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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 269 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

[–] prayer@lemmy.world 74 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's millennials trying to fit in with Gen Z to prove to themselves they're not old.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 149 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And the Gen Z is... reading a newspaper? Nah fam, I don't think that's what's going on.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (6 children)

You think millennials read newspapers? We are the first digital native generation. In fact, we saw the internet growing up while we grew up ourselves

[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember the internet before Facebook and Instagram? Good times. It was all Flash Games and p... Uhm, videos

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I still know my ICQ number. Back when all instant messagers had open protocols and you could use one open source client for all of them.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 11 months ago

I'm still slightly mad that everyone wanted to use AIM instead of ICQ, even though icq was better. It had offline messaging and you could change your display name, neither of which aim supported.

Anyone younger than like 30 probably has no idea that those were noteworthy features at one time. You could only send someone a message if they were actively connected at the same time as you.

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[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 78 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I know i'm old, i just found a new hobby: messing woth the younger generation by messing with their slang.

You know, like how grandpa called every pokeman pikachu...but on purpose.

[–] noli@programming.dev 78 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Grandpa knew what he was doing when he called all the pokemen pikachu

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

pokemen

I... I think I'm having a panic attack.

[–] not_a_dog@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right? Everyone knows the correct plural form of "pokemon" is "pokemons".

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's 2020s, the proper term is pokepersons.

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[–] Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I mess with my zoomer children all the time: bruh, no cap, on god, sus/sussy, my guy.

They mostly roll their eyes, but I do enjoy it.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

My favorite is on cap, no god.

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah no millennial is doing that to fit in/not feel old (okay there are probably some but they're a minority for sure), at best they're doing that to be annoying/make fun of the crazy slang.

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[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We used to make fun of comic books for making up slang that hilariously no one would ever use, then gen z came along.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right? We used to be like "this is written like how some 60 year old executive thinks kids these days talk ... nobody talks like this we just talk normally..."

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[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 197 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I have updated the comic for fairness.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Lmao Fuck an a that's radical man.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 50 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Did you mean "Fuckin' A" ?

Bone apple teeth moment

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Bone apple teeth

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3d657d2f-9213-43bf-b53a-83f399567bea.jpeg

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[–] Saltblue@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I thought it was overly exaggerated but then I saw the generation before me, blame my generation for the problems of the world and the "decadence of society " and then I saw my generation blame the next for those exact same things. Nothing new under the sun I guess.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Idk, from my perspective gen Z, Millenials, and gen X are all united in hating boomers.

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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's an old song popular long before any of us were born called "what's wrong with kids today?" about the generation we now call "the greatest".

Iirc there's an old Egyptian poem about how "the kids are no good".

Before there was TV and video games, they used to blame social ills on the kids "reading, instead of living".

Old heads gon' shit on the youngins, it's in our blood

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[–] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 177 points 11 months ago (2 children)

GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 116 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this comic is mislabeled. Gen z should be boomer, or Gen Z should be saying something to a millennial, but not millennial to Gen z.

[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's the newspaper that is off-putting

[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

For me the joke just doesn't work reversed. The younger generation grows up hearing the older generations slang, so even if the younger generation doesn't use that slang they know it. Older generations don't tend to keep up with younger generations slang so, at least to me, the joke really only works with the older not understanding the younger.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 80 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The oldest millenials are in their 40s. Who is drawing these things?

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago

Boomers, or millennials with boomer energy. Really anyone that wants to shit on "the youth"

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As a "Millennial" in the 40s, myself and others my similar age don't ever seem to fit into the millennial category well. The start should be in the mid 1980's not the beginning. Gen x seems more fitting for the early 80s. But the generation thing is kind of silly anyway.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 65 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How is this millennial lingo?

[–] Dettweiler42@lemm.ee 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Because everyone under 25 is a millennial. There is no other generation between or after genX and millennials.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

> 50 = boomer < 25 = millennial

For everything else, there's MasterCard

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

It’s not.

[–] extant@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago

As a millennial I have no idea what that person is saying.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

On God. Fr fr, no cap on the rizz with a lizz until I jizz. Yeet!

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would assume big spicy boi is a big shit. I am a millennial. Guess this makes no sense.

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I’m a Gen Z with a millennial girlfriend, and she doesn’t talk anything like that. In fact- I have never heard anyone talk like that.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

So is this intentionally mislabeled? Only the youngest millennials would be like 5% that bad, while gen z would actually be like that at times.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

He should have mentioned the other room looks like the "this is fine" meme. Rookie mistake smh

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[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Millennials are split into the older and the younger ones. I am one of the older ones, and I don't know what the heck is going on with the younger ones.

Can GenX adopt me please?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Whats funny is that as soon as I read big spicy boi i knew exactly what it was. High key vibed with that tbh. Big relate. Mans got me dead.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Millennial, what the fuck are you talking about

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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

USE ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, THIS ISNT THE TIME FOR DUMB INTERNET TALK

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