The future of Gen Z

[ENDTOPII]

I've been getting serious answers to "hey, how's it going?"

LMAO, had one in a class started trauma dumping the professor one time, it was a hard watch since I couldn't leave, I just had to sit through the whole cringe of him having a mental breakdown. He really sounded like a faggot, talked about depression and shit (the common reddit retardation etc). The part that really made it hard not to kek was the broccoli hairstyle, if was like a fucking /pol/ meme IRL. It was so hilarious and sad at the same time. Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh on zoomers since I'm by definition one too, but the younger one is so fucked and full of those 'tism kids. Any zoomer under ~22 now is a complete broken person, yes that includes the normies. It is really sad that a phrase, for some of them is interpreted as a genuine personal question.

Anyways, can't wait for the next generation to enter the workforce and university.

 

[Audit]

LMAO, had one in a class started trauma dumping the professor one time, it was a hard watch since I couldn't leave, I just had to sit through the whole cringe of him having a mental breakdown. He really sounded like a faggot, talked about depression and shit (the common reddit retardation etc). The part that really made it hard not to kek was the broccoli hairstyle, if was like a fucking /pol/ meme IRL. It was so hilarious and sad at the same time. Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh on zoomers since I'm by definition one too, but the younger one is so fucked and full of those 'tism kids. Any zoomer under ~22 now is a complete broken person, yes that includes the normies. It is really sad that a phrase, for some of them is interpreted as a genuine personal question.

Anyways, can't wait for the next generation to enter the workforce and university.

I try not to judge. While it's tempting to write off other people as lolcows/retards, it's just as plausible in this day that a sizeable portion of any room is just broken people. I suspect that way back when there were a lot of social support systems (community, church, relatives, friends, significant other, etc.) that people leaned on. Nowadays, kids are more and more socially isolated and prospects for relationships are grim unless you want to play the bumble slot machine.

Anecdotally, I had one student declare himself non-binary after a break up with a chick. He seemed normal until then.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Anecdotally, I had one student declare himself non-binary after a break up with a chick. He seemed normal until then.

Technically not Gen Z, but I knew a guy that went gay after dating a chick. Probably for the same reason.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

I've been a working adult for 25+ years and it's only since the zoomies have entered the workplace that I've been getting serious answers to "hey, how's it going?"

Anyway, the answer is always, , "It's...okay," followed by some TMI about their very gay and minor personal problem.

Gen Z is a generation of wimps, like the Boomers. They always compare themselves to the “older generations” as having it harder when pre-Boomer, most people were slaving away just trying to survive. Maybe if Gen Z were a more literate generation they’d realize that it was normal for people to struggle throughout history.

Life is tough, and no you will most likely not receive the benefits that your spoiled elders did, so suck it up and find the beauty in the simple things or be the positive force of change you want to see, instead of constantly whining like a bitch and doomscrolling in your free-time.

 

[cybertoaster]

it's a cultural issue more than anything

Nah its not, speaking as a guy who was under 10 when the internet showed up and grew during the 1.0 days I can tell you it wasn't that simple. Can't speak for euro kids of my generation living in cities full of trains and subways (and before migrants made using those a life risk) but here in the land of the free and home of the whooper doing anything including going to the mall meant getting your parents to drive you there, and most of the time it was a half-hour trip at best. Only when you hit your teens your big bro who just got his licence might drive you there, and even then its not like they were always willing to do it. When ICQ showed up even the normies in my school were using it as it was cheaper than talking over the phone thanks to unlimited dial-up plans and everybody except the poorfags had a PC by then because the dotcom boom brought the prices down. Had we had the shit zoomies have now we would be all stuck inside too, its just too convenient.

If all of us collectively decided to go and hang out at the mall instead of bitching on the Internet about how nobody wants to hang out at the mall anymore,

Loitering at the mall gets old fast, going there was again a hassle but once there all you could do was get something at the food court, blow your money at the arcade (no such thing as F2P back then) or watch a movie, all shit you had to pay for while today except for the food you can get the other things for free and not even the rich kids got enough allowance to do all that every single day. So most of the time as teens we were just hanging around talking the same shit over and over, girls gossiping about who was a skank this week, some dude talking about things they saw online as we didn't have smartphones or laptops with wifi (and laptops cost a fortune back then) to show what we saw, or sharing a magazine, whatever it took to stave off the boring sameness of everyday life.

we could totally bring back malls.

Bruh why you think mallcops hated loitering teens? we didn't bring in the money, boomers buying stupid shit did, and they hated seeing us around. The reason malls went to shit is because all boomers retired and are on a fixed income, and genX and early millennials started buying everything online, simple as.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Bruh why you think mallcops hated loitering teens? we didn't bring in the money,

for teens malls are just indoor parks, and while that might be a valid concept for people who live in the perpetually frozen north, the rest of us have plenty of time throughout the year where parks are a thoroughly viable alternative for the same loitering.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Gen Z is a generation of wimps, like the Boomers. They always compare themselves to the “older generations” as having it harder when pre-Boomer, most people were slaving away just trying to survive. Maybe if Gen Z were a more literate generation they’d realize that it was normal for people to struggle throughout history.

Life is tough, and no you will most likely not receive the benefits that your spoiled elders did, so suck it up and find the beauty in the simple things or be the positive force of change you want to see, instead of constantly whining like a bitch and doomscrolling in your free-time.

>No Gen Z you can't complain about about other generations
>Only us cool and with it Millenials get to cry about Boomers all day
Do you even realize how much you sound like a faggot?

 

[cybertoaster]

for people who live in the perpetually frozen north

If you lived in the south you went to the mall too because they have A/C and a skate park is a blast furnace during summer.

>No Gen Z you can't complain about about other generations
>Only us cool and with it Millenials get to cry about Boomers all day
Do you even realize how much you sound like a faggot?

Bro zoomers don't even know what a boomer is, they are the kids of the genX not boomers and call anyone over 30 a boomer...

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Bro zoomers don't even know what a boomer is, they are the kids of the genX not boomers and call anyone over 30 a boomer...

>Don't you know Gen X are hella cool
>And you got's to know that it's not fly to call old folks boomers
>You can only use Boomer to refer to Baby Boomers
There were upper class women in Victorian England less stuck up and pathetic as to complain that others complain about things they find uncouth and in an improper way.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Life being a little kid was the greatest thing in the world. I felt happy, everything was colorful and fun, I had no responsibilities. It’s the life I wish I could go back to. But being out of high school, life feels bleak and pointless. Genuinely, I don’t see the future ahead of me.

High school was the last shred of a social life I had left. It wasn’t great, but there were times when I genuinely had fun being around people my age. I spend most of my time at my work doing the same thing every day, working with people who are 3x my age. I miss my old position at my job because I had a few girls I enjoyed talking to and a couple guys on my team as well. The old people are nice, but I just can’t have a conversation with someone who is far older than I am.

And then there’s also the fact that there’s barely any hangout places in my town. Bowling? Everyone’s talking with their group and minding their own business. The movies? No one talks anyway. The gym? Everyone does their workouts and I do mine. No room for socialization there. How can you meet people like that? Try to talk to someone and they’ll think you’re weird, because god forbid someone try to have an irl interaction that isn’t on a phone.

Also the homogenization of society is really bothering me. Every place you walk into is black, white, or gray. Everything that once had color has been redesigned to look square and drab.

Did the older generations have a similar situation, or is this more of a new thing?

 

[cybertoaster]

>Don't you know Gen X are hella cool

Never said that in my entire life, they were a bunch of whiny shits and their zoomer hellspawn is now breaking my balls.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Did the older generations have a similar situation, or is this more of a new thing?

Every generation had the burnouts who were at their peak in high school. Hell, I think a good chunk of Boomers-Millennials sort of infantilize high school, just look at the media they enjoy/create.

The difference between Z and prior is more the percentage of burnouts than it actually happening. I think a telling sign is when my parents talk to me about people I used to go to school with who’s parents they speak too. They cannot name a single one that lives independently, not even the married ones. Relationship status, job, none of it matters. They are all just sort of stuck living like they are still in school.

Also the homogenization of society is really bothering me. Every place you walk into is black, white, or gray. Everything that once had color has been redesigned to look square and drab.

People aren’t having kids, so now kids locations are going defunct, or pulling a McDonalds and rebranding for a mature audience. It sucks, but reality is bleak and colorful kids spaces are the first to go unless you are Disney (if people still count that).

 

[anustart76]

be the positive force of change you want to see

Well they're certainly forcing change, though it may not be change Boomers want to see.

 

[ymous9876]

Gen Z & Y really don't have a future. Almost no one can afford a 1.6 million dollar house that sold for $450,000 in 2011.
Even if it was still priced like that, almost no one has a job or money to buy it.
No higher education institution cares of about job placement, they just want tuition money. Not that a degree matters at all anymore.
These older generations (silents, boomers, and even gen Xers) really have no idea what the world is like anymore. They really don't see the consequences of overpopulation, and automation, along with how unprofitable it is to hire anyone. If they are aware of it, they'll just deny it, for some strange reason.
It's as if the world governments are speed-running the end of the world, just in time for World War 3.

 

[skykiii]

If this is Gen Z, then is the next one Gen GT?

 

[Midwit]

europe is actually a massive downgrade from the US if youre not dirt poor and it would be almost impossible for someone whos dirt poor to move there anyway

And on the flipside if you're just kinda poor it's impossible to get out of Europe into the US since you don't have the high level skills that you could leverage for a visa and since you're in a somewhat nice country you can't get in through DEI.

These older generations (silents, boomers, and even gen Xers) really have no idea what the world is like anymore.

It varies massively on income from my personal experience, I know that my parents (late boomer/early Gen-X) are a bit more aware of how shitty things are that the image painted by other people I talk to, I don't know if it's because they're working class or because I'm British rather than American.

If this is Gen Z, then is the next one Gen GT?

Better than Gen Super, that's for sure.

 

[cybertoaster]

a good chunk of Boomers-Millennials sort of infantilize high school, just look at the media they enjoy/create.

Boomers and genX did that, not millennials. From 50's sitcoms to highschool musical which was made by genXers who watched the breakfast club and sixteen candles a million times, movies made by boomers in the 80's. The running joke among millennials was that school was a prison. IDK if school sucked more for my generation than previous ones since I see boomers and genX still having HS reunions while nobody bothers to even organizing one for my school let alone showing up for it. Nobody my age I know misses school, myself included. The only thing I do miss sometimes is the feeling that once I'm done with that the bullshit would end.

Spoiler: it didn't.

Almost no one can afford a 1.6 million dollar house that sold for $450,000 in 2011.

You're comparing with prices right after the market crash tho, check the same house in 2007, the previous ATH.

And on the flipside if you're just kinda poor it's impossible to get out of Europe into the US since you don't have the high level skills that you could leverage for a visa and since you're in a somewhat nice country you can't get in through DEI.

And forget about the nice countries of east asia too, they'll never give you citizenship.

Once the west goes to shit its gonna be hard to leave.

 

[Santa Klaus]

Gen Z & Y really don't have a future. Almost no one can afford a 1.6 million dollar house that sold for $450,000 in 2011.
Even if it was still priced like that, almost no one has a job or money to buy it.
No higher education institution cares of about job placement, they just want tuition money. Not that a degree matters at all anymore.
These older generations (silents, boomers, and even gen Xers) really have no idea what the world is like anymore. They really don't see the consequences of overpopulation, and automation, along with how unprofitable it is to hire anyone. If they are aware of it, they'll just deny it, for some strange reason.
It's as if the world governments are speed-running the end of the world, just in time for World War 3.

>the consequences of overpopulation

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

IDK if school sucked more for my generation than previous ones since I see boomers and genX still having HS reunions while nobody bothers to even organizing one for my school let alone showing up for it. Nobody my age I know misses school, myself included.

A little of column A and column B IMO. Now, keep in mind that my comparison of Boomer High School is rooted in Head of the Class reruns my dad showed me. Boomer High school seemed like a place where learning actually happened provided the students were motivated enough to apply themselves. No one was on prescriptions of Adderall or Ritalin back then. Bullying was more physically violent, but not that persistent. If a nerd grew enough of a spine, the fight was usually the end of it regardless of who wins.

If I dream about High school, it's always in the context of a nightmare. All schools--and Head of the Class itself implies it with the general student body--turned into the kind of school Joe Clark was trying to fix back then. Black schools were hit the hardest, but every school's priorities changed from places of education to places of daycare. Automatic promotion reeks of Early Development child development theory to me. We can't hold kids back, that'll mess with their peer groups. So, the curricula's standards have to drop every year and now we have adults who don't know anything and shouldn't vote. Worse, the corporate world is infiltrated by the same people who run the schools, so now working is like being in high school.

 

[Squishie PP]

>the consequences of overpopulation

Overpopulation is what caused patriarchy to lose its game-theoretical advantage over female-mediated crypto-oligarchy. It is hilarious to me how nobody here realizes this.