You guys act like “generational conflict” is something young people actually care about deeply and not just because it’s funny to make fun of something weird. If anything, it’s mainly millennials shitting on each other for being “snowflakes” since 2015.
In one breath you say this stuff is "just a joke," and in the next breath you say [entire generation is doing X since year XXXX]. Who are "you guys"? Why are you simultaneously buying into intergenerational conflict while pretending it's just harmless banter? I have never done the "snowflake" bullshit and don't intend to start. Actually talk to me and not some preconceived notion.
Maybe I’m not terminally online enough, or perhaps it’s because I have adblockers,
I'm happy for you. I have adblockers too. I don't think of this discussion as a contest about who's online less. I don't think you do either. I'm sure we both have urgent responsibilities outside of posting.
but I have no idea what “marketing” you’re referring to. Juuls only being for 15 year olds Or some shit? I have no doubt they’re scheming, but I don’t know any zoomers who bought shit or believed in a movement because it made them feel younger = superior. They usually just buy stuff because it’s shiny and new or nostalgic
The demographics themselves are marketing. Going around thinking of people as "zoomers" or "boomers" or "millenials" or "gen X" is all marketing nonsense. Why is someone born in 1993 a "millenial" and someone born in 1995 a "zoomer"? What warrants that kind of segregation? I see it as a divide and conquer strategy. Let me give a concrete example, my mom, who didn't raise me, and is trying to reconnect with me in my 30s, is constantly sending me memes that she thinks are about me, because I'm a "millennial" in her mind, and she thinks she can understand me by sending me "relatable" "millennial" memes, but they seem to me reductive, astroturfed, and a shortcut to really understanding people by generalizing them with everyone else who was born at the same time. They're social constructs. I ask her questions about her instead of sending her "gen x" memes.
Luckily the average worker wants to be comfortable and won’t just dismiss your suggestions just because of your age or some dumb shit like “ok boomer.”
Wouldn't have suggested otherwise. Look. The context of the conversation was I was responding to someone who, at least it seemed to me, bought into some weird marketing demographics astrology, and confusing what pundits say for what entire generations of people actually think. That's all. If an article written by some bourgeois boomer says "gen y and gen z are ruining the housing market", it doesn't mean "boomers think gen y and gen z are ruining the housing market." it really means "the old bourgeoisie think the young working class are ruining the housing market". It's a class scapegoating and a divide and conquer strategy. I don't think there's much actual utility in buying into these random astrological demarcations that were dreamed up by marketing scumbags.
But if you refuse to organize with someone or communicate someone over some benign shit like “haha millennials record themselves in a funny way” then I don’t know what to tell you chief.
Who is this statement intended for? Neither myself nor anyone in this thread has said that they "refuse to organize with someone or communicate someone over some benign shit"
I only see millennials always complaining about “being too old” for some zoomer trend, and not the other way around.
Huh how is that a generational thing? Everyone complains about getting old once it actually starts to happen to them lmfao. Getting old is painful. Your neuroplasticity decreases. Your muscles, nerves, and bones fail you. Your eyesight and hearing fades. Your chances of cancer, autoimmune disorders, and rheumatism increase. That is a universal of the human condition. Nothing can save you from it.
In one breath you say this stuff is "just a joke," and in the next breath you say [entire generation is doing X since year XXXX]. Who are "you guys"? Why are you simultaneously buying into intergenerational conflict while pretending it's just harmless banter? I have never done the "snowflake" bullshit and don't intend to start. Actually talk to me and not some preconceived notion.
I'm happy for you. I have adblockers too. I don't think of this discussion as a contest about who's online less. I don't think you do either. I'm sure we both have urgent responsibilities outside of posting.
The demographics themselves are marketing. Going around thinking of people as "zoomers" or "boomers" or "millenials" or "gen X" is all marketing nonsense. Why is someone born in 1993 a "millenial" and someone born in 1995 a "zoomer"? What warrants that kind of segregation? I see it as a divide and conquer strategy. Let me give a concrete example, my mom, who didn't raise me, and is trying to reconnect with me in my 30s, is constantly sending me memes that she thinks are about me, because I'm a "millennial" in her mind, and she thinks she can understand me by sending me "relatable" "millennial" memes, but they seem to me reductive, astroturfed, and a shortcut to really understanding people by generalizing them with everyone else who was born at the same time. They're social constructs. I ask her questions about her instead of sending her "gen x" memes.
Wouldn't have suggested otherwise. Look. The context of the conversation was I was responding to someone who, at least it seemed to me, bought into some weird marketing demographics astrology, and confusing what pundits say for what entire generations of people actually think. That's all. If an article written by some bourgeois boomer says "gen y and gen z are ruining the housing market", it doesn't mean "boomers think gen y and gen z are ruining the housing market." it really means "the old bourgeoisie think the young working class are ruining the housing market". It's a class scapegoating and a divide and conquer strategy. I don't think there's much actual utility in buying into these random astrological demarcations that were dreamed up by marketing scumbags.
Who is this statement intended for? Neither myself nor anyone in this thread has said that they "refuse to organize with someone or communicate someone over some benign shit"
Huh how is that a generational thing? Everyone complains about getting old once it actually starts to happen to them lmfao. Getting old is painful. Your neuroplasticity decreases. Your muscles, nerves, and bones fail you. Your eyesight and hearing fades. Your chances of cancer, autoimmune disorders, and rheumatism increase. That is a universal of the human condition. Nothing can save you from it.