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[sparklywalls]

Also a Millennial (on the older side) and I often wonder if Gen Z mocking us is them trying to cope with the knowledge deep down that what came for us is coming for them too. Let's face it, the idea that you'll be better off (especially financially and later in retirement) than the generations that came before you is pretty much dead at the moment. It's easy to make wisecracks about a 30something renting an overpriced room in a flatshare with other 30somethings when you're still living in your parental home.

But I also think it often isn't that deep and it's young people being young people. Although, I feel a tiny bit deflated sometimes because in my teens I remember looking up to (not mocking) Gen X and rolling my eyes at my parents generation instead, so it does feel like we're getting it from both directions at times.

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Speaking as a Gen X person, millennials do get it from both directions because you're a huge generation like the boomers.

Gen X is so comparatively small we had a brief moment of being considered lazy slackers who live in OUR parents' basements before people cared more about what 12 year old Millennials think (and their purchasing power).


"The term Generation X has become a derisive media catchphrase, a snide put-down for those, like me, who were born between 1961 and 1981 -- children of Baby Boomers. This group is, we're told, "numb and dumb," lazy underachievers, apathetic "boomerangers" who slink home to the parental nest after graduating from college, as if being born into an era of reduced economic expectations is a character defect."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/04/03/educating-the-generation-called-x/afd28dcb-ca20-4629-b26f-e665d767a41d/

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As an older millennial (I think) with a younger Gen X sibling who liked to pick up articles or books on this topic in the ‘90s, I ended up skimming quite a few, trying to understand what pre-teen me assumed how I was going to be seen one day. One article title partially stuck with me for whatever reason: “Today’s Teens: Dissed, Mythed, and Totally Pissed”. And the teens on the magazine cover looked... angry? sullen? defiant?

Maybe because I couldn’t figure out what “Mythed” was supposed to mean. But also because it felt strange watching my sibling try to navigate this image and slowly becoming aware that somehow my generation was considered somehow different.

[(Anonymous)]

those, like me, who were born between 1961 and 1981 -- children of Baby Boomers.

I was born in 61 and most people consider me a Boomer, not the child of Boomers. I’m so confused.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it comes from that 'generations' aren't as precise as people think they are.

[(Anonymous)]

As a millennial with two GenZ siblings, I think they just see us as we are now and don't realize that when we were growing up, everything said about GenZ's were said about us and then it... didn't happen cuz we got squeezed, insulted, and repeatedly kicked in the a**.
I also think that GenZ parents (some at least) have finally woken up to reality and don't put the Boomer kind of timeline that was expected of Millennials.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this is really my take on it - the only thing I want out of the generation wars is for Gen Z to understand something of the viewpoint of millenials

And also I want to make sure they know about early-00s millenial culture because a lot of that shit is hilariously bad and I think it deserves to be remembered that way