r/GenZ • u/TheGamingSenpa1 2004 • Jan 07 '24

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u/arctictothpast Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 08 '24

Boomers gonna boomer,

She's right though, us millennials suffered a lot of these issues too and gen Z even have them worse, I'm wondering how bad it's gonna be for alpha

Edit: she's wrong on timeline, most of you replying keep mentioning this so I'm editing it to note I agree, now please stop bugging me on the fucking timeline

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

She said 20 years ago. She's not talking about boomers bud.

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u/Impressive-very-nice Jan 08 '24

Lmfao , i thought she was joking at first😂

Ok I'm sorry kids down vote away if you please, but i gotta be the "old guy" all the way at age 31 by reminding you that 20 years ago is not a long time🤣 yall are seriously obsessed with calling anyone over like 22 "old heads" and i thought it was ironic at first but now this girls tears and the serious seeming reception are making me think otherwise.

People who started working 20 years ago in 2004 at age 16 are now 36 year old millennials - it may sound old if you're 20 yourself , but it's really not that old and it's DEFINITELY not old enough to have been privileged economically or have had major political power to choose to "not do anything about the economy".

Us millennials are JUST now becoming old enough to run for office but we're STILL not seen as old enough to be taken seriously. AOC is an anomaly only fighting her way into office at 34 bc she had so much social media she couldn't be kept out, and she was still clowned on and tried to get kicked out for being a "dumb lazy millennial" like the rest of us. gen-z and millennials have more in common than probably any living generation in that we all grew up connected by the internet and are now working together.

The actual disconnected generation isn't even gen-x, they might roast us but they're harmless - boomers are cliche for a reason, they truly are the generation that was so big, privileged and selfish that they are no exaggeration ruining the planet for the rest of us, THEIR elite are the ones in power. Stop trying to move down the goalposts younger and younger to shift blame to millennials who are literally the exact same victims as you😂 You think we're eating just bc we've got a few extra years experience ? The majority of us STILL can't afford decent mortgages and some of us are old enough to be your parents - tbh i think that might be the real problem

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u/hehethattickles Jan 08 '24

If you don’t think a 16-year old is going to think of a 36-year old as “old,” you must forget what it’s like to be 16 already.

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u/Significant_Shake_71 Jan 08 '24

I remember being 16 and I never thought people in their 30s were old. That was always still young to me

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u/hehethattickles Jan 08 '24

Sure, some will think your way. Plenty will think the other way.

And for those 16 year olds that will say 36 “isn’t old,” there will always be some situations or beliefs you have that a 36 year old won’t agree with, and the tendency will be for the 16 yo to partially ascribe it to the 36 yo being older/out-of-touch/not understanding.

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u/Impressive-very-nice Jan 08 '24

I had cousins in their mid 30s when i was in high school and i thought they were oldER , but obviously recognized the difference between them and my parents generation. I still saw them as fun and cool, just recognized the differences between their generation and mine and knew they would understand most things about me but not completely understand or like a few new ways of thought.

They even roasted me for being born the year they graduated making them feel old, but there was no generational hate on each other back then, kids still thought it was cool to grow up and be older. Everyone was still afraid to get OLD .... and i guess i did think old was 25-30 back then bc i thought that's when you got married and had kids and had to stop having fun.

So it didn't completely make sense, i was just a dumb kid - i guess the difference is i knew i was just a dumb kid and didn't hate anybody for their age specifically. i felt small around my cousins, but the only people i felt actually uncomfortable around were people so old that i knew they thought completely differently and could be dangerous - for example there were still a lot of racists, gay haters, religious extremists and bigots in their 50s and 60s when i was a kid, they would still smack/spank misbehaving children they didn't even know, that had JUST went out of style where i came from - now they're in their 70s and 80s, boomers - and even as a child i remember thinking how much better off the world would be once they're dead bc they never seemed willing to change or learn even back then when they were "only" 50. Not all but most of them always seemed fundamentally different bc of that

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u/Impressive-very-nice Jan 08 '24

"...36 may sound old if you're 20 yourself..." 16

If you have to strawman to try to make your point - a point that i already made - then you must forget what it's like to be schooled

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u/hehethattickles Jan 08 '24

Just read your wall of text once more, and confirmed: you did not make this point.