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50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Gen X here. I don't understand the eyelash thing where they're so long and fluffy that you look like Snuffleupagus. I also don't understand the nails that are so long you can't function. Like, how do you wipe?

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Final score:

379points

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Jaymi Leigh 4 months ago

Bahaha Snuffleupagus! Accurate.

122points

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Not knowing how to use punctuation. The lack of punctuation drives me nuts. I shouldn’t have to read something 50 times because you don’t know how to place a period or a comma when needed.

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335points

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Sky Render 4 months ago

You shouldn't skip periods. If you skip too many... BAM! Babies.

202points

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Discussing the topic of generational differences, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science Dr. Deborah Carr told Bored Panda that every generation tends to critique “the youth of today”, implying that the way they did things as young people is superior to what young people are doing nowadays.

“During periods of very rapid change, those generational gaps are the largest,” she noted. “If two generations were raised in very different social or economic consequences, the attitudinal gaps will be the largest.

“For instance, we have witnessed tremendous advances in recent years with respects to the rights and visibility of LGBTQIA persons – younger people are thus much more accepting than past generations. It’s important to recognize that generations can educate one another and help to expand each other’s horizons, and that education can go up and down the generational ladder.”

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Assaulting people as a prank.

Final score:

317points

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CrazyKnitter 4 months ago

Awful.

56points

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Grammar. I'm not even talking about missing commas and s**t I just want them to know the difference between "you're" and "your"

FujiMC , fauxels / Pexels Report

Final score:

300points

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Maggie Fulton 4 months ago

Good luck. There, their.

81points

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According to Prof. Carr, some of the reasons why older people find certain youngster trends or habits difficult to understand are based on the fact that said people are unfamiliar with them, the trends conflict with their personal values, or they don’t see any value in them.

“For instance, older people may judge younger people for spending money on expensive coffees, clothing, or computer gadgets because they view it as wasteful. However, it’s important to remember that young people today often are strapped with educational debt, health care bills and other factors that are eroding their savings. The occasional luxury purchase can be a short-term way to exert autonomy and personal choice.”

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Making every single phone call via speakerphone, especially when holding the phone directly next to the side of their head because they can’t hear.

Final score:

285points

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CrazyKnitter 4 months ago

I hate anyone who does this. I don't care about your conversation. I don't want to hear it.

123points

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50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Literally commiting crimes as part of social media trends. Especially the "licking ice cream at the store and putting it back" challenge, that's a straight up health code violation.

Final score:

255points

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AisForRebel 4 months ago

That's more of a "the f is wrong with you" smack alongside the head thing.

171points

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50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around For a generation that loves social media, we are very anti-social. Lots of us cannot hold conversations or try to avoid them entirely. Another thing is how terrible literacy is amongst this generation while also loving social media. Cell phones have caused pure brain rot as people cannot function without them at all which baffles me. My parents didn’t buy me a phone until I was a sophomore in high school and it drove me nuts when people asked me how to do this or that without thinking prior to use common sense and figure it out. Critical thinking hit a massive decline from what I have noticed as well. Hope this comment isn’t harsh but being a part of one of the young generations I’m frustrated and annoyed. Please enlighten me if I am just wrong about any of this.

Final score:

246points

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Stevie S 4 months ago

You're not wrong

92points

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“Older adults also may have difficulty understanding actions or behaviors that were less common when they were young,” Dr. Carr added. “For instance, very casual dress, large tattoos and multiple piercings are more common and socially accepted today, yet it could be a difficult pill to swallow for older adults who were raised to present themselves more formally – especially at work.”

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Creating GoFundMe pages for cosmetic surgery and/or procedures.

Final score:

214points

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Jaymi Leigh 4 months ago

What!? This is a thing?!

73points

#10

Not being taught to tell time by where the hands are on a clock.

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Final score:

196points

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Kat 4 months ago

This makes me so mad

32points

#11

Millennial here: Baffled at the number of people having children with various "baby daddies" and "baby mamas" that all seem to be horrible people. Do they not vet their partners at all before making them parents? It's like there's not even the expectation anymore that two people would raise their kids together.

(Note: This probably sounds judgemental, but I genuinely am just baffled.).

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Final score:

186points

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Reset Game 4 months ago

Gen x - AGREE! Why in the world would you purposely bring a child especially multiple children into a world where you know the kids are most likely going to grow up in poverty. 🤦‍♀️

89points

According to the expert, the thing that has influenced or shaped current youth the most is undoubtedly social media. “Young people today craft identities and tell narratives about their lives—whether fact, fiction, or somewhere in between—online. More importantly, they often derive their self-worth from others’ responses to the images they put out there. The number of likes, views, or followers they receive, the praise—or insults—they receive online, and other indicators of their online presentations are critically important to their self-views.

“In past generations, we certainly cared about what our classmates and peers thought about us, but we had less data and it was less pervasive and in-your-face. So, we probably felt better about ourselves,” she added.

#12

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Doing incredibly embarrassing things for social media attention.

hazzmg , fauxels / Pexels Report

Final score:

179points

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Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago

Look at meeeeee!!!!!!!!!! (is that embarrasing enough?)

31points

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#13

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Mostly Im baffled by how poorly educated young people are these days. History, Geography, Sciences, Maths, Literature..so much knowledge is missing.

Final score:

175points

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Stephanie Did It 4 months ago

What boggles my mind is how they seem so proud of their ignorance!

132points

#14

Face tattoos. I don't really have a problem with tattoos generally, but come on man, it's your face.

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Final score:

174points

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CrazyKnitter 4 months ago

I don't have a problem with cultural tattoos, but the other ones are just so dumb. There's no reason for words to be on your face.

71points

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If youth trends baffle you too, and you want to understand the youngsters better, “talk to a young person,” Dr. Carr suggested. “Ask what’s important to them, and why. Or, ask them for a recommendation for a TV show, podcast, or influencer whom they appreciate, or a book that they found particularly influential, and then discuss it with them.

“The only way we can bridge generational rifts—or rifts more generally—is to get to know one another as individuals, rather than relying on false stereotypes.”

#15

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Broccoli haircuts.

Final score:

170points

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Maggie Fulton 4 months ago

Every generation has to have haircuts that will embarrass them when they reach 30.

205points

#16

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around That literacy rates are plummeting. This one is so confusing! How can you be the chronically online generation unable to read?

Tough_Music4296 , Lukas / Pexels Report

Final score:

167points

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Candid Panda 4 months ago

Constantly watching short snippets of videos and Tik Tocs has caused an attention deficit. Why read when you can watch c**p all day?

83points

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#17

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Taking parents to job interviews.
Lincoln_Park_Pirate:
It just happened at my workplace for the first time (television). Blew my mind. Mom waited in the lobby but came in for the negotiations. Applicant was 26 years old.

Final score:

166points

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Reset Game 4 months ago

😃Hired! ..... Who's this? Mom? Fired 😒

71points

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The professor continued to emphasize the importance of understanding one another by pointing out that every generation manages the best they can, managing the hand they’ve been dealt.

“Younger people today have faced highly distressing events throughout their lives – from rampant school shootings to vast political divisiveness to isolation during COVID. If we see younger people feeling anxious, distressed, or fearful of their future, we should understand where they’re coming from, rather than judging them or holding them against a standard that’s unrealistic.”

#18

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Becoming addicted to nicotine. I thought younglings would be a little less stupid than us.

Final score:

164points

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Farah the Turtle 4 months ago

ppl vape in my school bathrooms all the time :(

36points

#19

Young people seek information by watching TikTok content rather than Googling the answers. If you have a lot of time to spare, you will often get good info, but I'm middle-aged, and I've always been a big reader. I will do almost anything to avoid having to watch stuff (or listen, for that matter) when I can more quickly visually skim and immediately determine if the information is relevant to me and seems legit.

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Final score:

156points

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cj 4 months ago

I feel like it depends on the topic. When I want to learn a new crochet stitch or method, I turn to tiktok because I can watch several quick, focused videos of different people doing the same thing and I can synthesize all of that different information and figure out which demonstration makes the most sense to me, instead of having to try and replicate written instructions with my hands or having to navigate through a youtube video's introduction, sponserships, and ads to try and find the 30 seconds of the video I actually need to see. But for facts and knowledge, I always put the effort into the research.

36points

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#20

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around I guess there’s like elementary schoolers with a skincare routine now?? That’s nuts….
Electric-Sheepskin:
I saw some people in the skincare addiction sub today recommending that a 17-year-old get Botox and retinol for the lines on their forehead. Insanity.

Final score:

155points

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Zedrapazia 4 months ago

Anyone here's heard of these "Sephora Kids" before? Young girls that buy anti aging creams and stuff like that for their skin. A 12 year old doesn't need this stuff, and it's bad for their young skin as well

74points

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#21

Anything Andrew Tate.

Final score:

148points

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Just-4-2day 4 months ago

Google: Who is Andrew Tate and what did he do? Andrew Tate, an online influencer known for his displays of wealth and his misogynistic views, is facing criminal accusations over sexual misconduct in two separate cases. Mr. Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, have since 2022 been battling charges from Romanian prosecutors that include human trafficking. Apr 26, 2024

65points

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#22

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around I've trained 3 early 20s co-workers now that don't use the Shift key to capitalize letters. They hit caps lock, type the letter to be capitalized, then hit caps lock again.

I can't wrap my head around it.

Final score:

141points

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Krystal Quigley 4 months ago

Learned how to type on a mobile device keyboard

74points

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#23

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around I run a restaurant, and employ a bunch of young people. EVERY dude under 25 has bangs, some significantly longer than the rest of their hair. I call them *Flock of Seagulls*. They don't get the reference.

Final score:

141points

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Reset Game 4 months ago

🤣 they ran so far away but they just couldn't get away

104points

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#24

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Binge watching short videos compiled so you never watch anything with a plot or storyline. Just tons of 10-60 sec videos and most of them suck.

Final score:

134points

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Stephanie Did It 4 months ago

Attention spans have withered accordingly.

63points

#25

There was a group of teenagers in the parking lot talking about scientology, and they were thinking it was a neat religion, like a bunch of them were genuinely interested.

I've never hit a child before...but holy hell their brains needed to be reset.

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Final score:

127points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

That's how I feel about all religions.

104points

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#26

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around I'm not really too baffled, I just see a lot of worrying trends.

The main thing that concerns me is the steep decline in mental health among young people since smartphones went mainstream and we got the internet in our pockets. I'm not shocked at all to see it but it is very bad.

Final score:

123points

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Jerome Lenovo 4 months ago (edited)

i love my belly-button, so why don't people acknowledges me. Me me me me me me edit : doesn't ?

17points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#27

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Vaping. Isn't it clear by now that inhaling fumes is not really a good idea?

LordGigu , Rubén Bagüés / Unsplash Report

Final score:

118points

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Chumbo 4 months ago

The part that I found the most troubling is how many adults are introduced to nicotine through vaping. I started smoking cigarettes as a teenager (as teens do) and smoked for 9-10 years. Vaping was a less destructive alternative for me. I'm sure it's not good for me but it can't be worse than cigarettes. Of course I wish teens/preteens wouldn't pick up the habit but adults should know better.

18points

#28

The popularity of "nuisance streamers" with younger folks. I don't find being a public nuisance even a little bit entertaining or funny, especially when its being filmed.

Also just in general the trend of filming, photographing and trying to make "content" out of their entire life in some vain hope of becoming internet famous. I don't get it. Last thing i'd ever want to do is have my entire life posted on the internet.

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Final score:

118points

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C.O. Shea 4 months ago (edited)

Get rich quick schemers, Youtube style.

16points

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#29

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Allowing every one of their friends on Snapchat to know their location at all times. Like seriously. My 23 year old coworker and her friends are constantly revoking and then reinstating their visible location depending on if they're happy or mad with each other. If someone notices that they can't see where another person is, they'll actually bring it up, wondering what they did to upset them. Her best friend will ask her friend to check her boyfriends location, and whichever friend he told her he'd be with, to make sure they match. I told my coworker that it's weird for everyone you know to know where you are.

At least I can kinda understand family members knowing, but even then, my siblings don't need to know where I am at all times, and my parents should maybe stop constantly checking once I hit 18? 21 surely. Lol. Her sister will text her asking why she went certain places because she constantly checks location on her. They have an app on their phones specifically so they can always see where family members are. Her dad texted her once she got home and didn't come inside after 5 minutes. He knew she just drove up. She was simply typing out a reply a text to a friend before getting out of her car. Again...she's 23.

Idk, I guess if you grow up with it, you don't think it's weird. I'm 43, I certainly didn't grow up with people having the ability to know where I am at all times unless I told them or called them.

Final score:

100points

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Reset Game 4 months ago

😳. Too plugged in

28points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#30

Not using condoms. My generation was raised hearing about Ryan White and seeing Very Special Episodes about why we didn't want AIDS and everything else. Apparently some younger people aren't worried about it anymore.

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Final score:

100points

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Thee8thsense 4 months ago

On the other end of that gambit, I recently learned of a retirement community in which the incidence of venereal disease is very high.

38points

#31

Making fun of another kid because they don't have a specific water tumbler. It sounds like somebody is trying to parody "making fun of other kids for having the 'wrong' brand of clothes or phone".

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Final score:

99points

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Maggie Fulton 4 months ago

Well, dammit, you have to be part of the In crowd! So it’s water tumblers now, is it? I suppose it makes a change from sneakers.

25points

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#32

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around All the self labeling. When I was young, we avoided labels at all costs!

Final score:

99points

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CanadianDimes 4 months ago

What is defined as self labelling? I’m gay? I have ADHD? I have anxiety? Most of what people designate as labels are part of someone’s identity and their life. We just have more awareness of how many factors might be part of someone’s life than we used to.

26points

NetworkMan 4 months ago

It's the self-diagnosis that annoys me though. Someone likes their pencils in a certain order and goes 'Oh I'm soooooo OCD', and it's like, no, you're probably not, you just like your pencils a particular way. Someone has one trait of a disorder and starts going around calling themselves it, which bothers people like me, who actually has ASD.

29points

WickedLibra70 4 months ago

So agree.. not everything is a disorder, 99% of people have adhd, ocd, something or other, according to the self diagnosed. These disorders they claim to have are not fun and games or fun quirks they make them out to be. one I heard on tiktok was a girl that was mad because she couldn't get hired because she has, what she calls time blindness, meaning she just can't make it to work on time 😒

2points

Corvus 4 months ago

Maybe the post refers to turning these things (being gay, having ADHD, etc.) into your whole personality.

23points

Michael None 4 months ago

Growing up in the 90's we refused to let people put labels on us. Being relegated to little boxes felt like we were stuck in those boxes. Freedom was to just be you and celebrate the uniqueness of who you are didn't mean defining it.

13points

Sunny Day 4 months ago

Those aren't labels, they are diagnoses. Sometime in the past 30 years they moved from being a tool to help you work around your issues, and became an excuse to not try at all.

7points

Evelien Stijger Martens 4 months ago

I think you are right , I amTrauDHD with PTST, for me thats important.

2points

Mimi M 4 months ago

It's the using it as an overarching identity, versus something about you.

1point

Jonas Fisher 4 months ago

Yes. These things. This is exactly what the OP is posting about.

1point

Ken Beattie 4 months ago

The way I see it something like ADHD shouldn't be your identity. That's like saying the most important and/or interesting fact about you is that you have ADHD.

0points

Dre Mosley 4 months ago

Everyone is putting things like "ADHD" and "Nuerodivergent" in their profiles and have probably never been diagnosed officially. You're not autistic just because you're a little awkward or quirky 🙄

12points

TheGoodBoi 4 months ago (edited)

I have a coworker that flaunts that all the time. Every other sentence it's "But I'm autistic, and have ADHD, so whatever." Ok maybe you are, maybe you aren't.

6points

Lene 4 months ago

And this makes it so embarrassing for people who actually do have an official diagnosis to talk about it. I feel so embarrassed to do it. And I think it's wrong that I feel so because.... it's part of me. I should not have to be embarrassed to be just me.

1point

FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 4 months ago

This literally drives me crazy. Not because I need to feel like I'm special because I have x,y, or z diagnosis and how dare you take that from me. No, not at all, but I'm sick of having to defend myself or explain why I'm being diff than so and so who has it. Like I'm seeing attention or being dramatic when that's not it at all. Every diagnosis has its own specific sets of probable or more common symptoms that manifest, as well as less probable. Just bc I display whatever combo of symptoms I was dealt, at that time, doesn't mean I'm trying to be extra. So and so claims to have x disorder, too, but she has never been diagnosed and somehow they can control what symptoms or traits, out of the few they know, conveniently. If only it was just that simple. 🥱

1point

Lennart 4 months ago

Hard take on the youth coming from the people that branded 'don't ask, don't tell'.

7points

iseefractals 4 months ago (edited)

I was born in 1983....don't ask/don't tell policy was implemented from 1993-2011....so not really something "we" branded. This obsession with labels and identity politics is a new form of stupidity that's only arisen in the past decade.....in fact when i was a teenager, everyone prided themselves on being sociable with absolutely everyone.....we didn't isolate ourselves into little groups of people who all thought, felt, looked, dressed and acted the same way. We were actually capable of debating and exchanging idea's and accepting differences without trying to distill everything into victim/victimizer dynamics. People used to understand that the only thing that mattered was the content and quality of your character, labels were just a means of telling the world that you don't actually have anything of substance to interest others outside that very narrow lens.

7points

Slapdash1 4 months ago

As a great person once said: "I'm a millenial so I hate labels"

6points

tuzdayschild 4 months ago

What great person that? I missed it.

2points

badger 4 months ago

"Once you label me you negate me." - Soren Kierkegaard

4points

Anony Mouse 4 months ago

Or was it D**k Van Patten?

0points

roddeckf 4 months ago

I've seen a sign on a gay parade say "Don't put us in drawers". You're doing it yourself!

2points

Anony Mouse 4 months ago

Cis-het ovo-lacto vegetarians with Saturn rising.

2points

Karina 4 months ago

I think when we self-label as something at the forefront, we risk excluding all the traits we didnt know we have. "I have anxiety" is very limiting, both as a self-label and for how other people interact with you. The sum of our characters should be as large as possible, not as defined as possible

2points

Nimitz 4 months ago

Yeah, and it was silently screamed at us to be normal when we were kids too in an incredibly toxic way. I applaud people understanding their issues early. It's not always pretty, but a lot of them keep up with identifying and labelling their baggage and over time they tend to make good progress. Kudos kiddos

1point

Lizz 4 months ago

Labels got you bullied. Especially if your sexual orientation wasn't straight.

1point

C .Hunger 4 months ago

I see the younger generation more understanding than others - and so the self- labelling is kind of a sign that people are comfortable with who they are.

1point

UncleJohn3000 4 months ago

In HS, we called ourselves The Enigma Kids because even we didn't know who the hell we were.

0points

Danish Susanne 4 months ago

It is not always the younger generation. This sommer I saw a girl about 3-4 years old in a white T-shirt with the text "Cutty Sark whisky" on. I don't believe she chose it herself.

0points

LargeMarge 4 months ago

The only label I use, and not too often but more often than not, is introvert.

0points

Rali Meyer 4 months ago

We did like to get "respect". It was very competitive. And it had to be a popular item. Reading fast didn't count. Chess hardly counted. Swimming fast, perhaps. But jumping over that da**mn river, or climbing a tree did command respect.

0points

Cat_Whisperer 4 months ago

As a person actually diagnosed as ADHD and neurodivergent, most people in my everyday life don’t know that about me. They just know that I’m a little bit odd and that they are not to ask my opinion on anything unless they are prepared to hear the truth. It really bothers me when young people state that they’re ADHD and/or autistic with or without actually being diagnosed. Don’t use a diagnosis as an excuse to be an @ssh0le. Even people that are diagnosed with either tend to apologize or express regret if we realize (or are told) we crossed a line…no shrug it off and make excuses.

0points

weatherwitch 4 months ago

When I was young I would have been Extremely happy to be able to label myself, instead I had Four DECADES believing that I was faulty, broken. At 46 I learnt I was Asexual, 47 Aromantic, 48 Non Binary. 50 I was told I was neurodivergent and at 51 I'm seeking a ADHD diagnosis. All of these Define me, they Are me. Imagine spending Decades believing you're broken when in fact you're text book classic for these. Anything to stop suffering like I did is more than Fine with me 🌈❤️

0points

rhysnew53 4 months ago

Yes!! How is it they don't want to be labelled by sex, gender, sexual preference, common forms of address, and yet identify by labels to prove how unique they are? That's.. labelling, isn't it....

0points

Belle Miles 4 months ago

Just had that WHOLE talk with my fourteen year old.

0points

Michael Largey 4 months ago

Are the people who say "I don't self label" the same people who complain "I don't know who I am"?

0points

Westy 4 months ago

Doubt it.

0points

Kathleen Pearlman 4 months ago

Er, Lacoste? That was THE label when I was in high school. It painted you as rich and cool.

0points

DeeDee M 4 months ago

I agree, the labeling is over-the-top silly.

0points

Joe Smith 4 months ago

It's just the kinds of labels that have changed. You say this as if cliques and weird identity types weren't a thing until recently. Individualism+social media=identity anarchy.

0points

tori Ohno 4 months ago (edited)

I swear they label themselves so they can use it as an excuse for bad behavior. I'm sorry Mr Boss, I'm NOT lazy and I DO pay attention when you give me orders! I have ADHD and can't help myself! You're discriminating against me if you write me up. Or better yet-Suzy, you can't break up with me! You're discriminating against my sexual identity if you do! I'm Poly! I date as many people as I want. (That one really happened at a high school.) I'm starting to hate the younger generation.

-1point

Ralph Watkins 4 months ago

I hate that so much. I'm gay. Who cares? I'm a socialist? But we are sitting her watching deer & a sunrise. I hate this political party. WTF does it have to do watching sports? I have ADHD. The way you go on about sexual identity, race, spiritual beliefs, & politics, you sure do have something. But who are you, not what are you. Who you are is more important than what you are.

-1point

Miki 4 months ago

Oooooh realllll? B******t

-1point

#33

Calling anyone with a different opinion a troll. I see it over and over and over. I do not understand and I can only feel pity.

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Final score:

99points

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Immortal Jellyfish 4 months ago

Shut up troll.

47points

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#34

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around I use my phone a fair bit, but it's really hard to imagine it being my *only computer*. I need at least 20 inches of screen, a trackball and a keyboard with physical buttons just to *think* properly. I don't want to budget my battery to last all day in case an important text comes through. I want my internet signals sent over a hard wire. When my computer stops working, I want to open it up and swap the broken part with a better one.

But if my web analytics are at all a representation, more than half of everyone is only looking at the internet through their phones.

gameryamen , ROBIN WORRALL / Unsplash Report

Final score:

90points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

I can only afford one device. The phone was cheapest and lightest.

23points

#35

I listened to a 23-year-old (more than a decade younger than me) say she wanted to start 'preventative Botox.' Girl...

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Final score:

79points

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CrazyKnitter 4 months ago

If I ever get Botox, it'll be because I have migraines, nothing else.

20points

Whydidyoudothattwice , Anna Shvets / Pexels Report

#36

50 Younger Generation Trends Older People Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around I know a girl that had plastic surgery by the time she was 19.
When I first met her, she was literally a ten. Now, she's funny looking.

Final score:

76points

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luizaspiller00 4 months ago

I guess the fact that people will refer to others as a "ten" kinda explains people's obsessions with their looks....

83points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#37

Being unable to read beyond sight words.

Like they CAN read, but not the same way you and I assumably can. They can read words but only because they are recognizing the word itself the same way you might recognize the picture of a bee as a bee or when you read now a lot of it IS sight reading in that you're likely not reading this comment sounding out all the letters- but if you came across a word you didn't know you'd likely have the skillset to read it anyways or at least give an educated guess.

I worked as a teacher and this past year I've been hearing more and more complaints from the higher grades/up even into highschool that their students by and large aren't able to sound out words/read like we were taught to. That's not to say NONE can but it's a significant issue that absolutely baffles me.

Like, I legitimately can't tell if this is some elaborate joke and they forgot to cue in the laughtrack to cue me in or what; but from the conversations I've had they know what letters make what sounds like "a" makes "ay" and "ah" but not how to USE this information functionally when presented a word they don't know before. This skill just.. apparently wasn't challenged and because the kids presumably COULD read (by sight) the issue wasn't recognized until recently. I'm honestly hoping this is JUST our small towns issue and not widespread as I don't even know where to begin dismantling such a profound oversight.

Ellie_Loves_ Report

Final score:

72points

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Stephanie Did It 4 months ago

Add to that, a frightening inability to write legible or coherent sentences.

62points

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#38

Mullets, will we never learn?

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Final score:

68points

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CrazyKnitter 4 months ago

Apparently not

17points

#39

The rising support and voting for extreme right parties/pundits among young people in the West. The people leading these parties will ruin everything resembling a future that you might have. These are awful times to become an adult in, but they do NOT care about you or your plight as a younger generation.

ResidualMadness Report

Final score:

67points

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Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago

Look on the bright side. The recent Euro elections in the Nordic countries saw the far right lose a lot of support. Not bucking the trend, but ahead of the curve, they say: apparently it turns out that the far right are rubbish in government. They got votes, they had influence in government, then they lost votes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/11/left-wing-nordic-nations-provide-ray-of-hope-in-europe

20points

#40

Today on reddit one told me they refuse to show up to an initial job interview that is in person. They demand the employer use zoom to interview them. It was baffling.

Mia4me Report

Final score:

60points

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Jaymi Leigh 4 months ago

Yah that would be an instant no for me, not hiring that person.

51points

#41

One thing that baffles me is how much time and energy the younger generation spends on social media. It's amazing to see how much they are constantly on their phones, checking notifications, posting updates, and scrolling through endless feeds. I can't imagine being so connected to technology all the time and not taking breaks to be present in the moment. It's a completely different way of living that I struggle to understand.

MDK369 Report

Final score:

60points

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Immortal Jellyfish 4 months ago

I once stood behind a person struggling to pay, pack do anything at the supermarket checkout because they had their phone in front of their face. They weren't talking to anyone or anything, could have just sat it down or put it in their pocket or something. Funny thing is they paid with cash..........

19points

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#42

Giving up. I work with some twenty-somethings, and many of them are completely defeated. They don't think they'll ever own a home or have a meaningful career or get out of debt. They just throw up their hands and resign themselves to a life of drudgery, bills and the occasional weekend bender.

They don't want to be astronauts or engineers or rock stars, they just want to escape reality by way of d***s, videogames and endless screen time.

Who is going to rule the world?

HatfieldCW Report

Final score:

54points

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Reset Game 4 months ago

Unfortunately there's a lot of horrible things happening in the world so I kind of understand this. We've got a felon who is still running for president, over 600,000 homeless people, women's rights over their own body being taken away from them, the necessity to make four times the rent just to have an apartment and the cost of an education even trade school is extremely expensive.

94points

#43

Not dating someone bc of the phone they have....

SaveusJebus Report

Final score:

51points

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Belladonna.dreams 4 months ago

That's a thing?

32points

#44

Wearing earbuds at work during a shift on an active, collaborative team. (I think earbuds aren't a problem at all for quiet, focused work, or work where there's not much need to speak with others at a moment's notice.)

I understand that many of them can easily hear things, but in my brain, earbuds carry a strong "do not talk to me" message that makes it hard not to see them as inappropriate at work unless someone is hunkering down for a longer, quieter solo task.

At worst , I see them being a hazard in certain workplaces (my own workplace for example, a metal fabrication lab, a lack of full attention could lead to nasty consequences), and at best, I think they send a less than respectful message to coworkers.

I suppose that people have no obligation to treat their coworkers with more than the minimum of respect and courtesy, but I figure that having some friendly connections at work could make each shift more enjoyable for everyone.

ClockWorkWinds Report

Final score:

51points

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Jaymi Leigh 4 months ago

This is a huge problem in the school where I teach. Our junior and senior high kids will not take their earphones off, and it's very disrespectful. I wish it was enforced as a rule that they stay in lockers during class time unless they are being used specifically with a device for class, for educational purposes.

31points

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#45

Gen Z and their constant self-diagnosing.

ScandiSom Report

Final score:

49points

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Maggie Fulton 4 months ago

Just Gen Z?

23points

#46

I can't understand why today's kids want to watch YouTube videos of kids or adults opening up new toys and playing with them! Why would any kid want to watch someone else play with toys instead of their own?

jennies4783ed5b8 Report

Final score:

48points

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Yettichild 4 months ago

To see if it's actually something they want. Or a way to discover new products.

20points

Used-Possibility299 Report

#47

Children as young as 12 drinking coffee before school. Wearing fake nails and fake eyelashes.

Final score:

46points

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CrazyKnitter 4 months ago

Oops. I got into coffee when I was 2 by accident. My dad didn't think that I'd like his black coffee. He was very wrong.

21points

#48

Refusing to learn to drive. I absolutely understand not wanting to, preferring to live places where you don't have to because of good walkability/transit/bikability, etc. But just being unwilling to learn at all? It's an important life skill and there might be an emergency where you have to!

Beruthiel999 Report

Final score:

40points

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Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago

Learning to drive is expensive in lots of places, and in lots of places you don't need to drive yourself. Most big European cities, for example. When lessons, test fees, and insurance cost that much, when the roads are so clogged up, and when parking is so difficult and expensive, why bother with a car when you can use public transport?

45points

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#49

Not knowing how to use a computer.

Final score:

36points

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Maggie Fulton 4 months ago

Does anyone in the current generation not know how to use a computer? I’m very surprised.

16points

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#50

Bringing back those thin 90s brows again… its a lesson we all must learn the hard way, it seems.

Final score:

34points

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3 Otters 🦦 4 months ago

Well I kinda see this. We’ve been seeing the mustache brows for awhile now. Maybe a normal in between look?

11points

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What did you hear the younger generation do that absolutely baffles you?

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Jack Burton 4 months ago

Well well well... Are you all old enough to have forgotten that you hear pretty similar stuff about you as a teenager or a young adult ? And for the smartphone/network problem i'd say it concerns everyone. Don't tell me most of adults aren't addicted to smartphone and social network. Every generation found the next one stupid and non educated enough. It's a human thing.

19points

clairebear 4 months ago

What goes around comes around. Silent generation got their knickers in the twist about boomers being Teddy Boys, Mods and Rockers. Boomers had a fit over Gen X's punk, new romantics (men wearing makeup!!!), goths and skinheads. Gen X laughing at millennials and their man buns and avocado toast, it goes on and on.

9points

Notme 4 months ago

Christ, what a bunch of grumpy old farts. Leave them alone, live and let live FFS.

6points

Janet L 1 month ago

Well, the heading WAS about confusing trends among the young….kinda inevitable to get responses about what confuses people then.

0points

Noproblem 4 months ago

Let me preface by saying I am not talking about people with anxiety disorders. But I think the younger generation has a hard time recognizing that anxiety is an emotion that you are SUPPOSED to feel. They just think anxiety=bad and therefore I should not feel it, and whatever is causing it needs to go away. And they really need to recognize that it’s a part of life and it’s okay to feel that way & they will be okay if they work through it instead of running the other way.

6points

Apatheist Account2 4 months ago

That's down to too much molly-coddling when young. Everyone gets a prize, no-one loses! Answers aren't wrong, well done for interpreting the question differently! They're not prepared for real life.

-2points

Christos Arvanitis 4 months ago

Sure some of these are specific to younger people, but lots of these apply to people of all ages. More generational divisiveness...

5points

Dirk Daring 4 months ago

Not tying an onion to their belt.

4points

missmal 4 months ago

I think the older generations need to just realize that these newer generations are just different, just like we were different than the older generations. I feel like if what they are doing makes them happy and doesn't negatively impact the life of another human being, leave them alone. If those girls with long nails and eyelashes are happy and confident with how they look, let them be happy. If people do better researching topics on Tik Tok rather than Google, let them. I've found using both worlds well for me and I'm not from these younger generations. Just let people be themselves and like what they like.

4points

missmal 4 months ago

Works* well

1point

Janet L 1 month ago

But they all seem so unhappy…

0points

Xio 4 months ago (edited)

You do realize that these people will enter the workforce one day right? In fact some already have. Being on their phones all day, not knowing how to carry a conversation, or not knowing how to research something is not “bEiNg diffEreNt”. Their stupidity will affect our future. This “diffEreNt” generation will be running this world. So, it is very much our business/concern.

0points

Darth Kittius 4 months ago

The younger generations have been criticized by the older generations for about as long as civilization has been a thing. Even in Ancient Greece. And then Baby Boomers get mad about "Okay Boomer" as if they've never been disrespectful to anyone

3points

Malek Basata 4 months ago (edited)

Dear mr grumpus, leave us alone, illiteracy and more might be annoying to you who had it hard, but it is your fault we exist anyway

3points

Shine Chisholm (they/ them) 4 months ago

An entire article of juvophobia.

3points

Corvus 4 months ago

Can we please stop using made-up words? Thanks :)

2points

jasper 4 months ago

A think I hate: When a tv camera is on someone, the girls all seem to want to stick their butts out, stick their tongues out, and act like they are strippers or something. What is that? It looks so stupid.

2points

fizzypop 4 months ago

as a part of gen z, all of these things aren't just things we do. a lot of articles or videos seem to think we're the problem. people of all generations and ages do many of what's listed. just my observation

2points

ConstantlyJon 4 months ago

There is nothing new under the sun.

2points

RavenCroft 4 months ago

I'd like to add trends such as using someone as a "Foodie call" and other ways that people use dating as a way to get a free meal, money, etc from the person. When did that become an acceptable way to treat another human being?

2points

ADZ 4 months ago

Not mime but yes

0points

John Harrison 4 months ago

A lot of these really are old people shaking their fists at the sky, lolol. "I can't believe the craaazy haircuts these dawgone kids have nowadays!"

1point

Janet L 1 month ago

I think it goes deeper than that…the lack of modesty and privacy seems very counter intuitive and unhealthy

0points

Lara Verne 4 months ago

Most of these problems are present in all ages groups.

1point

Jess Smith 4 months ago (edited)

I'm Gen Z, and I looked at most of these like "am I missing something?" Admittedly, I'm homeschooled and thus don't have as much of the gossip and such, but I was scrolling through this like, "I am Gen Z, and I use control v *all the time*, I don't even get what a water tumbler is, and I have no clue what a fanum tax is." But posting that on like all of them would get boring fast, so I'm posting this at the end: Gen Z is not all like this. edit: rewording

1point

Amelia Jade 4 months ago

What a mean spirited article. Let the younger generation have their trends. I'm glad I'm not a grumpy gus waving my fist at people with long eyelashes and yelling at people to get off my lawn.

1point

Anony Mouse 4 months ago

Please also add: Filming yourself crying and posting it online.

1point

tuzdayschild 4 months ago

Tattoos on faces, looong eyelashes, bangs covering the face. Things like this are personal choices that don't hurt anyone else. So for me, they falls under my "nose out" rule.

1point

Janet L 1 month ago

I’m concerned about all the trigger warnings and blanked out words which avoid upsetting people. If you can’t cope with this how are you going to manage your life? Surely any kid who’s seen any eg Harry Potter movie with its themes of murder, sorcery, bullying, treason, can cope with the written word?

0points

Jae 4 months ago

Nose piercings. I keep reaching to offer a kleenex, thinking something is dripping.

0points

Doodles1983 4 months ago

Quiet quit.... I mean

0points

justagirl 4 months ago

As a gen z person, I'm sorry i can't explain any of these.

0points

James016 4 months ago

Apparently giving today's youth a thumbs up is now flipping them off. 👍

0points

Darth Kittius 4 months ago

No, the thumbs up thing isn't just that. The reason some gen z think is rude is because we'll send a long message and then get a thumbs up in response. The lack of effort after the effort we put in feels passive-aggressive

2points

Jessica SpeLangm 4 months ago

MY concern, which may have already been mentioned a few times, is that the younger generation (I'm in my 50's, so I'm talking about those under 30 years old mostly) can't think for themselves. If they can't google it or speak to Siri to find it, they don't know what to do. THAT'S a problem.

-1point

Comfortably Numb 4 months ago

This shouldn't have been down voted

1point

Falcon on Dizzy 4 months ago

im ashamed of my generation god damn. one big thing I've noticed is that since my parents grew up on the 70s and 80s, yet I'm a teenager, I've avoided a lot of these things

-1point

William Teach 4 months ago

How did this list forget about them using their phones in the toilet? Talking while doing their business? I hang up

-2points

Jack Burton 4 months ago

I am typing this on the toilets. 🤗 i am 42...

4points

Belle Miles 4 months ago

I just want to let you all know... The kids are going to be alright. Unless you send them to college. Then you will lose them to the political psychoses. Go to trade school. No debt and earn as you learn and become certified in your field. Have faith... they're fine.

-3points

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Jack Burton 4 months ago

19points

clairebear 4 months ago

9points

Notme 4 months ago

Christ, what a bunch of grumpy old farts. Leave them alone, live and let live FFS.

6points

Janet L 1 month ago

Well, the heading WAS about confusing trends among the young….kinda inevitable to get responses about what confuses people then.

0points

Noproblem 4 months ago

6points

Apatheist Account2 4 months ago

That's down to too much molly-coddling when young. Everyone gets a prize, no-one loses! Answers aren't wrong, well done for interpreting the question differently! They're not prepared for real life.

-2points

Christos Arvanitis 4 months ago

Sure some of these are specific to younger people, but lots of these apply to people of all ages. More generational divisiveness...

5points

Dirk Daring 4 months ago

Not tying an onion to their belt.

4points

missmal 4 months ago

4points

missmal 4 months ago

Works* well

1point

Janet L 1 month ago

But they all seem so unhappy…

0points

Xio 4 months ago (edited)

0points

Darth Kittius 4 months ago

3points

Malek Basata 4 months ago (edited)

Dear mr grumpus, leave us alone, illiteracy and more might be annoying to you who had it hard, but it is your fault we exist anyway

3points

Shine Chisholm (they/ them) 4 months ago

An entire article of juvophobia.

3points

Corvus 4 months ago

Can we please stop using made-up words? Thanks :)

2points

jasper 4 months ago

2points

fizzypop 4 months ago

2points

ConstantlyJon 4 months ago

There is nothing new under the sun.

2points

RavenCroft 4 months ago

2points

ADZ 4 months ago

Not mime but yes

0points

John Harrison 4 months ago

A lot of these really are old people shaking their fists at the sky, lolol. "I can't believe the craaazy haircuts these dawgone kids have nowadays!"

1point

Janet L 1 month ago

I think it goes deeper than that…the lack of modesty and privacy seems very counter intuitive and unhealthy

0points

Lara Verne 4 months ago

Most of these problems are present in all ages groups.

1point

Jess Smith 4 months ago (edited)

1point

Amelia Jade 4 months ago

What a mean spirited article. Let the younger generation have their trends. I'm glad I'm not a grumpy gus waving my fist at people with long eyelashes and yelling at people to get off my lawn.

1point

Anony Mouse 4 months ago

Please also add: Filming yourself crying and posting it online.

1point

tuzdayschild 4 months ago

Tattoos on faces, looong eyelashes, bangs covering the face. Things like this are personal choices that don't hurt anyone else. So for me, they falls under my "nose out" rule.

1point

Janet L 1 month ago

0points

Jae 4 months ago

Nose piercings. I keep reaching to offer a kleenex, thinking something is dripping.

0points

Doodles1983 4 months ago

Quiet quit.... I mean

0points

justagirl 4 months ago

As a gen z person, I'm sorry i can't explain any of these.

0points

James016 4 months ago

Apparently giving today's youth a thumbs up is now flipping them off. 👍

0points

Darth Kittius 4 months ago

2points

Jessica SpeLangm 4 months ago

-1point

Comfortably Numb 4 months ago

This shouldn't have been down voted

1point

Falcon on Dizzy 4 months ago

im ashamed of my generation god damn. one big thing I've noticed is that since my parents grew up on the 70s and 80s, yet I'm a teenager, I've avoided a lot of these things

-1point

William Teach 4 months ago

How did this list forget about them using their phones in the toilet? Talking while doing their business? I hang up

-2points

Jack Burton 4 months ago

I am typing this on the toilets. 🤗 i am 42...

4points