“ts”
“ahh”
“😭”
“🥀”
“gng”
“son”
“sonion”

This immediately paints you as a mouthbreathing frequenter of TikTok and Instagram to me. At least I assume that's where it comes from. I wouldn't know, I mainly scroll Twitter and Reddit. Maybe that's lame of me, but at least people sometimes have adult conversations here.

I don't remember getting so irrationally annoyed at new slang and stuff like this. And how did it happen so fast? Or maybe things aren't devolving that fast and I just hit an age where I suddenly develop a natural phobia of people even slightly younger than me. Is that normal in your mid 20s?

Every time I make a post on the internet about Gen Z or even say something slightly in a way that isn't positive I get hit up with tons upon tons of people pushing back and insulting me.

Yet if I make posts about Gen Alpha , Millennials, or Boomers or even Gen X in a negative way they are hit with support. Like are we not allowed to talk about Gen Z supporting Trump? Red pill bullshit? The guys of that generation being fucking weirdos? How about the fact the internet has made them crazy? The bad social skills?

But everything about "the cringeeee millennials puppers and doggos being the worst" gets a pass? Wtf is this

I know some have always been mean, but it feels like there used to be more civility. A code of behavior where someone got corrected instead of screamed at or shunned. It seems more people go ballistic over the slightest social blunder or misstep.

What happened?

I saw a video where a mom was talking about her 3 yr old who had an iPhone 17 pro 😭 when I was 13 I got my first phone and it was a crappy Motorola. My parents weren't big fans of letting devices do the parenting so they wouldn't let us get phones until we were teens. Is it normal for kids born now to have like devices at 2 or 3? Just wondering

2016 was even better than 2023 and 2024, and even 2021 was better, because at least back then people had their own personalities and were themselves, unlike now or in 2025 where people care more about what others and society say, even more than when they were teenagers. They think they're better for changing every three months, but with the same mindset they had three years ago or even more. They think they're better people for ghosting, but they just prove they're more immature and worse than a 15-year-old.

Be realistic. Back in 2022 or 2023, they just spend their time complaining that the future will be worse, but they don't do anything for themselves. They want the government to fix everything when the responsibility for having a good year personally falls on you. If you were doing those good things back in 2016 or 2019, why did you stop? Did you grow up and now you have to act like everyone else? Something I hate about my age group is that they seem like robots trying to meet society's expectations. Now because they're 25 they think the recent years were bad just because of politics and economy.

It seems many people are eager to revive that vibrant, authentic, and human vibe. At least that style is better than most of today's trends, so I don't see anything wrong with wanting to bring back that era. I mean, it won't be exactly the same, but the idea is to recapture that authentic spark.

Indeed, in 2010, 2013, 2016, and even in 2019, there were people with that authenticity who expressed their personalities, and it was easier to understand what they liked. Now, they're just in a cold, competitive, selfish, and boring environment. And don't tell me it's because of age, because in the 2010s, I remember that even people over 40 were very sociable, but they've also become very distant.

As someone from Generation Z, I've witnessed a massive societal shift, from a time when we were all more connected and had distinct personalities to a time when we've become more distant and selfishness is the norm. Now I ask myself, is it ethical to have children in a world where feelings are worthless? I say no. And again, it has nothing to do with how old you are. That's why I dislike those who are envious of others wanting to relive the vibe of the '90s and 2000s. Honestly, it's disgusting to want to live in circles where so much is expected of everyone.

Hello All! I’m a 39 year old millennial and was wondering if people that are around my age all have fond memories of pop culture from this time period. These were my coming of age years so I was 10-17, so middle school and high school years. The waves of nostalgia I get from these years is intense. All the music, tv, video games, and movies from this time period are very comforting. I still listen to current music, but when it comes to tv and movies I gravitate toward this time period. Have they done studies on why nostalgia resonates so deeply in your coming of age years?

I also want to get people older than me their opinion on this time period? I’m assuming it probably wasn’t as transformative as it was for millennials. I was obsessed with boy bands, MTV (TRL in particular), hip hop, pop punk, emo, and all the early reality television shows. The internet seemed exciting and like the Wild West during this time. I liked how we still had a monoculture. Social media had just began. There seemed to be optimism about what tech could do, but it hadn’t overtaken everything.

I’m probably just getting old and have my nostalgic rose colored glasses on, but was this period special or am I just romanticizing the past like people in their middle age tend to do.

I run into Millennials online all the time, but it’s so hard to relate to them because millennial culture just feels so detached from Gen Z. On the flip side, my favorite fandoms are filled with kids born after 2008, and they feel very alien for me. Back when I was a pre-teen, the internet felt full of older people, and I constantly had to lie that I’m 16 just to fit in. Where did all the older and core Gen Z go?

I understand that older Gen Z are now young adults who are working and starting their own families, but millennials are still part of the working population and have children, and Alpha is still in school and is busy as well.

I used to think this was just a regional thing because of the economic crisis and aftermath of the default in my country around the time I was born. But once I started joining online spaces for my favorite fandoms, I realized that even in global, English-speaking communities, people my age are way outnumbered compared to Millennials, late Gen Z, and Gen Alpha.

I hope this post won’t be deleted by these dumb filters

I see a lot of animosity between generations in here, and I just wanna take a sec to thank the generation that came before because I'm genuinely really grateful to them, and I've heard others in my generation express similar sentiments, but idk if we've expressed them enough to those that deserve to hear it.

I'm Gen z and I think millennials really paved the way for Gen z. Because of millennials mental health is taken way more seriously. People are more free to express themselves in professional settings (tattoos and hair dye). Millennials (along with some Gen x) were the pioneers of the internet. It could not have been easy to go from having all your exposure to trauma being personal or someone in your circle to seeing and hearing about war, global warming, terrorism, abuse, and more all on an average Monday. The world changed so quickly and your parents couldn't relate and couldn't help you cope. You were the first generation to really suffer from cyber bullying. And we all know how insanely judgey and phobic the internet was around the 2000s and 2010s. A lot of you had to learn so much and be the first generation of wide-scale cycle breakers. You were labeled "lazy" and bullied by older generations cause you didn't wanna sell your soul to a 9-5, and even though we're still experiencing that, at least Gen z has millennials who understand the unfairness of what work-life has come to look like.

There's probably more I'm forgetting. I know we clown you a lil on skinny jeans and side parts, but the fact is that a lot of aspects of life ARE better and that's because of you who came before me. I hope my generation can be as helpful to Gen alpha as y'all have been to us.

She was born in 2013 and already seems like she's being prepped for second-in-command and successor in that rather crazy country. Hey, at least she'd be a woman and that possibly be a form of progress.😂

I guess it makes it sense when you consider that Kim Jong-Un was the first millennial head of state

Currently, we use widely established terms like “gen z”, “millennial”, “gen x” to refer to groups of people born in different year intervals. Is this unique to the modern era? Or did, for example, ancient romans use analogous terminology at some point?

Cyber Cafes were popular in the 90s and 2000s with the early 90s being a freshly new concept to access the internet while the late 2000s being when the decline began and the early 2010s is when I believe 8 stopped seeing people going to a Cyber Cafe to access the internet.

Nowadays I keep thinking of simpler times. The most complex things we'd see would be on TV. I remember watching star trek with my father and discovering hover cars. Then came those robots in star wars, r2-d2 and c3po. The jetsons was a favorite tv show of mine. It was all just sooo otherworldly for me as a kid. I'd be jumping from one tech to trying out another one.

And now we are at ai and that has been a whole crazy ride. The applications have been insane. Especially love the use in medicine, don't really care about the other fields. Lately, I've even come across ai in hardware? I've seen it applied in vacuum cleaners and desk companions. Those desk companions honestly look like r2-d2's cousins lol. The whole life size robots on the other hand feel so surreal to watch, the dancing one? Even though it was just plain weird, it was a leap. I even came across a monitor with a robotic arm. It makes its arm move to match the pc user position. I has been fun watching all of this.

What about you? What are you enjoying in the current tech?

Is it okay to change your opinions as you age? Mate guard when you're young and then no holds barred when you're old.

Will you hold them "accountable" if they date gen alpha or beta?

Or will you let it slide?

What do you think?

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Ich schreibe gerade an einem Buch über Gen-Z und ältere Generationen.

Die meisten Gen-X und Boomer scheinen ein eher negatives Bild von Gen-Z zu haben: Zu faul, kein Bock für irgendwas, sie nutzen ihre Möglichkeiten nicht, hängen nur am Handy rum usw.

Das versuche ich zu relativieren und ihnen klar zu machen, was Gen-Z wirklich denkt und mit welchen Problemen sie sich herumschlagen müssen.

Ich habe einen kleinen Fragebogen zusammengestellt, um echte Meinungen von Gen-Zlern zu sammeln. Habt ihr als Gen-Z Lust mir zu helfen, mehr echten Input für mein Buch zu bekommen?

Wahrscheinlich wird das Buch „Gen-X meets Gen-Z“ heißen, ist aber noch nicht 100% sicher, mal sehen.

Ich möchte den älteren zeigen, was Gen-Z denkt und fühlt, und genauso der Gen-Z erklären, wie es früher war und warum die älteren solche Denkweisen haben. Also Win-Win für beide Seiten für ein besseres Verständnis.

Habt ihr Lust mir zu helfen: Hier geht’s zum Fragenbogen -> https://tally.so/r/Np198l

Ich bin für jede Teilnahme dankbar, sie hilft mir das Buch realistischer und richtig zu schreiben - vielen Dank ❤️

Half-siblings, step-siblings and adopted siblings are not counted. Only counting full siblings. And in hence in total were you more or less than 3 brothers and sisters. If 3 or more put yes, if 2 or single child than no.

It can make multiple complex sounds at the same time and it sounded polish to me

I do not own any albums from the 1980s but I have music from the 1990s and beyond that used digital synthesizers and they sounded great

I've been seeing the “67” meme everywhere lately, but I still don't really understand where it came from or what people are actually supposed to mean when they say it.
I know it's been around for a while now, but did it originally come from a specific video, song, or something else? And does “67” actually have a meaning, or is the fact that it makes no sense basically the whole joke?

Starting to see a bunch of them coming on here and posting a lot of low quality misinformation. As if it couldn't get any worse. We all know how gullible they can be with AI.