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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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.
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.
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
Exactly, if everyone was treated equally, things would be a lot special.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Identity politics simply separates people, rather than bringing them together
I agree. With a good intention our society is really giving too much importance to skin colour, sexuality and gender. We are all equal; I dont need to share my looks or my pronouns for you to know how to treat me. We need to shift to a more egalitarian society and puting enphasis in our differences is not the way. Like dont add X to the gender in the IDs, remove the gender altogether; nobody that needs to see my id needs to know my gender. And only my doctor and sexual partner needs to know my sex.
While it's important to treat people equally, it's also important to understand that not all experiences are equal. It's still important to recognize marginalized peoples and acknowledge differences because that's how we can address inequality in societal constructs and confront our own privileges
Oh yes, would love to go back to color-blind racism and ignoring the struggles that others endure based on their race, gender, and religion. Identity politics is realizing we are not all equal, that we do not all face the same struggles, and some of us have inherent privilege that others do not. I am white but I can look at the black community, hear what they are saying and find it in me to agree that they suffer a far greater level of injustice in our current justice system. Not really hard to care about others.
Gen X says this about millennials? I'm a millennial and always thought like this. However, respect is always earned. I'll treat you like a person, but that respect will go up or down depending on you.
Most of the time I hear this whinge, I don't believe the person genuinely treats every other person as a person. They just want to go back to the good ol' days when they didn't have to worry about that sort of thing
"I'm just going to treat you like a person". I think this person doesn't realize that in the US gay people were granted the right to marry each other less than 10 years ago, and that many people still want that taken away.
Gen Z Gen X millennials boomers? When are you people going to stop with this? Also most of your music sucks.
Every time someone says "I don't give a s**t what your _________ is" all I hear is "I've never experienced oppression first-hand based on something I can't control." Identity politics is a thing because people were being treated like s**t for just being themselves. And still are.
Even if I did care it is far too much work to find out who is what and why and how.
Then that makes you a liberal in the US -- and that's why we fight so hard to fight against conservatives, who are racist, xenophobic, religious bigots who thing that only straight, cis, white, conservative, Christian men should have any (and all) rights.
Wow, you just stereotyped so many people in this comment. It's like nobody is treated as an individual, they have to be labeled, then hate is okay!
Load More Replies...Dependance on social media. When you take a step back and realize how ridiculous its gotten.
I'm hoping to God that this whole 'getting offended on other people's behalf' is not something you guys are continuing.
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.
Saying "gay" to mean stupid/dumb
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!
Collecting user data for advertising purposes.
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.
impact font memes and saying "only 90's kids remember this" are high on the list
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?
Looking at generations differently.
No ones gives a damn f--k about which generation you belong, just be nice.
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.
cancel culture
WTF do you think this entire article is about?! Canceling others and their habits.
Not letting the kids have opinion
Or not letting kids get involved with 'adult' things even when it effects them too. (thanks mum)
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
Being nerdy will no longer be a negative aspect
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.
Thinking the world is going to end at the turn of a new generation
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.
The Skrillex cut I’m hoping it will be seen as the mullet 2.0 that it is before too long.
Make fun of kids that play fortnite, like seriously just let kids have fun
I don't make fun of those who play it, I just make fun of the actual game because it really is awful.
Making fun of the teenagers of the nest generation and gatekeeping mental illnesses
Getting a degree in art history and wondering why I’m not employed
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top-sheets. I’ve never seen the point in those
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Almost none of these are things that Millennials actually started. History goes back more than 20 years, folks
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...Half of these weren’t started by millennials, like smoking? How is that millennials fault
It's Millenials fault that they didn't put a complete stop to it, obviously /s
Load More Replies...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
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...Uhhhh....as a GenX, 90% of these aren't Millennial things. Some aren't even GenX, some May even be older than Boomers.
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.
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...Veganism being treated like a religion and a cult. I don't care what you eat just leave me alone.
Nobody has ever bothered you. And it’s okay for someone to explain why your position is wrong. That has nothing to do with worshipping anyone like in a cult, you’re just dumb as fûck and probably can’t sort out your guilt in an intellectual way.
Load More Replies...That's just as bad a generalisation as this whole post. Can we just accept that every generation makes its share of mistakes and has a fair share of stupid people? Many of whom contributed ideas to this post.
Load More Replies...As others have mentioned, I don't feel like those who created/contributed to this list understood the assignment. Almost none of these were 'Millennial trends', and many are REALLY old habits/behaviors/memes, like smoking. Also, a lot are really petty, personal style things, and others are things which are already NOT trends. I worry for the future sometimes.
Sure we have a lot of debt but at least we got educated enough in history to know that most of the items here date back to oh, the dawn of human existence? lol
I thought y'all were big on 'let people do what they want as long as it makes them happy and not hurting other peopl'. What is this then haha
Influencers who do nothing but take pictures of themselves and expect everything for nothing.
Better than being a literal child. Nothing is cornier than that.
Load More Replies...Almost none of these are things that Millennials actually started. History goes back more than 20 years, folks
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...Half of these weren’t started by millennials, like smoking? How is that millennials fault
It's Millenials fault that they didn't put a complete stop to it, obviously /s
Load More Replies...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
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...Uhhhh....as a GenX, 90% of these aren't Millennial things. Some aren't even GenX, some May even be older than Boomers.
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.
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...Veganism being treated like a religion and a cult. I don't care what you eat just leave me alone.
Nobody has ever bothered you. And it’s okay for someone to explain why your position is wrong. That has nothing to do with worshipping anyone like in a cult, you’re just dumb as fûck and probably can’t sort out your guilt in an intellectual way.
Load More Replies...That's just as bad a generalisation as this whole post. Can we just accept that every generation makes its share of mistakes and has a fair share of stupid people? Many of whom contributed ideas to this post.
Load More Replies...As others have mentioned, I don't feel like those who created/contributed to this list understood the assignment. Almost none of these were 'Millennial trends', and many are REALLY old habits/behaviors/memes, like smoking. Also, a lot are really petty, personal style things, and others are things which are already NOT trends. I worry for the future sometimes.
Sure we have a lot of debt but at least we got educated enough in history to know that most of the items here date back to oh, the dawn of human existence? lol
I thought y'all were big on 'let people do what they want as long as it makes them happy and not hurting other peopl'. What is this then haha
Influencers who do nothing but take pictures of themselves and expect everything for nothing.
Better than being a literal child. Nothing is cornier than that.
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