Ironically this comment kind of implies an air of superiority over those who enjoy feeling superior, ever completing the infinite circle.

Just like borders, generational divides are fictional constructs. In reality there is enormous overlap between generations.

Subtext. It’s the suggestion that these terms are so incomprehensible as to be overwhelming in the first place. The subtext is that the younger generation is exhausting, specifically in their nonsense or otherness. There’s assuming good faith and then there is intentionally ignoring the forest for the trees, and I think your suggestion is more for the latter than the former, frankly.

This meme sucks and punching down on the next generation sucks even worse, so instead of focusing on all that noise here’s a fun NSFW manga about Gen Alpha slang instead.

I’m approaching 40 and I was online before middle school. This might be the first generation to be wholly raised on the internet (as in the vast majority of children), but it certainly isn’t the actual first.

Ohio, in this context, actually means weird. I don’t know the genesis of it entirely, but they a joke about Ohio being so boring that it’s actually secretly full of weirdness and so now Ohio means weird.

Come the fuck on people, didn’t you make the same promise to yourself that I did to be better to the generation that follows you than the previous generation was to yours?

This shit is so fucking stupid. Do better and don’t become a fucking boomer

I’m aware, but I do it to ensure readers that the content of my message hasn’t changed in the time since the edit, I’m just cleaning up the syntax. It’s a matter of attempting to provide a consistent face.

I’m a Bardiche Bitch, personally

I mean, I think part of it is because they grew up interacting with apps because parents were, mostly rightly, restricting their children from use of the greater unrestricted web. Every modern parent I know had children who knew which apps on mommy or daddy’s phone they were allowed to touch - their games or youtube kids or whatever. These apps provided easy safeguards for parents to rein in their child’s internet experience. Even if these methods weren’t perfect in their attempt (Elsagate and all that), this was still good practice for allowing your child access to modernity in the times you couldn’t fully devote your time to overseeing their activity with relative confidence they were probably not watching wildly inappropriate content.

In a perfect world parents and educators would also be devoting time to teaching their child to navigate the internet and allowing them monitored (with physical eyeballs, not tracking) online browsing time, but I don’t think we can rightly fault the kids for not having received that. Rather than grumbling about the situation, I think we’d be better served accepting it for what it is and instead approaching the topic from a stance of: how do we teach them better behavior and help them unlearn these bad habits?

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Facts. It’s hard to balance my desire for both interaction and autonomy with my compassion for others seeking the same thing, but when it begins to encroach on my autonomy and sense of freedom I find it a quickly stifling feeling.

Ain’t that some shit, right? People say like “try playing multiplayer games, you love gaming!” Yeah except gaming spaces are like, often particularly hostile and unwelcoming?

This is such a weird performative thing, why are we pretending kids are speaking some incomprehensible foreign language? Aside from a couple pieces of really specific slang, most of which is only ever used ironically anyway (I’m looking at you, “skibidi”), it’s the exact same evolution of language and slang as every other previous generation before it, just perhaps with a wider spread and more global influence. And almost all of it can be deciphered with little effort: Rizz = ChaRISma, Gyatt = GYATTdamn (goddamn), etc.

Like I know we’re all eventually going to become the next generation of boomers, such is the curse of time, but jesus christ y’all don’t have to fucking speedrun to that conclusion.

I don’t know about you, but personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.

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Gotcha. Sounds like a blast, honestly. One of my most played games this past year has been Metal: Hellsinger, and I’m a sarcastic dark comedy metalhead, so it sounds right up my alley!

Never heard of that one so I can’t compare

I watched it with my child niece. The first two seasons are legitimately great for a children’s show with a surprisingly deep narrative.

But then season 3 or 4 the production team changed and it went from being deep like Adventure Time to just being generic “good enough” kid’s show.

Legitimately kind of a sad thing, actually

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I’ve never played it, but I’ve heard from a friend that it is actually a total blast assuming your group has a good attitude and open mind going into it

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