Redditor itsDaco wondered who is feeling like age is beginning to catch up with them. So they asked everyone:
"What’s the most 'I’m turning into my parents' moment for you?"
Coupons. When I started noticing coupons.
That's when I knew.
Hush
Grocery Store Noise GIF by TravisGiphy"When I went from 'Oh hey this restaurant has live music, cool!' to 'Dammit - look at them setting up a drum kit. It's going to be too loud. I can't hear.'"
itsalwaysamyth
A little sass...
"I've always had a little sass in me and most of my life, my shyness covered that up. Now I am a one woman massacre. Thanks, mom. My brothers have been telling me for years that I am essentially our mom, to the point of calling me 'little mother (in an endearing way, not a Norman Bates way). I own it."
jilly_is_funderful
Waking Up
"My dad will fall asleep just about anywhere, especially if he sits in a recliner. So after I got my first full-time job out of college, I got home and me and my roommate were gonna watch a new episode of some show. I fell asleep in our recliner in less than 10 minutes. I woke up after the show ended and my roommate was like yeah you were out and snored a little."
timshel_life
45 conversations...
"Sometimes I will say certain words and I’ll turn around because I thought my mom said something. It’s really scary how me and her share 98% of seemingly random idiosyncrasies."
"We both talk to ourselves. Full on 45 conversations with ourselves. We both do this counting this when some of the numbers turn breathy as we count."
"We both shake our heads and point our fingers the EXACT same way when we’re yelling. Sometimes I’ll stop mid fight because I can see my mom making the exact same motions and it freaks me out."
PaulSheldonsFeet
You Win
Super Mario Dancing GIFGiphy"My 10 year old nephew let me win a video game cuz he felt bad for me, like I did to my dad 25 years ago on Super Nintendo."
dipdipbeantot
Ah... passing on the gift of the game.
Exhausted
Sad Family Time GIF by LifetimeGiphy"My dad has in a way worked himself to death. Now he's retired. When he comes over now as soon as he sits down on a couch he falls asleep within minutes. I'm noticing couches are starting to have the same affect on me."
xXEvanatorXx
Thanksgiving...
"My SO and I were packing and getting ready to road trip to some family’s house for Thanksgiving. As I was cleaning up the house my SO said something along the lines of, 'don’t worry about it, you can clean when we get home.' I replied with, 'I do NOT want to come home to a dirty house.' At that point I realized I’m turning into my mother."
phuckyouverymuch
Looking
"My mom used to find things for us in a minute after we had been looking for hours. My siblings and dad sometimes lose things and ask me to help because 'I always find it magically' .... I’m actually very excited about the mom touch to finding things."
HeyYouThere101
"I started dating a mother of 4. She has the Mom touch on so many levels... and I’ve for sure abused it."
"The other day I was on the phone with her and said I couldn’t find my iPad. She told me to check under a box I just brought in from my car. She hadn’t been over for a couple days, though I was on the phone when I got the box. But...
No clue how it works."
HiddenA
Generations
"The moment I saw a high school picture of me... turns out it was my dads high school picture. I'm identical to my father and it's annoying as can be."
befries
"Same. I look just like my old man. Baby pics, childhood pics, all the way up to a picture my mom showed me of my 7th birthday party when he was my age now. But good news is, you know what you'll look like when you're older, and can plan accordingly."
snazzywaffles
Plastics
Rubber Band Rainbow GIF by Kev LaveryGiphy"As I stared into the mass of various saved rubber bands and twist ties."
docjohnholliday
"I have to dump the 4,786 plastic bags my brother will save and keep 5-10 of them."
I do love rubber bands. I'm growing I guess.
Redditor VictorPumpenstein wanted to talk about what truths were hidden until it was too late for each group as we aged.
"What is the biggest lie sold to your generation?"
Beepers. I was told my beeper would be forever. Alas...
You Still Here?
"Gen X-er here... we were told that the boomers would eventually retire. Still waiting for that to happen while rapidly approaching retirement age myself."
drsfmd
Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth MeyersGiphyJOHNNY!!
"Don’t act up in class Johnny, It will go on your PERMANENT RECORD!!"
ThePracticalDad
"I worked in records for a public school board many years ago. The only thing colleges ever requested was transcripts and IEPs if a student had one. However, the police would request full disciplinary records of someone was going to be hired. And unless a student had a disciplinary hearing at some point, most records other than transcripts are destroyed after 7 years."
War Over
"The war on drugs."
2003gts
"Poverty and terror won theirs, too. Turns out, declaring war on a concept without attacking the societal roots of the problem is just a way to funnel more money into the military-industrial complex."
MrVeazey
"Shout out to pharmaceutical companies for winning the war on drugs."
Responsible_Tell1589
instead of cardboard...
"Plastic recycling. I remember when grocery stores went from paper bags to plastic because 'they're recyclable!' Literally everything else started coming wrapped in a ton of plastic (instead of cardboard) because it was recyclable. Single use plastics were great, because we'd just recycle the plastic, and use it forever! Turns out, it was just cheaper, and recycling had nothing to do with it. Most of that plastic can't be recycled anyway."
DifficultMinute
Food Contents
"Fat is bad, sugar is good."
Thesorus
"This is why America has an obesity epidemic. Even now, older generations tout the health benefits of low fat things, without bothering to look at sugar contents. High sugar processed foods that happen to be low in fat destroyed multiple generations. Thankfully I think Gen Z might be the turnaround. Older generations are pretty messed up."
Bulky_Consideration
Unprotected
"Medicare and social security will protect you. Based on how things are going, anyone with 30 years or more before retirement better have strong backup plans."
iteraco
Medicine Pills GIF by FergieGiphyOh Medicare and social security. What. A. Disaster. We are in trouble.
Just Type
"You will always have to write in cursive."
hakuna_matitties
"I hated those cursive books and being 10 and still couldn't figure it out. My sister a year behind me never had to write cursive. I firmly believe my year was the last year to deal with cursive. This was back in 2012-2013."
chonketteseal
take notes GIF by US National ArchivesGiphyIt's Broken
"Climb the corporate ladder."
UKS1977
"It's not a ladder, it's a pyramid. Only one person can be CEO, a handful can be executives, a bigger clump can be in some form of middle management, but the majority will always be 'individual contributors' - what an amazingly corporate term."
"You're often better off with an in-demand skill set that you can shop from company to company. Unless you enjoy fighting and scrabbling and climbing over people to keep getting promoted. Sure, you may have crappy bosses, but even the CEO has to go in front of the board and be told everything that's going wrong."
towerdweller
I'm Good
“If you don’t go to college, you’ll die broke and alone on the street.”
googlyeyes183
"I wish i hadn't been pushed so hard to go to Uni at 18. I wasn't ready yet and i didn't know what I wanted to do with my life yet. Asking a 16 year old what degree and vocation he wants is just a bad way of doing it!"
Relentless_Fiend
"My principal in high school was upset at me because I wasn't going to college. He told me multiple times that if I don't, then I am just throwing away my intelligence. I never went to college because it just sounded miserable and expensive. I worked a few different jobs after high school and learned a lot then started my own business. Glad I never went to college."
acetamethemphetamine
Not True
"Work hard for your company and they will take care of you."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
whatintheactualfeth
Season 1 Lol GIF by NBCGiphyThe Crap Job
"If you work hard and accept lower pay it'll pay off in the end."
thrownawaybyubefore
"That works only to put experience on your resume. Then you find a better job, then a better job. The people who pissed me off were the ones who told me (or assumed I was planning) to stick to one shi**y job forever."
BubbhaJebus
Source of LIfe
"Growing up everyone I ever met said to never get a credit card. The only way to buy a house is with credit and the only way to actually get credit is a credit card. In my life I paid off 3 vehicles early only to be told the second they were paid off my credit was dropped to a no rating because I wasn't actively in debt."
Squantoon
Hiding
"'Duck and cover,' somehow hiding under my student desk would allow survival from a nuclear attack."
biggesterhungry
"I always laughed at this concept as well. 'How is a desk going to protect me from that?' I researched it. Turns out the government really didn't give it as advice for people that were near the epicenter of the blast but those that going to be potentially effected further out by blast shockwaves. They deduced that hiding under your desk would partially protect you from flying debris."
robert238974
Once
“'It’s a one in a lifetime event! These things don’t happen all the time'” - In reference to things like wars, devastating floods, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, mass shootings/gun violence, terrorist attacks, and now… pandemics, apparently. How many more ‘once in a lifetime’ freak events am I going to be living through? When can we have some peace and quiet?"
One-Two3214
I Do's
"Weddings, it should be a huge wedding with a crap ton of guests we don't care about."
elegantloba
paul campbell love GIF by Hallmark ChannelGiphyAll of it!
"You can have it all... that both parents can work, go to school, raise kids, have time for their marriage, and have hobby time."
Prestigious-Owl-6397
"You can have all those things, just not at the same time, especially work/school OR work/kids OR school/kids. And it requires both people to be equal contributors to housework/child-rearing."
ace_at_none
Fake It
"That cheaters never win. Between the removal of the Fairness Doctrine leading to extreme and overt media bias leading to people living in echo chambers, phrases like 'fake news' negating inconvenient facts and halting critical thinking, and Gerrymandering being legal cheating is obviously the American Way. Sadly, few people even realize it and when presented with the facts cannot accept them because generations of Americans were brainwashed into blind faith in the american system and its fairness."
Grenuille
Generations
"Born in the early 80s, kind of between Gen X and Millennials: you have to go to university if you want a real job. I try not to hold this against my parents because it worked out for me, but it took me a very long time to pay back my student loans."
"I guess the key difference is that at least I was able to pay mine off; anyone born even just a couple of years later than I was has it considerably worse."
Grenuille
So much changes over each generation. How will we ever learn?
If I sound salty and confused about all this newness it's because sometimes I am. I work in it every day, but "it" changes so fast that some days I want to give up and just go back to riding horses screaming through the countryside as a means of sharing news.
I'm not the only one.
Reddit was asked to air their beef:
"Older generations of Reddit, what are you tired of hearing from younger people?"
So I guess this is us elders lecturing you youngsters?
Get it together, people!
Nothing New
"There are a lot of younger people who seem to think that they are the ones who have discovered all the injustices in the world."
"I think every generation is like that, though."
"The young become aware of the bad things in the world, wonder why life is that way, and then blame the older generations for not doing anything about it, without recognizing how hard the older generations had to fight just to get things to this point (from much worse situations)."
"They don't realize that real social change takes a considerable amount of effort from a lot of people over time. Nothing changes overnight."
"I can remember thinking the same sorts of things when I was a teen and young adult, though, and I'm sure that young people from generations older than me were the same."
"It is a function of age, rather than generation."
-waqasnaseem07
Useful Schooling
School Teacher GIF by Sesame StreetGiphy"Lots of younger people complain about school failing them by not teaching them every little thing in life."
"I've seen people use that as an excuse for not being able to cook, do laundry or taxes."
"You literally have the entire world's information in your pocket, but somehow can't put "how to cook pasta" on youtube?"
-[Reddit]
"Never seen anyone complain about school not teaching them how to cook or do laundry."
"But taxes? It's messed up if that's not taught"
-Testastic
Filters
"From my own generation, I hate how having 'no filter' and 'being a b***h' are considered okay these days."
"If someone is a rude POS people aren’t going to want to be around them. But then they blame you for that like your job is to be in their presence so they can criticize and berate you for the most ridiculous things."
-sugarcookie821
"That’s not an age thing, it’s a trashy people thing."
"Can’t tell you how many times I’ve swiped left the moment I saw 'no filter lol,' and I’ve filtered out anyone under 40"
-CoastRanger
Perspective
Shocked Perspective GIF by Digital PratikGiphy"At 31, I’m not sure if I can answer this question."
"It applies to everyone, you just mostly see it from younger people: Judging people from history through the lens of today’s standards."
-TDeath21
"This is called 'presentism' by historians, and is something that they actively try to avoid."
"Note, however, that this doesn't mean historical figures should get a free pass on sh*tty behavior. Many of them were awful even by the standards of their time."
"Columbus is a good example; his behavior towards the natives wasn't just shocking by current standards, it also horrified his contemporaries. Bartolome de las Casas did an excellent job documenting this."
"H.P. Lovecraft is another. While the average person in the 1920s would have had views considered racist by modern standards, Lovecraft's were exceptionally racist even for the 1920s. Calling him a racist is entirely appropriate."
-KinneySL
Hack
"Referring to any and everything as a 'hack.' "
"Never figured out how to properly use something until someone on YouTube showed you? That's not a f-ing hack.That's called learning and using something as its intended."
"Found a faster/better way to scramble eggs with your egg beater? That's not a f-ing hack. That's called technique."
-CobynKwame
"Half of the time these hacks are just basic common sense."
-kimchiman85
Young and Dumb
Frustrated Buzz Lightyear GIFGiphy"In my case I hit an age where I stopped hating the young for being ignorant."
"You're young. I was young. We said and liked dumb things. We were arrogant and thought way too highly of ourselves. Such are the trappings of youth."
"But when you're older, ignorant, and arrogant? F*** you. Play in traffic a-hole."
"But side note to all humans: You have 1 million times the content that was housed in the Great Library of Alexandria in your pocket."
"At all times. At least that much."
"If you're ignorant at all it's due to lack of effort and you should feel massive shame."
-NightEmber79
"The older I get the more I have to remind myself, they’re young kids being young kids; you were just like that at that age too."
-interstatebus
No Offense...
"Honestly tired about everyone getting offended by everything."
"I mean, people will have different opinions than you. Not every difference of opinion is offensive."
"I shouldn't have to support something you believe if I don't believe it."
-atticuslodius
"I think the internet is partly responsible for this. People gravitate to the others that share their opinions and they get comfortable with believing they're right."
"As a friend once said, 'we used to have the village idiot, but with the internet we can make a village of idiots'. "
-Formal_Turnip
Boomer vs Millennial
angry bart simpson GIFGiphy" 'Ok Boomer.' as a response to everything."
"Not every adult is a boomer."
-[Reddit]
"It's so stupid. It's literally just the same generational divide that exists every single generation."
"There's no difference between bitching about boomers as a young person and when older people would blame everything a young person does on 'Millennials'."
"They're the exact same type of people: Idiots."
-FlippersAlterEgo
"It’s the same thing as Boomers calling anyone younger than them a Millennial"
-BlinkerBeforeBrake
Nothing
"61 here, nothing, they should be pissed."
"I hope they change the world for the better. The older generations have really f'ed them over. I am fighting for the rights of my grand daughter right now."
-Longjumping-Sea-1084
"Millennial here. Many of your generation did, but there were also many who really did, and still do a lot."
"I'm gay and respect the hell out of the queer activists before me that got me what I have today."
-badmancatcher
"This can't be overstated. The first wave of openly gay men in the 80s that tried to push for acceptance put up with horrific sh*t including beatings for kicks and straight up murder, compounded by the AIDS stigma, to get us where we are today."
"Nothing anyone is doing today holds a whiff of a scent of a f-ing candle to what they did."
"Also, I see loads of sh*tty gen Zs blaming older generations but doing nothing to help anything other than post on social media all day. Goes both ways. Incidentally, I'm a gen Y"
-Yourfurryfriend2
So Needy
Family Guy Love GIFGiphy" 'Mommy I hafta go potty!' "
"Mommy can I have an apple juice?"
" 'Mommy! Have you seen my Cinderella?' "
"This younger generation is demanding AF."
-ZChick4410
"I Knooowww. She's three and asks me for food ALL THE TIME. Like jeez kid, get a job already."
-ZChick4410
"She ate yesterday! You're not made of money!"
-stryph42
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My eyes. One droops, seems to be a paternal side issue. I'm looking into eye surgery but it's expensive.
Head to Toe
the addams family remix GIFGiphy"Hair on every inch of my body except for the top of my head."
elgatogordo19
"Me too... And I'm a lady. Thankfully, due to the wonders of laser hair removal, no one can tell anymore that I used to look like the love child of a yeti and cousin It."
LilPeaHen
Drenched
"Excessive sweating."
mrzpzp
"Same and the treatments are considered cosmetic where I live. I just want to sweat a normal amount and not have to change my clothes multiple times a day like a normal person. lol"
Kyubey4Ever
"Same! My mom could stand in the sun for 2 hours not breaking a sweat while I will be drenched when the temperature rise by one f**king degree so thanks dad."
lawsuy
Scars of the past...
"Severe acne when I was a teen that left behind scars."
DeathSpiral321
"Acne that forgot to leave with the rest of puberty is also not fun. I have the scars AND I have the angry zits that like to crop up along my bra line. At least at this point, my face is taking the least of it and I don't have deep pockmarks or scarring there. But I don't wear plunging necklines because my chest is a mixture of new and old scars."
ConniveryDives
Brush Away
"Teeth. I brush using an electric toothbrush for 2 minutes twice a day using prescription toothpaste, I floss twice a day, I've had braces and I floss under the permanent retainers once a day, I wear my night retainer every night and clean it every morning, have a dedicated tongue brusher and scraper that I use as needed, I go to the dentist twice a year and get fluoride treatments, I don't drink soda or eat excessive sugar, and I still have cavities."
"I had to get a root canal that ended up failing (missed by the guy who did the root canal and 3 separate dentists) and when the cap eventually rotted off I had to get an implant which got infected, then got infected again, then was deemed chronically infected and had to be removed. Now my wisdom teeth are acting up and need to be removed. I am so f**king sick of putting in so much time, energy, and money to be below par with most of the rest of the world I'm only 33 ;_;"
NeedsItRough
Bad Breed
Red Blood Cells Sickle Cell GIF by DiscoveryGiphy"My parents met in their 20s, bonded over how they both have sh**ty circulation and everyone in their families has crappy circulation, and were like ‘I know, let’s breed!’. Went as you’d expect."
cateml
Bad circulation sucks. People don't understand the issues it causes. All of these can be difficult to deal with.
Bad Moves
poop toilet GIF by Poo~PourriGiphy"Dad has IBS-D, mom has IBS-C. My GI said you’d think they’d meet somewhere in the middle and give you regular bowel movements. Sadly not, I’m also a C."
Torshii
Issues of the Mind
"Likely Alzheimer's. Both grandmas had it, my mom has it, and I'm in my early fifties and starting to feel the beginning of decline. Frankly, I'm scared sh**less."
f_leaver
"I'm in the same boat, 2 generations in my family are diagnosed with it on my mother and father's side. Lucky me it's was late in life for both sides of the family, but I've always had notoriously bad luck so we'll see. If you haven't already, I'd definitely suggest seeing a neurologist sooner rather than later."
Taz447
It's gone...
"Hair loss."
Girlinda7
"Me too, but it's not a full bald. It's much thinner hair by my crown and down the middle of the top of my head. There's still hair there, but if you look at my head from above you can see that the hair there is much sparser."
potatoluIz
"My wife says it not a big deal but I always tell her she would be freaking out if she started to lose her hair too. Hair means just as much to men as it does to women. Confidence killer."
YM1979
Painful Endings
"I'm slowly going blind from RP. Thanks mom. My spinal discs are deflating and pinching off my nerves, Thanks dad."
ruzzerboo
"My son has RP as well. He is blind and uses a cane. He has a good government job, is married with two children. There is no cure but maybe someday. They are always working on trying to find a way to fix the retinal cells that are dying. It will happen but I am not sure if it will be this century."
LazyBox2303
Evolution
Come On Reaction GIFGiphy"Half of my face has my mom's bone structure, the other half my dad. Come on, evolution, I thought this was all about symmetry. OH and they both have addictive personalities which makes substance abuse almost instinctive. Luckily I was a pothead instead of an alcoholic or pill popper. We’re all doing better now LMAO!"
vashonnn
Form the start...
"Hard to tell what was shi**y genetics and what was a result of my mother smoking like a chimney throughout the pregnancy."
TirayShell
"Same. And she recently admitted she drank 2 beers a day as well with me so that's cool. It's a miracle that I'm a functional human."
pennylane3339
Generations
"It's alcoholics all the way down."
faceeatingleopard
"Alcoholism going back multiple generations on both sides of my family. So well documented that one of my great grandfathers was written about in The NY Times back in his day, for a few of his drunk antics. My mother got dementia from alcohol-related brain damage before 45. I just don’t drink at all, I know it’s there waiting for me."
amarg19
barely function
"The gift of over thinking (anxiety)."
Username-xxx
"I feel your pain. It takes a lot for me just trying to function since covid. Social media/news organizations don't help at all."
"Half the population is becoming desensitized, emotionless, and seriously lacking any empathy while the other half can barely function due to the stress of the state of world politics/job market/just trying to survive. The world was not like this 20 years ago, though the signs were there and were being ignored. I want a restart."
CocoScruff
The Slip
"My back went out in my 20s, and wasn't getting better. After a while I couldn't stand up straight, and had to get it scanned. The found the channel in my spine that the nerve goes through is 1/4 the size of most people's, so the very minor disc slip I'd had became a major problem."
"They wound up having to carve that channel (dunno what it's called, sorry) wider. Instant relief, but I now have a pretty weak back that's prone to going out. I recover with rest, now, thank goodness, whereas before I wouldn't. Anyway, that's probably my worst thing, genetically speaking. Bad spine."
Coygon
Blow Ups
"Anger. My father gets angry and used to get violent and even beat up my mom and us kids. My first reaction for anything is anger but over the years I've tried to control my anger as much as possible and I'd say I'm doing a much better job than before."
peoplecallmedude797
Everything
"Being unusually hairy, oily, and large framed for a woman. It's a thing with my family, none of the women in it are exactly the picture of traditional feminine beauty. I have to wear guy's sizes in shoes because my feet are too wide for most women's shoes."
alufangirl1993
Life sucker punches everyone...
"A very rare recessive progressive genetic disorder. I'm a carrier. My wife also is a carrier. Incidence of being a carrier is over 1 in 1,000,000. Unfortunately for our kids, they have a 1/2 chance of being carriers, 1/4 chance that they won't, and 1/4 chance that they'll inherit the double recessive gene and manifest the disorder. 2 out of our 4 kids have manifested the disorder and their life expectancy is 10-12 years. Life sucker punches everyone."
mbstone
It's all a mess...
"Short, acne, small boobs, crooked teeth and underdeveloped/too far back jaw (they got mostly fixed with braces), thin hair, mental illness, scoliosis, tiny toes (what the f**k is up with that, I get too many comments about my baby feet) Can't think of anything else a the moment. It's like I won the reverse genetic bingo. If this was medieval times I would definitely be the repulsive town witch."
amputatedsnek
Well, we are who we are, for better or worse. Let's make the most of it.
People Share The Most Gen Z Comment They've Ever Heard
Generation Z, the generation that follows Millennials, are now somewhere between the ages of seven and 24. With the oldest of their generation being in their early 20s and late teens, they're bound to leave their mark on internet culture and social media.
Though we are still getting to know this generation, they have already shown themselves to be influential on the digital world. They're capitalizing off of their quirks with Instagram influencer brand deals and going viral for TikTok dance videos.
Since they've taken the reins, we see especially from the Black community, new waves of pop culture references that trend so fast it will make your head spin. Redditors told us some of the most typical things a Gen Z kid will say.
Redditor Maxibonlikesflags asked:
If you're trying to figure out what the kids are saying these days, take a look at this list.
Everyone older than 21 is a boomer now.
"'Ok boomer' to a millennial."
- nindesk
"I went back to college last year (I’m 31) and a kid in my class found out my age and was like 'I didn’t know you were a boomer.' I was so upset lmfao."
- girl_in-purple
"I don't know who you are, but I am also upset for you."
- WabbieSabbie
"I’m gen z and I have been called a boomer by a younger gen z’s."
- Child-Reich-66
"Me too, just turned 23 and regularly getting called a boomer by my little brother."
- NoSuspect3688
"I'm dying of laughter" reduced to an emoji.
"💀 this skull emoji when something is funny."
- simp4tedlasso
"Name a more accurate duo I'll wait..."
"Me: 😭✋"
- Phalanx_02
"Please😭🤚🏼 I forgot about that one 💀."
- simp4tedlasso
It's the "I understood the assignment" for me.
“'It’s the _____ for me.' 'Understood the assignment.'"
- Jatheone76
"I listen to a podcast and one of the hosts is obviously a Gen Z kid. She never stops saying shit like 'Can we talk about how literally obsessed I am with this?' Or 'Can we talk about how obsessed I am?' I don't care if I sound like a boomer, that drives me up the wall."
- ryanbuddy04
"I was watching a reaction video (don't judge me) of a young person and she was saying stuff like 'I'm screaming,' 'I'm dead,' at mildly amusing things and she was stone face while saying this."
"The disconnect between her words and actual actions was it's own amusement to me after a while."
- Lost_Afropick
"I'm a millennial and this just sounds like tumblr back in the day."
"'asfsgdgdhsgddjkkksjkkajks i'm SCREAMING.'"
- GloriousHypnotart
"Bussin" is AAVE for good food.
"Bussin."
- Lakeshow0924
"Sheeesh🥶 this sh*t bussin."
- Phalanx_02
"Bing chilling 🥶."
- OpenHead4
Gen Z doesn't remember 9/11
"What was it like before 9/11?"
- Verb_NounNumber
"Honestly I think whatever follows Gen Z will be a post-COVID generation. Children born before or during COVID who never knew about the world before COVID."
- AshFraxinusEps
"We'll tell kids about the days we used to be able to go to the supermarket without a mask. And when people could just go to other countries for fun."
- nerevisigoth
Are they being sarcastic or sincere?
"I love that for you."
- wedgiepick
"I don’t know why this phrase kind of p*ss me off. I feel like it almost sounds passive aggressive?"
- expreince_explorer
"Yes and condescending. It sounds a like a busy mum saying something to fob her child off."
- londonscappo22
Adding sparkles for ✨emphasis✨
"I feel ✨uncomfy✨"
- dead-crimson
"I want to ✨die✨"
- ElLoboLudo
"Related but unrelated to uncomfy: words like 'sewer slide,' 'unalive,' 'la dolla beans,' 'Ed Sheeran.' They're all words that people created because lots of sites (especially TikTok) censor content with certain words. Kinda punk, kinda dystopian."
- SirensToGo
"'Shreks worker or 'spicy accountant' for sex worker or 'seggsual' for sexual."
- mentallyillustrated
"It’s quite fascinating to see language change because of censorship in the digital world. Sounds really dystopian and cyberpunk to me. It’s also nice to see how creative humans can be to evade censorship as a collective."
- Khratus
"Some poor marketing intern's definitely taking vigorous notes on this thread right now."
- Headkickerchamp
"I'm like 99% sure this post was probably made by some 'boomer' marketing guy."
- Wastewatertastegood
Hopefully this list brought you a little closer to understanding the youngster's internet lingo.
But don't get too attached, the next trendy thing to say will have already come and gone before we know it.
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