Zoomers Got Old

[@JREG]

Poo is at the base of all humour (source): kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKuXiWWXl5unbbM Thanks to everyone that came to the liveshow!

[@cerealpeer]

so as far as this cure for the humanity problem were experiencing, what kind of aesthetics were we going with? you thinking android lite, or were we shooting for full blown akira monster? anything would be an improvement over these meat puppets we got.

[@MarcillaSmith]

As a Gen X, I just want to say that Skibidi Toilet is the greatest thing since Garbage Pail Kids - maybe even the best thing since the white dog poop from the 70's. In any evnt, I gotta run now so I don't miss my "Recovery from _Watership Down"_ support group.

[@VerbDoesStuff]

Jreg please. Please. Stop talking about transhumanism. Just say what it is that you ACTUALLY want to say and don’t hide it behind 80 layers of meta super zoomer hyper irony and 800 other videos that aren’t actually important. Or at least say what you want quickly and early so that YOU can move on from it Being human is NOT a problem to solve and I know you know that but jesus christ man

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

i love you JPEG

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

Actually, I wish the millennials would _stop_ trying to help. We tend to do more harm than good.

[@myri_the_weirdo]

''gen alpha is so cringe, back in my day we watched real content like the annoying orange''

[@InfiniteAnvil]

Lmao, that was the exact same example I thought of.

[@MakerManX]

That was the pinnacle of human civilization tho

[@myri_the_weirdo]

@@MakerManX oh shit he's right

[@bobbyb4024]

Or Fred

[@rey_nemaattori]

_I_ watched the Annoying Orange and I turned 40 last year...

[@sauerkrautlanguage]

roughly 12 years ago now, i saw the "only 90's kids will get this" internet era with utmost cynicism, i was a zoomer and liked a lot of 90's era stuff, but i also liked 2000's-2010's era media which these 90's kids shunned. I immediately realized there was really nothing inherent to the media being lauded beyond blind nostalgia, and furthermore realized my own generation would eventually come to dominate the internet, blindly fawn over 2000's-2010's era stuff, and then become haters of the stuff the next generation is watching. Lo and behold, now the people laughing in 2016 to "oh shit waddup" and "dicks out for harambe" memes and who circklejerked endlessly about their amazing meta-post-meta-meta-hyper ironic humor, are now saying skibiddi toilet is the end of humor as we know it.

[@quinnjohnson9750]

Each old generation will hate the younger, has been a true test fact of life. I wonder what shit Gen Alpha will give Gen Beta?

[@Chr1s_A]

@@quinnjohnson9750self fulfilling prophecy

[@AntiGravityC9]

@@quinnjohnson9750 they'll leave them alone, it's bad enough they have to live with being called Gen Beta

[@troysmith159]

Dat Boi is still funny, I don’t care what anyone says.

[@kertchu]

I wonder if there is something about the younger brain that makes people find ridiculous stuff funny what changes as you get older

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

The amount of 20+ year olds going "gen alpha is doomed! Just look how attached they are to their TikTok and trends!" While posting on TikTok should remind everyone that history repeats.

[@derpidius6306]

at one point you gotta ask yourself, WHO is making these videos for gen alpha? here's a hint, its not gen alpha

[@ramenaddict1676]

ive been saying for years that gen alpha's problems are just repeating gen z's problems. new era same shit.

[@cryopex9976]

@@derpidius6306gen alpha is 13 years old now, they can make videos.

[@derpidius6306]

@@cryopex9976 The content they watch isn't made by 13 year olds, the people making that content are us Gen Z, sure they are watching it but we are ultimately the ones who make it

[@Ruthvika_Rajesh]

@@cryopex9976they can but we’re not watching any of those

[@Ampathetic]

As a zoomer who was actually just complaining about Skibidi Toilet and Generation Alpha with his zoomer friends, I truly have been shown who is boss.

[@sirllamaiii9708]

Dude I literally complain about kids these days and I just want a nice quiet home with a comfy armchair, put my feet up on an antique table in front of a fireplace. I unironically want a grandfather clock.

[@MMaximmachinegun]

@@sirllamaiii9708 The 1st zoomer boomer.

[@sirllamaiii9708]

@@MMaximmachinegun I pioneered the term boomermaxxing. But it ain't even that. Nosir I don't want their van Halen and wet T-shirt contests and Harley's. It's more silent generation. I like nice hardwood furniture, fishing, growing crops. I'm not 1950smaxxing I'm 1910smaxxing

[@fearsomefoursome4]

But Skibidi toilet isn't a Alpha meme though.

[@Sxcheschka]

@@AvaAdore-wx5gg Just take the aesthetics you like of a time period, but leave all the terrible shit behind.

[@backseatslidepuzzle]

Skibidi toilet was 100% not made by gen alpha, but made for gen alpha. Gen alpha is yet to create a significant memetic phenomenon

[@francejoseph7497]

It's just like JJ said

[@d7mf3j]

you underestimate the presence of 12 year olds on the internet.

[@feral_orc]

@@d7mf3j how many 12 year olds knew that GMod existed before skibidi toilet I wonder? It's literally the exact same shit I watched 15 years ago, no way it wasn't created by someone younger than 25.

[@yougoslavia]

It wasn't made for gen alpha. It was made for DaFuqBoom's audience prior to February 2023 which was mostly older than that. It just ended up getting popular among gen alpha because they're the main consumers of YT shorts.

[@wmooring]

​@@feral_orc Source Filmmaker not GMod, but the point mostly still stands.

[@SteveRamsey]

So happy that gen x just quietly steps out of all this 😅

[@ChronicMetamorphosis]

The militant tendencies of Gen X were amplified through millennials.

[@seventeen777]

Gen x struck a nice middle ground, they're cool to all generations 👍

[@kryptophantom3304]

Gen x is the best , like i didn't know they existed until i had to confirm if my parent were boomers or not , turns out they are gen x and thats why they are so chill.

[@mrrvo]

Bruh gen x the mfers saying how these newer generations are soft and lazy and get their feelings hurt. While being like every type of phobic passively aggressively

[@GingeryGinger]

@@mrrvogen x so chill what yo talking

[@MulderHiggins]

"being born is kinda a doom like moment" bestie is so real for that

[@Detective_asparagus]

I find it so weird seeing fellow zoomers talk shit about gen alpha humor. Gen Alpha humor is pretty much identical to Zoomers when you look into it (toilet humor, absurdism, random words, etc). They're really not that different from us, but we hate it because it's not "ours"

[@nanowithbeans2511]

Back in the 2000s, the most popular videos are literally called "youtube poop", We had AVGN who is the embodiment of toilet humor, and I remember a few flash animations that got poop jokes. I swear the more I hear about zoomers talking shit to these people. The more they do not fucking realize how similar they are. I played a PSP when I was 10, which at the time was the equivalent of an Ipad.

[@daevious_]

@@nanowithbeans2511 Zoomers also mutated boomer into "anyone older than my generation", so the backlash against anything outside their generation was easy to predict.

[@thegodofsoapkekcario1970]

@@nanowithbeans2511The Weegee and Skibidi Toilet are the same.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

​@@nanowithbeans2511maaaam I miss KZbin poops

[@Brent-jj6qi]

My issue with a lot of it is just that it feels less authentic, because of the way youtube and tiktok work now, compared to early youtube where you couldn't even make money

[@pureevil9496]

Seeing this kind of thing always makes me laugh at how nihilistic and melodramatic people can be for no reason

[@belnonaudh1313]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

[@Sxcheschka]

Just be an optimistic nihilist aka absurdist

[@mwzngd1679]

@@Sxcheschka aka kurzgesagtist

[@Sxcheschka]

@@mwzngd1679 I have not watched that channel in over like 2 years.

[@lars1588]

Existential boredom or something, it must be. I think it's pretty sad to watch people get so worked up over things that have been happening cyclically for millennia. Just read an old book, and you'll see just how little most things change. Until our species fundamentally evolves, we're going to live through patterns like this for a looong time.

[@Finnboy-ml5jv]

I am 21 and this is deep.

[@Finnboy-ml5jv]

But for real i do NOT feel young at all. Felt this way since I graduated from school at 17 years old.

[@Wulk]

I mean fiscally we are in our prime so is normal to still feel young but mentally we have been through at least 3 world ending events so yeah we are kinda tired

[@cankarababa7979]

fr fr no cap? we're on a sunken ship and we're trying to fight over who eats the last pringles

[@TheSaival]

deep like youre mom

[@dannydanny865]

@@WulkWorld ending is a major exaggeration 😂

[@LiquidDemocracyNH]

jREG: making fun of Freud. Also jREG: if you think about it everything really starts with poop jokes (Freuds exact theory of the development of the taboo)

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

He was a coke addicted crackpot but not everything he said was baseless, we still use quite a few of his theories to this day, although with more modern takes.

[@ifyouseekay1000]

Freud wins again

[@TheSaival]

the genius of Freud is that he was spewing some total baseless BS which actually works. Like, dude explained the colour red with the smell of vanilla. Then you have Jung, who (by his own account) made his theory in state of schizophrenic psychosis. That theory too, of course, makes a lot of sense and actually works.

[@yeahok6595]

All goes back to freud even its haters.

[@AlkalineandAcid]

Common Freud W

[@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an]

"YOU'VE BECOME THE THING YOU'VE SWORN TO DESTROY" me to other Zoomers that have become Boomers

[@matheussanthiago9685]

Tale as old as time

[@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an]

A time that would come eventually

[@dillbill7152]

I see myself more as a gen x and aspire to be more like the silent or greatest gen.

[@beybrain7896]

That's exactly what I thought when this whole thing blew up. Like I thought that we hated this kind of condescending behavior from Boomers in the first place, and now WE'RE acting like this!?

[@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an]

We didn't go through all that belittling for this smh@@beybrain7896

[@DeathMonkeys]

As a Mid GenZ I actually “respect” Skibidi, its not the worst thing possible and it’s honestly become a lot more than just “Haha funny toilet guy says funny words”. It reminds me of a more “cinematic”and absurd form of ASDF or Gmod Idiot Box.

[@yeet4073]

I feel how you look at skibidi toilet with any form of media literacy you can realize it's not complete trash. People just hate because they don't respect fart jokes

[@eviehazel-o8k]

@@yeet4073 I mean part of it is media literacy. part of it is actually watching it, or at least I think so. It's just that a lot of people who shit on it or used to do so (me included) have never even seen it but just... hate it just because.

[@totallyfake2852]

Good point

[@xyeB]

Skibidi toilet is w

[@thegodofalldragons]

Yeah, Gmod animations have always been about that deranged.

[@DangerDavis21]

It does feel kindof strange not being the youngest recognizable age group anymore

[@kenzo5096]

Exactly I remember when we were the new ones 2003-2004 then PUFF we’re turning 20 and depressed

[@Vespyr_]

I'm 40, the oldest of the millennials. You'll get used to it, and won't feel any more different than you do now. :3

[@PosterityIslesNews]

@@Vespyr_ i can't believe 40 year olds are starting to use ":3" the internet is amazing 😭

[@olive8604]

as a millennial that was me a few years ago when gen z really started taking over lol. you do eventually stop caring as much tho, especially now what i'm *two* generations removed from being the youngest.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

Welcome to the middle child life, son You'll get used to it

[@crimsonvale7337]

Finally, I've been feeling the internet around me getting older, and it's nice to have a confirmation that it's just me becoming old not the internet itself. Seeing """""zoomers""""" in their 20s complaining about the kids of today is a real surreal experience. Thanks J-Regular, you really showed those kids who's boss!

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

Why did you put the """" on each side of zoomers? Gen z can be 20, it started in 1996 and continue to 2010, where it then swapped over to Gen alpha (also starting in 2010, mix years 'n all) which ends this year. From this point forward, it's gen beta

[@crimsonvale7337]

@@FelidaeEnjoyergenerations are such a weak and nebulous concept, pretty only real generation of people you can point to would be people born as a result of baby booms, and the dominating boom in recent memory was people born from 1945-1950, the boomers. That and I keep forgetting I’m not 18 anymore and the oldest zoomers aren’t 22

[@tzarg]

@@FelidaeEnjoyer wait, kids born in 2024 are gen beta?

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

​@@tzarg It entirely depends on which cycle you use. For example, I'm referencing the 14 year version, though there are also 16-20 year cycles, and some incorporate all numbers. I use the 14 year one because puberty is when you can make children, and the next generation will start being made (slowly because teens don't get pregnant as often anymore) were you to use the type of cycle brought up by google when you ask 'generations by year' on an incognito window so they don't use algorithms, it's actually 2025 gen B starts up. Another thing about the fourteen year cycle, every 14th/1st year is a 'mix year' where terms like 'zillenial' are made, though I don't think history would really care if you just picked one or the other

[@NeostormXLMAX]

I feel like society is accelerating its development with the help of technologies

[@LakesideTrey]

Every generation, for centuries in America, has grown up to be more ethical, educated, healthy, and inclusive than the one before. Every generation since the dawn of time has complained about younger ones.

[@idiomasentusiasticos7954]

I’m just happy that we are keeping gmod content alive. No matter what generation you are a part of, there is a gmod phase, and that needs to be appreciated.

[@TheRealSly14Cat]

Lol yeah I always found it funny that people get up in arms about the toilet shit when gmod content has been around since forever. I remember playing gmod in high school 10 years ago.

[@sonicwave779]

This is why I don't get the outrage. We all grew up on GMod and SFM.

[@nr8813]

Boomers had a gmod phase?

[@dataexpunged93N15]

No like, it's so ironic that the generation who laughed at and made TF2 freaks, and other content akin to it, is now shitting on (pun intended) skibidi toilet. My guys, we came from the "LOL RANDOM XD" generation of the internet. We all watched or at least knew about Annoying Orange and Fred. Don't act like skibidi toilet is the end of the world when we are, arguably, the biggest reason it exists at all.

[@AdamBorseti]

​@@nr8813of course! Sheeeeit, I remember being 14 years old and installing Half-Life 2 when it first came out, watching Gmod Idiot Box and the likes..... ahhhhh youth.....

[@Pencilfiend241]

as a gen z guys, we have the ability to NOT continue the cycle of decrying the other generation. We should be supporting each other. ESPECIALLY AS THEY ARE KIDS.

[@katskals8046]

Every generation just wants to shit on the next and it sucks.

[@Pencilfiend241]

@@katskals8046 fr

[@chh066]

It won't work. Doesn't matter how hard you try, the rest won't follow your vision

[@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д]

​@@chh066 it's important to shit on new generations personally but not actually express your thoughts to them Why do people not just consider silently hating?

[@oliver_editzz61]

@@ДмитрийОсипов-м9дyeah but the main problem is the older generation complaining about how the younger generation doesn’t have the exact same childhood as them, from what I’ve seen

[@grzexd]

1:45 I had the exact same reaction to teens on Tiktok calling skibidi „childish”, like, my brother in christ, thats what our parents were propably thinking about, like, trollface, YT poops etc, and the fact that it comes from Garrys mod and SFM, which, along with orange box games, portal, half life, CS source etc was a huge part of zoomer childhood just makes it even more delightfully ironic (and proves that internet collective subconciousness does indeed „cycle”)

[@grzexd]

For reference im from 99 so 2 years Gregs junior (my name happen to be Gregory as well)

[@nekomata_aero]

lol as an 05 zoomer i personally love the gen alpha brainrot reminds me of when i was younger just laughing at things that make 0 sense realistically i love it i hope they have fun while they are young

[@Keonggreen]

Same here man, I’m an 05 zoomer and I felt like we were the spotlight in 2019, but as time went on, in a short 5 years people suddenly focused on the next generation like Bruh that’s so quick. Anyway I’m in college right now and I feel old that we’re 19 this year and turning 20 next year feels so UNREAL 😭. By the time our generation finishes education and enter society to enjoy ourselves and settle down we would be in our mid to late 20s which saddens me. Like give me more time BRUH WE’RE STILL YOUNG

[@nekomata_aero]

​@@Keonggreen I used to fear growing old but now im looking forward to it as I realize that I can make my own decisions and pave my own path to success. 20's arent bad and according to most its a time of freedom and enjoyment as we figure out who we truly are

[@kendaljanzen4354]

I'll be turning 24 this year and so far my 20s have been a lot better than my late teens (18-19). Time moves by regardless, we all die and if we're lucky we get old before that happens. I'm no longer stuck around the college I went to because I've graduated, so I think this summer I'll get a seasonal job and spend a few months in another state. With my degree I can get a job that makes a fair bit more money and I can work full time as I don't need to go to classes. So with all that money I can make I'll be moving out on my own (as in no roommates) within the year. Then I can have little parties, invite people over, and do things however I want to do in my space. I used to fear getting old as well, but I remember when I was young I was eager to be able to grow up and do my own thing. So I was setting myself up to consistently be disappointed with where I was at lol

[@stuartcarter4139]

@@Keonggreentbh you’re young until you’re 40 in present day if you take decent care of yourself lol

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

aye we're same age

[@zachariusd6473]

As a former child I just outright believe children are annoying no matter what time it is Also why are people pretending screens are only a problem to the newer generation? Goddamn

[@mattdombrowski8435]

Don't you know? Once you hit your personality stops developing and social problems no longer effect you. /s

[@randomduck8679]

Because Gen Alpha has access to them at an earlier age. Gen Z generally didn't have that level of access back them and the Internet has changed drastically. But people are often in denial about their usage. They'll notice that mental health problems are more common now, but refuse to admit it can be linked to their social media/phones etc because boomers bad.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

"Gen Alpha is doomed," is really just, "I don't understand what has been put in front of me and Iit's put me in a liminal space where my old perspective don't make sense but I am yet to from a new way of comprehending my surrondings."

[@Micharlus]

Well, there's also the fact that kids are generally dumber than adults due to the sheer lack of life experience. And it shows in media they create and consume. Every generation's humour matures with time. I like to believe it acquires something other than just cynicism and ability to laugh at dad jokes. But every new generation's first jokes are bland and immature. And you can't exactly expect them to know any better without them having life experience for it. So there is some truth to that worrying. But just as jREG pointed, you won't get anything done with just whining. Use your experience to help them. Help them evolve their immature new ideas into something more developed while original. Don't forget your own past and your stupid younger years. We used to be dumb too. Just in a bit different way. And it's our duty to share the things that might help escape this stupid zone with younger generations.

[@langedarm1775]

ive never had issues with understanding anything on the internet, if skibidi toilet wouldve been just 3 videos or something that would be one thing but the fact that they have consumed the same exact meme 14,4 billion times in 3 years is something i really cant comprehend. why does skibidi have seasons???? just why? if you make some stupid video thats fine but why does every single skibidi video get absolutely millions of views with the same exact format. surely after 3 years you'd expect them to find some other memes right? is this their E? the post post post post irony?

[@Grant-gq7in]

​@@langedarm1775Watch it

[@wentang9803]

@@langedarm1775 the thing about skibidi toilet, is that it has all the things that would be captivating to a child-brain. Massive scale wars, two recognizable forces battling, not too much plot details but just enough information to jog their curious minds, real progression in the videos (both sides become more powerful as the series goes on), and dumb toilet humor.

[@thegodofsoapkekcario1970]

@@wentang9803Literally Dragon Ball Z.

[@Zamurkai]

When Gen Z discovers Gen Alpha has slightly different problems than them: 😮

[@normanclatcher]

​@@itsmealex588 **laughs in common core math skills acquired via online school**

[@vietinternational5746]

​@@itsmealex588 may photomath and khan academy save gen alpha too

[@rey_nemaattori]

@@itsmealex588 That's been around for decades....

[@letzplayosaurus]

​@@normanclatchergen alpha has proven to have less iq and quite a lot of people are speaking out about how far behind their education is compared to other generations

[@SlapStyleAnims]

I turn 21 tomorrow and can confirm. I feel like I’m still 17 but am as tired as a 40 year old. It’s hard enough to keep track of what my generation is constantly coming up with, meanwhile Gen alpha is a world of confusion

[@ssfc117]

I’m 23. stop being a (). Life is not that bad

[@heroponriki518]

when i was 21 i was 23

[@INSANESUICIDE]

32 here, still feel fairly clueless and as if I am 52 being done with it all.. "just work a summer job" they said..

[@joerogan120]

@@sigurrósicelandare you the real FinlandNorway?

[@monnomestbizarre]

My back hurts

[@taegijoonism]

as a 16 yr old zoomer, i cringe so hard when i see ppl my age saying shit like "gen alpha is doomed bc theyre addicted to the internet/do bad in school/like cringe things" its exactly what older generations said abt zoomers. i hate watching history repeat itself

[@theconversationalelitist6423]

This video single handedly made me age 40 years. I now have a mortgage and two kids. Thanks Jreg!

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

LMAO

[@the-holly-blue8411]

seeing genuine jreg makes me feel levels of deep primordial uncanny and fear equivalent to what i assume it would feel like to be hunted for sport

[@John-cena6483]

But is it really genuine?

[@NoertANobleName]

Genuine jreg isn't real don't be silly

[@shittymcrvids3119]

I'm an atheist, I don't believe in jenuine jreg

[@beyondobscure]

LMFAO WHAT IS THIS COMMENT

[@a-s-greig]

Being a jREG fan and aiming to find a genuine opinion is legitimately akin to hunting the most dangerous game...

[@user-cvbnm]

Millennials are also criticizing Gen Z while they watched Caillou as kids

[@bionetik]

Why is Caillou, of all things, your example for the hypocrisy of millennials? I never watched it, but what I know about it seems to suggest a pretty normal television kids series

[@misterboxhead3045]

​@@bionetikbecause it's cailou

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@bionetik Caillou is pretty annoying. What a Canadian annoyance!

[@alkali_belike]

“I can’t stand this new generation of ipad kids!” *was 4 when the original ipad came out*

[@L0ngb0wCaravel]

Sometimes not even 4 years old

[@ketaminepoptarts]

um akshually i was 5 🤓

[@2DayDavid]

“Every joke is just a more complicated poo joke” - Jreg, 2024 The philosophy books will read

[@Cullendupree]

Friedrich Nietzsche could never have predicted this

[@Alorand]

This video reminded me to mentally categorize Jreg and Skibbity into separate boxes, despite the fact that both are "weird things that young people are into"

[@zelda_smile]

Who knew that funny gmod animations would be coming back stronger than ever

[@yougoslavia]

@@zelda_smile SFM*

[@ffff7164]

Skibidi not Skibbity

[@Alorand]

@@ffff7164 Noted. I'll leave my message unedited so that your reply makes sense.

[@kiunthmo]

skibidi toilet is so much like the early youtube days the very online younger millenials had. we had youtube poops and gmod videos - it's not a big jump to skibidi toilet at all. the skibidi toilet stuff is barely that concerning compared to the other stuff gen alpha (and z) have to deal with

[@robbigonzalli3925]

Don't you get it? It's so over, millions must consume.

[@killgriffinnow]

“It’s not a big jump at all” THAT’S THE PROBLEM. The rot is so incremental that it gets worse and worse and nobody will notice until it’s too late.

[@petitebaguette]

​@@killgriffinnowtheir point is that it's not really worse at all. It's basically the same exact type of content, it's just not the media young adults had growing up If you're gonna complain about societal rot, talk about decay of things that actually matter

[@Micharlus]

@@killgriffinnow Okay nerd. 🤓

[@kiunthmo]

@@killgriffinnow yeah slippery slope is a fair point, though i actually consider that jump to be lateral. i was thinking that skibidi toilet wasnt the canary in the coal mine that people were making it out to be. but maybe if its this pervasive then it actually is.

[@francegamer]

This stuff has been so funny to me because boomers claimed millienials has all these negative traits but those were just traits of kids, and now gen z is doing the same thing except they're like 7. "THEIR ATTENTION SPAN IS RUINED, THEY HAVE NO SENSE OF SELF CONTROL, THEY'RE BABARIANS!" That's how I was in the third grade, cut them some slack broskis.

[@akwaMartyna]

yeah especially that imo the most degenerate stuff still comes from zoome &younger millenials (recording people in public or weird twitter wars, the echo chambers of redpill etc.). sure gen Alpha might make even more annoying stuff but now it's too early too tell, maybe they will actually do better and make stupid pranks irrelavant. skibidi toilet is stupid but not harmful

[@THEBEEEANSS]

I mean, they are worse at reading than their predecessors, but that's just how the school system is nowadays.

[@oblivious_rob1273]

i honestly think it's more a combination of parents not being parents and COVID. can't put all the blame on school, regardless of how shit it is.@@THEBEEEANSS

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

@@THEBEEEANSS test score and general intelligence in the US has slowly diminished over the years. There was a point in time where you got graded for your cursive writing, now they're basically banning the teaching of proper science and history in a few states, and I see teachers complain on TikTok about gen z and gen a but now the school system is literally restricting the knowledge our children obtain because it's not politically correct.

[@endlessbubblebath]

@@that_deadeyegamer7920children want to learn they want to grow and be challenged if the curriculum isn’t stimulating enough of course the kids will be bored and have disruptive issues i hope the curriculum can improve the children deserve better

[@StandardsandPractices]

The existential dread at the realization i am another year older every birthday usually subsides after a couple weeks. It does however get more intense each time.

[@AtomicPeacenik]

Vsauce has a pretty good video on juvenoia. I’ve thought about it a lot since it was posted. Idk I like getting older and working to regulate my own boomer-isms. Young people deserve their own culture and elders shouldn’t stand in their way. I’m about to turn 27 and this is probably the first time I haven’t been able to totally keep up with the pop culture of ourtime. That’s because it’s not created for me & that’s okay. It’s okay to not be young anymore. That said I still think MLG content and surreal memes are hilarious and I am loving how far out Gen A humor is.

[@simonkoeman3310]

On the exact opposite end of the spectrum: I believe that every previous generation has been 100% correct about how bad the next one is

[@us-the-voices]

gen alpha humour is just surrealism and really insightful introspections, like I love their humour! it's very down to earth and communal, it's less of buy this thing and more "reject capitalism and cringe I'm making puppets!" sorta deal. I will support them, and gen beta and everyone after me. they are wonderful kids and they are so creative and constructive and collaborative it's awesome! -pop

[@Sammysapphira]

​@cinninatisinners you're wildly over estimating children if you think they're going to be your commie allies

[@llegando-al-umbral]

Damn, I love reading your perspective. I'm soon to turn 23 and I don't want to join the "Gen Alpha is cringe and doomed!" bandwagon that I see so many peers jumping into. I *may* end up falling to it, since hating the next generation is a tale as old as time, but I want to delay this as much as I can. I'm willing to put in the conscious effort of not clutching my pearls at everything older gens say about Gen Alpha. Though I have not watched a single skibidi toilet video yet, nor do I have any Gen Alpha people in my life, so I suppose it's easy for me to just let them be 😂 But like you said, I don't need to be a part of it. I just gotta let the younger ones have their fun, just like I once had mine.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

​@@us-the-voices I never thought I'd come to an KZbin comment section and get my faith in humanity restored a little bit Oh, the surprises that come with living every day

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

Thank you. I'm gen z and I've been seeing these videos everywhere. I'm like, come on, what did these kids did to you?? 😭 "They can't read" THEY'RE LIKE 5.

[@katskals8046]

I'm gen z and I agree. "But, they like skibidi toilet and it's annoying!" Everyone liked stupid shit when they were kids dude SHUT UP and let them be kids

[@thespookiestboy]

I'd be concerned if someone couldnt read after starting kindergarten

[@bobhasashotgun8951]

Watching Gen Z go from "Ok Boomer" to complaining about a generation of small children mystified me more then "Skibidi Toilet" ever could.

[@clearlikeday]

ok but "they can't read, they can't write, they're addicted to their screens!" knocked me out😂

[@CromCruachTheElderK]

Remember you can put your phone down, restrict your news and meme intake, do focused reading, cut down on stimuli. Heal the nerves and stuff. :) (really works)

[@OhioButtShakerGyattMachine9000]

Why would you restrict your news intake?

[@_aaliyahkc4171]

I calmed down a lot since high school, so I can help out my GEN alpha sister now. I’m 22 and she is 13. She’s going through the same obstacles I went through. She is my Padawan now.

[@katskals8046]

Wait if she's 13 isn't she gen z still? (Because it's 1997-2013)

[@sentient_baby_carrot]

the generations were named and defined by old men in marketing firms and it's really fucking weird that we identify with them so much

[@soffren]

It's actually crazy how accurate this is. It's almost like rich, old, powerful people are the ones who control our civilization or something.

[@Frosty-cg8xf]

As a zoomer who encountered skibidi toilet naturally, I actually found it both entertaining and funny

[@indrickboreale7381]

It reminded me of old G-Mod YTPs

[@-haclong2366]

Same as a Millennial. No idea why so many people dislike it.

[@mrlaz9011]

I guess it's because skibidi toilet became of the many franchises to be consumed by the kid content farm black hole.

[@Sxcheschka]

The only Skibidi I know is Little Big's songs. Their romantic version is the best.

[@weevil_bob]

Thomas the dank engine

[@thegreatandpowerfuldc5977]

Unsurprisingly, jreg has the best take on this LOL

[@xnopytt]

It’s funny how every generation, without fail, manages to be surprised when children happen to not be that smart.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Being in fight-or-flight mode for most of my life has aged me like Solid Snake between games. And I'm not even a zoomer! ba-dum-tish

[@NoahPurdyFR]

Whoever made skibidi toilet is a gazillionaire probably

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

As a millennial, I liked skibidi toilet. Those were some funny videos to watch and had an interesting story, I think the creator did a good job. I never understood why the zoomers hated it. It's no different from their humour at all (which I also enjoy). In fact, at first I thought skibidi toiled was just another zoomer meme.

[@yougoslavia]

Most Skibidi Toilet haters I have seen are gen alpha. They get annoyed by other members of gen alpha singing the song and stuff which is kind of valid but it's no reason to hate the actual thing and they are too young for a YT account anyway.

[@Brent-jj6qi]

The problem isn't really skibidi itself, it's the weird algorithmic soup made from it

[@damprat141]

I've always been an "old" zoomer , I grew up without Internet access for a while, so I never really got that existential dread from kids being kids . Skibidi toilet is no more advanced than Ugandan knuckles and shit like that

[@happycamperds9917]

What I find interesting is that Skibidi Toilet was made in Gmod by someone usernamed "homestuckfan" which seems like the most early Gen Z thing ever.

[@scotthuffman3462]

I'll make it my duty to actively make growing up on the internet even harder for the next generation than it was for me. Thank you for your kind words of inspiration

[@NPCorangebad]

from the beginnings of youtube poop, to the beginnings of skibidi toilet

[@ZTK-RC]

I am a millenial and you made me feel younger some how

[@fingerlickingoooood]

you are old

[@raam1666]

i am a zoomer and im 23 feel old now :) (thats a command not an option or question)

[@gene8447]

Lol they got mad immediately.

[@lakesideghost]

I'm an early 20s Gen Z and I have a pretty regular retail job and I was singing softly to the overhead speaker and this kid who had to be like only 6 years younger me at most said "Not you enjoying the music". Ngl was a bit of a gut punch to my ego.

[@APaleDot]

"we're really missing out on those intergenerational relationships" - jREG, coming out in favor of grooming

[@kajamatousek247]

intergenerational relationships ? You mean grandma saying slurs at thanksgiving dinner ? No thanks Dr Egg

[@illiaavdiienko8177]

thank you so much for NOT making this video essay 40+ mins long for no reason

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

I just had conversation with my 8 year old sister about rocks, how she already knows the different types and how she just… likes rocks for some reason. The point is, shitty parents have always been there - placing a kid next to a screen for too long is probably not good - whether it’s a TV screen (boomers, gen X), or computer or phone. Poop was, is and always will be hilarious.

[@aidendrinkwateroldaccount]

I'm loving the message of this video. Help the people you can, while you can. It's so obvious, yet so hard to truly act upon.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Welcome to being old, my friends. I’m a Xennial (cusp of Gen X and Y), so I’ve been old for ages. It’s not so bad. I hear you eventually get a free drink at Wendy’s

[@lovelyprincesssarah]

Plz I'm 21 😭

[@XenonAdventures]

im turning 21 this december @@lovelyprincesssarah

[@katskals8046]

I'm 17 and my gen z cousin is 14 we ain't old bro 😭

[@g3n0sc1d3]

funniest part of us making fun of gen alpha for skibidi tolite is the fact a lot of us were raised on sfm films to

[@jackieAZ]

I don’t get how gen z reacted so strongly to skibidi toilet, that kinda shit was par for like 2013 lol

[@NOSTahlgia]

I'm in my 30s, I just watched the skibiddi thing, aside from the first few videos I think it's actually a pretty interesting concept and a good surrealist/absurdist representation of modern society with shit for brains and consumed by surveillance culture, tv, loss of privacy etc It's no worse than growing up with teletubbies, barney etc that I had to grow up with, and gen z had 'what does the fox say' and thought that was the funniest thing in the world. Personally my internet humor growing up was red vs blue and some dude singing numa numa at his computer was the funniest thing I had ever seen back in those days

[@zhon5311]

when Greg puts out a genuine video like this, I love it

[@daylonpayne16]

Maybe the real acceleration were the friends we made along the way

[@lipeeefl]

As a gen Z myself, Skibidi toilet is actually pretty good, and kinda reminds me of the older ages of internet and yt poop

[@edgyzero6305]

Yeah I really don't understand how Skibidi is any different from the weird shit Gen Z has made.

[@TheSaival]

one might argue that ytp was ironic while skibidibi seems serious. Its hard to expect meta-irony from young kids. Or, its us, the old farts who are wrong.

[@lipeeefl]

I guess you're right, tho I'll say that kids have the potential to be meta too. Yt poop was more comedy based with edits all over the place, tho I only really got in touch with them during "decline" in the 2010s. I still like however skibidi toilet because, despite the annoying song, short format and the absurd premise, there's actually a somewhat interesting plot going on somehow.

[@changedmynamee]

@@TheSaivalwhy would skibidi toilet be serious? The whole thing is ridiculous. It’s literally singing toilets taking over or smth.

[@LarkeyFactorial]

a combination of _Captain Underpants_ sans Captain Underpants, Transformers, and Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.

[@grandsome1]

I dunno I'm a millennial watched the whole skibidi toilet, smiled and was like: "very good meme/art."

[@cptnd3851]

skibidi toilet is just half Gmod Idiot Box and half Madness Combat

[@ENZO--GABRIEL]

Idk about madness combat it is way different than skibidi toilet

[@Anthaneus]

It’s funny how Gen-z can be used to describe people with houses and stable jobs, and also 6th graders in middle school

[@anaguma90]

I'm a millenial born in '90 and we were once also the doomed young generation on the cutting edge of internet meme culture. I am enjoying watching gen z age and go through the exact same stuff we did. How da fuck I get so old 💀

[@imageword5576]

we get old fast because they human lifespan really isn't that long and the peak of it is very early in the timeline, like 20-25, following by a hopefully slow decline. When I was a kid I thought you'd keep being "young" until you were 60 or 70, but you really stop being young after about 25.

[@anaguma90]

@@imageword5576 I only started feeling "old" physically after 30 but mentally you're kind of in your 20s forever not taking into account gradual upgrades that accumulate over time. So there's a weird disconnect where you feel the same as ever but there's some old ass dude in the mirror.

[@BIOHAZARD_V2]

Im not concerned for their humor, im concerned that the ever-increasing lack of parenting is going to manifest itself by lower intelligence and ability to integrate into society. If a parent never actually interacts or teaches their kids directly, but lets algorithmic content online shape their personality and development, I fear that the long term impacts will be quite negative.

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

As a millenial it's been a blast to watch zoomers go through this after all of the crap they gave us about being old. I'm over here in my 30's thinkin "Eh, my world is on a downward spiral with no end in sight, maybe I have colon cancer and just don't know yet. I'm gonna laugh at poop jokes today. Tomorrow I might get a call that my mom has had another pancreatic attack and I won't feel like it then." Standard horseshoe theory. Never fails. As you become a forreal-forreal adult, you wanna nail down that identity... kill your inner child. But get out there for long enough, you'll be hoping you failed so you can give them a hug and let them know how much you need them and how okay it is for them to keep existing. Enter youthful nostalgia. Seriously man... wanna be miserable? Devote active energy to hating on things that make the most innocent people alive at any time smile and laugh, and make yourself forget all of the things that used to make YOU smile. Things you figure out after being an adult becomes boring and old hat. I don't get to opt out of adult living. My body is slowly rebelling against me. I don't have energy like I used to and everything is less fresh than I remember. So many more things I wish to simply be over and done with. Things that threaten my joy and make me less of a joy to be around. Sometimes I wish I could be a kid again... when these things just didn't exist for me. ...wait, is that where the hate for 'kid stuff' comes from? Are these zoomers just realizing they'll never get to be kids again and going after the kid's fun cause they can't have it no more? Hrmmm.

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

Kids are so damned good at being happy man, all adults can stand to learn from how they do it. I know some folks in their 40's who could stand to let themselves laugh at skibidi toilets. And trust me, those people are NOBODY that ANYBODY wants to be. I don't think THEY even like being THEMSELVES. Laugh and be happy while you can. Forgetting to do that is what makes you become old. One day you wake up dying and realize how much of life has passed you by, how much you just can't comprehend. And then you resent the joy in those around you, and it isolates you. Get mad at the world when really the problem is you. Become jealous of the fact that you have no say, that nobody cares about you, even though you exclude yourself from their world, didn't allow it to show you new things that might've made it place more worth actively being in for you... instead staying in your increasingly more dusty and faded past reality. When that becomes all you have, I don't think there is any going back. And I haven't met too many genuinely happy people who only think of things in terms of the past. Honestly man, in work and play those are the people I and really most people seem to avoid, they kinda let you know they aren't bringing anything new to the table, don't want to contribute something good without taking down something else. Vibe killers. Try to recall how you saw people who put down what you and your friends liked when you were a kid. Remember what that was like, and what those things are really for. What bugs me is how these changes get attributed to some immutable part of human nature... I think the truth is closer to being "It is natural in this world that we have built, for people to become more miserly with age." You always have a say in what you make of things. Or you can lean on "I'm old, this is what I have learned being old is from the people around me." Stop reflecting, deprioritize new information. Embrace the forces of entropy and allow them a spot on your mosaic of self. Settle into a niche and be unchanging till death. Is that what getting old is? If so, I need to go, like yesterday... cause I don't wanna live like that and I doubt if you have to, it's just that a lot of people will and it's considered 'normal' and so, doing anything else is defacto harder. When you're older, you have less vitality to work with, but I think that only means you work a little harder to make sure that the maximum amount of your precious vitality goes into the category of 'living life' rather than 'denying life." If you see people living and being happy, and your default response is frustration, you're becoming the wrong kind of old in my book. You are truly withering at that point, though it takes so long you may not see it in realtime. All I can say is that there are elders who in their twilight years struggle with these kinds of things, and it all kind of comes out of them as their mental faculties fade. I don't want to ride a downward spiral of cynicism for unspoken years only to find myself on an angry island, withdrawing more as my body declines. I think that not only that part, but the whole journey is better when you have things about you that let you connect with people of all types and generations you come into contact with. I think people today don't give that stuff enough attention. More interested in planting that flag with our sense of individualistic identity. It gives you self-solidarity, perhaps a valuable self-integrity. But you have to be careful how far you go when defining yourself by what you are not, what you don't like, what you will never understand, etc. There can be more on the line in your trajectory through life, the relationships you form, where you find fulfillment... it's kinda never not relevant, identity by exclusion is a compromise that gradually bottlenecks you if abused. I think sometimes it's worth looking at things that put you off and making a serious go at getting to the root of why it puts you off, especially if its relevant to a lot of people that you share a community with. I dunno, I look around online and off, and multiple times a week I see these festering hangups in people that sort of cripple their interactions. You work it into a long-term picture of a life and see a staggering accumulation of missed opportunities, which then fuels the baseline bitterness that keeps them on the outside of their interactions more often than necessary. I think of how much more they could have if they could let certain things go. It's easy too look at other people getting older with yuou, growing cynical towards novelty, and think to yourself that you're okay... same as anybody else your age. I think that's a trap though. Just because other people are turning their backs to sources of novelty that might make them feel younger and keep them anchored in a shifting world doesn't mean it's always healthy to do so. I think opting out should only be done out of necessity. At best, it's 'something I don't understand yet.' Sometimes you simply outgrow certain things, but I don't think that means you forget the appeal, or the version of you that stuff appealed to. Keeping a connection to all of your past selves, each engaging with separate realms of newness, makes you more adaptable in your fulfillment and happiness. Just more directions to go in when life throws things at you that block options. I feel like it's when people run out of these options that they retreat into a past world where they start to rationalize not wanting to understand. You tell yourself maybe you don't need to. See peers doing the same and join them. I still think it is all a trap. Every decade, there is a new picture of how you should be progressing. But at the same time, it's like we all forget that point in adolescence when we realized that all adults were fundamentally winging it, and none of them had any real answers about the meaning of life. It's meaningless if you're not sincerely engaging with and reacting to the world around you. None of the most popular arbitrary ideas of what principles to follow or what is absolutely true in a causal sense can sub-in for that. We observe certain patterns in populations as they age, but the why, let alone what is best, is not discernible from that information alone. When we hit this point as kids, we reject the old and only accept the new. Go to the opposite extreme. And then once we get over that we tend to feel embarrassed. I think that's wrong, and we all understood more than we give ourselves credit for. I think that any point in your life, you can elect to temporarily tap into that, turn your back on some familiar contrivances and really embrace some things that are new to you, as though you are rebelling. Never is it not worth it, never do you not return from that with more dimensions to your processing of things. Resign yourself to thinking different, doing different, moving different. Go, explore. Be curious. It's a damned travesty that social norms discourage people from doing this. We could all be so much more vibrant and dynamic without these ideas of self that shackle us down. Being of any particular age doesn't explicitly mean you have to be any particular sort of way - all you're doing is boxing yourself in. You get to a certain age and decide that you think you know what your life is about. After that, your curiosity starts to die and that is when you become stuck in your ways, lose the dynamism of youth. There's a crystallization that I think most people take to just happen automatically. I think that it's more like a resignation in what experiences you'll reach for in life, what you'll let in. It's just so normal for people to do that as they age that it's not seen as a resignation, but rather an acceptance of the inevitable - and therefor a mark of increased maturity. None of that is hard truth though. Again, if you really sit with yourself and explore doubts in what you do/don't like, how you define yourself, what influences... status quo ideas about milestones for getting older start making sense. I'm of the view that they've always been too general to adequately encapsulate all that a person is... but that's an even bigger ramble lmao It's not the world that leaves us behind as we age. We tire, and leave it behind willingly, not reflecting enough on the value of the ballast we dump in coping with the adult reality... all of the things we give up on over the course of tending to needs and long-term goals. Never forget that kiddies, or you'll be the old person you used to hate one day. Don't forget how to be in the moment and have fun. And don't look down on those who remember it better than you - its a learning opportunity. Let them remind you of what you're forgetting about life as you become inundated with adult challenges. And eyes on the battlefield, not the horizon. The older we get, the more easily we forget how to be present. Comes with the territory of adult worries and responsibilities - the world-weariness that comes with a nuanced understanding of your homeworld. Fortunately, the younger and purer of our race our here to remind us. But sometimes we need to forget preconceived sensibilities and reach out to something new. IDK, to me the whole 'I'm old' excuse is much akin to so called introversion hiding things that meaningfully hurt their lives behind that label. I think "No, that's not why you're a hater... I know old people who aren't like you." Just like I know introverts without social anxiety. Again, you choose to categorize yourself in those ways. There are other ways of coping and seeing the world around you. Don't complain that you can't relate, or that no cultures relate to you, when you're barely trying to connect with people in the world around you in earnest.

[@circuitbreaker7860]

Wow, just wow. Genuinely from the bottom of my heart, thank you. You just put into words so many of the things that have been blocking me from living my youth, since when I was a child. Thank you :3 Are there any specific videos, movies, books etc. that inspired you to these ideas, or just raw introspection?

[@deepspacecow2644]

Yup, that is it lol. It just recently hit me that I will be an adult within 6 months, and that there is nothing I can do to stop it, or the societal expectations of me. AFAIK all happiness comes to an end in adulthood, not what my intuition tells me, but what I have been told. It might just be easier to ditch the advice of older people and try to enjoy it, IDK though. My intuition tells me that I will finally have the freedom to do what I want to, make money, and finally put my skills to use and do something with my life.

[@diluzo]

I was born in 1998, so I'm on the older side of Zoomer, i'm consistently cringing at how poorly gen z as a whole reacts to getting older, people picking on the older AND younger generation for being "lame/cringe" while pretending they didn't have their own awkward cringe phases. I also keep seeing other gen z people born in between 2000-2005 trying to gate keep the "gen z" title, the generation is eating itself until it's just insufferable people afraid of getting old. I'm glad I still have my neurodivergent nerd friend group, we still have our "cringe" hobbies, some that are spiraling out of obscurity and gaining more traction (like dnd), it makes it easier to bear through the generational drama when you managed to find your crowd.

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@diluzome fr

[@rikustorm13]

Tbh I don't mind being an "older gen z"

[@VestigeFinder]

it’s so joever for gen alphacels

[@atk2597]

Me and ppl born in 2003 have one thing in common, and one key difference. The similarity is, someone from ‘03 and I, from ‘97 are both in our 20s. The key difference is, I’m from the 20th century, and anyone born in ‘03 is from the 21st century. Both legal to drink, both the same age range, sorta, but born technically in two completely different centuries…

[@DarthGriphin]

"Gen beta is so cringe, we watched the real stuff such as skibbidi toilet and cocomelon"-Gen alpha

[@urpetdog]

i feel like so many people who say shit like "i used to watch sfm, skibbiti toilet is the same thing" are intentionally ignoring the fact that this is a lore heavy series about toilets and that this is what kids think good writing is and is actually WAYYYY more popular than sfm. when we watched sfm, at least for me, i knew there wasnt supposed to be lore and that it was just shitposting. if i wanted good story telling, id watch tv shows. but younger people are invested in shit like skibbidi toilet as if it were on the same level as a nick or cartoon network show that actually has some sort of human voice behind its characters as well as decent looking animation. i dont get how people are just blatantly ignoring this very obvious fact just to be like "zoomers are acting like boomers" that being said, jregs right, if you got younger siblings or family members, help them!! show them some fucking tv shows or something with an actual plot, characters, and visual style and maybe we can make one less skibbidi toilet fan.

[@turdytootsan3258]

You're taking this way too seriously man, I'm sure most of the kids watching like it for being dumb fun and even if they don't, they're kids. They'll grow up and get a better grasp on good writing. I highly doubt the kids that thought SONIC.EXE was peak horror when it was written still think that today.

[@ripit.3457]

there wasn't supposed to be lore in skibidi toilet either. it was just a one-off gmod meme that the creator didn't expect to blow up in the way that it did. once it blew up, he felt like he needed to do more.

[@OmegaCorsair]

We’ve became the Very Thing We Swore to Destroy…

[@vfanon]

“Find people you love, hold them close, hold them when you can help them when you can” Can’t believe Jreg read desert…

[@mr.normalguy69]

It's hard to believe that Jreg was born in the late 1900s 💀

[@loserchan2360]

Fr 💀

[@HonneTheFinnicHeathen]

As a gen z, I was clearly born in the wrong generation. I mean why didn't my parents put an iPad in front of me and make me hooked on the brainrot? These kids get to be called alpha, I wish that was me. I envy my 5 year old nephews knowledge on the Skibidi lore. God I was born in a wrong generation.

[@chinggiskhan6678]

If we're talking about which generation is doomed, it's zoomers, it's us who's fucked. Gen Alpha gets to go through all the internet bs when they're quite young, so they get to reach internet maturity so much faster than us. I've noticed that Gen Alpha actually has motivation to do things, even the older ones, which is a breath of fresh air compared to the zoomer "Everything is terrible" mentality I see everywhere. The difference between gen A and zoomers is fucking palpable even in my own household. Gen A typically go outside more, attend more social events and act like normal people. When they grow up, they'll be spending less time online than us because they had the time we didn't to figure that out. While we'll be in our senile years ranting and raving about how fortnite was when humanity peaked, Gen A will be talking about the footie match

[@ravenger5672]

Yet there are people saying the exact opposite about both generations and showing video evidence of it. Maybe we’re all just individual people, and all of these generations are made-up nonsense? Just random people sticking random points on a timeline and grouping people up.

[@KingdomHeartsBrawler]

I'm not entirely sure why everyone is treating Skibidi Toilet as some kind of aberration when the whole thing feels like something straight out of the mid-to-late 2000s Internet. You could've told me it was made in 2007 or 2008, and I'd believe you.

[@MediumDSpeaks]

Im either the youngest millenial or the oldest zoomer depending on what data youre looking at. I feel outrageously old im gonna be 30 soon, but in the real world im still seen as super young.

[@kikivoorburg]

Modern healthcare means that the age in years corresponds to a “younger” physical state each year as improvements keep being made. Assuming you live somewhere safe and have decent access to healthcare, 30 is realistically ~1/3rd of your life. Even just a few decades ago it would’ve been significantly less! It makes sense the world still sees your generation as young!

[@bunsenn5064]

I never really worried all that much about the future generations, but I will admit that the statistics regarding academic performance and behavioral repertoire in the most recent generation do worry me a bit. And considering who is raising them, maybe we need to shift where we’re looking.

[@OrdinaryThings]

YES

[@robertkillian7119]

Frickin love skibidi toilet. I predict it will be cited in texts of the future as the ne plus ultra example of post-post-modernism.

[@Ivvn-ti5sl]

IT'S WEIRD TO ME (gen z) WHEN I SEE PEOPLE CONFUSING AT GEN ALPHA'S HUMOR LIKE I ALWAYS THOUGHT ALL INTERNET HUMOR WAS RANDOM AND IRONIC SHIT 😭 (also great video)

[@karlsnod2784]

I love seeing history repeating... But terrified because of it...

[@raysalter2270]

I’m 20th century kind of guy born in 1953 I was 19 when I died in the Easter Offensive of 1972 was a teenage Boomer in Vietnam smoke some weed now I'm gone. “The Average infantry soldier had about 90 seconds to live in fire fights because of Vietcong Machine Gun nest were so effective during the Easter Offensive”. Just fade away.

[@milkmanswife93696]

my daughter is gen alpha and I could not be more proud of her

[@Mooglatan]

I couldn't be less proud of you.

[@fingerlickingoooood]

what the guy above me said

[@badza47]

I couldn't be more proud of you.

[@badza47]

make sure you like my reply above so we can beat the Mooglatan nation fellas! lets go!

[@kikivoorburg]

Congrats on not being a terrible person! (judging by the replies, a surprisingly rare quality.)

[@pascalvautour2774]

i really like the advice about helping the next generation in ways you can. did exactly that last week and i think it felt very natural and worked out pretty well!

[@blank_jenkins]

Skibdi Toilet is highly underrated, and as a Millennial I have the wisened wiseness to Millennialsplain the deepness of this Zoomer cultural artifact. In this world that appears ostensibly meaningless, the human visage nonetheless sings the song of his culture into the void due to his human need to create art and beauty. In contrast, the CCTV-headed business suits which are the result of late stage capitalism culminating in capital itself becoming cybernetically embodied always inevitably attempt to crush this human impulse. The human v.s. robot motif is echoing the mutually recognised rivalry between the ideologies of Dugin and Land, who see each other as philosophical adversaries. Across myriad multiverses we see the robot(s) try and suppress the song of the human(s) by flushing him down the toilet; sometimes victory goes to the robot(s), other times to the human(s). Across multiple instantiations of the Skibidi Toilet format we are reminded that no matter the outcome of this contest in the particular timeline we happen to inhabit the song of the human will continue to flourish in some corner of the decohered wave function, and also that in others it will be stamped out by the exponential forces of capital accumulation. This is the supervenient message which arises on top of the disparate narratives which, unexamined, naively appear to be a mere oscillation between optimism and pessimism, just as the gestalt of metamodernism is something greater than a mere oscillation between modernism and postmodernism.

[@blank_jenkins]

(I'm not achtually a Dugin fanboii, this is just a narrative.)

[@LarkeyFactorial]

I cannot believe this was not procedurally generated and/or used an L-system

[@blank_jenkins]

@@LarkeyFactorial 😂 I mean, I *am* a neural net, albeit a biological one.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

this really does sound like someone from the generation who was actually scared of jeff the killer

[@BazHimself]

i dreaded the moment i become the old man, yet it draws closer

[@fanrco766]

I think this is just a cultural shift where we are seeing kids grow up enjoying independent content, as opposed to ourselves and past generations who all did the equivalent of gen alpha except screaming "minion" or "spongebob" or "gumby" or whatever. But since those things came from TV or movie networks, they have a more shiny, clean cut, socially acceptable feel to them then things made independently like G-mod edits or digital circus do. I'd worry more about the AI generated content ala baby youtube than stuff like skibidi.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

to be honest spongebob was a lot different and a bit more intelligent. minions/that godamned orange were gen z's equivelant

[@jackofallthinks]

An almost completely unironic jreg vid is the wildest shit and im here for it

[@quinnjohnson9750]

I can't wait for what Gen Beta gives us, the Gen Beta drop in 2025 will be lit!!!!!

[@karlilinux]

another one? I am born 2008 and so Gen Z, kind of on its edge, but don‘t really feel like 15, time went by a lot the last years and I have until maybe 2 years back not even realised there is another generation already being born…

[@hatemastertenn1048]

2025 is kinda early tho

[@y11971alex]

As possibly one of the last Millennials to be born ('95), I'm just sitting in a state of Nirvana watching kids talking like adults about smaller kids while I'm not totally out of kid mode myself

[@muszyn.]

i'm about to turn 24, i have hair growing on my back, strained leg and forklift license that needs renewing it never been so over for zoomers

[@aaronsmith1474]

Skibidi toilet belongs in the Louvre.

[@dianabarnett6886]

Hey, you want to talk about embarrassing boomerfication of generations, take a look at X. "Aw, look at all these weaker young generations! We're badasses because our parents didn't love us enough, and our middle-aged, arthritic selves are gonna save the world now!"

[@quinnjohnson9750]

AS a person who has been around Gen X this is so true. But us Millennials also have the messiah complex as well tbh.

[@NevisYsbryd]

​@@quinnjohnson9750So do Z and A. Z expects to fail at it, though, and A are still children.

[@rovertronic]

22 y/o zoomer here. Success without a successor is failure. I will always support the next generation no matter what! Doomerism is stupid. We're making fun of generation alpha for liking skibidi toilet, but you've got to remember I loved equally brain rotten stuff such as weegee, pingas, YTP, and MLG compilatiations when I was their age.