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 think there is a cycle where wholesomeness gives way into insincere saccharine causing a reaction of apathetic detachment and irony which itself eventually turns into insincere edginess creating the conditions for a new wave of sincere wholesomeness in reaction. At any point of time there are different currents at different stages of this cycle reacting to both themselves and other currents/subcultures within the greater culture.
Bloomer doomer boomer cycle of life
I like to avoid the edginess of the moment and consume it later, when it's fermented into the charming edge-stalgia of yesteryear