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I've seen plenty of teachers/professors reporting GenZers demonstrating concerningly diminished discipline, resilience, and interest, particularly when it comes to reading. My personal observations of GenZ discipline are mixed, but I'm not in education.
Would be good to see high-quality studies on the matter.
>kid in a movie written by adults: "I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature"
>kid I made up in my own mind: "hurr durr I'm illiterate"
Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the "kids in the 2020s" is the problem
Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?
How about get the fuck off my lawn.
This stuff has got to be actual kids self-mythologising rather than adults not remembering how dumb they were as kids, shirley?
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
This generational hatred will never end.
Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.
Erm... You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I'm on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.
Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the 'generation' would be 13 years old.
I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.
Same. I also found Fred annoying, which I think started around 2006. YouTube itself wasn't a thing before 2005.
So millenials started watching YouTube around high school/college age. That's also when faster internet started to become widespread, so you wouldn't be getting young kids watching YouTube until much later because young parents were unlikely to be paying a premium for high speed internet. Older kids and college students tend to have less patience for stupid brain rot than younger kids, which was why things like Charlie the Unicorn and Llamas w/ Hats became somewhat popular among those age groups.
Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That's exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.
Isn't the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant's whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?
yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….
Generations! People in the 90s talking about how dumb the 80s stuff was is the best way. The dumb belongs to the decade, not the people.
Exactly! Here are a few I remember from the late-90s, early 2000s:
Most of that is probably unintelligible to kids these days, and most were all the rage when I was a kid. I say literally none of that today.
i’ll keep saying home skillet until i’m deep in the cold cold ground
Das rite, you da real G. Keep it real, home skillet.
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watching
Etc, etc.
Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.
Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it's nothing but "standard" surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
And specifically SGI UNIX, right?
Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s
Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
This. It doesn't help that that perception is universal, and mfs will call Child Protective Services if you let your kids go to the park on their own.
And best hope you're not a minority when they come knocking.
"back in my day we read books, not like those young whippersnappers nowadays"
The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That's what happened.
old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking
Didn't seem to help the boomers any.
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
Plato in 300: kids today!!!!!!!!!! 😡
Anon wants people off his lawn.
Based Ohio. That's what happened.
They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.
They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don't.
Pretty sure that both kids' characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time