• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Mate, the thing about gen x is that they dont care. This is boomer energy being projected.

    Which is cool, I guess, whatever.

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      11 days ago

      My first thought when I saw this was that this looked like some Facebook boomer shitposting from like 10-15 years ago, but with kinda recent slang and image subbed in. I’m sure some gen x would unironically be all in on this, but it’s the small percentage of them that are basically just boomers who time traveled. They’re the same people who still like old westerns and rant about how nobody has common sense anymore, which if you think about for more than 5 seconds reveals that whatever they think is common sense must not be “common” sense at all, actually, and perhaps the current “common sense” is stuff that they never learned, like how to clear the cache for a phone app that’s acting up.

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      11 days ago

      The “Gen X Rise Up” filter on TikTok showed that a few definitely cared. It died pretty quickly, though.

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    11 days ago

    I’m a Millennial and I’m happy to report I’ve appropriated “skibidi”. I really, really enjoy watching younger people die a little inside every time I use it.

    Does that make me a dad even if I don’t have any kids?

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      11 days ago

      Gen X is least likely to do this, if you buy into the idea of generations.

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      11 days ago

      Same. And I’m pretty sure it doesn’t take much more than trying to stop the broken world we inherited from breaking further and encouraging them to explore passions even when we don’t understand them. That’s the level of respect we yearned for and never got, so let’s just try to be who we wanted boomers and gen x to be and I think we’ll all be okay. Ideally we could fix what’s broken, but it always takes longer to clean up a mess than to make one. We just need to be willing to plant trees whose shades we’ll never enjoy.

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      10 days ago

      “I swear, i had to do a Livestream on tiktok to show off my clothes, show off my style, and increase my charisma while listening to “skibidi” when my stunning girlfriend came by and we were …! Im not lying!” (actually that “gyatt” doesn’t really make sense in this context so i don’t know how to translate, mybe they were getting down? Idk.)