I've seen my nephew get berated and mocked for "ipad withdrawal" by his parents even though he's not the one that got it for himself and he didn't decide to move to a suburbs where the only outside activity is listening to lawn equipment.
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I want young people to have incomprehensible slang that I don't understand. I want young people to develop music and art that I don't understand and isn't for me. I want young people to act silly and goofy and cringe. I want young people to make me question my ideals and morals.
If I ever get to a point where I'm just complaining about young people for no real reason take me out behind the shed and shoot me
youth crime is up.
Youth crime is pretty universally down from its peak in the late 20th century.
Kids are having sex later, smoking less, taking less drugs, etc.
Poor blighters
gen z uses most drugs less, but takes more weed/shrooms than any other gen. theres a study that 70% of us prefer weed over alcohol, which imo is a good thing
I think millennial take the cake for opiate addiction. I can't tell you how many dudes I know my age (self included) who've struggled with painkillers or heroin
I'm not sure that's true?
Prevalence rate (%) of current marijuana use among US residents 12 to 25 years of age during 1979–2016, overall and stratified by gender. Derived from data from the 1979–2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
From here (I would expect it to trend up since 2016)
12 to 25 in 2016
well that's measuring mostly millennials and zillennials. i'm middle-gen-z and just turned 12 that year. i also imagine we start later than other gens, most people i know didn't start til 17-19
i was looking at this, which admittedly didn't track data before 1988, but it shows a pretty big increase from 2016-2021 (i figure it's even higher in the last three years). also shows daily usage nearly doubled over ten years:
Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all-time high in 2021
also, having it occasionally isn't the same as regularly using it and preferring it over alcohol. i know a lot of boomer hippie types were stoners, but is there any evidence they actually used weed more than us? maybe they WERE getting constantly crossfaded on everything, idk, but in college today weed's often the main social/hangout substance, not just something you do on a hike or a concert now and then
Fuck the bipartisan war on drugs
dang I really lived my life ahead of the curve
their haircuts are stupid but so were ours so they get a pass
rat tails and mullets were supposed to die 
I kind of like all the stupid hair cuts tbh
i hate my peers is that okay
Equality is hating everyone
Love u dirt owl
dirt owl is the site's patron saint
The specific intersection of youth and privilege is pretty annoying, but that's not an entire generational thing. As a USian, most people in general seem to be self-centered and not considerate, age has nothing to do with it.
I exclusively hate older generations.
Seriously, those jerks did nothing but drop all thier cash on BS and be misogynist. Then have the gall to blame me. F them. They could have built something but decided to leave empire of ruins for us to clean up.
hey look i hated my parents' generation, i hated my generation, i'm not gonna let up for this new generation just because they're kids
but really I honestly don't get this big focus on the difference between generations. Maybe it's because I sort of straddle the line between millennial and gen z and have good friends in both camps, but gen z is not really doing that much that's new. Even gen alpha and their "skibidi toilet" that everyone is suddenly up in arms about is not really that different from the things that came before. Most of the characteristics of these generations that people are focusing have been around for a long, long time. Like three-quarters of their slang (which is really just Black slang) I've been using since at least 2010. You can even hear a good deal of "gen z slang" in old 90s hip-hop. And nearly all of their music and shit I can hear the beginnings of in all the shit that I used to listen to. Anime, fandom, cosplay, none of this stuff is new. Maybe because it's all more mainstream now, I don't know. But people treat gen z as this radical departure from some imagined norm, but if you've been paying attention for the last decade and a half it's not really new.
the generation thing is libshit, and genz is about as progressive as the hippies were.
real
im an xer, and I support this message
I love my gen X comrades too. If you grew up during the hell that was the 80s and managed to still come out a commie, you're all right in my book
We love our younger comrades, don’t we folks?
The only way I'm going to hate younger generations is if they move right politically.
Everytime I hear someone complain about "kids these days" I pull this out from Socrates Guess it's been a problem for 2500 years. Or I dk maybe it's BS.
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and are tyrants over their teachers."
I agree. And if you're not recruiting younger generations into your org what are you even doing?
The youth provide fresh new meme content for me how could I hate them?
All old people know is drive bad, block they supermarket isle, whine about the worlds smallest and most irrelevant problem for 5000 hours and be nosey af
I want to be like Yoshiyuki Tomino and have an ever growing hatred for the older generations that gets stronger as I age.
I sincerely apologise that my last part turned into this. I was more going for "what stuff are the younger generations doing that your old brain can't fathom", but then some people like to blame the wrong groups.
i only wish the kids would start making good music
they really need to discover electric guitars. [non country] guitar music was the glue of our society and now that guitars are largely irrelevant in popular music, everything has gone to shit. it's no coincidence. ZOOMERS: PICK UP A STRAT AND START CHUGGA-ING
nah i can do without the guitars
you're part of the PROBLEM
Just got to look harder. What you like may not be main stream anymore but for example people make 80's style music still. I dk even know what Tennis style is but I thought it was decades past. Still good in my book.
I don't want 80s style music, I want 2024 music. And believe me it's not like I'm not looking
Ah gotcha. I have a few youtuber channels I follow to find different kinds of music. Sometimes it's just remix versions of popular songs. For example I don't like Billie bad guy song very much but the T-Mass version is my jamb. Music is very subjective. Best of luck.
generations are bullshit but there is a reason to be angry at older people especially those 20 or more years your elder because hey, they were around and had an opportunity to make this shit better and they didnt. they failed
that said im in my forties and any shade thrown my way by this same logic is more than fair. i certainly didnt do everything i could to make things better and i do feel some guilt about it. the kids deserve better and thats the truth
It's the 1% vs the workingclass, not generation vs generation
I've managed to make it to 45 without developing any "dang kids these days" brainworms, so at this point I don't really think it'll happen at all.
The kids are alright