• @[email protected]
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    6010 months ago

    Millennials are older than Gen Z. Why would a Gen Z’er be sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper? Gen Z would be born between 1997 and 2012, these people basically grew up online.

    • Match!!
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      3110 months ago

      He’s just committed to the vintagecore aesthetic

    • Th4tGuyII
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      2110 months ago

      I suspect the author meant Gen X, but was too busy laughing at their own joke to bother checking which generation is which

    • Altima NEO
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      810 months ago

      Gen z are all about the retro stuff they didn’t grow up with

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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        99 months ago

        Millennials: nostalgic for the late-80s/90s/early-00s because that’s when they were growing up.

        Gen Z: nostalgic for the late-80s/90s/early-00s because that’s when there was still some hope in the world.

        Gen alpha: not old enough yet to be nostalgic (but will probably be nostalgic for the pre-trump/pre-covid days of the US).

  • @[email protected]
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    479 months ago

    The joke may have merit, all generations have their lingo but it does seem to have gotten extra meme-ish as of late, but the labels are all wrong. Millennials are the old ones, the meme language speaker should be labeled as Z (which came after millennials) or Alpha (came after Z, born 2010-2025.)

    • shastaxc
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      49 months ago

      The new gen just has the ability to disseminate slang faster with all the online tools. Back in my day, words only entered slang status when a celebrity used it in the media.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        Yes, they went Greek. Starting the letter naming scheme with X turned out to be a mistake.

  • @nieceandtows
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    2610 months ago

    I think Gen X fits a lot better than Gen Z.

    • XbSuper
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      69 months ago

      Except it doesn’t, because it’s gen z’s lingo. This comic is just all wrong.

  • edric
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    1710 months ago

    As an older millennial, I wouldn’t know what they mean either.

  • DumbAceDragon
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    149 months ago

    I’ve met more zoomers who talk like that than millennials tbh.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      Yeah my millennial girlfriend does not talk like that nor do her friends. That’s more juvenile speech and millennials are creeping into late stage adulting at this point and past that nonsense.

      Signed… GenX

  • PugJesus
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    1010 months ago

    Shouldn’t Gen Z know what a ‘Spicy X’ is though

    (it’s everything and nothing)