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As a fellow Gen Zer I feel like there is a generational gap. I want to see if I'm trippin or there actually is one.

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[โ€“] Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's so lame ๐Ÿ˜” you mean my years of reading books, playing original Pokemon games on java phone, reading Barefoot Gen manga and loving Down the Waterfront were wasted because I came to exist at a time when my entire generation is from Ohio?

[โ€“] AnarchistArtificer 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ha, that's a mood; I have a theory about how the millennial/gen Z practical cut off is especially socioeconomically dependent โ€” as you describe, it's possible to resonate with millennial motifs way more depending on where you grew up. I think you effectively demonstrate how limited generational categories can be, especially if we treat them like hard boundaries between groups

[โ€“] Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah exactly, you absorb what you grow around in and learn from that. There's no guarantee that just because you were born in a generation that you would behave according to the mainstream stereotypes of that generation