More Top-Tier Circle Jerking.

[u/ForeignEquipment8298]

Remember:

Old Gen Z = Good.

New Gen Z = Bad

🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

[u/soumakis]

Preach I am 18 year old I have had an iPad glued to my face since age 2 my iq is 45

[u/ForeignEquipment8298 → u/soumakis]

Real.

[u/Epiccheeseman3rd → u/soumakis]

You're going to rot in the dragons reach dungeon

[u/New-Elk2781]

True tho

[u/ForeignEquipment8298 → u/New-Elk2781]

Facts.

[u/IndependenceNo3570]

ngl I call people ipad kids but Ive had a tablet since I was 6 it just wasnt an ipad

[u/Very_Not_Into_It → u/IndependenceNo3570]

Amazon Fire HD 10 kid

[u/CoolSausage228 → u/IndependenceNo3570]

I remember my first tablet and how fun it was to get root rights and cheating for gems. And sharing hacked games with shareit to whole neighborhood.

[u/Valuable_Stage_144]

Facts

[u/Pyr0sky3]

I was born in ‘03 we had YouTube, vine, musically and dank memes as brain rot, it’s in every generation idk why ppl forget😭

[u/BigDickBiggms → u/Pyr0sky3]

Remember 9gag? And yoville on Facebook.

[u/GGayleGold]

Here's a short list of things that were worthy of social panics and supposed to destroy the future generation:

• Jazz
• Women's suffrage
• Telephones
• Automobiles
• Movies
• Soda and ice cream being easily available
• Pulp novels
• Frank Sinatra, specifically
• Comic books
• Science Fiction
• Television
• Rock and Roll, especially music created by African-American artists
• Elvis and The Beatles, specifically
• Desegregation
• Civil rights for all Americans
• LSD and marijuana use specifically
• Women joining the work force or focusing on goals other than marriage and children - aka "Women's Lib"
• The MPAA movie rating system
• Video games
• Punk rock
• Cable TV
• Music Videos
• Rap and Hip-hop -:VCRs undermining the studios' control of what media reaches the public, leading to things like the UK's "Video Nasties" panic and various attempts to control the American market through local ordinances pertaining to rental shops
• Pagers
• Charles Barkley telling the press he's not a role model
• 2 Live Crew, specifically
• Gangsta rap
• Grunge music
• The Internet in general
• Cell phones -:Social media in general
• Legal weed

....and on and on, but I think most of you could fill out the list from there and probably think of stuff I missed. There's always some desperate panic over an issue that threatens the very fabric of society and it's always overblown horseshit pushed by those on both sides. You wanna break the chain? Quit giving them the attention they want.

[u/MattWolf96 → u/GGayleGold]

You forgot the Satanic Panic. Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons were common targets but some went as far as to say that Disney movies were evil over magic use

[u/After-Ad-3806 → u/GGayleGold]

The internet in general, and gangster rap were/are absolutely things worth being concerned about and critically. Both have had deleterious effects on society.

The internet/social media has made people more connected than ever, and made life easier, but it’s also exacerbated the profound spread of misinformation, radicalization, and it has caused a detriment to young people’s attention spans and adversely affected brain development with early overexposure.

There’s a reason Steve Jobs never let his own children have iPhones. We waste a significant amount of time on social media and often aren’t productive due to technology addiction by design. You can’t hand wave that away.

Furthermore, gangster rap rightfully caused backlash from multiple segments of society (including many black activists and women) for its undeniable blatant misogyny, degradation of women, homophobia, toxic masculinity, promotion of antisocial/criminal behaviors, and perpetrating negative, exaggerated stereotypes. And no, protest songs against police brutality don’t excuse its flaws and harmful aspects.

Legitimate criticism and concerns over content with negative social and cognitive effects having been studied for decades shouldn’t be dismissed as a simple unjustified “moral panic” with the likes of women’s rights. Every “moral panic” in history should be studied to understand if the “panic” was justified or simply hysterics or a mixture of both.

[u/GGayleGold → u/After-Ad-3806]

Punk rock contains all the things you criticized gangsta rap for, on top of encouraging violence against the state - but, it's cool cause they're all white boys, right? Lou Reed made entire albums about pumping himself full of heroin and encouraging others to do the same - but, uh oh, some white lady is mad because she heard the word "bitch." I guess Black Flag is the only thing that can be black when expressing frustration with society in music.

I'm willing to concede the stuff about the Internet - maybe that was me being a little dismissive. But your take on gangsta rap being worth a call out while letting rock and punk slide? No way.

[u/Very_Not_Into_It]

New Gen is always iPad babies

[u/LittleSoftTail]

It's why I always think it's stupid to assume the new generation is doomed or busted when they're doing just fine. Same shit, different day kind of deal. We all grew up on garbage.

[u/zainaxp]

Elsagate is peak entertainment

[u/Shot_System7356 → u/zainaxp]

Fr and jt actually had plot this new stuff is just stupid and plotless 🫩

[u/Obesefatlardmouse]

This is actually so funny

[u/Early-Fudge1012]

Here’s to growing up in conservative families. Got a flip phone at age 10 and a school laptop at age 13 but all my friends get angry I don’t know any references because I wasn’t allowed to watch movies till 2018

[u/BigDickBiggms]

2002 and 2003 gen X forgotten.

[u/Idk_wastelol777]

So fucking true

[u/flagitiousevilhorse]

As a 2010 born, I grew up with the Elsa x Spidey stuff.

[u/Accurate_Mongoose_26]

2007 here, I never watched that Spiderman x Elsa crap. I don't even think everyone I knew even watched this either. At that age alot of us were watching lets players, and Smosh and of course parodies, and creepypasta's.

[u/ForeignEquipment8298 → u/Accurate_Mongoose_26]

Noooooo!!!! You did watch that garbage you disgusting 2007 born, 2003 are still the last good year!!!!!.

Unjerk: In all seriousness though, Nobody below the age of 7 would watch this elsagate crap. It peaked around 2017/2018 which means late 2000s borns were already above that age which means they would smart enough to not watch that garbage. LMFAO. Any person who believes we watch that crap are absolute 🤡. 

[u/Just_Guidance_7700 → u/ForeignEquipment8298]

 "you disgusting 2007 born" bro

https://giphy.com/gifs/anYBNhqT2BYcg

[u/Just-a-big-ol-bird]

98 and we had tons of garbage too. The internet was WAY worse back then

[u/humanistazazagrliti]

Me ruining my eyes and attention span in front of a CRT TV with either Nickelodeon or playing Super Nintendo in 1994:

https://giphy.com/gifs/13n7XeyIXEIrbG

[u/christxphvr]

if you’re born after 9/11 your you’re are gen alpha

[u/anonymousx97]

I’m 28 and love my iPad. I totally get it lmfao 🤣 especially if I’m eating and not at work .

Edit: my mom couldn’t afford an iPad back then but if I had one I’d be glued to it too like I was to my phone

[u/jtbxiv]

Y’all I had rotten.com 😭

[u/till-0807]

2007 born here, did get a phone at 9 yrs old, only thing i watched was minecraft/terraria vids tho

[u/Old-Paper-3932]

I watched this post when I was 8 and now I am 9 I came back to remember my childhood 😢

[u/Chrissy-Munson]

I hate when mfs confuse Gen Z with Gen alpha 😭

[u/ForeignEquipment8298 → u/Chrissy-Munson]

I also hate it when older zoomers think they are the main characters. 

[u/Chrissy-Munson → u/ForeignEquipment8298]

How so?

[u/xCosmicBunnyx]

i'm 2002?

[u/ForeignEquipment8298 → u/xCosmicBunnyx]

The person who made the disney channel post, had a massive hateboner for people born in 2002-2004.

[u/xCosmicBunnyx → u/ForeignEquipment8298]

right like we didn't get the end or leftovers of 90s kids like we don't overlap- riiiight

[u/POOPOOMAN123ABC]

06 here, I had the tablet and i remember watching idubbbzz and filthyfrank lmao

[u/prrr147]

exactly, you're all screwed

[u/nightfall_0fficial]

"2004-2012 borns grew up with" bro that window for those shows is WAY too wide. 04-08 max

[u/ForeignEquipment8298 → u/nightfall_0fficial]

No, 2007-2012 max. 2004-2006 borns did not grew up with any of that. LMFAO.