30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation

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It’s a fact of life just like the sun rises in the East and sets in the West: older people will always find something to criticize about the younger generations. The former grumble, the latter roll their eyes, but soon enough, those youngsters are looking at each new generation and wondering what the everlovin’ frick is going on, why they’re behaving so oddly, and why their music sounds like pure noise.

A thread created by u/VisibleConfusion12 went viral on r/AskReddit after it sparked a very interesting discussion in the online community. The OP wanted to know what things young people love that older internet users plain don’t understand, and we’ve collected some of the most interesting insights to share with you. Scroll down to read what they had to say and upvote the posts you agree with.

We got in touch with the author of the thread, redditor u/VisibleConfusion12, who was kind enough to share their thoughts on the topic. Read on for Bored Panda's interview with them.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Declaring everything is a result of a mental illness. Sometimes people are just a******s.

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Personally, we feel like there will always be friction between members of different generations because their values and environments differ. Probably the most obvious case we see these days is between Baby Boomers and, well, pretty much everyone else. Boomers tend to think that kids these days don’t work hard enough and should learn to save instead of eating avocado toast and buying lattes at Starbucks.

Meanwhile, Millennials and Zoomers believe that Boomers had it very easy when it came to buying up cheap property and finding well-paying jobs that were enough to take care of the entire family and provide a high quality of life. However, some of the things that unite different generations include the love of nostalgia (albeit for very different things) and the increasing awareness of how important it is to take care of our bodies as we age.

30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation The unending need to share everything on social media including their meals, their children, their partners everything.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Talking loudly with your phone on speaker while in public. Older people do it, too.

WTF is *that* all about?

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According to redditor u/VisibleConfusion12, they personally find TikTok, the video-sharing platform, to be one of the oddest things that the younger generations enjoy.

"I would have to say TikTok as a whole," they told Bored Panda what they find strange. "There is a TON of stuff that is considered bad," they said, referring to videos full of hate speech, as well as dangerous trends and challenges that nobody should do.

"I would also add newer fashion which is pretty strange. But compared to older fashion, it might beat it by a mile," they said. Though the OP admits that both "older fashion and newer fashion" confuse them either way.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Long a*s fake nails. How do you even go to the bathroom with those things without hurting yourself? They’re not even attractive. I don’t get it.

Edit: To be clear, I’m talking LONG here, like inches long. I have longish natural nails and I love getting them done, but I’ve seen people with nails that are over 2 inches long and I don’t understand how you can be productive with nails like that. I’m not mad about it, I just honestly don’t get the hype.

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Xenon 1 year ago

I personally find it ugly.

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Nea 1 year ago

And disgusting.

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Mr.Li 1 year ago

You're not alone with this thought

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Hoody Hoo 1 year ago

And scary!

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Ken Beattie 1 year ago

Not so much ugly, but looks predatory to me. They're not nails, they're talons.

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Teresa Spanics 1 year ago

I second that.

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

Plus it's not hygienic. You'd be surprised the bacteria that is found under one's nails

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ZombieGirl 1 year ago

Yes, and no matter how well you think you washed your hands, your nails did not get clean enough. Especially if you just used the bathroom

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

I think it's a status symbol of looking like you are a person who doesn't have to work?

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M O'Connell 1 year ago

It shows everyone that you aspire to be a "decorative" person, and have everything done for you. Even if you never gain that station in life.

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GV Martinez-Williams 1 year ago

But you still have to use the restroom right? Or do you have someone who does for you?

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Antoinette Maldari 1 year ago

Also, if you don't do them yourself or phone a friend, maintenance is pretty costly.

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Hans Georg 1 year ago

With long nails you do not need the three shells on the toilette.

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Wendy O'Shea 1 year ago

I would hate to think what is caught under those nails.

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Maggie Dinzler Shaw 1 year ago

If they extend out away from the finger, it should be easy to clean them. My natural nails just grew all of a sudden (body chemistry I guess) and I find it a bit of a problem when I scratch myself on the face or try to chop food. Then I know it is time for a trim.

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L. Murphy 1 year ago (edited)

Unsanitary. Seriously, how much poo particles are living underneath all that?

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

Coworker had natural nails were 3x longer than in this picture. Nails *curled at least once, maybe twice. Don't know how she functioned in an office, drove her car, or got dressed.

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Xenon 1 year ago

Ack! That is somehow worse.

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ƒιѕн 1 year ago

How do you wipe your a*s with those?

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Fxnglhl 1 year ago

i cut my nails short regularly because it's impossible to play piano or violin with long nails

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Idk 1 year ago

I play violin but I love long nails and I’m always getting told to cut my nails in my lessons

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Iridian 1 year ago (edited)

They're gross to me, but to each her own. Some people think it's a status thing. Not only are nails like that expensive to keep, but it says that they are a "kept" woman who has a man pay everything for them, including pampering. Their thinking is that nails like that are so impractical that they have absolutely everything done for them in life by other people (or they want strangers to think that way of them).

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Nikki Hilton 1 year ago

Especially if they have a baby. How are they changing a diaper without injuring that child?

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Charity Angel 1 year ago

Nanny

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Biana Weatherford 1 year ago

If you can't function with long nails, don't get them. If they aren't attractive to you, then they aren't for you.

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Mrs.Pugh 1 year ago (edited)

Yeah no, gen z didn’t come up with these

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Zipitty Doodah 1 year ago (edited)

So everyone has their own thoughts on long nails but I would like to add that I personally enjoy getting my nails done every few weeks as a way to pamper and enjoy myself. I work hard and I pay to get them done as a reward lol. I am very aware of the germs that are under nails but I make sure they stay clean. I am a nail biter and if I don't get them done I will most likely go back to biting them. They are my natural nails just with acrylic over them to make them more durable in a sense lol. I have never had an issue with going to the bathroom or even putting in my contacts. Since I've adjusted as my nails have grown they don't seem to get in the way in my daily life. I tried to post a picture of my current nails 💅 but Idk how?? Lol

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Pancake_Pansexual_Panda 1 year ago

Only Wolverine's is acceptable. Yes, I know they are claws, but still.

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Isa's left eye 1 year ago

I hate seeing people struggling to do normal things like typing because of their extravagant nails. I just don't get it. I never let my nails never get longer than the tips of my fingers.

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Demongrrrrl 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure none of these people wear contact lenses. They'd poke their own eyes out!

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Paul Gerrard 1 year ago

And the quacky quacky lips

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Jeya Mackelle 1 year ago

Weird as some of them look, if it's not on your hands, mind your business. They haven't caused you any harm, dearies

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SparkleFarts 1 year ago

Ultra long nails are not by any means a new trend

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JL 1 year ago

Even worse are the people with the real nails that are several inches/feet long. They look like they have onion rings taped to their fingers.

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Id row 1 year ago

I hate those, and especially the pointy ones. I cringe with second hand embarrassment when I see someone with those pointy pointy nails.

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Beeps 1 year ago

Ummm, people used to have those in the 80’s - remember Florence Griffith Joyner?

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Stephanie Ventura-Montalvo 1 year ago

My cousin had nails like that in the late 80s/early 90s, and she was far from the only one. It's come back in fashion, but I always found it gross.

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Raumpfleger 1 year ago

A lady with such nails works in my favourite knives shop. I still don't get how she is able to handle and demonstrate all the different types of folders and their locks, but she does it veeery efficiently.

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Beachbum 1 year ago

I don't get this either, how do you do anything with nails this long, how would you even eat like a chicken wing? The food would get stuck under your nails, just gross

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Matt Ronald Slater 1 year ago

It's gross. Agreed.

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago (edited)

They r good for scratching itches

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Xenon 1 year ago

But veerrry carefully. When my natural nails get a little long they're sharp as razers, I've cut myself scratching a persistent itch.

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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 1 year ago

For everybody talking trash.... I am a 42 year old woman. I have kept my nails done since I was 16 years old. I have always paid for it as a way to pamper myself. My natural nails have always been prone to breaking, even with calcium supplements. I also have short, stubby finger. I feel like have my nails makes them look less stumpy. I am an RN(in an office). I know how to care for my nails. I regularly use the products that bioluminescence to show germs and I'm clean as a whistle. A person naturally adapts to doing activities. I do not scratch myself when wiping or get poop caked under my nails! I fell off my bike recently and lost a nail. Prior to that, I've not lost a nail in YEARS. I've never had nails as long as in the picture. I have fun with the designs and get a lot of compliments. nails-6480...15f650.jpg

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bruce wayne's girlfriend 1 year ago

i think OP is talking about superrr long nails kinda like the one i've added below. I'm 16 and I'm also super into growing my nails and getting them done. Instagram-...72-png.jpg

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Yara Kadulina 1 year ago

But seriously, how do you not realize that any length of nails just creates cozy little houses for viruses and bacteria to multiply? Disgusting!

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Kat Lyle 1 year ago

How you changing your baby's nappy with those on?

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alwaysMispelled 1 year ago

I used to get super short fake nails because for me they were still long, and it hurt to wipe when I went to the bathroom. I will never understand the super, duper long nails.

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ChexmyLicks/egg 1 year ago

did u wash ur as$ today?

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Ruth Kilpatrick 12 months ago

It looks really tacky.

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The Veil of Fire 1 year ago

Extra long bedazzled nails or shall I say talons. Gals if it isn't for a very special occasion don't do it for every day wear. Ya they can be very creative and very expensive. If you can afford it but if you spend hundreds on your nails then can't buy yourself a cheeseburger when you are hungry your priorities are off.

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Tjoori Vids 1 year ago

Long fingernails on someone using a keyboard is a design flaw, imo. :P

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Teresa Spanics 1 year ago

I agree 100% with this comment!

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BJ Hage 1 year ago

Have you seen the long toenails? Eeewwwwew

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Baali Venomax 1 year ago

Having talons is only a bonus if you can retract the damn things when not in use, else its a liability

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DetongLhamo 1 year ago

They’re tacky and disgusting. And how do they manage having their period?

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Lady Vader 1 year ago

I saw someone today with long toe nails, painted and shaped quite pointy, it scared me a bit!

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Casper Mijacogeo 1 year ago

They use them as dingle berry scrapers.

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Edward Dwyer 1 year ago

And then doing sex stuff?? No thanks.

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Captain Panda 1 year ago

How do you wipe your BH and not scrape?!?

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Ms.GB 1 year ago

...and getting poop under them

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Griffy 1 year ago

They look like claws. Maybe they are pretending to be Cat woman or something? I don't know and to each their own, even if it is nuts.

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Bored Templar 1 year ago

I think when nails are that long it's the person trying to explain that they're useless, because really there's nothing you can do with them. They're not even attractive

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Stefi Stoyanova 1 year ago

I find them to he pure nightmare fuel...

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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 1 year ago

Any nails that protrudes more than several mm past your fingers is impractical. It shows that you shun manual labor.

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Dee 1 year ago

My sister actually said, "Ewww! Your nails are real!" 🤨

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GenderGander 1 year ago

I wear contacts so if I had nails that long I would not be able to go about daily life

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Baker 1 year ago

This trend started in the '80s...

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Bobert Robertson 1 year ago

Instant red flag

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Nikki Sevven 1 year ago

Why would you deliberately cripple yourself? And honestly, you're a danger to others if you drive. You can't grip the steering wheel. Don't even get me started on hygiene.

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Jeya Mackelle 1 year ago

I...wasn't aware people drove...gripping their steering wheels...with their nails. Then again, I have short nails, but I use my fingers and my palms. Including when turning.

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Marc 1 year ago

Ladies, guys don't think they look good at all. Trust ys

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Yara Kadulina 1 year ago

That’s how covid started. A simple flu mutated under someone’s long a*s nails.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation The videos where they say it's a "life hack" when it's just common sense.

Aka "try out this crazy life hack for perfectly cut bagles, EVERYTIME!"

Proceeds to use a bagel cutter.

Like, seriously??? You need someone to tell you that?

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We were interested to find out what inspired redditor u/VisibleConfusion12 to ask such an interesting question in the first place. They were happy to tell us all about it.

"I came up with the idea with the help of my nephew! He was scrolling TikTok and came across a 'cringey' video," the OP told Bored Panda that their 14-year-old nephew then showed them the video clip which got them thinking about the (sometimes vast) differences between generations.

"The video in question was a girl complaining, saying she will be upset if you misgender her. My nephew then told me that his generation was probably the most questionable, which gave me the idea which I later posted later on Reddit," they shared what led them to spark the discussion on r/AskReddit.

In the OP's view, it's difficult to find a definitive answer as to why each generation criticizes those that come after it. In their opinion, it all comes down to what the members of each new generation do and how this clashes with what older generations enjoy.

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Those large, spider-looking, over-the-top fake eyelashes.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Facetiming people instead of calling them. Unless you have to show me something, I prefer not to show my face on screen

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To put it simply, people tend to feel nostalgic for those times in our lives when they were happiest and most carefree. We might associate that period of time with certain activities, people, shows, or even products and we come back to them when we’re feeling down and need a boost. That’s why you might have a sudden urge to plug in an old console or find a very old movie to watch when you’re blue.

And though nostalgia can help us power through tough times in our lives, it has some destructive potential as well. For example, if we constantly daydream about how things used to be (and how awful everything is now), we might miss genuinely good opportunities in the present. It’s fine to reminisce about the past, so long as your present and future don’t suffer for it.

Yes, the entertainment industry may have had far better standards back when you were a young adult! But it doesn’t mean that absolutely every film, song, and game that’s crafted these days is an abomination. As in every area of life, there will be a minority of truly high-quality products, surrounded by a vast majority of junk. It’s a widespread phenomenon known as Sturgeon’s law.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation All these s****y prank videos on people in public.

The public tik tok dancing.

I can't handle the second hand embarrassment when someone is dancing in aisle 5.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Extravagant proms and baby showers.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Filming themselves crying.

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The simple fact of the matter is that everyone is getting older. And no matter how awesome your metabolism is right now, you’ve got to sit down and think about the future. Consider what habits you need to start developing right now so that you age with dignity and can maintain a high standard of living.

Some of the best things that you can do to maintain your physical and mental health as you get older include getting plenty of exercise, eating well (avoid processed food, added sugar, and saturated fats as much as you can), having an active social life, and doing activities that bring you joy, whether that’s meditating, hiking in your local woodlands, painting, or collecting vinyl from the good old days—when music used to sound better!

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation The Andrew Tate style of misogynistic alpha male b******t that so many young men seem to buy into. I guess I kind of get how they're susceptible to that sort of stuff, but the ideology doesn't really make much sense.

I think most of the rest of the stuff like tik tok, hairstyles, and clothing is just a "kids these days" kind of thing where people aren't open minded enough to realize the stuff they were into as kids was seem as being just as stupid by the older generation. Because really, it boils down to it just being different and new.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Im still young, but Mukbang videos. I like cooking shows, but watching someone pig out on camera is just gross.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Filming every little thing. Like why are they filming them doing basic stuff like grocery shopping?

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Referring to anybody people don't like as narcissistic. Every form of lying or even just disagreement is gaslighting.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation The new Disney remakes.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Listening to the music on mobile speaker while walking around the street or travelling via public transportation

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Self diagnosing their mental illnesses.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation As a teacher, I get enormously annoyed by the idea that it seems cool to be stupid for a significant amount of teens. Like being actually proud of lacking or pretending to lack basic knowledge or primary skills. Over the last 2 weeks I had a 14 y old pretending not to know who the figure of Christ was, a kid claiming not to know how to use a ruler and one who claimed to never have used scissors…

Update: 5 min ago a 14y old asked me wether pigs have ears…

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YouTube reaction videos. I don’t understand what’s interesting about watching someone react to watching a different video.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation I really hate the TikTok voice.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation The idea that shame shouldn’t exist.

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Filming everything they do and putting it online. I prefer to be mostly anonymous

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation I dont understand certain genres of tiktok/YouTube videos. Who is entertained by those videos where it's a robot voice reading out reddit comments while subway surfer is being played on screen? Who is the audience for those videos where some dude with an awful haircut asks people risqué questions either on a college campus or at the beach?

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22 here so this definitely applies to older folks as well but for the love of all things large and small: **why the hell is mumble rap still a thing**.

I'm not talkin Eminem, Tupac, Biggie, etc. I'm referring to the untalented, autotuned nitwits that try to pass their 'gangta' mumbles off as music. Now granted, I know I have a rather eclectic taste in music, but holy c**p some of these 'artist' somehow are both autotuned and still sound like their actively riding the dope dragon in the studio.

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I am 24 years old (so still pretty young) but there are two things which I cannot understand at all:

1: Obsession with Starbucks. Why do so many teenagers and people in early 20's spend so much money and time on Starbucks? I am from Europe and the first store opened in my country only 2 years ago. Tried it (not only the coffee, some other things too) and it was absolutely awful. I am sure all bigger cities have a place with better coffee or sweets

2: Underage girls dancing on TikTok - now I understand the other comments here defending how creating videos and pics and posting them constantly on social media can be a coping mechanism, but what kind of coping mechanism is being 16/17/18, putting on a crop top and ripped jeans or a mini skirt and dancing in front of a camera to a song which often has very sexual and mature lyrics? Are they the type of girls who are too afraid to go outside and talk to guys/girls or are they part of a scheme to catch pedophiles?

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Glorying ignorance and writing everything wrong on purpose.

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Recording videos of themselves dancing in the middle of a Home Depot.

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Just because you *have* a Bluetooth speaker doesn't mean you should be blasting your s****y music. I don't want to hear f*****g Fetty Wap at like 8 am when I'm getting a donut at 7-11. Like, am I the only person left on earth who appreciates silence once in a while?

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Pretending they’re gangsters

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I am a high school teacher. I can understand the TikToks and the vaping and stuff even if I think they’re dumb, but there’s one thing that I just done get.

I have more than one student that will just. Moan. Very sexually. Out loud. In the classroom. And everyone thinks it’s hilarious and joins in.

I can’t even explain it to the principal without getting embarrassed.

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Wearing hoodies when it's hot af outside

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation Snapchat and location sharing. It's so vain. Humans are not meant to be that connected.

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ASMR mouthsounds.

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30 Older People Share Why They Don’t Understand The Younger Generation The amount of online content so many people create. It's f*****g work! How do they have time for this?

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Those dumb looking broccoli/ramen haircuts all the f**k boys are wearing now.

And the ironic pedo staches and mullets. It's a weird time to be a young guy, this s**t won't age well lol.

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Watching gaming streams. Watching your older brother hog the controller instead of being able to play yourself was considered torture when I grew up.

Edit: a few of you have mentioned that it's like watching sports and that is a good point. Since I don't do that either, I guess it's just lost on me.

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Vaping and TikTok.

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Shorts. I do not have any idea how TikTok or Facebook reels are so popular.

All I know is they are almost always more annoying the shorter their length is.

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putting random cooking or “satisfying” videos next to the main video on tiktok. i don’t know if it started as a trick to keep people’s attention, but as someone with diagnosed and lifelong ADD, they’re only distracting and take away from what the main video is. it drives me up the wall and no matter how many times i press “not interested” i still get videos like that on my fyp. i hope this trend dies out sometime soon

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I don’t know if it’s the misanthrope speaking or the aging millennial or what but I can’t f*****g STAND the “look at how good of a person I am” type s**t. It’s not so much the videos. It’s people writing these lengthy a*s stories including things that were “said” quotes and everything about how they helped a woman at a gas station because three OTHER dudes were harassing her (that’s just the most recent one I saw earlier today). And it’s like…cool man, none of that probably happened…BUT if it actually did, why do you feel the need to write a lengthy post and then admonish people not doing the same?

Personally, if I saw a woman going through something like that, I’d probably silently try to make sure she’s okay if that doesn’t work, then I’d step in. I’d probably get my a*s beat if it were actually a dangerous situation. And also, I’d be afraid the woman would think I’m just joining in with the other dudes and freak her the f**k out even more. But regardless, I sure as f**k wouldn’t feel the need to announce it. HEY LOOK HOW GREAT I AM! DID YOU READ MY STORY ABOUT HOW IM A BETTER PERSON THAN YOU!?

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#44

F*****g squash mallows. I thought they at least did something. They're like $25 a piece! IT'S JUST A PILLOW.

that being said i was a product of the beanie baby generation so what the f**k do i know

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#45

Prime - the drink. Simply don’t understand the hype.
Snapchat and streaks.

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#46

The urge to follow social media trends.

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#47

I don't understand the search for friendships, validation and approval via sharing themselves online. There's something so paper thin about it.

I understand the irony of replying with this on a social networking site like Reddit.

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#48

Most Tik Tok videos. Imo it’s just mindless entertainment. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a place for entertainment that allows you to completely check out and just absorb just complete stupidity. That can be fun. But children waste hours of their day just mindlessly scrolling on tik tok when those videos have absolutely no substance.

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#49

Cosmetic stuff in video games, some of it is kind of cool but I don’t understand the amount of value people put on it.

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#50

Voice messages. Unsearchable, time-consuming, why?

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#51

Cocomelon

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#52

Roblox. To me it just looks like it's a game based on a Chinese Lego rip-off, but I'll admit I haven't really looked into it. My nephew is obsessed with it and plays it pretty much every minute of his free time.

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similarly 1 year ago

I understand some of this stuff, like respecting other people's rights, and not disturbing public, but some of this stuff ... well, let's just say I'm a lot happier since realizing that if someone is doing something and it doesn't actually impact me, I don't have to worry about it. Sometimes joy and peace are found in not worrying about what other people do.

20points

Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

I'm an old. (64). Most of my friends are old. All of my siblings are old. I work with mostly old people. And I can guarantee that none of us care about any of these. I wish BP would stop perpetuating this made-up c**p.

18points

Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago

Ditto. Same age even....

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Joroches 1 year ago

And here we are, yet another BP post to stir up resentment and ill feeling towards others and stop you all focusing on the real problems the world faces. Just stop the infighting and focus on the very real villains in this world. Let me tell you it's not young people sharing things on their phones or old people who can't switch on a computer that are the problem.

12points

Boatswain Bill 1 year ago

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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago

Don’t like it? Don’t watch it, read it, engage with it, be involved in it, simply walk away. There were things you did in your youth that would wind you parents up, they let you explore the world your way, let the younger generation do the same. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t me it’s wrong. If it’s harming no one then let them enjoy their lives and you can stop being so judgemental of others, everyone wins!

8points

TheDag 1 year ago (edited)

Honestly live and let live, as long as its doing no harm to them or anyone else and they enjoy it then go ahead and enjoy that thing

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Ashley Barnes 1 year ago

The tiktok dancing in public one - someone is having fun in public and that bothers you??

4points

Solangelo4life!!! 1 year ago

And like, we don’t wear eyelashes and long nails for any of you, we wear it bc we feel shown and comfortable like it, it is expressing ourselves. Showing ourselves.

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CJay M 1 year ago

I am the younger generation' and ive literally never done any of this. Not 'not really'. not 'sometimes'. NEVER. this thred doesn't know what its talking about

2points

Bec 1 year ago

A lot of these are not generation specific. It's a d**k move to be on speaker phone or have your music playing in a public place. Doing/filming pranks or others for financial or social gain - been around for a long time AFV, Jackass. Starbucks or other overpriced coffee - started in the 90s.

2points

Kristiina 1 year ago

I have to add here the journey man culture that is popular in Europe. They idolise crime, carry knives, dress in a certain way, and wear expensive clothing which they sometimes steal from people wearing it.

2points

Alexander Brior 1 year ago

I'm 19 and I agree with a ton of these

1point

luka! (she/her) 1 year ago

Tiktok dances are actually fun though when you're not disturbing everyone. Let teens have fun. Don't like it? Don't watch. And no I'm not defending tiktok challenges that are illegal or promote health risks. I'm just talking about dances.

1point

Kevin Hickey 1 year ago

I blame rock and roll.

1point

Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago

These old men are whinny as héll. So long the younger generations do not disturb you, do nothing harmful, why should you care?

1point

The Doom Song 1 year ago

Excuse me. I'm an "old woman" and yes I'm a whinny b***h. All I ask is please for the love of God buy headphones.

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Nykky 1 year ago

Half of these are "delete your social media" lol

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Marvin HeartofGold 1 year ago

3 articles in a row about older people complaining about younger people trends. I'm 42. I very clearly remember my parents and grandparents complaining about stuff we did as teens and how stupid it was and how they kids today blah blah. Seriously, either were all boomers or we forgot what it's like to be young? There's really nothing my teen does that I don't understand, I was 19 once as well.

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Ms.GB 1 year ago

A lot of these are just giving me grumpy old person vibes....some of them I get but aren't we being a bit judgemental BP?

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Kevin Felton 1 year ago

This could've been called "30 Random Shower Thoughts From Grandpa Simpson"

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Maudelin 1 year ago

I'm officially an older person.

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Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

Assuming the origins of this website are correct it seems like it has degenerated into nothing more than a platform to p**s people off. I keep coming back to it because every once in awhile BP produces a gem of real interest.

0points

Nancy Doughty 1 year ago

I'm surprised that those work from home and make big money posts weren't on this list. See MarkSmith below for reference. ;)

0points

Dirk Daring 1 year ago

Pointlessly censoring w***s that don't n**d it. Often, it takes out all the context of the post. Sometimes it completely changes the narrative, like when a post on this very website said that Malala Yousafzai got [hit] in the face.

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Mrs.Pugh 1 year ago

Old people☕️

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Invader Zim 1 year ago

Whine whine whine and whine again.....jealous much?

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)

Only a Gen-Xer but I still want to say this: We don't disbelieve the mainstream news media because someone sent us "fake news." We disbelieve it because we lived through stuff so we know when they're lying. Sure, sometimes some of us seize onto stupid alternative narratives when we know damned well the official narrative is b******t... but understand that's because they've already known that the official narrative is complete, utter and total b******t. And that doesn't mean we're uniformly right-wing or Trumpers or anything like that. Most of us recognize there's b******t all around and select to align ourselves with the people whose b******t seems the least harmful.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

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similarly 1 year ago

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Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

18points

Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago

Ditto. Same age even....

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Joroches 1 year ago

12points

Boatswain Bill 1 year ago

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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago

8points

TheDag 1 year ago (edited)

Honestly live and let live, as long as its doing no harm to them or anyone else and they enjoy it then go ahead and enjoy that thing

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Ashley Barnes 1 year ago

The tiktok dancing in public one - someone is having fun in public and that bothers you??

4points

Solangelo4life!!! 1 year ago

And like, we don’t wear eyelashes and long nails for any of you, we wear it bc we feel shown and comfortable like it, it is expressing ourselves. Showing ourselves.

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CJay M 1 year ago

I am the younger generation' and ive literally never done any of this. Not 'not really'. not 'sometimes'. NEVER. this thred doesn't know what its talking about

2points