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There have been a lot of talks and discussions about how different generations are and how that affects them understanding each other and getting along. Having this in mind, Reddit user @Prolificvisions decided to ask: “Gen Z, what are some trends, ideologies, social things, etc. that millennials did that you're not going to continue?” The question that got 12.4k upvotes got generation Z naming things that they find weird and annoying, such as not having any privacy or choosing a stable job that they don’t like instead of going for their dream. They also named some of the rather funny answers such as getting rid of the fashion of “weird-a** eyebrows.”
If you are Gen Z, what things would you say “bye” to? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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#1
Identity politics. F**king hate it. I don't give a s**t what your skin color is, what your genitals are, or which genitals you want to f**k. I'm just gonna treat you like a person.
Alex the Country Dog 4 years ago (edited)
If only you WOULD treat them like a person. That's the problem. Good for you if you truly treat each person LIKE a person. "Identity politics" are necessary because enough people DON'T treat each person like a person. This whole article so far is getting a little disturbing at what is perceived to be some kind of "injustice" that we need to get rid of, when many of them are, actually, injustices we are working to correct.
Ozymandias73 4 years ago
I get it. Being a black man, I totally understand the fight for equality. But there's a point where it becomes TOO much. I've always treated everybody equal anyway. Doesn't matter what/who you are. But i believe that if the cause is being rammed down everyone's throat hardcore everyday, that impedes the progress of making said cause more acceptable. IMO
Suz66 4 years ago
Exactly, if everyone was treated equally, things would be a lot special.
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Whirl 4 years ago
No sorry, this is still really important. We aren't yet in the ideal society where everyone is equal, and until we get there we need to support minorities and give them a voice. Saying 'I don't care' is just another way of suppressing other people's perspectives, and ensures you remain ignorant to the suffering minority people experience. Everyone needs to check their privilege.
Kines Tezja 4 years ago
Sometimes without an existing label you are lost and not sure who you are. For example - many asexuals have no idea they're not hetero before they learn about asexuality. And it might be unpleasant when you don't understand why your relationships don't work.
William Teach 4 years ago
Identity politics simply separates people, rather than bringing them together
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#2
Dependance on social media. When you take a step back and realize how ridiculous its gotten.
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
Umm...that is definitely a Gen z thing, not a millennial thing. Gen z is the generation that is glued to their phones and obsessed with the "influencer" life
Ivana 4 years ago
IDK, seems like I would have to be on social media enough to notice. Pretty much only use bored panda and messenger so don't see it as a problem. Don't understand the endless criticism of it because it is easy to just not use it.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
F**k social media. It's pathetic that for some people, instagram likes are their only source of validation. Get a life.
Essex Eagle 4 years ago
Yeah but then who would they get all their facts from....books, actual experts, real people .....now that would be a change
Jacob Ross 4 years ago
I only use it for business and sending pictures of my kid to the aunties. I've seen a LOT more social media stuff from Gen Z kids. Tik Tok counts, you know.
#3
I'm hoping to God that this whole 'getting offended on other people's behalf' is not something you guys are continuing.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. You don't get offended on other peoples behalf. You stand up for what is right because it is right.
John Baker 4 years ago
The OP is talking about people who pretend to be offended on behalf of people who are not themselves offended. It's nothing more than virtue signaling, and it's as empty and meaningless as a politician's promises.
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
It is extremely condescending. I hate when I hear/read people talking for disabled people or migrants or whatever without knowing what they are talking about. It always sounds patornizing and insulting; like we arent intelligent enough to speak our minds. From all the people I know in person, the ones who are always offended are pretending to be woke when in reality they are as discriminatory as the bigots they fight.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Exactly. These people make it worse! "You're not disabled, you're differently abled; you can do anything if you put your mind to it!" No. I am disabled. I cannot do what you can do. That's the f*****g point. Erasing my disability just makes it harder for me to conform.
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Viviane 4 years ago
I take this on a case-by-case basis. I'd rather speak up. How I do that depends on the situation, the other person, my mood, etc. I've only had one person double-down, attack my views, and try to convert me to their way of thinking. After a while, I kicked them out of my life; better for my mental health.
von Funnyname 4 years ago
jfc, yes. My elder-millennial in-law caught this from someone and I just don't get it
MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago
as millennial i'd say this is something Z'ers started (or maybe some other letter) because for sure this didn't exist in my days
Viviane 4 years ago (edited)
It sounds as if you grew up in a time when no one complained. As a generation-X/boomer cusp, in my growing-up days, outrage was reserved for gay people, feminists, and Black protesters. Later, immigrants from South Asia were added to the mix. On the other hand, the vice-principal at my high school was free to hug and physically pick up female students.
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Don't Look 4 years ago
It’s almost fun to people get offended for someone else. Case - Britney Spears. Not one single person who protested/commented/verbally stood up for that woman was actually affected by any of the things that happened to her.
Brandon Marlowe 4 years ago
Just because it doesn't affect you personally doesn't mean you shouldn't empathize and support.
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#4
Lip injections.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Nope. They would have been too young to be doing it when it first became popular. This whole list is very weird.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Lip injections are fine, imo, unless you use them to transform your lips into what appears to be a horizontal labia.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Gen Z is bigger on this than any generation before them. Also you can’t see good lip injections, only bad ones. So there’s no way of knowing really.
#5
Giving our kids phones/tablets from a young age
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Adults made unsafe cities where kids cannot play. I was born in 1990 and never could play and explore like you say because of traffic and my parents beijg afraid.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The giving isn't bad. The not teaching them how to be responsible users and using their devices to track them down is bad.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
In our country with our murder rate etc., privacy can get lost. I want to know where my kids are.
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Sorry, A Gen Z said this? Wouldn't they have been given a phone/tablet at a young age by their Millennial or Gen X parent? I mean, I agree. So many people in their early 20s/late teens that I've seen have horrible handwriting because they haven't practiced it enough. I'm not one to talk though. I have atrocious handwriting and I write all the time.
MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago
i don't think it's millennial thing, but i'm millennial without kids who got first mobile at 16
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
Mostly because that when they became affordable and didn't work if you stood next to a tree 😂😂
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Terilee Bruyere 4 years ago
Young kids with learning games (math or reading based) are okay, especially those with learning disorders. The 'nose in your phone while at the dinner table' is just too much.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
Yip, my policy is at the meal table the devices get turned face down.
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WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago (edited)
Y'all act like it's just a blanket negative. Like kids can't learn oceans of things by getting on the internet. Or like if they get on the internet, that must mean they never go outside. Also, phones can = safety. When I was a kid and had no way to contact my parents while out alone, I got into a decent number of situations where a cell phone would have come in REALLY handy.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
Ya know, my 4 yo was just telling me all about black holes the other day. She learns a lot from YouTube kids and it is great for her English skills since I'm her only other source of English.
#6
Weird a** eyebrows
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Show me a decade that doesn't have weird eyebrows!!! Every decade has but we just realise it the next decade when it comes out of fashion
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Agreed. 80s had pencil line thin brows. Well before any millenial was old enough to know they could shape their brows.
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MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
My mom plucked her eyebrows thin when it was all the rage and they never grew back…and she’s Gen X so it’s not just Millennials.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
I dunno, the current fluffy eyebrow trend where you brush them up weirds me out. I suppose they are better than the Nike eyebrows of yester years
Fritz Baumeister 4 years ago
Ugh. Can't stand these horrible penciled-on eyebrows - reminds me of Devine from 'Pink Flamingos'
Alex the Country Dog 4 years ago
Meh. One person's weird is another person's culture, or statement, or...oh...did I mention who gives a f*ck what a person wants to do with their eyebrows?
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Ugh, try telling this to the teenagers in my area/hometown. Stupid eyebrows will forever be a thing now, it seems. Either overplucked or looking like f*****g caterpillars...
#7
Assign stereotypes to people born in certain years.
NsG 4 years ago
Bit why should the next generation be any different to the generations before. Generations have been hating on those that came before and after since before we started assigning trendy labels to them. (Incidentally, what came before the Silent Generation?)
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
And the fact that they really think this is some new "Millennial trend" is freaking hilarious! Boomers were even complaining about the gen before them!! Contempt and stereotyping for the younger and older generations has been around for a LONG time...
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RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
OK, now I know whoever wrote this list did it to troll or as a joke to see who'd notice. This item is the very definition of what this list is.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
I agree but don't get me started on the newest generation. I was in the hospital the other day because a relative was having her baby. And I noticed this newest generation (broadly speaking) can't focus their eyes beyond a few inches, or lift their own heads. And I've been hearing how they don't hold jobs except sometimes in commercials and stuff like that. And they're into stupid things like object non-persistence and simple shiny, colorful objects. And are very much illiterate and don't even speak English properly. What kind of economy will we have with people like that taking over? I'm saying they're going to destroy this country.
L. Giovanni E. G. 4 years ago
This entire post is about assigning stereotypes to people born in certain years AHAHAHAH
Suz66 4 years ago
Thank you. Millennials are blamed for so much, so are baby boomers. I'm Gen X and we don't get blamed for much but people in each generation have certain traits that shouldn't be attacked by others. I'm tired of seeing baby boomers get stereotyped for being computer illerate. The modern computers were made accessible to everyone because of people from Baby Boomer years. My 88 year old mother is very computer literate!!
BigOrangeTractor 4 years ago
In an article named 'Millennial Trends Gen Zers etc etc' MEGA EYEROLL
#8
Saying "gay" to mean stupid/dumb
GlipGlop 4 years ago
This. Even in a very progressive city in California, it was extremely normal to hear growing up in the 90s and I'm ashamed at how long it took me to understand how ignorant and hateful it is. Now I have a visceral reaction when my older siblings say it, and I try to encourage better ways of expressing themselves when I hear it!
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
But this pre-dates millenials by a long way. Doesn't belong on a list with this title.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Nope but we’ll be the last to use it. Gen Z isn’t going to keep it going.
Load More Replies... William Teach 4 years ago
Um, that's been around a heck of a lot longer than Millennials have been alive
Alaska 4 years ago
I'm just tired of people jumping all over me when I call something queer. Look it up in the dictionary, idiots. It's an actual word and its not my fault you're not smart enough to know that. No I'm not being prejudice, it means strange or odd.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
While technically correct, gay also once just meant happy. A bitch is also a female dog. Meanings of words change since living languages aren't static.
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Celeste Grant 4 years ago
Using the word gay to mean happy probably goes back at least 100 years! In fact I'm pretty sure Shakespeare used it in this context and he started writing about 1589! So definitely not a millennial thing and using gay to mean homosexual is much more modern!
Holly Stevens 4 years ago
I feel this has mostly died out. It was big in the 90s/00s high school kind of scene but not really anymore
#9
Collecting user data for advertising purposes.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
They can't use the data that you do not provide. Make it your second nature on social media to lie just about anything and be a pregnant 72 year old female lumberjack working in the Sahara while living in Washington DC with a awfully long daily commute and a craving for pickled herring with pineapple pizza and Budweiser beer.
Kines Tezja 4 years ago
And that's millenials thing, huh? Not, I don't know, corporate thing or something?
BorPand8 4 years ago
Yep. If you're not paying for a product, you are the product.
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 4 years ago
I don't mind this because I prefer to receive relevant adverts. Adverts that are totally irrelevant to me are much more annoying. E.g. I used to get lots of adverts for churches when I didn't let the sites know anything about me. Completely irrelevant and patronising and annoying. Now I put up with a woman doing gym. No idea why it thinks I'm a woman who wants to do gym, but it's better than needing salvation.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It took me YEARS to discover that buried in Google account settings it allows you to disable ads for alcohol! This was lovely to learn, as I do not drink, yet apparently I belong to a demographic group of proficient drinkers.
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Isaac Harvey 4 years ago
It can run ads without needing data. As long as it has ads, it gets revenue.
#10
My parents let me have 0 privacy
Def not continuing that
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
How the heck is this a "millennial trend" though? Overprotective and nosy parents have been around since time eternal....
John Baker 4 years ago
When I was a kid, my room was my domain, and my parents didn't invade it just because they felt like it. Kids need their alone time just as much as adults, and any parent who doesn't respect his/her child's right to privacy is setting a bad example.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I'm a GenXer, and my parents never allowed me privacy either. I made sure to allow my daughter privacy. Children are human beings.
StormWolf 4 years ago
Breaking the cycle of bad parenting is so much tougher than people realise. You soon discover that you had normalised a shít ton of neglectful/abusive actions by your own parents when you have a child of your own and the mere thought of treating them the way you were treated makes you feel physically sick
ZAPanda 4 years ago
The trouble with absolute privacy is kids get sucked into online bullying and pedofiles. I will definitely be checking their phones for this. They can have privacy once they are 14+ and I can explain what a pedo is without it being too awkward.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
And yes, it happens regularly here, especially teachers are sus.
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impact font memes and saying "only 90's kids remember this" are high on the list
Kookamunga 4 years ago
I've never understood the hatred for a particular font. People hate comic sans like it's written in the blood of infants. WTF is that?
NsG 4 years ago
Comic sans is seen as an easy-read font (I believe it was actually invented to help with dyslexia), and therefore associated with children's reading. Which makes it fine for the under-14s section of a library, but not for the important presentation to a board of directors. It's not universal hatred of a font, it's using a font which is deemed "unprofessional" and "childish" in corporate settings. Obviously. (Eye-roll)
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
What's wrong with wanting to feel nostalgic? Is it because you don't know what we're talking about? My mom grew up in the 60s and 70s and when she talks about something she had but I didn't, it doesn't bother me.
Don't Look 4 years ago
The 90s kids had it easier than the 80s kids who had it easier than the 70s kids and from that point previously no one actually cares.
Don't Look 4 years ago
I’m wrong. My dad was a 40s kid and while we might not seem like we care, we only evolved to where we are because they had it so difficult.
Load More Replies... Don't Look 4 years ago
If the w generation is boomers and the z generation is zoomers, maybe the millennials ought to be yoomers and x xoomers.
Load More Replies... #12
Looking at generations differently.
No ones gives a damn f--k about which generation you belong, just be nice.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I think there is some value at looking at the big picture. People born between two dates will share similar social? Cultural, pressures that will shape them as they grow. It's interesting how those effects can be passed down to the next generation and so forth. For example how did growing up during the second world war affect people and their values. Did those mentalities stick? How did it effect raising their own kids in the 70s? How did the 60s affect those kids? What changed and stayed with them when they were having kids in the new millennium. How did the new technology and media effect those kids. Etc. BUT blanket statements are always wrong such as millennials are lazy and selfish. Perhaps there are some who fit that description but people are complex and don't fit neatly in boxes
Nadja Brandys 4 years ago
isn't this entire article putting labels and stereotypes based solely on what generation we are?! Practice what you preach maybe.
Sam Chilton 4 years ago
Language is an art, another form of expressing emotion.
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Work for money, not for passion.
I know it’s depressing but recently a lot of younger millennials were talking about how they want to do something they like. My coach is getting a PhD in history, My economics teacher is going to Law School because she doesn’t make enough etc. and I just can’t think of a reason to justify that much debt. Basically they’re putting themselves in tons of debt to make enough money in something they enjoy. I can’t see a reason to justify it enough. I just want to find a field I’m GOOD at and don’t hate.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Well, there are countries where you can do these things without going into unbearable debt!
AliJanx 4 years ago
Boomer here. I somehow landed in a field I'm good enough in and don't hate. Not miserable, work 40-50 hours per week-depending, have most weekends off, can take vacations and holidays. The pay is good. My peers are fun. The secret: find a good company with good benefits, good culture, good peers, good enough manager and good enough pay. Build up experience in every job so you can take your skills with you when you go, if things change. Let your hobbies be your passions. Be open to figuring it out - not all of us know/knew what we wanted to be when we grew up and we somehow landed where we should have.
H Edwards 4 years ago
My mother was a hippy boomer. Loved her to pieces but the worst advice she ever instilled in me was that money is not important.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Oe that if you work hard enough you would get your dream job. F*****g lies.
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Helen Haley 4 years ago
Everyone wants a field they're good at and don't hate. The problem is, the vast majority of the time you start out with that and slowly slip into hatred as you realize that almost all jobs suck, you'll always be seen as a peon, and enough pay to live on is a dream.
Kookamunga 4 years ago
Yup - wanted to do all sort of of things I love in my 20s that weren't feasible financially. An actress, a dancer, a photographer, a platypus groomer! But then I decided I liked money more, and chose a more lucrative career - which enables me to live with a roof, heat, water and food, all that good stuff. The things I loved are now my hobbies.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I agree. Most people seem to think that if you dont follow your pasisons professionally you are abandoning them. No, make them your hobby. You like animals? Dont study zoology, volunteer once or twice a month at the dog shelter.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Only in the USA, though. In other countries it's perfectly possible to make a career switch without going bust on tuition fees.
Maria 4 years ago
Somewhat. It does depend on what you're moving from and to.
Load More Replies... Otter 4 years ago
That's not new, that's been a constant since humans were able to choose careers for themselves and not just accept whatever role their family gave them. There have always been those who chose money as a primary goal, others who chose personal satisfaction, or who wished to help others. Fashions in career goals change, but wanting satisfaction more than big bucks has always been around.
Jess Thompson 4 years ago
Never. I’d rather die than bury myself in a life where my sole purpose is survival. “Making enough” is not a good reason to spend the best hours of my day doing something I hate.
John Baker 4 years ago
I quickly realized when I was young that having a roof over my head and food on the table were more important than loving my job.
#14
cancel culture
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
WTF do you think this entire article is about?! Canceling others and their habits.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
No. That’s not what cancellation is. There is no cancel culture. Just people like you who call any form of criticism “cancelling”, getting it all wrong because you weren’t part of the culture that started using the phrase to begin with.
Load More Replies... Helen Haley 4 years ago
It is virtual protesting/boycotting. Those have been going on since the dawn of civilization.
Vera1 4 years ago
Cancel Culture has been alive for much longer than millennials have. Anyone remembers how punks (especially the Sex Pistols) were treated by the media?
BorPand8 4 years ago
Or what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they dared speak out against George Bush Jr and the 2nd Iraq war?
Load More Replies... L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
Cancel culture doesn't exist. It's just another right-wing buzzword for conservatives with a victim complex.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Exactly this. None of these people can name more than five people who have been truly cancelled like Bill Cosby and Paula Deen.
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 4 years ago
cancel culture has existed since ancient greece. Google "ostrakon pottery shards"
Gavin Johnson 4 years ago
Exactly. Culture IS cancel culture. Don’t like a product, person, artist, way of thinking, type of political movement? Don’t give it the oxygen of publicity or engage with it. If it is meant to die or disappear then it will. Capitalism will help too, if a product or artist isn’t selling then they’ll fall by the wayside.
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Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
Nope. Everyone agrees some views are beyond the pale in civilized society. It's just a matter of which ones.
Suz66 4 years ago
Calling out an adult for something they said when they were a teenager is extreme example. They aren't able to move beyond past because they are cancelled for it.People grow up, people evolve, become different people. They aren't given any credit or possibly they are changed people. People make mistakes, especially as teens. Even law enforcement gives them more credit for change.
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Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
The whole term should be cancelled. It is another B.S. way to label something because people don't want to understand complexity in certain issues. The label still means you don't have a clue about anything you are talking about.
WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
I agree that in certain instances it can go too far or be unproductive. But a lot of s**t needed to be cancelled, if we're honest. Too many people not held accountable for their actions for far too long.
#15
Man bun hairstyle
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
Agreed. And there were PLENTY of man-buns in the 1970's...so the fact that they consider this a millennial thing is ridiculous.
Load More Replies... James Doe 4 years ago
What about giving others the freedom to do what they want as long as it doesn't restrict the freedom of others?
Queen Amethyst 4 years ago
Including the right to have a sense of humour!
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
I don’t really like a man bun, but it’s a hell of a lot better than powdered wigs, which used to be fashionable.
Sam Chilton 4 years ago
Depends on the hair. I have long hair for a guy and work with my hands, so it needs tying back or I have to wear a beanie etc. It's form and function, like everything should be.
Lillukka79 4 years ago
This. I have long hair and am a machinist. A bun is a must for me, and it would be for any long haired man.
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#16
Buzzfeed.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Buzzfeed and BP are similar kinds of sites. Also, Buzzfeed does real journalism as well - some of their stories have been very important and they have won awards for investigative journalism. The clickbait Kardashian stuff just pays the bills.
rumade 4 years ago
Buzzfeed News was really good but they tried to unionise (at least the UK division) and were crushed. Nowadays the whole site is shopping lists.
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Deja Katz 4 years ago
So is bp. Opinions are downvoted to hell if they don’t echo the echo chamber
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#17
Not letting the kids have opinion
Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 4 years ago
Or not letting kids get involved with 'adult' things even when it effects them too. (thanks mum)
Lightningstar 4 years ago
Or making kids get too involved in adult things, like dumping all your problems on them
Load More Replies... littlesaresare 4 years ago
This is hardly a millenial invention. People have been treating children like unfeeling objects for eons.
#18
I say this as a "millennial" (though must point out the lines between the two are blurred aren't they?) -
Facebook
I have friends also in their early 30s who had kids young. In high school now, teenagers. NONE of that age group use Facebook. It's an "old person's thing" to them. Though being 12/13 it is invariably described as "gay", but you get my point.
As someone who works in the music industry, we plough literally millions (collectively) into Facebook ads each year. But within the next few years it will no longer be our primary social media target.
Which is a shame, because as one of the first and most established social media platforms, it has great advertising tools.
Question everything 4 years ago
All people have to do is unfriend those they don't want to share stuff with or know anything about, and change the privacy settings. I live 1000km from my parents (and other family), it's an easy way to share pics with more than 1 person at a time. FB market is free to use etc. It's not only fb that collects data either.
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Shane S 4 years ago
I don’t think tiktok is that much better. So many people are trying to get famous with staged videos and stealing and rebranding other creators’ content. There’s literally a woman that just lipsyncs to male comedians doing their set. Why is that a thing?! And before someone jumps on me, my significant other is a tiktok user so that’s how I know all this.
Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
It is not FB that makes the posts on FB. It DOES have a lot of issues but maybe we should stop blaming social media for PEOPLE acting like d***s and start working on making people better.
L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
Things have always come and gone -- the younger generation will shun what came before because once your mom's doing something, it's obviously no longer cool (insert current slang for cool.)
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
I live 1250 miles away from most of my family & friends - I love Facebook.
WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
I dunno why people harp on this so much. Things come into fashion, they go out of fashion. It's hardly surprising that something like a website would eventually become obsolete. Sure, it's an "old people thing" now, but why should I give a s**t? It's the main channel I use to stay in touch with friends and family because I'm a huge introvert who never wants to leave my house. I couldn't give a f**k less whether it's still considered "cool" or not.
#19
An organic lifestyle seems expensive and kind of dumb. Organic life style meaning buying food that is significantly more expensive but has an organic label on it.
ephemeral_mochi 4 years ago
if you don't want chemicals in your food don't eat food because everything is made of chemicals when you really think about it
Bill Puka 4 years ago
Is this a joke? Or the dumbest thing one can say. POisons are made of chemicals, and so is broccoli. There's a big difference in how they affect the body when consumed. Watch what they spray on broccoli to kill pests, read what those sprays are made of, what they do, and you'll know why you must NOT get that inside you.
Load More Replies... Ryan-James O'Driscoll 4 years ago
Organic food is a con designed to capitalise on people's fear of "chemicals" and their uninformed environmentalism. The alternative to irresponsible non-organic farming is not organic farming. It is responsible farming.
James Doe 4 years ago
There are plenty of people who understand that organic food might not be necessarily healthier for themselves, but it's is usually much better for the environment (no monoculture, loosing some crops to keep insects alive,...) but especially for the people working with it. Easiest example for that are bananas: absolutely identical on the inside,but massively toxic for the farmers if not organic..
Reynard 4 years ago
Organic is not completely better for the environment. There have been some studies on it and it's actually quite complicated. There are instances where it is better, where it's no better and where it's worse: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/07/09/organic-vs-conventional-farming-lower-environmental-impact/
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
This. It is sad how most eco brands abuse their prices. Being green is nowadays only for the privileged. I would never be able to afford buying in bio supermarkets. I try to eat bio meat eggs and milk; but i will never afford the rest of products just because they make them overpriced. I tried to buy a deodorant with a cardboard package and they were 9 euros the piece!
Something 4 years ago
Actually, the pesticides used in mainstream farming might have significant drawbacks, but so do some of the organic pesticides used in organic farming. The other option is to grow produce without pesticides, weed aggressively, and put a positive spin on the insects (protein bonuses).
Reynard 4 years ago
So much this. A lot of people think that organic means that there are no pesticides involved in growing it, when in fact there certainly is. It's just that the pesticides have to be naturally occuring, some of which, like copper-sulfate, Rotenone, and nicotine are all approved for organic farming, but are highly toxic in just small amounts.
Load More Replies... BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
I always found the organic craze stupid. I also happened to have a garden, as did my grandpa. Did our veggies and fruits taste better? Yes. Only because we picked them right when they were ripe, not early so they could be shipped. Waste of money for a $5 tomato!
Jacked Fruit 4 years ago
You do realize that everyone in impoverished India eats organic food, right?
DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
I think the real line is between mass produced or home grown. I prefer to plant stuff in my home garden...still GMO seeds but I can control the use of pesticides etc.
#20
I think self deprivation humor is dying and I think millennials started it.
Like it’s seriously getting old when people say they are depressed as a joke.
von Funnyname 4 years ago
self deprivation? I mean, I suck and all, but pretty sure deprecation was the word we're looking for. What do I know, I just work here...
Kookamunga 4 years ago
Sense of humor in general is lacking - if I cannot make fun of myself and others, I don't wanna live.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
You're not even allowed to make fun of yourself because that could hurt someone who is like you... Sorry, but I'm unique so you're offending me.
L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
Is this supposed to be self-deprecating humor? Self-deprivation humor makes no sense.
#21
Being nerdy will no longer be a negative aspect
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
It never was, they just got bullied by idiots who where too stupid to study so they called skilled people nerds like it was a negative thing.
StormWolf 4 years ago (edited)
Again, that started a while ago. Personal opinion: When RPG like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering gained popularity starting in the 80s, it exploded into mainstream in the 90s, when the "cool kids" started playing. (The whole ridiculous Satanic Scare related to D&D just made it that much more appealing to teens, duh) That was a huge turning point for geek culture, of which I'm a card-carrying member 🙋. Then the boom in the computer industry meant that the best paying jobs were now tailor-made for nerds. Heck, I'm sure even Jeff "I'd rather literally throw my money into the void of space than pay my workers a living wage" Bezos feels humbled when he has to call IT Support. More women are saying that intelligence is very high on their list of things that make them hot... Most men of 2021 are confident enough in their masculinity to prefer brainy partners who can hold their own, intellectually. TL;DR: Being nerdy hasn't really been a very negative aspect for decades
Sam Chilton 4 years ago
Once you get out of school, being a nerd can be a great thing, or not. Depends on the situation. Same with everything.
Jess Thompson 4 years ago
I never saw it as negative. Insecure people saw it as negative, but they were the ones everyone secretly knew were lame and let them have their moment because it’s all over when school ends buddy.
DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
I don't think it's a negative aspect since we've got so many conventions and groups to represent this demographic...it's people who didn't understand or the select few jerks who made it into the groups that create a negative stereotype.
#22
Smoking.
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Millennials didn't start this, kiddo. Not even your great grandparents started it. So get a Ouija board if you wanna call someone out.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I saw a pejorative for it the other day that was entertaining, viz d0uche-flute.
Load More Replies... Jess Thompson 4 years ago
Counterattack: vaping. My little sis has fluid in her lungs now. She looks insanely awesome tho so
DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
Smoking is millennial? Really? If you want to say vaping...sure...but I don't remember us being the ones on horse back craving cigarettes in all those ads.
Alison O'Connor 4 years ago
ya this one is silly, smoking is not a thing that millennials started and there are more boomers than millennials smoking if you want to go into that
Michael Payne 4 years ago
Smoking is bad for you but it's your choice as long as you respect others right not smoke.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
We didn't start this but yes, let's stop smoking. It is so flipping stupid!!
#23
Thinking the world is going to end at the turn of a new generation
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Every generation was sure that the next generation would destroy the world. Now we're at the point that we know that the next generation will have to deal with what we are destroying right now. And our world leaders do not care about the generations to come.
Jess Thompson 4 years ago (edited)
It’s not going to end at the turn of a new generation, it is and always has been “ending”. I agree that the blame should not be put on new generations (they’re the least to blame because they are the newest product of and educated by the past generations) but we can’t turn a blind eye that we are collectively destroying earth.
#24
The Skrillex cut I’m hoping it will be seen as the mullet 2.0 that it is before too long.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Again. Lets leave people alone with their own style. Its not hurtning anybody.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Depending on the style, i agree. I may not like it, but it's yours, so whatevs. But it comes to a point where it is harming somebody- it's hurting my eyes 🙈😱👀
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DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
This is down to personal preference...I can't pull this off in a million years but there are people who look super cool with it. Let them do it if that's what they want.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
My bestie looks so cool and sexy when she cut her hair like that. Not something I could pull off but it looked fantastic on her.
Jelena Putinja 4 years ago
I wanted to wear that in '90s but I would been expelled - I wear it now and I love it
Ozymandias73 4 years ago
I don't personally like it but hey, not my hair or head so not my concern. Move on, keep the negative thoughts inside. To each their own.
#25
Make fun of kids that play fortnite, like seriously just let kids have fun
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I don't make fun of those who play it, I just make fun of the actual game because it really is awful.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
That's why we make fun of people clinging to guns and muscle cars to prove how adult they are.
Mathew Aaberg 4 years ago
I love Fortnight, it keeps the Toxic 10yo's out of the games I like to play... So its just the salty and toxic adults instead. But at least the shrieking of "go kill yourself" isnt shrill.
DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
This is in direct contrast to some other points here but points out what should have been the main theme "let people have fun".
#26
Making fun of the teenagers of the nest generation and gatekeeping mental illnesses
GlipGlop 4 years ago
Unless they're labeling a generation after a video doorbell, pretty sure it's a typo
Load More Replies... Ryan-James O'Driscoll 4 years ago
You'll make fun of the next generation of teenagers too. You're not any different, you just don't know it yet.
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Making fun of teenagers happens every generation, kid. And it will probably always happen.
#27
Getting a degree in art history and wondering why I’m not employed
Helen Haley 4 years ago
We will soon live in a colorless world void of the things that make life worth living, because it isn't something that can pay. I find that utterly sad.
John Baker 4 years ago
You can't eat a painting. And that isn't true anyway. Art isn't going to die because of fewer "art historians."
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
i just hope more kids get into boilermaking, carpentry and other trades.
John Baker 4 years ago (edited)
Absolutely. I'd be more worried about a shortage in those fields, to name a few, than a shortage of artists. Tradesmen, craftsmen, builders, fixers.. The problem is kids these days think those kinds of jobs are beneath them. They think a minor degree in something ending in "arts" or "studies" from their local community college entitles them to a $250K a year job before the ink on the diploma dries.
Load More Replies... Ivana 4 years ago
You know what out lasts social media, corporations, and technology? Art. So perhaps the issue is how we value things because a degree in art history has value, it is just not compensated accordingly. Also, you can get a degree in just about anything and find a job regardless. Art history major? Get a job in administration easy because they only care that you have a degree period. Our director for human research has her PhD in philosophy. Guy that runs half of the medical center has his PhD in agriculture.
John Baker 4 years ago
And you sound like an idiot. "Boomers" aren't the ones who think a degree in flower arranging and basket weaving entitles us to a $500K a year job.
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 4 years ago
didn't churchill say something about ... why are we fighting the nazis if not to save british art (culture)?
Angelar 4 years ago
I found this very interesting and looked it up.. He didn't
Load More Replies... WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
This is such horseshit. Get a degree in whatever you want, just have a plan for actually being employed in that field. You can get a job with an art history degree FFS. Quit shitting on the arts to feel superior.
L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
Degrees aren't necessarily training programs or trade schools. You can get a degree in art history and still work in another field.
#28
Born in '98, so I don't know which side of the debate I'm on (personally, I think millenial = pre-2000, so I think I'm a millenial).
Cable television. I really think making TV for streaming services is where we should end up.
Adam Belaire 4 years ago
The problem is the streaming service is now becoming the new cable TV. You want NCIS? Only on the NBC stream. Marvel Movie? Oh that's only on Disney. Witcher? Netflix. You want to watch all the shows you want, you need to have a dozen streaming services which cost just as much as cable TV.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Streaming services is kinda what cable used to be. Pay for no ads.
Don't Look 4 years ago
Well, you’d have to go after the billions made by the entertainment industry on that one. And it sure as hell ain’t a millennial thing.
Bobby 4 years ago
Cable/satellite as it currently stands will end. But, in the US at least, there are regulations on them that don't apply to streaming services. This easily adds $10 to $15 to your bill that isn't required on streaming, but that will change. Also people have been asking for a la carte cable for a while, but if you look at the cost of streaming services that are coming out for what was previously just "one channel" you'll see that the average cost is 5-15 per service. you get 10 "channels" and you're looking at a bill close to cable. I think cable companies will start managing your streaming services and getting you discounts when you bundle certain ones through them... and then we're looking at the exact same industry with a different delivery method
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Not true. Streaming services are commercial who'll tell you anything that the best paying party is telling them to tell you. "This is the news sponsored by the GOP: In another blatant attempt to destroy our freedom, the Democrats just proposed to ban abortion and limit the possession of fire arms."
#29
I'm a millenial but my cousin is Gen Z and when we hang out she refuses to watch Star Trek. So based on a sample size of one, Gen Z is going to kill the Star Trek franchise.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Nothing will kill Star Trek. Its impact can't be underestimated, especially the way in which it used fictional storytelling to comment on social issues.
Lara Verne 4 years ago (edited)
Which is nonsense, because many people, both millennials and Gen Z love Star Trek. And I don't mean just J. J. Abrams movies.
Paizleypie 4 years ago
Nope. My "Gen Z" kids (and I) are CRAZY about Star Trek. It spans ALL generations because it's that good!
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
That’s because current Star Trek is embarrassingly bad garbage. The old ones are good. Just like sitcoms. It’s a lost art form.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Nobody watches Le Voyage dans la Lune anymore, but it still exists in pop culture.
von Funnyname 4 years ago
Tell her you hate it -- worked with the millennial hipsters, might work for GenZ too
phoenix crystalite 4 years ago
I’m not allowed to watch it but have seen bits of it STAR TREK IS SO GOOD
Enby.Minecraft.Bee. 4 years ago
One Gen Z doesn't like it so none of the others will? Alright that makes sense...in a way. I think
LeilaOdinis 4 years ago
It's more a preference for what YOU like. My mum is a Trekkie, she introduced me to both Star Wars and Star Trek. I prefer Star Wars over Star Trek. Those two franchises have their own styles and longevity
#30
Drinking ipa beer, thats a no go from me
Sam Chilton 4 years ago
Indian Pale Ale, or IPA, contains a lot of hops because they preserved the beer. We don't tend to eat overly salted meat anymore because we have refrigeration, so things like this will probably phase out due to technical advances. What you are complaining about are hipsters and their taste in non-mainstream things.
Jacob Ross 4 years ago
Agree. This one is on us and the young Gen-Xers. For that, I apologize.
#31
Top-sheets. I’ve never seen the point in those
rumade 4 years ago
This is an American thing not a millennial thing. In Europe we use duvets and change and wash the duvet cover.
AliJanx 4 years ago
But if you have a top sheet under the duvet, then you don't need to wash the duvet as often. 🧐
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Samantha Becker 4 years ago
The topsheet just feels so much better than against my skin than a blanket. The topsheet will never die in my house.
Alex the Country Dog 4 years ago
As someone who lived for years overseas where they use duvet covers, don't EVEN come at me with duvet covers as a defense of no top sheets. You have no idea (really, actually you have NO idea if you haven't lived in places where we use top sheets to make your comparison.) Top sheets are still WAY better than those pain-in-the-a**e duvet covers to wash/change out. I LOVE using duvet covers so that I don't have to wash my blankets nearly as often, but they should not replace the top sheet. Yes, this is the hill I will die on...top sheets! ;-)
Angelar 4 years ago
I'm an European convert to the top sheet and you have my full support. Pls. don't die - let's live in luxury :)
Load More Replies... GlipGlop 4 years ago
You tend to sweat and lose skin cells from all areas of your body, not just the side that is touching the bottom sheet... top sheets are easier to wash than a thicker blanket. Also top sheets let you have the comfort of fabric covering you with less heat retained than a comforter, if you run hot at night like I do
John Purves 4 years ago
Totally agree with Cave Dog. What kind of filthy animal doesn't use a top sheet?
#32
Early 2000 fashion, hot dog that was bad. I want anyone who contributed to that to cry over their mistakes.
Dead Rat 4 years ago
1970s would like to thank you for letting them off the hook
Load More Replies... Pezor Zass 4 years ago
fashion is looking great when viewed from the present and looking like an idiot when viewed from any other point in history
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
You'll do it again, and you know it. I've lost count of how many times I've seen old fashions made new again: bell bottoms, platform shoes, heavy mascara and eyeliner, skinny jeans, miniskirts, and on and on. Every generation thinks it invented fashion.
Jess Thompson 4 years ago (edited)
It’s coming back. STRONG. Flares? Low rise will be next. Crop tops, mullets, will we see the scary thin eyebrows again?
Robert Bailey 4 years ago
The Jordache and Members Only jacket are joking about the bell-bottom jumpsuits. Or maybe it's any fashion that's 10-20 years old.
#33
Not knowing how to invest and losing like 10% of your wealth every year.
#34
Based on the surveys I've seen, Gen Z apparently thinks millennials are complaining about nothing in regard to the economy. Benefit of not graduating right as the economy crashed, I guess. See a lot of them refusing to vote, too.
this is what I get for not updating my data. 30% of eligible Gen Z voters turned out for the 2018 midterms, which is far better than I expected. My bad.
#35
Avocado toast
Vivian Orr 4 years ago (edited)
To me this trend is hilarious 😆 I’m 70 and my Grandma had an avocado tree. I’ve been having avocado toast for at least 65 years. SMH
Alison O'Connor 4 years ago
not something millennials started, dont remember eating this when I was a teenager in the 00's no one ate this !!!!!
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I didn't know this was fashionable, but we have a country next door that farms them easily due to monsoon weather and sell them dirt cheap on the roadside. (Mozambique).
Auntriarch 4 years ago
I grew up in Swaziland in the late 60s, when I came back to UK avocados were rare and expensive. So I mashed them on toast to eke them out. Half a century ago.
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wearing scarfs all year round
rumade 4 years ago
What's wrong with this? People have been wearing silk scarves and cotton bandanas in summer for hundreds of years. They keep the sun off your neck.
Alison O'Connor 4 years ago
I am 100% with you I dont wear them all the time but that fashion has been around for 100's of years!
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Being social
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Don't see why being social should be discontinued. People are a social species who can suffer from loneliness. If you want a society where dead people behind closed doors become the norm, you should definitely ban being social.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I'm sorry but we are the generation that went from talking to friends' parents on the home phone to don't call me unless you are dying!!
NoneYa41 4 years ago
We are...but we're probably also better off if some of them just stay sealed in their homes and never come out.
Load More Replies... Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Nah fam, don't you group the whole generation because of the one moron who said this.
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Pezor Zass 4 years ago
Almost none of these are things that Millennials actually started. History goes back more than 20 years, folks
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
I only got to No.14 before I couldn't take the stupidity of this list anymore. I think it was put together by people who weren't born before millennial times so have no idea that most of these things were all ready happening in the 80s or earlier - so before millennials were even born. And the one that says "Assign stereotypes to people born in certain years", when this whole post is just that. :-D
Load More Replies... Ian Kelly 4 years ago
Half of these weren’t started by millennials, like smoking? How is that millennials fault
NsG 4 years ago
It's Millenials fault that they didn't put a complete stop to it, obviously /s
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Kat Sotiriou 4 years ago
im so confused by a lot of these? like wearing a scarf all year round??? seriously who cares??? do what makes you happy and feel good
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
They have that and eyebrows then turn around and say stop judging people that were born in a different time than you. SMH.
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J Robertson 4 years ago
Uhhhh....as a GenX, 90% of these aren't Millennial things. Some aren't even GenX, some May even be older than Boomers.
Tom Hanlin 4 years ago
Maybe we could get away from the whole imaginary "Gen Whatever" nonsense and start focusing on real things like, y'know, why Libras hate Leos and those awful people with RH-negative blood types.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
As someone with AB-, I can confirm that we are awful. I procreate with a positive blood type so I've done my part to end my negative lineage
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Rens 4 years ago
Veganism being treated like a religion and a cult. I don't care what you eat just leave me alone.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
Almost none of these are things that Millennials actually started. History goes back more than 20 years, folks
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
I only got to No.14 before I couldn't take the stupidity of this list anymore. I think it was put together by people who weren't born before millennial times so have no idea that most of these things were all ready happening in the 80s or earlier - so before millennials were even born. And the one that says "Assign stereotypes to people born in certain years", when this whole post is just that. :-D
Load More Replies... Ian Kelly 4 years ago
Half of these weren’t started by millennials, like smoking? How is that millennials fault
NsG 4 years ago
It's Millenials fault that they didn't put a complete stop to it, obviously /s
Load More Replies... Kat Sotiriou 4 years ago
im so confused by a lot of these? like wearing a scarf all year round??? seriously who cares??? do what makes you happy and feel good
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
They have that and eyebrows then turn around and say stop judging people that were born in a different time than you. SMH.
Load More Replies... J Robertson 4 years ago
Uhhhh....as a GenX, 90% of these aren't Millennial things. Some aren't even GenX, some May even be older than Boomers.
Tom Hanlin 4 years ago
Maybe we could get away from the whole imaginary "Gen Whatever" nonsense and start focusing on real things like, y'know, why Libras hate Leos and those awful people with RH-negative blood types.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
As someone with AB-, I can confirm that we are awful. I procreate with a positive blood type so I've done my part to end my negative lineage
Load More Replies... Rens 4 years ago
Veganism being treated like a religion and a cult. I don't care what you eat just leave me alone.
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