• Hobo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?

    How about get the fuck off my lawn.

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    This generational hatred will never end.

    Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.

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      Erm… You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I’m on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.

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        Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the ‘generation’ would be 13 years old.

        I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.

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    >kid in a movie written by adults: “I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature”

    >kid I made up in my own mind: “hurr durr I’m illiterate”

    Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the “kids in the 2020s” is the problem

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    Isn’t the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant’s whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?

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    I’ve seen plenty of teachers/professors reporting GenZers demonstrating concerningly diminished discipline, resilience, and interest, particularly when it comes to reading. My personal observations of GenZ discipline are mixed, but I’m not in education.

    Would be good to see high-quality studies on the matter.

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    The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That’s what happened.