i wish zoomers existed in 2016 when i made this poll. they're the best ones.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
they seem to have more of a generational consciousness than the millennials, who always seemed vaguely embarrassed or defensive about being millennials. i wonder if this is a positive -- like can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
iirc the class of 2000 started getting promoted as such when they were like kindergartners so maybe the drumbeat of millennial zeitgeistery wore those kids down
― j., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
also newspaper editors liked to torture us for sport in the early 2010s, commissioning all those op-eds wondering why we weren't buying houses during the worst job market in a generation
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
best is still the horrifying amount of sex we were having, until we suddenly weren't having enough
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
classic. zoomers are getting ahead of this by going on the offensive right away.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
millennials could never really bring themselves to disparage a whole older generation. we recoiled from generalizations and lacked a revolutionary consciousness.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
we were just like a massive punching bag essentially
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
I think you all kinda enjoyed it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
yr like the Cindy Brady of generations
― sarahell, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
it's over though now. the zoomers are the ones to watch.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:40 (four years ago) link
poor perverse bulb
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
I don't buy the wonderful zoomer narrative. Plenty of them would volunteer to be the foot soldiers of the Fourth Reich if a Twitch streamer told them to.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 05:44 (four years ago) link
can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?
climate change is rendering generational divides unusually material but nothing like as material as class. don't mind the occasional deployment of generational consciousness for the sake of gretaist rhetoric but soon of course the boomers will be gone and here we will all still be, not on the same side.
"ok boomer" otoh i must confess i have been waiting for my whole life. too old now to indulge in it myself but god bless.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 08:33 (four years ago) link
if all the zoomers agreed to not get any tattoos they could effortlessly tag and outdate the millennials
― estela, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 09:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12
When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data.
some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?
― treeship., Wednesday, 11 December 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12đ¸_ When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data. _some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
millennials (born between 1981 and 1996)
hey buddy, we're a youthful 38 over here!
― a u.s. government department (mh), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Gen Z is better than all of us. The end.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
too early to tell
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
Expect disappointment.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Zoomers are going to find a way to elect Pewdiepie President.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
No way. I work with Gen Z kids every day, and they are definitely conscientious and committed in a way I havenât seen before.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
i have limited contact with kids so I'm probably basing my somewhat negative judgement of gen z on seeing stoned teenage boys calling each other fags on the bus recently and them seeming basically identical to the youth of my day 20 years ago
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
soda OTM
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
gen z is v queer
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
Driving home it occurred the gdamm world was looking a whole lot like a William Gibson novel these days. Thing is that the internet and stuff like that has been around for a while and at least to me, it turned out different than I thought it would by a HUGE margin. Future is here. These kids are growing up in The Incal or at least a step towards it in a way.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
My daughter scripts her own discord chatbots, sheâs 8
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
she doesnât have a concrete bird for a companion yet though
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
The boomers were the generation that made a best seller out of I'm OK, You're OK. Now it is coming back to bite them in the ass.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
the children will save us
until they have to cover rent
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
every generation needs to shut the fuck up, this shit makes me want to shoot myself, stop talking forever
Shout out to Gen X, the only generation who can keep our asses at home without being told, the motherfucking latchkey kids, the generation used to being neglected by fucking everyone. Weâll be the only ones left.— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) March 15, 2020
― âş â˝ â â (â), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
otm
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
The responses are even worse somehow.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
if i believed generations were real it might be enough to convince me gen xers are all narcissistic delusional toddlers. good thing i don't believe that
― âş â˝ â â (â), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
thinking about jumping ship and joining gen z. they seem to have fun on tik tok.
― treeship., Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
They Are Something Else.
Caught sight of one my 10-year-old son's text conversations with his best friend.
BF: H, If you ever died, I wouldn't be at your funeral. Know why?
H: why
BF: I'd be in jail.
BF: for shooting the guys who killed you.
H: ok
H: but what if i died of cancer?
BF: then I'd still be in jail.
BF: for shooting all your doctors.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
I mean this sincerely, they are hilarious.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:51 (four years ago) link
A fun read to start the day.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as Americaâs largest generationhttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers-as-americas-largest-generation/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 May 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
Fun fact: if you were born on Dec, 31, 1964, you are a Boomer. If you were born the next day, Jan 1, 1965 you are a Gen-Xer. This means, that you could have been in the same classroom every year in school, graduated the same year, participated in all the same fads, watched the same shows at the same age, entered the workforce the same year, and still be of two different generations! It's magical.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 4 May 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
Lemme know when millennial voters overtake boomer voters.
― pplains, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:49 (four years ago) link
Aimless, demographic slices are abstracts projected on to groups by age, but it's really about shared cultural references and life experiences
I was born on around a similar generational cusp but I was mostly unaffected by the 2008 recession and the job market crash, although my peers who went to grad school and were entering the workforce a few years later really felt it. On the other hand, I was an internet early adopter and can relate to a lot of late-period Gen X'ers as far as that goes, but I didn't capitalize on it.
There's a lot of variation among groups but it's, again, a general abstraction that has some relevance when it comes to trend analysis. It's less useful than analyzing, say, people born in a particular suburb across a small number of years, but a hell of a lot more useful than astrology
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
lol
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
^^ short version and what I should have said
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
but yeah, main point is being "wow, what a difference a day makes" about what's meant to be a statistical abstraction is fun
fwiw the main way I really noticed generational marketing in the past was a free weekly publication that used to be dropped off in front of stores and restaurants (rip free weeklies) that was sold to advertisers as targeted at "people in their mid 20s" but what they really meant was "people who will look at ads for cheap townhomes in nearby suburbs"
so there's really a very late gen x/early millennial demo that is definitely easily identifiable as "people who owned cheap townhomes" and I can think of maybe a dozen people that were peers that fit that
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
but it's really about shared cultural references and life experiences
yeah. I know. but by this standard generations blend imperceptibly more often than not, and the standard labels promoted by marketers and feature writers confuse matters more than they illuminate.
the boomers started at a great dividing point, where WWII had kept young men and women physically apart and children very few, then suddenly the men came back and mating exploded almost instantly. but that sharply defined beginning point gives a false sense of unity to the boomers, because no one can say when that generation really ended or the next began.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
ok boomer
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:53 (four years ago) link
(Aimless clutches chest and falls, twirling, to earth)
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link
oops. I mistook that for *finger guns*. how about a "GET OFF MY LAWN!" instead?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link