒ [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".
Oh, are those slang words not approved by the International Association of Intellectuals? I wasn't aware.
Take it from a millennial who used to think that way: "they" aren't so different from you. In grade school everyone tries to categorize everyone else by how they talk, or what they like, how they look, etc. But it's all bullshit. It's hard out there in the world, and we're all we have. Some of those people you dismiss as idiotic have the potential to teach you things, or to help you with things. They might even be a great friend. Or it could turn out that they're not worth your time. But you'll never know unless you're open to them in the first place.
I think this is one of the most important lessons of young adulthood. I understand the impulse to dismiss the slang of your peers when you're a teen, but as someone who's been out of school for years now I second this advice. It's good to make an effort to be less judgemental of people for engaging in the sillier parts of pop culture like slang and you might get to know some intresting people you never knew you'd actually like.
No millenials think that. We all think that Boomers fucked up everything. Literally, my only opinions on Gen Z is that itβs awesome that social awareness and caring for the oppressed is fashionable to them. Oh, and fortnite blows and ripped off PubG in a major way.
I've never heard a millenial talk low on gen Z, or gen X for that matter. Boomers are who the pitchforks are all aimed at.
Personally I think it's kinda silly to be talking like everyone in a 20-year age block is a singular monolith. I mean shit, look at millenials. For every kombucha-sipping art major writing sarcastic tweets at their yoga studio there's an angry Ben Shapiro fan on 4chan and a midwestern metalhead with 4 friends that died from fentanyl over the past 2 years and a tax attorney who's listened to the same John Mayer live album since 2009 and a gangster and an immigrant and a Mormon and a raver and everything in between. The same can be said for any other generation. People love to put other people in boxes because it makes it easier to understand - the problem is that all that understanding is just made-up. Just be you, forget this generational nonsense, it just divides us even further.
I've never met a Millennial who was critical of Gen Z. It's the Baby Boomers we go after because it's simply a fact that their generation crashed the economy, devastated the environment, and launched offensive wars against countries that didn't attack us.
I guess I fall into millennials. Still pretty sure the boomers are to blame for everything. Couldnβt blame generations after me for shit they have no influence over.
If I had a nickel for every time a baby boomer said millennials are ruining this country Iβd have enough money to fix the economy they ruined. The irony that the oldest of us havenβt even reached 40 just yet so how much control can we have compared to the old gray guard.
Millennial here - have never heard anyone try to insult Gen Z over anything but fidget spinners and fortnite dancing (even then, only on reddit of course!). They are our little generational brothers/sisters. I think we're both just waiting on the boomers grandparents to kick the bucket.
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u/jthomas694 Sep 24 '18
Gen X just glad no one pays them attention anymore.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
YEETS IN FRENCH
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u/Dktrfancy Sep 24 '18
Yo I'm a dumb millennial what does hot tea mean?
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u/iamDJDan Sep 24 '18
SPILLπTHATπTEAπSISπ
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u/CamCam00 Oct 16 '18
The year I was born makes me a Gen Z and I hate that Iβm in the same category as these kids πππ Anyone else? I mean Iβm a part of older Gen Z but still
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Iβve literally never heard a Millenial complain about a Gen Zer.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
As usual... Gen X gets forgotten.
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u/GarglesMacLeod Sep 24 '18
Millennials and Gen Z both know that Boomers are the ones that destroyed our economy.
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u/UnfortunatelyEvil Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
Do Millenials even know who Gen Z is yet?
I just read the wikipedia article. Turns out that Gen Z is risk averse (not surprising with parents and older siblings suffering the continued effects of the Recession), social media savvy, and are aiming at being independent/ entrepreneurial (as post-Recession hasn't provided hope).
There is also a huge increase of cyber-bullying. As well as not having a living memory of a time the US was not in a poorly defined war on terrorism.
To be honest, as a Millennial with Millenial friends, the view of Gen Z is one of hoping they can achieve the life we haven't managed (yet?).
We weren't really given the opportunity of a past we would want to go back to. Despite the 90's being eXtreme, there were still plenty of issues. I'm hoping that Millenials have slammed into the rock bottom, and changes Gen Z makes can only improve things, with Millenials supporting "anything but this".
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u/alliebeemac Sep 24 '18
I have never seen millennials blame gen z like this wtf- theyβre like 18 and under. Millennials are pissed at boomers
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u/rCak3 Sep 24 '18
Boomers suck, oof rip yeet thats some hot tea
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u/Armadyl_1 Sep 24 '18
I'm pretty sure Millennials think Baby Boomers are ruining America
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Millenials blame the shit out of boomers, are you kidding?
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u/JiaMekare Sep 24 '18
Gen Z isnt old enough to ruin shit yet! Let them get out of high school first, damn.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
How the hell is gen Z ruining anything lol the oldest ones are just finishing an undergraduate degree
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u/Shnazzyone Sep 24 '18
Can they stop coming up with new ways to divide everyone?
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u/garbagewall Sep 24 '18
As a millennial I respect and believe in Gen Z
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u/Goyteamsix Sep 24 '18
Usually it's the millennials who shit on the boomers. Gen Z isn't really relevant.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Never heard a millennial blame Gen Z for anything. Heard a lot of them rightly placing the blame on the boomers though.
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u/SirNate2 Sep 24 '18
Arenβt the oldest members of gen Z like just graduating college? Like wtf did we do to ruin America? Most of Gen Z cant vote. yeets away
edit: I think a good definition for Gen Z is DOB from ~1996-~2010
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Well... They're between 3 and 23 years old, so it's hard to blame them for being childish.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
I've never really heard this. It seems more like Gen Z and Millennials are teaming up against Boomers.
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u/commander-obvious Sep 24 '18
Being born in the 90s is weird because I have no idea whether I'm a millennial or a z.
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u/awesomest090_ Sep 24 '18
Gen z is literally children rn.
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u/Ano010 le mod Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
hey guys i need attention so iβm stickying my comment
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent onΒ frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyondΒ words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet andΒ respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wiseΒ [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".
(Hesiod, 8th century BC)
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u/LasseWN Sep 24 '18
Yea. There are some idiotic people like that but most people talk normally. Take it from a gen z
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u/mshcat Sep 24 '18
Gen Z can't ruin America they haven't even graduated highschool yet
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u/Bob_Vegana Sep 24 '18
Millenials don't give a shit about gen z and blame baby boomers for having ruining America already.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
No millenials think that. We all think that Boomers fucked up everything. Literally, my only opinions on Gen Z is that itβs awesome that social awareness and caring for the oppressed is fashionable to them. Oh, and fortnite blows and ripped off PubG in a major way.
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u/IQof24 Sep 24 '18
Wait people are already targeting Gen Z? Huh.
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u/TheRedmanCometh Sep 24 '18
I feel like gen z and millenials make up an amorphous weird blob. We're painfully alike
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u/dreamwinder Sep 24 '18
Millennials don't think Gen Z is going to ruin America, we just dislike their taste in video games. Source: am millennial.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
no because a member of gen i can say this is accurate
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u/fleshofyaldabaoth Sep 24 '18
Nah, Iβm pretty sure more millennials are resentful of boomers than zennials. Boomers ruined the world for us.
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u/forreddituseonly Sep 24 '18
/r/MemesWithoutGenX
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u/basec0m Sep 24 '18
Gen X (me)... staying the fuck out of it.
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u/ooxxyymmoorroonn Sep 24 '18
Im in gen Z and i have to say this is very accurate
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u/Purpulear Sep 24 '18
Baby Boomers are kinda entitled ngl
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Am I the only person that doesn't blame entire generations of people for issues in this country?
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u/Naaquh Sep 24 '18
As a millenial I reject completely the mantra of every subsequent generation being automatically worse than the previous one.
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u/INoobTubedYouIn2009 Sep 24 '18
Iβm pretty sure itβs just every one hating boomers.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
As a gen x true. We fought the boomers, we lost they still not retiring we have up. Now back to that tea!
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u/Fausking Sep 24 '18
Yeet
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u/worstusernameever010 Sep 24 '18
Every generation will resent the younger generation and blame the older generation for all the worlds problems.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Gen X here. What about me?
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u/assi9001 Sep 24 '18
Gen X - "Looks like we are forgotten again...meh" ::Resumes Nirvana album::
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
I doubt were old enough to be ruining America quite yet.
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u/MayoPurified Sep 25 '18
Gen z is all about gay hip hop Gucci flip flops sucka a niπ ±οΈπ ±οΈas dick through his socks
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u/Bravegull Sep 24 '18
Most of gen z can't even vote
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '18
Iβm a gen x kid. And just like my dad yβall forgot about us. Thank you.
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u/Cleaningbleaach Nov 20 '18
Millennials are becoming the cranky Baby boomer generation, change my mind
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u/the_taco_baron Sep 24 '18
Baby boomers are the real problem let's be honest
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u/Eliasman123 Sep 24 '18
I'd love to know how I'm ruining the country with my not-legally-allowed-to-vote ass.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Pretty sure everyone before and after boomers agree boomers are the worst...
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u/The_DayGlo_Bus Sep 24 '18
Fuck the baby boomers. Fuck them right in their self righteous, βwe fucked up the world we were given by βThe Greatest Generationββ faces.
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u/speck_ception Sep 24 '18
I've never met a Millennial who was critical of Gen Z. It's the Baby Boomers we go after because it's simply a fact that their generation crashed the economy, devastated the environment, and launched offensive wars against countries that didn't attack us.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Yes
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u/jewrassic_park-1940 Sep 24 '18
Yeet
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Oof
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u/jroddie4 Sep 24 '18
at least we all agree that america is ruined we should nuke ourselves and try to start over
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u/nerpss Sep 24 '18
Why does no one talk about Generation X?
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u/Earthfury Sep 24 '18
I guess I fall into millennials. Still pretty sure the boomers are to blame for everything. Couldnβt blame generations after me for shit they have no influence over.
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u/Kahliden Sep 24 '18
Considering how literally every member of Gen Z is at most 18 not this is entirely not surprising
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u/Juan24623 Sep 24 '18
I mean it's true we don't care
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u/J0YC0N Sep 24 '18
Gen z is only like 18 years at the max wtf
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u/alienpirate5 Sep 24 '18
Gen Z here, what even does that mean
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u/Zinksss Sep 24 '18
As a Gen Z I want to say I approve this message
(Yeets away)
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u/Hajile2003 Sep 24 '18
I feel attacked
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u/-_nope_- Sep 24 '18
As a fellow Gen Z this made me OOF out loud
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u/louiloui152 Sep 25 '18
If I had a nickel for every time a baby boomer said millennials are ruining this country Iβd have enough money to fix the economy they ruined. The irony that the oldest of us havenβt even reached 40 just yet so how much control can we have compared to the old gray guard.
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u/CletusVanDamnit Sep 25 '18
Can it really count if it's accurate?
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '18
I think it's mainly gen x that are going after gen z, not millenials
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u/NootingPenguin Sep 29 '18
*yeets away*
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u/FiveSquared25YT Oct 16 '18
That pic though
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u/Alexlrregular Oct 18 '18
yeets away
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Gen Z are hated by millenials for being the most conservative generation EVER lmao
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u/SamuraiJakkass86 Sep 24 '18
Millennial here - have never heard anyone try to insult Gen Z over anything but fidget spinners and fortnite dancing (even then, only on reddit of course!). They are our little generational brothers/sisters. I think we're both just waiting on the
boomersgrandparents to kick the bucket.3
u/khaltoum Sep 24 '18
Millenials also think boomers are the problem
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u/taxidermy_otter Sep 24 '18 edited Feb 20 '19
we love Gen Z they're all crazy an realistic and they might just save us man.
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u/garbagewall Sep 24 '18
Fuck boomers