Okay first of all obligatory "generational labels are bullshit" disclaimer.
But I just noticed a lot of humour made by millennials as adults is very "cutesy" and "dad joke".
If anyone grew up in the 90s or 2000s, you know that we were the total opposite as kids. Seriously it wasn't long ago where the hight of our humour was homophobia and jokes about SA. We were the fucking horrible edgelord generation.
How did we go from being kids that would beat each other up for even looking at the colour pink, to the heckin' wholesome cat video generation?
Honestly I know we make fun of ourselves for the "HECKING POGGER PUPPERINO" shit, but honestly, it's a step up from the edgelord shit we grew up with.
This is, of course, ignoring that a lot of us didn't grow out of it and became your Ben Shapiro's and your Steven Crowders (I am so sorry Zoomers, we failed you hard)
I was in middle school like 10 years ago. Same type of humor. It kinda died down as I got into late high school though
Your brittle bones makes it harder to pick on each other probably. Also, maybe the decaying society we live causes us to develop an infantile disorder as a coping mechanism. Maybe that’s a bit too pretentiously deep. But I mean, back then when society faced similar hardships, people just kinda walked up to the house of the person upsetting them and shoot them. That or have a thriving family/community so you don’t suffer alone. If neither violence nor community is allowed/encouraged/available, then you just have to rely on the heckin pupperino to make you a little more comfortable
Zoomer reactionaries just watch twitch streams all day and watch engagement bait podcasts where some brocoli head pretends to be superior to some model pornstar
While I mostly agree with your comment, I will say I'm not a fan of the idea that liking wholesome or cute things is some kind of arrested development or some other personal failing.
Honestly sometimes I feel it's more mature to embrace what you like rather that be a stoic badass 24/7
I know that's probably not what you meant though, so this isn't like, calling you out or anything.
I was referring more to the “heckin wholesome chungus doggos” type language. Everyone enjoys cute things but i think it’s very odd when grown adults talk to each other the same way i talk to my baby cousins. I also watch videos of cats purring and vtubers, by the way
but if you want another example of the weird infantilizing behavior, just watch the FuwaMoco twins’ highlights (yes. I know its a persona)
Ooooh I get you! Haha, yeah I'm not advocating for annoying baby talk lmao. No worries