Bitching about zoomer culture

[RollerGator]

 

[Huh what?]

Millennials are the ones who pushed for all the ironic niggerspeak and mass censorship on the internet back in 2010-2015, and now they're trying to act like they never took part in any of it and blame Gen Z for everything. I watched the internet die in real time and this was back before anyone knew what a "Zoomer" was.

You're all a bunch of lying disingenuous faggots.

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

Millennials raised them to idolize gay retards and taught them that failing was a virtue, so they all became gay retards with learned helplessness.

 

[Luke74e]

I think we're just in a rut in terms of entertainment. It's kind of unfair to blame that entirely on zoomers since they aren't the suits greenlighting all this dreck.

The slang does suck though. Worst slang in decades. Hopefully the next generation will invent cooler words.

No cap slime, frfr, skibidy toilet rizz like walahi fham.

 

[56 others]

Every single zoomer has an iPhone. The whole phone elitism was marketed to them well, and has been integrated into their "culture."

 

[Otterly]

The biggest differences are the social conformity and the lack of resilience. Gen z (and a decent chunk of whatever was before it) have been steeped in this grievance culture. Their education was secondary to inoculation with ideology. They all look and sound the same, they all have the same social opinions as whatever is around them and they cry or get violent if challenged on it. They have zero sense of privacy and no sense of shame either.
The skibidi Ohio stuff is just slang, and every generation has it. What’s different about young ins now is they’ve been purposefully dumbed down, bodily and mentally weakened and told to attack anything that’s a threat. What’s a threat? Anything they’re told is plus any threat to their ability to coom.
One other word thing is the voice, they all have these weird slurred voices. What’s that about?

 

[Doktor Grimm]

Gawd, making new friends as a zoomer feels so impossible when nobody wants to DO anything. Somehow, having the ability to instantly contact one another at any time seems to have made us less connected than ever. I hate having to play the social media game with people because we've decided that that's an acceptable alternative to calling each other or, god forbid, actually going to a place and meeting up. (Not that there's anywhere to go anyway; the malls are dead, the bars are lame, and hobby spaces are full of deranged psychopaths.)

Everyone told me growing up that college would be the best years of my life, but they didn't account for the fact that what passes for social activity nowadays is once a week sending a text to an Instagram group DM about how "we should totally hang out sometime :^)" and then going out clubbing with the same three-to-five people you met in high school. Nobody even attends their classes anymore, since everything's online now. I might as well have befriended a bunch of chatbots. It all feels so unfulfilling. Surely I'm not the only one?

 

[Meat Target]

I really hate how all zoomer girls look the same, all the boys look the same too for that matter, there is one single acceptable haircut for zoomer females (straight middle part bangs swept to side) and three acceptable haircuts for zoomer males (the broccoli, justin bieber 2007 bangs but somehow shittier, and the mcdonalds logo middle part cut). They all somehow have the exact same face as well. Something sinister is behind this, I'm sure.

I'm convinced they're grown in labs or something.

But to be fair, the same can be said of other generations; it's one of the implied jokes about the Me Decade in American Psycho.

Humans are social animals who want to fit in and belong somewhere. Buthen all the conventional avenues of social interaction have been eroded (families. schools, sports teams, playing outside, churches, Scouts, etc), all you have to bond over is your favorite flavor of materialistic goyslop.

Then again, that may explain why Patrick Bateman has become a meme. Unlike Boomers who defend a quo that has long since lost its status, Zoomers have some subconscious sense that something is deeply wrong with the world. But they don't think about ways to make it better, besides social media slacktivism.

 

[Huh what?]

Gawd, making new friends as a zoomer feels so impossible when nobody wants to DO anything. Somehow, having the ability to instantly contact one another at any time seems to have made us less connected than ever. I hate having to play the social media game with people because we've decided that that's an acceptable alternative to calling each other or, god forbid, actually going to a place and meeting up. (Not that there's anywhere to go anyway; the malls are dead, the bars are lame, and hobby spaces are full of deranged psychopaths.)

Everyone told me growing up that college would be the best years of my life, but they didn't account for the fact that what passes for social activity nowadays is once a week sending a text to an Instagram group DM about how "we should totally hang out sometime :^)" and then going out clubbing with the same three-to-five people you met in high school. Nobody even attends their classes anymore, since everything's online now. I might as well have befriended a bunch of chatbots. It all feels so unfulfilling. Surely I'm not the only one?

Can't even count the amount of times I've tried to hang out or grill with someone after work and they don't show up or cancel at the last second. Being chronically late makes you a social pariah in Japan and it should be the same way over here.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

Can't even count the amount of times I've tried to hang out or grill with someone after work and they don't show up or cancel at the last second. Being chronically late makes you a social pariah in Japan and it should be the same way over here.

Omgg yes it's intolerable. Love planning a get-together with five people (because I'm the only one who plans literally anything) and having all except one flake out day of. I don't get it, it's not like these guys have a busy schedule.

 

[eatler]

Gawd, making new friends as a zoomer feels so impossible when nobody wants to DO anything. Somehow, having the ability to instantly contact one another at any time seems to have made us less connected than ever. I hate having to play the social media game with people because we've decided that that's an acceptable alternative to calling each other or, god forbid, actually going to a place and meeting up. (Not that there's anywhere to go anyway; the malls are dead, the bars are lame, and hobby spaces are full of deranged psychopaths.)

Everyone told me growing up that college would be the best years of my life, but they didn't account for the fact that what passes for social activity nowadays is once a week sending a text to an Instagram group DM about how "we should totally hang out sometime :^)" and then going out clubbing with the same three-to-five people you met in high school. Nobody even attends their classes anymore, since everything's online now. I might as well have befriended a bunch of chatbots. It all feels so unfulfilling. Surely I'm not the only one?

It will be fun when we inevitability have to decide if we want to talk to people in a coomer pod because that’s where most of the outcasts will be located. I will never understand why most people don’t like being outside or being active.

Also heh noice

 

[Doktor Grimm]

It will be fun when we inevitability have to decide if we want to talk to people in a coomer pod because that’s where most of the outcasts will be located. I will never understand why most people don’t like being outside or being active.

It's bold of you to assume this hasn't already happened tbh. Aside from a precious few exceptions, Gen Z guys are either incredibly boring or addicted to coom (in many cases, both). All the people I've made worthwhile connections with in the past couple years have been girls -- not to say that zoomer girls are totally without fault either, but they're at least capable of basic human functions like "holding a conversation" or "having hobbies".

I have one all-male nerd group I still kinda sorta hang out with, but the amount of insane porn-rotted bullshit I have to tolerate on a regular basis makes me wonder whether it's even worth it. It just makes me sad more than anything, 'cause I know they have the potential to be nice well-adjusted people, if they would only get off Discord and go outside for once in their lives. IDK if they're beyond fixing. (Signs point to yes.)

 

[marvlouslie]

Millennials are the ones who pushed for all the ironic niggerspeak and mass censorship on the internet back in 2010-2015, and now they're trying to act like they never took part in any of it and blame Gen Z for everything. I watched the internet die in real time and this was back before anyone knew what a "Zoomer" was.

You're all a bunch of lying disingenuous faggots.

We have a winner, fellas.

I'm apart of the tail end of GenX / start of the Millennial generation (born in the early 80s). I lived through a lot of this, and yes, it was indeed Millennial Leftists pushing a lot of the early censorship of the internet.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Despite being a zillenial, I've had better luck befriending millenials vs gen z. For all their soy swilling ways and cringeworthy culture, they at least have social skills and actually want to DO stuff besides watching tiktok or video games.

 

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Broccoli hair actually looks good

 

[Giles Corey]

Does anyone just hate how risk averse Zoomers are? No sex, lots don't drink, etc. Meanwhile the media reports this as if its a good thing?

I dunno. It seems that Gen Z are the most boring fucking generation on the planet at times. I think its because of how sheltered at lot of them are growing up. It's just sad to see. And being anti social jerks is seen as a virtue. The amount of times I hear "why would I hang out with you, I barely know you" is insane. So many just want to shut out people. They spit in my face when I try to reach out. Because why try. Why the fuck not just hang out with the same people forever.

Getting to know anyone in this generation is like pulling at teeth.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

Reading my old posts in this thread and I have a few extra thoughts.

It might not be true that zoomer girls are actually "more interesting" or whatever I said before. They're definitely better at seeming like they have their shit together, which counts for a lot. More outgoing on average. I don't know if that translates into doing stuff or being interested in things. It's healthier to binge Instagram than Pornhub, but neither are particularly good for your personality in the long term.

Incidentally, all the girls I was talking to ghosted me for seperate & nebulous reasons (save for one -- she's chill). One of them had massive TDS and vanished after a conversation about Israel-Palestine. One of them pooned out I think. I did my usual routine of pestering people endlessly to hang out and I'm worried I might have come off as a creep or something. whatever the case, they're gone now lol.

I dunno. It seems that Gen Z are the most boring fucking generation on the planet at times. I think its because of how sheltered at lot of them are growing up. It's just sad to see. And being anti social jerks is seen as a virtue. The amount of times I hear "why would I hang out with you, I barely know you" is insane. So many just want to shut out people. They spit in my face when I try to reach out. Because why try. Why the fuck not just hang out with the same people forever.

The Internet is a really obvious scapegoat (& one that imo gets blamed for far too many things) but I think it has messed with our ability to be interested in regular people. Most of us genuinely do not understand that conversation is primarily a tool to connect with others, and not a method of acquiring a captive audience to listen to your personal infodump/standup routine. I can't think of any other explanation as to why so many people seem so unwilling to put in the work when it comes to new relationships.

The upshot is that when you do meet the rare prosocial person, you tend to hit it off right away. I used to think that I was terrible at conversation because I never had the most to say, but when I encounter someone else who Gets It we can talk for hours, even if we don't have much in common otherwise. It's way harder than it should be, though.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

zoomer culture makes me appreciate and miss millennial hipster culture. (and I hated THAT too!)

Zoomzoom culture is everything bad about millenial culture at the power of two

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

It might not be true that zoomer girls are actually "more interesting" or whatever I said before. They're definitely better at seeming like they have their shit together, which counts for a lot. More outgoing on average. I don't know if that translates into doing stuff or being interested in things. It's healthier to binge Instagram than Pornhub, but neither are particularly good for your personality in the long term.

Zoomers in general love to act like they have their shit together when in reality they don't. They're the generation of "Yo I'm on muh grind fr fr". The reality is though....not so much. The problem is grind/self improvement culture is absolutely fucking retarded.

Let's take an example. If I say I'm on my gym grind 4 times a week, and I try to go to the gym 4 times a week every week, eventually I get burnt out. If I go to the gym hoping to do some self-improvement, I've lost the battle and will drop out with every other New Year's Resolution gym bro. Whereas if I go for fun, or because I view it as something I enjoy doing, or have made it a part of my daily routine, then I'm less likely to fall off. What grind/self improvement culture does, is label going to the gym as work and once it's work, I don't enjoy it. I put conscious effort into it and therefore it's no longer relaxing for me and will never become a habit. You loop yourself into a burnout cycle because it's work. You don't do it because you enjoy it and it's the right thing to do, you do it because you want to improve yourself. Which sounds great on social media, but our brains just don't work that way. They never have.

The other problem with grind/self improvement culture is the worst part is the "self" part. Zoomers don't seem to fucking get it either. You can and will spend your whole life grinding and you'll get nowhere fast. You don't accomplish things on your own in this world. I'd love to say that you do, but that's just not how this world works. I don't get that great job because I worked really hard and I'm qualified for it. I get it because I made friends with the bosses or their kids or their employees. I don't know why Zoomers fags don't seem to get this either. Who do you want to compete with? The few guys the boss maybe knows? Or the 200+ faggots on Indeed who filled out an application?

This world isn't made for anti-social people. If you think staying in your room playing Fortnite with your two "buddies" is doing you any favors, it's not. Who's going to get further ahead in life? The guy who plays Helldivers on Friday nights online, or the guy who goes to the bar and talks to 20 people? Same shit with dating. You go where people are and talk to anyone and everyone. The most valuable asset in this world is social connections. It doesn't matter how hard you work. If you have no networking skills, you'll lose.

 

[Two Hands]

Does anyone just hate how risk averse Zoomers are? No sex, lots don't drink, etc. Meanwhile the media reports this as if its a good thing?

I dunno. It seems that Gen Z are the most boring fucking generation on the planet at times. I think its because of how sheltered at lot of them are growing up. It's just sad to see. And being anti social jerks is seen as a virtue. The amount of times I hear "why would I hang out with you, I barely know you" is insane. So many just want to shut out people. They spit in my face when I try to reach out. Because why try. Why the fuck not just hang out with the same people forever.

Getting to know anyone in this generation is like pulling at teeth.

Eeerm, as a fellow zoomiezoomer, we have a different set of circumstances. We are all dweebs who cannot hold a conversation over the phone. The risks you take can and will be posted online and tootally ruin you.
We lament the fact we are bitchless (no huzz) while simultaneously not putting the work into getting to know people or idealizing unrealistic standards. A millennial teacher of mine asked the class about the student body having little enthusiasm for all the hallmark events like homecoming and prom, and how they could remedy that. The students unanimously agreed that enthusiasm just wasn't there and nothing would change that.