I think you’ve got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.
It’s millennials trying to fit in with Gen Z to prove to themselves they’re not old.
And the Gen Z is… reading a newspaper? Nah fam, I don’t think that’s what’s going on.
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
Remember the internet before Facebook and Instagram? Good times. It was all Flash Games and p… Uhm, videos
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.
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.
I regret forgetting mine. I know it was 3965… Something. But that’s as far as I know for sure.
No I don’t think we do. I sure as hell don’t. Yes indeed, we are, and we did. That’s why I think the whole comic is bullshit, like wtf is this whole thing? Feels like some Gen X or earlier is trying out this web comic thing. I don’t even know.
Growing up? I think you mean “getting drained of any creativity or energy with age.”
Point to the panel with a Millenial reading a newspaper
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No, I responded to the wrong comment, but neither one is two paragraphs
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.
Grandpa knew what he was doing when he called all the pokemen pikachu
pokemen
I… I think I’m having a panic attack.
Right? Everyone knows the correct plural form of “pokemon” is “pokemons”.
Nah, it’s 2020s, the proper term is pokepersons.
I spit out my drink.
No, no, it’s okay. It’s just a stroke.
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.
My favorite is on cap, no god.
Fr no cap ong
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Oh, (there is) no god?
This is the way
I definitely enjoyed that xD
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.
It’s very incredibly lit, fam.
On Satan, for real no caps
We used to make fun of comic books for making up slang that hilariously no one would ever use, then gen z came along.
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…”
Like the boomers were better with saying grok. No I dont care that it comes from a Heinlein book.
Used to make fun mullets and mustaches too.
Looks pedo to me, not gonna change.
Used to make fun mullets
Definitely used to do this. I still do, but I also used to.
I have updated the comic for fairness.
Lmao Fuck an a that’s radical man.
Did you mean “Fuckin’ A” ?
Bone apple teeth moment
Bone apple teeth
Any hole’s a goal, right?
Even the A hole?
especially the A hole.
It’s where you start. It’s the first one. That’s why it’s called the A hole.
Tubular, even.
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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.
Idk, from my perspective gen Z, Millenials, and gen X are all united in hating boomers.
Yah really what’s with this lolzoomer this millennial this BS. Let’s just all hate boomers together in peace.
Then you are lost!
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
Every generation thinks they’re smarter than the one before them and wiser than the one after them.
Very true! I love thinking about ancient greeks complaining about “kids these days.”
https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/
I think the millennial generation’s biggest sin is the sheer volume of “Live laugh wine” and “Rose all day” content and decor.
Well can blamethe state of big tech on Gen X, right?
Girls just wanna have wine
That edit made my day.
one of gen Z’s favorite hobbies is making up fictional versions of the rest of gen Z to get mad at
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GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?
Only as performance art
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What do you mean that’s my daily routine.
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.
It’s the newspaper that is off-putting
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.
The oldest millenials are in their 40s. Who is drawing these things?
Boomers, or millennials with boomer energy. Really anyone that wants to shit on “the youth”
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.
People born around 1980 are Xennials or the Oregon Trail generation. We’re kind of a blend of gen X and millennials.
the Oregon Trail generation
This is the one.
Hm I thought this whole time it was the mid decade like 85-94, 65-84. It is silly though, nobody has the exact same upbringing just because they’re born in a certain year.
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How is this millennial lingo?
Proper millennial lingo:
More of a motto, really.
Because everyone under 25 is a millennial. There is no other generation between or after genX and millennials.
> 50 = boomer < 25 = millennial
For everything else, there’s MasterCard
Aren’t millennials in their 30’s?
Closer to 40 than 30, at this point
Time keeps on slippin
Because everyone under 25 is a millennial
Nope.
(I advise to check e.g. Wikipedia on this matter)
I know sarcasm is hard to detect on the internet but come on. Do I really have to add the /s to my post for you to get that I was being facetious?
It’s not.
As a millennial I have no idea what that person is saying.
On God. Fr fr, no cap on the rizz with a lizz until I jizz. Yeet!
Finna
Groovy.
I still say “groovy” and have for around 40 years. I have never embraced any passing fad slang since. “Groovy” is the best and only word necessary, with “neat” as an acceptable alternate.
Groovy has a certain ironic twang to it these days that makes it work. Like Rad.
Nice mullet bro. Reminds me of my rad dad in the early 90s.
I would assume big spicy boi is a big shit. I am a millennial. Guess this makes no sense.
If someone said there is a spicy boy in the kitchen, I would assume there is a live grenade or an angry feral cat there
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.
As a millennial I’ve never heard any millennial talk like that either.
I’m a millennial… I use some of these words…
She was referring to poo clogging the toilet. I have no clue why the last frame is a house fire.
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.
Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression
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?
Hello fellow “Oregon Trail Generation” person.
TIL, I’m a xennial. Thx for sharing.
Welcome!
As a younger one, we grew up with social media becoming available to us right at the worst age. Like seriously imagine if you and your parents were allowed on Facebook right as you hit puberty and nobody understood what it could do to you.
That and also growing up not remembering 9/11 but remembering adults mocking al gore for caring if we all die of ecocide.
We’re basically the prototype for gen z. You merely adopted hopelessness. We were born into it, molded by it, we didn’t see a chance until we were adults.
I hate to break it to you, but memory of 9/11 is kind of a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border. If you don’t remember it you’re likely Gen Z or right on the border where generational definitions get really fuzzy.
I’m 29 so yeah fair
Well that still puts you pretty safely in the range, actually. The typical cutoff year is 1996. I’m 30. You were 7 (or almost 7) but you don’t remember 9/11?
Not really, maybe I had more important shit happening at the time.
I’m on the cusp between X and Millennial but my moon is in Z.
Might as well. GenX is trying to keep a roof over its brainwashed parents’ heads while its own kids rack up student loan debt. What difference would one more mouth make?
He should have mentioned the other room looks like the “this is fine” meme. Rookie mistake smh
Young zoomers communicate in memes. Tamarian, but with pictures.
Drake, his brow furrowed, his palm exposed.
Cat, his expression neutral, eating salad.
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.
Millennial, what the fuck are you talking about
90% of “boi” I’ve heard was from gen-z people
You must be one of those grandpa 40 year old millenials 😒
You missed by a year, but how does that change the zoomers I’m hanging out with?
Edit: wait, could I be one of “that 20yo millenials” in 2023? I’m the millenialest you can get!
I thought it was a spider. I don’t know why, just assumed it was something scary and animate.
USE ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, THIS ISNT THE TIME FOR DUMB INTERNET TALK
“I don’t remember askin you a godamn thing”
