It really looks like that’s what they do. My brother (13 yo) stays on the same posts for a long time, let’s them loop for 6 times and then scrolls… And yeah, they tend to okay that stuff really loud for some reason
As a zoomer I still find that stuff strange. Although to all the people saying social media is bad, lemmy is also social media and can be just as bad for you. Go outside, touch grass or something. Better than shitting on some kid who was neglected by his parents and given a phone as a replacement.
new rule for millennials and gen x - if you can complete the phrase “RonCo Showtime Rotisserie - Just set it, and ________” then you don’t get to make fun of tiktok
I blame the phone designers removing the headphone jack. We now have a generation of people who grew up without it,always using the speaker, max volume out loud is just how they exist, it’s the new normal.
I tease my husband when he is on Facebook because my God it sounds exactly like when the kids are scrolling TikTok. Don’t know how he can stand it. But he doesn’t do that out in the world.
I swear, the next time I’m in the situation where someone is blaring their music in public I’m going to go out of my way to jam out with them and appreciate it.
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Your free trial of my transgenerational banter course, Boomer2Zoomer, has expired.
Zoomers are just another generation of humans the same as the last but with different circumstances upon arrival to earth. Can’t really blame them for being born when they were, you’d be a Zoomer too if you were born then. Imagine being born and your mom is addicted to a fucking smartphone and barely pays attention to you and then when you’re 4 she gives you her old phone so you’ll shut the Fuck up and leave her and her phone alone. Like fuck that’s some shit.
Meh. People watch stuff on public transportation, airplanes, or wherever without headphones. It’s maddening. I don’t care what the content is. They’re just being assholes.
The flipping thru media? Shit, look at the age of some of the people creating the “content” (I use that word loosely, the vapid and shallow garbage that consumes the majority of bandwidth is devoid of anything worthy of being called content). There’s a huge span of ages, from millennials to tweens generating the noise. Everyone shouting as loud as they can for views. Heck, even if you’re a conservative ass boomer there’s content for you, how does anyone think all these bullshit Q and pizza parlor pedo shit gets spread around.
Anyway, point being…it’s not the generation being an asshole watching the stuff loudly in public space, there’s plenty of assholes doing it. Just the kind of media they’re blasting is different by age.
IDK, I remember kids blasting boom boxes in the 90s, and others would listen to headphones around their neck with the cans turned out so others can hear their music. It’s not new, people just suck.
A mixture of American society being dumbed down by social media and defunded school districts, neglectful Gen X parents that shoved a device in their hands at 5yo and walked away, and a feeling of detachment from a reality that is becoming more and more bleak as time progresses.
I got on the bus today, and there was this grumpy old guy complaining loudly to the lady in front of him about pronouns.
She was clearly trying to ignore him by pretending to read a book.
He looked up at me and scowled, but he stopped talking.
So I sat down next to him and opened TikTok.
He couldn’t help but be nosy and was staring at my phone, so I picked the most obnoxious videos.
Each time he would show interest, I would flip to the next one.
I’m sure it was annoying, but at least he shut the fuck up for the rest of the ride.
All right everyone it’s time for an old person check!
If you identify with this meme you might be old!
it’s important for you to recognize every generation was cringe because life is cringe. It’s a little part of growing up, try to be kind to those around you even if they’re younger.
Agreed, but listening to anything in a public setting without headphones is a shitty thing to do. It was when I was a kid with a Gameboy or Walkman, and it still is now with tiktok.
This hypothetical person in the green text is in the wrong. However my issue is that it is painted as an issue with the generation rather than just plain human decency. This could be an issue with anyone. It’s deliberately used to paint the generation in a negative light and is an attempt at pretty tribalism that has been tried with every generation.
This tactic has been used to separate generations and create tribalism especially politically for years and I do not condone it.
No, we got beat if we didn’t benefit and follow the rules of community. Now we have selfish “communists” disrupting society with gibberish because they chose tiktok over education.
Every time I see somebody complaining about how (younger) people consume media today, I’m reminded of a video I saw of somebody talking about the so-called “ADHD Epidemic” and this one comic in it of a kid sitting at a desk in school and staring at a flashing billboard out the window while the teacher was yelling at him to pay attention. His response was, “To what?”
Gen X and Millenials are a product of that environment and it’s gotten worse since the rise of social media. Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world of a million points of stimulus attempting to hog their dopamine receptors all at once. Is it any wonder that they can’t focus on any one thing for more than 3 seconds?
All of our attention spans for generations now have been stolen by advertisers looking to make money off of it. The younger generations deserve our kindness for what’s been done to them. Or else we’re no better than those older than us were when we were young.
I’m a millenial (born 1981), and I remember my father (a boomer) complaining about MTV in the 90s and 00s, and how “confusing” it was. He couldn’t fathom how the young people could pay attention to what was being told on the account of how fast and abrupt the cutting was.
Fast forwards to today, and the MTV-style is everywhere: YouTube, TikTok, Reels etc is directly traced back to the fast paced MTV style of cutting.
I remember kids in my class randomly shouting “Waffles!” or “this is a spork!” Because lol so random xd
Kids so obsessed with invader zim that they acted like him in real life
Also l33t sp33k being cool for a minute and “the narwhal bacons at midnight”at the peak of Reddit popularity
The whole gangam style craze. I went to a wedding held in a barn and everyone did the gangam style
People saying “epic fail” all the time
This is just what I can remember off the top of my head, but I think you get the point. None of us are without blame, we are all cringe. Let the kids be cringe too, it’s part of growing up
Not really about generations, it’s more about manners, anyone blasting shit around people who never asked for anything deserve a kick in the groin. Bonus kicks for people ruining the calm in a natural landscape.
Yeah, the people saying it’s “not about the generation” are coping because they don’t want to admit it’s tribalism.
This post didn’t have to mention the generation and most certainly did not have to put it in framing that perported it was the reason they behaved like that.
People in these comments don’t understand how close they are to the “millennials are the problem with x posts”
Exactly. At the end of the day, a haircut, or fashion, or what you like to do on the bus is super unimportant. Manners and common decency are timeless. Too bad that parents aren’t really teaching those values as frequently these days.
But this post explicitly defines the situation in terms of their generation not their attitude, separating the two changes the context and my response was to the context.
I am 18 any almost all my friends consume this type of media at a rapid pace. This is not really an -old people hate youngsters thing, what these consumers are dou g is simply not okay (specifically the unreasonably loud tiktoks, without headphones obv)
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