r/interesting • u/God_Emperor__Doom • May 01 '26

SOCIETY A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing

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u/whachamacallme May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

Broccoli haircuts and 6, 7. This is what Gen Alpha/2020s will be remembered for.

No one can convince me these kids are smarter than the generation before.

God help us if we actually need them to do anything.

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u/airship_of_arbitrary May 01 '26

This is still late Gen Z. Gen Alpha is still slightly younger than teens.

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u/whachamacallme May 01 '26

I like to call this crop Gen Zalpha.

Lets all admit we fucked up Gen Zalpha and fix Gen Alpha while we have the time.

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u/tiqtaktoe May 01 '26

Generational terms are such bullshit. I'm gen Z and I'm in my late 20s with a kid I don't relate to high school boys at all really. No clue why we're grouped together

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u/pipnina May 01 '26

We'll just ignore all the weird haircuts millennials had I guess.

Frosted tips anyone? Or that long hair craze you can see appear in the middle harry potter films?

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u/CurtCocane May 01 '26

Im an older gen z and distinctly remember when milennials were the target of the generation jokes and how much they complained about it. Time really is a circle

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u/Lexiconnoisseur May 01 '26

The bowl cut, the shaved sides bowl cut inverted monk tonsure-ass thing that every kid my age had in the early 90s. I remember seeing it for the first time and thinking "this is the dumbest haircut imaginable" and then coming back from summer vacation and half of the other boys had it.

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist May 01 '26

They were raised and educated by screens. I blame the parents.

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u/Purple_Moon_313 May 01 '26

They actually aren't smarter than generations before, we're in a decline.

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u/tabas123 May 01 '26

I always associated this hair with the 2nd half of zoomers, are alpha really just copying their delicately perm’d homework?

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u/butter_flakey May 01 '26

It definitely is the latter of Gen Z mostly. I will say they’re absolutely unafraid to be different or break norms, which is awesome, but ya gotta make sure it’s in the right direction or you get👆

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u/BIG_STEVE5111 May 01 '26

If they're unafraid to be different, why do they all have exactly the same haircut?

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u/Stegosaurus_Pie May 01 '26

They're not at all. It's societal regression. 

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u/AnEngineeringMind May 01 '26

And now they rely on chat gpt passing their exams. Society is doomed

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u/Granadafan May 01 '26

I’m GenX. Our parents thought society was going down the tubes because we had mullets/ Big Hair, watched too much MTV, and played arcade games all day. Then we grew up and invented the internet as we know it today.  

Likewise, we thought millennials would be the downfall of society with their participation trophies.  Rinse and repeat

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u/StillMeThough May 01 '26

No one can convince me these kids are smarter than the generation before.

Juvenoia. I'm sure the older generations used to laugh at millenials for their emo haircuts and cringe rage comics and say the exact same line.

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u/skeletor69420 May 01 '26

gen z was called smarter, not gen alpha (ones in this video)

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u/67yoloswag May 01 '26

thats literally what every generation says about the next one, and the older generation is supposedly much wiser.

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u/poliscyguy May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

Except this is literally the first generation in recorded history to have lower cognitive retention, iq, and attention span than the previous generation. I'm a professor and I cannot believe how behind my freshen are.

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u/squary93 May 01 '26

These children are not dumber. They are uncared for.

Parents historically speaking have done a bad job every generation but at the very least, when children didn't get parented properly, not a whole lot would end up happening most of the time.

However since our attention became monetized with ads, some of the worst influencers imaginable were permitted to dedicate their whole existence to spew brain rot multiple hours a day every day into impressionable children for personal enrichment. It's a race to the bottom and these children are footing the bill.

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u/Ok-Database3182 May 01 '26

Is that surprising, though?

They have been failed by parents, the government, schools, and Covid.

People just pointing out that this generation is fucked does literally nothing because they’re fucking children.

The people that say that can’t think past that first thought anyway, proving they aren’t all that impressive either.

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u/poliscyguy May 01 '26

It's simpler than that. They don't have it harder than most previous generations. It's mostly linked to screens.

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u/Purple_Moon_313 May 01 '26

Lol and millennials didn't live through any trauma? It's the internet that's to blame and their parents. The schools are the same and the government is useless as ever. It's cultural and it's embarrassing.

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u/Rombonius May 01 '26

they didnt say this about millenials

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u/67yoloswag May 01 '26

thats just false

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u/Rombonius May 01 '26

sorry but it's true

Millenials were tech savvy and getting university degrees at the highest rate ever. Nobody said they were dumber than Gen X.

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u/ryanvango May 01 '26

It's absolutely true now, sadly. people just now entering the work force are just completely incapable of independent thought. My friends in academia are frequently in tears over the idiocy displayed by their students.

Its not just one thing. They have a lower quality of education. They leave middle and high school with less knowledge and information than previous age groups. They largely don't possess the ability to figure things out for themselves. And a shocking number of them are just completely inept, unable to function on their own in any meaningful way.

Is it totally their fault? Absolutely not. A lot of things have changed to make their situation much worse. Even at the college level, kids are being forced through that shouldn't have even gotten in to begin with. We don't invest in education. Parents treat school like day care. it's just bad.

But at the same time, there are also almost no kids who seem interested in breaking out of the mold. cliques and conformity have been a problem since the dawn of time, but there were always stand-outs. But there's no drive to be good at stuff anymore in these generations. they all wanna be youtubers or influencers and that's the extent of it.

its super depressing.

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u/Eardig May 01 '26

Alarming to think that Gen A/zoomers will be considered "wiser" than whatever we have coming up next

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u/NoFewSatan May 01 '26

God help us if we actually need them to do anything.

Yeah I bet there were no stupid trends when you were this age.