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It’s just fear baiting gen x’ers who don’t understand their gen z/alpha kids, which the creators of the show don’t care to understand either
May 27, 2025
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Because no one wants another generation that sounds like "boomers"
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Why millenials are the way we are *** insane to watch in the context of today
2001
The largest generation of teens
With money to spend
The most marketed to generation ever
Conglomerates colonizing Teen Market rely on “Cool hunters” (aka influencers)
Ack!
Mar 11, 2025
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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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As young people who long for real, honest relationships with other people, it’s easy to overshare in order to instantly create emotional intimacy. The problem is that this intimacy is artificial, and doesn’t respect the principle that relationships are differentiated in large part because different levels of emotional intimacy are reserved for different *kinds* of relationships
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Stop trying to be cute
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Domestic narratives + focus on description + mind-numbing ”lyrical” prose = readers who focus on the *form* of literature and not its power to confront, protest, disrupt, and generally expand our understanding of the real world, where there’s social and economic evil around every corner
May 28, 2025