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because sure yes part of it may be millennials’ solipsistic tendency for nostalgia but also if you can pinpoint a moment in your life where it felt like the momentum was shifting toward good and you wanted to believe that basic human decency and thought could prevail wouldn’t you have at least an impulse to reach out for that feeling?
but nah really, terrible man, generational speaker
Aug 22, 2024
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I was a millennial hater for a long time but then I realized that for all their flaws they were the only thing keeping us from sliding into fascism. I cannot stop listening to Eminem, icona pop, childish gambino, and LCD soundsystem and daydreaming about being at a Williamsburg house party in 2012.
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irony and a lack of sincerity seems to be a big part of how a lot of gen z seems to operate. you have to be nonchalant, you can't be too excited about something because that's cringe, but when someone makes an account being cringe ironically that's funny, and this commitment to the bit is very important- this leads us to meta-irony. and I can't hate much, I've been known to laugh at these things too
the cynicism is, at least in the perspective of an american zoomer, due to the state of things in the country/planet. at my high school, we were encouraged to go to college in STEM fields because that's more financially stable but now people with those degrees can't find employment, and that's happening with every degree. entry level jobs are requiring experience- like buddy, you are the experience. and when you're working minimum wage after college outside of your field with student loan debt, you're watching the housing crisis and knowing you'll be a renter forever. and you're also watching the climate crisis and trying to enjoy the planet before you're swept up by a tornado or get dust pneumonia or get hit by a hurricane. and you're watching our current administration take us into authoritarianism and some people are even happy that they have a dictator now. scary and uncertain times lead to the level of cynicism that we have finally reached and I worry for the generations following ours, especially seeing how the alt-right has been exploiting the growing cynicism in our generation
Mar 21, 2025
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I thought we Gen-Xers got the blame for cynicism
Mar 17, 2025
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And then stick around for the headliner so you “get your money’s worth” only to see the headliner open their set with like 25 minutes of the most “gets no hoes” music you’ve heard in a minute
Feb 17, 2024
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and you can’t just jump to she/her without stopping at she/they like “no it’s this one i’m sure”
Nov 21, 2024
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We all know airports and flying are kind of an iteration of Hell at this point, so why not make travel fun? Comes with a bunk bed and feels quintessentially American, but the good parts (traveling through the country, power of industry, pre-made food). The coffee tastes like nothing, though.
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