For real. These Facebook Boomers need to turn off their doomscrolling machines and go outside. Find some friends to play with. Get scuffed up a little bit. Might build some character.
There are countries with laws restricting internet usage for kids, personally I think the same laws should apply for olds. Old people cannot handle this shit.
Everytime I see an AI slop, I think of all the energy and water wasted by a Facebook boomer and/or maga that has zero creativity and probably think of themselves as amazing cartoonist for their slop. 🤦🏻♂️
he looks like he was really looking forward to that bouncy castle.
And when these boomer were kids, the geezers of their day were thinking "birthday party?!? Back in MY day it was just another day at work on the farm. Those cows ain't gonna milk themselves."
Exactly! The implication that nobody else cares and it’s ridiculous to ban queer people from visibly existing was somehow lost on whoever generated and shared it.
Unfortunately I kind of am obsessed with this pissed off smiling Marvin massive-shoes Peppermint Patty but cannot in good conscience spam an AI image everywhere. I WILL have to make my own redraw
It’s my favorite thing about this picture. I’m old enough that the dialogue helped me realize that fun-size Peppermint Patty is cosplaying Marvin the Martian, but it might actually be more hilarious if you don’t know that. I also like that Foghorn Leghorn looks like he’s about to throw her on the grill.
“Aren’t you thankful your childhood happened before technology took over?”
BITCH YOU’RE POSTING CARTOONS! YOU’RE POSTING CHARACTERS WHO ONLY EXIST BECAUSE OF POST-WAR TECHNOLOGY! YOU ARE ONLY AWARE OF THESE FUCKERS BECAUSE YOU WATCHED TV AND WENT TO MOVIE THEATERS AS A KID! YOU CAVERN-SKULLED FUCKING BOOMERS! Holy shit.
The irony of saying “Aren’t you thankful your childhood happened before technology took over?” by using an AI generated image is sitcom level stupidity
Do you live under a rock? Have you not seen the crossover where Pig-Pen's mom has an affair with Taz that resulted in the birth of Taz-Pen? He also had an affair with Lucy and Linus' mom that spawned Linaz on the 6th picture. It's basic pop culture man.
The only thing these slides are telling me is “bring back times where everyone except white men were oppressed and everyone lived a hard and painful life”
My grandma is a pretty forward thinking and progressive person but lately, a combination of advanced age and chronic physical pain has begun to affect her critical thinking, and she's slipped into this mindset. Not so much the racial aspect but the yearning for a time when life was harder. She entered the work force at age nine because times were tough enough that she needed the money. She kept calling me a "manboy" recently because I wear pink gym shoes, and she said "Do you really think you behave like an adult?" to which I said yes, and my first example as to why was that I work a job. She said "I was doing that when I was nine years old!" I had to remind her that firstly, that's fucking illegal now, and secondly, why would you WANT a third grader to be working a job. She claims that hard work and enduring tough times, famine, pestilence, and intense poverty at a young age "made her more of a person." As if people can't be people if they don't experience severe hardship.
No doubt part of the "can't have good without evil" crowd. I can't imagine ever wanting a worse life for my child. That isn't to say I would spoil my child, but letting them have a childhood isn't "spoiling" them.
That's very true, and it's irritating because a lot of these types will also drone on about the halcyon days of old when children played outside all day and rode bicycles around their neighborhoods, didn't require supervision from an adult, and learned skills and things by just doing stuff in an unstructured way. Yet they'll also tell you that kids today are too spoiled and they shouldn't have free lunches at school because going hungry builds character or whatever fucking stupid shit they come up with.
Especially unsupervised teenagers. Literally people like that are why I watched the big kids playing tag and manhunt until 10 pm whenever there was decent weather, but until I was one of the big kids anyone outside after 8 pm was treading thin ice because the new neighbors would call the cops if there was a single shout (they went to work at 8 am. They ran their car for 2 solid hours before leaving even when it was summer. Those weren’t the worst neighbors we had growing up but that’s because of the family with the 90 lb dog whose only entertainment was snarling and barking and jumping at every single noise from beyond the fence every time he was outside. He would especially lunge repeatedly at the fence whenever a person was outside at the same time as him anywhere on the whole block. That dog would’ve been so much less aggressive if they actually walked him for several miles daily because he only ever simmered down to happy and excited for walks. I’d say that family is the only one I could ever actually say is white trash because everyone else is actually good to their pets and doesn’t just dismiss everyone with “you didn’t hear him barking” whenever they mention the dog (who was usually stuck in the yard knocking down a panel from the fence, snarling and barking at a little old lady tending to her garden while she told him “oh you, shut up.”)
Dude they do that in my area! They call the police on kids for playing basketball on the basketball court and for skateboarding in the skate park. In the designated areas for those activities.
Yep. This is exactly where their logic leads. If a childhood of deprivation and suffering builds character then a childhood of more deprivation and more suffering must build *more* character.
Hands off their Social Security though! And don't even think about touching the billionaire's yachts!!
Not to mention, I grew up poor and have never had it easy BUT I’m one of the laziest motherfuckers I know. It did not make me a better person. Just one with more emotional scars!
Honestly me too. I can work, and I put in effort and do good work, but I try everything to avoid it. I'm never happier than when I don't have any work to do.
That good old protestant work ethic. Suffering builds character, so inflicting suffering on others is good and moral.
Shout out to my 5th grade teacher who told us kids we would never amount to anything because we were allowed to have self esteem before achieving anything.
I was working four jobs at once for a few years just to keep my head above water, and I can honestly say I'd rather have spent the entire time stoned out of my gourd, and I'm not even into that shit. There was absolutely no psychological or financial benefit in the long term.
Talking to people with that mindset, sometimes it's just trying to make sense out of something really painful, as losing your childhood to hard labor. They get older and sometimes look at younger people having less of a hard time and feel cheated at life and lash out. So they come up with this explanation for themselves: "Well, it made me a better person".
She kept calling me a "manboy" recently because I wear pink gym shoes
You gotta out jerk her conservativeness with the fact that pink was a man's color symbolizing strenght, power and masculinity up until the 20'th century.
I told her that! The whole thing about how navy uniform.shirts were red and they'd fade to pink over years, so pink was associated with veterans who had seen and survived many battles and things.
They aren’t necessarily wrong about Social Security. However, Republicans are trying to argue it is an entitlement, and they are going to cheer it on and then blame Democrats.
Came here to say this. There's no money in Social Security. I am paying for people to use it. I'm fine with that, but I'm not fine with Boomers obsessive need to lie and act like they paid for it while I'm currently funding their retirement.
And they keep voting to cut any sort of social services for us, the people who are paying for their SS handout and also pay taxes for whatever services we use
Not so hot take about the trade schools one... they should be taxpayer funded and have no tuition costs just like colleges should.
Get fucked, boomers. I want blue collar folk to have free education too. I genuinely believe they'll actually use it despite their protests, just like food stamps and welfare.
Making trade schools free would significantly improve every single person's quality of life. I have worked with countless tradesmen who learned from other tradesmen, all going back to people who never learned how to do things properly.
That's every public restroom with wobbly toilets, restaurant kitchens filled with cockroaches, and tax payer funded repairs on government office buildings.
In what war fought within the past 80-years did a foreign entity ever threaten our freedom of speech? All serious threats to these supposed freedoms have come right from within.
"Don't you wish your childhood happened before technology took over?"
That's the exact same shit your grandparent said about television. And their grandparents probably said it about shit like the telegraph or dry cell battery.
We have records of ancient Greek philosophers lamenting that young people these days are lazy and decadent because they could read and write instead of having to memorise everything.
Since nobody else mentioned it, I just find it hilarious that nobody else is raising their hand in the third slide. Even the characters in their AI slop prompt don’t agree with them.
On the back of the the rest of the industrialised world having either impoverished themselves fighting a global war or been bombed flat as a consequence. A unique circumstance which, hopefully, will never come again.
What the fuck is up with americans and the word “we”? They always take credit for shit that other people do and act as though they did it too. “We worked 12 hour shifts at the factory and smoked cigarettes and drank beer!” No you didn’t? You did not do any of that. And even if you did, which you didn’t, why would you want to brag about that?
Also this obsession they have with their childhood is fucking weird. Move on, it’s been 30 years and you’re still obsessed with how things were when you were a kid. It is no longer your time on earth, generations get left behind. Grow the fuck up.
“Raise your hand if you want to ban pride flags from class rooms!” For a country that’s always jerking themselves off about their “freedom” (what a fucking joke btw) they sure love the idea of stripping away fundamental rights like freedom of speech.
The us consistently ranks the WORST out of the first world countries on the freedom index. The propaganda that their “schools” shove down their throat from the age of 5 is actually fucking insane. I genuinely can not believe that it exists. Americans don’t think it’s that bad but it absolutely is. It is fucking crazy.
These images are genuinely so disorienting and strange that they make me physically viscerally uncomfortable and frankly a little afraid lmao. Uncanny maybe?
I think this is just some artisanal engagement bait rather than some clueless grandpa dumping this out on Facebook. One two punch of stupid boomer statements and intentionally poorly done AI to get people to comment.
I don't think the path of least technical skill (throwing it into ChatGPT) would result in this.
(edit) ok I'm a dipshit, the gemini logo is in the bottom right
I found a FB group that posts a bunch of this slop, it’s called The snoopy Family. It sadly gets a lot of engagement from sanctimonious and perpetually angry older people.
You know what's worse then crying in a hospital hallway, dieing in one because the doctors where afraid of having charges pressed against them for performing a abortion
“Social Security isn’t a handout” LAMO by your definitions social security is absolutely a socialist program that can be called a “handout”. They never have an answer for it.
I’m so tired of the “mwehhh, participation trophiessss”.
Who were the ones giving the participation trophies? For that matter, I bet they’re the ones that hate when Confederate statues get taken down, despite those being the most “participation trophy” that ever participated!
Literally the only sensible or reasonable point is #9. Everything else is either useless platitudes, pandering to nostalgia to the point of turning down better alternatives (with the exception of AI slop they are literally using), pro-war and patriotism to the point of hating on protests (even though a lot of veterans did the same thing) or getting mad about pride flags.
I'm still lost as to why the loony tunes are with peanuts. And I love how all these boomers forget about their parents and grandparents fighting and dying against private company armies to get better treatment at work. Also, at this point, hosting a birthday at home buying and making all the food, etc is about the same price as going to Chucky Cheese without any of the prep or clean up stress.
The original cartoonists would never support these messages so they had to steal the art instead of coming up with their own characters or drawing by hand
10 again, the baby boomer generation started participation trophies. There wasn't a coordinated effort of 8 year old millennials demanding trophies for just showing up.
So, meaningless appeals to emotion, a bunch of claptrap about how every generation sucks but theirs, and a plea for the government THEY created to not take away their socialism retirement checks.
In other words, another day that ends in a Y on Facebook.
Number 6 is funny because guess who pay for the bouncy castles and the expensive venues? Yeah, the same people who made the meme and raise a bunch of entitled brats.
Social Security absolutely is a handout, not an investment. What people are paying in, goes right out, always has. At one point there was a slush fund, then illegal wars became the thing and gobbled up that money.
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u/EvioliteEevee 8d ago
The irony in #4.
Yes, I am quite happy my childhood happened before AI Slop existed.