• Damage@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    Reaction gifs were always cringe. Emojis are as well, the only cool emotes are text smileys >:|

  • snapoff@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Gen Z is wrong about skinny jeans. They’ll come to the conclusion that wide legs are more of a hinderance in their own time. Let them learn from their own mistakes, like we had to in the 90s.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The people who wear white socks with slides in public have something to say about my ankle socks? Get off my lawn, idiot kids.

  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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    4 months ago

    I never got on board with reaction GIFs (or GIFs in general). The nerdy side of me says “what a terrible format” and the Millenial, dial-up me would rather use text.

  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The ignorance of op. They don’t find reaction gifs cringe because they are inherently cringe, it’s because you and people your age use them. Stop with the reaction gifs and something else you do will be singled out.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    why do you give a shit what gen z thinks? young people think calling everything cringe is a replacement for a personality. the best part of getting older is not giving a fuck. why are you doing this to yourself

    (this isn’t anything against gen z i only named them because of the original tweet, I’m speaking in general)

    • yrmp@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Terminally online people are always fighting these silly mini-culture wars through the social media platforms our tech overlords have cursed us with. As self-centered consumers of content all day, they lose perspective, and feel the need to maintain their self-esteem and dignity by scoring points with “hot takes” or staying on top with current trends to stay relevant. Some of these takes stick for lack of a better term, and serve as a litmus test for whether you’re a member of the cool in-group, or the cheugy cringe ok boomer out-group.

      This serves the overlords by dividing us further, and preventing class consciousness by removing our ability to relate through our innate humanity, since everyone is now a classification that can be marketed to in a nice neat little box packaged and sold to not even the highest bidder but anyone who wants to pay for it. Instead of having a personality and seeing the value in all human beings, they commodify themselves and others into their perceived advertising footprint. I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but it certainly feels that way these days based on the garbage I see coming from short form video content.

      If I haven’t made it clear, I’m of the opinion that short form video and social media are really bad for us for a variety of reasons, but especially as a social bonding mechanism.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    As a millennial I’ma have to just come out and say it:

    The way we’re all pilling on gen-z and saying they’re all dumb for this… It’s giving Boomer. Not a good look.

    Even assuming this was really posted by a gen-z, we can still do our own thing while they make whatever the new cool thing is. We don’t have to try to be cool forever. We’re old now, folks, it’s ok

    • threeduck@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Unless I’m reading it wrong, both people here are trying to look cool in front of Gen Z, and are giving up things they like in order to accomplish that.

      My general understanding is that the Millenials really like Gen Z. I know I do, they seem funnier, smarter and more socially conscious than the groups I grew up with.

      • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        Gen Z here. Your interpretation seems correct to me, but I’m also on the way older end of the generation.
        Contrary to popular belief, it’s super common for millenials to hate on gen Z for stupid stuff the same way boomers do, but this thread is not an example of it. It’s just a bunch of people saying “do what you want, don’t need to be cool” and playful teasing.

        Also, it might just be because I’m on the older end, but I haven’t even heard of anybody from my generation cringing at any of these things. Either there’s a bigger divide between older and younger than I thought, or we’re getting accidentally lumped in with gen alpha again.

        • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de
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          4 months ago

          My youngest sister (turning 18) compared me to my boomer aunt, when I was using gifs in a chat with her. I’m in my 30s, being told you are the same as one of the most boomer persons you know, caused some form of psychic damage I wasn’t prepared for…

          • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
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            4 months ago

            Huh. Most of my friends are in the older gen Z and younger millenial range and reaction GIFs are everywhere in every chat we have. I’m just about the only one who doesn’t use them, and it’s not because I find them cringy, they’re just not my style.

      • Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        You’re reading it right. Not sure how one could read this any other way.

        However, misunderstanding content online is often framed as a boomer thing so OP’s comment still works surprisingly well.