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Gen-X here. I would like to know who in our generation decided to let their kids (Gen-Z) raid their closet. Yesterday alone I saw multiple teen girls wearing 90's era mommy pants and two, TWO, girls wearing MC Hammer parachute pants!!!! Neither of these was ever cool!
Millennials. If our kids give you grief, just remember that they thought it was a good idea to bring back parachute pants.
It's how it always goes. First, it's stylish, then it's lame, then it's R E T R O
I literally saw a 12 year old the other day wearing a "Boyz in tha Hood" shirt, like, do you even know what movies are?
The last pics or videos I saw of everything "cool" (VIPs, gen Z stuff like interviews, festival pics,...) felt like old 90 stuff. I really thought they were old but no, it was stuff from about 1-2 weeks ago. Why is stuff like hair styles and make up also the same as it was years ago?
Fashion is cyclical
I keep having to explain to my 9-year-old that I'm not a boomer 🤔
I just said this in another thread- my 13-year-old thinks every discovery she makes about the 80s or 90s is something I didn't know about.
"Oh my God, have you heard about these old 'Tamagotchi' things?"
"DO NOT QUOTE THE ANCIENT MAGICS TO ME, CHILD, I WAS THERE WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN"
Did you know phones used to be in the walls and they were the internet?
Joke’s on them, I don’t care what teens think is cool.
I care
If teenagers think I'm uncool, I'm probably doing something right
Teenagers are lame af
That sounds pretty coool to me...
He cracked the code!
Why would I care what teenagers think?
Haha losers I can get into a bar. Go drink your warm keystone while hiding from your parents. Make sure you make curfew.
This is the true take lol
Frankly, being seen as uncool by teenagers is a good thing. Modern teenagers think people like Logan Paul are cool (not that we were any better when we were teens, but that just furthers my point)
There's a trend of elder millennials shitting on Gen Z because Gen Z is doing what all kids and young people do: rebel against their elders. And it's the most cringe thing I've ever seen. Eddy Burbank had a video on it a while ago and holy crap. Just stop, y'all. The poster in the pic has the right idea.
Gen Z is one of the only things that gives my old ass hope
Gen Z is alright. I like to believe the future is in good hands with them. Other than the cringe, but we were all cringe at their age, we just trauma-block it from our memories.
You guys trauma-block your cringe instead of remembering it while trying to sleep?
Oh no, I definitely remember lots of cringe while trying to sleep. It's just that sometimes some piece of ancient cringe will come up with photo evidence that I have no memory of, and I conclude that my mind was trying to protect me from that specific piece.
I only shit on zoomers for making TikTok a thing. Otherwise, they're cool people.
gen z here. I genuinely think most millennials are cool asf. y'all took the brunt of the hate from older generations for us. I just hope we can pay it back somehow in the long run
While I appreciate the sentiment, I honestly think us Millennials just did our time in the barrel and now it's your turn. My evidence: I use Firefox, by default it congregates a bunch of "news" articles from around the web (via Pocket, I think. Whatever the fuck Pocket is) and here's a headline from Elle I'm looking at on my other monitor as I type: "Is Gen Z Killing Vintage Fashion?" You are The Demographic now, so there's going to be about 15 years of exactly that bullshit to roll your eyes at.
I'm so glad I'm not being blamed for the decline of a shitty industry no one else took part in either, otherwise it wouldn't have failed.
Yeah, now it's more like "are gen Z killing X industry?"
me: "God I fucking hope we are"
From everything I've seen, you will. Just keep working for what's right and good.
I'll help zoomers all I can to have a better future politically
My neighbor's 13 year old thinks I'm cool as shit because i make them loads of baked goodies. Cakes, cookies, granola, cupcakes, or whatever I'm baking for my weekly challenges.
Ummm that sounds like you are cool as shit.
Won't you be my neighbor?
Of the list of things I'm struggling with as I'm getting older, this is pretty fuckin low on the list.
Like, I understand the adults in my life as a teenager and why they didn't really give a shit about what I thought about certain things. I was young and stupid and didn't know shit about shit.
The teens are correct, I am not cool. To quote Abe Simpson, "I used to be with It, but then they changed what It was. Now what I'm with isn't It, and what is It is weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you."
Now I think I'm slightly younger than Abe was in that scene, but I'm not yet at a place where teenagers are "weird and scary" to me. Juvenoia hasn't set in yet. I'm definitely out of touch, like I don't know what bands the kids are listening to these days, slang is starting to leave me behind. But I think I feel okay with the kids these days growing up in their own decade, which a lot of adults seem to struggle with. I'm going to try to hang onto that.
As for their opinion of me? Yeah sure. I'm a 36 year old homeowner that spent my free time last week cutting back my azaleas and canning a year's supply of homemade jelly. I have a shelf where I keep my carpet cleaning supplies. Any teenager who thinks I'm not cool is pretty much correct. And I'm fine with that.
My kids' friends all think I'm cool, and they're Gen Z. Which is weird because I've never been cool.
Get off of my generation X lawn.
Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.
Gen X is too cool/apathetic to care about lawns. The issue is that Gen X isn't really trying to gatekeep anything.
If I had to tell the boomers or millennials or gen z to "stay off my bandwidth" I'd probably be more like "ok, suit your self, I have no shits to give".
While there are plenty of issues where I'd support the younger generations against the older, being cool isn't one. None of them have any idea, and neither did we.
Just remind yourself that teens bet other teens to do really really stupid and often inane/dangerous things. We were all there. (And sure, not all teens) but a lot have need to be still watched by an adult so they don’t kill themselvs attempting what most adults do. Getting to the point, it isn’t worth any self esteem damage if they call you basic.
I think it's easier to not really care about what is or isn't cool to teens.
Despite having been one less than a decade ago, I definitely refuse to keep up with the trends as I feel most of them are either dangerous (tide pod challenge), illegal (property damage in your school bathrooms), absolutely tone-deaf (all those people pretending to have xyz disorder because it's quirky), or just flat out dumb (think fortnite and such if that's still even a thing and the slang as well). The slang they use feels like a foreign language and I refuse to learn it just like I did with a lot of slang from my time.