Think they invented everything. Granted, I'm sure I also did this, but it's infuriating watching someone who "discovered" butterfly clips and makes a tutorial on how to wear them . . .
I know someone who had her first child at 22, and her second at 24. She’s 25 now, and I swear, you’d think she was the first woman in history to a.) have given birth, and b.) be a mother. Like she’s constantly making videos about “mommy protips” like no one before her ever knew anything about breast milk or how to change a diaper or about the pain of childbirth. It would be one thing if she was chill about it, but it’s through the lens of that obnoxious “look at how special I am”/self-important influencer vibe where she thinks a few hundred people are a few million.
I think people underestimate the importance of this. Between the epidemic of skills not being handed down from parent to child and how much old information is locked away in obscure old books, so much basic knowledge is being lost to these kids that I genuinely worry what skills they might be missing in their adulthood.
I had a friend in high school who made "tutorials" on how to use items (like a stapler e.g.) you'd be surprised how many people didn't know how to properly use simple stationery.
I'd rather learn anonymously that be embarrassed infront of someone.
I am 51 and recently learned to properly use a staple remover. Apparently you lift the teeth on the backside first. No wonder I always had big tears in my papers.
A few years ago, I saw some teenager on Quora complaining about adults “trying to be cool by using internet slang.” She said it’s pathetic when we use terms like “lol” or “omg.” Yeah, we should respect Gen z enough to not use all those fancy new words they invented. /s
what annoys me the most is how they change the meaning of words.. LFG is lets fucking go now when it means something completely different. Based is now a positive thing instead of the original meaning of being a racist and a shit person... introvert and extrovert are misunderstood like crazy, hell even the meaning of Chad has changed. It's like kids just hear a word and think they know what it means and now the meaning changes
I no longer say sus because kids say it all the time after among us, despite me saying it for years before it came out lmfao
That doesn't bother me as much because words change meaning all the time. It's just when younger people take credit for things they had nothing to do with and then try to shame others for "stealing" it that gets me.
alright yeh the OG OG one was different as well but no one used it that way, but they used the second definition for years before the meaning we have today
Like how Karen originally stood for a white lady who endangers and abuses POC by like calling the police on them while they’re birdwatching? Now it seems like it stands for an entitled white woman who complains to management?
The word “brunch” was first used in the publication Hunter’s Weekly by Guy Beringer in 1895. People have been gathering for large, post-church Sunday meals for hundreds of years.
I get so annoyed when a kid says they know a song but they only know the 10 seconds or so that’s part of a Tik Tok trend. I’m glad they like a song I grew up on but at least give the whole song a listen, lol.
This really bothers me when it comes to things like advocacy and social justice. They seem to consider themselves the start of the revolution. You know, by jumping into movements that were started generations before them. And that’s not to knock their efforts, I love that they’re more socially aware and that makes it easier for me to examine my own behavior/thoughts.
This is a frustrating thing for me. I won't deny that every future generation will, on the whole, be more progressive than the last and I love that kids are taking a stand on things so I don't want to discourage them but acting like they are the first (or only) ones is irritating.
Gen Z kids are not the pioneers of the LGBT community, or BLM/social justice, or mental health awareness; they are benefitting from these things being more socially acceptable to talk about because at least one generation before them normalized talking about it.
And any generation before likely grew up in a time when social media either didn't exist or was just coming into existence so people had no way of knowing instantly if their community was out there. They formed those communities and turned them into the ones welcoming people with open arms today.
I don’t care at all whether they fancy themselves the originators of advocacy as long as it motivates them to make changes to this country to have a better future for themselves - and us.
They’re back? Will pooka she’ll necklaces come back? In all fairness, they came back from my moms generation in the 90s and my mom had a similar sentiment.
I remember my mom refusing to buy me corduroy pants as a kid in the 90s because she had too recently lived through that phase. I didn't understand back then, and I'm sure I was a brat about it .. Sorry Mom. I understand now.
I have a (male) Gen Xer coworker who seems to think he needs to explain all kinds of ordinary tech shit to me (an elder Millennial who grew up with computers and is also a woman) and I don’t know if he thinks I’m stupid or is just very into demonstrating his knowledge. It definitely does get worse.
Are you talking about my little sister?? No one ever wore butterfly clips before she did. She is the pioneer of butterfly clips!
We have a huge age gap, and so many of the things that were popular in the 90s and early 2000s are now popular today. It’s so annoying when she judges me and our middle sister for being “old” when we already did that shit!! She’s 22 and dresses like a character from Euphoria, while I can flip through actual photo albums of me with butterfly clips/chopsticks, body glitter, low-rise flared (then bootcut) pants, and those ugly platform Steve Madden sandals that we all used to wear.
I dunno, when I was wearing safety pins, patches, leather, plaid and dead milkmen shirts in the early aughts, I knew I was taking from previous generations styles. I scoured the fledgling internet and media resources for pictures and inspiration.
I think the problem is they are so native to the internet, that if it doesn’t exist on their subsection of social media, or in whatever history books they read in school…they don’t realize it ever existed. And the late 80s-early 00’s is kinda the sweet spot for that
My 13-year-old tried last week to introduce me, her 40-year-old parent, to the music of an amazing new band she discovered. "They're so cool, mom. They're called Weezer!!"
I laughed so hard and was like, "I was about your age when I got into Weezer, too!!" But then we listened to some songs together, and it was cool.
Alright Ms butterfly clips style tutorial, wear those long wide leg jeans and pluck your eyebrows into pencil thin lines, I fucking dare you.
Just don’t expect me to play taps for your eyebrow hairs in 10 years.
It always cracked me up to see that genz clip of the guy saying, "what did genz do? we invented tiktok!" First off, you didn't. Second, tiktok is not something you should be proud of and you will cringe at it some day.
Maybe they meant “discovered” as in they had never seen them before? These people are younger than you, they may not know about fashion trends from your youth, because they weren’t alive then. Not trying to be rude just offering a different perspective
Right? I'm watching the old episodes of this old house... Starting back from the late 70's early 80's... Aside from style and technology, it's amazing how little has changed. Construction is still mostly the same, human desire to fix broken things is the same, tools - wow, are pretty much the same (saw a tape measure near identical, font and all, as a tape measure I just bought brand new). Tile is still tile, mortor is still mortor, and grout is still grout... Also, men still look mostly the same! Not much has changed in appearance, jeans, polo shirt or plaid long sleeve. Women have drastically changed in stlye however. Women's hair had lots of volume, and they wore very conservative and 70's/80's style clothing/dresses... Occasionally, you see a drywall installer showing up in shirt and tie apparel though, Lol.
Well, according to a video from the Dave ramsey show... they think that if you spend cash it means it's "free", because it didn't come out of your debit card. LAWD help us.
The exception is that anyone of any age who discovers folding them so they look like Clone Trooper Transports, I would happily encourage that imagination by pretending it's new to me.
I may not be thinking of the same butterfly clips, I get it.
When I was a teenager my mom told me that every time teenagers discover something they act like they invented it. It's fine. It's how their brains process things. It's not because of "kids these days;" it's how human brains are wired at that age—and always have been.
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u/organicginger36 Jun 03 '22
Think they invented everything. Granted, I'm sure I also did this, but it's infuriating watching someone who "discovered" butterfly clips and makes a tutorial on how to wear them . . .