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.
>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
Based Ohio. That’s what happened.
the hell? skibidi toilet ain’t rizz?
Skibidi Toilet is just Madness Combat with toilets and TVs instead of blood.
Anon wants people off his lawn.
Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Bevis 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.
This stuff has got to be actual kids self-mythologising rather than adults not remembering how dumb they were as kids, shirley?
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
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?
yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….
Exactly! Here are a few I remember from the late-90s, early 2000s:
- Da Bomb dot com
- Fly
- Home Skillet
- Not!/Psych!
- Sup?/wazzap? - friends transformed to “wassabiii”
- crunk
- bad
- biotch
- served/owned - served is dead, but “owned” lives on as “pwned”
- chillax
- fo shizzle
- holla
Most of that is probably unintelligible to kids these days, and most were all the rage when I was a kid. I say literally none of that today.
i’ll keep saying home skillet until i’m deep in the cold cold ground
Das rite, you da real G. Keep it real, home skillet.
Generations! People in the 90s talking about how dumb the 80s stuff was is the best way. The dumb belongs to the decade, not the people.
Look man, if Grants book didn’t have awesome dino illustrations, I’m calling this kids bluff. Even I had a dino book at that age (bit older than this…kid…man? This movies old) I still only looked at the pictures
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.
Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn are Gen Z things. As a Millennial I was well into my teens by the time that stuff came out. My generation’s memes predate YouTube.
I’m glad that the entire millennial generation is just you. Again, I’m a late millennial and I was barely older than 10 when YouTube came out and I was watching both that and Google Video before they were acquired. That stuff doesn’t have to be just one generation only.
Um okay. No need for the hostility.
Pretty sure annoying orange was a gen Z thing, as I, a gen Z kid was addicted to annoying orange at 7 or so. I hated Fred though his voice was so damn annoying. I like his current channel though, felt crazy when I saw him as an adult and not screaming. Now he’s doing shitty vacation trips 😀👍
Gen X here and my boomer friends in US educational circles normally pointed out the Socrates quote but they stopped doing that a few years ago. Social media has devastated the ability of young Americans to think critically according to most.
I have to imagine it’s because Socrates also believed that writing and reading information harmed our thinking. He thought that memory was the most important, and expected oral recollections of all his teachings.
…which definitely sounds like more criticism of youth 😂
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.
Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That’s exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.
Only minorly on that front. I’m right on the youngest end of the millenials, and I was 15 when it first surfaced. It took only a couple years for Cartoon Network to pick it up, so it definitely captured an audience, though it may have been a mix of zoomers and the latest millennials. But it certainly doesn’t detract from my point, and it can definitely be substituted for stuff like Homestar Runner or Salad Fingers.
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.
It makes a generation feel special if they are convinced that they are enduring something extraordinary. Every single generation has had plenty to complain about but the loudest will be the current generation of course.
Plato in 300: kids today!!! 😡
Wat. Kids in the 2020s would be reciting facts from watching hours of Wild Kratts.
Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
This. It doesn’t help that that perception is universal, and mfs will call Child Protective Services if you let your kids go to the park on their own.
Don’t forget the satanic panic of the 80’s!
You’re right, but both can be true at the same time - if your acceptable level of risk is zero then playing outside is too dangerous
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
And specifically SGI UNIX, right?
Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s
Fuck it, I’ll take all the “riz”, “no cap”, “frfr” bullshit over ANY of the other slang of the last thirty years or so. At least it makes sense.
“Cool,” still cool after 90 years.
Forsooth
Bet
That’s a hella dope position
Rad, even.
Outta sight.
That’s one fly comment my man
That’s on fleek
You mean you aren’t into wazaaaaaap, piglatin, roflmao, the R word, cool beans, home skillet, etc?
It is funny how the wheel of slang makes the prior generation uncomfortable for some reason. Time waits for no one.
Fo shizzle
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