Prepare yourselves for mass levels of cringe that are bound to send you spiraling deep into face-palm territory, dear Pandas. In my personal experience, there are very few things that are more cringeworthy (and deeply, deeply sad on a cosmic level) than seeing someone desperately trying to fit in with the younger crowd. They might think they’re hip, but they might actually need a hip replacement. “How do you do, fellow kids,” indeed.
It’s not just your neighbors, teachers, and professors, though. It’s entire companies, corporations, and conglomerates that try to appeal to the youngest generations by using their vernacular (read: slang), too. This, however, can backfire gloriously because it’s anything but natural and sometimes you can’t even get to grips with what’s going on. Imagine your grandparents shouting ‘YOLO’ and then doing the Backpack Kid’s dance moves—it’s that level of ‘oh Lord no, no, no, please stop.’
What’s even better is that there’s an entire subreddit, r/FellowKids, dedicated to documenting and cataloging the very worst transgressors who try to be cool. Check out the best pics below, upvote the ones that made your inner child groan in embarrassment, and be careful so you don’t overdose on the cringe.
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Finally Found A Friend
I Believe This Belongs Here
Rent-Free
Ohhh corporate burn. To heck with both of them I’m all about Barbara’s cheese puffs. Those things are hateful because they’re made with real cheese and they taste delicious. Don’t start and if you do don’t be coming back here and giving me grief about it!!! If you do come back here and give me grief about it I will take full responsibility though
I’m not even going to pretend that I ‘get’ the newest couple of generations. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I try to stay as up-to-date with what’s new as I can and I absolutely love watching how memes and their formats evolve over the years, but that’s not enough.
I’ve reached a point where I know that I won’t be able to get everything. And that’s perfectly all right—every single generation goes through this sense of alienation and isolation as it grows older. We think the world’s changing too fast/for the worse while the youngsters are complaining that we’re not cool.
Actually Not Too Bad?
For The Youths
Only Fools Rush In Blind To Join A Trending Hashtag
OMG that's brilliant. What a bunch of total wagon-jumpers. Jesus H. Candlesticks that was someone's career-ending move.
So while I’ll shamelessly steal ‘sus,’ ‘flex,’ and ‘yeet,’ you can bet your bottom dollar that I’ll steer clear of the likes of ‘skrt,’ ‘kiki,’ and (probably the very worst offender) ‘bae.’ Why? Because I don’t get them. And pretending otherwise would be to behave exactly like the people making you laugh in this very list.
Besides, I’d much rather be old-fashioned and eccentric in my own way than desperate to fit in. I like who I am, I don’t need to pretend to be a teenager. But, damn it, ‘yeet’ is just a fantastic word, isn’t it?
Just An All Round Cringe
An Actually Good Attempt
Swedish Supermarket Is Down With The Kids
The ‘Fellow Kids’ subreddit has just shy of 801k members and they’ve been around on Reddit since the late spring of 2014. The moderators are very straightforward when it comes to the community rules. In essence, try your best to be nice and make sure that your posts are on-point and actually belong on r/FellowKids. Otherwise, they might be yeeted out. Sounds simple enough, right?
Upvote If You're A Striminal
You've been hit by, you've been struck by a smooth striminal
I was thinking that they were accusing the young generation because boomers were writing the articles... But now i don't understand why they still speak about millennials!!! We are in our late twenties to forties!!! Enough with accusing a generation that was really screwed over repeatedly
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The real percentage was 12% but the changed it to 69% to appeal to a younger demographic.
I'm not a millennial, I belong to the Generation X. How it's called? StriXinal?
I don't think most of Millennials are considered "young" anymore, so it's likely striZinals these days
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Piracy was declining for the first time in decades when we had two streaming service options. Now, it is going up again because there are 40 million streaming services and they all have exclusive content, so you have to subscribe to all these different streaming services to watch things, people aren't going to do that, they are going to go back to streaming on the million and one sites that have a pirated version. Streaming sites are all the same and there is no competition in what they offer or how they preform because they rely on exclusive content alone. Do like they did with movie theaters, make it so they can't have exclusive right to a title so streaming services have to actually improve themselves to gain subscribers.
Newspapers too. I don't want a subscription, I just want to read one article.
Load More Replies... I am old enough to remember when that was the promise of the "information superhighway" You would be able to access every movie, every TV show, every piece of music, every book. Whenever you wanted, from wherever you were in the world
I remember that too. Also that MTV was going to be about music television with VJs discussing the music and videos they played. Memories.
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I pay for my streaming services, thank you. And all of them together is still LESS THAN cable.
The Netflix subscription belongs to my grandpa I dont think that counts
A big tech company makes money off that so that one's OK.
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There are 58,279 counter-arguments inscribed in black granite in Washington DC
Not Gonna Lie, It Is Tempting
Good Use, But Def Fits Here
Spotted In The Sun Newspaper
Local Army Recruit Center Posted This
Spotted At My Local Barnes And Noble
I Am Tooth
They're Becoming Ironically Self-Aware
Dbrand Brings In The Deep Fryer
Another Internetism
What's wrong with it? Except that otters aren't really that thicc - but yes, they oh lawd and ain't nobody got time for dat.
Netflix Has Truly Ascended
Visit North Korea's Facebook Page Posted This
I guess we wouldn't know if there were a mass shooting in North Korea anyway.
No One
It's why so many times the top comment is "[the reason you are here] starts at [hyperlinked timestamp]."
Not One Soul Voted On Subway’s Twitter Poll
But somehow people retweeted it 9.788 times and liked it 15.4K?? I find this odd...
Found In My English Book
That’s the most bland and dull conversation ever. YO-YO is an easily convinced and gullible fool.
Someone Took This At Their Church
Ah yes, the true message of Christ: Ostracize and distance yourself those different from you. (There's why there are no biblical stories about lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, or other traditionally ostracized people.) /s
Youtube What You Doing...
Weather Memes By The Fellow Kid Weatherman
The Face Says It All
Chik-Fil-A Is So Hip And In With The Millennials
New Sushi Bar Opened Up
The Official Conservative Party From The UK
Good One To Be Honest, At Least For Me
Mistaken, But Admirable
New Zealand Police Trying To Meme
Note: this post originally had 66 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
Some of these are NOT OK. I wanna call the police on the New Zeland Police! And as for everyone on this list trying to be "hip with the kids" which isnt even a saying anymore, thats... those memes are SUPER OUTDATED. Oop sksksksk? 2014. Are you even trying to get advice from the actual gen z'rs or are you just throwing out outdated stuff😂 --your freindly neighborhood Gen Z kid
I'm Gen X and I didn't understand most of these. Sigh. I'll go back to trying to solve my Rubik's Cube now.
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Is 'milennial' just slang for kid now? Constantly seeing people say millenial even though millenials haven't been the young generation for ages.
I went into a Sherwin Williams and their logo was "Cover the Earth" with a paint can being poured over the globe. All it did was remind me that I was about to go in and buy some toxic chemicals. Not directed at kids, but just in the same vein of marketing that I think did not hit the intended mark. (They were awesome at that store, though.)
I didn't find many of them cringy. In fact, some were very well executed. These companies are doing the right thing by trying to relate to their younger customers. If they don't adapt, they go under. Besides, the staff who run the companies' social media accounts are probably millennials.
Millennials are 40. We're not young. And posting cringe is not the same as being hip with the kids
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This kind of stuff only proves that companies never actually listen to young people talk, or ask their advice.
They're only there to sell you stuff, what else should be their agenda. Don't trust them.
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Some of these are NOT OK. I wanna call the police on the New Zeland Police! And as for everyone on this list trying to be "hip with the kids" which isnt even a saying anymore, thats... those memes are SUPER OUTDATED. Oop sksksksk? 2014. Are you even trying to get advice from the actual gen z'rs or are you just throwing out outdated stuff😂 --your freindly neighborhood Gen Z kid
I'm Gen X and I didn't understand most of these. Sigh. I'll go back to trying to solve my Rubik's Cube now.
Load More Replies... Is 'milennial' just slang for kid now? Constantly seeing people say millenial even though millenials haven't been the young generation for ages.
I went into a Sherwin Williams and their logo was "Cover the Earth" with a paint can being poured over the globe. All it did was remind me that I was about to go in and buy some toxic chemicals. Not directed at kids, but just in the same vein of marketing that I think did not hit the intended mark. (They were awesome at that store, though.)
I didn't find many of them cringy. In fact, some were very well executed. These companies are doing the right thing by trying to relate to their younger customers. If they don't adapt, they go under. Besides, the staff who run the companies' social media accounts are probably millennials.
Millennials are 40. We're not young. And posting cringe is not the same as being hip with the kids
Load More Replies... This kind of stuff only proves that companies never actually listen to young people talk, or ask their advice.
They're only there to sell you stuff, what else should be their agenda. Don't trust them.
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