The Millennial CAPTCHA : programmerhumor

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I'm aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can't get past that captcha.

EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in "what is skibidi toilet" into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I'm turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago

Skibidi toilet is actually one of the first gen alpha memes, not gen z.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Oh damn, I'm starting on the Boomer habit of complaining about Zoomer culture when it's actually Alpha culture.

It feels like yesterday, Boomers were complaining about how annoying millennial kids were, when we were actually adults in our 20s/30s at the time. I'm just realizing that was over a decade ago, and now I'm doing the same thing to Zoomers. Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.

[-] WhiteHotaru@feddit.de 1 points 5 days ago

Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.

Not as hard as you think. Stopping is not the problem. Stopping and still having fun is.

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[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

As a Millennial, I'm now too old to tell the difference.

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[-] Hamartia@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

My genX ass was trying skibidi on its own cause most of the rest of the text is usually auto-suggested while typing in the search terms.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I’m aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can’t get past that captcha.

EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I’m turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.

Yeah, maybe the m CAPTCHA developers only wanted to share nostalgic memories of Google search results without ads. EDIT : let me fact check before I've written a lot of nonsense. Yes, seems fair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ha! It took me a minute too to realize that having to google WTF a skibidi toilet is was the Millennial test, not being expected to know it.

Finally, a sterotype of "millennial" that recognizes we kinda be old now!

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[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago

This needs at least one flash game to be accurate

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 3 weeks ago

I passed it first try as a zoomer

[-] lud@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

Same.

I had the most trouble with the iPod.

[-] Anamana@feddit.de 21 points 3 weeks ago

Same, but only because I didn't expect the website to support the real interaction modality

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago

Easy Gen X pass. I actually think Gen X would be able to pass all generational captchas. We're the first "microchip" generation and have generally kept up and lived through most of the tech fads and changes.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 weeks ago

Half of you are like this, the other are Boomer-like in their tech abilities

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yes unfortunately some were hit too many times with the stupid stick as a form of child rearing. The rest of us learnt to code BASIC to pass the time as latchkey kids.

[-] the_beber@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 34 points 3 weeks ago

This was easy but have no idea what a boomerang is but I don't use Instagram. I never owned an ipod but they are easy to use.

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

The iPod was throwing me until they blew me away by actually making it so I have to spin my finger on the pad. If I hadn't been on mobile idk if I ever would've got past thinking "Did he fucking feature with someone? I don't fucking listen to Sufjan Stevens..."

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, they should've picked a more common artist. i thought it was a trick about knowing the lead singer of a band at first.

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[-] shadowSprite@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

I was a little lost until the iPod and the t9 showed up, then it was almost scary how normal it all felt. I didn't even realize I still remembered t9 but I didn't even have to think.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 22 points 3 weeks ago

T9 is the predictive word one. That Nokia used the original single-letter-at-a-time method, and it got me when I guessed that it was T9 (which was around for much longer than the single-letter method).

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[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 24 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a zoomer, this was actually kinda hard. Especially the iPod and the select some guy ones. Would definitely keep me away from millennial only sites unless I REALLY wanted in. Nowadays I get annoyed at sites that even still use a captcha, cloudflare at least got rid of the kind where people fail at.

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a zoomer and honestly I had no problems with it. I only failed the Michael Cera one because I didn't notice one of the images had a secret hidden Michael Cera

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's a terrible introduction. Should've been half-and-half Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg.

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[-] rbits@lemm.ee 23 points 3 weeks ago

Don't know how to post the boomerang, but passed everything else (I think) as a 20 year old gen z

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

I still don't know what a boomerang is or was, but I guess I clicked the right button, so I didn't miss any of them.

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[-] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

As an elder millennial I also did not get that one.

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[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 22 points 3 weeks ago

As a late Gen X, I was completely lost. So, I guess it’s official: I don’t get your generation.

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's kinda weird being close to X in age and so far away culturally.

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you can’t T9 we can’t accept you.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

*American captcha

(Or westerner captcha, cuz I have no idea)

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I got to step 3 and it said Post the Boomerang? What the hell does that mean?

[-] Prox@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

A boomerang is a short video that runs forwards, then backwards, then repeats. The post was already a boomerang, so you just needed to click share.

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[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess sending something BACK, so I hit the "your story" button. Don't even know which app that was supposed to be.

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

Boomerang was an old feature on Instagram where it would just take a video and then loop it backwards when it reached the end. It was a really stupid phenomenon that nobody really used, hence the reason the got rid of it.

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[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

That was quite fun XD

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

The autocomplete for the second one gets vicious.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I had absolutely no trouble until a slight delay on the iPod but had to give up a little later as my elder millennial ass forgot how to type on an old school Nokia 😄

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, I'm sorry but what's this iPod thing... can't I get an MP3 CD player?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Or, even better, an off-brand Discman 😄

[-] Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

I was going to make an annoying comment about how I'm a younger millenial (almosy gen-z) and immediately remembered how to do it, but then I realize it probably got imprinted in my brain a lot more strongly because I was younger when I got exposed to it.

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[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

The iPod got me. Never had one. Never had a friend who did. This could be a Gen X experience or a cash-poor Millennial experience. If it hadn't been for the hint I would not have got past that part.

I also didn't have that particular Nokia so it took me a moment to figure out which button deleted mistakes. Mistakenly thinking that the CAPTCHA designers might not have implemented that part of the interface didn't help.

Had to guess on the boomerang. I've seen boomerangs but didn't know that's what they're called nor have I ever posted one. Again, this could be an "I don't post on that platform" or an "I only post pictures and haven't used that feature" experience. I definitely have an account on at least one platform that hosts them though.

I am technically not a Millennial. The term for my cohort is Xennial, I believe.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Had to guess on the boomerang. I've seen boomerangs but didn't know that's what they're called nor have I ever posted one.

I've never heard of a "boomerang" that wasn't referring to the Australian tool/toy. I totally guessed on that one too. I don't post videos to any social media platform, so I was totally out of the loop on that one.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is art and I love it lol

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Now I wanna see if I fail other generational Captchas!

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

23yo zoomer here. Like everyone else, I was stuck on the Michael Cera one for a while, but it was because I never heard of the guy and even after googling I didn't realise he was in one of the other photos.

Gosh texting on the Nokia felt so normal and equally a nice reminder on how nice the mobile keyboards we have now are.

I've never heard of a boomerang, the comments here filled me in but I'm not an Instagram user.

The iPod was fucking magical by the way, always wanted one as a kid growing up, even begging my parents just for the nano but they didn't see the value in that compared to the cheap knockoff MP4 players. I still want one nowadays but they're all stupid expensive.

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't understand the Michael Cera one. I got passed it but I'm still convinced there are only 3 pictures with him in it. That picture quality is atrocious.

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